Summer in Maine is mostly an opportunity to repair the products of Maine’s aggressive winters. When we moved into our home fourteen years ago, our view was of surrounding woodland and distant lakes and mountains. This spring, however, my wife and I were greeted with soil shift over granite ledge […]
Feature Articles
A 7mm-08 Remington Lightweight Mountain Rifle Part II
10/26/2019 Yes, your observations are correct. I am an analogue troglodyte… but with an excuse. I like making immediate notations on a yellow lined pad; quad paper even better, but it is too hard to photograph when placed against a white background. I can write with a 0.5mm Pentel mechanical […]
Talking Conservatively: New Social Media Experiment - URL Correction
Some friends of ours, the same ones who were kind enough to put RealGuns.Com together and who bail us out when tech glitches arise, put together a new site TalkingConservatively.Com. No, it is not a great right wing conspiracy, it is just social media without a political review committee and […]
A 7mm-08 Remington Lightweight Mountain Rifle Part 1
October 24, 2019 The Standard Catalog of Remington Firearms indicates that Remington introduced both walnut and Kevlar stocked Model 700 Mountain Rifles in 1986. In 1998, a walnut stock, blued steel, flush fitting detachable magazine version was added to the lineup. In 2012, an aramid fiber stock, stainless steel barrel […]
Remington's Model Seven Threaded in Kuiu Vias Camo
10/16/2019 Maine is beautiful in the fall, the temperatures are cool and the air is clean. So here I am, an old man sitting on this stone fence, with the sun struggling to find its way through the trees, fall leaves underfoot, eating a sandwich, and listening to David Allan […]
Browning's X-Bolt Hunter
10/21/2019 So I was walking the woods behind the shop and, when I ran out of trail, I began to walk along a stone fence to avoid the brush. Camera in hand and stepping over a fallen branch, a moss covered rock under my back foot gave way and gravity […]
Ruger's Anything But Standard M77 Hawkeye in 243 Winchester
October 13, 2019 With the area flooded with tourists in search of New England fall foliage; cars, boats and planes Mainers have their own favorite spot to view the same. Mine is the view from my front porch. This is a great time of year for firearm enthusiasts, hunters… and […]
Ruger's PC Carbine - Chassis Edition
When the Ruger PC Carbine was reintroduced a pistol caliber carbine in December 2017 and Ruger aptly dubbed it… the PC Carbine, I was shocked, amazed and awestruck. In fact, I distinctly remember thought bubbling, “Huh? Wait.. What?”. Now there are fifteen models and they are popping up like Tribbles. […]
Marlin's 444 Marlin Part II
Ah yes, I remember when a work day was comprised of suiting up and working through a new product presentation or presenting quarterly financials to board members. My basic objective was to justify my position and salary, while they were there mostly for a report of no problems, free donuts […]
Marlin's 336 Dark Series 30-30 WCF
Summer is at an end, fall is not being shy in its arrival and only about half of the planned projects around the house and shop were completed. It wasn’t so much poor planning or time estimating that rendered our Gantt chart and network diagram irrelevant, as much as unplanned […]