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 […]

When I was a kid, a bunch of us would go to a place in Bogota, NJ and pick up old military surplus arms; .45-70 Springfields, 11MM Rolling Blocks, even Civil war swords and WW II memorabilia. Of course that was at a time when a person could walk into […]

Occasionally, we will have a company from the firearms industry run an ad, then quit abruptly when we explain we do not write editorial in support of advertising and we don’t post thinly disguised  press releases as articles. You’d be surprised by what is normal practice in this industry when […]

My wife was 19 years old the day we were married, and I wasn’t much older – a mere 36 years ago. She’s little and Irish, both of which I believe have contributed to her: competitive spirit, auto racing trophies,  motorcycle license, three sons and an appreciation for firearms and […]