Category Archives: Guns

First, If you go searching the site for all of the A Boy and His Rifle posts, you won’t find most of them. The majority of them were on the wold website and are now gone. I regret that because it is one of my favorite ongoing series and it had many friends and readersContinue reading “A Boy & His Rifle (Part 12)”

1911_purview OG Colt in full hard chrome by John Williams Jr. out of Fullerton CA. J-Dub had a custom gunsmithing business of some renown for 23 years from 1967-1990. He founded U.S. Optics Inc. in 1990. That’s his son John Williams III next to him — @ddcfirearms stepped down as CEO of US Optics andContinue reading “John Williams Colt”

1911_purview this 70 series by Sean McSheehy, formerly of Cylinder and Slide. Years ago I decided I wanted a 1911 from Bill Laughridge before he (or I) died. I called him, we discussed it, and I sent a gun. Years went by and no word, so I figured his arthritis got the best of him,Continue reading “Sean McSheehy Custom Colt”

1911_purview This is one of the hardest guns to find in the wild—80 series comp/pin gun made by the most innovative pistolsmiths in the business–this generations answer to Jim Boland, Mr. Ned Christiansen (Michiguns). The gun was hard to find because Ned only makes a couple per year, his books are closed, his list isContinue reading “Ned Christiansen Pin Gun”

By Luis Valdes Shooters coming of age today don’t understand how good they have it. In 1991, the gun industry was to a degree a stagnant, faltering, lethargic beast that it couldn’t innovate its way out of a wet paper bag. Designs were moving forward on a snail’s pace. Yes, there was the jump fromContinue reading “The Innovative Glock in 1991”

By Kevin O’Brien One advantage you can get from reading out-of-date books is insight to what was current thinking many years ago. Looking over L.R. Wallack’s American Pistol and Revolver Design and Performance from 1978 (one of a series of four books Wallack produced beginning in the seventies: Rifle, Shotgun, Pistol & Revolver, and a combined sporting arms Design andContinue reading “Three Important Phases of the Revolver-Automatic Transition”

I been hearing a lot of people going on and on about the Turkish made 1911 clones for a while. Some one I even take seriously told me they were pretty good. A few weeks ago I saw one at a gun store for $349.00. Hardly a price that reflects a quality 1911. But itContinue reading “Tisa M1911A1 Review”