In the heyday of market hunting, large-bore shotguns were the name of the game. Hunters hunted waterfowl like ducks and geese in small pontoon boats with pintle-mounted smoothbore guns. These…
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One of the great advantages of the AR-15 platform is its modularity. With the lower receiver housing the fire control group and magazine well, and the upper receiver housing the…
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When preparing for a s*** hits the fan situation (SHTF), there are three types of preparedness required: mental preparedness, physical preparedness, and material preparedness. We covered mental preparedness in our…
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The 1980s saw a proliferation of new designs for cartridges to be chambered in pistols and personal defense weapons (PDWs). While some of those, such as 10mm Auto, continued in…
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Like its larger brother the .308 Winchester, the 5.56x45mm/.223 Remington cartridge has been used by wildcatters since its inception to create new and interesting cartridges. Since the 5.56 is already…
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If you own a gun, this November’s elections could be critical to determining whether or not you’re allowed to continue owning that gun. Joe Biden recently released his campaign’s gun…
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While whiz-bang magnums, small caliber high velocity cartridges, and long range target cartridges seem to have been the flavor of the month off and on over the past couple of…
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There’s always someone out there trying to create a better widget. And there’s perhaps no other industry in which that occurs as frequently as the shooting industry. No matter what…
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Many of the cartridges we as shooters take for granted today once began as wildcat cartridges. Whether it’s rifle cartridges such as the .243 Winchester or 7mm-08 Remington, or handgun…
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Ask professional hunters in Africa what cartridge they would pick for their rifle if they could only carry one rifle, and almost universally they’ll tell you the .375 Holland &…
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The .308 Winchester has been one of the most wildcatted cartridges in modern times. Itself a derivative of the older .300 Savage, the .308 Winchester has spawned some of the…
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While the development of smokeless powder saw many older blackpowder cartridges fall by the wayside, many of them have made a resurgence in recent years. Among those is the venerable…
