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Thursday, March 23, 2017

The Honorable Mister Hervey Chittendon Calkins

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Hervey Chittendon Calkins was born 23 March 1828 in Malden, Ulster County, New York.  He was a US Representative 1869-1870. The Honorable Mr...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Allen Frederick Leland

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Born as Allen Frederick Leland but known throughout his life as Frederick Allen or just "Fred", he was the son of Melvin Amos ...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Spring is sprung...

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Spring apparently has sprung, although we saw signs earlier, with the beggars at the road intersections. In my youth I was a pretty soft to...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Gettysburg

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Today is my son's 39th birthday AND the anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Four score and seven years ago our fathers b...
Saturday, October 08, 2016

Apples - get the right one for the job

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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Ruger 10/22 M1 Carbine Look-Alike

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Well, I took the Ruger 10-22 set up to look like the Carbine U.S. M1 .30 cal to the range. Sighted it in with the 30 year old Winchester...
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Sunday, August 14, 2016

Offhand shooting and the M1-22 Kingston Armory Rifle

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Several people have asked me how well the Kingston Armory M1-22 rifle shoots. As anyone with any experience knows, choice of ammo and the...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Reports from the range...

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The Stonewall Rifle and Pistol Club had a "Varmint" shoot this Sunday. Actually a centerfire benchrest competition with rifles sh...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

New website for Nuckols Gun Works

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As you know I have a hobby "job" at Nuckols Gun Works in Staunton, VA. They now have a new/updated web site (you can click on th...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Kingston Army M1 Garand .22

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After more than a 1½-year wait we've got our Kingston Armory M1 Garand .22 rifles. Built on an all -steel version of the 10-22 that us...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Notes from the range...

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This past Sunday I shot a varmint pistol course at Stonewall Rifle Pistol Club . This is some sort of pistol, no more than 9-power telescop...
Monday, May 16, 2016

.22 Benchrest

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I started a couple of years ago. Wasn't really interested, didn't have an appropriate firearm but Nana "made" me do it. ...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Youth shoot 2016

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Our club does a "youth shoot" every year to encourage young people who are interested in shooting. All sorts of kids come out for ...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Firearms sales and politics...

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We recently had a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, CA and the POTUS almost immediately called for gun control despite the fact that the a...
Friday, December 04, 2015

The world as it is, not as we wish it to be...

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Things have changed. Compared to what we have today even the Vietnam War period seems idyllic. For the first time since the submarine atta...
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