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Off-set Unertl Eyepiece

A rare bit of Unertl Optics. This offset eye piece let you shoot from one should and use the other eye. Some people needed to do this for various health or handicap reasons. A very valuable accessory now a days.

The 9x23MM

The 9×23 is one of those rounds quickly being forgotten with time. The idea was to offer up a round designed to win the various action handgun competitions. The case was stronger than the .38 super and so it can operate at higher pressures. It did away with the semi rimmed case of the superContinue reading “The 9x23MM”

The Type 11 Nambu Light Machine Gun

The Japanese Type 11 has always been an interesting gun to me.

The .220 Russian

The 220 Russian isn’t heard of much anymore because it gave birth to something that took the case and turned it into something so good.

Gopher Shooter’s Supply Model 70s

Although Winchester had offered a “sight-delete” option in their catalog going back as early as the war years, it was Gopher Shooter’s Supply in Faribault Minnesota which capitalized on the trend toward scoped hunting rifles in the mid 1950s and offered them as a direct catalog item. Gopher Shooter’s Supply ordered these sightless rifles inContinue reading “Gopher Shooter’s Supply Model 70s”

We’re All Suspects In A DNA Lineup, Waiting To Be Matched With A Crime

Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason… I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eagerContinue reading “We’re All Suspects In A DNA Lineup, Waiting To Be Matched With A Crime”

Wake Up!

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, The last three and a half years have been times of enormous upheaval. It has affected politics, economics, culture, media and technology. It’s not just about the spreading of economic, cultural and demographic decay. Millions and billions of lives have been wrecked, to be sure, but there is alsoContinue reading “Wake Up!”

Remember these?

While over at Brady’s the other day I was bemoaning my drastically depleted stocks of 16 gauge ammo after last year’s slaughter-rama squirrel season. He gave me this old box of ACTIV he’d reloaded who knows how long ago. ACTIV was a big thing back int he day for a few minutes. I have heardContinue reading “Remember these?”

Best Seller 1987

Best Seller is one of those great neo-noir crime thrillers from the 1980s. It stars Twitter hero James Woods and the always excellent Brian Dennehy co-stars. In Best Seller, Woods plays suave hitman Cleve, while Dennehy plays a cop and true-crime author named Dennis Meechum. The story starts in the early 70s when a teamContinue reading “Best Seller 1987”

2023 Squirrel Opening Week

Opening weekend was pretty good to me. I’m not confident for the rest of the week. The heat is going to be in the upper 90s. They don’t like to come out in daylight when it gets that hot. The tiger stripe, in case you are wondering, is the “gold/purple” advisor set from Moore Militaria.Continue reading “2023 Squirrel Opening Week”