Search results for query: *

I've got a flintlock musket on the way, which I understand will require REAL black powder to function reliably. All that is available locally is Pyrodex or other substitute products, so I'll have to put in an order for at least 5 pounds and get it shipped, and pay the Hazmat fee. The least...

I've been happily cranking out .45ACP loads on my Lee Pro 1000 press with the Large Case Feeder, tubes, and case collator. I just got a new shell plate and carrier, and spare die turret to switch over to loading 9mm, and I'm wondering if there is any difference between the Large Case Feeder and...

I'm wanting to convert my old Stevens 311C 12 gauge into a 23" barreled coach gun to play with in some Cowboy matches. I didn't want to cut down my original 28" barrels, and lose its utility as a hunting gun, so I picked up a spare set of 28" barrels for a Savage/Fox Model B on eBay that fit...

Forbes has an article on some guys working on developing plans for home-built firearms that can be produced on the latest type of 3-D computer printer. They made an AR-15 lower and assembled it, and fired off 200 rounds as a test. Looks interesting...

I've started shooting a lot more shotgun shells in practice since I started shooting in 3-gun matches, to the point where I think it makes economic sense to start reloading the shells. I picked up an original Lee Load-All press in the original box on eBay for around $30, and it looks like it...

I never thought I'd ever wind up with one of these cheapo 9mm Saturday Night Specials, but I got one, essentially for free, from a friend who's not much into guns, and whose new wife adamantly refuses to have a handgun in the house where her kids might find it. He bought it a few years back...

I went out to practice some Strong Hand Only and Weak Hand Only target practice with a Glock 30 this afternoon, and got some odd results. Shooting with two hands, all 10 rounds at 10 yards centered in the 10 ring, so I know the sights are adjusted correctly. BUT, using the same Point Of Aim...

I just picked up an inexpensive "Smart Reloader XVI" single stage press on ePrey for around $60 new. I've noticed that these seem to be VERY inexpensive presses, even cheaper than Lee Precision, but I decided to give this one a shot, since it is the least expensive option I've found that will...

I recently picked up a little H&R .32 in .32 S&W Long, along with some boxes of the short .32 S&W ammo that had been packed away in a friend's garage for quite a number of years. The gun came with the original box, and evidently hasn't been carried, or shot very much, and responded well to a...

I picked up an old Martin-Henry at the gun show the other day, as I posted in the Firearms Research Forum. Mechanically, it seems in good shape, but before it was sold, the Brits de-milled it into a drill rifle by making a thin saw cut through the chamber area of the barrel. I've heard of...

Ever since I first saw the movie Zulu, I've had a kind of hankering for a Martini-Henry .577 rifle. At Saturday's Collectors Gunshow here, I was on my way out the door when I spotted a guy closing up his table with a lonely Martini-Henry carbine sitting on it. It was marked .577-450 on the tag...

This time of year here in Florida, the uniform of the day is shorts and tee shirts to cope with 95+ degree heat and 90%+ humidity. For comfort and concealment's sake, I switched from carrying a stainless steel J-frame .38 Special in a inside-the-waistband holster to a parkerized Kel-Tec .380 in...

I've been looking at one of these in my LGS for a while. It's the older model, without the ejector rod shroud, and looks like it was probably a police carry gun from the 1960s, from the holster wear on the left side. The bore looks good, and the double action seems smooth enough, but it sticks...

I was looking in the CMP store at the parts kits they have for building a semi-auto M1A. The kit is supposed to come with all of the GI semi-auto parts for the M-14, except for the bolt, barrel and receiver, for $600 plus shipping. Has anybody here ever put one of these together with something...

Several Spanish-made Smith & Wesson clones have popped up here lately, so I thought I'd add mine. I found it at a local gun show on a pawn shop's table, mixed in with a lot of junk pistols of the "Saturday Night Special" variety, with a tag marking it as a "Smith & Wesson K-frame M&P, .32-20."...

Walking through a gun show over the weekend, I found a table with a lot of AR-15 uppers and lowers to look through, and decided to pick up a new lower for an orphan 7.62x39 carbine upper that I've been switching back and forth with my Colt HBAR. One of the less expensive lowers was a lone TNW...