Gun owners should be as responsible as possible.  This implies to shooting as well as safe gun storage when you aren’t around. Yet if your handgun is stored too safely, it becomes inaccesible in a defensive situation, which in turn is not safe. Gun Vault has a line of personal … Continue reading →

History aired the Season 4 Finale of Top Shot this past Tuesday.  Chris Cheng, a computer IT tech, emerged as the next Top Shot Champion and joins the ranks of Iain Harrison, Chris Reed and myself. Chris shared his strategy on his online interviews and it was surprisingly the same … Continue reading →

Just in case one .45 ACP 1911 wasn’t enough: As much as a photoshop joke that this seems, This 2011 by Arsenal Firearms is the real deal.  I’m sure it won’t be cheap.  My first thoughts (aside from “are you kidding me?”) was that it will constitute as a “Machine … Continue reading →

I received a disturbing “Amber Alert” text  about a newborn being kidnapped earlier this month. Later I found the story that coincided with it.  Turns out a new mother was shot and killed while loading her newborn into the truck right outside of the hospital.  So terribly tragic. This got … Continue reading →

With gardening comes critters who think you are planting fresh produce just for them.  I deny those critters my wife’s hard worked first fruits every evening.  This is my current garden defense setup.  And before any PETA folks go nut-so on my killing little bunny foo-foo remember – this was … Continue reading →

Seems like the entire state is having a few more insects than usual this year. This extends to my private shooting range at the back of our horse field. The good news is that my Volquartsen rifle seems up to the task.  While I was testing different loads recently, I … Continue reading →

It’s amazing how legal uses of firearms are left out of the national spotlight.  Maybe it’s just because it proves to liberals what we’ve been saying all along:  Armed responsible citizens don’t create crime, they deter it. This again proved true in South Carolina earlier this month when a CHL … Continue reading →

This is a video of me testing out the low velocity exploding targets from www.intheredtargets.com I was impressed.

I recently had the opportunity to give the youth marksmanship camp a trial run.  We had 26 boys from ages 6-13 out at Camp His Way for a few hours and we had a blast competing with BB guns, archery, blowguns, tomahawks, slingshots and rocks – yes rocks.  They loved … Continue reading →

Dryfire can be a great training aid, yet some folks always balk and say “it will break your firing pin”.  Now, with nearly all modern centerfires this is not an issue at all. But the main concern is with rimfire.  So recently I asked Scott Volquartsen of Volquartsen Custom Rifles … Continue reading →