This is a little newer than I usually like to use, and I have not watched all of it yet. But I have linked to DeviantOllam before, I trust his content, and I don’t think he’s quite as popular in the gun community as hickok45 or Forgotten Weapons…
“Gun Storage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Gun Safes and Locks”.
From the wonderful folks at Wilson Combat: “Gun Guys Ep. 34 with Bill and Ken”. This time, they discuss “Elmer Keith, the .44 Magnum, and the .357”. I like this because it serves as a decent introduction to Elmer Keith (who I have touched on before) for those folks who are interested in guns, but came after the Elmer Keith era.
Jerry Miculek shoots his S&W 5906 Performance Center pistol (which was apparently an overrun from a contract with the Mexican Special Forces). Bonus: 9MM Incendiary ammo.
I watched this over the weekend (it popped up in my recommendations). Then I started looking at 5906 pistols on GunBroker…
Random acts of hoplobiblophilia:
Modern Gunsmithing by Clyde Baker. This is only “fair” at best, and yes, that is a crappy dust jacket. But this is one of those original Samworth/Small-Arms Technical Publishing Company editions that are hard to find. Ran across this at HPB, and paid what I think is about the same price as I would have paid on ABEBooks.
One of the odd things about Samworth’s books is that he didn’t use a printers key, so it’s hard to tell what printing one of his books is. You have to rely on internal clues, like the advertising pages in the back of the book: while the original copyright is 1933, the advertising page in the back is dated September 1950, and includes some SATPCO post-WWII books.
While I plan my weekend around that very thorough and well done first video (watched the other two first and the were great)…
I did not know about the printers’ key. Thanks for linking that!
I knew about the numbers and what they represented, but I did not know they were called a “printer’s key” until I actually went searching to see if there was a term for them while I was writing this post.
So: Lucky 10,000.