Sure, I know those vibratory cleaners can be fun. I know some of the best fun I had with mine was dropping a mouse in the open top, bolting on the screen cover, and watching the little guy disappear, and reappear, and disappear, and reappear, and…  A downside to vibratory […]

In the beginning… OK, so I didn’t know the Swiss produced a rifle. I know the Swiss monitor cow flatulence out of concern for methane byproduct, I know I’ve seen some reference to chocolate at one time or another, and Swiss watches and knives are pretty neat. Hmmm, actually, that […]

I told the folks at NewsGuy.Com I would help get the word out on programs they are offering for members of our military. NewsGuy Freedom Accounts provide totally free 6 months email, Usenet news and web hosting services to members of the armed forces and their family members. If the […]

The good news about the Internet is the democratic access to debate and public forum. The bad news is that the quality of information is sometimes skewed by social politics. As a result, I have found information reflecting great insight in Internet content, and I have found some that is […]

At the moment, I am in Maine with my wife, visiting friends and working on our home construction project. Sometimes I need to take a break from California, get a perspective from another part of the country.   The picture to the right seemed a good illustration of what it […]

  It takes a little time to figure out the personality of a cartridge before developing associated  handloads. There was a time when my SOP was to load everything to maximum barrel frying velocity, with light to medium for bore bullets. It was certainly a simple process, but one that […]

It isn’t that we are the Rodney Dangerfield of firearm publications, but when we request tech or product support, we do it with all the power leverage of a single retail consumer. I’m not complaining, purchasing off the shelf goods means we can write about products, good bad or indifferently […]

I’d been thinking a lot about customer service. Well, actually I’d been thinking about old British TV Comedy, wondering whatever happened to Carol Cleveland, then I started thinking about customer service. I am at an age where I hate being aggravated over service issues. It’s work I didn’t sign on […]

I squeezed the trigger on the CVA HunterBolt 209 Magnum – the muzzle jumped and flashed, and a 275 grain PowerBelt bullet headed for the Chrony’s sky screens, just slightly ahead of a substantial white cloud of gunk. Concurrently, the once distant scope ocular came back and popped me with […]

I didn’t like concluding the first installment of this series with the report of a missing scope, followed by my crabbing about lacking a local source of propellant. So I thought I’d get in an interim update while I’m trying to finish up the last of Christmas shopping. I anticipate […]