Lately I’ve noticed a rash of small electronic scales that advertise half or even one grain accuracy for typical charge levels. They don’t hide this little tidbit, they put the claim in bold letters under a headline and follow along behind the words with several exclamation points and maybe a […]

My wife and I are not the most well adjusted mature couple. The problem is we have grandchildren and often find ourselves, out of necessity, thinking from their perspective. So when we saw a Big 5 ad for a S&W soft air shotgun, we concurrently decided it would be a […]

It’s not like I’m lazy, honest. I intended to wrap this up a couple of weeks ago. Then I ran into Christmas shopping, I had to order some more bullets, two of the test firearms needed scope installation, I think I was coming down with a cold, and my dog […]

Some may look at the photo on the left and see three boxes, 150 bullets in total, of Barnes’ new high performance Triple-Shock Bullets. Other’s may see $71.09 in an alternative form. As a frugal optimist, I tend to see both. I’m pretty excited about the Triple-Shock product, to the […]

17 HMR guns are great fun. They’re accurate, inexpensive and potentially capable of  impressive performance. With a 100 Yard zero, the small projectile drops only 8″ at 200 yards and sub MOA groups, in the absence of heavy gusting cross winds, is to be expected. With this level of performance […]

The Real Guns’ Lab has spent a good deal of time analyzing new bullets as they come to the market place. While we can appreciate the thought and energy invested by manufacturers in these new designs, we believe traditional companies are too deeply entrenched in “what is”, to consider “what […]

Many years ago, my wife and I were called into the school our children were attending, regarding a son’s behavior in his first grade classroom. He was described as having a short span of attention, easily bored by inactivity and unable to sit quietly for extended periods of time. I […]

We frequently have tools and material left over from Real Guns project that have seen use only as the subject of photographs, or were used only a couple of times in the course of writing articles. In other cases, there are items that have seen routine use, but have now […]

Think there is a problem with the length of that stock? Amazingly enough, he was still able to keep everything on the paper at 50 yards, mostly in the center, and while maintaining a big smile. At eight years of age, my eldest grandson is finding a lot of enjoyment […]

This is one of those points where I am waiting for UPS to drop off material so I can go on and finish some articles, so we began fiddling with the site to see if we could upgrade some of the resources. Some of it was fun, some of it […]