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Pros: Make your own ammunition, save money, become better
Cons: Initial investment

Once again, it's time to visit Outdoor/Other and help to fill it up with outdoor sporting goods and accessories. Give us our own section already will ya?
Today's topic, Why Would You Want To Reload?

So let's say you started shooting. You...

Pros: No Sharp Points, but with a grinding wheel, I can fix that!
Cons: BANNED! YOU CAN'T GET 'EM! well, unless you meet someone as cool as Tammy.

At last, One of the moments I have been waiting for arrived.
REGENT "Slider" JARTS arrived at my doorstep.

To those of you with awesome memories, the Lawn Darts were featured as one of the Five Gifts I'd Like...

Pros: Smooth action, predictable, reliable, accurate, great hand feel
Cons: expensive

Choosing the right hand gun can be a daunting task. In today’s marketplace, so many options are available that it almost seems impossible to know what’s best suited for you. Before I purchased my Sig Sauer P-229 pistol I started ...

Pros: Beautiful workmanship, power, awesome fireball
Cons: Not better known

To kick off the new millenium I thought I would write about one of my favorite "fun guns" – the Colt Government Model Super 38 Automatic Pistol. First, a little background might be in order...

While not technically a...

Pros: It's a .45!
Cons: 8 shot capacity

This is a review of a type of pistol, and not one made by any specific manufacturer.
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The M 1911A1 Colt Pistol is one of the oldest, most reliable and most copied automatic handguns ever...

Pros: Best of all worlds.
Cons: The supply is drying up quick!

The Daewoo DR-200 is the best of all worlds. This version of the Korean military's K-2 was imported by Kimber of America during the early to late 90's and fills the void in the Daewoo K-2 world created by the Clinton Assault Weapon Ban of 1993....

Pros: everything. Magnification, clarity, options, price
Cons: I do not have all of them

BSA must stand for Best Scope Available.
(Yes, this is another gun accessories review, I need to be an expert, remember?)

BSA scopes are very inexpensive, I will not even use the word cheap because that would disgrace such fine...

Pros: More bang for your buck.
Cons: Not available in ClassIII models.

For the money, the Maadi AKM is one of the best semi-auto AK-47s on the us market. I personally have had mine for better than 5 years and have fired several thousand rounds out of it with only ONE jam! (and that was caused because I was torture testing...

Pros: Fires incredibly fast!
Cons: Cost

The first gun I ever fired was an old Remington 12 gauge that my uncle kept behind his kitchen door. From that time forward, I have been a scattergun lover. Over the years since that first shaky squeeze of the trigger I have owned and fired a lot of...

Pros: Impeccable workmanship and materials; absolute reliability.
Cons: You have to pay for this quality but it's worth it!

Smith & Wesson Model 342

While perusing epinions, I noticed a dearth of gun reviews. Except for a few posted by Mattjoe, EvilJeff, and few others, there are just too few of those for a true aficionado like yours truly. In fact, there is not...

Pros: High power, accuracy
Cons: High price for ammo

MattJoe has got it right all the way when he says this is the best high power hand gun ever made. The best stopping power available in a handgun with good accuracy, this gun combines the best of both worlds. When capping off some rounds at the pistol...

Pros: Soft scrub is cheap and easy to use
Cons: None at all.

For all shooters out there who mess with lead bullets and notice a buildup of lead and powder residue on their firearms I offer mattjoe's simple quick cleaning tips, which will make your life substantially easier.

This is targeted mostly to...

Pros: Beautiful, powerful handgun, will stop just about anything.
Cons: design of the safety

I have to whole heartedly agree with almost everything written by DEMON on this one. Having bought the Desert Eagle 44mag as my very first handgun when I hit 21, I can attest to there being no finer large caliber firearm. I don't really consider it a...

Pros: Extremely accurate and durable
Cons: Very large

I have owned my Ruger Redhawk .44 Mag for about 5 years now and it is the finest large caliber pistol that I have ever touched the trigger on. I have the stainless model and have yet found the first spot of rust on this puppy, even after taking it to...

Pros: Everything about it
Cons: Not imported anymoe

1999's Hit Movie, The Matrix Featured many exotic Firearms. Tonight, We review one of them, The S.P.A.S. 12, which was used by the Police Agents in the "Lobby Shooting Spree" Scene. Two weapons were used by the Police agents, Rifles were...

Pros: This will improve all aspects of your shooting ability.
Cons: Very bright sunlight coming from an angle directly where you are aiming will make the dot appear less bright.

This is a review of a shooting accessory. (I think we need a category in either outdoors or sports for these items, they are very expensive and many people buy these. These are major purchases which members need advice on before purchasing. If you agree...

Pros: It is a sport with many rewards
Cons: It receives almost nothing but bad press and false reports.

Since there is not yet a category for shooting, and I have been asked by a few friends, what type of gun should I buy? and; How do I go about learning how to shoot?
If you are up here I'd say come on over and I'll work with you, but since you...

