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I'm putting this out there for everyone else's sake. Luckily I caught my error before it could have been overlooked or possibly harmed me. I preach and harp to everyone that I teach how to load just how important paying attention is, but it can and does happen to the best of us. There is no...

I just picked up my 8 3/8" XVR last week and took it to the range. I can easily say shooting it is the most fun I've ever had with my pants on :D I'm looking at what I have for holster options. I'd prefer a right handed hip holster with a couple loops on it for extra rounds. I still...

I've had a Colt Defender for a couple months and put a fair amount of rounds through it, but I'm a wheel gun kinda guy at heart. I put it up on a classified ad looking to fund other ventures or see what kind of interesting trades would come along... When a straight up trade for this guy got my...

I've been itching to get one of these since they first came out. I finally came across one available locally on Friday, and snatched it up in a heartbeat. My main reasoning for getting one was to have a handy rifle that I could keep stored in my truck and wouldn't take up much space. There...

I've been itching to get into the M14 platform for quite a while. I gave up an AR that really didn't tickle my fancy to put this guy on layaway a while back, and finally picked it up today. I did a little research before committing to a Polytech, but this one has checked out okay so far. It...

I'm just curious if I stumbled across an oddity or not at my trip to the LGS today. I was in to make a final payment on my Colt Defender, and was doing a little browsing around. I found what appears to be a 1903 Springfield Carbine. It's a Rock Island in the 23,000 serial number range. I...

While on vacation up in Ironwood, Michigan, I stumbled across a gravel pit that the locals shoot at. I brought my new TCM along with me just in case such an opportunity arose. I wasn't exactly shooting for really tight groups or anything, more of a function shake-down and seeing where it...

I've been kicking around an idea for a little while, and would like a little extra input on it. My boss knows that I'm a big fan of going out to the range and hunting, and we talk a lot about it on the long drives to job sites. He owns a few guns himself and has two fine young boys, but he's...

I just put one on layaway today that comes with the additional 9mm Luger barrel. I bought it mainly to have a double stack 9mm in a 1911, but the new round seems intriguing. Does anyone have some trigger time behind one at all?

I was trying out my new Marlin 1895 GBL the other day with some Winchester 300 grain hollow point ammo. I only took 4 shots with it to check function, and noticed the primers were visibly backing out quite a ways. I also noticed that the rest of the rounds in the package seemed to be...

After another unsuccessful day in the woods, my dad and I made our way home. We figured we had the time to stop by a gun shop we hadn't been to in a few years and look around. I bought my first shotgun there over a decade ago, and remember them having fair prices. The place had changed quite...

I'll be headed that way for work next week (putting in about a mile of stainless steel piping for a company), and I'll be looking for something to do on the weekends.

I just bought one at a local gun show. I'm guessing it was a police trade-in, because it has a fair bit of holster wear and the mags are marked police/government use only. It came with 3 mags for 400 plus tax. I'm just waiting my two days to pick it up. Does anyone have more information on...

I've been doing a little reloading for .38/.357 and want to experiment a little bit more with different bullet weights and powders. I've heard that with too light of a bullet and too hot of a load I could risk cracking my forcing cone on my 19-4. Does this mean that 110-125 grain .357's and...

I recently picked up a JP Sauer LA Western in .44 Mag at a good price. Just wondering what everyone's take is on these. It has a fair amount of wear on it for its age, but it locks up tight on all cylinders.

I got bored the other night and pondered how to make my "bean-counting" process easier. After recalling spending a semester in a software applications class years ago, I whipped up a quick and dirty calculator in Excel. It can be used with any make of bullet, primer, powder, and brass, because...

I picked up a cherry 19-4 a few months back, original box, manual, and top of warranty card from 1978. I'm the second owner, and the previous owner only put 12 rounds through it, and it shows. While updating my records recently, I noticed the serial number on it, 38K004(X). I'm just curious...