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The Mil-Dot system is exceptionally versatile – if you know how to use it. If you shoot a rifle, you can use mil-dot to hold the correct amount over a distant target. There’s a lot of fancy math behind the whole mil-dot thing, but we’re going to ignore most of that here and explain the concept, and more importantly, how you can use it, in plain English. There won’t even be a quiz at the end, I promise.

When it comes to your carry gun, one of the great debates is always inside the waistband (IWB) or outside the waistband (OWB). Both have strengths and weaknesses, so what are you to choose?

The RM 380 Executive won’t stop a buffalo. Nor was it made for such heavy work. But it is a handy, very portable little handgun, and accurate enough at close range.

Some of you out there reading articles on building firearms are thinking “This is all well and good, but I don’t have a machine shop in my garage.” If that’s the case, I had you in mind when I decided on this build.

You don’t have to look for trouble to find it. In times of instability, it is prudent to consider where the trouble may come from and form a tentative plan to address it. I have always sought to understand things at a fundamental level. Fighting involves all the components of marksmanship and overlays tactics.

22 SAS has played a part in every major conflict that involved the UK since WW2. These young studs are tabbing their way across the Falklands.

So I thought this week we would take a minute and look at some often missing bits and pieces to the BOB conversation.

The murder of Sharon Tate and her friends by Charles Manson’s homicidal acolytes represents one of the most sordid and darkly fascinating crimes in American history.

This week, we are going to conclude our Buying Guide for Noobs with the last piece of the puzzle.