Here’s the story. In 1972, my then girl friend (who became my wife) bought me the first new rifle I’d ever owned. It was a Marlin 336 in 30-30. Great rifle that saw it’s full use in the deer woods of Maine. About fifteen years later, I had the rifle strapped to the front rack
I have a Lee three position turret press that was throwing spent primers all over the place…….something needed to be done! Now this article only applies to those of us that DO NOT use the press mounted primer feed. In it’s normal configuration, primers are simply ejected out of the slot that runs up the
Hi my name is John O’Connor, I am a father, outdoorsman and passionate about living a healthy lifestyle.  Over the past few years I have become more and more interested in hearing loss.  My father and grandfathers, who are and were all hunters, are affected by hearing loss.  I feel that there is a general lack of
Well, it’s a wrap! Our 17th year of scrambling eggs has come to a close. The last Egg Shoot of the year is the Randy Costa Memorial Shoot. George Harrison, Randy and I started shooting these events 17 years ago over at the Copicut Rifle Association. A few years later I took over the duties.
Here are bunch of photo albums mostly dealing with firearms, sports cars and motorcycles……Enjoy! FIREARMS MOTORCYCLES DODGE DIESEL / PORSCHE / VEHICLES MACHINE TOOL / WELDING / PROJECTS GUNSMITHING / RELOADING / BULLET CASTING
So yesterday was my birthday. My wife took me out for a real nice lunch at the Airport Grill in New Bedford. One of my favorite resturants. After lunch we decided to go shopping for new kitchen appliances. I was shocked that a gas stove cost $1000!!! and a refrigerator could easily run twice as
Last year I discovered the sport of Cowboy Action Shooting. Once you discover this fantastic sport, “leveritis” sets in. After purchasing a number of modern lever action rifles, I just had to have an original, pre 1900 rifle. I found a beautiful Winchester 1873 that needed some love (See other article on this web site).
I recently purchased a used Winchester 1886 Take Down. It came with a Lyman #2 tang sight installed. When I took the rifle to the range to sight it in, I noticed a lot of movement (wobble) in the sight peep hole. Seems there is wobble in two places. Where the sight sits on the
Last year after reading many articles in Precision Shooting magazine
and The Varmint Hunter Association magazine I decided that I “needed” a
sub caliber rifle. I looked into the real small stuff, 12 and 14
calibers but I ruled them out as just too weird. Maybe next year. The
20 caliber stuff wasn’t out yet so I settled on a 17 caliber.
During a lead bullet casting session, it is not unusual to cast upwards of 100-200 bullets during a 30-40 minute period. At first you are holding your bullet mold handles very tightly, but as the session wears on, your hand and grip might become tired and you relax the grip on the bullet mold handles.
