All About Pocket Knives

Gunstock Jack, You got that old cowboy look down real good! I used to shoot in CAS, was a member of SASS, and enjoyed it quite a bit, my best buddy still shoots at least two weekends a month and sometimes three. I fell by the wayside (it got to interfering with my hunting on Saturdays) but it is a worthy way to have some good fun.

Dropped in at the range today for some "Dot Torture" drill.
I stole this from Glockpro.com.
http://glock.pro/competition/5059-dot-t ... arget.html
Two things I learned, I'm losing my vision and getting slow!

Allright now, who's willing to join me in my internet humiliation?
Download one of these targets and post your results.

Three yards??? I could throw a better group.
Just kidding and good shooting, I wouldn't want to be standing out in front of you.

Not much of a hand gun guy myself, so I'll have to wave the white flag and surrender my chance.

Dayum, Blue! I couldn't read and follow the instructions thet quick!

Great shootin'! It takes me too long to reload my sixgun that many times. Kin I use two or three?

Some Spring cleaning on the long guns.....

Always considered myself a pocket knife collector, not a gun collector.....but somehow I am starting to get a pile of these things, too.

Unk, that's a fine selection of long guns. M-1 rifle, M-1 carbine, a Winchester lookin' lever action, even an air rifle, a little bit of everything represented there. Is the little rifle, #6 as you count from left to right, an old Browning or a Remington? It appears to be a bottom eject by the picture. And how about the left handed bolt action? Shoot fire!! you ought to just list 'em so we can lust over 'em! Treefarmer

so is number 8 from the left in the photograph... left handed bolt action?

Nice selection, Unk!

Hi Guys - I didn't even think to listed'em - here you go:

1. $20 Chinese pellet gun with a $40 scope (lol)
2. Savage Fox SxS 20ga
3. Mossberg 340 KC .22
4. Remington Model 11 12ga
5. Remington 550-1 .22
6. Remington 241 Speedmaster .22
7. Hawthorne (Monkey Wards) Model 880 .22 (same as Colt Colteer)
8. Remington 700 30-.06 (left-handed - and my newest one - just picked it up this past weekend)
9. Remington Sportsman 58 12ga
10. M1 Carbine (Standard Products - 1943)
11. M1 Garand (Springfield - April 1941)
12. Browning Auto 5 Mag Twenty 20ga
13. Western Field XNH-480 (Monkey Wards) .410 pump (same as Noble 70)
14. Winchester Defender 1200
15. SAR-1 Romanian AK
16. Winchester Model '94 30-30 (made in 1952)

Got a couple other pellet and BB guns - but was running out of wall space -

Nice Guns!

I like the .410, my favorite caliber shotgun

Only thing I like better is a .22 over .410

MB, I still have my Savage .22/,410 O/U and a .22mag/20g DL O/U from when I was a boy.

Charlie Noyes

Yep, the only two guns we had in the house when I was a kid were the Remington 550-1 .22 and the Remington Model 11 12ga - both pictured. I shot the heck out of those two. My dad also had an old Mauser 98, but he never had any ammo for it...so I never got to shoot it before he sold it. He gave me both the Remingtons a few years ago - those are two I will never part with.

Gunstockjack, your pictures are making me want to go to a Cowboy match again. I haven't shot one in 10 years or so, but I have kept up my SASS membership.

I have been wanting to take a couple pics of a couple more Browning designs, that haven't been shown yet.
Win 97 16ga.
Stevens 520 (you will see other variations, marked Ranger, Model 30, depending on who sold it. Also the 620, which had a crossbolt safety, and a rounded receiver.)
Rem Model 17. (Made 20ga. only, Ithaca brought it out as the 37, as soon as the patents expired, and the later Browning BPS, is basically the same design with a tang safety.)

A couple more 1911's
Series 70 Gold Cup (before the firing pin block, which adds trigger weight)
Heinz 57, originally an old US Property gun that had a Crown City frame when I bought it. John Vincent tightened and fit everything with a Kart BBL, NM bushing. With my bad eyes, and 185 or 200gr cast bullets, it will shoot 10 shot groups in 3" @ 50yds. I am sure it would do better with Fed 185's in a Ransom rest.

Ah! Sweet 16 my favorite bird gun I didn't get Grandpa's so I use a Savage Stevens 12ga pump well worn

Brett - nice guns. Looks like you have the same poly choke on your Remington 17 as I have on my model 11.

and I love my Hi-Power - but man, I have to get me a 1911.

Unk wrote:Brett - nice guns. Looks like you have the same poly choke on your Remington 17 as I have on my model 11.

and I love my Hi-Power - but man, I have to get me a 1911.

Unc, that's the Stevens 520 with a factory Poly Choke. The 17 is a 30"full.
You should have a 1911 to go with those M1's!

