I took a break from submitting college homework, conference proposals and article submissions today for a little Me Time. Just a short session at the range, total of 120 rounds fired. I worked on half of each box of ammo was spent shooting weak hand-only.In other news, I need to practice more on WHO shooting. I sucked. First up was ...
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Girsan MC1911SC Ultimate 2000 Round Challenge: Now That’s More Like It!
Got busy with EMS conference season and the holidays, and haven’t been to the range since Blogorado. After speaking with Girsan and getting a new RDS and more magazines, I managed to sneak in a little range time here at Casa de Ambulance Driver. Temperature was a mild 57 degrees, 40% humidity, and sunny. I fired 50 rounds each of ...
Read More »Girsan MC1911SC Ultimate: 2000 Round Challenge
Okay, Girsan, let’s do this. Today begins the 2000 round challenge of the Girsan MC1911SC Ultimate 9mm, imported by EAA. If you’re unfamiliar with the 2000 round challenge, ala Tamara Keel and Todd Louis Green, read about it here. We’ll clean and lube the pistol according to manufacturer’s specs, and then put 2000 rounds of different types of ammo through ...
Read More »#NRAAM2019 Product Spotlight: Girsan 1911
Over the years, EAA has developed a reputation for importing surprisingly decent guns, such as the EAA Witness, and Tanfoglio pistols.Saw this one in the exhibit hall, and I am intrigued. May be doing a T&E and full writeup on this one soon.
Read More »Trigger Time
No, I’m not talking about shooting in general, I’m talking about triggers. I’ve never been a particularly discerning judge about how good a particular firearm’s trigger is. I’m a wingshooter, and pulling a shotgun trigger is more an exercise of “See the bird, BANG!” than in exercising a smooth, consistent trigger pull, or appreciating how well the gun facilitates that. ...
Read More »#NRAAM2018 Product Showcase: Midland Backpack Shotgun
I learned to wingshoot with a Winchester Model 37A chambered in 3″ magnum 20 gauge, my first real shotgun. My friends all had HR Toppers chambered in .410, and I remember feeling smugly superior to them because my Winchester was an objectively nicer shotgun. But that HR Topper was a ubiquitous firearm in the south; seems like every kid had ...
Read More »#NRAAM2018 Product Showcase: Omega Custom Rifles
One of the more intriguing rifles I encountered at #NRAAM2018 was the switch-barrel rifle from Omega Custom Rifles. Omega is a veteran-owned company based in Meridien, TX, and features a product line of bolt-action rifles built on custom Stiller actions glass-bedded into carbon fiber stocks, but the really part is the option to switch barrels in the field in a ...
Read More »NRA Annual Meeting, Day Two
Much joinder was was created yesterday at the Lone Star Medics Hydration Happy Hour following the close of the exhibit hall. Many thanks to Caleb Causey for hosting this mixer. I got to meet a great many Facebook friends for the first time in meatspace, and speaking of meatspace, dinner at Texas de Brazil was… epic. There was food, liquor ...
Read More »Going to the Big D – and I Do Mean Dallas
Headed out for the NRA Annual Meeting in Dallas this weekend. I’ll be blogging and sending out show reports and updates via the blog and Twitter. Follow me here and on Twitter for updates, and look for the hashtag #NRAAM2018.
Read More »American Hunter: Double Duty Carbines
Some EMS blowhard and shooting enthusiast you know wrote an article on double-duty carbines for American Hunter magazine. Go give it a read, and show me and American Hunter some love. And while you’re at it, take a hard look at having Alex Wakal at Dreadnaught Industries build you a custom AR15. He’s a good egg, does great work, and ...
Read More »Shooting Illustrated: Double Duty Shotguns
Some EMS blowhard and shooting enthusiast you know wrote an article on double duty shotguns for Shooting Illustrated. Go give it a look, and show me and Shooting Illustrated some love. The better my articles do, the easier it is to justify me doing more of them.
Read More »This Is My Rifle. There Are Many Like It, But This One Is Mine.
Way back in the dark ages of the Internet, in 2007, Marko Kloos wrote a blog post about his favorite rifle, a shortened #4 Enfield: It’s not much to look at, worthless to a collector, and completely devoid of flash and glitz and tacticality. It has no optics, just aperture iron sights. It has no accessory rails, vertical foregrip, fancy ...
Read More »From Sow’s Ear to Silk Purse
I’m a bit hard on my guns. As a kid, I spent many an hour field-stripping and meticulously cleaning every gun I owned after every use, under the watchful eye of my father. At least once a year, they got detail-stripped. We used WD-40 and 3 in 1 Oil, and despite the shortcomings of those agents, rarely had a gun ...
Read More »The British Grease Gun
I tell you, when you’re shooting a Sten Mark II, it takes all your self-control to keep from saying, “I say, Nigel, after we put down these Jerries, I could go for a spot of tea.”
Read More »Booth Babe
Rumor has it, there is an AK47 somewhere in that picture.
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