Mark Miller

Mark Miller is a Green Beret who served in Afghanistan and a number of other live fire locations. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense, a casual hero and a student of science.

Shotgun Negligent Discharge: Bringing the Range to the Classroom

Everybody hates the rules, especially safety rules. Cool firearms instructors post videos on YouTube breaking the rules. Sometimes, you can bend the rules and get away with it and sometimes exceptions will bite you. I have learned much of what I know about the rules from mistakes, mostly the mistakes of others. Which rules? Why […]

Faxon Firearms .308 AR barrels on sale for Memorial Day

Faxon Firearms, the guys famous for the ARAK-21, have a great line of rifle barrels. They are having a Memorial Day Sale this weekend offering 10% off site wide, with 15% off all .308 barrels. Now is the time to buy! I have been working on a budget .308 AR rifle project with Tridentis Tactical. […]

Days of Guns: Sig-Sauer P226 Air Pistol

SIG SAUER, Inc., is famous for making reliable firearms, silencers, optics and ammunition. Now Sig has launched a new line of Advanced Sport Pellet (ASP) air pistols which look and feel like their handguns. I got to shoot their P226 Air Pistol, a great training aid at a modest price. Never an outfit who do […]

Days of Guns: AK-47 Reliability Level – Africa

I have a long and respectful relationship with the AK-47 family and seen some epic-ly abused guns still fire, but this picture from the guys at Underground Tactical takes AK reliability to a new level; Africa reliable. This Chinese Type 56 was confiscated from African poachers. It is said to be fully functional, and I […]