The Lost Art? How to Read a Map

It was Thanksgiving weekend. James Kim and wife, Kati, with their young daughters Sabine and Penelope, were motoring on their trip home to San Francisco on I-5, then turned toward Gold Beach on Oregon’s southern coast. The road James took began to climb. There was no traffic, and soon no cell s...

By Wayne van Zwoll

The Rimfire Report: An Ode To The Marlin Model 29 Pump Action

Every once in a while, amongst the litany of new rimfire firearms I get to see, something truly interesting comes to the range. Today, we'll be taking a look at one such rifle that I've recently been able to take a very close look at, courtesy of Tyler of TANDEMKROSS . On a recent trip ...

By Luke C.

Seeing Red: Red Dot Drills to Master Your Pistol

Transitioning to a red dot pistol? Master your optic with five proven drills including dot acquisition from the draw, the wall drill, 5-shot dot drill, Mozambique drill, and incremental distance work. Learn to shoot faster and more accurately with a red dot sight.

Fudd Friday: Is A Shotgun Ammo Crackdown Coming?

Over the past half-decade, the cost of centerfire rifle cartridges has risen a lot; I would say the vast majority of hunters complain, but it doesn’t much affect them. You’ve heard the griping when some Fudd buys a rifle in a whiz-bang new PRC or Creedmoor cartridge and has sticker sh...

By Zac K

The RPK: The Soviet Choice of Commonality Over Capability

In the mid-1950s, the Soviet high command accepted a compromise that would shape frontline infantry small arms for decades: prioritizing platform commonality over dedicated squad-level suppressive fire capability. That decision, formalized with the 1959 adoption of an AK-derived automatic rifle, ...

By Lynndon Schooler

The Radian AFTERBURNER + RAMJET

I had always relegated compensators and gas pedals as things geared towards competition shooting. I hadn’t really considered them for duty or concealed carry guns. That changed for me after attending GunCon 2025 last summer. I got a chance to shoot with both systems on range day and started rec...

By Tim Stetzer

Testing Hollywood: Michael Mann’s Collateral

Movies and the real-world application of firearms have had a troubled relationship. We go to the movies to escape and to dream, so naturally, some of those flights of fancy wind up being applied to how guns are used in movies, and the hero of the movie winds up shooting 30 or so rounds from Read ...

By Kevin Creighton

Reloaders, Rejoice! Hornady's 12th Edition Cartridge Handbook Is Here

Cartridge reloading  is a fast-changing world, with new rounds on the market every year—these days, straight-wall rounds, long-range precision ammunition and variations on the 5.56 NATO case are the main arenas of development for the consumer market, it seems. And the 12th Edition Horn...

By Zac K
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