Pros: Flawless fit and finish. Absolute reliability.
Cons: Colt's politics enrage 2nd Amendment True Believers

Colt Concealed Carry Model

Recently, I bought a COLT Concealed Carry Model 45 Automatic Pistol. This model has an alloy Officer-sized frame, Commander-sized stainless slide, fully dehorned, Novak sights, rosewood double diamond stocks, etc.,...

Pros: Cool looking, accurate, powerful, rare
Cons: Heavy, not politically correct (not sure that's a con!)

SVD Dragunov

The SVD (Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova)is the Soviet Sniper Rifle, adopted in 1963. The common name of this rifle is Dragunov, after the designer Evgenie Fedorovich Dragunov.

While outwardly resembling the familiar...

Pros: Everything except the magazines
Cons: the magazines

When I last visited this section a comment was mentioned by Mark about the Ruger 10-22 rifle. I promised a review of this in the response to his comment, and so here it is:

The Ruger 10-22 is the greatest competition semi auto 22caliber rifle...

Pros: Super reliable
Cons: My other shotguns are getting dusty

After 30 years of hunting, I had built a pretty fair collection of shotguns. Everything from Sears (my first), Remington and Winchester to Browning. Generally each gun had its own specific use: the Remington 1100 was for rabbit and clay birds, the...

Pros: Both are accurate and nearly totally reliable with a wide variety of ammunition.
Cons: 1st cost is high, and the finish on the slides tends to wear relatively quickly.

Back in 1999 (about ten years after the rest of the world) I started to toy around with the idea of switching from a .357 magnum revolver to a semi-auto for concealed (and not-so-concealed) carry. At that point I had near total disdain for ...

Pros: Excellent Single Action Revolver. Highly durable, great quality
Cons: Standard trigger is poor, Sites, non adjustable, but they aren't supposed to be.

Pros: Very small, reasonably accurate
Cons: Not accurate at distance, GlockSafe action bothers some users

A while back I was looking for a new handgun. Despite California's (and in particular, my county's) rather restrictive laws about such things, I decided I wanted something that could be concealed, regardless or whether I ever would have the opportunity...

Pros: Great rifle - composite is light and tough
Cons: Composite's a little ugly

I got a Model 70 30-06 for Christmas a few years back. At the time, I wasn't too thrilled by it because it came with black composite stocks and matte, dark blued steel. The thing looked like a sniper rifle - certainly not my image of the hunting rifle...

Pros: Can not beat it for the price
Cons: You have to tweak them

Kel-Tec makers of the lightest, flattest, self-loading pistols ever produced. I am not going to write about their .32 ACP, because I do not have one. And I would probably never buy one. I belong to the bigger cartridge bigger hole club. This is why I am...

Pros: Very accurate with a high mag capacity.
Cons: Very, very heavy for a pistol.

I have been a huge fan of .44 Mag for years, but have always been biased to the old wheel gun for my hunting and home defense needs. That is until I aquired a Desert Eagle. This is the Cadillac of big autos. IMI really built this gun for punishment....

Pros: This is a great scope!
Cons: If you're a sniper...

Ask yourself: "Do I really need a 50mm objective lens on my riflescope?"

Then go on: "Do I really, really need a 50mm objective lens on my riflescope?"

Then go even further: "Do I fully understand how much...

Pros: Mostly HK parts at half the cost.
Cons: Comes with a slimline fore grip. Hard to mount the triangular grip to. Grip must be modified.

About 6 months ago I was looking through Shotgun News and ran across what looked like an HK91 for $600. !!!???!??! was my first thought. Upon closer inspection I found that this was a domestic reproduction using all HK parts minus the receiver called...

Pros: Nice price Nice gun
Cons: Do not let me near it

I bought the Remington 870 Express 28” barrel 12 gage modified choke with a break down carrying case for $219.00 about 5 years ago. It was a deal of a lifetime. Big 5 sporting goods has some good deals every now and then.

This is a nice...

Pros: Lightweight, reliable, high capacity magazines available, but hard to find
Cons: High capactiy magazines expensive when found. Polymer Frame

The Glock Family.
(This review is divided into two parts, the first being geared on information on the type of pistol, options and available styles, the second half on my review of them, this is geared towards both gun owners and non gun owners...

Pros: Brightness settings, magnification and reticle choices
Cons: weight, lack of durability and warranty

This is another brand of scope used by a few people in shooting sports. It is a competitor to the C-More (see previous review).
The Holo Sight is almost the same idea as the C-More, yet uses different technology. The Holo Sight Projects a Hologram...

Pros: Great price
Cons: Ugly grips

I bought the inexpensive Rough Rider about 3 months ago. It is a single action 22lr/22wrm(mag) combo. It has a 6.5 inch barrel, but you can get it in 4 inch or 71/2 inch model.

I bought this gun for $120.00, it was on sale. It came with a...