Carry gun optics are rapidly becoming the standard. At least in the courses I attend, almost all of the instructors are using red dot optics on their pistols, and about half of the students are. Rifles and carbines either have red dots or low power variable optics, with red dots still making up the majority […]
If you wade into the den of the Dark Lord, bring your guts and a Marlin 1895. The classic lever action rifle has developed a solid following among amateur hunters and professional guides alike. Heck, if someone — anyone — is walking into the field with a big bore lever action rifle, odds are it’s […]
The 1860 Henry rifle is one of the most important rifles of all time. It helped changed a nation, and the very notion of what a rifleman was capable of. If you’re going to call your company Henry, and you make the 1860 Henry…well you’d better make it right. They did. The Henry Repeating Arms […]
Cimarron Firearms teamed up once again with Uberti of Italy to create the Texas Brush Popper, a Cowboy Action Shooting-focused 1873 Winchester lever action that would be just as well received by today’s most discerning competitor as the cowhand and lawman of yesteryear. Prior to it being discontinued by Winchester in 1923, well over 700,000 […]
The sound of a high velocity round striking the target is unmistakable. That welcome sound, as well as the smiles and exclamations of a job well done, came often from myself and the other shooters at a recent Wyoming prairie dog hunt sponsored by Sierra Bullets. The hunt was to highlight the Prairie Enemy line […]
This year I’m trying my hand at cowboy action shooting. Cowboy action shooting is at least a four gun sport; two revolvers, a shotgun, and a pistol caliber carbine. This makes the initial price of entry into the sport quite steep, especially if you intend to be competitive. A full compliment of slicked-up guns, gear, […]
The SIG Sauer MCX Virtus Patrol rifle. Seven thousand rounds. Eleven months. Modular. Minute of angle groups. Not an AR-15. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. The evolutionary divergence of SIG’s flagship semi-auto carbine goes back 60 years, to innovation that originated from one of the greatest missed opportunities in the history of the firearms industry. Armalite, […]
Colt’s newest 10mm 1911, the Two-Tone Delta Elite with Novak sights, borrows the cool of high-end custom 1911s from the 10mm’s early years. Fans of the 10mm owe a lot to the Colt Delta Elite. Sure, the Bren 10 gets all the hype, but that gun got more years on screen than it did in […]
The Ruger LCP didn’t make the first .380 ACP pocket pistol. Not by a long sight. No, but the Ruger LCP made the .380 ACP cool again and the People of the Gun should be grateful for that. It’s a great cartridge, just capable of being “enough gun” in the hand of the inexperienced, and […]
It was, as my dad would say, “colder than a well digger’s ass.” There was even a little snow covering the Texas Hill Country grass. I was probably 8 years old, and scrawny for my age. Shivering underneath an ashe juniper, my outfit consisted of the only jeans I owned, a bright green 4H jacket, […]
Primary Arms has made a big name for itself in the budget optics world. They’ve produced feature-packed optics with a renown reticle and OK glass. The new GLx 2.5-10×44 FFP riflescope is a step up, including great glass on top of everything the Primary Arms was already doing right. The budget optic market is a […]
The ingenuity of free Americans will always triumph over small-minded fearmongers seeking to stifle liberty. There’s no greater example of this in the gun industry than the myriad solutions companies have developed in order to allow shooters to comply with California’s ludicrous, inhumane, and unconstitutional assault on Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. For […]