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I’m not sure now that you mention it. Some comes from the Ukraine, like Century Arms’ “Red Army” brand. I tend to forget that some of these places aren’t “Russia” anymore Brown/Silver/Golden Bear is Barnaul, which is Russia. Wolf and TulAmmo are in Tula, which is Russia. Those make up a lot of it.

How many brands of ammo in the US have an origin in Russia?

The US State Department announced this late Thursday, in response to the possible state-sponsored poisoning of Russian government critic Aleksey Navalny a year ago. Russian ammo like Wolf and Tula has already shot up in price. https://www.state.gov/fact-sheet-united-states-imposes-additional-costs-on-russia-for-the-poisoning-of-aleksey-navalny/

You can thank me for that mind virus. 😁 Colion did a good review and he likes it. I take back the reference to looking like a Hi-Point

Well, I didn’t think that. Didn’t.

My first impression was that it looks like a Hi-Point. Now I can't get past my first impression.

Picture a Kimber version of the Shield/P365/Hellcat/G43/G48. Mag capacity of 11 or 13 (extended) rounds of 9mm. Tritium night sights standard. Available with or without factory red dot sight. MSRP isn't bad for Kimber, $599 or $799 with red dot. Remember- both include tritium sights. https://www.r7mako.com/ P.S. I always check prices for spare magazines for any new pistol. They want $35 for the flush 11-rd and $40 for the extended 13-rd. That will probably put them around $29 and $34 in the real world. Not bad.

Ruger started producing the 10/11 in 1964, that's 57 years ago and has produced over 7 million of them in various iterations. I wonder why it's taken Ruger so long to product a lefty?

In case your mother was a witch. https://ruger.com/products/1022Competition/specSheets/31110.html My left-handed buddy says: “Why?” Apparently he hasn’t heard that cases crossing his line of sight is a tragedy.

I’ve looked and thought and thought and looked for a couple of years, and gave in. I’ve shot the Ruger American and liked it fine. A shop nearby had a Howa Mini 1500 I looked at, and it was OK. I really wanted the CZ though, and pretty much knew it was where I’d end up. I used the excuse that the Ruger is pretty hard to find right now. Why do I want a 7.62x39 bolt action? Uhhhhhhh... Because I have ammo? Because they’re so cute? Just because? I don’t know, but it should be here next week.

My first Long Range .22 match of the year is Wednesday. They had one already, but I couldn’t go. The weather has this one in doubt already, though. Believe it or not, four bricks of my favored ammo came maybe ten days ago. I got an In-Stock notice, ordered, and after two weeks or so, there it was. I couldn’t find any early last year before things went nuts.

Colt once made a finely crafted gun...is that still the case? I had to hand fit the safety on my latest Colt, it wasn't right from the factory. Shoots great now, but I was disappointed. .38 Super Competition model.

do you still have this press lyman spar t never mind i read the comments dates sorry to bother you. my ram is worn and doesn't always line up to the dies.

I wish they would make it with the same beautiful bluing the Python had.

https://www.ammoland.com/2021/03/colt-reintroduces-the-44-magnum-anaconda-revolver/#axzz6q0ZRgDBE

It’s been nearly three years since I’ve given an AUG update. Nothing new to report. The pace of use has slowed down quite a bit. I’ve gotten sloppy with my round count notebook, but in pretty sure it’s at almost 12,000. I used it last weekend in a carbine class, tromping around in the snow. No malfunctions, bobbles, or errors. I had one magazine change that looked like a was missing all my fingers, but that wasn’t the rifle’s fault.

