05/03/2021 It is that time of the year again. Lots of rain, moderate temperatures and the Lowe’s home improvement shuttle is in operation. My wife knows the proper nomenclature for the pictured flowers. She selected them from aisles and aisles of potted flowers and shrubs. She mapped the planting arrangement,…...
Tag: Winchester
Winchester's Model 70 Super Grade
04/04/2021 The tractor’s battery needs to be charged so we can get it out of the shed. The green house needs to be assembled over the garden. The Travertine in the upstairs shower needs to be scrubbed and resealed. Which is why, on this Saturday, my wife and I decided…...
Winchester's Model 1894 Carbine
03/07/2021 If only someone would design a compact, lightweight, high capacity, fast shooting rifle that would take deer, cleanly, at 200 yards? That statement addresses the needs and application of at least 80% of the deer hunts in the United States. Yet the current trend is the long range rifle;…...
45 Colt +P
Warning: Bullet selections are specific, and loads are not valid with substitutions of different bullets of the same weight. Variations in bullet length will alter net case capacity, pressure and velocity. Primer selection is specific and primer types are not interchangeable. These are maximum loads in my firearms and may…...
Winchester's XPR Renegade Long Range SR 300 WSM Part II
01/03/2021 The Winchester XPR Renegade Long Range SR is a… pleasant and rewarding firearm to shoot. Certainly a couple of adjectives I don’t often use.The combination of a little bit of heft, a good fitting Grayboe stock and a SilencerCo Omega 36M took the edge off of magnum report and…...
Winchester Model 1892 Carbine Part II
11/29/2020 Quite a week for getting things done. The area light on the shop would only dimly glow blue, a very small firefly in a very large bottle, was repaired with a simple bulb change. The ballast on this fixture is not replaceable. If it had failed it would have…...
Winchester's Model 1892 Carbine Part I
11/27/2020 Not going for melodrama here, but raking leaves in New England is worse than a Sisyphus bout with inclined, repetitive boulder rolling. The beautiful fiery red and golden leaves of autumn, drop dead, turn a very ordinary brown and begin to fall, and continue to fall, for a couple…...
Light Varmint Loads For A Featherweight Rifle
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…...
Winchester's Model 1885 Traditional Hunter Deluxe and the 38-55 WCF Part I
04/19/2020 The Model 1885 was invented by John M. Browning in 1878 and patented in 1879 as a generic Browning Brothers single shot rifle. Approximately six hundred rifles were produced by the Browning Brothers of Ogden, Utah Territory between 1880 and 1883, before the manufacturing and sales rights were sold…...
Winchester's Wildcat 22 LR Rifle
12/09/2019 So we are in that spot between Thanksgiving and Christmas. A little snow, a lot of cold and just a touch of panic over holiday shopping and festivities. It’s tough to have conversations with grown children about travel, or our unwillingness to travel. We love our children, we love…...