Who was the most horrible person in all of human history? Some might claim their mother-in-law. I’m personally crazy about mine. However, I’d like to dig a bit deeper than that today. Reinhard Heydrich, tallest man on the right, along with Heinrich Himmler and other Nazi officials. Image: Public Domain Tragically, the competition for that particularly dark superlative is fierce. I would say that human beings are animals, but that unfairly disparages animals. If ever you might have doubted humanity’s innate sin nature, you need look no further than any handy history text. Contenders Certain names naturally percolate to the top.…
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The trick to shooting handguns at long distance is an augmented sight picture.The infatuation of shooting at long range seems to have infected everyone. It can be great fun to hit targets at extreme distances, and if you’re trying to do it with a rifle, there’s a whole world of guns and gear out there that you can buy to make it easier.But what about long-range shooting with handguns?I’m not talking about bolt-action pistols or other specialty handguns; I’m talking about everyday-carry-type handguns. Other than for fun, the practical reasons to shoot at long range with a carry gun are…
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The Smart-Assist light lets you get the light you need pointed right where you need it.Whether you need cleaning supplies or a rifle rest, the Real Avid Bore-Max Master Cleaning Kit workstation has everything you need for the range.In the warm weather months, I haul myself and a pile of gear to the range once or twice a week. In the winter, I go once a week unless there’s a snowstorm. I’m not looking for sympathy, or bragging: I’m just explaining my workday.And as part of the cargo load on each trip, I have to take gun cleaning stuff ……
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Everybody in this world knows the Rule of Threes. Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food. It gets repeated in every survival class, every forum, every paperback with a compass on the cover.It’s a decent teaching tool. It’s also wrong more often than it’s right, and the real numbers — the ones from documented cases, hunger strikes, medical records, and people who got trapped in very bad places — are a lot stranger than the rule suggests. Some people died way faster than the rule says they should have. Others lived so much longer that…
The Brief: Four teenagers were arrested following an attempted robbery at Garfield Park in Indianapolis. During the incident, the intended target used a firearm in self-defense, wounding one of the suspects. Investigators determined the intended victim acted lawfully to prevent a violent felony, resulting in no criminal charges against him. The four juvenile suspects face preliminary robbery charges as the case moves through the legal system. Indiana statutes support the right to use force without a duty to retreat when facing serious threats. The incident underscores regional self-defense laws and tactical considerations for navigating public safety risks. INDIANAPOLIS, IN —…
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…
