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Buy a T91 While You Still Can
Buy a T91 While You Still CanI am going to keep this short and sweet. For those interested, you can looking up the geopolitics...
Video Short – Surefire Stiletto Test
Video Short - Surefire Stiletto TestSo this Surefire Stiletto has a max lumen rating of 1500 and one of it’s selling features is the...
Trying The Stiletto Flashlight
Trying The Stiletto FlashlightThe long and short of it: Was traveling a lot. Passed through multiple security checkpoints daily. At some point my daily...
Military Surplus
POTD – Something Wicked This Way Comes…
POTD - Something Wicked This Way Comes…Just a glimpse into a project we have on the “middle burner”. The USAF GAU-5A ASDW takedown “rifle”....
Buy a T91 While You Still Can
Buy a T91 While You Still CanI am going to keep this short and sweet. For those interested, you can looking up the geopolitics...
Semi-Auto BAR is Calling Me
Semi-Auto BAR is Calling MeShooters Supply in Loveland, Ohio is really in my head these days. They had a possibly NIB, semi-automatic, Ohio Ordnance...
Shooting
Armalite AR-50 200y Zero
Armalite AR-50 200y ZeroKraken is back at the John1911 range with his favorite gun. The Armalite AR-50. Here he is shooting surplus ammo to...
Video Short – FN 5.7 100 Yards
Video Short - FN 5.7 100 YardsAlmost like it was destined to happen, the first time I shot the FN 5.7 at 100 yards,...
Video Short – Reason 417 on Why I Hate 50BMG
Video Short - Reason 417 on Why I Hate 50BMGHere is Kraken shooting his Armalite 50BMG. Single shot. Bolt action. Muzzled break. And discharged...
Workbench
Shooting Bench Number 5
Shooting Bench Number 5Why have 4 shooting benches when you can have 5 for the cost of 6? What am I talking about? Why...
Trying The Stiletto Flashlight
Trying The Stiletto FlashlightThe long and short of it: Was traveling a lot. Passed through multiple security checkpoints daily. At some point my daily...
Zeiss Dialyt ARCA Attachment
Zeiss Dialyt ARCA AttachmentBeen working on target cameras and decided to address a nagging issue. My Zeiss Dialyt field glass wasn’t setup properly for...
1911 Pistols
Jack Basham Custom 1911
Jack Basham Custom 1911Ran across this recently and it has been calling my name. Around here, in Cincinnati, there is an old-time cop, gunsmith...
Jackson Hole P211
Jackson Hole P211While traveling through Wyoming, I got a chance to stop into Jackson Hole. And of course, I hustled my way into a...
1911 Holster Selection – AIWB Considerations
1911 Holster Selection - AIWB ConsiderationsKraken stopped by and expressed an interest in carrying a 1911 AIWB. Since I have been carrying just like...
Blaser Rifles
A New Way to Store Blaser Barrels
Secureit has released a new vault accessory called the 3-Rifle Horizontal Display Mount. And while I don’t really want to use it for rifles,...
POTD – Blaser R8 Cleaned
Since the rifle range construction has been winding down, the shooting has been turning up. The Blaser R8, in the GRS Ragnarok chassis was...
Coyote Door – 100 Yard Steel Test
Decided to setup a 100 yard steel target that measures out from The Coyote Door (tm). Figure it’s necessary to confirm zeros from that...
Hunting
Video Short – Surefire Stiletto Test
Video Short - Surefire Stiletto TestSo this Surefire Stiletto has a max lumen rating of 1500 and one of it’s selling features is the...
Trekker Floor Mats – Grenadier
Trekker Floor Mats - GrenadierWhile up at INEOS getting an break-in oil change, they showed me some aftermarket floor mats that I might be...
POTD – Not So Northern Lights
POTD - Not So Northern LightsFirst glimpse of the Northern Lights from Nebraska. Krakenwww.John1911.com“Shooting Guns & Having Fun”
Podcast
EP-388: FRT’s are Crushing The Machine Gun Market
Episode 388 of the John1911 Podcast is now live: Hunting is in effect.
Would you buy a Swiss made P320?
I think we owe...
EP-387 : Live From The Cocktail Party
Episode 387 of the John1911 Podcast is now live: The Glock V is out.
The Glock 17L is in...almost.
3x's More Bulletproof.
High Mileage...
EP-386: Glock Gets Taken Out
Episode 386 of the John1911 Podcast: Glock Series V.
AI Gun Detection.
Tundra Goes Down Hard.
Suppressor Baffle Strikes. MarkyJohn1911.com"Shooting Guns & Having Fun"
Commentary
Russia – Shipping Container Drone Attack
Surreptitiously putting weapons in shipping containers for remote activation isn’t a new idea. See attached post from our website some years ago. But having massive...
Steyr AUG – A Gun For Non-Gun People
Had some visitors to the John1911 range. There was a request to shoot a few rifles. But what surprised me the most was One,...
Will The DOD Drop The M17 Service Pistol?
Once again we are full of SIG P320 drama. At some point one wonders if it will trickle down to The Pentagon? There have...
Industry news
SecureIt Rimfire Pistol Mounts
One of the weaknesses of the SecureIt weapon rack system has been it’s general focus on military grade weapons. Which is to be expected...
6.8×51 Hybrid – Full Power Ammo Available
Saw this early this morning and it was news to me. So perhaps it’s news to you? Shooting Surplus has bulk, full power 6.8x51...
Swiss K31 Ten Round Magazines
While on other business, I ran across the manufacture of some pretty interesting magazines. 10 round aftermarket mags for the Swiss K31 rifle. Made...
Interesting Stories Around The Web
The New Chevy Commercial is Lit!
This video was born out of a funny conversation Chris and I were having one day soon after this protestor story hit the national...
Not The Typical EDC Knives
Two of my most treasured gun-show finds. It just so happens that I found them both on the same day at the same gun-show.In...
2023 National Farm Machinery Show
Since we now have a tractor for range maintenance, it made sense to swing down to Louisville, only a few hours away, to get...
POTD
POTD – Something Wicked This Way Comes…
POTD - Something Wicked This Way Comes…Just a glimpse into a project we have on the “middle burner”. The USAF GAU-5A ASDW takedown “rifle”....
POTD – Not So Northern Lights
POTD - Not So Northern LightsFirst glimpse of the Northern Lights from Nebraska. Krakenwww.John1911.com“Shooting Guns & Having Fun”
