The Weapon Blog

At the risk of reducing my own chances to win, https://www.weapon-blog.com/contests/ has been updated with all the gun and gear related contests that I am aware of for the month.

Go forth and win… As always, feel free to share wherever you can.

If you are aware of any that are not on the list, please submit the details on the contact form to get it added to the list.

*Please forgive the state of the contest page of late — work has kept me busy travelling both nationally and internationally, and as TWB is a one man show there is only so much of me to go around.

Sometimes it is the most simple of advice about hunting that turns out to have the most sage. This simple commentary came from a hunter’s grandfather when the campfire question arose about how these trophy buck hunters always seem to score nearly every season. His answer was a remarkably easy answer. Just “go regular.”

Really enjoyed Dr. Woods’ article here. Give it a read: https://www.alloutdoor.com/2018/10/29/go-hunt-regular/

It may be a little on the longer side, it may have charts and graphs.

But you need to go read this article by Jacob over at Concealed Carry.

Armed Citizens Are Successful 94% Of The Time At Active Shooter Events [FBI]

A proper gun grip is essential! Your gun must become an extension of your arm and your hand. Gun grip effects your sighting (aim), your balance, your ability to work the hammer (on a revolver) to pull the trigger, to work a safety mechanism (if your gun has one), to absorb much of the recoil with as little discomfort as possible and your safety. Think about it this way, your gun replaces the finger in pointing (or aiming) at an object. There are some slight differences between the proper grip for a revolver and that of a semiautomatic gun.

For self-defense, a two-handed gun grip is always better. It is however recommended to get comfortable gripping and shooting your gun one handed as well, in both dominant and non-dominant hands. This is in the event you are somehow disabled and forced to shoot one-handed. So getting comfortable and proficient with a proper gun grip in both hands is necessary.

Read the rest of the article: https://thewellarmedwoman.com/training-handling/proper-gun-grip/

Americans’ support for a ban on semi-automatic guns in the U.S. has dropped eight percentage points from a year ago, when opinions were more evenly divided after the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Last year’s measure was unusually high for the trend over the past several years; the current 40% is back to within a few points of where it was between 2011 and 2016.

Read the rest of the article: https://news.gallup.com/poll/243860/snapshot-majority-oppose-ban-assault-rifles.aspx

The iOS family of devices have more computing power than what got America to the moon. It’s time to use it for rocket science. Introducing Sendit Ballistics, the iOS ballistics calculator built around your next shot. This app was made with the field user in mind.

Sounds like an interesting product — has anyone had an opportunity to spend any time with it?

Find out more: http://www.deftsystems.us/home/products/sendit-ballistics/

At the risk of reducing my own chances to win, https://www.weapon-blog.com/contests/ has been updated with all the gun and gear related contests that I am aware of for the month.

Go forth and win… As always, feel free to share wherever you can.

If you are aware of any that are not on the list, please submit the details on the contact form to get it added to the list.

Once a year, giants of the Russian arms industry gather outside Moscow to show off their latest technology and display their vision for the future of human warfare at the Russia’s Army Expo.

The MTs-116M has been around for twenty years. It is a well-proven if unexceptional bolt-action, 7.62mm weapon with an affective range of 700 meters (about 2,300 feet). The new version, unveiled at Army 2018, keeps the basic design but converts the MTs-116M into a silenced 12.7mm weapon. It’s a major and appropriately quiet feat of weapon engineering.

Read the rest of the article: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/amp22862616/russia-silent-sniper-rifle/

I was a fair hand with pistol, rifle, or shotgun, but I learned more about gunfighting from Tom Speer’s cronies during the summer of ’71 than I had dreamed was in the book. Those old-timers took their gunplay seriously, which was natural under the conditions in which they lived. Shooting, to them, was considerably more than aiming at a mark and pulling a trigger. Models of weapons, methods of wearing them, means of getting them into action and operating them, all to the one end of combining high speed with absolute accuracy, contributed to the frontiersman’s shooting skill. The sought-after degree of proficiency was that which could turn to most effective account the split-second between life and death. Hours upon hours of practice, and wide experience in actualities supported their arguments over style.

The most important lesson I learned from those proficient gunfighters was the winner of a gunplay usually was the man who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live long on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting—grandstand play—as I would poison.

Read the rest of the article: http://abesguncave.com/wyatt-earp-on-gunfighting-interview/

This looks amazing, just too much fun out on the range!

A widely-popularized study adopted by the Obama administration claiming the U.S. has by far the most mass public shooters in the world has been criticized and dismissed by new research.

John. R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of the new study, has always been skeptical of the research by Adam Lankford, a professor at the University of Alabama, whose work gained special prominence after then-President Barack Obama cited his study in remarks about the San Bernardino attack in December 2015.

Read the rest of the article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/01/study-claiming-us-is-home-one-third-mass-shooters-worldwide-debunked-figure-less-than-3-percent.amp.html

National Public Radio uncovered deeply flawed data published by the U.S. Department of Education, following an investigation that found that more than two-thirds of school shootings reported to the authorities during one school year did not actually occur.

NPR reached out to each of the schools cited as having a shooting incident, and “found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened.”

Read the rest of the article: https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/28/npr-more-than-two-thirds-of-school-shootings-reported-to-feds-in-2015-16-never-happened

An SAS Sniper used a 60-year-old Browning M2 50 BMG machine gun to blow an ISIS commander to pieces in front of his men from 1.5 miles away.

It’s a new record for the SAS and the impressive thing is he used an old-school 50 BMG machine gun to do it. The shot tore the ISIS commander apart, ripping through his chest and taking a shoulder and arm with it. He was on a British and US ‘kill list’, and that got dealt with. He died instantly.

Read the rest of the article: http://usa-gun-shop.com/sas-sniper-hits-1-5-mile-target-with-40-year-old-gun/

A change in policy announced Monday night by Shopify, an e-commerce platform used by more than 600,000 merchants to conduct online sales, will essentially shut down the sale of guns, gun parts and accessories over the internet by retailers who use Shopify.

Spike’s Tactical, a Florida-based gun manufacturer, has built their entire website and online sales portal exclusively using the Shopify platform and conducts millions of dollars in sales through Shopify each year.

Read the rest of the article: https://www.ammoland.com/2018/08/new-shopify-policy-bans-sale-of-guns-accessories-over-the-internet/

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) has filed a collective lawsuit against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), New York State’s Superintendent of Financial Services Maria T. Vullo and the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS).

“Simply put, Defendants made it clear to banks and insurers that it is bad business in New York to do business with the NRA,” the lawsuit says. “As a direct result of this coercion, multiple financial institutions have succumbed to Defendants’ demands and entered into consent orders with DFS that compel them to terminate longstanding, beneficial business relationships with the NRA, both in New York and elsewhere.”

Read the rest of the article: https://townhall.com/notebook/bethbaumann/2018/08/04/the-nras-future-rests-in-the-hands-of-one-court-case-heres-why-n2506742