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If You Want to Be a Better Shooter, Learn to Embrace the Suck

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I see it all the time. A student's shooting skills suddenly and steeply degrade. They immediately blame their equipment. There is a time and place to look at your equipment. Has something gone wrong?...
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3 Things To Look For In A Concealed Carry Holster

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There are a large number of variables for gun owners shopping for a concealment holster: price, quality, carry style and more. But there are three major, over-arching considerations for any aspiring every concealed carrier. Accessibility Most defensive...

6.5 Creedmoor vs .308 Winchester…No Contest

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I'm sorry to break it to you, but sharp, sleek, and fast 6.5 Creedmoor is not a "hipster caliber." It's here to stay, and that's because it's better than the old glue horse we...
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Striker Fired vs. Hammer Fired Guns: What’s the Difference and is One Better?

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There's no firing a gun without denting a primer (if you aren't sure what that means, start with how a gun works). There are two primary ways to do that: hammer fired and striker...
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Handgun Ammunition: What Is The Difference Between 9mm and 9mm Luger?

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The difference between 9mm and 9mm Luger ammunition is either nothing or the latter is part of the former. Depending on how you define it. Huh? Most of the time, when a person says "9mm" when...
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The True Cost of Buying Your First Handgun

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By Rob Aught Sticker shock. Anyone who has ever shopped for a car knows what it is. I was somewhat surprised to find out it can apply to firearm purchases as well. Fortunately, when I...
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Negligent Discharge: Man Shoots Himself While Hiking Up His Pants at the Range [VIDEO]

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This range security video, from LiveLeak, originated from the central Israel city of Ramla. But it might as well have been from any shooting range here in the US of A. It looks like some...
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Top 3 Reasons To Carry A Revolver Rather Than a Semi-Automatic Handgun

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Some thirty years ago the American gun-buying public began to see semi-automatic pistols as reliable firearms. Once semi-autos cleared that hurdle, their superior capacity and quick reloadability ruled the day. When cops switched to...
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What Videos Do You Use to Figure Out How to Disassemble or Clean a...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh1xSbDza5w&t=114s   I've been asked by three different people in the last month how to clean their new gun. Two were semi-automatic pistols and one was a shotgun. There are a lot of new, first-time gun...
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Reloading 101: Beating the High Cost of Ammunition (Part 2)

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This is the second of two posts on the basics of reloading ammunition. See part one here.  If there’s one thing I like more than shooting it’s being a cheap bastard saving money. It's the...

Reloading 101: How to Beat the High Cost of Buying Ammunition (Part 1)

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Besides being mechanically inept, I don’t have a particularly green thumb. In my 23 years of military service, tending to the greenery was a work detail, or, more often, a punishment (oops, I mean...
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Americans Buying Guns Because They Can’t Count on Beleaguered Police or Soft-on-Crime Pols to...

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In recent weeks, Americans voted with their wallets -- again -- and have stripped gun retailers' shelves bare of most guns and ammo. Between the Chinese flu and widespread civil unrest, these buyers included...