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I know this is an issue that's been discussed many times, but trying to add a new dimension to it while avoiding points such as personal preferences, beauty, cost of manufacture, supply and demand, and concentrating only on quality, accuracy and durability. So which is it? The choices are...

Bill Ruger made many irritating decisions in his career, the most moronic one summed up by what we said years ago. For example, we read three classics in English literature: War And Peace, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Instruction Book Warning on the side of our Ruger...

Years ago I bought one of them. I took it to the range and ran about 70 rounds through it with no malfunctions. I then brought it home, thoroughly cleaned it and it's been sitting in my safe ever since. It's too good to get rid of, but wasn't fun to shoot. The sights were Milletts (one of the...

When I bought my first handgun in 1978, it was a 4-inch Ruger Security-Six. It was like buying my first car. I knew very little. And that's when I made my initial mistake. I bought a gun magazine. Gun writers had all the answers, right? Right?? That's before I knew that gun writers never...

Years ago, some guy tried to sell me a 6-inch Security-Six that clearly had some parts interchanged. The cylinder barely fit and the barrel/cylinder gap was so large I could have watched a movie through it! I didn't even need a gauge. And when I pulled the trigger, it was fine at first but built...

I've long been a fan of stainless steel and bright nickel, and come to think of it, hard chrome. But lately I've wondered if stainless steel can be coated with bright nickel. I'd always wanted a S&W 59, but the early guns were just horrible. I'm not a pimp, but I've always kind of liked garish...

I sometimes think I'm the only one who misses the Ruger Security-Six. Or who still thinks of the GP-100 as being the new double action .357 offered by Ruger. I remember standing at a gun counter years ago and hefting a GP-100 and thinking it felt awfully awkward and front heavy; and wondering...

Went to my parents' house to retrieve some of the "stuff" I had left there years ago and had forgotten about. It had been buried in the garage and because of its location, I had forgotten all about it. It was buried deeper than the treasure at Oak Island, but I finally got it last night and...

I just found a bag with some boxes of .45ACP and 9mm marked +P+. It's several years old and I can't remember even buying it. My question is this: I've got a couple of S&W 659s, a 5906, and a 645 autos. Oh, and a 3906 and a 6906 (with an aluminum frame). Can I safely fire this ammo in my guns or...

It was a new house and every room was filled with boxes. And it was their first night in it. It was 2:36 a.m. when Earl's wife awakened him and whispered urgently in his ear, "Someone's downstairs!" Earl stirred and rolled half way around in bed. He had spent the day moving into his spacious...

Years ago, a techie with the NRA showed me his Ruger Security-Six. He'd had a Model 19, but after the first 2,000 or so hot .357 rounds, he had to have it retimed. After another 2,000 he had to retire it to shooting .38 Spc. But he saw the light and got a Ruger Security-Six and wrote an article...

I'm looking for a fun Beretta M92 air pistol clone that's fun, realistic and doesn't weigh a ton. I have a Beretta pellet pistol. Looks a lot like my Taurus PT92 AR, but I never would have ordered it if I'd known that it weighed more than a fully-loaded Beretta M92. It shoots very well, but...

Most people have said what they carry for bears in the woods, but how many of you would flout the law to carry a handgun for protection? What do you carry for all around protection and against what? You all sound like a reasonable lot. Disreputable, but reasonable. I'd be interested in finding...

I'm selling a Spam Can of ammo, but I don't really know whether I should sell it to a shooter or a collector. The can itself is in great shape and it's sealed and, due to its low WCC Lot Number, I'm thinking it must be World War II vintage era. Here's a photo of the can: Elsewhere I saw this...

Bet it's a Glock or some other plastic striker-fired pistol. Striker-fired pistols are completely safe if you keep your finger off the trigger. The problem is, cops can't seem to keep their fingers off the trigger! I've always been critical of the plastic striker-fired pistols, but even more so...

On another thread, the 686 recall came up, and I wondered how many of you with no-dash 681/581s and 686/586s ever bothered sending them back to the factory, and if any of you actually experienced the cylinder binding that was supposed to pop up in these guns? The reason I ask is that I have a...

I love going into gun stores, but it's like my momma used to say, "Going into a gun store is like a box of chocolates. You end up eating way too much and regretting it." Momma wasn't much one for words. But she knew about chocolates and she is the author of the now world famous theory that...

I love Ruger rimfire autos. Always have. The Ruger Standard Auto 6-inch was the third gun I ever bought. I'd just paid $169 for a Security-Six and now I wanted a cheaper gun to shoot. I bought an RG Model 66 (an alloy-frame cowboy pistol) for $67, but when I got tired of tightening the grips I...

When my father passed a few years ago, I inherited his virtually NEW Sig Saur P220 German-made auto. I'm not really a .45 fan, but I decided to pick up a few magazines for it and head to the range. Apparently, though, Sig Saur doesn't realize it ever made such a pistol. When I ordered several...

You've scrimped and saved, traded and purchased, read reviews, handled the merchandise. You've had great guns, only to lose your mind and for inexplicable reasons that still aren't clear to you, let some golden ones slip through your fingers. You pound your head against the wall and say, "Why?"...