When Michael Bane picked up the Remington 1911 R1 for the first time, it felt like an old friend. One thing he has said repeatedly is that 1911s have the ability to be more than the sum of their parts. He has built 1911s from parts, and while they all launched bullets, none of them [...]
While I’ve been working I’ve overlooked some interesting firearms datapoints out there. Most interestingly, earlier this week MSNBC, never a friend of gun owners, ran a generally positive piece on concealed carry: In the 1980s and ’90s, as the concealed-carry movement gained steam, Americans were killed by others with guns at the rate of about [...]
Busman’s Holiday She got a .38 Special, but I believe it’s most too light She got a .38 Special, but I believe it’s most too light I got a .32-20, got to make the camps alright — Robert Johnson “The .32-20 Blues” Since mostly what I do is travel, shoot, and film shooting, it only [...]
Although they’ve definitely been flying under the radar, it appears that Detonics, still under the leadership of the legendary Bruce Siddle, author of SHARPENING THE WARRIOR’S EDGE, has emerged from its various legal battles with a new — and honest-to-goodness unique — Combat Master. The pic is from Bob Boyd’s blog over at SHOOTING ILLUSTRATED, [...]
A Sterling SMG-styled pistol in…get this… 7.62 X 25 Tokarev! Manufactured by Wise Lite Arms, these have apparently been around for a couple of months, but I’m just running into them. The Toke round has always had a surprisingly large number of followers, largely because of the bazillions of CZ-52s out there…I have one and [...]
Okay, I think I know everybody in the business, and mostly I do. But sometimes, I am just dead bang wrong! Here’s a case in point. I met gunsmith Vic Samuel from SSA Enterprises through his son, Alan, who’s a machine gun guy and a revolver competition champion, while filming the first episodes of SHOOTING [...]
I suppose if you were really cheap, you could stick your pocket pistol into a small plaster freezer bag in your pocket…it’s keep it clean, but it wouldn’t’ do much to position the gun for the draw! Seriously, I have seen some “interesting” home-made attempts at a pocket holster, the most creative made with expired [...]
