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Being of sound (hunting) mind, I won't use an AR for hunting deer, bear, or moose. In fact, I don't even own one and not planning to at this time of my life. My Remington 700, 270 Win, using the proper handloads, will quickly kill any game I can seek in Maine. It has killed a moose with...

Happy that our Air Force granddaughter just qualified Expert with an M-16 again, at 50 yards(?) Her Dad and I cooperated in training her for hunting and she shot a deer with my 6mm Remington 700, long-before she entered the military. More than 10 years ago, she shot my steel Deer Silhouette in...

Almost all the snow has melted in the Central Maine area...Augusta to Waterville zone!!! My rifles are itching to fire a few rounds downrange on my "new-ish" 200 yard range, which may get extended to 300 or more...according to my Son, who owns the field access road it's on. I had to move the...

Quite the auction! Yesterday, April 2nd, there were about a hundred rifles and shotguns, taken from poachers, etc. I've been to these events before and they never cease to amaze me how much people pay for guns that I, as a serious gun guy wouldn't give a dime for, without having the chance to...

My granddaughter got an award for her Air Force (shooting?) performance yesterday. We watched the ceremony where she and several others received performance awards. Looking at the screen shot this morning, I had a flashback of the photo of when she used my 6mm Tikka for deer hunting and when...

The above bipod, about a foot long was made by using scrap 1/2" diameter copper tubing when I was about 17 years old, back in the 1950's. My dad owned the plumbing shop and had a waste barrel, from which the pipe was taken. I didn't own a field shooting rest before, and decided to construct one...

Sat in a blind on son's property down back, then walked back up the road toward our house, when I spied a doe about 40 yards into the hardwoods, but it stopped when it saw me and was right in line with a neighbor's house. She and I had a "Maine Standoff" for about 15 minutes, then I walked away.

Handloaded some "working-mans" Varmint ammo for the .223 Rem rifles this week, using 53 Hornady V-Max bullets and a near-max (Lyman Manual) load of Varget powder and CCI standard primers. I took the opportunity to fine-tune the 100 yard zero and needed a couple of clicks on the Bushnell 3-12X...

Wednesday 6/28/2022 Finally, after a long hard winter, lousy wind, rain, I'm finally going to Capital City Rifle and Pistol Club Multi-purpose Rifle Range in a few minutes!!! I'm about ready, but now to pick the rifles I'm going to take. It's going to be sweet, shooting my varmint...

The new Model 21 appears to be a quality rifle, but as nice as the new action is, I think the bolt design is quite ugly for such a nice rifle. The bolt handle looks like something that came out of a High School shop class. I'm used to seeing smooth bolt handles and nicely-purposed rear ends...

This photo reminded me of a deer-hunting trek, gone weird. I was only about 15yrs old and hunting near a wetland with my B-I-L in China, Maine. I'd been on a trail in light alders, near a bog, when I spied some fur beyond the low crotch of a hardwood, about 60 yards into the wooded area beyond...

This target was shot in 1984, but I don't think it was posted here. The 4 new strikes were shot by my two granddaughters in their teens, standing, leaning against the back of my covered pickup body, shooting at this "braced" ram, 182 yards away. Two shots each from my .223 Rem 700 VLS with...

This was probably the latest in the Spring that I've loaded the first ammo of the year. It was a long winter and late spring weather here in Maine. Besides, I'm getting a bit "long in the tooth" at 77 yrs. old and don't like to shoot in the cold. Yesterday, I loaded some .223 Rem in...

Winter's over and time to visit the blueberry fields down back. I drove the old pick-up down the old dirt road until the lower area was a bit too mushy, so picked-up my .17 CZ and walked a few hundred yards to my old sitting bench at the edge of our son's big blueberry field. I like being down...

A few weeks ago we visited our daughter's family in Mass. and stopped at the Kittery Trading Post to check things out and get some ammo, since they have always had plenty of choices. There were probably 5-10 long guns in their many racks and only a few boxes of weird cartridges in their several...

Added the Pachmayr grips and love them! Comes with two excellent stainless magazines and has a fantastic trigger...lighter and nicer than my Colt National Match. Checking out all the stainless 1911s in the Cabela's store, (about 4-5), this one had the best trigger, by far. Some were very...

My Rem 700 Stainless, 21" barreled .223 "Light Varmint" rifle. Easy to carry, fun to shoot! Has a blued replacement firing pin assembly, because the stainless one dragged, causing poor ignition and these were on-sale. "Sweet" replacement trigger is a Canjar. Bought the rifle (used), from LL...