Author Archives: theacunicorn

Y’all might’ve noticed I’ve been out of circulation for a while, but things have been busy around the old homestead, and I’m getting caught up at last. I’ve been surfing the vast intellectual wasteland known as the Interwebz for some years now, and a very common theme I’m seeing is related to one of myContinue reading ““It’s Unreliable and you’ll die…””

You could spend a lifetime searching for the perfect holster, and just when you think you’ve nailed it, something new and better will come along, which is exactly what happened when I got a recommendation to check out Ryan Grizzle’s carefully crafted leather holsters. I’ve been carrying my Colt Rail Gun for some years inContinue reading “Gear Review: Ryan Grizzle City Slicker 2”

The luckiest guy in the world carries a Smith & Wesson Airweight .38 Special. Some years ago, I worked as a full-time gunsmith in a fairly busy shop in Plano, Texas, where I cleaned, repaired and tinkered with a wide variety of guns. During that time, I got to see some really cool guns withContinue reading “The Luckiest Guy in the World”

I have a confession to make. I like .25 ACP and .22LR “mouse guns,” and don’t care if they’re next to useless for serious defensive purposes. There, I said it, and now I can go forth to buy more of these neat (but kinda silly) little handguns with a clear conscience. My very first pocketContinue reading “Italian Pocket Rocketry”

It’s been a while since my last post, and a lot has happened in the interim, not least of which is we have a nice, hot war brewing in Ukraine, and our economy is headed toward the swirling toilet bowl of progressive mismanagement. That all being said, there is plenty we can do to weatherContinue reading “Inconsistency, or how I learned to stop worrying and be a lazy bastard…”

I spend a lot of time browsing the various gun forums and other related places on the vastness of the Interwebz, and sometimes it’s possible to find good deals during all that surfing. Case in point, I just sealed the deal on two nice Smith & Wesson Model 10 .38 Special revolvers for a goodContinue reading “Revisiting Revolvers”

November is upon us already, and ammo prices are still higher than a giraffe’s ass. It seemed like, just as things were in danger of returning to normal, more gun control horse shit spurred the neckbeards into ammo-stacking overdrive, so here we are again. Looking on the bright side, and there is ALWAYS a brightContinue reading “Randomness and the Obviously Obvious…”

I spend quite a bit of my spare time tinkering with guns, and cleaning them is a large part of that. Obviously, when you clean them, you’re going to take them apart to a greater or lesser extent, depending on what level of “clean” you’re going for. Back in the day, I used to completelyContinue reading “Wear and Tear, Your Recoils Springs and You”

I’ll admit that this might seem a strange place for an editorial caveat, but hey, it’s my blog and I’ll do what I want. I read a lot. No, seriously…A LOT, and much of that reading is on the suject of guns, outdoorsy-type stuff, antique weapons, the military and a whole host of other subjects.Continue reading “Nothing New Under The Sun”

As an avid reader of various gun-related books, websites, Internet forums and whatnot, I am continually surprised to find, even in this advanced day and age, people who are still full of dire concern over the idea of carrying a 1911 with a cartridge in the chamber, or in “Condition 1,” as the late JeffContinue reading “Don’t be a Scaredy-Cat, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Carry in Condition 1”