Category: Tips

I’ve been around guns all my life, but only picked up an earnest interest in them as a hobby since 2003. I’ve got a YouTube Channel, I’m a host on a podcast, and much more. In that time, the internet landscape for Canadian shooters has grown, and I’d argue that we’ve got a couple of

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Savage runs a letter code to kind of indicate trim level for different rifles. I’ve got these listed in order of how often I run into them: Note, sometimes they choose to include some codes and omit others. ie: your rifle might have a mag, but not have “C” in the model name. Examples of

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The battery pack on my cordless vacuum slowly died. I think it was undersized to begin with: only giving me a maximum of 15 minutes of use (just the vacuum, not the brush), before giving up the ghost. After a while, just turning the brush on when the vacuum was on medium height carpet was

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This was an inevitable comparison after doing my 17HMR vs 22WMR article. The sister magnum rimfires are around $0.40/round, while basic 223 ammo is about the same cost and it can be reloaded for quite a bit less. Even if you buy nicer hunting ammo off the shelf, hunting 223 is usually no more than

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22 Winchester Magnum, or “22 Mag” for short, was the big dog rimfire for decades. Typically running a 30-50 grain bullet at 2200 fps, 1880, or 1530, respectively, it was a big jump over the typical 22 round of a 40 grain bullet at 1200 fps. But now that 17 HMR has been on the

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