George lived about a block from where I grew up. A Vietnam veteran and avid hunter, he came back from the war and opened a gunsmith shop attached to his home. Every morning, he simply walked from his kitchen out onto his driveway and into his shop. He spent his days working on customer’s firear...
I met our guest today, Derrick Ratliff, at this year's Leupold Relentless Rifleman , the NRL Hunter match I wrote about here ; he was working the same brutal high-desert terrain I was, and it turns out talking to the guy who made the rifle you’re competing with is some of th...
Why do you need a survival axe? When people think about prepping gear, they usually focus on the obvious items first. Things like emergency food kits, water filtration, firearms, medical supplies, generators, and radios tend to dominate the conversation. While all of those things matter, one tool...
Springfield’s new Prodigy 3.5 combines a compact slide with an 18-round, full-length grip. After 300 malfunction-free rounds, the unusual crossover proves it was built to shoot.
Despite the plethora of well-designed and innovatively engineered modern polymer-framed, striker-fired pistols out there, the seemingly timeless design of the model 1911 is as popular as ever. When gun makers like Springfield Armory broke into the category of double-stack magazine versions of the...
An attempted residential break-in at a north Harris County apartment turned fatal on Saturday when a 911 caller shot and killed an alleged intruder. Officials with the Houston Police Department and county authorities confirmed that the caller’s girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend attempted to force ent...
Few firearms have had as colorful a history as that of the iconic “Tommy Gun.” It was developed for the trenches of the First World War. But, as it arrived too late, the Thompson submachine gun was marketed to civilians, and later was carried by Allied soldiers in World War II. It could be ar...
When I was growing up, I was encouraged to not worry about “fitting in”. While I agree with that sentiment to this day, I now realize that there is most definitely a time and place to do just the opposite. Standing out in the wrong place or at the wrong time can put a target Read More The pos...
The Tank Museum isn’t on the way to anywhere. Located one mile north of the village of Wool in Dorset in southwest England, The Tank Museum is collocated with the British Army Armor School in Bovington. Nobody gets to The Tank Museum by accident. It’s in the middle of no place. Considering th...
A man showed up unannounced at a Leesburg home where his ex-girlfriend was visiting and tried to force his way inside. No arrests. Read the original story: Man Dead After Trying to Force His Way Into Home Where His Ex-Girlfriend Was Visiting