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I got my first pump shotgun the other day and I want to put a light on it - preferably something with a very tight focal point with the 'overall length' being relatively short due to the available space on the shotgun for mounting such things w/o ungainly obtrusion. This is the 590 I have...

I'd like to share my personal experience with buying guns as an investment. People on gun boards tend to be of the opinion that guns will only appreciate in value. This is likely true for many guns, but for most I'd argue it is not. After you consider the time investment taken to sell the gun...

I've got a Star BM (9mm spanish pistol) I recently refinished. It's a "1911 work-alike" though quite mechanically different. I've got a problem with it now which it did not have a year ago when I started the project: when the magazine is loaded with more than 3 rounds (it holds 8), the...

I read a while back that it was possible to remove rust through electrolysis using washing soda (sodium carbonate) as the electrolyte. I've looked high and low here locally, and I've been unable to find the washing soda. However, baking soda is sodium bicarbonate (one less sodium and one more...

So, I've got a handgun which I had in storage for the last year, and before I put it in storage, I gave it a liberal spray of Corrosion X. The gun was then wrapped in oil cloth and placed in an old pot, and stashed away due to an inability to work on it at the time. It was subject to...

I'm trying to locate records online of my grandfather's shooting career. He was a Distinguished Rifleman, which he received while in the Army, and received it in the 1950s. I looked on the CMP site and couldn't find the record.

My grandfather passed away on July 4th of this year of systemic lymphatic cancer which he'd been fighting off quite effectively since it was discovered 5 years ago. He was born 79 years prior, on December 7th. A week before he died, he had been out in the yard trimming bushes; up until he was no...

I've read that subsonic rounds are inherently more accurate than supersonic rounds, on the basis that they do not breach and re-enter the sound barrier, causing Does this hold any validity? I recently went out and purchased some .22 cal 780fps (iirc) CCI CB ammo to try and test this...

Here's a little story I've been working on. I've got about 12k words (10 chapters) written so far; I intend to post one every couple days, as I finish one, so that when I hit a dry spot I'll still have something to post. :) Any criticism and/or feedback would be greatly appreciated, as it keeps...

I'm about 12k words into a SHTF story, and was wondering whether I should post it here, or in another forum - and whether I should post it at all. Is this the right venue for it?

I've got a friend who says that it's legal to acquire newly manufactured full-auto hardware under a corporation. What is the tenacity of such a statement? For instance, could you or I incorporate, and then buy something like the Brugger & Thomet MP-9 (which is basically the 'next version' of...

UPDATE: Help! Can't figure out where my bullets are going! I'm having a problem zeroing my rifle. I can't figure out where the bullets are impacting, at all. Yes, I realize that this is very bad. I've got a 16" Rock River Arms HBAR barrel AR15. I'm shooting 55gr FMJ Fiocchi through it...

I've been researching and acquiring the necessary tools and supplies to parkerize a Star BM I acquired last summer (in very poor/pitted condition) for a while now. I've done most of metal prep (got rid of what was left of the bluing, and the dings and pitting), but now I'm wondering: As every...

So I became aware of the EAA Witness last night, and it's been driving me crazy. I've been lusting after a CZ75B for a year or so now, but I just haven't had the money. I've looked at them at gun shops and almost fell to the temptation to whip out the credit card. From all appearances...

How realistic is it for someone to be able to, predictably, make a "kill" shot at 300 yards on a man- or deer-sized target? How much practice is typically necessary for a person to make such a shot in unfamiliar terrain? For instance, if someone can consistently shoot 3" groups from a...

I had a 'dream' of sorts this morning in which I was part of one of those "choose your own adventure" stories. I thought it might be fun for the people of THR to do sort of a collaborative "fiction" writing. You find yourself in a modern-day, fictitious world where the rule of law has...

I am perpetually frustrated with sighting in rifles, in part because I hate having to spend quite a few dollars to sight them in, and because I can almost -never- remember if the "R" and "UP" marks on the scope/sight adjustment knobs mean "move the sight to the right/up" or "move the point of...

I went out shooting today as the weather was very nice for this time of year - low 40s with barely even a breeze. When I was shooting my AR, I noticed something I've not noticed before, either with this ammo or with this gun, or with any combination of gun and ammo, for that matter. There was a...

I'm finally putting together a bench for myself to reload at. I sit all day at work, so I'm intending to make it high enough so that I can stand and reload. I'm trying to figure out the 'ideal' height to put the bench to clamp the press onto, but not being to familiar, I thought I'd get some...

So, given the drop in the value of the dollar, do we look at a situation in a couple months where we'll see a drastic increase in "imported" guns - stuff like RIA, Taurus, Tikka, CZ, Glock, and Beretta? The value of the dollar has lost 1/3rd of it's value in a fairly short period of time...