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Had an acquaintance over last evening, with a recently inherited pre-war 32 Winchester Special Winchester '94. It was his father's (who never fired it) inherited from his grandfather, and must have been left in the only closet in the State that causes neither rust nor gumming. Other than a very...

As Fogerty said, "It ain't me!" My first sidearm, purchased used at Riley's in Hooksett, with my dad, at 21 years old, is a Ruger Mk II Gov't Target. I haven't shot it much since I became serious about shooting (15+ years) but pulled it out a few months ago as I'm thinking on teaching my...

Due in no small part to the corrupting influence of the membership here at THR, I bought a .375H&H M70 several year ago. It's been the subject of several questions that y'all have help me with, and I appreciate the input. It is obviously an extremely capable gun, but at least in my hands it's...

All Y'all, I have a box of MBC's .358, 148gr DEWC, grease lubed, "For PPC Velocity", Brinnell 10 bullets, and I can not find a load worth the bother. I'm using iso-headstamp REM-UMC WC brass (thin wall so it's not sizing the bullets down), MDie to expand and flare, seated to the last groove...

I'm working up load data for a couple powders in a sorta-wildcat cartridge (7.62x40WT) in an AR platform. With this in mind, it could be under- or over-gassed (excessively slow or fast powder). As I've been working up, I've twice seen a jam that is completely unique in my experience. The mouth...

A friend of mine inherited this beauty. . . and to my chagrin I can not identify it! I think the cartridges are 6.5x55 Swede, but I didn't have a caliper and couldn't bring it home. I guess it's a stripper clip, and it seems a bit large to charge any of the single-user weapons I'm aware of from...

when the Zip guns show up with Banana mags! Linky. Now you can't unsee that! So there.

A friend of mine with the sort of fortune we'd all be jealous of bought an estate of firearms last month, for ~50% on the dollar. He told them as much, but they liked him more than the next guy. Among the collection was a barely-used Ithica 37 (serial of 1970 vintage) with a 20" cylinder bore...

Thanks to the positive influence of several members here, I'm working on marksmanship under heavy recoil. I have a .375H&H M70 Alaskan, and my progress to date is puzzling. I'm shooting bagged on a bench, with very firm forend control. With Hornady's 270 Interlock, Speer's 300 GrandS lam, 270...

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I've searched through the archive and I don't see a recent answer, so: I've been asked to recommend a .300BO AR-15 rifle and suppressor kit for taking southeastern deer, from a stand, within 100 yards, preferably ~$2k all told. The BIG back yard is legal to hunt, but it would be nice if the...

I wouldn't usually post a link to a video, but this is just too rich: Here we have the perfect asked question from an attendee, inquiring why Beto wants to infringe the people's check on a potentially tyrannical government. The answer is so honest it's brilliant; the man understands the...

I had never seen this before, and thought it might be interesting: So there I am, at the range, firing a carefully worked up experiment over the chrony. .223 Remington, <0.002 headspace, S&B SRP, 69gr BTHP, H4895, 1.2 grains below this rifle's pressure sign threshold. . . and this pops out of...

I'm just starting into helping a recent widow at church sell her late husband's sizeable collection, and there's a few pieces that are rather unique in my experience. Here I have a USFA repro Colt SAA (he had one of those too. . .) Henry Nettleton Series. It's fired but only barely, and in very...

I'm shopping for the next AR build (standard AR receiver), and I'm interested in a PCC. All of my other ARs are kit-built from PSA, and they serve my purposes perfectly. And yet. . . I find a complete lack of 9mm AR kits! Why is this? Is the market too small, or is there something inherently...

Here's an excellent summary of the situation by the GCSO, with 911 and radio audio, and body cam footage: Looks like a good shooting, entirely justified based on the information the deputy had at the time. Fortunately the homeowner is merely shot for this stupidity, not killed. From a tactics...

I have a factory Remington 700 SPS (matte blued) SA .223 with ~2000 rounds down it. Cocking force is notably higher than any of my other bolts, and I see what looks like a soft cocking cam. The cocking stud has raised a burr of displaced material on the outside edge of the cam (where it doesn't...

I find myself looking to add a small (2-4") fixed-blade knife to my daily carry, but I can't seem to find any manufacturers who sell a knife with a discrete sheath intended to actually use. The typical injection-molded sheaths I can find (CRKT, Cold Steel, etc) appear to be designed to sell with...

Recent difficulty sourcing sight parts has me wanting a 50-year future-resistant strategic collection of spare parts for my small collection of pre-MIM K/L frame Smiths. For those of you who've seen a significant number of old Smith's coming in for service, can you suggest what I should have on...

Does anyone know the doctrinally correct method to remove the firing pin bushing from a Smith 642-2? Recall this is a hammerless, aluminum, j-frame. I've been given an almost new 642-2 that's been the victim of a 'gunschmit' (hence the cut down hammer spring, inconsistent ignition, and...