Courtesy Hoppe’s No. 9 I’ve been asked by three different people in the last month how to clean their new gun. Two were semi-automatic pistols and one was a shotgun. There are a lot…
Dan Z. for TTAG This is the second of two posts on the basics of reloading ammunition. See part one here. If there’s one thing I like more than shooting it’s being a cheap bastard…
Besides being mechanically inept, I don’t have a particularly green thumb. In my 23 years of military service, tending to the greenery was a work detail, or, more often, a punishment (oops, I mean “additional…
Image by Oleg Volk. Used with permission. blog.olegvolk.net In recent weeks, Americans voted with their wallets — again — and have stripped gun retailers’ shelves bare of most guns and ammo. Between the Chinese flu…
Bigstock Reader Rebecca Platt writes . . . I was seven years old when I had my first experience with a gun. My father was target shooting with some friends and asked me if I…
Want to improve your handgun shooting? Well, there’s no substitute for good training and a metric crap-ton of trigger time, both live and dry fire. Skill at anything just comes down to getting in the…
By Kevin Wabiszewski You’re ready to throw that new glass on your rifle and see what damage you can do from afar. First, you’ll have to zero that scope. If you’ve never done that before,…
Dan Z. for TTAG Caliber wars — gun owners arguing over the relative merits of various calibers of self-defense ammunition — are an ugly, protracted business. This article will do nothing to reduce the hostility…
Image by Boch. We all know the importance of keeping our guns cleaned, especially after firing them. You should clean your magazines, too. But sometimes, we neglect to keep our guns as clean as we…
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) By Tim Carroll What gun should I carry for self-defense? This question has been asked more times than I can remember during my professional training career and the answer is, well…complicated. Stopping…