Smart Starts: Women and Firearms
That first pull of the trigger, when the round hits its mark, has a way of hooking people. That first pull of the trigger, when the round hits its mark, has a way of...
Category: Firearms
Ordinary Firearm Reviews: The Remington R1 1911
Remington R1. The modernized GI style 1911. A comfortable but perplexing piece of engineering occupying the metaphorical space in between. Modern machining and materials for a design old enough that your great grandparents recognize...
AR Style Rifles – What to Pay Attention to When Buying
Buying your first AR style rifle is exciting and a little nerve racking. The market offers a huge range of options and not every rifle fits every shooter. The good news is that with...
Geha Shotgun: An Interwar Curiosity
Introduction In 2021 I grew a fascination with military surplus, leading me to travel all over South East Pennsylvania looking for small little treasures of surplus in gun stores, usually being turned off by...
SIG SG 510 / Sturmgewehr 57: The World’s Deadliest Swiss Watch
The SIG SG 510, known in Swiss service as the Sturmgewehr 57 or Stgw 57, is a machine built around Swiss engineering and stubborn practicality. Adopted in 1957 the rifle served as the Swiss...
Red Dot Sights in the Modern Pistol Technique
The Mainstream Paradigm of Slide-mounted Pistol Optics The paradigm of slide-mounted optics on duty and concealed handguns have been mainstream since the mid 2010s, as optics have gotten durable enough, holsters have become available...
Book Review: The Collected Works of Skeeter Skelton
It’s that time of year again. The magical time where temperatures in the Midwest dip below the 0 mark and I attend family reunions with 40 people packed in a single 2 story house....
With A Little M-10: The History of MAC
It’s interesting how the concept of the machine pistol has two seperate divergent concepts. When I say “machine pistol” as a term, your mind will automatically cycle to one of two form factors for...
Husqvarna Sporter Mausers: Yesterdays Workhorse, Tomorrows Heirloom
The affordability and utility of today’s modern deer rifles are unmatched. Whether it’s a Ruger American or a Savage Axis on the lower end or a Bergara or Tikka on the slightly higher end,...
The USMC M16A5 Concept: History and Build
Intro With the recent adoption of the Sig MCX Spear in 6.8×51 as the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon, there seems to be a sense among some that “what’s old is new again”. Reverting...
