Y-man is based in a firearms-restricted environment in West Africa, he is really interested in shotguns [Which is all he can legally get], and he makes the best of whatever he is able to lay his hands on in terms of DIY and improvising.
He did have some training at an early age attending military school in his country, including some weapon training…
He always appreciates all your advice, comments and feedback.
For a few years now, there has been an increasing trend of attempts to smuggle arms into Nigeria through the ports, hidden in sealed containers, and in false bottoms of trucks crossing the almost inexistent borders from the Benin Republic and from the North of Nigeria, [Read More…]
Background: reminder on Gun Laws in Nigeria. Nigeria has laws that restrict ownership of firearms to citizens being barely able to purchase and possess pump-action shotguns at the most, and single or double barrel shotguns generally. Aspiring gun owners need to be over [Read More…]
Lessons of firearm ownership. NEVER throw anything [ANYTHING!] away. Always obsessively hoard components when it comes to firearms… I am currently enjoying the result of this advice. I have a habit of keeping and saving any component I change out, even the items I [Read More…]
Yeah, yeah – “Firearms, no Politics…” but this is AFRICA! We have a “Killer Bandit” problem. There is continuing debate on the usefulness of firearm restriction and gun control, especially in the repressed cultures of Africa, and [Read More…]
Air Guns for firearms restricted cultures – A new hope? It is more obvious that there is hope for firearms restricted cultures: and we should eventually have access to higher calibre Air Rifles. These will be used for plinking and hunting primarily, and maybe for [Read More…]
Shocking ammunition trend emerging… Building based on my article on superstitions regarding firearms in Africa, and specifically in West Africa, investigations and reports show that there is a deeper and more macabre element which has emerged. No one knows when or [Read More…]
Y-man again with another one of my adventures at SHOT 2018 Guys, bear with me: SHOT 2018 was a MAGNIFICENT event in recent times for my life! I have a lifetime of stories from SHOT 2018 and imagine how it goes when I make it to SHOT 2019! As you would know – I have [Read More…]
Y-man at SHOT 2018 In a continuation of the experiences I had at SHOT 2018, I visited exhibitions which could actually have a chance at penetrating the very highly restricted firearms environment in my country. Most importantly, I took a good look at some exhibitions [Read More…]
Y-man here – writing a post on Shot Show Day 2, 24th January 2018, and I am actually HERE! Here in Las Vegas, Nevada. It has been an experience, with each additional day being even further exciting… Eye-watering, hair-raising excitement… I feel very [Read More…]
Y-man is back again, after quite a long absence and I sure am glad to be back writing about some of my continuing adventures. I am sorry that I stopped writing regularly. I have had some pressures at work and I also got this mistaken notion that my writings were [Read More…]
Apologies for the long silence, its been a bit of a tough year. With increased work pressures, and even MORE restrictions related to firearms in my country, I have not been able to write much. Mea Maxima Culpa! I have been thinking of the wide parallels between my [Read More…]
It’s done. 525 Lyman slugs – Target Achieved! I finally did some more testing and I think I can rest easy now. [At least until I start to get ‘flyers’ again in the future!] Slug build: Remember: I am simply replacing birdshot with Lyman Slugs. I am NOT building [Read More…]
Wow… Wow… At last – Nirvana, Valhalla, HEAVEN! And no, I have not found Religion, I have found shotgun slug ACCURACY! For more than 8 months now, I had been champing at the bit, and foaming at the mouth to go up north to the middle part of Nigeria, where I [Read More…]
Hiya all! Its been a long while – I have been reading and commenting, but finally got to do some writing. As many of you know, where I stay is not the kind of place that I can, for example, gather up the loose change in my cupboard, and go buy some more 9mm for [Read More…]
Greetings! May your hunts be prosperous, and your nights restful! Jambo! [I just made that up.. ha ha!] Well, this is a range report of sorts: just to give you all an account of how far I have been able to go with Mathilda, my Mossberg 500A Shotgun, in recent times. I [Read More…]
Hello all, Y-man again, so sorry for the long silence – with work commitments taking me away from “civilization” a bit more nowadays – I wish I did not have to take another Twin Otter or helicopter flight again, but alas – I have to toil to oil the foil! Says [Read More…]
Firearms Ignorance of the masses… In Most of Africa, and in some other parts of the world, the superstition and mysticism perceived as behind the use and effect of firearms is more prevalent than common sense or science. Most people around here, even the educated [Read More…]
The famous curse of the breaking plastic safety buttons on Mossberg pump-action shotguns has finally hit me. My tang broke (Sounds like the punch-line of a dirty joke!) and I FIXED it, like a boss! I fabricated a new tang from a bit of aluminum, dremelled it into shape/ [Read More…]
Y-man here again, apologies for the long silence once again… About my trip to the US in February this year: well, some ancient Roman said it all: “I flew over, I shot a lot, I purchased even more!” I had a swell time in the US, Dallas and in Atlanta. Even the cold [Read More…]
Hello all. Just a few thoughts on safety and careful gun handling in the developing world… In this, I am only talking about the emerging group of enlightened NON-MILITARY firearms owners in some parts of Africa. Military/ Police firearms safety, and occasional [Read More…]
Well hello. Y-man here again. Hope y’all doing well. I will be coming to the US again in early 2014, yay! I am meant to attend a work-related seminar, conference kind of thing in the USA in late January, early February, and I look forward to adding on a few days of my [Read More…]
Yesterday Steve wrote about the Shot Towers of the USA, Europe and Australia. Today I will tell you about how shotgun ammunition is made in African villages. In most of Nigeria, we all come from one village or the other.. Of course, with schooling and work, we mostly [Read More…]
Hello y’all… Y-man here again… I have FINALLY achieved what I have sought for more than five years now: self-cast and reloaded slugs, achieving accuracy, consistent performance and reliability. I also have fabricated a much better shotgun stock now [Read More…]
Update from Y-man January – February 2013 (My FIRST self-posted guest post! Yay!). My previous post about my October visit to the USA is here. Well, hello all… Y-man here again. And when I say “here” I mean “HERE” in the USA on another visit. I came over [Read More…]
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