Recent content by Brian Dale

It's the salts in perspiration that are hygroscopic. :) I'm another satisfied Johnson's Wax user. I'd also be happy with Renaissance Wax. I won't use car waxes on firearms; I've read that many of them contain fine abrasives.

I love happy endings. :) It looks like you made a good find.

Ahrends Retro Revolver Stocks (Link) are on my "buy soon" list. They have a tung oil finish available and, for geeks like me, they'll even leave them unfinished so that I can apply my own tung oil finish. The Retro Target Stocks at the page I've linked might be the sort of thing that you're...

Ooooh, I like it (the term, not the gadget; see my post #9, above). I think that we can also define The Midgley Effect, which results from the propensity of uninformed but well meaning tinkerers (or of people with ulterior motives) to substantially or completely ruin a good design by the...

Someone who doesn't know what gun safety actually is has apparently had an attack of the clevers. This thing is a booby trap, not a safety device.

Yep, it is easy. With the gun unloaded, unscrew the fore-end cap and remove the fore-end and barrel. Wear eye protection; rarely, the spring can escape from the front of the magazine. You'll want to arrange the steel friction ring and the bronze friction piece which are adjacent to the recoil...

Thanks for the clarification. For defensive use, a person wants skill. To my mind, then, the best starter kit is a handful of good magazines (as described above) and cleaning equipment (e.g., Bore-Snake, cleaning rod, some CLP and so forth). Then focus on the motto of our "Shotguns" Forum...

Things have been getting better in my neck of the woods for a few months now. I admit that I got the last two boxes of .35 Rem on the shelf (Remington Core-Lokt) when I visited my local store just before deer season, and they were out of the kind that I'd wanted to use this year (Hornady)...

Be my guest, wishin. :D Thanks for your kind words.

You bet. Wadcutters ruled the roost in bullseye competition back in the days when revolvers were used there. They'll be excellent for plinking; enjoy them. :)

Hey, I've had that happen outside the forum, too. :D

Not to freak anybody out, but I think that a government agency only needs a subpoena if facebook doesn't want to turn over its records. If I read the Terms of Service correctly, facebook is free to use, pass on or sell anything that's posted there. What I see reads, in part (copyright...

Yes, chevyforlife21, you're right. "Petroleum distillate" is a three-dollar term that means anything that's refined out of crude oil, which is itself a mixture of things from heavy tar to lightweight naphtha and beyond. They're also called hydrocarbons: gasoline, Diesel fuel, kerosene, mineral...

Whups! I'll just sit over here quietly now. :D

I don't know much, but I'd love to see pics, too. :)