Firearm information for the enthusiast
08/08/2021 My wife and I celebrated our fifty fourth wedding anniversary and my wife’s birthday this week. Good years, easy years and tough years. Military service and career caused temporary physical separation. Raising a family, relocating around the country… see military service and career, things always seemed in a state […]
August 1, 2021 One, or more, should not trifle with bullet selection. The four nominees for this project are certified trifled free.They were on the shelf, they work within their respective applications and… they were on the shelf. Where once “proven and reliable” sold, now “New! New! and New!” and […]
07/25/2021 – It seems it has been raining here in Maine for weeks. Not really, it just seems that way. But I have had the misfortune of not being able to mow the long, or seal the deck, or weed the garden. As an upside, the anti squirrel bird feed […]
My prior experience with the Remington Model 700 CP was with a 300 Blackout 10.5″ barrel version. The firearm was very good, but the combination was lacking. Supersonic velocity loads were short range deer worthy, but it is a lot of gun mass for thet level of power delivered. Subsonic, […]
Excellent day, today. I’ve been working on the thrasher, our 2005 Ford Escape with 150,000 miles on the odometer. A replacement Optima battery had been ordered from Amazon, after receiving guidance from that site’s replacement parts compatibility feature. The price was $34 less than the same product at Wally’s. The […]
07/04/2021 We recently published a review of the Smith and Wesson M&P 15T and, now, thought it would be good to briefly cover the lower cost AR 15 in the Smith and Wesson line up. The M&P 15 and M&P 15 II are higher end products, factory supplied with a […]
My wife loves hummingbirds, I love my wife. Subsequently, I put up a double hook shepherd’s pole in the garden outside of her office window and hung blown glass hummingbird feeders. 1:4 refined sugar to tap water filled, the sky and feeders became a hummingbird International airport. I say “International” […]
06/20/2021 – The original Colt 1911 National Match MK I was produced from 1932 through 1942, before production was suspended in the early years of World War II. A 38 Super version was added in 1935, which continued throughout the production run. This version of the National Match was a […]
06/14/2021 Never in search of a personal perfect $3,000 – $5,000 AR, if an AR can function reliably, if it can be repaired with off the shelf AR standard parts and if it can put 3 shots into sub MOA circles, I’m all set. I built a good number of […]
06/01/2021 I am pretty sure that life is lived on a sliding scale of intensity. On one side is tranquillity, as in parents/grandparents who live in Maine and do not answer the phone or doorbell. On the other side is controlled chaos, as in an eldest son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter […]