Recent content by ejbrush

My wife's cousin in Norway has a supressed 7mm-08. Supressed hunting rifles are the norm over there.

In October, I sighted in my 91/30 with Winchester Softpoints, this used up 4 cartridges out of the box of 20. Opening morning of deer season, a decent sized doe had the misfortune of trotting out of the woods about 70 yards away... I figure I have enough hunting ammuntion left for the next...

Speaking of John Pedersen... the Remington Model 17 was the product of a collaboration between Pedersen and Browning. The precursor to the Model 17 was the Model 10, which was wholly a Pedersen design. Just making sure credit is given where due.

Not all wildcats are about more ooomph. My favorite is the .35 Krag (aka .35/40), which is the old .30/40 necked up to .35 caliber. After you wore the rifling out of the old Krag, you could take it to a gunsmith and have the barrel reamed out and re-rifled. Also, any of the Finnish versions...

The metallurgy wasn't as good back then and there have been reports of the bolt lugs failing and sending the bolt back into the shooter's eye. Yeah, I'm going to call that pretty unlikely. I'm sitting here looking at my 1896 Krag. Yes, there is only one *locking* lug at the front end of the...

The Polar Bear Brigade. The U.S. doughboys that went into Russia to prop up the White Russians against the Bolshiviks. About 5000 went in to assist the British and the French reopen the eastern front in 1918. They were not withdrawn until June of 1919, eight months after the armistice in...

Why not .358 Winchester .308 necked up to .358, my dad had a custom 98 chambered in it for many years. An absolute whitetail anchor. Other than it being nearly extinct, it is a lot more cartridge than the .35 remington ever was. Midway usually has some available, I think Winchester still...

Take a minute to appreciate THR, because it is one of the few places where liberals and progressives will actively post on a gun site and stir up the pot a little bit. The great failure of the internet is that it sets up little echo chambers where we can hide and only hear people who think...

Just got a No.8 for Christmas. I intended to give it as a gift, but ended up ordering another one to give away. It is a brilliant knife, just brilliant.

The Norwegian M1914, which is a clone of the 1911, has a thing-a-ma-bob that is extended down and back. Ya know, like you'd do to make it easier to operate with, say, a thumb while the pistol is still in your hand, wearing gloves... Just sayin.

Sure, sure. I remember that. See, the problem was the Moros would always charge *facing* the US forces. Human beings are (generally) fairly thin in that dimension, and the bullet would punch through both sides without a lot of tissue damage. Now, if they'd have sidled up towards the...

Horses Trying to stop drugged-up fanatics overtaxed the .38 service revolvers. However, I bet that that the rank and file had a lot of misgivings about anything less than a .45 pistol from day one for one reason: Horse Killing. Lots of horses in use back then. Big critters, step on you...

I just have to stir the pot a little... and scoot away to can tomatos. I have this great image in my head - some dude standing outside a townhall in a tie-dyed shirt, with an M1 slung on his shoulder, a big sign taped to a M1905 bayonet saying "Health Care Now" or "How about We start...

This thread has compelled me to actually register... and I'll chip in my own .02 US$ right now. Why are (some) liberals against the second amendment? Because it is part of the package deal a person gets when you pick one of the two choices this country has for political identies. It's not...