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 […]

Hornady does a lot for gun owners by introducing new, interesting and smartly engineered products. They push the envelope when it comes to Light and Heavy Magnum cartridge performance and they make excellent bullets and lots of supporting equipment and handloading manuals for handloaders. So when they announced the new […]

No, I haven’t left town; promise. It’s been a very hectic few months so I have had my attention diverted elsewhere. I also needed to back away from grinding out material and take some time to personally enjoy firearms, which has always been the foundation for the Real Guns site. […]

In the old days, if you wanted to know the hardness of lead, or the legitimacy of gold currency, you bit the object. Then you’d take stock of how much your jaw hurt, the depth of your teeth marks in the object, and arrived at a conclusion – probably that […]

You’ll rarely see my picture in the pages of real guns. I always think it is kind of silly when I see articles with images of the author prominently plastered throughout. Sometimes I include a photo on RG when I say something critical and I don’t want people to think […]

If there was anything notable about the day, I would have to say that would be the fog. First it rolled in, closing all the shooting positions, then it rolled out, and all positions were open. Then it rolled in again during a break for target check and, while it […]

Bang !…Err, Bang! Bang! Nope, just not the same without the rest of the parts. Pictured, left, are the remains of my Taurus 44 Mag. No, the rest didn’t blow up or fall off, the frame was sitting at Hogue having a set of Pau Ferro grips fit to the […]