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Can These Paper Targets Make Self-Coaching More Effective?

April 3, 2018 by Sponsored Content

Shooting a bullseye target can only improve your technique so much. People come up with all kinds of paper target drills, but is it possible to build a real self-guided curriculum around a specially designed paper target? RE Factor Tactical answers that question with a creative-looking paper target (below), designed to be used with their … Read more

New From Viridian: FACT Weapon-Mounted Video Camera

January 19, 2017 by Jeremy S.

“Don’t let someone’s video tell a different story.” That’s the message behind Veridian’s new FACT (Fast Access Camera Technology), a weapons-mounted video camera. Veridian’s press release and some further photos follow… VIRIDIAN® LAUNCHES REVOLUTIONARY NEW PRODUCT CATEGORY Minneapolis, MN—January 16, 2017 Viridian Weapon Technologies™ officially announced today at SHOT SHOW 2017 a revolutionary new product … Read more

SIG P226 Legion vs. Arex REX zero 1 Torture Test

September 1, 2016 by Jeremy S.

I reviewed the Arex REX zero 1 S, giving it four stars. Bottom line: it’s every bit as nice as a SIG with more features at just over half the MSRP. While the REX ran flawlessly, I didn’t “torture test” the handgun nor a controlled reliability test against its name-brand compadre, the P226. Tim from the … Read more

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Mind the Reactionary Gap

August 22, 2016 by John Boch

A Sudanese refugee named Omer Ismail Ali found himself rapidly and promiscuously perforated by a police officer in Kelso, Washington recently. Ali assumed room temperature shortly after storming into a convenience store with a four-foot long stick and beating everyone in sight. His rampage didn’t last long. A police officer happened to be in the … Read more

Question Of The Day: Do Depressing Gun Ads Actually Sell Guns?

January 30, 2025January 10, 2014 by ttag

High-concept, high production value video ads aren’t new. Hornady had their silly Zombie Max ammo videos a few years ago, and Ka-Bar recently joined them in undead-themed video amusement. The wordless video shown here is in a whole different category, though: the scenery is straight from the nihilistic The Road and the soundtrack is straight from Fallout 3.

Two AKs And A Broken-Down Truck: What Would MacGyver Do?

December 5, 2013 by ttag

Desperate situations are kind of like Frank Zappa. Not because they vomit onstage, but because they tend to inspire all kinds of brilliant, slightly dangerous and often downright disturbing spectacles. A LiveLeak video shows two wire-stocked AKs being used in a way that even Mikhail Timofeyovich probably never imagined.

1936 LA Sheriff’s Department Video: Don’t Try This At Home

June 2, 2013 by ttag

I know this is a long video, but the cringes you’ll feel (as these LASD marksmen shoot chalk from each others’ fingers and cigars from each others’ mouths) will be worth it . . .

Self-Defense Tip: Keep Firing Until The Threat Is Neutralized

September 30, 2012 by ttag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6Cw_3q1Pg&t=5s And try to ignore the screaming. (H/t to my dear wife, who never would have found this for me if she didn’t watch Glee.)

Self-Defense Video Quiz: Would You Shoot This Well Under Pressure?

September 5, 2012 by ttag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3MZHi4YSPA

When this unnamed security guard signed on to surf the graveyard shift at a 24-hour Internet cafe, he probably had no idea he was signing up for an unfriendly, unannounced and very high-stakes Tactical Pistol Challenge Match. With 3:1 odds against him. As the video shows, he was up to the challenge . . .

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