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Unless it's truly T-shirt weather, I tend to carry a 1911 in either .45ACP or 10mm Auto. Well, as the saying goes, ounces are pounds, and pounds are pain, particularly when you are carrying capacity limited. Typically carry the firearm in 8+1(.45ACP) and 9+1(10mm) along with two 8 rd / 9 rd...

I've got a collection of SA and Checkmate branded (all Checkmate as far as I know) mags for my M1A. Most are 20 rounders, a couple are 25 rounders. I'd say probably 75%+ of them allow some of the rounds in the stack to nose-dive. Happens with various types of ammunition, so it's not a long...

A while back, ~5+ years ago, I bought a collection of CMI M1A mags when Midway USA had a sale. I hadn't really had time to tinker with them until I started working on them today. Noticed that the walls of the magazines on about 50% of them interacted with the follower in such a way that the...

.380 ACP Lot #20180101, new style DPX bullet with cannelure on case: Opened up two new boxes (of 6 I bought) of DPX in .380. Discovered that about 15% or so of the rounds did not have the bullet seated correctly. Could make a little staircase by arranging the rounds. Some of the bullets...

After being too busy with office stuff to get out, finally did some pheasant hunting for 2016. Cracked open a fresh box of GP 28Ga #6 shot, and noticed a few things. 1) The printing on several of the hulls was illegible. 2) Some of the shells did not chamber well in the 28Ga Citori. Upon...

Was working on installing the plug in an 11-87 and after pushing the retainer clip in and twisting it, all I got was it stuck ~2" or so in the magazine. Won't budge. Any suggestions?

I picked up a Tavor this week as a way to get a compact, yet 16" barreled 5.56 rifle. Like the little thing, even if it is a bit loud. Normally, I use iron sights for my SD rifles as I don't expect to be shooting long distances (if it's too far away for me to hit a man-sized target with...

I revisited this particular weapon that I inherited, after disliking how it handled .45Colt. Find that it peels jacketing material off at times. Took it out to the range today and fired a cylinder of Winchester's 3" PDX1 .410 ammunition through it at a 7 yard target to mostly simulate...

After dealing with a cranky inherited Savage Model 93 in .17HMR, I've decided that it's time to replace the thing. After bad experiences with two Savage rimfires (.17HMR and .22WMR) that I inherited, I'm not going there again. After trying a few out, I've kind of narrowed the list down to...

I've been working through the collection of weaponry that I inherited, and came to a Yugo 8mm Mauser clone and an SKS that not only had cosmoline in the action, but apparently on the wood furniture too. Various things will get it off/out of metal, but trying to figure out what to use on the...

I've got an old M1A1 and have been looking for ammo for it. Was looking at GGG in comparison to say IMI. After having seen what happens to ammo in *bad* storage conditions, I'm a bit leery of mil-surp, otherwise, I'd probably buy a bunch of Hirt. Opened up an ammo can of Rem buckshot that I...

Pheasant season has been going on up here, and I took my BPS and Citori out for break in today, as an alternative to a 12 gauge. My shoulder thanked me:) Tried a variety of chokes on clays and cardboard sheets. Couldn't see that much of a difference between the various choke options (had...

When ammo of any type was hard to find, I picked up a case of Silver Bear .45ACP. Having fired maybe 80ish rounds I noticed a few things: 1) Wear/abrasions on the feed ramp, looks like an area of roughness where it used to be smooth. I have fired a lot of rounds from other manufacturers...

Suggestions for a good "training" load for this guy? Inherited one of these and it appears to have not been fired much (very few wear marks on bolt for example). Tried a variety of Federal "game loads" as a break in along with some Remington STS loads. The STS loads do not seem potent enough...

I recently purchased a new G17L to compliment the G17 that I had inherited. The G17L seems to be more finicky about what it does and does not like. One of the first things that I noticed about it was that the weapon did not like the "cheap" ammunition that I could feed through the regular...