I never thought about that. I did all my trap shooting in the summer months. I bet with the importance of pull length, that is an issue. And if I know trap shooters, some have stocks for summer, stocks for winter, and stocks for spring and fall. And all are adjustable within the confines of their intended season. The class went pretty well. It was a first-time experiment for the instructor, having changed the lesson plan from a two-day class to single day after getting beat up by people saying a two-day class was too hard to commit to. Naturally, he caught grief for not spreading things out over two days. I’ve known the instructor for a while, but have only taken classes with him, not from him. This was a Revere’s Riders course. I don’t know how well Revere’s Riders is known outside of a couple of states. They split off from the Appleseed Project a few years ago , and is sorta kinda the tacticool version. They even hold a class or two each year here at the Camp Atterbury army ranges using the pop-up targets. I’m going to take this opportunity to ask people considering ANY class to read the course description and class requirements/prerequisites. Then read them again. And follow them. This was a basic class, but it wasn’t a beginners class. That’s not the same thing. Nobody expected a bunch of John Wicks, but there were some expectations stated in the course description. One of those expectations was having a zeroed rifle. It didn’t matter what distance, just as long as it was zeroed and you knew it then you’d have something to work with. Therefore, there should not have been people showing up needing to zero their rifles first thing. There should not have been people being so “prepared” they had a bag of empty mags in one hand and boxed ammo in the other. When a two day class gets compressed into one, there is already no spare time. Once you start fooling with zeroing, you can lose two hours before you know it. The instructor held this tight. You got three rounds. Go. Load your mags and keep up. He did something I had never seen before in a class. It could have happened, but I hadn’t seen it before. Once he started the safety brief* he said that was the class start, and anyone showing up late and missing it was out. Sure enough, here comes someone rolling it at 0810, and sure enough, they got sent packing. *At 0800 sharp, the accurate start time being another first. We did a lot of movement work all day, which was good so we could take advantage of the snow to sludge around in. The host club’s range layout was unusual to me, in that you shot one direction for 50 yards and turned 90 degrees to the right to shoot 100. (They can get 200 there, but only after some reconfiguring.) This was taken advantage of by letting us shoot close (25 and under) and 100 yards in the same drill. It’s a shame, but the truth is that doesn’t happen as much as you might think or I’d like in classes. You might shoot close, then farther, but seldom both at once. There are lots of devious tricks that can be used for. Since I’ve already bashed my fellow students, I might as well climb on my high horse and finish them off. Shooting at 100 yards was kryptonite to a lot of people. Maybe I should stop there. I’m trying. I’m really trying not to say anything. Oh man, this is hard. OK, OK, Let me just say this: If given an 8” plate at 100 yards... from prone... with a quality AR... and a low power variable scope (plus at least one ACOG)... that you’ve been shooting all day... and three shots to hit it... and you can’t pull it off... Don’t spend the class talking about what gun or optic you plan to buy next. Your priorities are off. Then when we get a second run and you can’t do it the second time either... It should become more plain. The gear is definitely not what is holding you back. A bright spot was the AK guy banging the steel on the first shot. Twice. I hope if anyone there was the type who say AKs are no good because they only shoot 4MOA, that they realized what they saw.

Same with trap shooting, extra clothes make the whole process more difficult. I've learned the importance of the outer layer of clothing to have a non-grabby texture so it's easier to get the stock in the correct position. Pictures are a must :-)

Carbine class Saturday. Forecast high is 30, low of 16. Plenty of snow on the ground. I’ve learned before that a couple more layers of clothing repositions the vests/chest rigs/belts enough to create some fumbling. It looks like an AUG day for me.

I need the adjustment cap and the turret for a Scopechief VI on a 243 rifle. If anyone knows where I can get them PLEASE e-mail me at Tracker478@aol.com Bushnell DOES NOT have them any more and, they are permanently out of stock. So much for a Lifetime Warrenty. In fact they not only told me (when I sent it in with my $10.00 as required by Bushnell) that there is no replacement AND they said it was Impact damage. That was an out and out lie. My scope has never been anything near an impact. They offered to sell me a $160.00 scope foe $112.00 with no BDC. Not even a close replacement that I would have to pay for. I told them I would eat it. So now to get off my tirade if anyone can steer me to someplace with a replacement part it would very much be appreciated. To reiterated ~ I need the adjustment cap and the turret for a Scopechief VI. I don’t remember it it is the 1,2,or 3 Turret. but it iwas on my 243. I will happily buy all three turret inserts if any one has them. Again you can e- mail me at Tracker478@aol.com Thanks ahead Wolf

I've shot it a couple of times now. More magazines should be here Tuesday; holster on Saturday.

Brilliant. Be exposed to as much as possible, so when the need should arise, then you're ready.

I grumble about the date every year, thinking a month earlier would be appreciably warmer yet still allow it to get dark early enough. Then we get there and start fumbling in the winter clothes we just started wearing again. That's when I remember it's a dual learning experience- the dark and the cold. Would I be out there in that cold for a regular class? Nope. That's the trick John the instructor figured out long ago. The valuable opportunity of a night shoot lures us out there to find and sort out cold hand and winter clothing problems.

I would have been home, "Sorry guys, I can't make it tonight". You are dedicated!