Firearm information for the enthusiast
This is article number 1,000 on Real Guns current format, but 3,000 since Real Guns inception. What better subject than improving the trigger function of a 1911 pistol. For all of the “How to” articles and YouTube video that attempt to instruct and define the process of 1911 pistol […]
It is very important, to prepare for writing a firearms piece, to cleanse the mental pallet. Prior to anyone else arriving for the day, I sometimes like to sing a little Elvis…. No, not a physically little Elvis, but rather a retrospective of the King’s most iconic songs. I was […]
It is tough writing about firearms with a fresh perspective. Somewhere around number two thousand, the flow of descriptive adjectives become Donald Trump like and the best that can be mustered are, “Excellent. Very, very excellent. Beautiful… very, very beautiful. Unbelievable” or “Bad. Very bad. Very very bad. Completely bad. […]
After making the mistake of watching anti gun, network news coverage and listening to histrionic, soul sucking Democrats bleating, screaming their fabrication of reality into news cameras, I decided to seek something less fiction and more truth. So at 2 AM, I broke out the Kindle and resumed reading the […]
The weather has actually been mild this winter. Sure, there are few stretches of sub zero weather that were responsible for a transfer of wealth; my bank account to the oil company’s bank account, but snowfall was infrequent and moderate and the driveway black top has been visible more days […]
It has been a very good couple of weeks. The Ruger American Rifle and Vortex scope provided hours of shooting and handloading enjoyment and Barry J. Hutchison released “Space Team: The Time Titan of Tomorrow”, the eight in the Space Team series and yet another appearance of Cal Carver, the […]
Today was another shovel out day; half a foot of snow on top of accumulated snow and temps hovering around zero. Atomic Squirrel seems to have continued to outsmart me, or he is in cahoots with a gang of chipmunks that can clean peanut butter from a small trap and […]
A brief wrap up on the Barnett Whitetail Hunter Pro crossbow project – It took a while to get the whole crossbow thing sorted but, with some days of practice, the process of shooting the Whitetail Hunter Pro became routine. The shooting part was actually very centerfire rifle like… minus […]
It is the seventh day of engagement with that accursed squirrel, the battle rages on through this bitter winter. Clearing so many traps of bait, while eluding capture has rendered him quite rotund, but not in the least bit lethargic. Each morning he taunts me at my approach to the […]
The basis for this continuing Ruger SR 1911 project is strictly an opportunity to work with a firearm of personal interest. Work on the prior two 45 Super installments led to spending some time with spring combinations, with the hope a more balanced configuration could be found… an exercise in […]