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Kyle Kirkpatrick was fed up with headphones and ear plugs that wouldn’t stay in or hurt his ears. Searching for custom-molded options found suitable models but with a $300 to $2,000 price tag attached. The Olympic-level gymnastics coach and athlete decided to design…
Long-range shooting enjoyed a tremendous boost during the Industrial Revolution when the means to mass produce consistently-made rifled firearms became reality. Previously limited to select specialists, rifles were commonly issued by the mid- 1800s. The problem then became how to exploit this…
From colonial-era rifles carried on the “Owlhoot Trail” to John Dillinger’s Colt pistols, the history of the American outlaw is told in guns—weapons that became each man’s personal signature. Authors Gerry and Janet Souter peer into these criminal’s choices of derringers, revolvers,…
On July 13, 2015 John R. Lott Jr. and Rebekah C. Riley of the Crime Prevention Research Center and John E. Whitley of the Institute for Defense Analyses published Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States, a paper reporting on the…
Millions of Americans feel the tug to participate in what may be the ultimate interaction with the natural world: Hunting. For many hunters, it’s a time for sharing long-established traditions with family members and friends. Those who are successful in their hunts…
Michael Kenneth Smith presents a compelling tale of historical Civil War (or is that War of Northern Aggression?) fiction in Home Again, lived through the experiences of two young men on each side. Luke is a Confederate, volunteering for service as a…
How much venison do hunters harvest? Every year, some 40 million citizens in the United States and Canada take to the fields, mountains, forests, streams, and lakes, returning with a harvest of wildlife and fish to feed their families and share with…
Chris Cheng was the overall winner of Top Shot on the History Channel. The television series brings a variety of applicants with varying backgrounds and has them compete in unconventional and ever-changing elimination events. Contestants have included military, law enforcement, and civilians—some…
American Gunsmithing Institute has a new DVD-based course on Glocks, teaching students how to modify the popular pistols in a variety of custom options. The series contains more than 17 hours of re-mastered video instruction and comes with a complete set of…
From Dave Sengelaub, Sunnen Products Company. Hammer-forged barrels are not well thought of by precision rifle shooters but a critical manufacturing process used by the hammer forging guys is suddenly getting attention from custom barrel makers today. It’s honing. Honing produces a…
Gary Behr has authored a comprehensive compendium of firearms lore called Firearm Fundamentals. Certified by the NRA as an Instructor and Range Safety Officer and by the Wisconsin Department of Justice as a Defensive and Arrest Tactics and Law Enforcement Security instructor,…
James W. McIntyre is the owner of the McIntyre Gun Shop in Duncansville, Pennsylvania and has an extensive background as an expert gunsmith and machinist. He offers the following drawings to make a taper fixture for your lathe. McIntyre’s design will let…
For the trained, responsible firearm user, carrying a concealed handgun can be a prudent safety practice. Unlike automobile driving privileges, which despite their greater lethality enjoy interstate freedom, laws governing the right to bear arms in public vary widely among states. As…
Published in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, Firearms: An Illustrated History (DK Publishing, http://bit.ly/1tc Bx Dz) charts the evolution of the gun for civilian and military use, from the pistol and rifle, to the machine gun and artillery, from the development of…
A tip from gunsmith Patrick Sweeney. A neat trick you can perform with a mill is to adjust front and non-adjustable rear sights. Say your pistol is hitting low and you want to adjust it. The calculation involves four figures: The amount…
The National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that a recent survey shows 79 percent of the American public approve of hunting. This marks the highest level of support for hunting since 1995, according to data compiled by Responsive Management, an independent research firm.…
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has been supplying the firearms and ammunition industry with a variety of research reports and data on industry indicators for nearly 10 years. Each year, NSSF builds upon past research and fulfills member requests for information…
Gunsmith Bob Richardson combined his interests in gunsmithing and computer programming to create GunsmithInfo.com, a resource for gunsmiths. The site includes an indexed database of American Gunsmith issues and articles dating back to April 1992 and is updated every month. “I have…
The National Shooting Sports Foundation released a study documenting the Chick Blood benefit target-shooting activities has on the American economy: Target Shooting in America: Millions of Shooters, Billions of Dollars. The report provides a look at target shooting-related expenditures in the United…
An editorial by Paul Mazan. During a SHOT Show long ago, a rep from an American shotgun maker asked me what they were missing in the marketplace. I suggested a good double shotgun for Cowboy Action. His response, “What is ‘Cowboy Action’?”…
An editorial by Paul Mazan. I am getting tired of gun magazines crammed full of stories about AR-15s, 1911s, Glocks and Glock look-alikes. The American firearms industry used to be known for innovation. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case for decades now.…
Impressum Media Inc., publishers of the popular Firearms Guide series of guns and ammunition references on DVD, recently released AR Rifles, anew digital guide on over 1,300 AR-15 rifles. The original Firearms Guide includes a schematics library with over 3,000 printable firearm…
Tips from Gunsmith William L. Henwood, Quincy CA 95971, Holding Tapered Parts Tired of having tapered parts, such as barrels, squirting out of your machine or bench vise? These jaw liners will tightly grip parts with a tapering profile for their full…
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (nssf.org) surveys federally licensed firearms retailers across the country every year to find out what products are the biggest sellers and who is buying. NSSF issues these annual reports based on online surveys. This data shows which types…
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