Bret, the 17 is a fine shotgun. I have one myself and was one of the "other" browning designs I was going to post but never got around to. Yours looks to be in fine condition, and 32" solid rib to boot? don't see many w/ 32" barrels anymore. You ever take a notion to let it go give me a holler. I bought mine cut off, someone had cut an inch or so off the barrel for a bird gun. I had screw-ins put in it and it's the finest shooting 20 ga I own. I also have an Ithaca 37 someone cut the barrel off to about 19" on, I had screw-in put in it too. It shot high as a result of being cut off so I bought and installed a poly rib to bring the POI down, it follows a close second to the Rem 17 in the pattern department but in thick cover for woodcock or quail you can't beat that stubby barrel.


The Remington model 11 was one of my project guns (I'm worse about buying misfit guns than I am knives). It too had a cut off barrel. Around 22" it was crooked so I knocked it back to an even 20" Again, had screw in chokes installed and the POI was very high after the cut so I installed some Remington sights like they use on their slug guns. I went a step further and added tritium inserts to the sights for low light shooting. This thing as very versatile. It will throw a slug with the best of them and patterns like a turkey shoot gun. I am very picky about the guns I keep and if they have any problems that I can't fix or they don't shoot just "so" I don't keep them around long.

The 1100 is another victim of the hacksaw. It was a 26 or 28" modified that shot like a skeet. Rather than lug around the extra weight I knocked it down to 21". It already had a poly rib installed and I had screw in chokes put in it. The stock finish is rough so I plan on refinishing it in a more subdued low glare finish. I installed a new shell carrier in it with a longer tongue to make reloads easier. It's getting a new recoil pad too. I shoot this gun better than any shotgun I own. This is the one I'll be hunting with this year since I got it after seasons closed last year.

The 11-87 is a turkey/slug gun I just bought. Got a real good deal on it. No issues other than needing a serious cleaning. It runs like a top and pattern superb. I'll eventually put a new shell carrier in it too.


Some varmint guns. Ithaca 87 12 ga magnum 22" vent rib w/ screw in chokes and tritium bead for calling predators at night. Remington 700 22-250 when I need to reach out and touch them. Mossberg 640KA Chuckster .22 mag w/ optional S330 peep sight for smaller critters.



Nearly silent squirrel medicine. Marlin 981T I shoot Remington CeeBee's and the loudest sound in the bullet smacking the critter. About as close as you can get to a silencer without all the hassle.

MM you have some cool stuff. I can tell you like to tinker with guns as well as knives! That Rem 17 I have, is the nicest condition one I have ever seen, EXCEPT the stock is cut and the pad added....... It is not a solid rib gun either, but a 30"F, and like yours, it has the deluxe checkered stock. The guy I bought it from claimed it was out of a judges estate, so I am guessing it was purchased for his wife or kid, and cut off to fit, then hardly used.

This does have gun content. Be sure to watch the video!!

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavli ... _buy_a_9mm

Bret888 wrote:MM you have some cool stuff. I can tell you like to tinker with guns as well as knives! That Rem 17 I have, is the nicest condition one I have ever seen, EXCEPT the stock is cut and the pad added....... It is not a solid rib gun either, but a 30"F, and like yours, it has the deluxe checkered stock. The guy I bought it from claimed it was out of a judges estate, so I am guessing it was purchased for his wife or kid, and cut off to fit, then hardly used.

Great, the pic made it look like it had a rib. Those skinny barrels look a mile long don't they?

I'm getting ready to replace the scope on the .22-250 . It has a vintage weaver k-12 on it and while it's a nice scope it gets pretty useless at dawn or dusk which are the primary times I use it for busting 'yotes. I've got it narrowed down to a weaver 4.5x24x50 or a bushnell elite 4x16x40. I'm leaning towards the weaver. I've had good luck with them in the past.

I gave $225 for my 17 at a farmers market. It was kind of rough at the time, dad told me I paid too much and I'd never get my money back if I didn't like it. I had wanted one for a long time since it was the predecessor to my favorite pump gun the Ithaca 37. Besides, when I picked it up it just "spoke" to me. Whenever that happens I buy it if the price is anywhere near reasonable because they always turn out to be really good. After I paid $75 to have it choked and i refinished the wood myself and fixed the cracks we patterned it. Dad said it was the finest patterning 20 he'd ever seen...no longer did I have too much invested in it .

I haven't kept up with scopes in years, but I will say I have been very happy with this Weaver 4-16 on my 541T. The local offhand meat shoots have a 4X scope limit, so I wanted to have 4X on the low end. I shot a couple bench shoots with it, and this 100yd group was the best I ever had.

"Great, the pic made it look like it had a rib. Those skinny barrels look a mile long don't they? "
It does look a mile long! But it handles like a wand. What other gun would weigh in at 5 1/2lbs, with a 30"bbl???

Bret888 wrote:"Great, the pic made it look like it had a rib. Those skinny barrels look a mile long don't they? "
It does look a mile long! But it handles like a wand. What other gun would weigh in at 5 1/2lbs, with a 30"bbl???

too true!


does your scope have the multi X or German reticle? does it have the dot in the center like this one?
http://www.natchezss.com/product.cfm?co ... le%20Matte