Gear Review: Shooter App for Android Phones
For a lot of shooters, the primary barrier to moving past those 200-yard targets isn’t equipment or experience. It's a desperate hatred of mathematics. The calculations required to figure out bullet drop, translate that...
In Defense of: Serpa Holsters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBPPF8ez0V8
My problem: the Serpa holster's release button places your finger across the slide, parallel to the slide, upon release. I'm a high register kinda guy; I want my finger as high up on the...
Incendiary Image of the Day: Pen is Mightier than the Sword Edition
What you see before you is an example of the no longer mythical "pen gun," a device designed to fire a single .22LR cartridge at…well…someone. Now before we get all Our Man Flint here,...
The Truth About Building an Accurate 1911
Most 1911s are built using what gunsmiths semi-affectionately call "bucket manufacturing." All the pistol's various parts---frame, grips, barrel, trigger assembly, etc.---are identical. Pull any part out of the proverbial bucket and it will fit...
It Was the Very Best (Gun) Butter…
Like the rest of the writing staff here at TTAG, I'm not just a writer, I'm a reader, too. And I've been reading, with interest, about the trials and tribulations of RF and several...
Crimson Trace Lasers for Kimber Solo, Ruger LCP
I called Kimber for a non-Ammoland jpeg of the new Kimber Solo Carry mit lasergrippen. Celia Crane told me that the Ammoland image is a mock-up; Crimson Trace is still about ten weeks away from...
Canadian [Not Shown] Perplexed by High Cap Mags
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Dp9Ht3qwU&feature=player_embedded
Now obviously I am an outsider when it comes to US gun issues. As a Canadian, I have a...
IBS: We Brake for Less Expensive Competition
I don't know about you, but I'd think twice before giving my organization the same three-letter acronym as Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I say that not-so-safe in the knowledge that the International Benchrest Shooters could...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Peace, Love and Paternalism Edition
Aaron Moore joined his father Larry's company in 2002. Shortly thereafter Laserlyte introduced what cheaperthandirt.com calls a "tongue-in-cheek pistol bayonet." Apparently, there was much merriment to be had from this pistol-mounted pig sticker. And...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Singing in the Rain of Lead Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Rj7gW0V8g
Ralph's most excellent Remora holster review submitted a zen koan to our Armed Intelligentsia: "Can you dry fire in the shower?" That's way above my enlightenment level, but it did get me wondering. How...
I Know What You’re Thinking: “Did He Fire 30 Shots or Only 29?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHlE7mOQOrU&feature=player_embedded