Recent content by Michael Tinker Pearce

With the 3" barrel you can feel the extra mass, but it feels good to me. I don't know the specific rifling pitch of this barrel; the barrel blank this is cut from was specifically for .38/.357 so most likely either 1:16 or 1:14 (these are standard pitched used by S&W and Colt respectively.)

I was recently given a S&W Model 1905 round-butt as a donation to my You Tube Channel. I shot it some, did a video about it and then contemplated what to do with it. These guns are currently not particularly collectible or valuable in this condition so modifying it didn't bother me. After...

These guns were not made for smokeless, but when smokeless was introduced the only guns made for it were military rifles. Manufacturers, who were no more fond of being sued than anyone, tailored the loads for older 'black powder' guns. If the gun is fit to shoot at all a few rounds of factory...

With the way I had cut down the back of the slide to remove weight this slide was not a good candidate for an optics cut, and if I had done so the only thing retaining and stabilizing the optic would be the mounting screws. Not a good idea. I figured I would need to get a new slide and send it...

32 ounces. Not light, but not excessively heavy. Very manageable with a good holster and gun belt.

This started out as a concept to build a 'pocket race-gun.' I used a JEM frame, STI grip and assorted components from RIA, Wilson Combat, EGW, Klonimus etc. I re-shaped and re-textured the STI grip frame, shortened the JEM monolithic frame, ported the RIA bull-barrel and slide. It takes...

I think so?

It's a spring-piston air gun

Feeling nostalgic for the days of misspending my your at shooting galleries at Volksfests in Germany when I was stationed there I found out I could get a version of the gallery rifles we used. It's the Diana Oktoberfest Gewehr, and it's basically a BB gun. a 6.4 lbs bolt-action with an average...

That's exactly what I did on this .45 Colt/.410 conversion- I only had 15.5 inches of rifled barrel so I made this device and pinned and welded it to give a 17" barrel.

I was given the barrel and receiver of a 16-guage Long Tom in very rough shape. The barrel had been crudely hacked off at 18-3/8 inches, the breech was a little off-face and the trigger-return spring needed to be repaired. I cleaned it up and fixed some things and decided to do something fun...

My first shotgun was a 16-gauge, a single-barrel Stevens. I had a beautiful TW Stake double for a long time; that was a wonderful gun but it was enough lighter than a 12-guage that it kicked like one.

People keep handing me junky old single-shot shotguns. Not complaining, mind you! I did a project the other year where I used a piece of .45 muzzle-loader barrel to convert one to .45 Colt. It worked, but with the barrel rifled for round-ball I was limited to bullets of 200gr or less; the...

The other week someone gave me this Continental Arms Company .410 with a bent barrel. The forearm was also buggered and it was missing a firing pin. About the same time a buddy mentioned that he had a .22 Hornet chamber reaming die and I remembered a random 10/22 barrel tucked away in the shop...

Local deer are not particularly large and my casual testing indicates they'll be OK. I wouldn't want to try them on an elk or moose, though! Fortunately I don't hunt those. I'm considering a ghost ring rear sight; on a 75-yard gun that or a blade rear sight should be adequate, though I cam...