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I came across a Beretta 85F the other day in the box with two magazines. There is a very small pin head size chip in the finish on the forward portion of the slide so it’s not mint, but it appears to be unfired. It won’t stay that way for long. It’s the single stack 8 round version of the 84...

I saw a Tisas Fatih last weekend at a local gun show and was almost impressed enough with it to buy it. But the matte finish, the wood grips and the squared off trigger guard similar to the Betetta 84FS didn’t quite move me. (Fatih means “conqueror” in Turkish, in case you are the curious...

May 22 I went from very healthy and physically active with no heart history to a massive widow maker heart attack. It was complicated and possibly precipitated by an Intussusception where a portion of intestine that just happened to be beneath my heart telescoped in on itself. During the...

I found this in a local gun shop about a week ago but passed on it as it didn’t look like it was quite worth the asking price. It was still there yesterday. On closer inspection, its biggest issue was just being really dirty with an overall coat of grime. Plus they were willing to down $50...

I put this thread here, but it would also fit in reloading or concealed carry and self defense, depending on your preferences and priorities. My goal has been to find a comparatively inexpensive bullet that I could reload that would give good expansion and penetration at subsonic velocities...

The “best” 9mm handgun discussion got me thinking we should have shooters define what makes newer pistols better than more traditional designs with long histories of successful service. What criteria must be considered? 1) Advances in design? There have certainly been some watershed moments...

I have mixed feelings about it. At an MSRP of $419 the Winchester Ranger is competing directly with the $$425 MSRP Henry lever action, which sells for a street price around $350. I suspect the Ranger will follow a pattern of selling above MSRP until the newness wears off and shops stop...

It’s been over a year since it was introduced and they are now selling comfortably below the MSRP for around $500-$570 in real world gun shops. I paid $500 for this one. The surprisingly good I had not planned to on doing anything more than look and touch. However it felt really good in my...

I picked up a 20” Winchester Model 64 at a local show today. Typical of the 1934 through June of 1942 Model 64s it has a receiver drilled for both a receiver sight and a tang sight. The serial number is in the 1,316xxx range which is after the 1,287,460 start for 1942 but before the...

I stopped in briefly at a local gun show on my way to the airport to fly to an airshow. I got there just as the door opened looking for a Girsan P1 (with no luck). I passed by a surplus dealer who usually has good deals, and noted a Remington 541X on his table with the military trainer stock...

There are not that many new firearms that spark much interest for me, but I’ve always been a fan of the various 70 and 80 series Berettas, as well as their compact L and M versions of the 92. That interest in Beretta semi-autos and an interest in .380 ACP in particular meant that when I saw a...

I came across a 61-3 in one of my favorite semi local gun shops. He’d gotten it without the magazine and ordered one for it. It had arrived that morning and he’d just put it out for sale priced at $189 out the door. They are unusual, I didn’t have one, and the price was right, so I had him...

I picked this up a week or so ago in a local gun shop. It’s a Winchester Model 1906 with a 7912xx range serial number. Winchester went to 2 digit model numbers in March 1919 (and they used 2 digit model numbers in their 1918 catalog), so it’s marked “Model 06”. The serial number makes it one...

I see a lot of knife threads but not many with axes or hatchets. What do you take with you when you go in the wood? My go to pack items are a 3” S&W 686 or a 6” Model 66, a Bark River iteration of a Kephart knife and a G&B Small Forest Axe. A a .357 revolver addresses most trial threats short...

I attended a gun show yesterday and an older gentleman was asking a vendor if he could buy a handgun without a purchase permit or concealed carry permit. The person behind the table was young, obviously a teen belonging to the mom and dad who were the actual vendors and busy with other...

Winchester 9422 I’ve always liked the 9422 and I own three of them. I committed a collector sin of adding tang sights to two of them, but I am not a collector. I believe rifles and carbines exist to be shot and regard few things with more pity than a gun that’s never been fired. Besides...

I came across a Marlin 639A in a pawnshop and had to bring it home. I own a few 9422s (an uncheckered first year XTR, a Trapper and a Legacy), as well as a Grade 1 and Grade 2 BL-22, but I’ve never owned a Marlin. Partly it’s been because with few exceptions (mostly the Mountie) they are quite...

I came across this interesting promotional film by Remington going through their manufacturing processes. Given the reference of one of their gunsmiths assembling 788s, 600s, and 660s on any given day, it dates the film and interviews to 1968. In 1968 Remington was involved in the same cost...

I found a Kimber K6S awhile back and I’ve formed some impressions, mostly positive. I like the overall size of the revolver and it compares very favorably to the SP101 and the S&W Model 60. It weighs in at 26.7 oz loaded, compared to an almost identical 27.2 oz for the 2.125” Model 60, and...

It continues to rain pump guns. I walked into the local gun shop looking for ammo, and they led me to the back room where they were in the process of listing this on GB. I said how much. He named a price, a pretty good price, and said, “but I’ll knock of $50 for you”. I said “no need to...