How To Build an Ammo Can Rack (a.k.a the Overbuilt Shelf Project)

I’m getting a late start on my Spring cleaning but at least it’s in progress.  Shortly after beginning my effort to reduce, condense and catalog I realized that I had stashed ammo cans throughout the house in various closets, cabinets, etc.  As I began to gather them all in one place it became obvious that [...]

Home Security Tips – The Car Keys / Car Alarm Solution

I received the following well intentioned email: CAR KEYS!! Put your car keys beside your bed at night Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, your Dr’s office, the check- out girl at the market, everyone you run across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise [...]

How to: Home Built Target Stands

I have been looking to build some target stands for a while now.  With the pre-made versions selling for as much as $60, I’d rather fabricate my own and have more money free to buy ammo.   Up until yesterday, I thought that I would use the steel angle iron from an old bed frame [...]

How To: Install a Mag Cinch (with Pictures)

Previously, I had not experimented with rifle magazines ‘jungle clipped’ together.  As my gunsmith said, “I’ve haven’t yet had to shoot anything more than 30 times”.  A quick search of the interwebs quickly found apocryphal stories of jungle clipped ammo where recoil caused the spare (non-seated) magazine to eject live rounds every time the gun [...]

New Project: Wild Bunch Holster

I have an idea in my head for a Wild Bunch Holster. For y’all not into Cowboy Action Shooting, a Wild Bunch match (or side match) is where 1911′s are used in SASS competition instead of single action revolvers.  These matches came about due to the movie ‘The Wild Bunch‘ by Sam Peckinpah being a [...]

Holster Mutilation 101 – The Bianchi 7 Shadow II

A while back, I was rooting through the close-out bin at a gun shop and happened across a new-in-the-package left-handed Bianchi Model 7 ‘Shadow II’  for a 1911.   Being a lefty (and thankfully right eye dominant) is at times a blessing: pistol magazine release buttons work better using using the trigger finger, single action revolver [...]