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With the right ammunition, the .30 carbine is a wicked little cartridge. Back in the early 1990s, before the prices on them went through the roof, I bought a surplus Inland M1 carbine. While back east visiting my family, I used Remington factory ammunition loaded with 110 grain soft points to...

Wrist Rockets were a tremendous advance over standard slingshots. With the wrist support you could use much more powerful rubber bands, with surgical rubber tubing being the best. My wrist rocket went to college with me because I knew it would come in handy (I was only 17 when I started...

What do people mean when they say, "there is no factory support" for this model 66? If you purchase this older Model 66, you shouldn't expect any warranty support for the kind of damage on this handgun, if for no other reason than you would be the 2nd, 3rd, or only God knows how-many-eth owner...

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this... part of the reason the 5-inch Model 27 and pre-Model 27 were/are so popular is because old farts like me grew up reading Skeeter Skelton. The 5-inch N-Frame 357 Magnum was Skeeter's favorite double action 357. He mostly shot it with the Thompson...

I agree; to me a 3.5" Model 27 is the meanest looking handgun Smith & Wesson ever produced... if you take off the target grips and install a set of Magna grips and a Tyler T-Grip so it looks like something a law enforcement officer would use. I'm told this particular barrel length and setup was...

Originally Posted by 38magnum View Post all of my dies are steel body, even pistol. sure pistol have that nifty carbide ring.. ALL of my lee dies have been rusty within one week of original arrival at the mailbox.. some have been rusty on the outside IN the factory box. But use of that lee...

Either I or one of my cousins had most of that stuff. I'm glad I grew up when we had fun stuff to play with. It must be boring to be a kid nowadays with all of the potential for harm removed. One of my cousins and I each had a Johnny Reb cannon. When we lost our cannon balls we discovered...

Try L.T. Wright knives. ( ltwrightknives.com ) L.T. makes working knives. Though most sales are direct from L.T., they make some special models that are only sold through certain knife dealers. For Smokey Mountain Knife Works he makes a knife called the "Bandit" that sells for about $125...

There is a big difference between old Unique and the new Unique. I didn't like the old Unique (the stuff in the cardboard cans) either because it didn't go through a powder measure very well. The newer Unique (in the plastic cans) seems to go through the powder measure on my Dillon 550 MUCH...

I like bears, but I too am not a fan of running. I figured out a long time ago that when you run your heart rate goes up, your blood pressure goes up, and you sweat. I can do the same thing simply by getting fat. When a person gets fat their heart rate goes up, their blood pressure goes up...

Clint Walker (character: Cheyenne Bodie) had shoulders on him about the width of North Dakota. That was one SERIOUSLY big, powerful man! Whelenshooter

I told my boss I needed assertiveness training, but I couldn't convince him I needed it. Whelenshooter

I can't show a photo of it right now because it is buried in storage while we have our new house built, but I have a four inch bull barreled four screw Model 14 (no dash). When I first glanced at it in the gun shop counter I thought it was a Model 19 until I saw there was no shroud covering the...

From my experiences with Lyman, you got exactly how they always deal with customers. A number of years ago I bought a Lyman Turbo Case Tumbler. It lasted about a year. I was a little disappointed, but because it had a good review from the gun press, I bought another. Right out of the box it...

I have fourty-seven years of reloading experience. I've probably reloaded over a million rounds of ammo. I have one thing to say about this situation: There but for the grace of God go I! Reloading is a hobby that DEMANDS 100% attention at all times, but it not only requires attention when...