Kids and gun safety on Training Talk!
Keeping kids safe around firearms, and teaching them to use them safely and responsibly, is a big task. If you’re a gun owner and a parent, it may be one of the most important things you do. That’s what we covered on last week’s episode of Training Talk, with special guest Barret Kendrick — Instructor and Dad.
We talked about how kids can live safely in a home with firearms, and he did a good job of dispelling some …
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Your Hump Day Reading List for May 2, 2018
April showers have brought…May Hump Day Reading List articles! Don’t miss out on any of these great references for all parts of your protected life!
Great examples of personal threat assessments
If you’ve read Prepping For Life, you know that I recommend doing threat assessments for everyone in your family. This is a very interesting article from the Active Response Training Blog, specifically on doing personal violence threat assessments. I highly recommend you read it as part of your …
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Not-So-British Bulldog
In the 1860’s Philip Webley & Son developed a solid-frame, large caliber double-action revolver with a five-shot cylinder. These were relatively compact guns chambered for a .44 Rimfire cartridge, .442 British (also known as .44 Webley) and .450 Adams. These developed into the Webley RIC, which stood for Royal Irish Constabulary who adopted the weapon, […]
Yet another tactical hobbyist fantasy bites the dust
Last week I received an interesting email from a reader of my latest book, Protecting Your Homestead: Using a rifle to defend life on your property.
The sender was wondering about the utility of a lever-action rifle as a defensive tool, and said that he’d been told his lever action was only suitable for “short duration gunfights”. He was worried that his rifle wouldn’t be enough for self defense and asked if he should sell it off for something …
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Cartridge Conversion Percussion Revolvers- Info, Criteria and Process
It’s no secret by now that I am fascinated with Cartridge conversions of percussion revolvers. This all started with the local indoor ranges insisting on jacketed ammo only. It meant that my beloved .45 Colt’s were prohibitively expensive to shoot as I did not reload. Since times were hard I reluctantly parted with them. Then […]
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.38 S&W ‘Avenging Angel’
A buddy of mine asked if I would convert a brass-framed 1851/.44 to an Avenging Angel for him, and since it is technically a non-firearm I said sure. So in yesterday’s mail a pair of Pietta 1851/.44s arrived. I had a .38 S&W cylinder and barrel that I made last year mounted on a steel […]