Pink Mist Tech Reactive Blood Packs: Channeling Your Inner Peckinpah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebTT0w_ATvo
Are you bored of shooting down at your local range? Does the idea of punching holes in yet another run-of-the-mill NRA target trigger a Carteresque malaise? Does the thought of plugging even one more zombie...
Dr. Strange Gun or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Glock
The strangest thing happened the other day. I pulled the trigger on my XDm and nothing happened. Tap, rack, bang. Yes, but---the nine mil had never failed to fire. Never. Not once in over...
Exposed! Express Firearms Training in South Carolina
Like a lot of states, South Carolina has a training requirement to get a concealed weapon permit. And yes, sitting through eight hours of "training" to exercise a constitutional right isn't right, but there...
Gunsite Day: Close-Range Encounters
I was able to spend a few hours at Gunsite again last week. I worked on close range scenarios involving both open hands and knife. By close range, I mean within 15 feet or...
Gun Handling at Lake Woe Be Gone
Anyone who's ever been to a shooting range and is even remotely concerned about returning home afterwards has at least one horror story. In a recent post at usconcealedcarry.com, Karl Rehn points out what...
NYPD 2010 Report: Use of Firearms by Police On the Decline
RF sent me a link this morning to a report compiled for the New York City Police Department that outlined the circumstances behind every bullet fired by an NYPD cop that wasn't on the...
Question of the Day: What Non-Firearms Weapons Do You Carry?
The other day, Farago and I had a chat about carry guns. I was sitting in the I-35 parking lot on my way home talking about my First Time CHL project. (Update soon.) "Don't get...
Ask Foghorn: Making the Switch from IWB to OWB Concealed Carry
Tyler Kee writes to RF and me:
What gives guys? Both of you carry OWB. How do you keep things tucked away and hidden from view?
Let me in on the secret.
Okay.
The first handgun that I...
Question of the Day: What Not to Say at the Range
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smKsWitQHC8
RF was shooting next to someone with a fancy-looking smooth bore this afternoon. Curiosity piqued he asked, "What kind of shotgun is that?" The proud owner turned towards him, lighting him up with the...
TTAG Taps UTM Training Ammunition and Solutions
UTM (Ultimate Training Munitions) has been selling non-lethal ammo and Failsafe Conversion Kits since Disco Inferno burned-up the pop charts. Maybe longer. We ran into UTM at SHOT Show; they were kind enough to provide the...
Spartan Tactical Imports: [Airsoft] Business is Good
There's a larger showing of Airsoft firearms manufacturers and importers here at SHOT than I would have expected. I mean, they're not REAL guns. But they are REALLY popular. According to Spartan Tactical...
Is 70% of Your Practice Dry Fire?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uySrH95BbYM
Bob Whaley of Gunsite says shooters should use a 70/30 mix of dry fire to live fire practice to keep your skills up to par. I'm probably more in the 5/95 neighborhood. You? Not...