Most anyone who owns an AR15 develops a strong attachment. They are amazing little rifles. The AR15, and its variants, are the firearm equivalent of auto racing’s Chevy or Ford small block engines. If you like firearms, and you like to tinker with them, the AR15 offers virtually endless opportunities. […]

I’m a pretty practical guy, so I like to find real world solutions to problems. As an example, my wife makes this really great tuna salad and she usually keeps a little plastic container full in the refrigerator. The other day I grabbed the last two slices of thinly sliced […]

That look of skepticism on my wife’s face is in response to my explanation of why the gun was going “boom”, but the target remained perforation free. She has known me for 50 years, been married to me for just about 40. Did she really think I was going to […]

At some point, we all must follow a path we do not fully comprehend. It happened to Odysseus, Lord knows it happened to Abraham and, I suspect, Brad Pitt is familiar with the concept. So it came as no surprise when Maria Grazia Cucinotta, the Sicilian Goddess of…anything she wants […]

I’m going to try Maine turkey hunting this Spring. I like guns, I like hunting and I pretty much like the taste of turkey, so it seems like an appropriate thing to do. I’m just not sure if I have a good handle on turkey hunting procedures and code of […]

Sometimes it is tough for me to write a piece that doesn’t put me to sleep mid sentence. So when you doze while reading some of my stuff, I can empathize, I’ve been there myself. So take a short nap beforehand, and try to get through what follows, because the Taurus […]

Establishing a baseline… Before embarking on a handload development project with an unfamiliar firearm and cartridge combination, I record the gun’s performance with factory ammunition. The gathered data aids in setting reasonable expectations for handload velocity and the range time gives me a sense of the combination’s accuracy, muzzle blast […]

I always wanted to handload for a 44 RemingtonMagnum double action revolver, but I didn’t want to cope with the excessive recoil, muzzle blast and noise associated with “The world’s most powerful handgun”. So I waited until a new “Most powerful” cartridge was crowned and gun writers predictably, descriptively, diminished […]

For those who are not aware, beside the web site and the my nonsense, Real Guns is also a firearms retail business located in Raymond, ME. The retail business is professionally managed by Cindy Kimball, the more pleasant and knowledgeable side of a partnership. I’m perfectly content writing, tinkering and […]

Ruger firearms are not pretentious. The typically applied adjectives: “sturdy”, “reliable”, and “adaptive” are hardly superlatives expressing aesthetic excellence, but they do describe great value. The truth of the matter is, whenever I’ve purchased a new Ruger, I’ve put it to work as though I would a new hammer or […]