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Back nearly 20 years ago, some notable sixgunners got together and created the 480 Achilles cartridge. As Jim Taylor notes in his article, there's no practical use for this cartridge, and the team's motto was "undaunted by common sense." Fundamentally it was an exercise in getting the largest...

Hello, I previously owned a Ruger Single Six in .32 H&R and really enjoyed shooting it. I really dug the smaller/handier frame, compared to my Ruger Blackhawk in 32-20 (which I'll probably sell). I sold the Six a few years back, planning to put the funds towards a Single Seven, but life got in...

One of the shooting niches I really enjoy is shooting relatively big bullets at low speeds, so I've been debating getting a big-bore snubby for that. I'll emphasize it's for no practical hunting/bear/CCW/HD purpose, just for casual shooting fun and to have something interesting to handload for...

Some years ago I created this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_by_firearm The intent was, for those of us with a wonky technical interest, to list the specific models of firearms used in famous assassinations. Oswald's 6.5 Carcano, Guiteau's .44 British...

Greetings, I am purchasing two rifles for my parents as a retirement gift, for them to shoot at their summer cottage they bought for their golden years. I was thinking to get just a quality Pelican case, but a friend suggested giving it more personality and getting them some modern quality cases...

As y'all may have seen in my other thread, I'm about to make the leap and customize some Rugers! My 10mm "M1877" idea was at the top of the list, but just this week on GunBroker I got a Buckeye Blackhawk in 32-20, and already it has a date with Hamilton Bowen for Bisley-ification, so we're on a...

Hello all, for a couple years now I've had a weird desire to shoehorn as large a cartridge into a Single Six as is practical (5-shot cylinder is fine). The .41 Special has been done, but apparently it's a real pain due to cartridge size so gunsmiths either refuse to do it or charge an arm and a...

I noticed that Wikipedia has no article on Carl Gustav Swebilius, a designer for Marlin who went on to form the High Standard firearms company. I was going to dash out a small draft, but it turns out there's a ton of information about him in serious publications that's available online. If...

I have a vague desire to get a vintage bolt action hunting rifle for some various projects, and though it'd be cheap and easy to get a Stevens 200 in .223 or .308, I want something with more character, both in terms of design and of being chambered for an interesting cartridge I can handload...

Still living overseas (Portugal) right now, and waiting for word as to whether the company I'm with has a consulting gig for me in Liberia or no. I've been pondering what to do for hobbies when I get down there, and then thought that since I want to shoot steel silhouette games when I get back...

Let me posit an unlikely scenario: the Supreme Court finds an accommodation between the disparate factions, and with strict constructionalism concludes that "arms" does indeed entail and protect the primary military arm in common usage, but only that. Accordingly, they decree that there will no...

Related to my thread in Handguns about finding a good selection of 5 different T/C barrels to cover a wide range of shooting, I'm pondering what's best in .22 or smaller for a 10" or 14" barrel. It seems like a lot of those rounds might need considerably more barrel to get up to speed, so what...

I was looking at a few of the subcaliber rounds out there, and on a whim was checking to see if one could be sneaky and use the 5mm Remington Magnum Rimfire in smallbore/rimfire silhouette competitions. It appears that at least some groups already thought of that and forbid the 5mm since it can...

I've owned several T/C Contender frames in my life (single-shot, break-action, switch-barrel), ever since I was a teen in the late 1990s (FTF sale when I was of age), and have repeatedly bought and sold Contenders since I absolutely love the idea but rarely lived stably enough in a given...

Recently I took my girlfriend shooting; she's only been a few times before. She had no problem with a .22 Beretta Neos, but we rented a 1911 .45 ACP as well as a Sig 238 .380 (their version of the Colt Mustang), and for those latter two she had a real hard time getting on target. My impression...

I've been interested in this cartridge for years, despite never having dealt personally with it, nor even the .41 Magnum. I suppose I just have a fascination with great ideas that just never made it (which is why I ride a recumbent bicycle). I finally got around to writing a Wikipedia article...

I've lived in a number of states and countries, and almost all the US states I've lived in (except California) were really easy firearms-wise. I moved up to the DC area for a job several year ago, and a couple years back moved across the river from Arlington into DC proper. I'd meant for a while...

Some people may have seen this pic floating around and used in internet memes, and then jumping the gap to non-Internet media, including appearing on the Comedy Central program Tosh.0 I won't link the picture here for copyright reasons, and also because some people might prefer not to see it...

I've recently reflected on what an outstanding gun the Ruger Single Six is, and how I need to add one to my collection. Technically I do have one in my collection, but it's a .32 H&R (5", blued, adj, birdshead), so there's definitely a place for a .22LR. My timeline to acquire such is pretty...

I have a vague interest in getting a "sawed off shotgun" of some sort, and so could use some advice on sXs short shotguns. I currently have an 18.5" bbl 29" overall Stevens 311 in 20ga, which is fun because it looks short enough to be illegal, but is actually kosher. The stock is too short...