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Anyone used a Chiappa .22 AR upper? I saw an ad for one today. Price was OK but I want to know how they work before thinking seriously about buying one.

I've been looking for a knife with Bowie style and at least a 10-inch blade for a while. The Browning Crowell/Barker Competition knife, Model 580 is what I found. It's just about what I had in mind. I got it for a good price at Sportsman's Guide, ordered one, saving a bit more with the...

I made a quick trip to the range today. The weather was fine, a nice break from the heat we've been enduring. No one else was there, so I had a chance to do some close range drills. The main reason for the trip was to shoot my latest acquisition, a Smith & Wesson M15-4 snubnose. There...

Today, my son is left for Camp Perry to shoot in the pistol portion of The Natonial Matches. I am a proud, and somewhat envious, Dad tonight. When I was about 12 I used to read our neighbor's old American Rifleman magazines. The stories about the rifle portion of the Nationals got to...

Can anyone rate knives from Bear Cutlery Co., as to finish, blade steel, etc? They are made in the U.S., but I haven't handled one.

There are a lot of neat pics from competition at the National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio on the CMP website, www.odcmp.com. One that caught my eye was a 13 year-old girl shooting a revolver upside down using a mirror to aim. She was a champ a long time ago. I'd not heard of her before. My...

Last time I went to the range I shot my .22 Charter Arms Pathfinder and a Russian air pistol the IZH53M. Nothing else. I was offered a chance to shoot a .22 conversion unit on a .45 frame but didn't have time. This summer I did quite a bit of work with my BHP Practical. It was what I...

I picked up a stainless steel Charter Arms Pathfinder .22 revolver today. It's the day before Michigan's deer season so the store was a bit busy, but things went pretty quickly, considering. I remember reading about the Pathfinder's introduction in gun mags when I was younger. I always...

I took my 14 year-old son out grouse hunting this morning. We haven't been out much and hadn't taken the Springer Spanial out yet this fall. She was picked up as a stray in a neighboring county and unclaimed at the shelter. I was a little concerned that she'd hit the woods and just start...

I got to the range for an hour, or so, today. My son was sighting-in his Remington .308 and I shot a Walther (Manurhin) PP for a while, then practiced with my 649. I had a silhouette target up at 50 feet and worked on shooting the gun dry and then reloading using Bianchi Speed Strips...

I ran across a 12 gauge Winchester 59 today. The wood was in good shape and the receiver had some line engraving on it. The gun also had a Poly Choke. I'd never handled one before, but did get to fool with this one a little. It felt pretty good to me and shotgun aquisiton mode is almost...

I have been shooting shotguns, on and off, since high school. I own enough shotguns so I sometimes have trouble figguring out which one I want to hunt birds with. I still run across something new to me now and then. One of those "thens" came up the other day at a gun store. "We have a...

My son's used J.C. Higgins pump 12 gauge, (a High Standard) fits him very well. It is set up to shoot high and dropping targets give him some problems. My question is about the gun, not how to pick up those dropping targets, however. Was the shotgun originally set up for trap or skeet...

This has been done, but not for a while. What gun are you carrying now? I have a Smith M38 "Bodyguard" in .38 Special in my pocket as I write. It's an alloy framed revolver with a stainless cylinder. Light and easy to carry, but not as easy to shoot as my stainless M649.

I'd been looking for a Smith M60, the stainless snubnose, off and on for a while. Yesterday, on the way out of town, I stopped at my local gunstore. There was an M60 in .38 Special in the case. It looked in great shape, lockup was good, and it had wooden grips that might be Herrets...

After a while just banging away with subguns gets old. So, last time my buddies and I got together we tried these courses. Subgun Mozambique One silhouette target at five yards. Subgun loaded with at least 20 rounds. Course Of Fire: One burst into the body of the target...

The Bowie pics on the "favorite knife" thread made me want to see more. How about posting pics of your Bowie knives? I don't have one yet, but am looking at a few.

I have a couple of Colt Combat Commanders. One is a 1991A1 in .45 ACP. It isn't fancy but fed all kinds of ammo, including SWC target loads from the factory. Accuracy is good too. Sights aren't bad either. My son beat me in a steel plate match last July shooting this Commander. I...

I hadn't been to the range, or fired a shot, since November 11, 2005. That's a long stretch without ballistic activity! The winter and some health issues contributed to my lack of trigger time. The health stuff turned out to be a false alarm, thankfully. The winter has backed off a bit...

I handled a CZ 83 (I think) in .32 ACP today. It's an interesting little pistol. It can be carried cocked and locked, like a 1911, had ambi safeties and came with two magazines. I think they were 15 shot mags. It would conceal well in an IWB holster, and might even work in a pocket holster...