Blog O'Stuff

For the first time all year I flung some arrows downrange with the 50# Chinese horsebow that I bought in 2012 from eBay seller "handma...

Over on Survival and Emergency Preparedness .

Yesterday at Cabela's I bought a Pietta 1873 Millenium replica of the Colt Single Action Army revolver. The gun is chambered for .45 Col...

Over the weekend I used my new lathe and my mill to make a nicer front sight for my Crosman 2300T. Details here .

Back in January and February I posted a few times about using airguns for cheap, quiet indoor marksmanship practice. While I have a couple o...

I made several updates this morning to The Shooters' Bar (SM), the Internet's oldest freely-available list of pro-Second Amendment a...

On Saturday I completed the installation of digital read outs (DROs) on my Grizzly G8689 mini mill. Previously, I'd installed a belt dr...

I decided that the format of a blog isn't ideal for documenting the work I'm doing in my home machine shop. So, I created a site usi...

The shell deflector for the Remington 550-1 that I ordered last week from Numrich Arms arrived today. Here's a closeup of the receive...

Yesterday I chaperoned my daughter's class trip to Philadelphia. Among the places we visited was Betsy Ross's House . In the basemen...

I picked up another classic .22 autoloader today at Surplus City. It's a Remington 550-1. AFAIK, the 550 was made from the 1940s u...

The Sieg X2 Mini Mills like my Grizzly G8689 come with drill chucks. The Grizzly and some other brands also come with collets for holding en...

Forbes is running an op-ed about why untraceable guns created on 3D printers could be good for the US. ... Although the technology is st...

Now that I've been using my Grizzly G8689 (Sieg X2) mini mill for a few weeks, I've decided to do a belt drive conversion on it. The...

Student of the Gun discusses how to find a pro-RKBA lawyer in the event you need to use a gun in self defense in their April 25, 2013 episo...

In this video, Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky openly admits that the Democrats' end goal is not just an assault weapons ban, b...

Last night I used my new milling machine for the first time. Since I'm new at this I am starting with the basics. I cut a couple inches ...

Back in January , I posted about the speedloaders I made for my Norinco ATD . I finally got the chance to try them on Saturday night. They w...

I had an Apple iPhone4 since the end of April, 2011. It was a great cell phone -- really a pocket computer -- but lately I've noticed th...

I decided awhile ago that metalworking would be a good set of skills to pick up. A couple friends have some metalworking skills and one has ...