Category Archives: Guns

A classic chop job from Mac’s California shop, Mac of course best known for his Competition 1911’s, with the Nash Bridges Don Johnson gun being top of that heap, built very few of these baby carry guns.

An old weaponsman classic The Avtomat Kalashnikova obrazets 1974g and its successors have an enviable reputation for reliability, especially under adverse conditions. There are a number of reasons for this, and we’ll go into them in some depth here. First, though, let’s say what is not a cause: It’s not because of blind luck. It’s not because the weaponContinue reading “5 Reasons for the AK’s Legendary Reliability”

By Luis Valdes In 1975, a company in my ancestral home of España (Spain) released to the shooting community what was then one of the most desired handguns in the world. A compact, lightweight aluminium framed, .45 ACP pistol styled after the 1911. That company was Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. and the pistol was theContinue reading “Spain’s Star PD 45 Pistol”

By Luis Vakdes As a child in the 1980s who came of age in the 1990s. I lived through an odd era of the gun culture. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, a lot of survivalists and those preparing for WWIII suddenly had less to worry about…untilContinue reading “A Look Back at Pre-Y2K Survival Gear and Conventional Wisdom”