We’ve all been there. You have your eye on a new gun but keep holding off. Finally, you go into a gun store hoping to find it but now the gun store…
Category: Guns
Gunsite – 50 Years of Firearms Training
Gunsite. Among serious firearms training enthusiasts, the name evokes images and feelings of history, nostalgia and excellence. It is the world’s largest privately owned firearms training facility and is arguably the best….
Rise Armament Reliant 700 Trigger
Rise Armament has been making top quality AR rifles and parts for years. Like most companies they started out with a few items and expanded as their popularity grew. Now they make…
The Great Revolver Experiment – Part Two
Part 2: So why CCW a J Frame? So, say you’re looking at carrying a J-Frame revolver. I was for this project. It was a platform I had carried on and off…
Marlin Dark Series Lever Action
Good schools teach you things. Great schools teach you things to think about. After numerous trips to Gunsite over the last 20 years, I’m beginning to catch on. At a recent Gunsite…
Fink’s Custom Gunsmithing
Nowadays it is pretty easy to buy a good factory rifle, top it with a nice optic, feed it quality ammo and have a rifle that will outshoot most hunter’s abilities. And…
Old Man’s Handgun Elk Hunt
No one outruns Father Time. The idea is to prolong the race as long as possible, keeping the old tyrant located in your rear-view mirror while you enjoy doing all the things…
Ruger Max-9
I remember being a young rookie cop in the early 1990s and wondering what gun I would carry off-duty and how I would carry it. We didn’t have a lot of options…
The Classic .44 Magnum
One of the good things about being older is that I’ve lived moments in history younger folks have only read about. Starting this article, for example, did not require any 21st century…
Ruger Super Wrangler
Since I retired, I’ve started to get into .22’s. I know they’re not the sexy Staccatos or anything high speed, but I just really enjoy shooting them. You also can’t beat the…