Archive for the 'Firearms' Category

Having bought worthless shooting bags, I found this video interesting and useful regardless of whether you shoot PRS. You need good shooting bags just to sight in the rifle, or shoot bench rest very well.

Thanks for the fine and informative video Tim, and no, I don’t underestimate the .22 WMR. In fact, I love that round and think it’s very special. I especially like the chronograph data from different length barrels.

And reading the comments forced me to go back and look at the CZ models again. I knew they had some sweet .22 WMR rifles, but I think I see CZ 457 Hunter Veil in my future.

Reader Georgiaboy61 mentioned the shot I pointed out in this video where my buddy made four-for-four 1000 yard shots with a .223, and I made a 1000 yard shot with a magnum (7mm PRC) on Friday. This is what that 1000 yards looks like.

It’s a long way off. The first cars are 500 yards. The 1000 yard mark is near the single car on the ridgeline. IPSC target to the right of the car.

Josh at Pursuit of Accuracy discusses Chinese optics.

By the way, on Friday I shot with Josh at Coleman’s Creek Shooting Range and if you watch about midways through the video, he puts 4 for 4 rounds on steel at 1000 yards with .223.

Also at the range, I put a 7mm PRC round on steel at 1000 yards.

At Shooting Times there is a good history of the 1911, including how the design transitioned into the double stack 2011.

Also of interest, there is a discussion of the Series 70 versus Series 80 modifications. Or, you could just purchase a Springfield Armory 1911 (Series 70) in which case they’ve handled the drop safe issue with a Titanium firing pin.

The Silver Eagle shooting range called the ATF on a man using an FRT resulting in his arrest with the ATF claiming it is a machine gun. They should be IMMEDIATELY boycotted and informed of the shooting communities displeasure. Contact info is below https://t.co/NrfPlx690A pic.twitter.com/bGYoWgEGo5

— Dr Death (@DrDeath1776) October 10, 2025

Here is their web site. If this is incorrect or didn’t happen, or if this is the wrong shooting range, the linked company can feel free to correct me in the comments.

So to begin with, the employees of the shooting range are apparently uneducated and untrained chimpanzees who can’t tell the difference. I would have asked to borrow the gun and found out within ten seconds what it was. Besides, they had no way of knowing whether the individual possessing the firearm had legal ownership of a machine gun or was an FFL SOT.

In response to this display of liberty, the untrained chimps called in other untrained chimps (the ATF) to make problems worse.

They should be ashamed. As for Silver Eagle Shooting Group, I hope your company sees an ignominious end and you go out of business.

Press release.

I'll take two, plus 5000 rounds of ammo. I'm entitled: Trench Coxe, "every other terrible implement of war" belongs to the citizen militia.

cc: @dcodrea @Stambo2A @WiscoDaveTRO

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) October 1, 2025

Below is another installment of Nicholas Bugosh on the Marlin 444. His insights are wise and experienced. The Rossi R95 has trouble with the Hornady jacketed flat nose 265 grain cartridges, which is a deal breaker for me.

But what I really want is the Rossi R95 in 454 Casull, which is just unobtainium. Here’s another gun that can’t be found: the CZ Bren 2 in 7.62X51. Why advertise a gun that cannot be purchased?

Those CZ Bren 2s in 7.62×51 are essentially “unobtainium” in the states. Nice gun.

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) September 5, 2025

Among the things you don’t have to be told not to do …

A shooting game between two friends in Texas has taken a tragic turn, with one dead and the other arrested for his murder.

Sean O’Donnell, 37, and Aaron Prout, 34, were taking turns shooting at each other with a rifle while wearing a kevlar helmet inside a Houston home on August 17.

The game unfolded at a home on Pennington Hills Drive in the northern outskirts of the city, but it went horribly wrong when O’Donnell allegedly fatally shot Prout, an English military veteran.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said deputies were called to the home and ‘found an adult male who sustained what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head’.

‘He was transported to a hospital, but subsequently died from his injuries,’ Gonzalez said.

He added that Prout was a British expat living in Houston, while O’Donnell owns the property where the shooting took place.

‘Hard to believe two, so-called friends, would take turns shooting at each other wearing a kevlar helmet, inside a house in a residential neighborhood, while using a rifle,’ Gonzalez said.

He added that the incident was initially recorded as a potential suicide, but ‘things weren’t adding up’.

‘With thorough follow-up investigation, the truth was ultimately revealed,’ Gonzalez said.

Officials did not disclose the type of rifle which was used or the distance between the two friends at the time the deadly trigger was pulled.

It’s unclear whether the bullet missed the ballistic helmet, or if it penetrated through the armor.

A heartbroken relative of Prout’s said he served in the British Royal Marines for 10 years before moving to Texas, ‘the place he was happy and loved’.

‘The passing of Aaron has left me totally heartbroken, this was the worst news I have ever received,’ the relative wrote on Facebook.

‘Aaron was a very caring and wonderful person and was always there for his friends, he lived his life to the absolute fullest.

‘He had a brilliant job and was starting his own business. His passion was target shooting and he had won many tournaments .

‘Aaron always used to make me feel like a million dollars whenever I spoke to him, and made me laugh when telling me about all his wild and wonderful adventures.

‘He was renowned as one of the best pranksters, always with a smile on his face and a very kind heart.’

O’Donnell’s social media indicates that he is also a military veteran.

He was charged with murdering Prout and booked into the Harris County Jail on Thursday.

How could anyone do this unless he was under the influence of … something?

These videos came out several months ago. Unfortunately, the first one can’t be embedded, only linked. The second one is below.

First Video on .444 Marlin