Bottle openers and pens made from fired cartridges are nice conversation pieces and no doubt many of us own, or have owned such items. Those of us who enjoy an occasional cigar need an ash tray and we much prefer it if that ash tray has some character. We may cut off a piston head ...
From one side it looks like a 17' Chris Craft mahogany runabout, but step behind and you find that this is only half what it seems. Behind the boat is a 17' bar beautifully done in mahogany that may no longer be seaworthy, but is certainly capable of taking people on a voyage of cocktail ...
If you don't want to finish up like me after decades of shooting - with some hearing loss - then it's wise to put some effort into protecting your hearing before it's too late. Hearing loss quietly creeps up on you without you being aware it's happening until its too late. An old Scots doctor ...
Just as the world's best handgun, according to Ian Hogg in his book "Military Small Arms of the Twentieth Century", is the Swiss SIG P210, so many of the world's best things are designed and made in Switzerland. Victorinox, makers of the original Swiss Army Knife moved into the very Swiss business of watchmaking in 1989 ...
Back in the days when I started hunting and shooting we used the only available range-finders we had - our eyeballs. If you planned to shoot your high powered rifle out beyond two hundred yards then you really needed to spend the time and energy physically looking at objects that were a known distance away ...
Having done a lot of range shooting especially in field rifle matches I learned the importance of using a sling and using it well quite early. It naturally followed that I would also learn to apply what had been learned on the range to using a sling out hunting or on vermin control shoots. I'm aware ...
You don't have to be a competitive bench rest shooter to want to get near bench rest rifle accuracy from your hunting rifle. However, when we are reloading for a hunting rifle we have to make some compromises between obtaining the absolute best accuracy we can get and the function of our reloaded ammunition in ...
Storing our firearms, be they rifle, pistol, revolver or shotgun is a practical necessity. It's not a dramatic or fun aspect of firearms ownership and use, just a necessary one. One thing is sure, having a corrosion and dirt preventative covering over any firearm in storage is going to be a worthwhile piece of "piece ...
For those of us who have spent time working on old cars, motorbikes, and pretty much anything else that's been around for more than a decade or so, there is one item that is near certain to be in our toolbox for use when the going gets ugly. I love working on old cars and motorbikes. ...
The Belding and Mull Visible powder measure was, and I suspect still is, the most accurate powder measure one could buy. They've been out of production for some years but Belding and Mull now have a website up and running which you will find if you click here. On that website is a "contact us" ...