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If ever you are at an NRA National Defense Tactical Rifle Match and they ask if you want to shoot, say yes. I didn’t and I regret it. I decided that taking video and photos at the first one was more important. Bad decision. The new NDM was created by NRA’s Competitive Shooting Division, and they found the right guy for the job, former Navy SEAL Trey Tuggle. The match is a speed and accuracy event designed to test a shooter’s ability to perform drills that relate to real world defensive-shooting scenarios—and best of all, it is fun. Think of it like NRA Action pistol, but using a rifle, and the targets are fired from 7 to 500 yards in three classes. You shoot prone, kneeling or standing. You have to shoot from a barricade and—horrors—you have to shoot from your weak side, too. I was fortunate to be at Camp Perry, Ohio, on August 14 and 15 for the first National Defense Tactical Rifle Match. While limited to just a rifle match at this point, this is NRA’s first match that is similar to the exciting 3-gun gaining so much attention around the country.
October 25, 2011
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“Joe needs you to write up a rifle. It will be here Tuesday,” read the somewhat-cryptic message across the screen of my Blackberry. Executive Director of NRA Publications Joe Graham doesn’t usually make such assignments so my curiosity, as well as my attention, was up; he is my boss, after all.
October 18, 2011
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NRA E-Media Exclusive
October 10, 2011
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While reflex sights are regularly used in competitions from Camp Perry to the Bianchi Cup, you don’t see them very often on law enforcement or defensive handguns. Michigan-based Trijicon—maker of the ACOG (Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight)—is hoping to change that with its RMR. In case you aren’t familiar with it, RMR stands for Ruggedized Miniature Reflex sight, introduced last year.
September 28, 2011
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Turns out the real “Top Shot” at the NRA National Defense Match at Camp Perry, Ohio, was a 14-year-old high school freshman.
September 26, 2011
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While I held the camera, American Hunter Managing Editor Jeff Johnston handled a rifle—and handled it well at the NRA National Defense Match on August 14 and 15 at Camp Perry, Ohio.
September 21, 2011
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C. Rodney James has a passion for the .22 rifle, which he examines in extreme detail in his new book.
September 15, 2011
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On September 11, the hand of unspeakable evil reached out and touched one of the people dearest to me. I’m not alone.
September 08, 2011
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In our offices, we often discuss issues that matter—at least to us—such as carry guns. One American Rifleman staffer carries a Ruger LCP in .380 ACP with Winchester PDX1 on a daily basis. While this staffer was visiting the office of American Hunter Managing Editor Jeff Johnston (we don’t have the budget for a water cooler), the host came up with a line that is not entirely original, yet completely relevant. “You carry a .380? That’s what you use to fight your way to your pistol.” This is, of course, is a play on firearms trainer Clint Smith’s axiom: “The only purpose for a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should have never laid down.”
August 25, 2011
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Mark Keefe interviews actor and shooter Joe Mantegna about guns, television and freedom.
August 19, 2011
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Early Monday morning I received a call from NRA Secretary Edward J. “Jim” Land, Jr., USMC (Ret.). Jim has the difficult, and at times enviable, job of running the corporation part of the Association, including the NRA Annual Meetings and the NRA Board Meetings. A shooter’s shooter, Jim is double distinguished, was a Marine officer in Vietnam and is one of the fathers of the modern Marine Corps sniping program.
August 15, 2011
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We here at the magazine are 100 percent behind Ruger CEO Mike Fifer’s “Million Gun Challenge” to benefit NRA. Ruger has pledged to donate $1 million to NRA if 1 million new Ruger firearms are sold between the 2011 and 2012 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits. Fifer recently came to NRA HQ to meet with Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox to drop off the first $300,000 installment.
August 08, 2011
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From the field: American Rifleman Editor-in-Chief Mark Keefe hunted this bull elephant for five days in the Caprivi region of Namibia before finally taking him on July 23, 2011.
July 25, 2011
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Well thought-out in features and design, the Model 8400 Caprivi is Kimber Manufacturing's first dangerous-game rifle.
July 18, 2011
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