EXCLUSIVES
YOU WON'T FIND THIS CONTENT ANYWHERE ELSE
Henry Ziegland
Henry Ziegland was born in 1861 in Honey Grove, Texas. He came of age on the Ziegland family farm. Young Henry was a man of the earth. However, his...
310
Shooting Competitions Suck
Do shooting competitions suck? If you consider the percentage of people who own guns or go to the range on a regular basis, how many of them also engage in...
48
S.S. #1
Storytelling has been around since mankind. It was the original entertainment until fire was discovered. Combining the warmth and glow of fire accentuated...
463
Clear Coke for the Russian
Coca-Cola is more than just a soft drink. Coke is an international phenomenon. The company claims that Coke is sold in more than 200 countries around the world.
216
Somebody Finally Admits It!
"While we acknowledge more guns pose a greater threat to our communities, CPL holders tend to be responsible gun owners," Alliance boss Renee Hopkins told Axios
59
S&W 610 Mountain Gun (MG)
In the late 1980s, S&W released the Mountain Gun series after popular gun writer Ross Seyfried and S&W employee Tom Campbell talked about the perfect...
206
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...
80
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...
117
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...
83
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...
98
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...
115
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...
158
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...
114
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...
35
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...
112
Can’t Make It Up
When’s the last time you heard of a sheriff getting an award for not enforcing the law?
896
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...
277
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.
192
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...
101
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...
114
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.
97
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...
90
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...
187
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...
145
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.
215
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....
110
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...
233
Will’s Redneck...
If random armed rednecks are a deterrent to crime, that seems like an opportunity to me. Enter: Will's Redneck Rentals.
296
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...
39
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,...
250