Blog O'Stuff

Over on The High Road, “marb4” posted a thread in which he tested the penetration and expansion of several different loads from small handgu...

Yesterday I took a vacation day and went for a hike in French Creek State Park in SE PA. It was my first chance to try out my new Hill Peopl...

One pistol that it’s taken me a long time to warm up to is the Beretta 92, AKA M9. Compared with more modern pistols like the Glock, Springf...

No, not me. Posted by "Breathe_Squeeze" on AR15.com: I'm not sure how to best put this in words so bear with me please.  ...

Lately I've taken a shine to 9mm as a carbine cartridge. It's relatively cheap, easy to find, reloadable, and effective for defense ...

This month’s Practical Rifle match at my club was shot on the 50 yard range so I decided to shoot my TNW M-31SA Suomi . As a pistol caliber ...

TNW Suomi Here’s a short video of me shooting my TNW Firearms M-31SA Suomi . This is a  9mm Parabellum semiautomatic carbine based on the ...

For several years TNW Firearms of Oregon has made the M-31SA carbine, which is based on the KP-31 Suomi submachinegun adopted by Finland i...

Over on Survival and Emergency Preparedness, I’ve started a series of posts on making a wool blanket capote. Parts 1 – 3 are up. Check it ...

Yesterday I received the PSA AR15 lower build kit that I’d ordered from Amazon and built of the lower receiver that I milled out from an 80...

I don’t recall posting any movie reviews here on the blog before but there’s a first time for everything. When it first came out that The ...

The MacBook Pro I’ve been using at work since 2009 has been getting long in the tooth. It’s still usable but running apps like MS Office, it...

Over on Survival Preps , I’ve posted a review of the Kovea Spider canister stove. If you need a compact, lightweight stove for camping or ba...

Remember my post about the 3D printed 1911 ? As predicted, 3D metal printing is coming closer to reality for home users: Anyone with acce...

Over at Survival and Emergency Preparedness . Go hither.

Today I went with a friend to Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays and shot a round of 100. By halfway through the gun was opening up quite a bit mo...

After playing some more today with the Baikal MP310 over/under shotgun that I bought yesterday, I decided to tune the ejectors. Specifically...

I took today off and went up to Cabela’s to do some gun trading. I got decent prices on a couple guns, but their offer of $200 for a 1944 Un...

The smart guys at Solid Concepts have created the first 3D printed metal gun , a 1911 in fact. Here’s a video of it being test fired. Wo...

I’ve been doing some preliminary research into silencer designs prior to filing my first Form 1, and ran across this article about a small l...