Recent content by M1A4ME

I shot my first Glock pistol (not mine, belonged to a buddy) over 40 years ago. The cheap Taurus my other buddy was shooting and my Combat Commander made the Glock look pretty darned bad. A few years later I shot a second Glock and the darned thing seemed to be "not so bad." I bought a...

Over the years I've found most of my guns shoot their best groups with a powder charge about 10% below the max. listed load in the manual. That's not 100% true, but it's close. A good shooting .357 magnum pistol is plenty of fun.

I carry a 9MM everywhere I go these days. I carry a good bit of extra ammo in the spare mags. Only one reason for that. The Shield Plus mags. fit my wife's Equalizer and she just can't seem to understand grabbing spare mags. when we go out. If she would carry her own, I'd carry a .40. Like...

For me the question is always, "What will that pistol do that mine won't?" What does the Shield X do my Shield Plus doesn't already do for me? Nothing I've seen so far. My Shield Plus pistols (three 9MM) have lights, dot optic sights, either 3.1" barrels/slides (1) or 4" barrels/slides (2)...

As mentioned in earlier posts. .22's are funny about their ammo likes/dislikes. My 10/22 does better with Rem. Golden Bullets than with Winchester, CCI, Federal or Thunderbolts. My Ruger Mk1 5.5" and old Winchester M52B do better with Thunderbolts than anything else. My SIG 522 seems to...

Wasn't he the bad guy in the Get Smart movie? Viciously honest about the short comings of his minions.

I do a lot of that. Short trip to test stuff. Guns, optics, ammo. Trip this week was one Shield .40 and two Shield Plus 9MM pistols. Couldn't sight in the laser on the Shield .40 as I had no super tiny allen wrench in my range bag tool pouch (thought I did.) Sighted in the new OSight SE on...

My dad worked on these at Minot AFB in the late 60's. Not a fighter. Designed to get off the ground in the US, fly at high speed as far north as it could before intercepting/shooting down Russian bombers attempting to drop nuclear bombs on the US. In 1959 they sent two of them to Edwards AFB...

I guess the wolves don't have a concept of inclusion and automatic respect for anyone who hasn't earned it. Oh well. I wonder if the dude learned anything from it?

The manuals from the bullet makers are mostly about reloading their bullets. Nothing wrong with that and I have several. The Lyman manuals are mostly about reloading and contain a lot of good information. They use bullets by most bullet making companies. Lyman publishes data on shotgun...

If you want one these appear to be S&W pistol cleaning kits like the ones in some of the Performance Center gun boxes. Amazon -...

Not a bad thing to have a pistol and carbine that use the same ammo. A PDW may not be a "carbine" but the idea is similar. If you have both and the use the same magazines that's even better. If you live in an area where you can't see hundreds of yards a PDW/pistol caliber carbine isn't a bad...

Plunk test to see if the ammo should chamber/work in your pistol barrel.

Our youngest son works on generators for a living. He loves the Kohler 2 cylinder engines used on generators. The ones around 22 to 24 hp in size/output. He told me he's been called to work on them and found no air filters, oil so old/used it was black and thick as syrup, spark plugs with the...

Just used Mobil 1 on both the P01 Omega pistols I have. No wear issues so far. But I do over oil (according to some people) and I field strip/clean mine more than many people do.