training

Nobody wants to hear about the hard work involved with learning to shoot, but that is what is required.

I don’t usually volunteer the fact that I am carrying concealed, but if the conversation goes there…

Learning to be competent with a gun isn’t rocket science, but it is going to require some hard work on your part. And there are no shortcuts.

I am relatively new to the .17 HMR cartridge. When it debuted in 2002, I was guilty of downplaying its effectiveness. Most of my life, Uncle Sugar bought me all the centerfire rounds a growing boy could want, so I didn’t have to worry about training ammo. Now that I have to buy my own [...]

Loading up snap caps and starting from a self-induced malfunction allows you to get a feel for handling your gun when something goes wrong.

For the first time in history, in Special Operations Forces at least, the majority of the killing was done in the dark — with lasers.

There are few more iconic rifles than the .22. Many of us have spent our youth plinking at targets and eradicating the tin-can population with a trusty bolt-action in .22. If you are like me, you have probably had the same .22-caliber rifle for a very long time. Savage has stepped the game up this year with the A and B series rifles — they’re out of the box tack drivers at a price point that won’t break the bank.

On this week’s edition of “Please Stop Being the Sort of Turd Burglar that Shoots Mufflers and Glass Bottles all over the Public Land out West,” I present to you two great targets for under $200.

I tell my students, “There are no professionals left when it comes to knives, myself included. But plenty of amateurs get it right every day. Put the stabby part in the other guy. Don’t let him put the stabby part in you.”