Education
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The 1911: A Century of American Steel
Zamboanga, 1906. A Moro warrior high on betel nut and religious fervor takes six rounds of .38 Long Colt center…
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How to zero a rifle scope the right way
Last month a guy came into the shop with a brand-new scope mounted crooked on a rifle he’d bought secondhand,…
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How to grip and stance a pistol the right way
Watch any lane at a public range on a Saturday morning and you’ll see it inside thirty seconds: a guy…
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Colt Single Action Army: The Gun That Won the West
There’s a display case at a little museum outside Hartford, Connecticut, that I’ve stood in front of more times than…
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.223 vs 5.56: what’s actually different
Had a guy come in last month holding a box of 5.56 ammo and a rifle stamped “.223 Remington” on…
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Dry fire practice: why it works and how to start
Fifteen minutes. That’s how long my first “real” dry fire session lasted before I realized I’d been flinching on every…
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How the AK-47 became the world’s most produced rifle
There’s a photo I keep coming back to, taken sometime in the late 1950s at the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant, rows…
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Understanding calibers: a beginner’s breakdown
Tuesday afternoon, a guy walks up to the counter holding his phone with a spec sheet pulled up, and asks…
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The 1911: A Century of American Steel
Fort Sam Houston, spring of 1907. Somewhere on that dusty testing ground, a board of Army officers was putting handguns…
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