Gear

From Dr. LateBloomer,   I’ve been reading a lot lately about cleaning and organizing one’s life. One trendy method is some Asian thing where you hold your possessions and commune with them before deciding whether to keep or pitch them. There’s another one out there called “Swedish Death Cleaning”. That last one sounds a bit morbid, but it stems from …

From Dr. LateBloomer   I missed being in a car accident this weekend – by about five feet. I was on a two lane suburban road in stopped traffic, when a vehicle two cars behind me tried to make a left turn – right into the path of an oncoming pickup, which not only hit him, but also took out …

I’m often pleased by the performance of a firearm. It’s been a rare occurrence, only once in just over a year, that a firearm has given me trouble. That incident was remedied by a part swap and the rifle itself continued on to success in its trials. It is far rarer I’m surprised by a firearm. Where picking it up …

“A good plan never survives contact with the enemy…” “Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.” “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”   There are a myriad of one liner wonder quotes that are supposed to encompass how important (and how unimportant) planning is when it comes to violent interactions. The long …

In honor of the anniversary of our great nations independence Aero Precision is launching their newest Freedom Collection upper and lower receivers for the M4E1 and M5 Rifles The lowers are their newest generation (although there is a a run of legacy style AR15 receivers too). The new billet styling layout and pictographs are complimented with the forward moving flag motif …

From our friends at Spotter Up When someone asks you if you’d like to borrow their $4,900 SR25, you say yes. At least I did. My boy lent me this gun to try out the new Eotech Vudu PRS (precision rifle scope) that sits on top of it.The Vudu line is Eotech’s first entry in the PRS market and I was skeptical at first …

From Mike Westra Every student that takes my concealed carry class hears these two questions at the beginning of the class. “Why are you here? and “What motivated you to take this course?” The usual answer is ” So I can protect my family”, however not last week. The only answer that I heard was “To kill the next active …

The PDW concept came to be at the end of the 1980s and was a product of a NATO request. NATO wanted to replace their 9mm submachine guns. They wanted a weapon that wasn’t as large as a rifle, but more potent than a submachine gun. NATO specifically wanted something that could efficiently defeat body armor. That’s the military/NATO PDW, …

Shooting and moving is an important skill to dust off every once in awhile. Sadly it’s raining today so we will live vicariously through YouTube. I did a variation of this early this week and I was… dusty. But by the third run the fail duster had done its job and I was shooting where I wanted to again. Pro …

“Most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on ‘pucker factor’ than the inherent accuracy of the gun.” A note on accuracy. It is a widely abused term. If a rifle isn’t ‘Sub-MOA’ (even if the person asking has no notion what that means) or a handgun doesn’t stack rounds at ten yards in their hands then the gun in …