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In a speech today, President Joe Biden has urged Congress to RATIFY the Equal Rights Act (ERA) into the U.S. Constitution. He says, in effect, "HURRY! The ERA is vulnerable, and we need to do this now while we have time!" Don't fall for this classic Bait-And-Switch technique from an old, tired...

I found this unusual book at an antiques store. It is very short, only 40 pages, titled: The Mad Doctor's Drive: being an account of the 1st AUTO TRIP across the U.S.A., SAN FRANCISCO to NEW YORK, 1903, or, sixty-three days on a WINTON MOTOR CARRIAGE By 1903, when cars were still new...

The proverb is too true: Haste does make waste. I was in a hurry to clean a pistol in my new, el-cheapo ultrasonic. Easy enough, just add water and a squirt or two of the cleaner that came along with it, and dang, "look at all the time I'm saving." Well, ha ha, looks like the joke is on me. I...

I use longshot powder with an aftermarket barrel and am getting 1125 ft/sec., sometimes a touch more.Yes, there is a tad more muzzle toss, and I can only maintain the accuracy in the aftermarket barrel, but the loading isn't wild or uncontrollable. 10mm is a good cartridge, but the original...

What is the biggest caliber bullet I can stuff into a 30.06 case? I've been given an old 30.06 Savage. And while the action on this rifle is strong, the barrel is horribly pitted. If I keep the rifle I'll have to rebarrel it, and -since I've never been keen on 30.06- I'm wondering about...

True tale. http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/it-was-just-covered-in-blood-from-head-to-toe-wasilla-man-recounts-bear-attack/article_8960d91c-aade-11ea-a230-5fffe796843a.html

Some of the funnest times we have when we get together at the range is when we start taunting each other with money. The baiting usually goes something like, "Billy you've been bragging about that rifle for quite a while now. I'll bet you fifty dollars you can't hit a soda can at 300 yards a...

I'm fortunate enough that my job allows me to travel around my state (Alaska) quite a bit, and sometimes, on longer projects, I get to take my family with me. A few years ago the cards fell just right and we managed to get ourselves sent to Kodiak Island for a spell while I worked a lengthy...

It has been my understanding that a "magnum" cartridge gets its name when it is developed from a smaller cartridge. For example, 38's of various names were well known and used until a new creature with the same diameter bullet but crimped into a longer case than all those others was developed...

So, true story, growing up there was a man in our neighborhood, a pipefitter, who would boast about going into the woods on the Fall deer and elk hunts with "only two bullets" because "it was more sporting" he liked to say with his chest out a little bit further. My older brothers knew the man...

We've all heard about the manufacture of 3D printed rifles, but has anyone at THR heard about 3D printable cans? And, ummm, for the record, I would NOT advise manufacturing one. Having the CAD/CAM drawings would be one thing (and legal) but making one...not so much.

I stumbled across the 1975 Montgomery Wards Fall & Winter Catalog. Oh my! bell bottoms, polyester knits, wide collars, checkered pants, striped shirts and platform shoes. It's like watching a Brady Bunch nightmare. But on page 891 Mr. Ward starts advertising the rifles. Wards mod. 550 12ga...

Just read an Alaskana book, Boom Town Boy: Coming of Age on Alaskas Lost Frontier, an autobiography of Jack DeYonge. Born in 1934 in Fairbanks, Alaska, DeYonge writes of his many experiences growing up in the rugged frontier long before the Alcan Highway or the trans-alaskan pipeline shaped our...

I was recently trading some equipment with an older gentleman, a long-time Alaskan resident of a type we often respectfully refer to as "sourdough". Of course we spoke about the equipments we were swapping, what work each piece needed and so forth, and, as all conversations tend, we also spoke...

I have a friend who keeps bees as a hobby and he usually keeps 4 hives through the summer. Last summer (mid August with a little nectar still flowing) my friend calls me up and says a black bear got into his hives and tells me I "got to come see this". I drove over and sure enough my friend's...

I am very fond of my 45-70. It is my "go to" rifle and comes along on nearly every family outing we take. And as awesome as the 45-70 cartridge is, often I don't need so much power, and this is true especially when I am at the range. Shooting 8 or 9 rounds at a range session is all I want to do...

Hunting season just ended here in the Great White North, and I bumped into a friend who told me his tale of this year's hunting trip. On the last day of his 4 day hunt he was in heavy brush and pretty discouraged thinking he was going home with empty game bags when a legal bull walked out of...

I was at a local pawn shop looking through the pistol cabinet, when a fellow walks in and tells the clerk that he wants to sell his .22 rifle. The clerk says they are overstocked on firearms and were not taking anymore for awhile. Overhearing, and seeing it was a pump action, I asked the clerk...

I've just finished reading a biography of Ernest Hemingway. This biography was by Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange, so, as you can expect, Burgess did not shy away from the unpleasantnesses of Hemingway's life story. Burgess's book had two images of Hemingway as a teenager...

Of course the best safety on any pistol or revolver is the owner herself/himself, and the second best safety is a strong lockable safe, but with that said, I have settled on a the few pistol safeties that I think are worth having and the several safeties that I think should be tossed. Your list...