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I’m not sure “bought” is the right word. At a charity match yesterday I won (door prize, not with skill) a $200 Galco certificate. Then I got a $500 Ruger-Dead Air suppressor for a $325 bid in the silent auction.

Recovering. I worked, and sometimes participated in, a charity match for ovarian cancer yesterday. That was one long day. Sadly, few showed up. We had as many workers as participants. They got rewarded well, as I don’t think anyone went home without a lot more in prizes than they paid to...

Steve Tarani knows his stuff and is excellent at teaching it. If you ever have the opportunity to take a class with him, do it. He is known as a knife guy, but he taught some of the best handgun classes I’ve ever had.

I stopped carrying my Brownings because vision forced me over to red dots, but I came up with a workaround. I was still carrying an iron sighted one three maybe four years ago, usually a MkIII Practical I bought then had Ted Yost work his magic on. It was my dream BHP, set up exactly how I...

I haven’t shot mine in… almost an hour.

I just checked the zero on a couple of rifles to be used in a “surprise” stage of a match tomorrow, picked up my dog from the groomer, and now waiting on my kid to get off work. Almost done for the day.

It just worked on me!

The original Norma loadings were a 200 grain TC bullet at 1200 fps and a 170 grain JHP at 1300 fps. While the FBI tested full power 10mm ammo, it was never issued. They tried it in testing only, but quickly loaded what became known as “FBI Lite” or “10mm Lite” or simply the FBI Load. This was...

I am a fan of the 10mm. I don’t carry one daily, but I have carried them some. One thing I like it for is as a multipurpose gun. I’ve carried a Delta Elite when traveling because a 10 can cover a lot of ground. Defensive carry, hunting (to a limit), matches from IDPA to bowling pins, etc...

Old belt fed accoutrements are often as interesting the guns.

Askins' autobiography is full of "gunfight" stories that would land him in prison today. And maybe then. Bill Jordan said of him "Sometimes a man starts to enjoy killing too much".

Hence me saying they did nothing with the line after about 2005.

I said none came out after about 2005. You listed a bunch of models that came out no later than 2002. What am I missing? Where is the discrepancy?

None of the above Brownings came out after maybe 2005. That’s about when they quit. And what they did do, they didn’t promote. We BHP fans knew the cast frames were harder than the old ones, but we learned that from forums, not from FN/Browning. If they ever bothered pointing out the...

Browning did nothing with the HiPower line for ten years, maybe longer, before discontinuing it. Their catalog would have pages of socks but half a page on the HiPower. They simply had no interest in it. I feel they would’ve stopped making it years before, but waited until they were sure they...

I’ve used ARs in enough matches and classes to know what they can do. I now have fun using Garands, M-1 Carbines, etc to see how it was.

This time, yes. Everyone did. I finished dead last for the first time. (Sad face) I have to tell the backstory. I started using a Garand in these matches as a scheme cooked up with one of the match creators. We used to hear people talking about what new gadget they planned to buy next to...

Happy 250th Independence Day everyone. I shot a carbine match today, and as a tribute, I shot God’s and America’s rifle- an M-1 Garand. Would you believe someone had the audacity to use an AK? Don’t worry. He was appropriately berated all day long.

I have a Contender Barrel in the similar 17 Mach IV. I never did much after getting the brass fire formed. I was getting wild velocity variations, but again, I was just loading fire forming loads. I am a .221 FB fan. I have an early XP-100 in the caliber and had a Remington 600 rebarreled...

Thanks for the verification.