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It varies from gun to gun. More manufacturers are making handguns optic ready than ever before, but definitely not all. Research is a must if planning on going down this route. It's also becoming more common to sell with a optic already in place.

How would the seller know the entire history of a 120+ year old gun? It looks like it has seen a lot of use so anything is possible.

Finding a better one for cheaper wouldn’t be easy but it’s not a screaming hot deal either. I’d offer $850 if you really want it and see what they say. If they don’t budge come back a couple weeks later and see if it’s still around.

Looking at gunbroker and gunsinternational shows that pre 29’s with correct box, correct grips, and in good condition go for $3,000+. Without the correct box, correct grips and well used go for closer to $2,000 give or take depending on how far from original they are. One with the wrong box...

Local Scheels had shelves full of primers this weekend. I only grabbed some Remington SPP, but it looked like they had a full variety of brands and sizes. Maybe prices fall to something reasonable once retailers run out of storage space.

I don't think prices will be going down much for the remainder of this year so I have bought some loaded ammo, components and played spray and play games over the last few months. That's on top of having reserves to continue shooting 1,000's of rounds per year without interruption for the next...

I have a friend who recently bought a Charter Arms Pathfinder. It doesn't ignite 2 or 3 rounds on pretty much cylinder full. He needs to send it back to them to get that sorted out. He's thinking about selling it and getting a S&W 617 like I had originally suggested. I bought the...

The article first came out 6 years ago. How long does the scientific method take?

About a decade ago i was at a small town FFL going out of business auction with 25 model 19’s and 66’s. I picked up a nice model 66 for $500 which was a good price. A number of them went for closer to $600. $100 would have been way below market prices or they were trash guns.

I did in informal survey of the first 5 pictures I saw on 1911 forum and 3 had hammer down and 2 had the hammer back. I figured it'd be about half and half.

That's one thing I don't understand about this case. Everyone is up in arms about this search even though they had a mountain of evidence against the guy and act like the ATF should have just invited him out for coffee and a civil discussion. That's not how it works. We shout and scream...

It's a $300 gun. A smith who knows what they are doing and does good work will charge at least $150 to $200+ for a trigger job. When the trigger job on the Taurus doesn't yield fantastic results customers will be complaining about that shade tree gunsmith who charges almost as much as a gun...

The coating shouldn’t come off unless there is something wrong with the way they were cured.

9mm is certainly the logical answer is cost is a major factor and you aren't too concerned about ballistics. The weakest 300 BLK ammo trumps the most powerful 9mm ammo, but 9mm ammo can be had for under $.30 and 300 BLK ammo starts at $.70 and pushes close to $1 per round for subsonic (prices...

I've never noticed any obnoxious blast from my 10.5" 300 BLK with a Noveske Flaming Pig muzzle device. I'm not sure if that would be from the muzzle device being so amazingly effective or just the nature of subsonic 300 BLK. I wouldn't be surprised if the relatively small amounts of fast...