During one of my rare sojourns away from Castle Doghair, I was privileged to encounter an old First Model Iver Johnson Owl Head revolver in caliber .38 S&W that was still actually functional…which means that it wasn’t fired very much in the last hundred or so years. With wrought iron frames and low carbon steel […]
After some forty years, Olympic Arms closes it’s doors on February 28th, 2017. I have to wonder if this is a sign of things to come, due to the market saturation of AR-15s and manufactures. I truly hope not but I expect to see more manufactures to either go out of business or begin to […]
Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. (NYSE: RGR) is pleased to announce a new Ruger® LCRx® 5-round revolver chambered in the hard-hitting .357 Magnum cartridge. This durable and reliable revolver is equipped with a 1.87″ barrel and features an exposed hammer that allows it to be fired in either double-action or single-action mode. When it was […]
With the 2017 SHOT show in the rear view mirror I though I would share a few photographs of what I saw and some really cool stuff. Click this link to go to the entire gallery, here are just some of the firearms I saw that were very interesting. The Gilboa Snake, double […]
M1911 Locked breech/Short Recoil basic function Caliber .45 Auto firing a 230 grain bullet at 830 fps: Bang! Assuming a condition of zero headspace, both bullet and slide start to accelerate at the same instant. The slide grabs the barrel upper lugs and hauls the barrel backward with it. At nominally 1/10th inch of rearward […]
Colt Media Day 2016. Again this year several members of the media gathered at Gunsite to look upon and test drive what is new from Colt to be introduced in 2017. Introducing the new firearms from Colt The new Colt Cobra 6 shot .38 Special double action revolver. New Colt Delta Elite […]
Well, it would appear the prayers of Colt enthusiasts have been answered. It was Colt Media Day at Gunsite when the specs were released to a select group of members of the gun media. I was fortunate enough to be in the room and I was not the only person there with my mouth wide […]
Many have come to know me through my technical posts on the 1911 pistol, but what most don’t know is that I don’t love the 1911, even though I shoot it a little better than other pistols. I’ve just got a lot of experience with it and I understand it well…but I don’t love it. […]
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) is adding three new models to the growing Ruger® Mark IV™ family of rimfire pistols. Ruger has long set the standard for reliable, affordable and accurate .22 LR handguns, beginning with the introduction of the Standard Pistol in 1949. In September 2016, Ruger introduced the newest additions to […]
It was about a year ago I reviewed the Double D Armory SST, you can read that review by following this link. That particular rifle was machined from billet aluminum. Double D Armory has since released a forged rifle at a lesser MSRP of $1799, the SSTF. My test sample arrived after serving duty as […]
