Firearm information for the enthusiast
07/20/2020 Between 1869 and 1870, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers was published in serialized form in the French periodical Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation. In 1872, a compilation in the form of a novel was published in English as Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The story is […]
07/13/2020 It is a Jackson Browne kind of day. The rain finally subsided, leaving behind rich, wet emerald green Maine. The lawn is overgrown, tree branches are reaching far out from the tree line for the sun, and wildlife has returned to view. Deer grazing on clover, fox snacking on […]
07/05/2020 Baking, cooking is a lot like reloading ammunition; start with a basic recipe, combine a bunch of ingredient… components, add some personal refinements, and always work toward something better. Being of Italian ancestry, Etruscan long before those Roman upstarts, homemade bread is always high on the list of things […]
06/29/2020 Crazy days. First there was an unidentified intruder that dug a two foot deep hole in the midst of the tomato plants. Then, while at the top of a twenty five foot ladder killing wasps, the wand blew out from the hose that was carrying high concentrations of commercial […]
06/21/2020 Manufacturer Remington Model 1911 R1 Enhanced TB Origin Huntsville, AL Type Action Single Action Autoloader Frame & Slide Carbon Steel Finish Black Oxide Grips Dark Laminate Caliber 45 ACP Magazine Capacity 8 Barrel Length 5.50“ (0.578-28 Threads) Twist 1:16″ LH Weight – Empty 40.0 oz Overall Length 9.75″ Overall […]
07/13/2020 The sight or mention of the word “Swede” triggers many reaction, even for us unwoke… folk; professional wrestler Phil Olafsson as the Swedish Angel in Mighty Joe Young, the cynical squire in Bergman’s Seventh Seal and Svenska Biogas’s yeoman research into the extraction of methane from slaughterhouse rendered cow […]
06/12/2020 Pardon the redundancy… This issue of 10mm Automatic power was addressed on Part I, but the comparison was to large bore magnum cartridges. Now that we know the 10mm Automatic pales in performance, kinetic energy wise, to the 50 BMG, the table below may provide more reasonable associations and […]
06/07/2020 Audio Prologue: Apparently, there are places within these United States where large expanses of rolling plains, clumsy herd animals and hole creating prairie dogs intersect to wipe out a rancher’s only source of income; the herd. Surely you have seen splinted cattle, gimping along on a cattle drive […]
One of the positive aspects of winters in Maine is the necessity for clothing that could conceal a bazooka. What is a bazooka? If you are old enough to remember movies set in World War II / Korean War era, it was that 55″ long tube shouldered by a kneeling […]
5/25/2020 The Remington R1 10mm Hunter is good idea carried over from Remington’s acquisition of Para-USA, a similar pistol once known as the Para USA 10mm Elite LS Hunter. Mention of a 10mm Automatic pistol tends to draw the, “That cartridge is dead” social media reaction, which would probably be […]