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For the last few years I've been interested in some of the older Mouse Guns in .25ACP. From an '08 Colt Vest Pocket, Baby Browning and a bunch of others that made it here before the ban on "Saturday Night Specials" ... that drove the criminals to much more reliable and powerful guns (another...

I'm fairly new to black powder and before I went to the range to test fire my new rifle, I thought I'd check with some of you folks with more experience. Last week I picked up a pretty nice tiger stripe Kentucky Rifle at the LGS. It was in a rack with all black rifles and was a rose among...

At 12:01 this morning, Jan 5th, Illinois started accepting Concealed Carry permit applications. The Illinois State Police started accepting online applications this morning from any qualified applicant for its Shall Issue concealed carry permits. The law was written by our downstate Dems and...

I picked up a very nice looking ML yesterday at a local gun shop. Consignment sale by the daughter (40 yo or so) of a now passed on (God rest his soul) shooter that had it as a wall hanger for the last few years. All she knows about it is her grandfather used to shoot it, her dad hadn't shot...

In the last month I've had two local gun stores that I buy at regularly change their policy on accepting checks. Credit cards and cash only now. I asked the owner/manager of one if they had a lot of bad paper lately and she said no, they just don't want to be bothered with handling checks...

I've been looking in the (almost empty) new and used cases at local gun shops for a decent 4 or 6 inch revolver in .357/38 for target work, for the last six+ months or so now. I finally found a clean, low-mileage stainless S&W 686-1, pre-safety lock, 2 piece wood grip, 6 inch barrel and an...

I've heard a lot from the gun control side that guns aren't really that popular with most people and that the big run on guns is just a case of all of us just buying more guns (Ha! I wish). Last week I stopped by a good sized local Gun Store (Mega Sports in Plainfield Illinois) to pick up...

Over the weekend I was standing in line to buy a couple of reloading trays at the local Gander Mountain, listening to people complain about no .223, no ARs etc. Then I spotted a Single Action Army in the "used guns" case. Short barrel (3 1/2) with a Bird Head grip in .357 Mag. (I gotta...

I usually load 150 Grain in my 30.06 for my Springfield '03 and Garands. But at the gun show today I picked up 250 very clean, pulled rounds of 147 Grain Spitzers for only $20. Way too good a eal to pass up. Weighing a random sample of 25 of them, they are all within + or - 1.4 grain on...

They used to call them "Boy's Rifles", but my daughter and granddaughter smack me in the arm when I refer to them that way. I picked up a NIB Savage Cub this week for the grand kids. It's a classic little bolt action, single shot .22, short, long or long rifle with a short stock. It reminded...

To make a long story short, at my last range session around Thanksgiving my daughter (35yo teacher) fell in love with a little .38 snubbie (1st Generation Charter Arms Undercover) I fixed up. As usual, she took it home (I seem to "lose" a lot of guns when I take my kids shooting?). I thought...

I picked up a really nice, older (1956) Marlin 39A a few weeks ago and decided to try a Williams Peep sight on it instead of a scope. It's the "cheaper" one, at around $36. The sight arrived from Midway promptly as always, but the nice folks at Williams seem to assume that I'll just figure...

I picked up a full 5 gallon bucket full of Lake City 30.06 brass at an estate sale last weekend at an obscenely low price. From the looks of it, it's "once fired" and the ones I've checked so far still have their crimp in the primer pocket. Other than my little Lee primer pocket cleaner...

I was looking into picking up a cheap Cimarron Plinkerton for SAA target practice. Cabela's had them advertised for $149 or so and with ammo getting cheaper again I figured, hey what the heck. (Please, spare me the advice to buy a used Ruger Single Six. If I ever see one for under $350 or...

Now that I have my Uberti SAA Clone fixed (thanks for the help guys with the new springs and tune up it's nice and slick!) it's range time. I checked out the SASS and a few other websites, looking for an image of the correct sight picture for a SAA. With the groove in the top and the...

I've got an 1873 Uberti Cattleman in .45 Colt that I was cleaning up. The hammer had some rough spots that I could feel when I cocked it, so I decided to take it apart and check for rough finish, grit, etc. My ultimate goal is to try and get it as slick as my Cimmaron in .45. Same...

Those of you that have followed the McDonald case will enjoy this. Mick Dumke, the reporter Daley offered to shoot a few weeks ago reported that ... "In a novel twist, Daley also claimed credit for drafting a new ordinance allowing the legal registration of handguns in Chicago, even...

Well, that makes it easy to decide who to vote for in November. I'm sure that will swing his mother's vote. That's one. Gov. Pat Quinn got the endorsement of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a national group that happens to share the name of Quinn's Republican challenger but has...

I heard Otis McDonald being interviewed earlier this week on WLS (890). They asked him if he had decided what kind of gun he wanted for his home defense gun now that he had won his case? Mr. McDonald said he had always wanted the same gun he had trained with an used in the army, a 1911...

I'm sure Daley had nothing to do with canceling this African-American group's meeting. Full story at: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/25/park-district-balks-at-gun-rights-group-meeting <snip> "Gerald Vernon says he did everything he should have to obtain a permit...