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Audie killed a ton of Germans with his M1 Carbine, Garand, Tommy gun, 1911 and a 50 cal mounted on a tank destroyer with which he got the MOH. He is credited with personally killing 241 but probably killed more. The real deal indeed. His book is 100 times better than the movie they made from it.

Eastern Arms shotguns were made by Stevens, H&R, Meridian or Iver Johnson for Sears

I'm reading To Hell and Back now. No mention of safety issues with firearms other than an occasional "we snicked off the safety on our carbines". I saw a movie based at the end of WWII where the military police detective carried his 1911 cocked and locked, and when drawn held it up to his face...

Just to keep things going here is a 25 yard groups using my Mini 30 with Tech Sights, elbows on a picnic table. The black sillouette is 3" tall x 3" wide. That's 3 five shot groups using Wolf steel case ammo. The group next to the V circle was my best effort. Next was my Saiga Sporter-Again...

This, I have a 22 pistol with a RDS to try out using a RDS. I don't feel confident enough (i.e struggle) finding the dot upon drawing and shooting. It helped putting high sights on that pistol so you can line up on the regular sights and then co-witness the dot but I don't feel comfortable...

IMO, if you're going to use a rifle, use one in a rifle caliber except for the 44 mag which is great out of rifle. Having said that I do have two rifles in 357 mag, One is single shot H&R barrel that someone cut down a hair too short. I had it turned down and had a bored out flash hider welded...

Back in my LEO days I carried a 5 shot snubby 38. I picked up a used Keltec P11 along the way which was really the first compact 9mm and forerunner of the Ruger LC9. A 7+1 shot double action 9mm beats the pants off a 5 shot 38 so I picked one up. I EDC'd a Ruger LC9 for many years then...

Having shot a good number of white tail deer with both the 7.62x39 and the 308 I have to say that the 308 is much better killer, at least on deer. I've had too many deer run away and have to be tracked with the X39. No tracking ever with the 308. That's with soft point hunting ammo in both...

I've shot 44 mag out of a 444 Marlin. Of course it wouldn't feed out of the tube mag but loaded individually it would work. And of course 45 colt will shoot out of a 410, or rather a 410 will shoot out of a 45 colt with a long enough chamber. I have a 410 shotgun that will fire 45 colts but...

Sometimes good enough is good enough. I usually buy scopes based on what I'm going to use them for. A scope for a plinking rifle will be different than one on a competition rifle. A scope for hunting in the north woods at short ranges will be different than one on a rifle used out west at long...

I bought a Mini 30 when they first came out to use as brush gun for deer hunting. While I've killed a few deer with it I never liked the 7.62x39 for deer and it was just an extra deer rifle so I retired it from hunting. However it is a fun little carbine and I have stacks of x39 ammo for it. I...

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Can you ID my SKSs? Didn't pay more than $100 for any of them.

"On the other hand, just do away with the problem all together. Call Ruger with your serial number and tell them that you want to order the magwell for the 5.56 model. With that, you can run 7.62x39 AR mags. I run Duramags in mine and they work very well. They're also pretty cheap." That's a...

I have both a Marlin 45-70 and a semi auto UZI I built from a frame and surplus UZI kit back in the day. I bought the 70s vintage Marlin from a friend who no longer could shoot it. I think I've put maybe a dozen rounds through it in the 30+ years I've had it. Killed a deer with it but it's...