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Mechanical devices demand regular and proper maintenance. This certainly includes all firearms, which do require a good cleaning and lubrication after use to keep their operational performance at a peak. Generally, though, this does not imply that a firearm needs to be disassembled to the last screw and spring in order to clean it. Any firearm can get a basic cleaning in five quick steps.

Before cleaning any gun, open the action to make sure it is unloaded, and then read the owner’s manual for specific gun model instructions. Remove clips or magazines. Take out the bolt in a rifle, or lock open the action of a semi-auto rifle, shotgun, or pistol. Brush with solvent, clean, dry off, and lightly lube the bolt. Make sure you brush the extractor and/or ejector as well.

Set the cleaned bolt aside and working from the breech or chamber end, only run a cleaning rod with attached bronze brush soaked in gun solvent down the barrel and out the muzzle. Repeat this same action if the barrel is particularly dirty. Let it sit for 10-15 minutes. This allows the solvent to dissolve and soften bullet jacket material, lead, and powder fowling.

After the solvent soak, run the solvent soaked bronze brush down the barrel again several times to loosen the gunk in the barrel. Purists would say to unscrew the brush

Pistols in 380ACP have long been recommended to women for self-defense. While the advice had some merit, it also had a serious down side. Traditionally, 380ACP pistols were blowback designs. For a lightweight carry gun, that usually meant a stout recoil spring and jarring recoil despite the modest ballistics of the cartridge. Attending a day-long training course or even just firing more than a couple of magazines at the range could get unpleasant.

Walther PK380 is one of the newest generation of locked breech designs for lighter recoil spring and lower felt recoil. While its appearance suggests a commonality of manual of arms with the earlier P22, this gun is a bit different in operation.

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This fisherman hooked into a octopus which he originally thought was a snag. Check out some of the great underwater footage that was captured.

Research by the U.S. Army Laboratory Command is a good measure of how far we will really hunt or shoot defensively. They noted that 98 percent of all targets across all terrain are engaged at less than 600 meters, 90 percent less than 400 meters, and 90 percent less than 50 meters in urban terrain. With this in mind, we need the ability to be able to reach out to targets beyond the 15-25 yd. lines but it’s unlikely we will ever shoot out beyond 600 meters in a defensive or even hunting situation.

Magnification and sighting aids help ageing eyes. A few of my buddies clearly need magnification and this is where even just a little 3x magnification can make all the difference between making a shot and experiencing frustration at the hunt or at the range. If you are older, I recommend taking a look at what a low-power optics can provide you and your AR platform.

One of the optics that fits this need perfectly is the very high quality crystal clear Nikon P-223 3×32 fixed power scope.

CBC News reports that hunters in British Columbia can now hunt feral pigs “anywhere and at any time” by anyone possessing a valid hunting licence.

In a written statement, the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, said feral pigs are an invasive species that go after the eggs of ground-nesting birds, that competed with native wildlife, and that can cause damage to native vegetation and crops.

The ministry says that by placing them on the “Schedule C” list of exempted animals, it hopes that hunters will help the province in reducing their numbers.

The feral hog population has increased in size over the years. Who do you think is next to follow British Columbia?

Opening day of deer season. Low, gray clouds scudded across the sky as a harsh November wind shook our ground blind. The previous day had been balmy and comfortable, but then a nasty cold front roared in. “The deer are all bedded down,” I thought disappointedly. “There’s no way they’ll be out in this weath–”
“One coming in on the right!” murmured my guide, Ruben Serna. Raising his binoculars for a better look, Ruben said, “Eight points, but it’s a cull buck.”

My friend Ron Wagner’s eyes grew wide when the deer cautiously stepped into the open. “It would be a cull buck back home, too,” he quipped. “If you shoot a buck like that in Pennsylvania, you pick up the phone and ‘cull’ all your friends to come over and see it!”

A management buck at Rancho el Nido

But we weren’t in Pennsylvania.

Six months earlier I had be

Due to the stunning backlog of ARs from manufacturers, many of us have decided to build our own AR-15 from parts or from kits. Kits generally do not include the lower receiver, and will require you to assemble the parts on the lower receiver.

Parts-only kits are just that: you get to assemble each and every part on the rifle from the barrel to the grip. The easier route is to purchase pre-assembled upper kits from a manufacturer such as Model 1 Sales. These come with your customized parts completely assembled into a ready-to-pin-on upper that can be used on any complete AR-15 lower receiver as is. The remainder of the parts included in the kit include every part you need to be assembled on a stripped lower receiver.

Model 1 Sales has been one of the most noted manufacturers of these partially assembled complete upper kits. Ordering a kit is simple and requires no FFL as the receiver is the FFL registered part. Yes, your kit will get shipped right to your doorstep via UPS, but you will need to purchase via FFL or do a FFL transfer on whatever stripped lower receiver your choose to use.

There would be little argument that a decade ago Konus was a budget optic brand with a much more significant focus on price than quality. To be blunt, Konus made inexpensive scopes which were targeted to the casual, price sensitive shooter.

The challenge is that the market has become much more sophisticated and demanding of optics, and Konus recognized this shift and decided to revamp the company and its entire product line. The company has moved from a budget line of scopes to their new Konus Pro brand with features like 30mm one-piece heavy duty construction, high clarity optics, and etched reticles. The new breed of Konus Pro scopes are far from the sub-$100 optics they used to be, but they still deliver huge value with features and quality expected on much more expensive scope lines.

I picked up the KonusPro T30 3x-12x44mm to top off my American Spirit Arms upper with a 16″ bull barrel. The ASA upper delivers tiny groups, but the huge scope originally mounted on it made the build a little unwieldy for such a short barreled build and I found that typically I did not use the entire magnification range. The T30 was attractive to me because it delivers a full 3-12X magnification in a compact format and adds a dual illuminated BDC reticle for critter shooten in lo

Most of us would like to believe that evil will only attempt to do us harm when we’re at home with our AR-15 slung over our shoulder with one in the chamber, the Eotech sight on, and two insane dobermans to prevent any surprises.

But as we’ve seen over and over, bad things can happen anytime and anywhere, and you need to be prepared and trained to save yourself and your loved ones. Part of that is the realization that the evil shoots back or attacks with edge weapons while you fight for your life, and this is where Safeguard Armor Stealth makes perfect sense as a layer of protection for both ballistic and stabbing threats. For me, I wanted to know that I had an acceptable concealed armor option for use any kind of high risk situation.

From a survival perspective, body armor is making more and more sense. In fact, statically 75% of all gun related deaths could be prevented with just Level II body armor. It may become the best firearm accessory you have ever purchased.

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Writing in Quartz, economist Noah Smith makes the argument that the coming age of the fully autonomous drone will bring about social upheaval on a scale not seen since the invention of the musket. But unlike the musket, which was a democratizing weapon that empowered the lowly infantryman to face off against the nobles with their horse mounted archers, the drone will shift the balance of power back towards the few from the many. It’s a kind of anti-Kalashnikov, if you will.

Here’s Smith on the Age of the Gun, and how it currently keeps tyranny in check:

The advantage of people with guns is that they are cheap and easy to train. In the modern day, it’s true that bombers, tanks, and artillery can lay waste to infantry—but those industrial tools of warfare are just so expensive that swarms of infantry can still deter industrialized nations from fighting protracted conflicts. Look at how much it cost the United States to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, versus how much it cost our opponents. The hand-held firearm reached its apotheosis with the cheap, rugged, easy-to-use AK-47; with this ubiquitous weapon, guerrilla armies can still defy the mightiest nations on Earth

Lucky video capture of a giant bass attacking a frog as it was being pulled out of the water.