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Born to liberal parents. I chose my parents wisely, as Winston Churchill famously said.

Prepaid lunch? What? A responsible parent? Unheard of down here in Liberal Columbia Missouri. We have $124,000 in unpaid school lunch debt. Wow. Can you imagine? Welching on your kids lunch? Good Lord. That is the most irresponsible act I can imagine. Sending your kids to school without lunch...

And note the holster. Classic design from Milt Sparks. And quite concealable inside the belt waistband. But later designs are vastly improved by not placing the loops over the thickest part of the handgun but instead adding "wings" fore and aft to slim the profile even more. Brilliant.

I still have the 4516 because during the "Great Gun Collection Sale" I kept it because the market would not go over $300 and it was worth more than that to me. When Biden got elected my wife and I sat down and thought "what can we do to insulate ourselves from the coming disaster". As a result...

It is real, and already taking jobs. Coding for computers used to be a good, safe, lacerative job. It is being taken over by AI. My Niece just got replaced by a computer. Brace yourself kids...the safe path your college counselor regrettably took a wrong turn. However, if you learned to weld...

Columbia Missouri! Home range Chapman Academy. The birthplace of all sorts of combat shooting. Ray Chapman, sadly, has passed but a lot of us are trying to carry on. https://www.facebook.com/p/Chapman-Academy-of-Practical-Shooting-100067341944764/ But it is an open invitation! If you are in the...

Discontinued handguns are a real problem. The Colt pattern 1911, the Browning Hi-Power...those designs are classic. You can not only get all the parts you need here in the USA, you can get them on the Cape Horn of Africa or Fairbanks Alaska. That has to count for something. You kind of just...

I wonder if many gun reviews at the time failed the test because they were using the wrong magazine. I can say this thing has never bobbled as long as I have owned it.

And now the concept has a name! A Plinking Party. That is what the idea needed to get traction I suspect. Brilliant. I hope it catches on. Like you, I hoped that Winchester Wildcat or Remington Thunderbolt would win the race but it did not. Interestingly a forgotten box of Winchester Wildcat...

Simon, I have to disagree. There is not an extra step, you are acquiring the iron sights and your brain hands off automatically. You just treat the firearm with a dot sight the same way as a regular firearm...if you have suppressor height sights it works. If you have lower sights it does not. My...

That was back when people could laugh at themselves. Now people need a safe space if you tease them. When I was working in a Gunshop here in Columbia, a hopelessly liberal college town, I told all the cops that came in we were a "Liberal Safe Space" and you could always stop in to get some...

BassCliff, I am with you on lasers. I spent my whole life acquiring iron sights. The dot works well for me as the handoff to the red dot is automatic and I don't lose time hunting the dot. But a laser if way different. I am looking at the target trying to find the dot...opposite how I have been...

A great way to spend the morning. Years ago, knowing that rimfire can be very brand picky, I invited half a dozen of my shooting buddies up to the farm with the only rules being bring all the rimfire you have and your .22 rifles/pistols. And I bought several boxes of stuff I had not tried...

I watched Blazing Saddles a couple of years ago after not seeing it in forever. Could still quote the dialogue. My wife asked me about it, and I said when I was in Junior High we got cable with HBO. Back then they didn't have nearly as many movies, so Blazing Saddles was playing a LOT. The...

The Guillotine Technique was taught by Gabe Suarez back in the day and is still useful; basically use the top of the frame of the optic to line up on the targets neck; your eye centers it automatically and the trigger press gives fast center man hits.

Great deal...see what clean living does? Karma rewards you with the 1911 you need. Good sights, trigger, reliable. At the end of the day, that is the perfect 1911. Everything you need and nothing you don't as Jeff Cooper said describing the 1911 he knew everybody needed. And you have it!

A fella has to do a lot of shooting to wear out a 1911, even the alloy frame ones. But if some would be "gunsmith" has been in there with a Dremel Tool to "Slick it up for hollow points" walk away. I think, frankly, that is why alloy guns have a nagging reputation problem. Remember, the frame is...

Memory is a little hazy now. With the 4516-1 there was some change to the mags but I can't remember what that was. But the 4516 No Dash was only reliable with the mags with the yellow follower. This was an early gun.

OK, enough from me. Range report and carry report to follow. Winchester 230 grain Silvertips. How long have those mags been loaded?!?!?! Fifteen years at least. Been married 13 years and I know I have not fired this since we moved to town. Maybe 20 years. Bet there are no failures. Good mags...

Remember the wording on those mags? I suspect the mags would sell for more than the pistol now to the guys that didn't stock up when they were available from the factory.