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" This is because Kimber didn't design the 1911 - they just found ways to screw it up. " -Andrew at Vuurwapen Blog Wish I...

Remember in the movie Pink Floyd's The Wall , when young Roger Waters' Giant Self-Absorbed Ego Pink finds the drawer with his da...

Three days ago, the weatherpersons in my roomie's TeeWee were saying that Isaac was going to dump four to seven inches of rain on us ove...

Been wandering around on some gun fora today: Every time I see a "Show off a picture of your Glock!" thread on a gun forum, I ha...

Sitting at Oleg's kitchen table last week, composing a post, I realized that while I had blogged from that very chair many times before,...

So, there's one of Caleb's auditioners writing up a field test of a Hi-Point C9 , and I'm in the comments being a hater because ...

Seen on this morning's bicycle ride: '48 or '49 Ford F-2 3/4-ton work truck. Obviously still hard at work. Fat tires an...

Just yesterday I was all patting myself on the back over keeping up a 3.5 post/day average for seven years and so of course I wake up this m...

Apparently Andrew over at Vuurwapen Blog fired enough lo-bujit rounds through an AR midlength carbine in a short enough amount of time that ...

By popular demand, the Federal Aviation Administration is forming a group to study policies governing the use of consumer electronics in th...

On a whim yesterday, I did some searching on the Wikipedia: The Far Side 15 years Calvin and Hobbes 10 years The X-Files 9 years Blo...

Remember I was talking about how much I liked my LED Lenser P3 AFS flashlight? Well, I lost it. I picked up a Streamlight Protac 2AA at th...

Back in '05, the Indiana State Police traded in their Beretta 96G pistols for Glock 22s. The swap would have seemed a no-brainer, since ...

RX: "You start out in this world with well-established celebrities that everybody knows, and by the time you're old, there's ...

Once having a rep for some of the sloppiest marksmanship in Christendom, the NYPD had spent brazillions of dollars on training for its offic...

Me: " I have now added ibuprofen and Band-Aids to the things I carry in my turse... " RX: "That sounds like a good idea....

Went out to Premier Arms with Turk Turon yesterday. Out on the rack, among the more pedestrian Glenfield Model 60s, shotguns of various typ...

Turk Turon is in town. Bobbi grilled up some steak à la Roseholme last night; I remain flabbergasted by the results. I have never had a ...

Work it, wookie! Make love to the camera! Back from my roadtrip, now I'm off to the almost-a-dentist. More bloggery will be committ...

The sheer, anal-retentive level of detail in this thing is just breathtaking: I was playing it on the computer in the gunsmithing depart...