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Shot trap last night after a four month layoff taking care of my wife who had debilitating foot surgery and who was wheelchair confined. No complaint, "for better or worse, in sickness". Sneaking up on 60 years together. Cold, breezy night and since we got rained out last week had to shoot two...

Not wanting to get my hand slapped for being disparaging, I merely want to note that, like Kleenex, some terms have become generic. Ruger's first pistol was called the Standard Model. They later brought out two versions with target sights and called them Mark Is. After the end of the a...

Son #2 is a coach and referee and often gets called to be the starter for track meets. The cost and availability of .32 S&W blanks is high and non. I've made him a bunch over the years. Not hard other than the things being tiny for my gnarled 80 year old shop worn fingers. Doing some research...

Eighteen of twenty-four kids showed up for practice #1 this morning. Fifty birds at 16 yards. Half newcomers (not to the USA), some in second, third, fourth year. Love these kids. Coachable. Interested. Having fun. Safe. My son, four other club members and I are the coaches. Scores today...

Up at the club today coaching one of my two h.s. trap team granddaughters. Looked in the trash and what did I find among the junk empty hulls? 100 once fired Federal paper hulls. Best shooting first shot reload shells yet and, they smell great. Somebody has money. Shoot papers once and toss...

I was out in the shed tossing old stuff and I came across some old containers. Hodgden H240 (their slightly hotter version of 2400) priced at $1.25. A box of bullets from Herters (waseca. MN) .224 52 grain at $5.99. Looking at prices today I'm glad I've been picking up stuff from estates and...

I've always loved the old plain Jane 788 Remington, having had several over the past six decades. All were great shooters. The 308 was particularly accurate with cast bullets. A buddy has had the object of my firearms desire for years. A 788 30-30. Today, after good naturedly badgering him...

I jumped on the "Bash the new Henry" bandwagon. After getting my latest American Rifleman and reading the glowing review of the new Henry revolver I realize I was mistaken when I called it ugly, unsophisticated, and overpriced for what you get. Insert sarcasm emoji. I used to think the reviews...

I came into a few years of PS magazine and am amazed at the lengths guys will go for extreme accuracy. I’ve shot BPCS, small bore and muzzle loading competition even taking a few trophies and setting a national record. Ancient history. I’m embarking on a quest of my own to see just how tight I...

A friend, fellow trap and skeet shooter, and fellow club member passed two years back. So far I have helped sell bunches of shot, powder, wads and primers (buying what I could afford at fair prices to both sides). Now, the big stuff. Two PW progressives, one 12, one 20, a Hornaday 366 20...

Finally, the ISP has produced a chart to help determine if a gun you have is one of the banned, dreadful assault weapons. There are three charts, rifle, handgun and shotgun. Google Illinois assault Weapon list and scroll down. I hate to say it but this is the best thing from a worst case...

Sitting around nursing a bad back and doing some introspection as to who influenced me to buy some of the guns residing in my safe. I have to admit I was a precocious reader, beginning with my dad's 1944 Gun Digest around the time I was four or five('49). An old WWII vet, Dale DeVore was my...

Back at the turn of the century, this one, Illinois legalized handguns for late season deer hunting, with certain restrictions. I immediately started working up loads for my Model 29 and arrived at a 240 grain jacketed hollow point (small, shallow cavity) and 21.5 grains of old Hercules 2400...

Missed my chance today to be the oldest club trap champion by one bird! Not my best but for the day, OK. 47/50 at 16 yards and 48/50 at handicap. Beat by a 96. Like a Cubbie, I say “Wait til next year.”

It looks like Illinois has sneaked in a form of registration, at least regarding person to person transfers. Originally, to transfer from one individual to another one went to the ISP portal and entered the FOID number and birthdate of the recipient. Then you were given a transfer number which...

Not trying to stir anything up here but I'm puzzled by all the threads on the Bond Arms derringers. Yes, dozens of chamberings, finishes and styles. But, what can they do that a good compact revolver couldn't do (and maybe better). I've had derringers. All the way from an original Remington...

Summer trap league is done. Tough competition. Next, eight week "combo" league. A round of 16 yard trap and a round of skeet each week. I generally shoot my 48 year old TB and my semi-ancient 1100 for these events but as I looked in the safe I thought, "where did all this stuff come from?"...

Not guns but books I've been hunting for years. V.M. Starr's book from long ago on the muzzle loading shotgun and, the grail book for trap shooters,, A.H. Bogardus' Field, Cover, and Trap shooting. Captain B was from Elkhart, IL, A Civil War veteran and arguably during the late ,19th century...

League tonight, hot (90+) wind in our faces. Coming off a bad week (206/250). 16 yards, 25,25,24,25,25. 224/225. Handicap, 24 yards, 21, 17, 19, 25, 24. Down side, probably at 25 or 26 next week.

Thursday league was preempted for Armed Forces Skeet Tourney. We, our squad and one other, went to my club and we played games. Buddies, Annie’s, and a 40 yard porch shoot. I dug out my 3200, languishing in the safe for the past couple years. I won three of the five matches I shot, including...