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With Apologies to North American Arms
Click here to view the embedded video. Life is a learning curve. And then you flat-line. Sometimes you flat line, mentally, in the middle. This is an example. Just to update you, I’ve practiced and...
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Pistol Weapon Light Comparo: Streamlight TLR-1s, Insight Technology M3X LED,...
Last year, I finally broke with my traditionalist attitude toward handguns and purchased a polymer framed pistol with a built in accessory rail for everyday carry and home defense use. Since I was...
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Question of the Day: Are Pistol Lights A Bad Idea?
Chad just published a comprehensive weapons light showdown between the Streamlight TLR-1s, Insight Technology M3X LED, Insight Technology WL1-AA and SureFire X300 Ultra. The rabbi thinks the whole...
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New From Traditions Firearms: Frontier and Rawhide Single Actions
Traditions Performance Firearms – known for their muzzleloaded rifles – is adding a couple of single action revolvers by Pietta to their line. Both the higher end Frontier models and budget priced...
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The Most Popular Handgun in Hershey, PA
Click here to view the embedded video. Takes a lickin’ and keeps on clickin’. And these people think they know perfection. (h/t Eddie Devir)
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SHOT Show Shopping: Kitting Up for Team FNH USA
One of the biggest pains for newbie 3-gun competition shooters: finding the guns and gear that fits. It’s hard to justify dropping a couple hundred dollars on belts and magazine holders and special...
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Ruger Mk II Competition Pistol is a Tack Driver. Literally.
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Gear Review: Apex Tactical RDS Mount
Every now and then, you get a chance to try something outside your skill set, pay grade, or general place in life. Like the time I drove a 911 Turbo or shot steel at 1000 yards. Sometimes, it’s purely...
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Climbing the Learning Curve: Working Out My New FN Guns
Click here to view the embedded video. Good competition shooters become one with their guns. They understand their quirks and limitations (the guns). They can sense when their firearms need maintenance...
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First Impressions: Ruger LC380
The Ruger LC380 for this review was provide by The Kentucky Gun Co. Have you ever owned something that seems really cool, that gradually starts to lose its appeal due to what initially seemed like a...
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[Some] Newtown Residents Tool-Up After Sandy Hook Slaughter
Newtown . . . has issued about 130 gun permits annually,” foxnews.com reports. “Police say the town received 79 permit applications in the three months since the Dec. 14 massacre, well over double...
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Self-Defense Tip: No Octopus Hands
Click here to view the embedded video. Train as you mean to fight. Get off the X. Find cover. Find concealment. Shoot from both. The rule also applies to gun handling. Train yourself to handle guns...
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Gun Guru Rob Pincus: Don’t Waste Time Clearing a Carbine Malf
Click here to view the embedded video. Rob’s the man. But I’d like to point out that there’s no way to make the smooth transition demonstrated above if . . . wait for it . . . you don’t have a...
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Gun Preview: Caracal F with Quick Sights
Click here to view the embedded video. Even as my Caracal C with Quick Sights languishes in lock-up (Day 182), the Arabian gunmaker sent me a full-size Caracal F with Quick Sights for T&E. Shooting...
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Perhaps the Stupidest TV Report on Guns In the History of the World, Ever
I’m sure there’ve been more inane reports on firearms on TV news. I just can’t remember seeing one.
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Imagine This Guy On Coke
Click here to view the embedded video. Danger! Will Roberts! The fully caffeinated Cirque de Soleil gun slinger forgot to tell aspiring gun spinners to safety check their weapon before launching a...
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Question of the Day: Do You Have Guns Stashed Around the House?
Click here to view the embedded video. I used to be an absolutist on “gun dispersement.” Home carry, keep a long gun in the safe room and call it good. And then Christian recommended a second safe...
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How to Load Your NAA Mini Revolver. For Real
Click here to view the embedded video. Regular readers may recall that I had some problems loading the North American Arms Black Widow .22. After practicing a few dozen times and leaving the bong alone...
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Doing My Pistol Penance
My hands [not shown] were killing me as I fired the last few rounds in the magazine. The barrel toasty enough that there was a visible mirage across the top of the slide, and the takedown pin was so...
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Question of the Day: Do You Have An Outdoor Handgun?
I just got back from checking-out my daughter’s third grade project on Glacier National Park. As a reward for her hard work (and to avoid a portion of Austin’s Easy Bake Oven summer) I’m taking Lola...
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