Last year I did poorly on the carbine and precision rifle sections, the former because I brought a precision rifle-weight carbine and the latter because I brought a carbine-weight precision rifle. I had my priorities…
The new AR Flat Trop Overmolded Pistol Grip from Strike Industries appears to check all the boxes of what I generally prefer in an AR-15 grip: grippy rubber overmold, steep angle, a bit zaftig in…
Let’s face it. The vast majority of guns are rather boring. Not from a “yee-haw!” perspective, but from the perspective of mechanical ingenuity and history. The modern AR-15 may be the best example. As popular…
In my last post which you can find here, I detailed my pistol selections for the W5K. You can find my introduction article for the series here. This time I will be talking about carbine…
Today’s question comes to us from reader ‘London 35’ who asks . . . I am interested in building a short barreled rifle out of the AR platform. I recently read your article about short…
Have a question for Josh? Email it to thetruthaboutguns@gmail.com. Competitive shooter and CMP veteran Daniel P. asks the following . . . “Why do all your bolt rifles have folding stocks, man? I’d never use a…
TTAG reader and fellow Marksmanship Training Center member Luke Skywalker (not his real name, but he wanted to tell his friends he made me call him that) had a question on barrel taper and just…
Today’s Ask Josh comes to us from Mike W. who’s a new hunter . . . Why are the majority of semi-auto hunting rifles chambered for weak rounds or small calibers? I want to go…
BPI picked a hell of a day to showcase their rifles. The night before the shoot, a huge thunderstorm moved through North Texas. At least one tornado touched down, golf ball-sized hail was scattered along…
I’ve been shooting the just-announced Bergara Premier Competition rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor for months. Any discussion of it has been embargoed during that time. Beautiful people of TTAG, keeping this exceptional rifle a secret has…