The idea of a car gun, especially a dedicated car holster, is very tempting. After all, carrying a defensive pistol with you means adding at least a pound of metal (and possibly plastic) on your waistband everyday, metal which weighs down on your belt and pokes and prods you in many different and uncomfortable ways. Securely having a gun with you when you drive is a good idea. Is securely having a gun with you all the time, even when you’re not driving, even better? Car holsters come in two flavors: Secure, lockable containers which can be affixed to your…

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Colt Optics has just announced a new pistol red dot, a full-size red dot and a magnifier.Colt Optics has officially entered the red dot game with its recent announcement of the MRS-1 enclosed-emitter pistol red dot, the CSQ-1 rifle red dot and the C3X-1 3x magnifier. All three were designed, engineered and assembled in Michigan and feature large viewing windows for faster target acquisition and better situational awareness while behind the sight.The MRS-1 is an enclosed-emitter pistol red dot that features a rugged 7075-T6 aluminum housing, a 3-MOA dot, an ACRO mounting footprint, motion-activated illumination and co-witnessing with many standard-height…

Here at RECOIL, we’re always on the lookout for new ways to pull triggers with good people. So when a buddy mentioned he was heading to Gunsite in Paulden, Arizona, to take part in a competition we’d never heard of, we figured it was worthy of attention. The Dual Platform Sniper Challenge is the brainchild of Josh Reeves. While standing in the Gunsite parking lot delivering the match briefing, he explained the reason it came into being. “This is a match I’ve wanted to shoot for a long time, and no one else was running it, so I just said…

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I’ve been storing food for over two decades now, and I’ll tell you something the survival blogs won’t: most of what people stockpile ends up in the trash. I’ve seen it happen. A guy I know spent close to $4,000 on “emergency food” back in 2012. When he finally opened some of it a few years back, half the buckets smelled like a wet dog and the other half had turned into brick. Four grand, gone.The problem isn’t that food storage doesn’t work. It works fine — people have been doing it for thousands of years without vacuum sealers or…