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Carrying your handgun every day sounds like a great plan when you’re a new gun owner. But once you get going you realize it isn’t as easy as you expected to find the right holster and belt to make carry comfortable and effective.

To parkerize a gun at home, strip it down to bare carbon steel parts, blast them with 80 grit aluminum oxide, degrease them in a hot bath, then hang them in a stainless tank of zinc or manganese phosphate solution held at about 170 to 175 degrees F until the bubbling stops, 15 minutes at [...]

Things are changing rapidly as the COVID-19 epidemic sweeps the nation, and all signs point to the very real possibility of quarantines for all.

Start a backyard range with the backstop. Pick a spot with a safe natural backstop, like a hill, or build one. Then plan your lanes so that a miss or a ricochet can never leave your property. Kristy Titus built her own range one piece at a time. Here are the backstop steps first, then [...]

SIG’s P365XL is a sub-compact that performs like a full-size pistol. Big enough to handle serious self-defense but small enough to carry concealed. The optics ready XL model features an enhanced frame, flat trigger and increased barrel length while retaining the concealability of the original P365.

The Symbionese Liberation Army was an American left-wing terrorist organization that was operational on the West Coast between 1973 and 1975. It was the brainchild of an escaped convict named Donald DeFreeze. DeFreeze called himself “General Field Marshal Cinque.”

This isn’t even a question worth asking because we’ll never know the answer. It’s a counterfactual.

The question was stunning as it was simple. “Does your life matter more than mine, or my family’s or these people’s?”

This hunt was going to be from the Land Cruiser since there was no cover to even consider a stalk and the springbok was covering hundreds of yards each time we tried to get near it. After what seemed like an hour, Dolf decided it was time for me to use some of that ammunition.