The Abode of McThag

Looks like S&W just bought Savage Arms. I happen to like my Savage rifles, I sure hope this doesn't fuck up their secret s...

FuzzyGeff remembered a reference to a book where someone predicted that, someday, hunting rifles wouldn't even have iron sights in pref...

Though, maybe not an actual, real Mauser... It shows all the earmarks of originally being an FN made Venezuelan contract gun it's a Gold...

We're continuing the comparison from this post by adding a Winchester pre-64 Model 70 and a definitely post-64 Model 670. All three gun...

The Winchester Model 54 and Remington M1903A3 have a lot in common and many differences.   They look quite different with one being a full-s...

Took Agnes to the 100 yard range last Tuesday to try and stretch my shooting legs. And with a dead cell phone couldn't take a picture of...

The idea of that Winchester Model 70 XTR Sporter in .270 Weatherby Mag is working on my imagination. It's tempered by the $81 for 20 p...

I am disappointed and relieved... The Winchester I was thinking about appears, now that I've sent the infantry to scout ahead... It...

One of the local pawn shops has a post-64 Winchester Model 70 in .270 Win. I think it's an XTR Featherweight and I don't know off ...

The "cheap" Mosins in the gun safe appear to have appreciated a bit... AIM Surplus is selling Izhevsk M1891/30 with a high-wall ...

 Top to Bottom: Winchester Model 54 (.30-06) with No. 48W and Merit #4SS. Savage Model 99EG (.300 Savage) with No. 2A SA and Merit #4SS...

Reading at The Counter Jockey Chronicles. He's absolutely right, "You don't need iron sights on that .270 you are going to pu...

Mauser is back in business? They've got a new sporting gun, the M18. Sure looks like a Remington 700 from across the room. Since n...

While I state that the Savage 110E is not as smooth as the Winchester 54, it needs to be said that it's still light-years ahead of a Mos...

Took Trudy to the range. Five shots at a mere 25 yards.  With irons.  I need to get to a longer range and stretch my shooting skills...

In 1993 when I really started getting interested in guns with gusto; if you had asked me what bolt action FUDD rifle I'd have bought: ...

$100 .30-06, including an NcSTAR 3-9x40 scope on heavily shimmed bases. Made from what appears to be an FN or DWM 98 action. Factory ...

The package series 10/110 and 11/111 guns from Savage come with the same magazine as the lower tier Axis rifles. In 2005 Savage convert...

Top: Savage 110XP Trophy Hunter in .270 Win. Bottom: Weatherby Vanguard in .243 Win. Lots of the same and lots of difference. I even ...

I finally have a wooden stocked, scoped bolt action in a non-military caliber. It might just be something of a collector's item ...