Recent content by Stevie

I own a Winchester M70 'Feather Weight' in .270 Win and a Tikka T3 Lite .308 Win. These the only 'light' rifles I own. The Tikka is synthetic stocked and both are long actions....both 22" barrels with the Winchester equipped with a skinny profile barrel The Tikka is fairly light weight...the...

Yeh...trucks eat stuff...My son and I took a few guns shooting years ago including a Iver Johnson/Erma M1-22 rifle. Back at the house the IJ .22 rifle's magazine was nowhere to be found??....Searched the truck...the shooting bag...later looked around at the shooting range too. The magazine was...

I was digging in the clutter in my truck's center console looking for a receipt....found a nice fully loaded Ruger LCP .380 I had never seen before!! I unloaded it and set it on the dining room table...My wife recognized it. She had borrowed my truck and she and her friend had taken the old...

I got a stainless Model 85 a few years ago when Taurus had a big sale on them. Awesome shooting little revolver. Shoots just as nice as any Colt or S&W .38 in my collection. If I was going to complain about anything it would be that the usual HK speedloader doesn't work very well with the small...

I own a 1914 made Steyr 'Hahn' pistol...mine is not all that clean however it runs like a champ. I've never had much issue finding ammunition between Fiocci and PCI I've always had ammo to plink with. Sarco sold me a repro holster and included ten stripper clips that work fine....can be loaded...

I have owned the standard fixed sight Colt/Walther 1911-22 for several years with few complaints. Awesome .22 pistol! The only things I did to it were to file a bit off the top of the front sight to bring it to point of aim...put walnut grips on it. Mine came with one ten shot magazine and I...

Homestead firearms would be my first suggestion too...I've bought a lot of Winchester parts from them..both new and used

I bought one new some years ago....it's the wide slide blue version...have had no issues with the frame cracking although this issue is a reality with any of the Tomcats. The first models had skinny slides and were apparently prone to frame cracking....various materials like stainless and...

I was plinking with a Henry H001 .22 levergun and somehow a .22 short empty case got lodged into the internals and jammed up the rifle. The empty about had to get in the lever slot in the bottom of the action to get where it was....had to strip the gun apart to get to it. I thought the gun had...

Flipping the cylinder closed is simply bad ju-ju and can do damage. Depending on how perfectly(or less than perfect) fitted-up the revolver is the front edge of the cylinder can collide with the outer edge of the barrel where it's thin(the forcing cone)....can and will leave a mark

A few years ago Taurus was wholesaling the Taurus 85 revolvers....could buy the stainless 85 5 shot new for $250....I bought one and love it

I own a Russian commercial Makarov and a CZ 82 both 9mm Makarov caliber. I stocked up on the ammo years ago when it was tough to find but cheap. The Russian IJ 70 recoil is noticeably heavier than the CZ 82...probably because the CZ is a bit heavier weight and has wider grips

I think Checkmate makes the Kimber factory magazines?

I have a bad habit of bringing home old double-guns....some good...some bad. Most have been cheap and needed a bit of tinkering....a few are interesting wall hangers. That cool old Francotte double looks as if it could be fresh/fairly fresh from overhaul. I would say Damascus barrels darkly...

Yes...looks like a Crescent made shotgun....I fixed up a 'Hartford Fire Arms' side hammer12ga with used parts from Numerich...had to order a couple lock tumblers from them to get a good one Mine has solid barrels marked 'Armory Steel' and really long chambers... If you watch a lot of old...