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A Houston man was able to defend himself from carjacking using his concealed carry. You can too. The concealed carrier, Dedrick Moore, visited a local McDonald’s restaurant (where he ate regularly) to return a Redbox movie to a kiosk there. After returning the movie, two men approached Moore’s vehicle and forced him out of it […]
In our first installment of Garage Gunsmithing we had just finished the break down of our project Springfield 1911 and had installed our first few parts. To quickly recap events, the Ed Brown mainspring housing dropped right into the 1911 frame with no modification. The Slide stop on the other had required a bit of […]
Everybody knows that sleep is important for staying healthy, keeping a clear head, and performing at your peak.
But did you know that something called “sleep spindles” can slash the time that it takes to improve as a shooter?
The bullpup rifle was developed to answer a number of military issues that armies around the globe needed to have answered. Today, some of the militaries that adopted bullpups in the 80’s and 90’s are now going to traditional style rifles. Bullpups were popular in concept due to the fact that much of the world in […]
Let me start out with saying I spend the better part of my fall and winter either sitting in a blind or a marsh off of the Puget Sound duck and goose hunting. The season here in Washington lasts for the better part of 100 days, shotguns get used and abused out here. So the […]
A few years ago I got into the reloading game with Lee Loaders. These kits allow you to literally hammer together custom ammunition with little need for additional gadgets. But unfortunately, the pistol loaders resize the brass cases when reloading. That is good so you can use the new rounds in many guns, but it takes much […]
Have you thought about getting into “making smoke,” but don’t know where to start? This article and ones to come, ought to help point you in the right direction. According to various sources, millions of people in North America target shoot, reenact, and even hunt game with muzzleloaders. Muzzleloading guns run the gamut from primitive firearms that […]
There are names in the culture of American handgun landscape that we can easily classify as Icons, and today we have one of the top names in the industry when it comes to revolvers in none other than legendary maker Smith & Wesson. We recently spoke to the representatives from the Springfield, Massachusetts-based company and […]
For those of you following the How to Build an AR-15 series (thus far, we’ve just finished installing the magazine catch), this article will cover installing the trigger guard. For visual reference for this part of the AR build, check out this video. I’ve included the time stamp for the segment of the video associated with […]
Earlier we covered the 1886 Lebel rifle and its groundbreaking 8x50mm smokeless powder cartridge. But as it turns out, the gun was not suited for some troops of the French empire. France needed a short gun to equip cavalry and artillery troops. A shortened Lebel rifle was tried, but because the gun had a long […]
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