Guns for Beginners

Many a tyke got their first taste of a ‘real gun’ when they put dad’s slug gun to their shoulder and under the old man's supervision, pulled the trigger. The awakening, for so many...

By Everyday Gunner I'm fairly young. I'm relatively stupid. And I really have no idea what it takes to break into the stereotypical OFWG (old fat white guy) gun crowd. However, I've been working to...

By Nick Savery When I first started shooting I began at a public indoor range. I wasn't a member of a club and I didn't have any guns of my own to shoot. I practiced...

"Carry condition" isn't a subject as hotly debated in the gun community as, say, stopping power or GLOCK vs. 1911, but it's up there. What is a carry condition? It's the state of readiness...

Many folks -- cops included -- load up their self-defense sidearm, and then those tools silently serve and protect their owners from bad people with evil in their hearts. Unfortunately, most of us don't...

Reader Curtis in IL writes: While we're well past Left Handers Day, if you’re a southpaw like me, you know the burdens we bear. Besides being smarter and better looking than everyone else, we’re constantly...

I love shotguns. I always have and I come from a family who used shotguns for hunting deer, shooting birds, and defending the homestead. In the Marines, I was one of the few Marines...

Arne Brennan, creator of 6.5 Grendel and other cartridges, designed 375 Raptor in a quest to do for 308 Winchester what 300 Blackout did for .223 Remington. Namely, neck it up to run larger,...

Any day you can help make memories for young people new to shooting ranks as a great day for them and for you. Once more I had the chance to volunteer to help some...

Late last month a few guys and I went to Lonesome Boar Adventures in Mountain Home, Texas to do a little hunting. Thinking we'd be shooting mostly coyotes at medium-to-long ranges, wild boars from...

This past weekend, I had a chance to fire an M1 Carbine I recently found in the bottom of a lake. My diving crew friends also recovered some ammo with the gun. Uncle Sam's...

I used to shake a great deal when I saw deer wandering towards me across a vast fields of beans. Every inch they moved made my heart beat harder and it reminded me that...