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Safety Tip: How to Survive a Public Shooting Range Session

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By Nick Savery When I first started shooting I began at a public indoor range. I wasn't a member of a club and I didn't have any guns of my own to shoot. I practiced...
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The 5 Carry Conditions – How Do You Carry Your Handgun?

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"Carry condition" isn't a subject as hotly debated in the gun community as, say, stopping power or GLOCK vs. 1911, but it's up there. What is a carry condition? It's the state of readiness...
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This is Why You Really Should Rotate Your Carry Gun Ammunition Regularly

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Many folks -- cops included -- load up their self-defense sidearm, and then those tools silently serve and protect their owners from bad people with evil in their hearts. Unfortunately, most of us don't...
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Sinistromanual Pro Tip: If You’re a Lefty, Learn to Shoot Right-Handed

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Reader Curtis in IL writes: While we're well past Left Handers Day, if you’re a southpaw like me, you know the burdens we bear. Besides being smarter and better looking than everyone else, we’re constantly...
AMMO COMPARISON 375 Raptor

Meet the 375 Raptor: a Heavy-Hitting, Short Action Cartridge

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Arne Brennan, creator of 6.5 Grendel and other cartridges, designed 375 Raptor in a quest to do for 308 Winchester what 300 Blackout did for .223 Remington. Namely, neck it up to run larger,...
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Central Illinois Father-Son Camp Makes Memories For Hundreds of Boys and Young Men

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Any day you can help make memories for young people new to shooting ranks as a great day for them and for you. Once more I had the chance to volunteer to help some...

Korean War Era Ammo: Even Stored Under Sub-Optimal Conditions, Every Round Fired Almost 70...

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This past weekend, I had a chance to fire an M1 Carbine I recently found in the bottom of a lake. My diving crew friends also recovered some ammo with the gun. Uncle Sam's...

How to Get Started Hunting the Right Way

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I used to shake a great deal when I saw deer wandering towards me across a vast fields of beans. Every inch they moved made my heart beat harder and it reminded me that...

Pro Tip: Choose The Right Bullet For The Job

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A few guys and I went to Lonesome Boar Adventures in Mountain Home, Texas to do a little hunting. Thinking we'd be shooting mostly coyotes at medium-to-long ranges, wild boars from close to far,...
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5 Short Training Videos Every New Gun Owner Should Watch

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First, the good news during a tough time. As a result of the declaration of a national emergency, America now has thousands, maybe tens of thousands of new gun owners. Not just owners of...

A Little Pain, a Lot of Gain: Force-on-Force Personal Defense Training for Civilians

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It’s not every day that you get a chance to practice self-defense tactics against opponents who actually shoot back, especially as a civilian. If you get the chance to do it through force-on-force training,...

5 Easy Steps to Cheating Your Way Into the One Mile Long-Range Shooting Club

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By Paul Erhardt I cheated. That’s right, I’m a cheater, and it’s about now that you’re expecting me say something like, ‘and I’m not proud of it.’ Well, too bad. I am proud of it, so...