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I used a Sinclair tool, way back in the day. It's not foolproof, but not rocket surgery either. In my benchrest rifle, it made a plain difference in accuracy. I tried it in a few of my hunting rifles and found that it either made no difference, or else the improvement was so slight as to be...

I find the bottom of the "U" slightly confusing to my eye. A square cut, with all those 90 degree angles, is better for me. Doubtless that explains your flyer. :neener:

I also stick with A-Zooms - and yes, I would go ahead and protect that 1917. It may not need them, but they are cheap insurance.

I no longer bother with dryer sheets, polishing liquids, or anything else. The 20 pound bag of corncob came from a gun show so long ago that I haven't the slightest recollection of the price tag. The stuff lasts well enough that I doubt I'll ever need to buy more - I honestly don't understand...

Despite being something of a "sight snob", I'm perfectly happy with the hammer serving as the rear sight. I open up the "V", creating a square-notch sight picture perfectly replicating those found on modern centerfires. Then I dovetail in a front blade, file it for elevation, and drift it for...

I've put hundreds of thousands of rounds downrange with a dot. I don't believe they are more accurate than irons, for a properly-trained man. They are slightly faster for the same man, and if you are playing a game where tiny fractions of a second count, then a dot may be a requirement. For...

Eight grains of Unique with a cast 250 is becoming the "2.7 grains of Bullseye/148 HBWC" load of the .45 Colt world. I've used it a bunch. With Unique so hard to find, I have been dipping into my keg of 700x more often. I haven't really "settled" on a load yet, but somewhere around six grains...

At some point it stops being a "gun" and instead becomes an investment. Like a quarter-million-dollar bottle of wine, the value is no longer in its usefulness, but rather in its perceived rarity and potential for appreciation.

I am a big fan of useable sights on cap guns, but there are better ways to get there from here. Of course, it might still be a fine gun for somebody who is completely oblivious to anything other than pure function. $450, though, strikes me as laughable. That number gets you very close to a...

One of these days we will hear about a defective Korth. And then I will give all my guns away and take up golf.

I have had three guns - one from Ruger and two from S&W - that clearly had been fired at the factory but still had big, obvious problems. The loading gate on the Ruger took nearly inhuman strength to open. The fellow who test-fired it must do daily thumb workouts; it took both of mine to get...

I recently had the pleasure of helping an elderly lady (mother of an acquaintance) learn to shoot. She is well beyond being able to manage a semi-auto slide, and had a great deal of trouble with medium-frame DA revolvers - the weight of the gun was something of an issue, but she could not pull...

In writing about it, I realize how much of a jerk I was back then. To his eternal credit, his response after figuring it out was something like "I'm going to remember this whenever I start feeling like I'm especially smart."

I was, at one point, acquainted with a brilliant physicist - a fellow with multiple patents, awards from famous politicians, etc - who took up an interest in riflery. I once watched him clean his rifle barrel at the range, using Sweet's 7.62 on a copper brush. He spent nearly half an hour at it...

I'm not sure if old guns were made better, or if they've just all been fixed by now, but yeah.

I pretty much just drop off every new gun with a trusted gunsmith. The standing instruction is "Go through it and fix whatever needs fixing. Call me if the bill will exceed 50 percent of the purchase price." On more than one occasion, I didn't hear from him for several months, because he'd find...

Yeesh. I've gotten used to being disappointed with new guns, even from big-name manufacturers, but you'd think for the price, Colt would make these perfect. We may have arrived at the point where the only folks who can be trusted to make decent guns are boutique places like Freedom Arms and...

I can't think of any posts here that illustrate that. For my money, it's "Well, I haven't found any particular need to keep my guns spotless" vs. "My sergeant taught me that not cleaning my rifle is an affront to God and country!!!" In other words, the virtue signaling is pretty much all in one...

I prefer "natural" targets. That is, an ideal day for me is a walk in the woods or desert, shooting at targets of opportunity like pine cones and desert trash. (For those who don't spend much time in the desert, it's almost impossible to walk around without seeing ancient tin cans and such.) At...

For many years it was a 4" S&W K frame. It finally got a little too heavy, so I now am carrying a 340PD most of the time.