Yes, I have been working in the garage with easy listening rock playing on the radio but, no, that isn’t a karaoke microphone pictured on the left. Yes, I do know all of the words to “Night Moves” and, yes, I do sometimes wonder what happened to Bob Seger. More […]

The day began with my wife offering her observations of the press while I set up to take pictures, “That is pretty! I love that red and the bright aluminum and steel pieces. The selection of wood for the handle was perfect.” She was making my ears bleed, “No, it […]

The old adage, “The devil is in the details” implies an accurate assessment of something large in scale can only be made by examining it’s smallest parts. This concept clearly applies when selecting handloading equipment. Frequently, products are recommended based upon: company reputation, production capacity and service department support. Unfortunately, […]

I think what has happened to collectable automobiles may be happening to collectable firearms. There was as time when very limited production, high performance muscle cars could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then people figured out that they could pull a 6 cylinder beater out of a salvage yard, […]

Experienced handloaders recommend Lee products to novice handloaders all of the time. The price is always right, the equipment is innovative in design and frequently Lee is sold in all-in-one kits that make it easy to get started. $69 will get you a complete single stage reloading kit; add dies, […]

We just spent the day on Long Lake. Nothing extravagant, just some good family time I probably should have taken decades ago. Middle son and eldest grandson was here less than a month ago, eldest son, newest granddaughter addition and wife nearing the end of a several week stay. Nice […]

I’ve been reminded by some of the folks who frequent Real Guns that I noted purchasing a 50 Beowulf upper assembly for my High Standard AR15 type, some time ago, but never followed through with related information. Unfortunately, and incorrectly, they concluded I didn’t think the product was worth comment or […]

I’m sure lots of people outside of the cowboy action shooting community, particularly non-handloaders, can’t  understand why the 45 Colt has survived. It’s old and slow…sort of like me, yet there are lots of guns chambered for the cartridge, lots of factory loads and lots of handload components. The 45 […]

There is an increasing trend for handloaders to work to a firearm’s limit rather than a cartridge specification. The idea is that a cartridge pressure spec is scaled to the original firearm it was assigned, so when that cartridge is moved to a stronger action, it should be able to […]

I’d been to the Grand Canyon as a young child. Three summers in a row, my dad loaded the six or seven of us into whatever car we owned, or could borrow, and drove us all over the United States, Canada and parts of Mexico. I have to give him […]