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Shooting Myths: A Laser Will Just Give Away Your Position
I've been a big fan of lasers on handguns for years. At first, this was because they sounded great on paper. After actually running around shooting in the dark at various training events and nocturnal...
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Reloading: Seating and Crimping Bullets
Last time we covered the powder charging step of reloading and briefly touched on the whole concept of pressure curves. While reloading is a safe pastime when proper care is taken, the care-taking part...
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Shooting Myths: Competitive Shooting Will Get You Killed on the Street
Why is it that Internet opinions are so binary? Black or white, right or wrong, my way or the highway---it’s kind of like politics in the real world. ".45 is the only caliber! Because you only need to...
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The Best of the 2014 NRA Annual Meeting & Exhibits
I love the National Rifle Association's Annual Meeting & Exhibits (NRAAM), which took place this past weekend in Indianapolis. You would think a gathering of more than 75,000 people couldn’t be a...
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Adventures with a .22 Silencer: The SilencerCo Sparrow 22
There are few things more fun than shooting a .22 LR with a silencer. Note I said “silencer” instead of “suppressor.” While “suppressor” is a more technically accurate term, the original devices were...
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The Top 10 Concealed Carry Holsters
Holsters have been around a long time, almost as long as Cher has been using doilies for costumes. Over centuries of use, innovation has flourished. We’ve come a long way from the times when Scottish...
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The Smith & Wesson M&P15 VTAC: One Year Later
Most gun reviews consist of a short acclimation period, a couple hundred rounds at the range, and a rushed story and photos to meet an editorial deadline. We thought it might be interesting to do a...
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Home Gun Safety Strategies: From Free to Not-so-free
If you own a gun, you need to develop a gun security strategy. Period, paragraph, end of story. If you have kids in the house, that strategy needs to be an everyday endeavor. If you don’t, but kids or...
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Scenes from a Gun Show
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to ingest a super-sized slice of Americana. I rented a table at a local gun show for the weekend to sell some of my books. Obviously my primary goal was to...
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Fun and Games with the .257 Weatherby Magnum
I’ve got a thing for unusual calibers. Probably because I’m a reloading addict. I just don’t care that commercial rounds of 300 AAC Blackout cost over a buck each, that .357 SIG pistol ammo is crazy...
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Smith & Wesson SW1911TA E-Series Pistol
There’s always something appealing about a nice 1911. While carrying a full-size, all-steel .45 ACP 1911 isn’t always fun, shooting one sure is. The particular SW1911TA E-Series model I've had the...
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The ATI Ruger 10/22 AR-22 Stock System: Turn Your Plinker into a Tactical Beast
This week we’re going to invest in plastic surgery. No Kardashians will be involved, I promise. While many might argue that I myself need it, I’m going to direct this decidedly non-medical procedure...
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3-Gunning for Home Defense
In a rare fit of advance planning and organization, I’m starting to think about what gear to use at this year’s Crimson Trace Midnight 3 Gun Invitational (M3GI) match. The event takes place August 12...
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Ten Top Self-defense Ammo Picks
With a controversial topic like the best self-defense ammo out there, I have to include a couple of explanations and disclaimers. You have to be careful about blanket statements when it comes to ammo...
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Dogs Gone By: On the Front Line in the War Against Prairie Dogs
We awoke at dawn. Most of us were slightly nervous, but energized by the certainty of impending combat. I doubt the enemy ever sleeps. They’re too busy digging tunnel networks. We’d been the ones to...
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Transforming an AR-15 into a Home-defense Rifle
A few weeks ago, I discussed my plan of using the upcoming Crimson Trace Midnight 3 Gun Invitational to choose, equip, and practice with guns I’d use for home defense. Since then, I’ve decided to use a...
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What Makes a 1911 a 1911?
Love it or hate it, the 1911 pistol is kind of a big deal, even if just for its longevity. Just past the turn of the previous century, the Army figured out it wanted an autoloading handgun with similar...
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10 Things You Learn by Carrying a Gun Every Day
Reflecting on my experiences carrying a gun daily for near a couple of decades, I figured out that I've learned a couple of things. Here's a short list. 1. How clueless the average person is. I don't...
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Sig Sauer’s P226 Elite SAO: Love Child of the 1911 and P226?
There’s no doubt about the Sig Sauer P226’s status as a reliable and quality handgun. Hard-core gun users like Navy SEALs and Texas Rangers carry the P226 (or as the military calls it, the MK25). Like...
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Ten Reasons Why the Midnight 3 Gun Invitational is My Favorite Shooting Event
Last week, I had the fortune to compete in and cover the shooting community's coolest adventure---the Crimson Trace Midnight 3 Gun Invitational (M3GI). As the name implies, this is a full-blown outdoor...
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