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Holland’s New Radial Muzzle Brake

Posted on December 20, 2008 by Alaska

Darrell Holland’s standard Quick Discharge brake is at bottom. The new Radial brake is at top. The difference is immediately apparent. My specialty pistols mentor Ernie says the Radial is the best he’s ever used. He says: There are three … Continue reading →

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Alaska

Prag and threeper, both adorable, both crawling towards the same goal. Which one is which is for the reader to determine.  (Think about your choice: it may say more about your willingness to label than about any particular philosophy you … Continue reading →

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For Kevin Baker

Posted on October 25, 2008 by Alaska

who’s inquiring about the .308 Encore pistol he shot at the GBR III. I’m realizing I don’t have any good pics of it, so I’m gonna remedy that in the next 15 minutes or so. Stay tuned. In the meantime, … Continue reading →

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Boomershoot Proof of Concept

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Alaska

Joe Huffman had expressed skepticism that a bullet from one of my specialty pistols would have enough velocity to explode boomers past the 385-yard line. Well, at Boomershoot 2008 I exploded a large boomer at about 620 yards with my … Continue reading →

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Shooting the Log

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Alaska

No, not a Yule Log. The T/C Contender affectionately known as “The Log” (the lower gun in the pic) is the gun of a Specialty Pistols member (not me) who goes by the name okiecruffler and has had a couple … Continue reading →

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Buy a Contender Barrel from Red’s!

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Alaska

It’s possible some of you may not have heard of Red’s Trading Post, Idaho’s oldest gun shop, which is fighting hard against what really and truly appears to be an unjust vendetta by the ATF to shut down a number … Continue reading →

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Weather-by Weekend

Posted on April 14, 2007 by Alaska

…in more ways than one. I’d planned to hit the range today and tomorrow to verify zeros on the Weatherby and Sako rifles I’ll be taking to Boomershoot, but we actually have some weather down here in the Bay Area, … Continue reading →

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We Remember, Do They?

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Alaska

Hard to tell sometimes given the noises coming out of Congress these days. Our serving men and women certainly do. Thanks to the Specialty Pistols board, where a member posted this pic from his friend whose nephew’s serving in Iraq: … Continue reading →

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The Halloween Gun

Posted on November 3, 2006 by Alaska

…was not the Vampire Kit Gun, as you might have thought. Instead, as it happened, California’s stupid waiting period ended for me on October 31, and I was able to pick up a new member of my little specialty pistol … Continue reading →

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I’m a 1,000-Yard Man

Posted on May 6, 2006 by Alaska

I’m back from the Bower Clinic. Highlights (for me) of what these three guys helped me to achieve include: — I repeatedly hit the 660-yard angle iron with one of my Encore .308 pistols, which I had never shot prior to … Continue reading →

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