Starlight 3-Gun LLC, the company behind the shooting industry’s only nighttime national 3-Gun match, announced today the divisional winners of the 2017 Championship. In the race for the overall crown, it was Armalite Team Captain and Timney Triggers professional shooter, Greg Jordan, who took home top honors during this year’s championship.Jordan’s ability to remain focused […]
Sight Alignment and Sight Picture, Getting the Basics Down
Weapon sights come from manufacturers in a variety of configurations and each sight will look different than the others. The rear sight of a weapon may be U-shaped, V-shaped, two dots or a perhaps a straight line. Some sights have small or large dots or are simple notched sights. The general concept of sight alignment […]
When is it Time to Cull the Herd?
How many guns is “too many?” Well, how many is “enough?” That depends, right? If you’re a typical gun guy, the answer might be that something like this is a good start: And, conversely, the answer might be an empty room, if you’re the spouse who sees the gun room as the mistress (a bad […]
9 Ways to Be a Better Shooter
January is over, and so are the month’s good intentions. If you are like most people you hide from the doom of New Year resolutions and proclamations of change and improvement. Let’s face it, change is hard and not likely to take hold in just a few short days at the beginning of each new […]
Ruger American Compact: Now available in .45 ACP
Sturm Ruger & Company have recently announced they intend to release a new compact version of the Ruger American pistol chambered in .45 ACP. The Ruger American is a striker fired pistol that was released a few years ago and the company has continued to expand the line up slowly since it’s release. The Compact […]
Steyr Aug in 9mm ?
The Steyr AUG rifle was the first “modular” design: the barrel, receiver, firing mechanism can all be changed to configure the weapon into whatever sort of rifle is wanted. By an extension of this principle, Steyr pioneered a trend which is now becoming more common, of converting what is basically a locked-breech rifle into a […]
Ghost Gunner Results: Good, Bad or Mixed?
John Crump has an interview with Cody Wilson at AmmoLand.com. It brings us up to date, but if you’ve been following Wilson and Defense Distributed it doesn’t really break any new ground. But what interested us was the colloquy on the Ghost Gunner. In the interview, John said this about the CNC mill, a device […]
The Legal Brief – 4th Circuit Says 2nd Amendment DOES NOT Protect America’s Rifle?!
This week on The Legal Brief – 4th Circuit Says 2nd Amendment DOES NOT Protect America’s Rifle?! LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE: Kolbe v. Hogan (4th Cir. 2017) – http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/… 4th Circuit Local Rule 35 En Banc – https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Rules/Ru… Intermediate Scrutiny – https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/inter… Kolbe v. O’Malley, 42 F. Supp. 3d 768 (D. Md. 2014) (The […]
4th Circuit Spreads Cheeks, Inserts Heads of a 3-Judge Panel
Alexandria Kinkaid in Recoil latches on to a brain-dead appeals court opinion, which ruled that the 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply to weapons that have a military application(!) and beats the court like a rented mule. We started to read the opinion but didn’t have the patience, unlike Kinkaid. So we missed this bit, that she found: […]
Sneaky Bags Covert Rifle Bag – First Look
I’m a big fan of keeping a low profile. The way I carry a gun, the knife I carry, and even the clothes I wear are chosen to help me not to be noticed. It’s hard when you’re six foot five, but I try to make it work. I love when gun companies produce gear […]