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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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Two guns are one, one gun is none. This saying has bounced around for years on gun forums as the reason to always carry a backup gun. Some self-defense advocates on the forums even take it further and claim that three guns are two.
August 03, 2011
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At the 2011 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, I looked at most of the new handgun models that were being introduced. With a few notable exceptions, sights on these guns follow the modern trend of three painted or imbedded white dots. The idea is that the shooter aligns the three dots in an equally-spaced row. I believe that this pattern of sights started to appear on some European models in the 1970s, quickly achieved popularity and is now a virtual standard. As a matter of fact, when I suggested to a gun company executive that he should leave the dots off of a particular model, he looked horrified and assured me that a pistol would not sell without three dots. In truth, this guy probably knows more about selling guns than I ever will, but we are in a situation where the dots are there because they have always been there. I firmly believe that the three-dot system commonly used on most modern service pistols does not add anything to the gun's utility value.
August 03, 2011
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Pictured left to right: Tony Morrison, Bob's son, former NFL Hall of Famer Jack Youngblood, Bob Morrison and the Insider at the NRA's Sporting Clays Team Challenge in 2003, which we won—thanks in large measures to Bob's shooting.
August 03, 2011
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Holy Smoke offers live-ammunition with cremated ashes.
July 27, 2011
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We live in a time of fast-moving innovation. Applied technology has conditioned us to believe that anything is possible. Certainly this trend is applicable to the world of firearms. I mean this in the sense that new makers and technologies challenge existing stereotypes as to the size, weight, shape and performance of particular kinds of guns. In other words, it is not outside of reason to want a feathery-light magnum revolver. When enough folks said this, Smith &Wesson came up with the scandium-aluminum alloy that made it happen. But it sometimes happens that what the market wants is just a little beyond what technology can provide and the result is not so good.
July 26, 2011
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Recently, I was in the range trying out the new Aimpoint PRO when I wondered if my scope/rifle combination would work against a zombie horde. Since Champion introduced its new VisiColor Zombie targets at the Outbreak Omega 4 zombie shoot in July, I decided to find out.
July 26, 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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Labels are dangerous. Labels make it all too easy to stereotype, which results in misconceptions and preconceived notions. That said, labels are used in gun business for good reasons, primarily to make it easy to differentiate the many different types of firearms.
July 19, 2011
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The NRA is the most widely supported shooting sports organization in America, according to a recent survey conducted as part of Southwick Associate’s monthly Hunter Survey. More active hunters and shooters claim membership in the NRA than any other organization.
July 19, 2011
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As this is written, I am less than 24 hours away from a very long airplane ride that will put me, with stops and layovers, in the fabled Caprivi Strip in Namibia three days from now. The rifle I am taking—the Kimber Caprivi—is named for that strip of land in Northeastern Namibia that linked what was formerly German South West Africa to the Zambezi River and Germany’s former colony on the East African coast, Tanganyika. Named for German diplomat Leo von Caprivi, who negotiated a deal with the British for the land in 1890, the Caprivizipfel in German remains one of the wildest parts of Africa, chocked full of African game, including those of the dangerous variety.
July 18, 2011
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The Failure Drill consists of three shots designed to ensure that an attacker is stopped by putting two shots into center of mass with a final shot to the head.
July 14, 2011
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