The Volcanic – or – Building A Gun From Scratch
I’ve been a member and a moderator of Paco Kelly’s leverguns.com forum since it was started several years ago. It’s a great place to hang out when time allows and is populated by some of the finest folks on the internet.
Recently a fellow started posting there. He goes by the name Charlie and builds guns [...]
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When Guns Are Outlawed – part two
A while back I did a quick blurb called “When Guns Are Outlawed“. Well, since then I also read about a new knife for sale in the UK that is “stab proof”. Haven’t seen any pics yet, but I suspect it will have something like a large flat thing welded or forged on the tip. [...]
The IZH Baikal 46M
This year a friend gave me an IZH Baikal 46M target pistol. It is a 4.5mm (.177 caliber) Russian built pistol. It’s made of blue steel and wood – the way God intended pistols to be made. And I am tickled pink with it – now. At first [...]
Third World Quality Control
While looking for another draft I found the following somewhere in the dusty file cabinets of this site.
One of the problems with living in a “third world country” is that often one is subjected to less than ideal products and services. One pretty much has to just put up with it, although sometimes one [...]
Long Range Perforation – A Personal Tradition
Christmas – the year I was 14. My brother and I both received a rectangular package that year. We tore into them and found that we were the proud owners of Daisy 880 BB/Pellet guns. This model would shoot either BB’s or .177 caliber pellets. BB’s as a repeater and pellets single loaded. They were [...]
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“Only two”
Over on the Leverguns.com Community Forum the old game of “pick one” came up again recently. Only this time it was “pick two”. Here’s part of the original post to give context to my answer as outlined below.
You can only pick one rifle – hunting, self protection, plinking, fondling, drooling over… etc. You won’t [...]
If the first were treated like the second…
Have you ever imagined what the world would be like if the First Amendment to the US Constitution were treated like the Second Amendment has been? After all, EVERYONE’S in favor of “reasonable restrictions” on the exercise of the Second Amendment and EVERYONE’S in favor of “proper training” for those who choose to exercise their [...]
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233 Years Ago Today
233 years ago today a group of simple village and farm folk stood up against the forces of an empire which desired to force upon them its ideals and laws. They “fired the shot heard ’round the world” and after several long years of war they attained their goal – a free and sovereign [...]
The PPPPPP gets a reaming…
Well, last month I was in the US of A for a couple weeks. Got a chance to toss some lead down range. THAT was a blast! Got to hang out with Hoot and Miss Beth from the Sixshooter Community Forum. Got to hang out with Jim Taylor, Hiram and Fungus Sam, not [...]
It ain’t supposed to happen!
Once more it happened. The “authorities” had taken all the “proper” measures. Put in place all the “proper” laws, rules, regulations and controls. And then – well someone didn’t toe the line that they had drawn. It happens all the time, every day in fact – somewhere or several somewheres in the world. And yet [...]