Gun Nuts

Check out GunUp the Magazine/Media Lodge’s own Shelley Rae on the latest episode of the ShootingUSA podcast, recorded on the show floor at NRA.

At the 2015 NRA Annual Meetings, HK announced the product I am the most interested in, the new P30SK. SK, in HK nomenclature denotes a subcompact pistol, and the new P30SK definitely fits the bill.

Like all hammer fired HK pistols, the P30SK will be available with any of the various HK trigger configurations. My preferred HK trigger is the light LEM, which gives a wonderfully smooth revolver-style trigger pull. The P30SK magazines hold 10 rounds, and the gun will accept the same 15 round mags as its parent pistol, the P30.

I think this gun looks great, and I’m glad to see HK finally bringing the grip modularity of the P30 to the subcompact market. I’d held off on buying a P2000SK specifically in hopes of this pistol existing someday, and now here it is.

Lately I have seen a lot of discussion about the details of best practices when handling weapons on various internet fora. Some of the discussions have been quite enlightening. Others…not so much. I thought it would be useful to give my perspective on some of these issues perhaps as food for thought and further (hopefully intelligent) discussion.

WILTON, CT (April 7, 2015) – The Media Lodge acquisition of GunUp
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So here’s a photo of Danica Patrick’s Indy Lights car. Why? Because racecar.

The most dangerous thing I do any given day is walk my dog. I don’t actually mean that as a joke, either. Dog walking means walking, and there are occasionally unsavory characters around.

I don’t worry about it too much, but I did want to try this dig out for a lot of walking, so I took what I thought was an M&P holster, tied it on, and did 5 solid miles with the dog. Comfort was great, concealment was fine, and if I was attacked by ninjas I’d have a lot of ammo on hand.

Still not carrying a reload, though.

A couple of weeks ago I gave an outline of some of the lessons I took away from the “Experiential Learning Laboratory” put on by Craig Douglas at the 2015 Tactical Conference. As I said in that writeup, I witnessed a lot of interesting reactions to unfamiliar stress. One reaction in particular, though, gave concrete form to a complaint that’s been running around in my head for quite some time about the way people are told to react after a use-of-force event.

Rant time is going to be a semi-regular series of articles where I, or other writers on the site, rant about things. These may or may not have anything to do with guns.

Add this to the list of things I’m not cool with.

Every now and then I have a plan for what I’m going to write that gets sidetracked because every attempt to write turns into a rant about something else…this is going to be one of those days.

Smyrna, Ga. (March 24, 2015) – There are many words that spring to mind when discussing the popular “Glock” line of pistols, but “beautiful” and “artistic” are not often among them. Yet that’s exactly what the craftsmen at GASTON J. GLOCK style LP, in conjunction with famed blacksmith Balbach, have produced by hammering three barrels from world champion shooter Dave Sevigny’s Glocks into stunning Damascus-style knives.

Exactly one week ago, I wrote a post revisiting the frequently hotly debated topic of weaver vs. isosceles. If you don’t want to read it, here’s the tl;dr version: with the exception of a very, very, very, very small portion of the shooting populace, it doesn’t matter which stance/grip/thing you use.

Click here to read GunUp the Magazine’s first look Glock 43 review.