Firearm information for the enthusiast
10/22/2023 – Well, we moved Real Guns, in its entirety, to a new service with new dedicated servers. One big 267 gigabyte tarball that went from an Intel/CentOS 7 platform to more storage and processing power AMD/ AlmaLinux 9 platform… all shiny and new. CenOS 7 ended its development life…...
I will leave the roles of Alaskan homesteader and subsistence hunting to others who actually live those realities. Rural living, at least in my area, is certainly not the same. Anytime a person lives within an hour round trip to a Hannaford, they are not in a survival setting. For…...
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…...
08/17/2020 My wife and I date a lot. Yes, with one another. Something more typical in a fifty three year marriage than one might suspect. Two weeks ago, it was lunch after our consecutively arranged primary physician appointments. Last week it was a post CT scan brunch. In October we…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
Working on Saturday is relaxing. There are no interruptions, no distractions and I can listen to the music of my generation while I work. A couple of contemplative realizations; an online personality test concluded that my emotional age is twenty nine and playing Joni Mitchell’s “California” with the shop windows…...