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Don't envy us old guys our large collections! They almost always include items like rheumatism, high blood pressure, dimming eyesight, ringing in the ears, and may also have high cholesterol, low libido, lousy digestion, badly fitted false teeth, and generally diminished energy to get up and 'go...

Just because a state has a 'shall issue' law, doesn't mean the local Law has to make it easy. I've had a permit in Maine since 1962. My last renewal four years ago took about five minutes: the time it took to ring up the fee and have my friendly Chief sign the paper. I went for renewal six weeks...

My heart cries for you, PT. As a 73 year old man, looking toward my own demise: one that is coming sooner than later, I've shared your concerns about the disposition of prized posessions. I'm fortunate at least in that I have sons and a daughter in whom I can take pride. Still, none of them...

I love to read sm's posts ... I've gone to the Member's list and called up all his posts to read just for fun, more than once ... but gotta laugh sometimes at his pose of ancient wisdom, when he was only born in 1955. In 1955 I was out of high school, struggling to fund a college program...

Aw heck, JP, you can borrow my 6mm any time you want!

I guess I'm the first to mention 'The Art of the Rifle' by Jeff Cooper. I also get a kick out of W.H.B. Smith's Book of Pistols and Revolvers, and Keith's 'Sixguns'.

Then of course there are the inumerable Thompson/Center rifles...too many variations of Blackpowder and modern metallic cartridge guns to list. The Contender carbine variation of the Contender pistol is a neat, light 'stalking' rifle in just a few medium calibers. I have one with barrels in .44...

I've asked this question in many venues, never got a satisfactory (i.e. authoritative) answer: When changing the stock on a Remington 1100 Special Field with the short forend and three-shot magazine, I think it's safe to assume that a replacement synthetic buttstock will fit my action in place...

It 's fun reading the trials and tribs and triumphs of some of you new lever users! For background, let me say that my first rifle was an '86 Winchester, .45-90. I was 12…that would have been back in 1947. That rifle went West when I entered military service. Didn't own another rifle 'til '62...

Without really trying, I've accumulated three good Mausers: A Swede Husky M38 (96 action) and two 98's: a Brazilian/Czech rework .30, and a minty Chilean 1935 Carbine. I likum!

Early .357 loads did kill like lightening. I recall an anecdote from my time in Germany: A military investigative agent was attacked in the street in the nighttime in Berlin. Witnesses in a nearby restaurant heard three sharp explosions...three dead assassins were collected. Agent was carrying a...

In my files I have clippings of articles in the March American Rifleman by Maj. Gen Julius Hatcher, and the May 1956 Argosy magazine by Pete Kuhlhoff. Both titled 'The World's Most Powerful Handgun' (not necessarily true even back then...the .45 Colt with handloads, some .44 Special loads, and...

It's a toss-up if reloads in Blackhawk-SBHawk are considered. But in most guns, the .44 will show more versatility, factory loads from both ends of the power spectrum are more easily found in shops. I have both, and wouldn't like to give either of them up, but if push came to shove, the good...

Interesting...I have some older guns, bought or acquired more recently, but the gun I've had the longest is a Colt .38 Police Positive that belonged to my wife's uncle, a cop in NYC. Nickled and with pearl grips it was his 'dress-up' gun, as he spent the last years of his life in plain clothes...

I live in a house with an upstairs window next to where I sleep, that overlooks the door which is the only publicly accessible entrance. The doorway has an automatic light. If I hear doorbell or door-knocking after dark, I check the light. If it's not been disabled, I challenge and interview...

I've always gotten a kick out of the Nero Wolfe detective novels by Rex Stout. Wolfe's sidekick and 'muscle', Archie, has a couple of guns, at least one a .32, which have names never heard of in the real world. Archie's cars are also of a strange and heretofore unknown make. Guess Stout didn't...

Guess you can hang me up with the other cranks. I've got a hidey hole full of hardware, from blippers to blasters, accumulated not collected for sport, fun and only incidentally for Duty at the Wall. I own ONE shotgun. It's a Rem. 12, 1100 model, Special Field, stock. My idea of a perfect...

How about a honkin' big spear? I recommend the Cold Steel Assegai.:D It worked for Og Son of Ugg...legal in all jurisdictions... and doubles as a hiking staff!!

Steve McQueen used a HS riot in the film 'The Getaway'. Shortly afterwards, I bought a Sears auto made by High Standard, mostly because I liked the lines of the movie gun, which was a pump. The auto 12 was a heavy thing, and I was into upland shotgunning, while the gun was a perfect waterfowl...

I've got a first-year-of-production Ruger #1 in .222 Rem. The li'l blaster will keep all its rounds in a group the size of my small finger nail. Too pretty to hunt with, and too valuable to knock around. I take it out sometimes for a treat, like a big triple-scoop sundae with three kinds of...