Article first appeared at NRAmedia.org NRAmedia –  peers will generally acknowledge that I am rarely the last man to arrive nor the first man to depart Happy Hour. An evening spent with good friends, some good whiskey and perhaps a good cigar is hard to beat. When these activities are …

Article first appeared in at Cheaperthandirt.com Cheaperthandirt – The Good Price: Steel ammo is significantly cheaper than comparable brass case ammo—sometimes costing as little as half the price. Who wouldn’t want to shoot twice as much for the same cost? Buy All-American! Bring health and vitality back to your body with these …

Article first appeared in NRAMedia.com  NRAMedia – It’s hard to know when and where you might face an armed, violent criminal intent on doing harm to you and those around you. If you knew in advance, of course, you’d avoid going there. If you work in a smoke shop, however, you …

Article first appeared in NRAMedia.com  NRAMedia – The sheer size and scale of the Battle of the Bulge gave rise to so many feats of arms that examples of individual heroism have tended to get swallowed by the big picture. As the largest battle fought by the U.S. Army during the …

Article first appeared in NRAMedia.com  NRAMedia – Recently, I ran into someone I hadn’t seen since my high school days—I’ll call him “Danny.” We talked about mutual friends, families, careers and personal interests and when he learned of my occupation, it became apparent that he belongs to what I call the …

“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants, I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.” William Lloyd Garrison, Abolitionist Here we go again.  Barack Hussein Obama has issued another illegal executive order, which stands in direct …

A recent Gallup poll featured “Guns and gun control” as 19th on a list of most important problems in the eyes of the American people. “Government” was the first on the same list. Thus, it should say something to the American people when “guns and gun control” is so overwhelmingly important …

Whacking targets at stupidly long ranges has become the cool thing to do. Indeed, it’s gratifying to get behind a rifle, fire a single shot and hit a target the size of a guitar five football fields away. For many, this mastery of ballistics and pulling triggers seems as complicated …

Over the past few years our ammo editor, Richard Mann, has been compiling data yielded from shooting blocks of ordnance gelatin. We’re not sure why. Anyway, we found ourselves the beneficiaries of a vast amount of data we weren’t sure what to do with. I mean, what do you do …

The subject is confusing because humans relate things to known standards. We cannot measure stuff without reference to something we know and understand, like inches. You’ll ask your buddy, “How big was that smallmouth bass?” He’ll say, “Oh, about 19 inches.” And, you’ll know exactly how long that fish was, …