More Than Just A Test
If you're unfortunate enough to have to go to court after a defensive gun use, you'll want to establish that you knew what you were doing and you did your actions for a purpose after all other options were exhausted.…
Rock Around The Relock
Center Axis Relock (or CAR) and the John Wick movies have become almost synonymous in the firearms training community. I wanted to know more about this technique wound up on the silver screen, and the results really surprised me. Turns…
Stop Using Bad Holsters
"Comfortable" is what most new gun owners look for in a holster, but comfort means nothing if you can't access your gun quickly. I mean, my Barcalounger is comfortable, but can I get out of it quickly? Heck no! And…
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, make me a match
What difference does match ammo make? Well, if you can't hit squat with regular ol' ammo, it makes no difference at all. But if you can shoot groups, it will make your groups smaller.
The (Not So) Cool Jerk
Or, welcome to my (shooting) nightmare. Patience is not my strong suit, and at the range, it shows up as a rather nasty trigger jerk. Save yourself some time, and learn from my mistakes.
Kills Bugs Deads. On Humans, No Effect.
When you first start out on this journey of safe and secure armed self-defense, you'll occasionally hear someone recommend wasp spray as an effective less-lethal tool. And just to be clear, wasp spray is very effective. On bugs. Anything else,…
I Shoot, Therefore, I Suck.
I was talking with a fellow gunwriter a few months ago, and he said something that I thought was really profound. "For most gun owners," he told me, "every time they go to the range, it's their first time." And…
A Primer on Primers
This one was a bit of a slog: Finding ammo that we knew for a fact had sealed primers on it, and then testing it so only the primers were affected took the better part of four months to figure…
Trick or Trunk Gun
For years, I carried just a .380 in my pocket. I was working in an office environment, and it was that little gun or nothing. I was... okay with it, but I quickly figured out that a) I couldn't quickly…