Recent content by 22250Rem

Thanks for that very interesting link. I recall reading about those U.S. Army test trials years ago and while I'm also on a "soda pop budget" I can still dream, can't I ?

Started in the mid 1950's with a single action army clone. Which was actually a cap gun that took roll caps, and was made of some type of pot metal with sort of a chrome finish on it. I sometimes think of it when I have my stainless Ruger Blackhawk in hand. From about the 6th to 8th grades in...

Fired 4 different guns at the club today. Tried the Henry H001 .22 lever gun at 50 yards for the first time since it got the Leupold 1-4x that was formerly on my .30-30. Checked zero on the M-1A with its hunting load at both 50 & 100 yards. It never got out as planned last fall for deer...

That's my standard practice.... I began loading .303 British ammo over 25 years ago. Picked up a Redding 3 die deluxe set that included a neck size only die. Figured on neck size only until the cases get tight, and then it's time to full length resize. So far I have never full length resized...

I clean my guns after firing them. Just an old habit my Uncle Sam drilled into me. However; I haven't had a bore brush in a 22 rimfire barrel in years. I just run a few wet patches with Hoppe's #9 through the bore and let it sit horizontally for hours, sometimes overnight. Then dry patch it all...

Here's a page out of SHOTGUN NEWS from the early to mid 1990's, I believe. Don't forget that those are FFL dealer prices. In early 1995 I purchased an unfired, arsenal rebuilt Russian SKS in a laminated stock for $225. from an FFL that I knew, right out of the full crate he had purchased, they...

Thanks for posting that fascinating video. It would be interesting to see what those guns bring at auction. What pieces of History they are; complete with documented provenance.

IIRC these pics were on this web site a few years back in a different thread, but they were still here on the computer. . Brand new $100. Norinco, fresh out of the crate at a gun show back in '92. In 1995 I got an arsenal rebuilt Russian SKS right from the crate, with the laminated stock for...

Was thinking about that one afternoon during last deer season, when I felt like this guy in the movie "Jeremiah Johnson". In the scene when Robert Redford gets his Hawken rifle. ... But to get back on topic, I, like the OP says, don't know how many seasons I have left. The lawyer & I recently...

A .30-06 bolt action hunting rifle was on my wish list ever since my pre-teen days when I heard a lot of praise from old timers for the old "aught six". Saw my first 30-06 round when I was about 7 or 8 years old. Back then it was the biggest rifle round I had ever seen and I never forgot it...

Thanks for posting that fascinating video. I've always loved Lugers but never owned one because of the prices, if I hadn't inherited one, ( a 1916 Erfurt), I may have never gotten one. I don't believe I have ever seen a Swiss Luger up close, because I never knew about the grip safeties on...

Never had a bird feeder near my stand but our bird feeders out back sure do attract the deer on a regular basis... They started out just picking the spilled seed off the ground, then discovered that if they get the feeder swinging then more seed will fall out where they can get it. they learn...

Only a couple hangfires that I can recall, and both were with old mil-surp .303 British. IIRC they were 1950's vintage stuff that was made in Iraq. Just a half second delay before ignition. A few others never went off at all and I got to waiting a good 30 seconds before opening the bolt. It's...

Picked up a few bayonets here & there to go with various rifles that I've owned. Some have been sold since I began downsizing about 5 years ago. Like this Lee-Enfield #1 Mark III that I now regret selling. .. Always felt a connection to it, as my paternal grandfather spent 17 months in France...

Couldn't have said it better myself. There's a lot of truth to that statement, at least in my life experiences.