Two people who were very influential in my firearms journey - though at widely separated parts of my life - believed that the best "well, I guess this is it" gun to have was a sporterized Mauser in...
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Two people who were very influential in my firearms journey - though at widely separated parts of my life - believed that the best "well, I guess this is it" gun to have was a sporterized Mauser in...
'Tis a dangerous thread for me. Must... resist...
Given that I have a history of getting guns snagged on this 'n' that, I'd be tempted to take about a quarter of an inch off that Arisaka finger...
"You ain't gonna need no third thing that can be declared is a forward grip, 'cause you gonna get your mind right."
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I handicapped myself with a 14" LOP - or thereabouts - "sporting" shotgun stock WAY too long. I have been slowly but steadily converting some of the Fuddites.
"Good God! I've been sayin' it....
Over time, I have become almost OCD about keeping keeping the bottom of a forearm as free from "stuff" as I can. If there is a way to smack a 6:00 accessory into something... or have it snag... or...
One of my old friends bought his .30-30 Savage 340 sometime in the mid-1960s because he:
a. wanted something fairly easily scoped
b. had a hankering to try handloading spitzer bullets in the...
Back in the old days, I think most GP-100s and SP101s came with a small length of drill rod or brass rod to put through that strut 's small hole. I know I lost a few of them back when I was playing...
I tried hard to like the full-size PX4s, but never really developed a lot of enthusiasm for them; I took to the full-size 92X right away.
The two respective compacts are a draw for me personally,...
Locally, Staccatos seem to have been bought mostly by the carriage trade and/or people willing to spend the money to keep up with same; they tend to be "firearms guys" as well, which is fortuitous....
IMO, the PX4 compact is Beretta's best DA/SA gun from a procedural standpoint- easier to maintain, probably more durable long-term, etc. I switched to the 92X line-up because with the X series,...
Back when I would shoot other peoples' reloads, I'd get a batch of some real dandies that would lead the crap out of one of my revolvers and/or foul it to the point where I'd start cussing. Unique...
An old classmate of mine said to me after he had split with wife #3, "Each one of them drove me nuts in a different way." I was like that with revolvers to the point where I sold them all off...
My first good AR was a DD M4V3 with an Aimpoint T-1. During the time I had it, I did a few minor things:
1. Changed out the A2 grip for a Magpul MOE grip and an MOE Enhanced triggerguard (in FDE)...
Indeed. I have had a couple of whacks upside the head WRT an aftermarket component that was closer to "bombproof" than the more important bit(s) it was applied to. Had I stopped and really, REALLY...
In retrospect, I let the PX4 compact's grip length bug me far more than I should have.
That was my take many years ago. Even today, I would prefer to see a lot of less "dialed-in" people buy a three or four inch .38/.357 with decent sights rather than stumble about with semiautos, but...
I choose to be outside these two tents (G19 and P365), but I won't piss into them. The G19 Gen 5 MOS does so many things acceptably well that I think it is still the yardstick. The P365 - depending...
This reminds me of the little mantra of mine back when a certain political creation's wife was crusading against salt- I'd get a side of fries at a restaurant and mutter FUMO while I scowled and...
"Grunge grooves" on DA revolvers... who'da thunk it? I should have gotten out more.
After sampling the gamut of PC9s, I decided that I liked the conventional stock/aluminum handguard combination best of all. Go figure.
If a .357 "Ruglin" 1894 SBL ends up being unobtanium this...
This is something I have thought about doing, just to have a simple PCC that keeps all drama to a minimum.
Were this my own project, I'd opt for the more compact Arisaka 300 Scout body with a...
"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man."
"Why," you may ask? This:
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Spring was official on the 19th, and I...
.010 to .012" sounds about like every friggin' new revolver I have ever special ordered at a LGS. After a while, it really soured me on wheelguns and partially contributed to my Great Revolver Purge....
We have had good luck with our Springfield nines, but they have also been pampered "fun guns"/range toys (for the most part). The 5" RO Operator overcame initial hiccups to become utterly reliable...
This. The Ruger No. 1 handles gas okay... most of the old stuff, not so much.