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The .32 S&W Long: A...
We shoot for many reasons, many stemming from our own curiosity, thoughts, fantasies or desire to dip our toes into bygone eras. It’s this last category...
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The Big Rubber Man
Rubber Dummies makes humanoid three-dimensional targets out of recycled tires. These guys are tougher than John Wayne’s jockstrap. You can shoot the snot...
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Deer Camp Reflections
Driving from deer camp is always relaxing. Winding my way back through the mountains of West Virginia and western Maryland, along the same trails Meshack...
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Watch What You Eat
The human body is the most extraordinary machine. We navigate, refuel, procreate and make stuff all the time without a great deal of conscious thought.
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Life Lessons from P’Nut...
Everybody has heard about P’Nut the squirrel. He’s been all over the internet. He even seems to have played a minor role in the recent presidential...
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Public Housing Versus 2A
Once again last month, a public housing authority — this one in Cortland, New York — learned from a federal court that prohibiting privately owned...
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Big Mouths,...
Handloading provides us freedom like no other. It lets us choose the bullet for the task at hand, while also deciding how fast or slow we want to drive our...
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Gunfire And The...
Talking guns with shot-up thugs was actually one of the bright spots of my time in an urban ER. They were all rank amateurs, but they spoke the language to...
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Bullseye! More...
Bullseye powder's main purpose is obvious. Just a pinch allows the shooting of light recoiling loads with a consistent velocity spread, providing accurate...
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Be The Ball!
I had one particularly unfortunate soldier when I was stationed in Alaska. We’ll call him Billy. Billy was a good kid, but he grew up with a dearth of...
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Home Security
Early last month, a former staff writer for the Washington Post penned an Op-Ed about the night a total stranger entered his home at about 2:35 a.m., walked...
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Elmer’s...
Elmer Keith was larger than life itself. To others, he was a blow-hard gun writer full of manure. Certainly, his reputation far exceeded his size 5 cowboy...
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Skulls and...
I was on a remote rotation during my medical residency in a small Southern town. In many ways, visiting these forgotten parts of the Mississippi Delta is a...
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Programmable...
When digging deep within this thing we call the internet, defeating several levels of security from probing eyes, there’s no discoverable limit on what is...
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Hunting...
I came of age in the 1970s hunting behind the levee in the Mississippi Delta with my dad. Though I took it for granted at the time, this was the coolest...
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Can’t Make It Up
When’s the last time you heard of a sheriff getting an award for not enforcing the law?
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Unintended Gunplay
Gunplay is never advised! Worst case scenario, it can easily end with fatal results. In best-case instances, it leads to the embarrassment and/or annoyance...
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Boys And Their Toys
What would happen if a bunch of men were entrusted with a whole pile of nuclear bombs? They would dig an enormous hole and create the world's biggest gun.
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Real Heroes
Not all heroes wear capes or sports uniforms. And though not everyone wearing a police uniform is a hero, my friend, my brother, and my best man, Victor...
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Making Good Choices
Most people start out with about the same amount of raw material. As a result, everybody is the sum total of the choices they make in life. Some of those...
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A Gripping...
It is the grip that makes the handgun what it is, a “h-a-n-d gun,” and it must be functional, practical and comfortable. More about that in a minute.
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S&W Ultimate...
As promised, I have most of the results from shooting a variety of factory ammunition from the 2” barreled Smith & Wesson Ultimate Carry (UC) in .38...
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Sinus Secrets
“Doc, I have sinus,” says almost everybody. At that point, I typically smile and inquire about how long someone has felt bad and explore the sordid...
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Lipsey’s...
Featuring an XS Tritium front sight and dovetailed u-notch rear, the Lipsey’s Exclusive Smith & Wesson Ultimate Carry J-Frame is designed to be the...
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What Uncle Sam...
Army aviators will do absolutely anything to fly, and to keep flying. In some cases, that means a little selective truth management.
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If Handguns...
This started as a subject line in a Facebook post, accompanied by a photo from somewhere in my past showing a couple of Smith & Wesson Model 19 revolvers....
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A Shootout At...
Built in 1872, the St. James Hotel is nestled in historic Cimarron, New Mexico. Known for being the hotel of choice for infamous outlaws in need of a soft...
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Will’s Redneck...
If random armed rednecks are a deterrent to crime, that seems like an opportunity to me. Enter: Will's Redneck Rentals.
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Breaking The...
It all started with a YouTube video. While searching for something, I ended up down the rabbit hole. You know how that goes. But I stumbled onto a video...
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The Price Of...
As a card-carrying man, I have little use for safety stuff. I have an antique lawn mower I inherited from my grandfather. Everything on it is pressed steel,...
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