Bridgeville High Powered Rifle Match Take Two – 800 Agg Wrap-Up
Blazing sun, mid-90s, high humidity, hot barrels and full-length jackets. Perfect conditions for my second High Power Rifle competition of the season. Sarcasm aside, it was a hoot. Thanks to ArmaLite's generous loan of...
ArmaLite National Match M-15: I think I fixed it
Last week I had a little chat with the guys at ArmaLite about my "issues" with their M-15 Service Rifle. For a brief recap, it had failure to feed issues all day at the...
Ask Foghorn: Rifle Scope Parallax
A reader asked:
I'm curious about scopes. Top Shot's George, while describing his setup process for the 1000 yard shot, said (among other things) that he adjusted something because he didn't like the scope's "parallax". I know approximately...
More On Those Military NDs From An Army Perspective
In yesterday's post about fatal negligent discharges in the military, a Marine blamed the deaths on a pervasive atmosphere of unsafe weapons handling. In a subsequent piece in Foreign Policy, an anonymous writer (evidently still...
Negligent Discharges Kill 90 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq
The average police officer’s firearm handling, safety and shooting skills are poor. Sadly, the news carries all the examples of this you’d ever want to read about. But you can almost understand it, given...
RUAG Copper-Matrix SX: Safe Short Distance Steel Shooting
RUAG, which sells civilian ammunition under the brand name "RWS," has a new and interesting ammunition they were showing off at NDIA. Their ammunition uses a solid copper bullet designed to shatter upon impact...
Self-Defense Tip: Carry Your Spare Magazine in A Pouch
Here's an email from John Farnham describing a bizarre set of circumstances leading to a magazine failure . As John Prine sang, same thing; same thing happened to me. I'm still not entirely convinced...
Kids and Guns: When? How? and Why?
From as early as I can remember, there were guns in the house while I grew up. Back in the day, it was more common for guns to be in a closet or under...
Ask Foghorn: Why use cheap ammo to practice?
Bob writes:
As a new(ish) shooter I have a question. Why would you practice with different ammunition at the range than you would use in a match? Doesn’t the different ammunition affect your accuracy and...
Question of the Day: What Real World DGU Scenarios Would You Like to Practice?
Operational Familiarity. Op Fam. It's the military term for training that's more about "been there done that" than any particular strategy or technique. The video above is an excellent example. On one hand, it's...
Self-Defense Tip: Work on Your Trigger Reset
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKaqqtYaBCw
You hear an awful lot about "muzzle flip" in the gunblogosphere. Much of it right here. At the risk of preempting an Ask Foghorn post, I'll say this about that. You can have a...
NDIA: Lube in your chamber is BAD
Here at the National Defense Industry Association symposium, it's more than just a bunch of people looking at booths and handling guns. There are also a series of talks going on covering a number...