New from Savage: Single Shot Rimfire Youth Rifles
Savage is here with a new single shot .22lr rifle aimed at the youth market. Not literally, though. It sports an accurately proportioned stock for a youth, nice bright orange feed ramp, fully functional...
Self-Defense Tip: It Pays Not to Advertise
Escalatoring into the bowels of the SHOT show, you leave the world of slick corporate PR and descend into an in-your-face arena of entrepreneurial adrenalin. In other words, a souk of small companies with...
Ask Foghorn: What Are Offset Iron Sights For?
There's been some discussion about "offset iron sights" on a gun and why they're useful, so I figured that while I'm stuck on this airplane heading to Las Vegas for SHOT 2012 I may...
SERPA Holsters Banned from FLETC
FLETC, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, is a facility in Georgia where over 90 federal agencies send their new recruits to be trained as law enforcement officers. That includes firearms handling, and is sometimes a recruit's...
First Time CHL: I’m in the System
When I first started writing for TTAG, I thought that anybody who advocated for constitutional carry was a damn loon. We just let everyone have guns? Madness I tell you. Madness! Then I started going...
Self-Defense Tip [via SIG SAUER MK25]: Avoid Transfixion
I get that you can't be 100 percent tactically accurate when you're a moviemaker going for yucks (or action adventure). But I'm still thinking that this operator should have checked left and right when...
Gear Review: Magpul Art of the Precision Rifle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKP5hg-B1N8
Magpul Dynamics has been releasing a series of videos over the last few years that cover much of the material in their highly specialized firearms training courses. Their first series, Art of the Tactical...
Ask Foghorn: Deer Rifle for First Time Hunters (Under $500)
Dave writes:
I'm shopping for a deer rifle--I'm an older dad of young boys, never hunted before, no family tradition, high time I started, et c. et c. Midlife deal, whatever. Anyway, I've been researching...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Unidentified MI Teen
Earlier today, TTAG editorialist Josh Grabow argued that gun rights should trump partisan politics. I don't know about that. But I do know that Darwinism trumps everything. To wit this tragic tale from wnem.com:...
It’s 5 pm: Do you know where your guns are?
Within just the past week, Colorado has seen two terrible gun-related tragedies involving children. The worst part in all instances like these, is that they were wholly preventable. The first incident happened on December...
Hunting 101: Getting Started with Hunting in America
This past weekend Tyler Kee invited me down to his family's ranch in the Texas hill country to go hunting for the first time. As you can see from the picture, things went pretty...
Ask Foghorn: Best Self Defense AR-15?
A reader asks:
I am a Vietnam Airforce Vet and would like to buy a very nice to excellent AR15 for tactical and self defense. Would you mind sharing with me your top 3 choices/picks...