Techniques for loading plated bullets
Loading plated bullets entails a slightly different technique than jacketed bullets. Given that they are softer (without the copper jacket) they must be handled with more TLC.
For starters, the best loading manual I've encountered when...
Real world Accuracy with 9mm bullets from Hornady and Zero
The 9×19mm Parabellum designed by Georg Luger is by far the most ubiquitous handgun caliber on the planet. Despite its popularity, from what I’ve seen at the range, most people can’t shoot it accurately past...
Lowa is one of those companies that you don’t hear too much about. They don’t toot their horn like some of the bigger name brands. The venerable (100 year old) company founded in Jetzendorf, a small town in Bavaria, has plenty to be proud of. Belying the firm’s...
The stock Clark Custom Long Slide .38
If you’ve got a 1911 and you want to add a red dot, fear not! It’s easy. I recently mounted a Vortex Venom on a Clark Custom 1911. All I needed were a few tools, an EGW...
This 1911 custom build began with the idea of tweaking a safe queen that I never quite warmed up to. Built from a Springfield GI model, it simply have the accuracy that I believed it should have had. My first thought was to re-barrel it. However, the...
Leatherman tools are synonymous with guys who, unlike travel writers, really work for a living. On a daily basis a carpenter or a painter can extract a Leatherman Wave from their belt and address just about any imaginable challenge.
As an author I have my tablet, my laptop and my other 'devices',...
When I told a friend that I was going to review products from Patagonia his demeanor shifted instantly from reserved adult to giddy adolescent.
The name meant very little to me but after some googling it was clear he was an icon in the climbing and outdoor world long before...
Who'd have thunk it?
Arguably the industry's largest manufacturer of AR platform rifle accessories (as well as numerous other firearms-related products) Austin, Texas-based Magpul, has launched its own line of Aloha Wear called "AKA KOA".
In addition to some very cool, local kine aloha shirts they also feature some pretty nifty board...
Editor's Note: The following is a press release provided by Willes K. Lee who was recently re-elected as a Director on the NRA Board.
It is truly humbling to receive support from our members and many non-members to continue to serve you as a Director on the NRA Board. Thank...
As I have mentioned before in this column, co-witnessing your red dot on an AK is the equivalent of discovering the Holy Grail.
It just doesn’t happen very often and when it does, it’s exceeding satisfying. For better or worse the geometry of the AK sighting system does not lend...
