Category Archives: Have Gun, Will Travel

IIRC, it was this month fourteen years ago when I bought my very first gun. I’ve mentioned before my motivations for why I chose a double-action revolver as my first gun. It’s all the fault of Ross Seyfried’s article “Mastering … Continue reading →

Day two of the Bower Clinic was spent, when shooting my guns, in a mostly fruitless quest to put a group on the 800-yard target with the Black Hills 168-grain load I’d been shooting all along. My spotter gave me … Continue reading →

As I’ve mentioned, at the start of the Bower Clinic, I had never fired any specialty pistol, including my own recently-acquired pair in .308 Winchester. But over three days, the instructors helped me improve a lot, as you’ll see from … Continue reading →

James at Hell in a Handbasket proves his gun-geek status by identifying the handgun used by DC’s Warlord as a Wildey Magnum. My hat’s off to you sir. I too own this particular comic — the Warlord series was one … Continue reading →

The Heartless Libertarian has a post up about the trip he and I made to the gunshow on Sunday and shows off his purchase. Go Look! Go Look! Go Look!

I noticed that Josh of South Park Pundit was musing about a Cooper-style Scout rifle. After half-jokingly suggesting this monster   …I started thinking about using a Scout rifle at longer ranges. Generally, you can’t. The key limitation seems to be the … Continue reading →

I’ve lived in California, Oregon and Maryland. I’ve traveled to a lot of states in between. But until last week, I’d never been inside a Cabela’s. If the Mitchell, South Dakota store is typical of the breed, then if you … Continue reading →

Three things a visitor from California notices right away about the Midwest, and South Dakota in particular: 1) People are friendly. Example: when your car meets another going the opposite direction, the other driver will wave hello to you. At … Continue reading →