(AP Photo/Frank Jordans) I see it all the time. A student’s shooting skills suddenly and steeply degrade. They immediately blame their equipment. There is a time and place to look at your equipment. Has something…
Courtesy The Range at Austin There is nothing more frustrating or unsafe than chaos in a firearm training class. When you have eight to 16 people of various skill levels doing their own thing it…
If you want to reap the harvest, you have to first work the land. As in all things, improving your shooting — and shooting faster, in particular — comes from disciplined effort, practiced on a…
Reader Curtis in IL writes: While today may be Left Handers Day, if you’re a southpaw like me, you know the burdens we bear. Besides the being smarter and better looking than everyone else, we’re…
If you appreciate our men and women in uniform and you enjoy precision rifle marksmanship, you need to be in South Texas over Columbus Day weekend! Two of the premier non-profit veteran organizations supporting our…
(AP Photo/ Rick Bowmer) Carrying a gun lawfully for self-defense can make the difference between life and death in a critical situation. Yet at the same time it comes along with risks to the carrier…
Courtesy Rick Ector If there’s an individual who trains more new shooters on basic gun safety and basic gun handling skills than Rick Ector, we don’t know who that is. Ector and his Michigan operation,…
Courtesy GunSpot If you have a semi-automatic pistol, you’ve experienced a stoppage. If you just bought your first, give it time. It will happen. It may be a failure to fire, a failure to…
While driving to an open shooting position on a recent trip to the range, I saw AR-15 type firearms in every bay as I looked around. Some bays had as many as 10 different varieties…
Armed homeowners standing in front their house along Portland Place confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s house Sunday, June 28, 2020, in the Central West End of St. Louis. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis…