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Gun Review: The 2026 Colt Boa .357 Magnum RevolverThis year, exclusively through Custom and Collectable Firearms of Tyler, Texas, Colt has re-released the most sought after of all the Snake Guns, the Colt Boa.Shooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Wilson Combat Designated Marksman Rifle in .223 WyldeFor their version of the Designated Marksman Rifle, Wilson Combat didn’t try to clone any of the original versions, or copy any of the guns fielded by the US military.Shooting News Weekly
Succulent Karoo Springbok Slam With A Sig Sauer CrossWith a little red dot on the antelope's shoulder, a shot rang out.CARNIVORE
Don't Try This At HomeI don't appreciate being lied to, but there's nobody to blame but me.CARNIVORE
Taurus Raging Hunter Review: Giant KillerAs I steadied the revolver, the eland bull stood.CARNIVORE
Gear Review: Leupold Storm Warden Jacket and PantsThrough a series of fortunate events...Shooting News Weekly
Optic Review: Osight SE Green-Dot Closed Emitter SightThe SE is the newest closed emitter pistol optic from OSightShooting News Weekly
Gear Review: Kifaru Deluxe Bino Harness and Steelhead Chest RigAs a huge bonus, everything is made right here in the USAShooting News Weekly
Bear Hunting: Pity The Texan"Hey, come on and give me a hand. I've got this bear..."CARNIVORE
Gun Review: Colt Python 2.5-Inch Matte Blued EditionA classic big-boy Roscoe with modern Python improvementsShooting News Weekly
Gear Review: Kifaru 44 Mag G2 Pack and ARK FrameEarly this year I was on the way to prepare for Idaho huntsShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: New Thompson/Center Arms Encore ProHunter RifleGregg Ritz set out to re-start one of America's great firearms brandsShooting News Weekly
Gear Review: LaCrosse Footwear Ursa MS GTX Hunting BootsWorth every penny after miles across North America and AfricaShooting News Weekly
Inside Commercial Firearms Insurance and the Fight for AmericaThanks to lawfare and ignorance, few insurance programs remainShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Colt Kodiak 4.25-Inch .44 MagnumA big, beautiful, powerful weaponShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: The New Colt Viper 4.25"Thoroughly modern guts with a hard-boiled detective throwback lookShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Taurus TX22 T.O.R.O. .22LR PistolAn outstanding value, well above similarly priced optionsShooting News Weekly- Gun Review: Bushmaster XM-15 QRC (Quick Response Carbine)This is the first time I’ve wanted a Bushmaster AR-15 since I was a kid. Bushmaster has been synonymous with the AR-15 for decades. Tens of thousands, if not more, ...The Truth About Guns
What If: America FragmentedIt's been a weird life. I've served as a rural police officer, volunteer firefighter, and EMT going back for decades.RECOIL OFFGRID
Optics Review: Winchester Supreme Optics 6-18x50mm RiflescopeImpressive what Chinese-made optics deliver at a very low priceShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Taurus Raging Hunter in .454 CasullPowerful and portableShooting News Weekly
Things That Just Last: Great Guns and Gear Based On Decades of Real World UseI shoot more than most, I hunt more than anyone I knowShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Taurus Raging Hunter .460 S&W Magnum Two ToneAn extreme outlierShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Model 66-8 Combat Magnum RevolverAt 55 years old, the Model 66 is by no means a babyShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Model 19 Classic RevolverIt just feels rightShooting News Weekly
Bergara Standalone Premier Actions and Barreled Actions Now AvailableThe big draw for most shooters is Bergara's Premier actionShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Colt Anaconda 8" .44 MagnumBetter than the originals in every wayShooting News Weekly
Hunting South Africa's Cape Mountain Zebra With the Wilson Combat NULA 20S in 300 HAMRNow we wait for him to make a mistakeShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: The Ruger RXM Modular 9mm Handgun or 'Does it Really Take GLOCK Magazines?'And yes, it really does take GLOCK magazinesShooting News Weekly
The New 25KPC Cartridge - Testing A 'Quarter Bore' AR-15The .257 bullet hasn't been as explored for the AR-15Shooting News Weekly
Ammunition Review: Phantom Defense 300 AAC Blackout - "Rowdy Boi" 110 gr Tac-TX NAS3 CaseI find 300 Blackout to be a marginal roundShooting News Weekly
Optic Review: Winchester Optics Supreme W20-60x80mm Spotting ScopeIf you're looking through a rifle scope for just a few minutesShooting News Weekly
Sheepdog Response Provider Course - Teaching New Hunters How to HarvestEvery student told me the same thingShooting News Weekly
Optic Review: ZeroTech Trace Advanced 20-60x80 Spotting ScopeThe most important aspect of any spotting scope is image qualityShooting News Weekly
Course Review: Outdoorclass.comLike most folks, I like to plan big hunts well in advanceShooting News Weekly
Gear Review: Garmin tactix 7 Pro Ballistics Edition WatchI've worn it every day for the last year and a halfShooting News Weekly
Gear Review: Garmin Xero C1 Pro ChronographEveryone says the same thing - it's a game changerShooting News Weekly
Damara Dik-Dik - Hunting the Tiniest of Africa's Tiny TenI bled more than he didShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: CZ Shadow 2 Compact 9mm PistolAbout 2,000 assorted rounds through this oneShooting News Weekly
Optic Review: Primary Arms SLx 1X MicroPrism Gen II Optic with Green ACSS ReticlePrimary Arms can't seem to catch production up to salesShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Beretta 80X Cheetah in .380ACPOne of those true cult classicsShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: Colt Python Combat Elite RevolverPlaced without fanfare on Colt's SHOT Show display wallShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: SIG SAUER Cross Trax Rifle in .308 WinchesterWhen the Cross came out a few years ago, the public howledShooting News Weekly
Gun Review: SIG SAUER Cross Magnum Rifle in 300 Win MagConsistently one of the best-selling bolt action riflesShooting News Weekly
All Luck Buck: A Trip from the Range Turns Into a Quick Hunt for a Trophy Deer of a LifetimeI’d spent almost every single minute of daylight shooting out to the limit of the range on my property. I’d gotten tons of solid data on new loads, zeroed some ...The Truth About Guns
Optic Review: SIG SAUER TANGO-DMR 3-18X44 Rifle ScopeBlurs the line between tactical and hunting opticsShooting News Weekly- Combat Medic: What To Do When Someone Else Is ShotRead the first of this two post series here. Being shot and having to treat yourself isn’t ideal. I went over the basics of what to do if you are ...The Truth About Guns
- Combat Medic: The Life-Saving Work That Starts Once You’re ShotRead the second post in this two-post series here. The best medicine on any battlefield is fire superiority. That simple mantra, or some version of it, is written in just ...The Truth About Guns
- What Gun, What Ammo, and What to Do Now[ED: We originally ran this post in March of 2020. You’ll probably remember what things were like then. COVID is no longer the issue it was and ammo is far ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Ultradyne UD Carbon Tripod and UD Orbit BallheadIt’s rare that I walk out the door to hunt without a tripod anymore and for range days, the tripod is never left behind. Over the last 20 years, nothing ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Desert Tech Trek-22 Bullpup ChassisDesert Tech is well known for making some of the best bullpup center-fire semi-autos and bolt action rifles on the market. In an interesting turn for the company that seems ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Ultradyne Launch Pad Shooting RestI first heard of Ultradyne when I reviewed their AR-15 iron sights, which are still the best I’ve ever come across. That sight set is an exceptionally well-made and well-designed ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Leupold Patrol 6HD 1-6X24 CDS-ZL2 with CM-R2 Illuminated ReticleThe Leupold gold ring has long been the hallmark of quality and trust for hunters around the world. Bit by bit, Leupold has been earning the trust of the military ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Ultradyne UD Rifle Chassis and AccessoriesUltradyne got its reputation building world class precision iron sights and quality, innovative muzzle brakes. They’ve gone well beyond that now with an impressive, complete catalogue of items. Chief among ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: SSK-50 Frame and .309 JDJ Pistol from Haus of ArmsSSK Firearms has released a modern version of the much beloved but no longer produced Thompson/Center Contender frame. It’s called the SSK-50 and it’s backwards compatible with the last version ...The Truth About Guns
- Classic Gun Review: Belgian Browning Hi-Power Mk IThe Belgian made FN Browning Hi-Power pistol ranks as one of my favorite side arms of all time. I appreciate the gun for its history, as well as its practical ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Wilson Combat NULA Model 20 Bolt Action RifleIt was so light I thought Wilson Combat had sent me an empty soft case. Unzipping the rifle case I realized what was inside, the newest addition to the Wilson ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Leupold BX4 Range HD 10x42mm Rangefinding BinocularsJacques Jordaan was giddy. The normally stoic professional hunter was grinning ear to ear and texting his friends like a middle school girl. Every bit of his elation was justified. ...The Truth About Guns
- Justice For Bob White: Handgun Hunting In TexasThis wasn't the murder I was expecting.RECOIL
- Gun Review: Bergara B-14 Squared Crest in .300 Win MagBergara certainly has had a great response to their B-14 line of rifles. With the B-14 Squared Crest, Bergara’s taken this mid-budget/high-performance concept a big step forward, creating a lightweight ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Stag Arms Stag 15 Pursuit in 6.5 GrendelEver since I reviewed a Stag Arms AR10 back in 2017, I’ve been paying attention to the brand. Over the last couple of years, they’ve branched out a bit, keeping ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Area 419 Harris Bipod ARCALOCK Clamp KitI only recently got on the ARCA rail bandwagon. I should have made the switch a lot sooner. For those of you unfamiliar with the ARCA-Swiss rail system, it’s a ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Primary Arms SLx 3-18x50mm FFP Rifle Scope With Illuminated ACSS Athena BPR MIL ReticleWith the SLx 3-18×50 FFP rifle scope, Primary Arms has deliveredsolid, feature-filled optic at an outstanding price point…exactly what people have come to know and love the company for. The ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: IncogX IWB Hoster from Safariland and Haley Strategic PartnersTravis Haley is a total friggin’ nerd and Safariland can’t make a holster. Wait…that isn’t quite right. Safariland can make A holster, they just couldn’t make THIS holster. The company is ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Optic Review: Primary Arms SLx 1-10×28 SFP Rifle Scope – Illuminated ACSS Raptor M10S ReticleFor the vast majority of real-world applications, it’s very hard to beat a low power variable optic (LPVO). Hunters have been shooting 1.5-4 or 1.5-6 power scopes for decades, with ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Winchester Model 1894 Deluxe Sporting Rifle in .30-30 WinchesterI’ve always had a Winchester 94. I mean it. My dad stored a ’94 under my crib as a baby. But I’ve never owned one this fine. The Miroku-made Winchester ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: BRG USA BRG9 Elite 9mm PistolMade by Burgu Metal of Turkey in the land of strong coffee and sketchy missile deals, Buffalo Cartridge Company of Ohio has released their BRG9 Elite to the American market. The ...The Truth About Guns
- Back from the Dead for a Minute Or Hunting South Africa’s Black WildebeestSurrounded by rocky hillsides, herds of Black Wildebeest ran with impunity among the fields of South Africa’s Free State. It wasn’t always this way. In fact, it wasn’t long ago ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Primary Arms Classic Series 1-6×24 SFP Rifle ScopeIt’s hard not to be a fan of Primary Arms. The company has been putting out optics of all types for a good while now, usually with glass and features ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FN 510 and FN 545 Big Bore Tactical PistolsWith the FN 510 and FN 545, Fabrique Nationale d’Herstal has expanded on their striker-fired tactical pistol line by introducing 10mm and .45 ACP versions of their already well established ...The Truth About Guns
- Knee-highs in the BushShawn picked me up at the hospital.Field Ethos
- Gun Review: Ruger SFAR 16.1″ in .308 WinchesterDon’t think of the Ruger SFAR as an AR10 in an AR-15’s body. It’s more like an AR-15 that’s chambered in .308 Winchester. And it’s wonderful. How did Ruger do it? ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FN SCAR 15P Pistol in 5.56 NATOWith its complete lack of a stock and a 7.5″ barrel, the FN SCAR 15P is the best pistol in its class. The super short rifle-caliber pistol autoloader class isn’t ...The Truth About Guns
South Africa and a Black Death Dream HuntCornered in a small clearing, he squared his shoulders, picked up his head, and looked me right in the eye. Judging me. I was close enough to watch him sneer. ...The Truth About Guns- Gun Review: Henry U.S. Survival AR-7 RifleI remember the AR-7 of my youth as a finicky, fairly delicate, but super cool, fun little rifle. Today’s Henry US Survival AR-7 Rifle keeps all the cool of the old ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Ulfhednar UHRT55CBH Tripod with Ball HeadUnless I know I’ll be in a blind, it’s pretty rare that I go hunting without a tripod anymore. The consistent use of a tripod has let me take sure ...The Truth About Guns
- John Linebaugh, RIPThe shooting and hunting world has lost a true pioneer. John Linebaugh passed away, surrounded by his family in his home on March 19, 2023. It is impossible to overstate Mr. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: NeoMag Spare Magazine Pocket ClipsI’m a SnagMag salesman. No, I don’t work for them and I don’t get freebies either. I buy their products just like everyone else. But I’ve bought a lot of ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: D&L Sports Performance Revolver GripsMy recently purchased Smith & Wesson Model 610 10mm is an okay revolver out of the box. When I replaced the factory sights with the vastly superior D&L Sports fixed combat ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Primary Arms Classic Series 21mm Micro Reflex SightThe number one review request I get is “budget optic reviews.” You’ll see the Primary Arms brand in a fairly high percentage of those reviews, as they consistently deliver quality ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Vudoo Gun Works Möbius 1911The Vudoo Gun Works website touts, “With methods common in the aerospace industry, Vudoo has been able to redefine the production of the 1911. This is accomplished by ensuring that ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Viridian GDO 20 Green Dot Electro OpticWith their GDO 20 green dot sight, Viridian Weapon’s Technologies has taken their many years of experience with green lasers and applied it to the reflex optic space. A green ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: SIG SAUER Whiskey6 3-18x44mm RiflescopeWhen Jeremy handed me the SIG Cross rifle I hunted with this last season, the SIG SAUER Whiskey6 3-18x44mm riflescope was already mounted on it. Jeremy commented about the image quality ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Taurus GX4XL T.O.R.O. 9mm PistolWith the GX4XL T.O.R.O., Taurus is stepping into one of the fastest growing, most challenging, and most in-demand market segments in the gun industry; higher capacity micro-compact carry guns. After ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Model 610 N-Frame 10mm RevolverYears ago, I started searching for the ultimate town and country handgun. I wanted a pistol that could handle wild pigs, errant coyotes, and the occasional white tail deer if ...The Truth About Guns
- One Season Hunting with the SIG SAUER Cross Hunting RifleSouth Texas Vampire Pigs Jeremy handed me the SIG Cross rifle in front of the Coach store at The Domain shopping center in Austin. He’s high class like that. “It’s ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: SIG SAUER Cross Bolt Action Rifle in 6.5 CreedmoorThe SIG Cross is well balanced, incredibly flexible, exceptionally precise and perfectly dependable. There’s no wood on it at all. And yet, somehow, SIG SAUER has delivered what may very ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Maven CRF.1 6×22 Laser RangefinderI first came across Maven optics while reviewing a set of their binoculars. They got my attention. They reviewed well again a few months later with one of their riflescopes. This ...The Truth About Guns
- River & Ranch Provisions in Georgetown, TexasIf you’re a hunter or fisherman and you’re around central Texas, you need to check out River and Ranch Provisions in Georgetown, Texas. The first thing you’ll notice when you ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: D&L Sports K, L, N and X Frame Smith & Wesson Revolver SightsDave Lauck at D&L Sports makes the best combat revolver sight set I’ve ever seen. I don’t mean, “for the money”, or “on the market today”, or “in their category”. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Taurus 856 Executive Grade RevolverI got the chance to shoot one of the new Taurus 856 Executive Grade revolvers early this last spring. Since those first few cylinders, I’ve been looking forward to this ...The Truth About Guns
- Handgun Hunting for Texas Hill Country Red DeerA full moon lit up the Texas Hill County as I drove to a hunt just south of Kerrville. I made a game out of adding up the value of ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Pnuma Outdoors Chisos Day PackIf there was one piece of kit that has sold me on Pnuma Outdoors, it’s their Chisos Day Pack. For a bit over a year I’ve carried this pack on ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Palmetto State Armory AK-V 9mm Braced PistolI probably shouldn’t be the person to review the Palmetto State Armory AK-V 9mm braced pistol. I don’t really like semi-auto PCCs. And I don’t like pistol braces. AKs should ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FN 509 Midsize Tactical 9mm PistolThe FN 509 Midsize Tactical is the Goldilocks of the FN 509 line, fitting comfortably between the compact and full-size tactical models. Just like both of those previously released pistols, ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Cimarron Firearms Thunderer 4 3/4″ StainlessCimarron Firearms’ Thunderer single action revolver is exactly like nothing they’ve done before. It’s kind of like everything they’ve been doing. And it’s awesome. What’s so different about the Thunderer ...The Truth About Guns
- Hunting Lessons Re-Learned in AfricaThe shot looks great in the video. A trio of Mountain Reedbuck rush up a steep hillside; the border of South Africa and Lesotho. A man drops, oddly crouched with ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Model 350 X-Frame RevolverIt didn’t take much imagination to come up with the name. Almost 20 years after Smith & Wesson introduced the X-Frame revolver and the .500 S&W Magnum to the ...The Truth About Guns
- 9/11 And The Importance of Being ArmedTwenty-one years ago today I was riding my motorcycle to work, a little late, but almost there. My boss, Governor Rick Perry, called me along the way, and I ...The Truth About Guns
- Hunting Is What You Make of ItWithout a doubt, the easiest hunts I’ve had were on public land. In Pennsylvania, I sat in a tree stand in a wooded area between a series of farms. A local ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Pnuma IconX Heated Core Vest and PantsI’m a total sissy for the cold. According to all the genetic tests, I’m about 4,000% Scandinavian, but whatever noble traits my hearty ancestors developed to live in the cold ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Angstadt Arms MDP-9 PistolThe H&K MP5 has been an icon for over half a century. And for the last 20 years of that, we’ve been hearing about how some new firearm that comes ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: 3-Inch Colt Python .357 RevolverThe new model 3″ Colt Python is the same exceptional revolver as the 4.25″ and 6″ Pythons released in 2020, but with a 3″ barrel. I wasn’t entirely sure that ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Riton Optics 3 Conquer 3-15×44 RiflescopeIt looks like Riton Optics is making the best budget optic in the business. That’s certainly been my experience after a couple months and a few thousand rounds through the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: New FN High Power FDEFor more than 80 years Fabrique Nationale Herstal made the Browning High Power, one of the world’s greatest modern sidearms. Then they stopped. It turns out the old warhorse just ...The Truth About Guns
- The Basics of Hunting in Southern AfricaAfter my first plains game safari in South Africa last year, I was fortunate enough to be offered some contract work that has taken me throughout southern Africa. Since that ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Bergara BMR Carbon Rimfire RifleThe break of a trigger. The fall of the rifle’s striker. Wait a bit…a puff of dust. A scurrying prairie dog. A miss. But not by much, and the next ...The Truth About Guns
- Uvalde Shooting Update: Tragedy, Good Work, and Unimaginable ErrorEarlier today Texas Department of Public Safety Steve McCraw gave an update on the timeline and chain of events of the recent school shooting in Uvalde. His statements were, to ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: RCBS Chargemaster Supreme Electronic Powder DispenserI started reloading back when we were still hiding under our school desks to protect ourselves from Brezhnev’s A-bombs. My RCBS beam-style powder scale isn’t much younger than that. I ...The Truth About Guns
- One Year Hunting With the M48 Nosler Custom HandgunThe 2021-2022 hunting season was the best in my life so far, and very possibly the best I’ll ever have. I got a lot of my “firsts” and a few ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Pnuma Outdoors Huntsman Defender Rifle CaseIf there was ever proof to the age-old adage, “You get what you pay for,” the Pnuma Outdoors Hunstman Defender Rifle Case is it. I was at the Dallas Safari ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0 Optics Ready Slide in 10mmSitting in the brush, snuggled tight with the ticks, I was failing to entice a tom when a single boar came running forward out of the cedar. Maybe he was ...The Truth About Guns
The Venerable Aught-SixThe .30-06 Springfield cartridge was conceived, as conceptions often are, in frustration.Field Ethos- Gun Review: So Many Possibilities With the Modular P320 Fire Control GroupAbout five years ago, the Department of Defense announced that SIG SAUER won the Army Modular Handgun contract. By the time of the announcement, there was little surprise. The P320 ...The Truth About Guns
- 25 Years (and a Lot of Reviews) of Henry Repeating ArmsHenry Repeating Arms turns 25 years old this year. Oh, how time flies. I first met Anthony Imperato for coffee in a hotel lobby off the banks of Lake Austin. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Palmetto State Armory AR-V Lightweight 9mm CarbineIt’s hard not to be a fan of Palmetto State Armory (PSA). It’s a great American company that’s managed to consistently put out a wide variety of firearms, often at ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Bushmaster Bravo Zulu AR-15 Platform Rifle in 5.56 NATOWhen the dust settled on the Remington Outdoors breakup last year, Franklin Armory came out of the scrap heap holding one of the gems, Bushmaster Firearms. Franklin Armory didn’t go ...The Truth About Guns
- Bill Wilson Purchases Lehigh Defense: Interview with Bill WilsonWilson Combat announced today that Bill Wilson has purchased the popular ammunition company Lehigh Defense, best known for their line of copper projectiles. As soon as I read the news, ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Wilson Combat SFX9 4″ Solid Frame Compact HandgunAlmost five years ago Wilson Combat released the EDC-X9, a double stack 9mm designed from the ground up as the ultimate everyday carry pistol. To kick off 2022, they’ve one-upped ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry Single Shot Shotgun in 12 gaugeAlthough relatively inexpensive, I wouldn’t call the Henry Single Shot Shotgun a “budget gun.” The folks at Rice Lake, Wisconsin didn’t skimp. Leave it to Henry to make the best ...The Truth About Guns
- Lessons Learned from the Shooting of Officer Nathan HeidelbergLast week, a jury acquitted David Wilson of murdering Midland police Officer Nathan Heidelberg. That Wilson shot and killed Officer Heidelberg was never in doubt. Officer Heidelberg hadn’t fired at ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: 80 Percent Arms GST-9: MOD1 Pistol Frame and JigLast year, I had a good time building an 80 Percent Arms GST-9, not quite GLOCK 19 pistol. That was a fun gun to build, and it has run without ...The Truth About Guns
The Last FallI’ve watched him. We all have. For years now, his sightings have been topics of conversation. If a neighbor passed him on the dirt road, they’d be sure to stop ...The Truth About Guns- Gun Review: TARA Aerospace TM-9X 9mm PistolOut of Montenegro, TARA Aerospace has introduced the newest version of their striker fired polymer framed duty gun, the TM-9X. What gets most of the media attention on the TM-9X ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger M77 Hawkeye African in 9.3x62mmA few years ago, on a south Texas Nilgai hunt with Bill Wilson, a fellow hunter hammered a big boar hog with a Ruger rifle chambered in 9.3X62mm. The absolutely ...The Truth About Guns
- Silencer Review: AB Suppressor Raptor SilencerThe Aerocharger Ballistics (AB Suppressor) Raptor suppressor is one of those rare examples of elegant innovation in the silencer industry. Despite the company having several patents, there’s nothing here that’s earth ...The Truth About Guns
- Trigger Review: Bushmaster DM2S Dedicated Marksman 2 Stage TriggerMy Parts Bin AR10’s mil spec-ish trigger certainly needed an upgrade, so when Dan said he had a new AR trigger to review, I was first in line. In went ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: The TOPS Knives Tom Brown Tracker #1 Fixed Blade KnifeI do a little work in Idaho and a whole lot of hunting there, too. About a year ago I stopped by Tops Knives to pick their brains, and pick ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Crimson Trace Brushline Pro 3-12X42mm BDC RiflescopeCrimson Trace is a household name among shooters. Their lasers and laser grips have adorned innumerable handguns and several major firearm manufactures have included their laser aiming grips on their ...The Truth About Guns
- Hodgon Announces Closing of Their Camp Minden, Louisiana Black Powder PlantIt’s not the end of the world, but I can see it from here. Hodgdon Powder Inc. has announced that, effective immediately, it will cease all manufacturing at their Camp ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: M48 Nosler Custom Handgun in 7mm-08 RemingtonWelcome to the retro-future. The single shot, bolt action M48 Nosler Custom Handgun reaches back into shooting history to create one of the coolest, most effective hunting pistols of the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Pack & Load Range Ammo and Loader by The Right Tool CompanyLoading AR magazines takes time. Sometimes we need that time to relax and get our minds right, and sometimes we just need to get shooting. The Right Tool Company has ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: CZ 457 Varmint Precision Chassis MTR RifleWhen TTAG’s Jeremy S. asked me if I wanted to review a new CZ 457 rimfire rifle, I told him yes, and to just go ahead and have them send ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: F1 Firearms FDR-15 RifleF1 Firearms doesn’t really do basic ARs. Except when they do. Except not really. The F1 FDR-15 is about the most “Plane Jane” AR-15 in F1’s lineup. When it comes ...The Truth About Guns
- The (Current) Truth About Afghanistan and Americans Who Have Been Left BehindDespite what some TTAG staff and members of my own family may have thought, I was not in Afghanistan and I haven’t been there in a decade. I wasn’t part ...The Truth About Guns
- Hunting in Africa: Unintended Consequences, or How I learned to Love the ZebraJust like it was a few months prior, the KLM plane from Amsterdam to Johannesburg is almost completely empty. My two traveling companions, plus myself, make up a third of ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Darkside Dashboard by Kiote RiflesOn a recent prairie dog hunt with John Stewart, the owner of Kiote Rifles, I watched him pull out a tripod and screw a flat bracket to the top of ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Pnuma Outdoors 3L Element Rain Proof JacketIf you had asked me at the beginning of the year what would be my favorite piece of hunting gear for 2021, I would not have thought it would be ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: The 2021 Colt Anaconda in .44 Remington MagnumThe 2021 version of the Colt Anaconda is the big-sister re-release of last year’s new Python. The Anaconda is just as smooth, just as pretty, but considerably more powerful. Shiny ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Leupold BX-5 Santiam HD 10x42mm Binoculars2021 has been a good year. So far, I’ve been hunting in South Africa, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, all over Texas, and more. I’ve gone after all sorts of African plains ...The Truth About Guns
- Book Review: ‘Born Ballistic’ by Bob NoslerHave you ever heard of Nosler Produce? What about Nosler Trucking? Did you know Nosler was once owned by Leupold, or that it took a generation to get it back ...The Truth About Guns
- DIY Home Build Number 4 – The 80% Arms AR-9 and Freedom for Rich White DudesOver the last year, I’ve made a solidly-performing 9mm polymer framed pistol, a fun AR-15 style rifle and a great “parts-bin” AR10 in 6.5 Creedmoor based on kits from 80% ...The Truth About Guns
- Training: The Fine Art and Critical Importance of Chilling OutI’ve been in some combat. I performed my role adequately, but I was by no means a super soldier. What I can hang my hat on: I gained the respect ...The Truth About Guns
- BPI Longshot Event Features Bergara and CVA RiflesBPI picked a hell of a day to showcase their rifles. The night before the shoot, a huge thunderstorm moved through North Texas. At least one tornado touched down, golf ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Leupold Mark 5HD 5-25×56 PR2-MIL RiflescopeThe Leupold Mark 5HD model is the best riflescope on the market, and the Mark 5HD 5-25×56 PR2-MIL may be the best of the Mark 5HD series. More than a ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Bergara Premier Competition Rifle in 6.5 CreedmoorI’ve been shooting the just-announced Bergara Premier Competition rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor for months. Any discussion of it has been embargoed during that time. Beautiful people of TTAG, keeping this ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Pnuma Outdoors Bino + Tech HarnessI didn’t go looking for the Pnuma Bino Tech Harness, but I’m glad I found it. Having previously given up on the entire binocular harness concept, I passed over the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger M77 Hawkeye African in .375 RugerIt was hard to write this review. Even harder to write it honestly. Still, this is ‘The Truth About Guns,’ and I guess that’s what I’ll have to stick to. ...The Truth About Guns
- Africa Hunt: The 3-Gun Gnu“Ah, the poor man’s Cape Buffalo.” And with that simple quip, George described both my fantasy and my reality. On our way north from Pretoria, our young Professional Hunter had ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger M77 Hawkeye FTW Hunter in .375 RugerFirmly established in grumpy-old-manhood, I don’t like surprises. It’s usually my kids making some pricey mistake, my doctor making an even pricier one, or the dogs bringing on an absolute ...The Truth About Guns
- Optics Review: Maven RS.3 5-30×56 FFP RiflescopeMaven’s B.2 Binoculars impressed me. They’d be a solid pick for any hunter or birder. So unsurprisingly, when I set to reviewing their Maven RS.3 5-30X50 FFP rifle scope, my ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: NAR Tactical Operator Response Kit (TORK) First Aid KitIf you’re going to buy a basic trauma kit, the North American Rescue Tactical Operator Response Kit (TORK) is a great one. I got this kit from LA Police Gear. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Browning X-Bolt Western Hunter in 6.8 WesternNew for 2021, Browning has released their X-Bolt Western Hunter, a budget minded rifle aimed at hunters needing a lightweight rifle capable of taking big game at longer ranges. This ...The Truth About Guns
- Update: 80% Arms AR10 Lower Receiver Complete BuildLast month I completed three different AR platform lower receivers using the 80% Arms Easy Jig Gen 3 Multi-Platform 80% Lower Jig. The Easy Jig is a great product, and ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: IFC Radikal NK-1 12 Gauge Bullpup ShotgunI think the first time I saw it was at SHOT Show a couple years ago. I had forgotten all about it until it came up for review. It was ...The Truth About Guns
- Book Review: Vickers Guide SIG Sauer Volume IHere’s what I know about SIG Sauer. The P210 is a joy to shoot and everybody should have one. The German-made P226 is a phenomenal duty sidearm by any standard. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Maven 9×45 B.2 BinocularsSkimp on your rifle, but never skimp on glass. And if there’s one piece of hunting gear that matters more than any other, it’s not part of the weapon at ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: 80% Arms Easy Jig Gen 3 Multi-Platform 80% Lower JigThe 80% Arms GST-9 Pistol Built Kit I reviewed late last year was easily the best pistol lower build kit I’ve seen yet. It was window-licker simple and produced a ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger New Model Blackhawk Convertible ‘Carry Hawk’Incongruous. INcongruous. InCONgruous? However you say it, surely the picture in the dictionary next to that word should be the “Carry Hawk” revolver, a new Talo Distributors Exclusive Blackhawk .45ACP/.45 ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Leupold RX-2800 TBR/W Laser RangefinderIt was a shot I would have likely passed on 20 years ago. On the very last afternoon of our special doe season here in the Texas hill country, the ...The Truth About Guns
- Book Review: Nosler Reloading Guide, 9th EditionIf I ever wanted to see my name in print, it would be as one of the cartridge introduction authors for the Nosler Reloading Guide. As Robert Browning would write, ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FN 509 LS Edge Long Slide 9mm PistolFN Herstal developed the FN 509 pistol to win the US Army and Air Force’s Modular Handgun System competition. That didn’t happen. I won. You won. We all won. Because ...The Truth About Guns
- An Old Redneck and the Bullet He Loved – The 175gr Sierra Match KingJWT for TTAGI am interested in guns. I am fascinated by cartridges. I like the Winchester “Improved Mauser” action. I am enamored with the 7mm-08. That’s probably why during a ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: 80% Arms GST-9 80% Pistol Build Kit and Jig w/ Tool Kit and Slide RailsThe first gun I ever built was a single-shot shotgun made out of scrap I found around the ranch. I was probably ten years old. It was awesome. I didn’t ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Atibal Apex 4-14×44 FFP Rifle ScopeThere are more new shooters and more shooters on a tight budget than ever before. Fortunately, budget optics are better than they’ve ever been. Atibal Optics is an American company ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Lee Breech Lock Hand Press KitThere are lots of good reasons to load your own ammunition. But if you’re going to spend many thousands of dollars on reloading equipment, at least in the first few ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Cimarron ‘Evil Roy’ Single Action Revolver in .45 ColtThe Cimarron Firearms Evil Roy single action revolver by Uberti isn’t a “race-ready” revolver. It’s a win-the-race-ready revolver, right out of the box. Gene “Evil Roy” Pearcey, is a well ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Black Collar Arms Forged Carbon Fiber Once-Piece Scope MountsI hear these are the scope mounts the Space Force will be getting on their modified HK G11s. Earlier this year, Black Collar Arms, partially owned by TTAG’s own Jeremy ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Primary Arms GLx 6-24x50mm Scope with Athena BRP-MIL ReticleEarlier this year I reviewed the Primary Arms GLx 2.5-10X44mm riflescope and announced it as the sub $1,000 optic to beat. That is still very much my rarely humble opinion. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger New Model Super Blackhawk Bisley in .454 CasullI’m not saying they’re stupid, but man, people make some very questionable choices. Fearing “election riots” a grown man traded me used Glock 42 in .380ACP for a new-in-box New ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Leupold SX-5 Santiam HD 27-55x80mm Spotting ScopeI’m committed to reviewing more budget priced optics over the next year, especially since there are so many new gun owners out there. But it’s nice to get some time ...The Truth About Guns
- Shooting to Wound and Non-Lethal Threat Responses…Why They Don’t WorkI often hear good legal advice about armed, non-lethal responses when faced by a lethal threat to yourself or others. Some of these options include displaying your firearm prior to ...The Truth About Guns
- The Truth About The Effects of Twist Rate and Gun Barrel LengthWith the welcome deluge of new gun owners, and especially the new rifle shooters, TTAG has been getting a lot of great questions. Some reoccurring themes include queries about the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Cimarron Pistoleer by UbertiCimarron Firearms and Uberti of Italy have well-earned the reputation for great guns at great prices. Head to any Cowboy Action Shooting match and you’ll undoubtedly find the guns from ...The Truth About Guns
- Optics Review: Primary Arms PLx5 6-30x56mm First Focal Plane Rifle ScopeThe best thing that The Truth About Guns has done for me, other than introducing me to so many of you fine people, is make me appreciate budget optics. Or ...The Truth About Guns
- Optics Review: Leupold DeltaPoint Pro Night VisionCarry gun optics are rapidly becoming the standard. At least in the courses I attend, almost all of the instructors are using red dot optics on their pistols, and about ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Marlin 1895CB in .45-70 GovernmentIf you wade into the den of the Dark Lord, bring your guts and a Marlin 1895. The classic lever action rifle has developed a solid following among amateur hunters ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: New Original Henry Rifle in .45 ColtThe 1860 Henry rifle is one of the most important rifles of all time. It helped changed a nation, and the very notion of what a rifleman was capable of. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Cimarron Texas Brush Popper Model 1873 Rifle in .44-40 WinCimarron Firearms teamed up once again with Uberti of Italy to create the Texas Brush Popper, a Cowboy Action Shooting-focused 1873 Winchester lever action that would be just as well ...The Truth About Guns
- Prairie Dog Hunting with Sierra’s Prairie Enemy Loaded AmmunitionThe sound of a high velocity round striking the target is unmistakable. That welcome sound, as well as the smiles and exclamations of a job well done, came often from ...The Truth About Guns
- Dueling Ruger New Model BlackhawksThis year I’m trying my hand at cowboy action shooting. Cowboy action shooting is at least a four gun sport; two revolvers, a shotgun, and a pistol caliber carbine. This ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: SIG Sauer Virtus Patrol RifleThe SIG Sauer MCX Virtus Patrol rifle. Seven thousand rounds. Eleven months. Modular. Minute of angle groups. Not an AR-15. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. The evolutionary divergence of SIG’s flagship ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Colt Delta Elite Two Tone 10mmColt’s newest 10mm 1911, the Two-Tone Delta Elite with Novak sights, borrows the cool of high-end custom 1911s from the 10mm’s early years. Fans of the 10mm owe a lot ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger LCP II in .22LRThe Ruger LCP didn’t make the first .380 ACP pocket pistol. Not by a long sight. No, but the Ruger LCP made the .380 ACP cool again and the People ...The Truth About Guns
An Ice Cold Morning, a Savage 24, and My Very First DeerIt was, as my dad would say, “colder than a well digger’s ass.” There was even a little snow covering the Texas Hill Country grass. I was probably 8 years ...The Truth About Guns- Optic Review: Primary Arms GLx 2.5-10x44mm FFP RiflescopePrimary Arms has made a big name for itself in the budget optics world. They’ve produced feature-packed optics with a renowned reticle and OK glass. The new GLx 2.5-10×44 FFP ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Kali Key Gen2A-1 Drop In Compliance BundleThe ingenuity of free Americans will always triumph over small-minded fearmongers seeking to stifle liberty. There’s no greater example of this in the gun industry than the myriad solutions companies ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: EOTech Vudu 1-8x24mm SFP RiflescopeEOTech has been a leader in zero magnification holographic optics since the 1990s, and for almost two decades has been one of the premier go-to optics for the US Special ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry Side Gate Lever Action .410 ShotgunLate last year, Henry Repeating Arms finally gave in and released several traditional lever action rifle calibers in a side gate loading platform. Now they’ve continued that line, but with ...The Truth About Guns
- What I’m Carrying Now: Custom Browning Hi-Power and a Butterfly Knife[This post is part of our series, What I’m Carrying Now. If you’d like to submit a photo and description of the gun, holster and gear you’re carrying in the new ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: The 2020 Colt Pythons“Colt’s coming out with a new Pyth…” “Putmeonthelistheresmymoney.” And that’s the way the conversation went when a buddy of mine told me that Colt would soon be offering a new ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Brownells Match Precision Optic 5-25x56mm RiflescopeLike many hunters, shooters, and gunsmiths, I’ve been trusting Brownells for a whole lot of years. When I saw they had contracted with a Japanese company to make mid-priced precision ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Bond Arms Roughneck and Rowdy Model DerringersAbout a decade ago I started boot carrying the Bond Arms Derringer in .410/.45 Colt as an everyday backup and deep concealment pistol. I absolutely loved it. Four years ago ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: SIG SAUER P320 XFive Legion 9mm PistolThe SIG SAUER P320 XFive Legion is everything that made the P320 XFive great, only prettier. The original 2018 verison of the P320 XFive has disappeared from SIG’s website as ...The Truth About Guns
- Ammunition Review: Hornady A-TIP Match 6mm vs. ELD Match BulletsI remember when the Hornady A-MAX bullet first hit the market. It was a great bullet, very accurate and with some hunting applications on light skinned game at extended ranges. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Brace Built Modern Carbine – MC6[ED: Since this review was published, Brace Built confirmed that the review gun had between 3000 and 8000 rounds through it. In addition, their current rifles no longer include the ...The Truth About Guns
- JWT: The Guns I Used in Combat in AfghanistanThe Colt M4 rifle and Beretta M9 handgun were the primary guns I used when I was in Afghanistan. The M9 was the standard-issue pistol. The M4 had an EOTech holographic red ...The Truth About Guns
- Personal Defense: Minuteman Ammunition’s Pure Silver Werewolf Defense Ammunition in .45 ColtEarlier this month, I was once again hunting wild pigs at night with a suppressed AR-15 chambered in .458 SOCOM. I was heading into some thick brush, following what sounded ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger Super Blackhawk Bisley in .480 RugerWhen it comes to guns, I collect very few of them. Don’t get me wrong, I buy a lot of guns, but I generally shoot them for a few years ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FN SCAR 20S Rifle in 6.5 CreedmoorFN-USA has re-released last year’s SCAR 20S in 6.5 Creedmoor, and it’s perfect. The new SCAR 20S is the same gun, with the same trigger, stock, upper, lower, rails, finish, ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Vudoo Gun Works Sinister Rifle in .22LRI should have turned this rifle back in already, but I can’t. Not yet. I’m just not ready to stop shooting the Vudoo Gun Work’s Sinister. The Sinister is a ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry Side Gate Lever Action Rifle in .45-70 GovernmentOh good people, ask and you shall receive. Henry Repeating Arms, after many years of many requests from clamoring customers, has gifted us all this Christmas with a side gate ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Savage Model 12 Long Range Precision Rifle in 6.5 CreedmoorAfter almost two decades of the industry focusing on shooting more ammunition more faster, it’s great to witness the rebirth of precision shooting of all types. With that renewed interest ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Marlin 336 Dark in .30-30 WinThe Marlin 336 is legendary. An evolution of the Model 36 and the 1893 before it, the septuagenarian side loader is responsible for over 3.5 million rifles sold. Folks, that’s ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Savage MSR-15 Valkyrie RifleBefore you ask, no, this is not a mil-spec gun. It is much better than that. With the MSR-15 Valkyrie, Savage turned their Recon package into a competition-ready, hunt-ready shooter ...The Truth About Guns
- The 3 Best Handguns for Concealed CarryI’ve concealed carried most every day for about 25 years. The only exception: when I was in uniform. Most of that time I openly carried a firearm or two. In ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Devil Dog Arms Tactical 1911 in .45 ACPIt’s got more in common with the newer Marine Corps-issued Colt M45A1 CQBP than the original M1911A1, but the Devil Dog Arms Tactical framed 1911 chambered in .45ACP shares all ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Diamondback Firearms AM2 9mm PistolSmaller EDC style pistols have dominated the market for a few years now. They’ve been selling well from just about all of the major manufactures, and all that demand has ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: IWI MASADA 9mm PistolIsrael has a history and a culture of innovation. After all, they didn’t make the AK-47, but with the Galil, they made it better. They didn’t invent the bullpup, but ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Standard Manufacturing Single Action RevolverBang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. And about then is when I emailed Standard Manufacturing my debit card number. It was a challenge to wait even that long. I have every ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Colt King Cobra .357 RevolverI’m a Colt fan. Part of that is because of the history of the company, but no doubt the bigger part is because my dad kept a stainless Colt Python ...The Truth About Guns
- Hands-On With Beretta’s New 92X Full Size, Centurion, Compact and Performance ModelsThe pistol I shoot the best is a Beretta 92 series. It was the first pistol I ever hated. When I was first issued the gun, I was horrible with ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Mossberg MC1sc Subcompact 9mmWith the MC1sc subcompact 9X19mm, Mossberg has stepped into a crowed field of popular pistols. Subcompact 9mms have been great sellers, with the demand for easily concealable power showing no ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: SB Tactical SBA4 Pistol BraceSB Tactical is the brace that started race, and keeps on winning it. The SBA4 is the newest version of the AR-15 pistol stabilizing brace that gave all sorts of ...The Truth About Guns
- Competition Review: 12 Hundo in Hondo Team Endurance Challenge MatchI’m not used to having that much fun and losing. The 12 Hundo in Hondo Team Endurance Challenge match this year was the inaugural event in a new series hosted ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Kiote Rifles LRP in 6mm SLRLast year, John Stewart of Kiote Rifles made my dream come true by building my “last rifle”. That Ruger No 1 in .375 H&H Magnum really is the last rifle ...The Truth About Guns
- Optics Review: Atibal Apex 4-14×44 FFP RiflescopeTTAG is slowly ending my scope snobbery. Well, less TTAG itself and a lot more the opportunity to shoot through increasingly better quality budget glass. A while back I wrote ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Naroh Arms N1 9mm Sub-Compact PistolI’m always on the lookout for a sub-compact 9mm that I like. I like the Naroh N1. I’m a big fan of little guns. It’s a miracle of the modern ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger AR-556 PistolRuger has had a few lines of AR pattern rifles out for years now. Five years ago they released their budget minded series, the AR-556. Now Ruger’s entered the braced ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Lyman Brass Smith Case Trim XpressI know a reloader who doesn’t trim the length of his rifle cases. He shoots bolt action rifles, doesn’t crimp, shoots only mild to mid-pressure loads, and throws away his ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Kalashnikov USA KS-12 and KS-12T ShotgunsTTAG’s Nick Leghorn did a solid review of his Saiga 12 experience back when it was still imported from the motherland. After 2014, Kalashnikov USA became its own boy, independent ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Stoeger M3000 Freedom Series Defense ShotgunAfter reviewing Stoeger guns for a while, I’m not surprised by the M3000 Tactical at all. Stoeger’s owned by Benelli and the company offers good Turkish-made guns at an affordable ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: GLOCK 34 MOS Gen 5 FS 9mmThe GLOCK 34 MOS Gen5 FS. I know what you’re thinking. “It’s just like the new GLOCK 17 MOS, only longer.” And in fact, it’s just like the new GLOCK ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Heckler and Koch SP5K 9mm PistolOver the last few years, we’ve all heard that one gun or the next will be the “MP5 Killer.” None of them have been that “MP5 killer.” In fact, roller ...The Truth About Guns
- GLOCK Performance Comparison: The New G43X and G48 Slimline PistolsThe G43 was by no means the first GLOCK I owned, but it was the first GLOCK I wanted to own. Small, concealable, and controllable, the G43 makes an ideal ...The Truth About Guns
- 12 Hundo In Hondo Team Endurance Rifle MatchUnlike many other areas of the country, Texas is still blessed with lots of open land. For shooters, that means lots of opportunities to reach out a little farther with ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Mossberg Patriot Predator Rifle in 6.5 CreedmoorMossberg’s reputation has long been built on offering functional, reliable firearms at inexpensive prices. Like most shooters, I’ve had more than a few of their shotguns, and you’ll find a ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Savage A17 in .17 HMR Semi-Automatic Rimfire RifleFor a lot of us who love to shoot rimfire, the .17HMR has been the go-to round for varmint hunting and target shooting since it came out 16 years ago. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Boyds At-One Adjustable Stock for Remington 870Pump action shotguns are great. They’re powerful, simple to use, reliable and relatively inexpensive. There are, however, some downsides to most entry level pump guns. Some of the same things ...The Truth About Guns
- NationalGunTrader.com to Launch January 1, 2019The People of the Gun have been bemoaning the lack of a large scale, professional online marketplace for firearms and gear. We’ve been clamoring for someone to step in and ...The Truth About Guns
- Wilson Combat Releases the Paul Howe Signature GLOCK 19 and GLOCK 26Earlier this year I got a sneak peak at the Paul Howe Package GLOCKs customized by Wilson Combat. Wilson embargoed any stories at the time, but I got to shoot ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: CZ Hammer Coach and Sharptail Side by Side ShotgunsWith either the traditional Hammer Classic, or the slightly more modern Sharptail, CZ has made guns worthy of “riding shotgun.” The shotgun has long and rightfully been regarded as the ...The Truth About Guns
- Combat Medic: Shoot the Heaviest Rifle Round You Can, Shoot What You Can Hit, Then Shoot it Again[Ed: The subject of “stopping power” is a never-ending debate amongst gun guys and gals. JWT, a former combat medic, wrote this back in 2014 and it’s well worth sharing ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FN SCAR 20S Precision RifleI like FN. I do not like the FN SCAR. But I like the FN SCAR 20S. A lot. People are complex that way. The FN SCAR 20S is the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Ultradyne Athena/C4 Dynamount Sight ComboWhen Jeremy originally posted about the C4 Precision Folding Sights by Ultradyne, I could hear the “ERMUGERD!” in his voice. I’m sure he could hear the “Get off my damn ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Mauser M18 Rifle in .308 WinchesterIn one form or another, Mauser has been making rifles for almost 150 years. Mauser rifles have become synonymous with old world quality and craftsmanship, as well as strength and ...The Truth About Guns
- Proof in the Pudding: Wilson Combat 300 Ham’r Takes a Bull ElkEarlier this year I wrote about the new Wilson Combat cartridge, the 300 Ham’r. I gave the rifle, the concept, and the team that built it high praise. The rifle ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Remington Model Seven Stainless Steel HS PrecisionThe Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Sauer 100 Cherokee in 7mm Remington MagnumInexpensive German hunting rifle. These words do not go together. Sauer manages to pull it all together in their entry level hunting rifle, the Sauer 100. When many folks think ...The Truth About Guns
- Reloading Manuals: All the Calibers (and Information) for EveryoneThere are a whole lot of cartridges out there for every use under the sun. Unfortunately, there’s a lot less knowledge about them than there needs to be. But it ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Colt Series 80 Government 1911 in .38 SuperWalking through the Cabelas Gun Library recently, a pistol caught my eye. A base model Colt Government Model Series 80 normally wouldn’t get a second look. It’s not that I ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Targetize Personal Firearms Training SystemThe Targetize Personal Firearms Trainings System is one of a few new devices that track muzzle movement of your pistol in order to improve your marksmanship. Although I’m sure the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Compare and Contrast the Beretta APX RDO, Centurion, and Compact ModelsLast year TTAG editor Dan Zimmerman was able to spend some quality time with the Beretta APX. His review of the gun laid out the basics, including the modular serialized ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Wilson Combat 300 Ham’rIt was originally called the .30-30AR. That’s because Bill Wilson of Wilson Combat appreciates the terminal effect of the old .30-30 Winchester, but also enjoys the popular AR-15. So, he ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: CMC Products 1911 Railed Power MagsA couple of years ago I met Bill Wilson of Wilson Combat. When I told him I was from Central Texas, he immediately exclaimed “That’s Chip McCormick country!” It is ...The Truth About Guns
- GLOCK 21SF .45 Super Conversion: 1,000 Rounds and a Bunch of Pigs LaterThere’s been a bit of a .45 Super resurgence of late. I carry a pistol every day for self defense, but I also hunt quite a bit, and very much ...The Truth About Guns
- My “Last Rifle”: DeliveredLast year, I wrote about growing up with the single-shot rifle, hunting around the world, and the commissioning of The Last Rifle I’ll Ever Need. John Stewart at Kiote Rifles ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Walther PPQ Q4 TAC in 9X19mmIt seems that everyone at TTAG loves the PPQ line. Multiple writers have now completed multiple reviews on several different models. They are all highly positive. That’s because the PPQ ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Cimarron Firearms 1866 Yellowboy Pawnee Carbine in .45LCGun Review: Cimarron Firearms 1866 Yellowboy Pawnee Carbine While the 1860 Henry may be the rifle that started it all, it was the next version, the 1866 Winchester that takes ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Bersa Thunder 380 Concealed CarryMy first everyday all day gun was a 380 Colt Government. For a while, the .380 ACP was the cool guy’s gun. Small, discrete, and just powerful enough. Until it ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FN PS90 PDW and Five-seveN PistolWay, way back in the late 80’s and early 90’s, FN engineers threw caution to the wind, eschewed the knowledge of what guns were supposed to be, and invented the future. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Remington Versa Max Tactical ShotgunGoodbye Mossberg 500. Goodbye Remington 870. Goodbye to every pump-action shotgun I own. I never thought I’d say it, but the gun I’m counting on the most, the gun that ...The Truth About Guns
- Navajo Nation’s Cash Offer to Purchase Remington Outdoor is Rightly RejectedAccording to the New York Times, the Navajo Nation has made an offer to purchase the Remington Outdoor Company, which recently emerged from bankruptcy. The offer was for approximately half a ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: EEZOX Premium Gun Care CLPIt’s a good idea to use a little solvent and a lot of elbow grease to clean guns, and then to use the manufacturer recommended amount of lubricant to actually, ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Stealth Precision Firearms Hunter in 28 NoslerStealth Precision Firearms got its start fairly recently, in 2015. A group of longtime avid shooters and hunters who were also engineers looked around and figured that they could ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Cimarron Firearms 1851 Navy Laser Engraved .44 Cal. by PiettaThere are very few inventions, if any, that have had as much affect on the development of America as the 1851 Colt Navy Percussion Revolver. It was America’s first powerful, ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: PIG Skins Barricade Pad with HornEverybody shoots better when they have something soft to rest their rifle on. Competitive shooters bring all sorts of bags to the range, and hunters have been using rests — ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Peformance Center M&P45 Shield .45 ACPAlmost two years ago I reviewed the Smith & Wesson M&P45 Shield and came away impressed by the little .45 auto concealed carry pistol. Smith also offers a tricked out ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Taylor’s & Company 1875 Smith & Wesson Model 3 Schofield Revolver in .38 SpecialSweet baby Jesus this gun is pretty. Taylor’s & Company has imported a limited run of nickel-plated Smith & Wesson Model 3 Schofield break-top revolvers. The Schofield is one of ...The Truth About Guns
- JWT’s “Last Rifle” Update: The Ruger No. 1 Is Almost HomeMy dream rifle, the “Last Rifle I’ll Ever Need” is almost complete. I just got these photos of the Ruger No. 1 and it looks amazing. Owen Armstrong of Rifles ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Savage Model 110 Varmint in .223 RemingtonI’ve been a big fan of the Savage Model 110 for a long time. It’s been around for over 60 years and I’ve been recommending it for decades. They’ve always ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Atibal Nomad 3-12×44 With V-Plex BDC ReticleA little over a year ago I asked TTAG for a decent, low cost scope to use for rifle reviews. I’d gotten pretty tired of pulling scopes off of my own rifles ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: CMMG Mk47 AKR2 Rifle in 7.62x39mmWhen it comes to modularity and the ease of customization, no rifle on the market beats the AR platform. There’s a reason why it’s referred to as “the Barbie doll ...The Truth About Guns
- Optic Review: Primary Arms 4-14X44 ACSS DMR/HUD RiflescopeIt’s pretty impressive how far budget optics have come. For the first in a series of budget optic reviews, I put the Primary Arms 4-14X40 ACSS DMR/HUD riflescope through its ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Beretta PX4-Storm Full Size, Compact, and Sub Compact 9mmI don’t like the way this gun looks. I don’t like the way this gun feels. But man, I sure do like the way the Beretta PX-4 Storm shoots. Like ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: PIG Saddle and PIG0311-G Tripod Rifle RestThe last piece of equipment I bought that had as much of a positive effect on my hunting as the PIG Saddle and PIG0311-G Tripod from Shadow Tech was the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Heckler & Koch USC45 to UMP45 ConversionLong, long ago, I watched as a 5th Special Forces Group sergeant boarded a Chinook helicopter in southern Afghanistan. As he walked through the rotor wash and turbine exhaust to ...The Truth About Guns
- Cimarron Firearms Uberti 1860 Henry in .45LCThe 1860 Henry wasn’t the first repeating rifle. That would be the 1848 Volition Repeating Rifle. Nor was it “the gun that won the West.” If any single repeater has ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Mid-Evil Industries 360° RFG (Rotating Fore Grip)People have been trying to figure out a better way to get a grip on the end of long guns for a long time. Debates on how to hold the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Walther PK380 [Updated 2018]Walther PK380 Review The firearms industry once again realized that there are a lot of potential shooters out there who don’t fit into the molds of GI Joe or the ...The Truth About Guns
- Course Review: ATX Precision Rifle I, One Year LaterWhen Clayton Hergert of ATX Precision launched his first Precision Rifle I course, TTAG writer Tyler Kee was first in line. His excellent review of the infant course is well worth ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Walther PPQ Sub-Compact 9mmThe Walther Polizei Pistole Quick Defense (PPQ) has gotten plenty of love from the TTAG staff. Several of our writers have reviewed different calibers of the pistol and each one ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Hi-Point 1095TS Edge 10mm CarbineAs soon as I heard that Hi-Point Firearms was making a 10mm carbine, I put in a request to review one. It was months before I finally got my ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Update: KCarry Shoulder System Potential Safety Issue FixedLast month I reviewed the KCarry Shoulder System. And found it wanting. I had a few issues with how the KCarry holster was set up, and specifically how it compared to a ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: W+F BERN 1896/11 7.5×55 Swiss Infantry RifleEarlier this month I got a press releases from Kriss USA announcing their new venture, Edelweiss Arms. Edelweiss Arms focuses on European military surplus firearms, curios and relics. In other ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Performance Center 327 TRR8 .357 MagnumThe Smith & Wesson Performance Center TRR8 is an absolute godless abomination and, at the same time, just plain friggin’ awesome. Why is it an abomination? . . . Because ...The Truth About Guns
- Texas Nilgai Hunting with the Wilson Combat .458 Ham’rI’ve been wearing the folks at Wilson Combat out trying to get one of their new .458 Ham’r rifles to review. After looking at the round, I realized it had ...The Truth About Guns
- Whose Job Is It to Stop School Shooters? Question of the DayMarjory Stoneman Douglas High School students have been all over the airwaves and the internet with a great point: it’s not their job to stop mass shooters. After all, they ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Kimber Micro 9 Raptor 9mmMy first everyday carry pistol was a Colt Government .380. By the time I was old enough to carry it, I’d forgotten where it came from. So I took it ...The Truth About Guns
- FBI on Parkland Shooting: We Were Warned, Did NothingThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has admitted that they were imminently warned, directly, of the Parkland, Florida shooter’s motive, opportunity, and means to commit his crimes. In a Press Release ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: KCarry Shoulder HolsterThe KCarry holster bills itself as the “most comfortable holster you’ll ever wear.” Maybe. But the product is fundamentally unsafe . . . The simple elastic that covers the gun, including ...The Truth About Guns
- Jon Wayne Taylor’s Kiote Corp. “Last Rifle” – UpdateLast year I asked John Stewart of Kiote Corp to start work on my dream rifle, the “last rifle I’ll ever need“, a highly customized Ruger No. 1 in .375 ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Kimber Camp Guard 10mm 1911Kimber America is a proud sponsor of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. In 2010, Kimber and RMEF co-branded a line of 84L rifles. This year, Kimber donated $50k to ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Wilson Combat GLOCK 19Earlier this year Wilson Combat announced they were putting their gunmaking know-how up against about a million garage GLOCKsmiths. Enter the “Wilson Combat GLOCK Custom Pistol Enhancements.” RF and I ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Kimber K6s DCR .357 MagnumThe J Frame-size magnum revolver has been the quintessential backup gun for decades. And for a good reason. They’re easy to carry, fast to deploy and pack a heck of ...The Truth About Guns
- New from Zev: Trigger Parts and AR10 Receiver SetsZev Technologies is the King Kong in a tux of the GLOCK upgrade world. Top shelf GLOCK part? Zev. Zev? Top shelf GLOCK part. Only in 2017, the Oxnard, California-HQ’ed company ...The Truth About Guns
- New from Cimmaron Firearms: New Revolvers, Pocket .380ACPTexas-based Cimarron Firearms has released some beautiful new pistols for 2018. The Wild Bill 1851 Conversion above comes in .38 Special, while the Buffalo Bill Conversion is chambered in the ...The Truth About Guns
- New for 2018: Les Baer Premier II 5″ in 10mmShowing us all a little 10mm love, Les Baer has released their Premier II 5″ in the almost magnum automatic. The 10mm Premier II features a fully supported chamber at ...The Truth About Guns
- New from Ki`ote Rifle: LRP and Overwatch ModelsTTAG is proud to have published head gunsmith John Stewart’s series on what to expect from a custom bolt action rifle. For 2018, the King of Ki`ote Rifle has released two ...The Truth About Guns
- Belle of the Shot Show Ball, the Bond Arms Bullpup QD SilencerWell folks, the award for “Best Firearms Innovation for 2018” has probably just been won. Bond Arms has released prototype of their quick detach silencer for the Bond Arms Bullpup ...The Truth About Guns
- New from STI: DVC OmniI got so tired of writing the same thing for STI — great accuracy, spectacular reliability, smokin’ fast, five stars (or thereabouts) — I quit reviewing them. Copy and paste ...The Truth About Guns
- Team 5 Foundation Auction: Guns, Knives and ClassesThe Truth About Guns
- New From Hudson: H9A (Aluminum Frame) and Threaded BarrelsTTAG has been all over the Hudson H9. We’ve reviewed the gun extensively, and TTAG readers got their chance to compete with H9s during the last TTAG get together at ...The Truth About Guns
- Hands on with the GLOCK 19XI finally got my hands on the new GLOCK 19X. It’s a GLOCK 19 slide atop a GLOCK 17 frame. So how does it shoot? I’m glad I asked . ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Palmetto State Armory Freedom 16″ AR-15 CarbineWhenever I review an AR-15 over $1k, readers complain. “My PSA costs half that and it’s just as good.” So TTAG reached out to Palmetto State Armory for one of ...The Truth About Guns
- What to Look for in a Custom Rifle – ReceiversThe Truth About Guns
- New from Henry Repeating Arms: Henry U.S. Survival PackA couple of years ago I reviewed the time tested Henry AR7 Survival Rifle, and loved it. Then I reviewed the Henry Survival Kit, and I liked it enough to ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Bond Arms Bullpup 9mmThe Bond Arms Bullpup started out life as the Boberg XR9. TTAG reviewed Arne Boberg’s ballistic bauble back in 2012. We were not impressed. The author’s jam-o-matic experience would ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: GLOCK 21SF .45 ACP PistolOver the last year, I’ve been helping law enforcement agencies with Tactical Combat Casualty Care instruction, patrols, fugitive recovery and warrant service. One of the departments I work with insists ...The Truth About Guns
- New from Wilson Combat: YouTube Master ClassNew shooters never had it so good. Before the World Wide Web and web videos most of us learned from anybody we could. The varying styles were great, but we ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FN America FN15 DMR IIAs we all hopefully know by now, FN America is the current manufacturer of the US Army’s M4 service rifle. You can now buy that rifle in semi auto, as ...The Truth About Guns
- What to Look For in a Custom Rifle – Chambers and ThroatsThe Truth About Guns
- What to Look for in a Custom Rifle – The Barrel CrownAs part of an ongoing series on what to look for in a custom rifle, gunsmith John Stewart tells us all a little more about the barrel crown. John Stewart ...The Truth About Guns
- What to Look for in a Custom Rifle – The TriggerJohn Stewart of Kiote Rifles is a gunsmith. I’ve handled his rifles. I’ve seen them shoot 1/2 MOA ten-round groups at 300 yards with factory ammo — and that ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Copper Basin Takedown Firearm BackpackBy the grace of the Almighty, I don’t live in a city. But I have before, and transporting a firearm discretely can be an issue — especially on public transportation. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Quarter Circle 10 AR Pistol in .45ACPI was wrong. But I can change. If I have to. I guess. My days of bewilderment over the pistol caliber AR are over. The Quarter Circle 10 in .45 ACP opened ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Sightmark Rapid AR 1-4×20 SHR-223 Tactical RiflescopeI was surprised and impressed by the Sightmark Wolverine red dot optic I reviewed earlier this year. Sightmark has now released a short to mid-range scope aimed at the tactical ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: H&K VP9SKBack in the day, I ran economic development for Texas. Convincing firearms manufacturers to move or expand in The Lone Star State was one of the favorite parts of my ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Caldwell Stinger Shooting RestMost serious shooters are already familiar with the Caldwell brand. I’ve got at least half a dozen of their shooting bags sitting out at my range, a few more in ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FN 15 Military Collector M4FN USA has released a series of its full auto firearms used by the U.S. Military to civilians in semi-automatic models. The FN 15 Military Collector M4 is their release ...The Truth About Guns
- Course Review: Tactical Fitness Mini Combat Rifle Low Light CourseI shoot a lot at night. Between shooting on my own home range and hunting pigs and varmints almost exclusively at night, I get quite bit of practice putting lead ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson M&P10 Sport Optics Ready RifleI’ve deployed with an M16 and an M4. When push came to shove, the AR-15 platform got it done. And yet the AR-15 never felt like a real battle rifle. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Weatherby Vanguard Camilla in .308 WinWomen are different than men. In our modern culture that statement may seem outlandish. But I have studied the issue thoroughly and extensively and the female body is, in fact, ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger No. 1-A in .30-06 SpringfieldMy dream rifle is currently in the hands of Kiote Corporation. Although it will be significantly modified, it started its journey as a Ruger No. 1-H in .375H&H Magnum. Almost ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson M&P15T M-Lock with Crimson Trace LinQ SystemThe AR market is more saturated than a Houston suburb (too soon?). Thanks to the AR rifles’ “Barbies for adults” modularity and interchangeability, the platform has become a commodity item. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Ryker USA FIST GripI see a lot of products. Some of them suck. Most of them are a solid “meh.” Very few of these “revolutionary products” are as valuable as their inventors think ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson M&P9 M2.0 CompactAside from the M&P Shield, I’ve never been a fan of M&P pistols. I was continually surprised to see knowledgeable shooters compete with M&P’s — but not surprised that they’d changed the ...The Truth About Guns
- Taylor’s & Co. Firearms Compact 1911 in 9mmAt fist glance, the Taylor’s and Co. Compact 1911 closely resembles the WWII-era Government models. Only three-quarters the size. The Parkerized finish, the GI thumb safety, the sights and mostly bare ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry Color Case Hardened Edition Rifle in .45-70 GovermentI’ve been shooting Henry Repeating Arms’ lever guns for decades. I always thought the Silver Series Henry was the all-American gunmaker’s best looking rifle. And it was — until I ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Remington 700 5-R Stainless Threaded Gen 2 Rifle in .308 WinThe Remington 700 5-R Stainless Threaded Gen 2 is one of the latest additions to their classic 700BDL hinged floor plate design. The short action rifle comes in two barrel lengths: ...The Truth About Guns
- Grizzly Custom Guns 1895 Outback Guide Gun in .45-70 GovernmentWith whitetail season coming up in Texas, I’ve welcomed a slew of lever-action rifles for review. This season, I feel sorry for every lever gun that follows this one. Grizzly Custom ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Remington 700 American Wilderness Rifle in .30-06I feel for Remington. In many ways, Big Green is a victim of its own success. The Remington 700BDL in .30-06 is an absolute American classic. Perhaps the American classic. Many ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Stag Arms 10S M-LOK AR-10 Rifle in .308WinI’m a big fan of the AR-10 — more so than the AR-15. Before we had a dozen caliber choices, when it was just 5.56NATO or 7.62NATO in Eugene Stoner’s ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Sightmark Wolverine and XT-3 MagnifierMy name is Jon Wayne Taylor and I’m a glass snob. But I can change. The Sightmark Wolverine Red Dot and XT-3 Magnifier may help me on my journey to budget ...The Truth About Guns
- The Truth About .30-06A gunsmith friend of mine recently told me he was considering not renewing his NRA membership. It wasn’t because of the NRA or NRA-ILA’s political posturing. He was reacting to ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Rock Island Armory TCM TAC Ultra FS in .22TCM/9mmRock Island Armory has released a convertible .22 TCM/9mm package. Calling it the capital letter-laden TCM TAC Ultra FS Combo, it’s not much fun say when you’re telling people on the ...The Truth About Guns
- SIG SAUER Stops Production of P320, ‘Voluntary Upgrade’ Details on MondaySIG SAUER has stopped production of their P320 pistol. Responding to “drop safety” issues, the New Hampshire gunmaker has halted production of one of the company’s most popular handguns until they can ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Caracal Enhanced F Limited EditionRF’s tragic on-again, off-again love affair with the Caracal is the stuff of legend. Against all odds, after Caracal recalled and destroyed every pistol they sold in the U.S., the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: IWI Galil ACE in 7.62 NATOI was impressed by the IWI Galil ACE in 7.62×39 I reviewed last year. But even as I reviewed it, I was intrigued by the idea of testing the ...The Truth About Guns
- Living the Dream, Or the Last Rifle I’ll Ever NeedI had a pretty awesome childhood. As young as eight years old, it consisted of days, and often weeks completely on my own, wandering thousands of acres of Texas hill ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle in .450 BushmasterThere are a few true gun heroes in the pantheon of greats, and Colonel Jeff Cooper, the founder of Gunsite Academy certainly earned his place among them. Often outspoken, the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun review: Remington 870 SPS SuperSlug 12 Gauge ShotgunLiving in Texas, I never thought I’d have the need for a dedicated slug gun. Most of the time when I’m shooting I’m surrounded by wide swaths of land. I ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Desert Eagle .44 Magnum/.50AE Combo Caliber PackageI was in college the first time I shot a Magnum Research Desert Eagle in .50AE. The slide going into battery sounded like a car door slamming shut. Over the next 20 ...The Truth About Guns
- Metro Arms American Classic II: UPDATEIn my last review of the Metro Arms American Classic II, I noted numerous first-round failures to feed FMJ ammunition, using multiple magazines. The value-priced made-in-Manilla 1911 had a lot ...The Truth About Guns
- What Bullets Do (And Don’t Do) to BodiesDr. Leana Wen, physician and Health Commissioner of Baltimore City, recently wrote an article for the New York Times. What Bullets Do to Bodies explained her experience with the unimaginable horrors of ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Wilson Combat AR-10 Recon Tactical in 6.5 CreedmoorI shot my first AR-10 in 2009. When I pulled the trigger on the LaRue Tactical Optimized Sniper Rifle, my first shot at 100 yards went a little high. Even ...The Truth About Guns
- Congressional Baseball Shooting: A Belt Is Not A Tourniquet“Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) used his belt as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding of a staffer shot early Wednesday during a congressional baseball game practice,” thehill.com reports. “I took ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: CZ 75 B Ω Urban Grey Suppressor-Ready 9mm PistolRegular readers will know I’m a CZ 75 fanboy. And why not? I’ve never shot a bad one and new shooters love them, too. So expectations were high when I took delivery ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Hell-Bent Holster Bare Bones Inside Waistband HolsterIt took a whole lot for me to change my EDC from a single stack STI Duty One 4.0 in .45ACP to a double stack STI DVC Carry 9mm. Once ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger GP100 in .44 SpecialThose of you old enough to have read Skeeter Skelton‘s columns know the old lawman loved the old .44. He loaded the .44 Special pretty stout, too, pushing a ...The Truth About Guns
- Fun With Iraqi Indigenous Forces!https://youtu.be/rrBbJSzbsmo There’s a lot going on in this short clip, but there are a few interesting take-aways. The things that most people will notice: one guy has a hard time ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: MAC 3011 SSD in .40S&WThe Metro Arms MAC 3011 SSD in .40SW is a double stack 1911 style pistol aimed directly at competition shooters looking for a solid firearm on a budget. Hit or miss? ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Wilson Combat EDC X9 9mm PistolThe firearms industry rarely creates something new. It’s even more rare that anyone gets it right the first time. Bill Wilson and his engineers at Wilson Combat set out to ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: 1892 Taylor’s Huntsman Lever Action CarbinePlenty of people I talk to are familiar with the now famous bottom-cylinder revolvers, the Chiappa RHINO. Novelty aside, I’ve always known Chiappa Firearms for their primary business; they’ve been reproducing classic ...The Truth About Guns
- MK-12 ‘MOD H’ or ‘Holland’ RifleBy tigerstr Most people here are familiar with the MK-12 SPRs MOD 0 and MOD 1 rifles, as there have been a few releases in 1/6 by different companies. But ...The Truth About Guns
- Wildcatting a New Caliber: .25 SPC“Wildcatting” cartridges is nothing new. Ever since the invention of standard cartridges, people have been making non-standard cartridges out of them. The motivations for these home-brewed concoctions vary widely. Everything ...The Truth About Guns
- Training Course Review: Tactical Fitness Vehicle Close CombatI get tired of basic firearms courses. They teach the same techniques, often the same way. So when Ron Grobman of Tactical Fitness of Austin invited me to his Vehicle Close Combat course –taught by ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Remington 1911 R1 Carry Commander .45 PistolI’ve shot Remington 1911s before. But those handguns were more than 60 years old. So I was interested to see if Remington could carry on some of the glory ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Bersa Thunder 9 Pro XTThe Argentinian gun maker Bersa has a cult following. And for good reason. While I’ve never found them to be particularly good looking guns, I’ve shot a few of their ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Metro Arms American Classic II .45ACP 1911Companies both big and small have been making guns in the Philipines, primarily for export, for nearly 100 years now. Probably the best known of these brands is Armscor, producer of ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Dan Wesson Valkyrie 9mm 1911After my review of the Dan Wesson Bruin, an upsized 10mm longslide 1911, I was certainly interested in seeing what else Dan Wesson had in their lineup. What I got ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry ‘Long Ranger’ Rifle in .223/5.56The first three calibers released by Henry Repeating Arms for its box-fed “Long Ranger” lever-action rifle are .308 Win, .243 Win, and .223 Rem/5.56 NATO. Why those calibers? Because ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: STI DVC Carry 9mmLast year I decided I wasn’t interested in reviewing any more STI guns. The reviews had all started to sound the same: reliable to the point of boredom, accurate, good looking, great ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: BLACKHAWK! Vehicle QD Med PouchI like to keep life saving equipment as handy as possible. The place that I’m far more likely to see a serious traumatic injury than anyplace else is on the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Cimarron McCulloch Colt Revolver“And this is the McCulloch, Cimarron’s reproduction of the 1860 Colt that Ben McCuloch had smuggled into Texas just after secession.” “Dean, you had me at McCulloch.” And that, my ballistic besties, ...The Truth About Guns
- Shootout: SIG SAUER P320 RX vs. GLOCK 19 MOS With JPointUsing an Aimpoint on my M4 in combat taught me many real world lessons on the advantages of a red dot over traditional iron sights. That said, when it comes ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Cimarron Firearms El Malo .45 Colt PistolI’ve loved westerns for as long was I can remember. Since my belt had “Duke” embossed on the back of it when I was four years old, I don’t think ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Dan Wesson Bruin 10mm 1911I’ve been searching for the right pistol for taking pigs and deer and the occasional trip into town for a little over a year. The most obvious choice: some flavor of 10mm. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Colt Competition CRP-18 GEN3 Pro Series Accurized Precision RifleBack in 2011, someone representing a whole lot of America walked into the doors of the Colt Manufacturing Company holding America’s rifle. On that day, America was represented by a ...The Truth About Guns
- Texas Jack: Everything for the 1870 CowboyI grew up in the Texas Hill Country not far from Fredericksburg, about ninety minutes west of Austin. Back then it was an attractive little town, a good place to ...The Truth About Guns
- Defensive Gun Uses: Three Shots, Three Seconds, Three Yards?I often read that most defensive shootings occur within three yards, with three shots or less, within three seconds. As far as I can tell, that is a complete ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry Repeating Arms Big Boy Steel .357 CarbineThe Henry Big Boy Steel carbine in .357 Magnum/.38 Special may the handiest little rifle in the history of the world ever. Weighing in at a total of 6.5lbs and ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: CMC AK Elite Flat Trigger for AK-47My original “home build/ghost gun” AKM-47 now has over 10,000 rounds through it in just over a year. Not bad for a weekend garage build using scrap metal and spare parts. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ruger GP100 .22LRWhen I think about growing up as a kid, I can’t think of any of the men who owned and worked the farms around us who didn’t have a .22LR ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Dead Goose Society AKM-47 Model 63 RifleA few years ago I would have mocked the notion of being an AK guy. I looked down on the Kalash life as nothing but uninformed hype. Less than two years ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry Big Boy Steel in .41 MagnumRegular readers know that I’ve shot a lot of lever guns, a fair few of them Henrys. The Henry Big Boy Steel in .41 Magnum was a first. I’d never ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry Long Ranger .308 RifleWhen Henry Repeating Arms revealed their box-fed lever-action Long Ranger series, I asked to test one in .308 Winchester. Without a round fired, I was impressed and intrigued. Why had Henry departed ...The Truth About Guns
- Team 5 Medical Foundation Holds Annual Online AuctionThe Team 5 Foundation is a 100% volunteer organization made up of veterans who travel to remote areas around the globe to provide medical assistance. We also give much needed medical training ...The Truth About Guns
- Preview: Warrior One Combined TrainingJake Saenz is a former Army Ranger, a combat veteran, a hunter and a shooter. He’s also one of my coaches at Atomic Athlete in Austin, Texas. Atomic focuses on ...The Truth About Guns
- Pro-Tip: How to Stop a Vehicle Borne Terrorist Attack [GRAPHIC VIDEO]https://youtu.be/qCLtKPxYWYo With the onset of the recent terrorist vehicle assaults, RF asked me what was the best way for an armed person to stop a vehicle? I thought this one was ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: STI Custom Shop Threaded Bull Barrel ReplacementI’m a huge fan of STI guns. Much of that’s due to my experience carrying their Duty One four-inch aluminum framed 1911 in .45ACP on my hip every day. I’ve put ...The Truth About Guns
- You Really Should be Duck Hunting…And Here’s WhyWith Dan’s first time duck hunting post, and Liberte’s how-to, I thought I’d chime in for the hat trick of duck hunting authors this season and let you know why you should ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Meprolight FT Bullseye SightMeprolight recently released its new FT Bullseye day and night sight. Notice I said “sight” not “sights.” Meprolight’s system eliminates the front sight, relying on a single unit with a fiber optic ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Baby Desert Eagle III Polymer FrameAfter a few years of unavailability in the U.S., Kahr Arms purchased Magnum Research and began reimporting the Baby Desert Eagle in 2011. This year, they’re extending the line ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Rogue American RAA Diamondback Gun OilI don’t think it’s ever taken me four months of constant use of a product to complete a review, but this one did. Rogue American Apparel is owned by former Marine and ...The Truth About Guns
- New from Cabot Guns: “Vintage Classic” 1911 PistolEarlier this year, the TTAG staff had a great time shooting lots of different models from Cabot Guns at the Best of the West Shooting Range in Liberty Hill, Texas. While the goal ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Walther CREED 9mm PistolAll the major handgun manufacturers make at least one full-size polymer semi-automatic pistol. Most have two. Many have more. Looking at Walther’s product catalogue, you’ll find no less than four 9mm ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Grizzly Custom Guns .45-70 Brush Hawg Modified Marlin Lever GunAbout an eon ago, I was hunting with a friend in East Texas for wild pigs, carrying a Ruger Blackhawk in .357 Magnum on my hip. As we ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry All-Weather Lever Action .30-30[buy_now link=https://bit.ly/2FvMnnz”] Henry’s All-Weather lever action rifle has a lot in common with the other Henry .30-30 rifle I reviewed. Once again, Henry has succeeded in making a handy, ...The Truth About Guns
- Kimber Gun Rights Bulletin: Two Takeaways From The 2015 National Crime Victimization SurveyThe Bureau of Justice Statistics’ 2015 National Crime Victimization Survey is out. It’s based on interviews with 95,760 households and 163,880 persons. Here are two important takeaways: 1. “Firearm violence” declined from ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Model 19-3The Smith & Wesson Model 19 “Combat Magnum” was one of the most beloved handguns ever made. Produced continuously from 1957 to 1999, tens of thousands of police officers carried a Model ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Henry Repeating Survival KitA bonus of reviewing the Henry Survival Rifle was that I got to review the Henry Repeating Survival Kit they sent along with it. I was a teenager in the 80s. Let me tell you, ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Hornady Lock-N-Load Hot Tub Sonic CleanerWelcome to my new favorite thing: the Hornady Lock-N-Load Hot Tub Sonic Cleaner. I’ve owned a small Hornady sonic cleaner for a while now, and I use it every week. If ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Cabot Guns S103 Commander Full-Cycle Carry PistolLess than an hour after I laid hands on the Cabot Guns S103 Commander I was putting lead on targets. After my previous experience with their Black Diamond’s reliability (eventually and completely rectified), I wasn’t going ...The Truth About Guns
- Why Pistols are Actually Very Important to Today’s SoldierResponding to the recent posts about the Army’s Modular Handgun System and MARSOC’s choice to move to the GLOCK 19, many of TTAG’s commenters have stated that the pistol isn’t ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry Big Boy Silver .44 Magnum/Special RifleI was looking forward to reviewing the Henry Big Boy Silver in .44 Magnum/Special. I’m extremely familiar with this rifle; I used to own a Big Boy in brass. My rifle ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Smith & Wesson M&P 45 SHIELDThe first thing I noticed about the Smith & Wesson M&P 45 SHIELD: its width. For a .45ACP pistol, it is exceptionally slim. The thickest portion of the gun — at ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Cannae Legion Elite Day Pack with Helmet CarryCannae Pro Gear has released a series of bags they call “Battle Ready Professional Gear.” The Legion Elite Day Pack with Helmet Carry is one of the packs in the new line. The company claims ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: IWI Galil ACE RifleSince making my first AK-47 last year, I’ve become enamored with the weapon’s design and the simplicity of the manufacturing process. Through TTAG and the Dead Goose Society, I’ve had ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: KMFJ LLC DA Series HolsterI’m not much of a Kydex guy, but after trying dozens of different manufacturers’ Kydex rigs, I’ve finally found one. It’s the KMFJ LLC DA series of holsters, and it’s sold ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Ithaca M37 Trench ShotgunArmed forces have welcomed the pump shotgun’s short range firepower and platform versatility since the early trench shotguns used in WWII. Even today, when we have full auto M4s on every ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: MasterPiece Arms MPA 6.5BA Creedmoor Bolt Action Riflebrea In a comment in another article, I recently wrote, “If cost and weight are not an issue, there’s really no need to have a bolt gun anymore.” The MasterPiece ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Dead Goose Society AK-47G SBRLast year, I built a stripped-down Khyber Pass style AK 47 under the tutelage of the Dead Goose Society (DGS). I had a great time and learned a lot about gun manufacturing. The ...The Truth About Guns
- All About the Dallas Shooter’s Saiga 5.45×39 Saiga AK74Despite what Mike “The Gun Guy” Weisser told us, the weapon used by the Dallas police shooter was not an AR, nor was it any kind of an AR variant. ...The Truth About Guns
- Dallas Police Massacre: Tactical TakeawaysUnlike 99.55 percent of the American population, I’ve been in combat, and I’ve been in a direct armed struggle with experienced combatants at ranges from around 15 to 800 meters. ...The Truth About Guns
- Shootout: Four Premium 9mm Pistols and the Wilson 5×5 Skill TestRecently, I decided to put four different quality 9mm pistols through the Bill Wilson 5X5 test. I would have never guessed the results. Maybe I should have. If you’re not familiar, ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Wilson Combat CQB Tactical LE 9mmI’ve owned Wilsons before, and I’ve owned a CQB in .45ACP as well. But I’ve been shooting a series of 9mm 1911s lately for reviews, and I was interested to ...The Truth About Guns
- DeSantis Gunhide Question of the Day: Do You Let Your Kids Play with Toy Guns?My kids are good with guns. They all know the safety rules; my 11-year-old son outshoots most grown men. The younger ones know not to touch a gun and to walk ...The Truth About Guns
- DeSantis Gunhide Question of the Day: What Gun for Active Duty Veteran Military and Police?Active Duty and Veteran military and police make up a lot of TTAG’s Armed Intelligentsia. What firearms did you use, or do you use while on duty? Is there something ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: STI DVC 3-Gun 9mm 1911It’s been a while since I’ve put many rounds through a dedicated race gun and I forgot how much fun and easy it can be. Plus, punching the center out ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Springfield Armory XD Mod.2 9mm Sub-CompactAbout a decade ago, I was married to my Ruger P90 for EDC and chained to my Berretta 92FS for duty. A friend brought out his brand new XD in .45ACP. I assumed ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Springfield Range Officer 9mmI carry a 1911 in .45ACP every day. I’ve carried a .45ACP as my daily carry for decades now. I’m invested in the caliber. The key to my ballistic heart: 1911’s ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Sons of Liberty M4-SMLA properly built AR-15-style rifle can be built to suit a wide range of tasks, from hunting to plinking to self-defense. With just a few tools, a little money and YouTube, an enthusiast can assemble their very own ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: HI VIZ AK Front SightI really enjoyed my AK47 build with the folks at the Dead Goose Society. In fact I’m looking at my next AK build now, this one just bought straight from DGS. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Henry Repeating Arms .30/30When I found out that RF had purchased a few lever guns, consummating his love affair with the cowboy classic, I considered it a grand sign and a symbol of ...The Truth About Guns
- “Underground Tactical is doing custom Cerakote colors. I think maybe it’s gotten a little out of hand.”The Truth About Guns
- Houston METRO Open Carry is a Great Thing for Gun RightsStarting with the new year and changes to state law, Houston METRO bus lines and light rail lines will allow passengers to exercise their civil rights by openly carrying a ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: America Grip Tool GripI recently received an unsolicited product for review, the America Grip Tool Grip AR rail cover. The owner of the company and I were discussing products over lunch and he ...The Truth About Guns
- Any Day Spent Hunting Beats a Day at the OfficeA few months ago Cody Hirt, the founder of Veteran Outdoors, told me he had a problem. A large male Catalina ram has been destroying fences and property. Worse, the big goat had no ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Grand Power X-Calibur 9mmRF has known me for a couple of years now. So when he told me to come over and pick up something interesting I was thinking more along the lines ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: 1911 GripwrenchI’ve had more than a few 1911s over the years. A couple of them required a barrel bushing wrench to disassemble. One of them required a barrel bushing wrench and a ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: GLOCK 40 MOS 10mm PistolThe gun for this review was provided by the Kentucky Gun Company. I finally got my hands on the much heralded GLOCK G40 MOS, the six-inch, optics-ready 10mm juggernaught. I ...The Truth About Guns
- What I Carry and Why: Jon Wayne Taylor’s STI Duty One and Kahr PM9[ED: In response to reader requests, this is the third in a series of posts by TTAG writers revealing their choice of carry guns.] Being a friendly and caution-minded person, ...The Truth About Guns
- Jon Wayne Taylor Buys a Lower Receiver in Texas (vs. Massachusetts)I am a proud son of Texas. Although the firearms laws here are far from perfect, the difference between the Lone Star State’s gun laws and those of anti-gun rights states was ...The Truth About Guns
- Building Our Own AK-47s With the Dead Goose SocietyI was never much of a fan of the AK-47. I had a bit of experience with them in Afghanistan. During my first tour there, the Afghan National Police, Afghan ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Trijicon MROBack in the day, I was hesitant about using zero magnification red dot sights on a rifle. I didn’t see the value – right until I laid down underneath an ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: FNX-45 TacticalFall’s almost here. I’ve been out in the not-quite-so-superheated Texas air, testing the next contender in my Perfect Truck Pistol series: the .45-caliber FNX-45 Tactical. For those who don’t remember how this whole thing ...The Truth About Guns
- Jon Wayne Taylor: Now Are the Doves! (Texas Season Opener)For America, for me, hunting season started yesterday. September first is the opening day of Dove Season here in central Texas. I think that’s a few days earlier than Louisiana; as ...The Truth About Guns
- Jon Wayne Taylor to Law Enforcement: How to Deal with Gun OwnersI often hear that no matter what a member of law enforcement is telling you to do, you should obey the officer immediately. People often argue that the only safe ...The Truth About Guns
- Fighter Design Vertx Airflow Phantom Ops Pants – Cooler Than ShortsThe Truth About Guns
- There’s A Reason They’re Called The Armed ForcesSo far in 2015 our enemies killed four US military service personnel in Afghanistan and three in Iraq. On one day this year a terrorist killed five US military service personnel ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: STI Nitro 10 10mm 1911After testing the GLOCK 20 I’m still auditioning candidates for my perfect truck pistol: a handgun I can use for concealed carry self-defense and hunting game. Before reviewing the latest contender – the STI Nitro 10 10mm ...The Truth About Guns
- Combat Medic: Army’s Hollow Point Ammo Switch Will (Or Should) End the Caliber DebateIt appears that the US Army has finally decided to start using hollow point ammunition for the general issues service pistol. When RF called me and told me that, I ...The Truth About Guns
- TTAG Writer Jon Wayne Taylor Named CEO of Fighter Design. 10% Discount for TTAG Readers!I’ve been a customer of Fighter Design for a couple of years. I wear their Airflow pants. I use their Magnetic Retrofit Kit silent velcro adaptors. I use their featherlight rifle sling ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Lone Wolf Distributors Compact Timberwolf 9mmI know it’s a matter of considerable debate, but I think GLOCKs are ugly. A powerful tool shouldn’t look like a bar of bad hotel soap. Enter the Lone Wolf Distributors Compact ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Arsenal AF2011-A1 Double Barrel .45ACPI try and review a firearm for its intended purpose. A tricked-out race gun is not a concealed carry piece. My integrally suppressed S&W 15-22 is not a big game rifle. ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Bill’s Custom Automatics Master Grade 1911Right off the bat, Bill’s Custom Automatics does it right. I opened the custom case to find the Master Grade 1911 well presented and six Wilson Combat magazines, each inside their own ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Rock Island Armory GI Standard FS 1911 – Part 2According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are no second acts in American lives. The rule does not apply to Phillipino firearms. After the GI Standard FS’s abysmal showing during my initial review I sent ...The Truth About Guns
- Jon Wayne Taylor: RF Dead Wrong on Home Invasion ScenarioIn your recent post Self-Defense Tip: Don’t Over-Penetrate a Room, you laid out a couple of scenarios. One was that there was a non-moving person laying on the floor during ...The Truth About Guns
- Review: Winchester Long Beard XR AmmunitionI love hunting. It’s hard to choose which game I like best: turkey, duck or sheep. But there’s no doubt which animal’s the hardest to harvest. For those of you who have ...The Truth About Guns
- Afghan Journal: My First Firefight. And The One After That.My first real firefight had everything you see in the movies. It was great. I mean sure, I’d been shot at before, and a few IEDs just missed me. But ...The Truth About Guns
- Afghan Journal: The Worst Shot I Ever MadeI recently found my old armor from my second tour in Afghanistan. Stuffed inside of it was a well-used Russian army bayonet. It brought back memories of how I came ...The Truth About Guns
- Model Comparison Highlights Excellence of Smith & Wesson’s Performance Center TriggerAt the NRA convention in Nashville, RF learned that Smith & Wesson was replacing the existing trigger on their M&P pistols with a new “enhanced” trigger. (Currently sold as standard ...The Truth About Guns
- Jon Wayne Taylor Takes the GLOCK 20 for a Ride – And Shows It the DoorI love GLOCKs. In theory. The idea of a generic-looking polymer pistol that takes a licking and keeps on kicking [butt] appeals to me on the sub-atomic level. In practice, not so much. Truth be ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Fighter Design Featherlight Rifle SlingNot too long ago TTAG posted a review of the Five Best AR-15 Rifle Slings. I was glad to see the Vickers Sling among them, and dissapointed to see that the ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: STI Tactical DS 4.0The single stack STI Duty One 4.0 in .45ACP with an aluminum frame [not shown] is my everyday carry gun. That firearm changed my mind about the accuracy and reliability of sub ...The Truth About Guns
- The Truth About My First Audad HuntI’ve been an avid sheep hunter since 2010, when Veteran Outdoors took me on a Corsican ram hunt in West Texas (not shown above). I’d just returned from Afghanistan. That hunt ...The Truth About Guns
- Gun Review: Rock Island Armory GI Standard FS Semiautomatic 1911I expect a high-priced tool to work well; that’s certainly true for handguns. But what I really love to see: an inexpensive gun perform well. That’s probably why I’ve ...The Truth About Guns
- Deep in the Heart of Texas: TTAG Tours STII love a machine shop, I love guns, and I love me some Texas. So it was a lot of fun for me to visit STI, the manufacturer of exceptional ...The Truth About Guns
- A Veteran’s Response to John Farnam’s Post Encouraging Police to Shoot More PeopleTTAG previously reposted Mr. John S. Farnam’s article, posted on the Defense Training Institute’s web site, titled “Police Use of Force.” In that article, Mr. Farnam writes “The problem is ...The Truth About Guns
- Cabot Black Diamond: Exonerated?A couple of weeks ago RF called me to say Cabot Guns wanted me to test their Black Diamond 1911. Again. “Cabot wants you to come up to Pennsylvania, see ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Review: Law Tactical Folding AR Stock AdapterI’m one of the many Americans who take an AR just about everywhere. Like the thousands of servicemen who kept a .30-06 around after the wars of the first half of ...The Truth About Guns
- Hunting for Business at SHOT ShowI like guns. I admit, I like guns even more than I like most of my tools. (Except my Clifton planes…those are nice). But I don’t go to the SHOT Show ...The Truth About Guns