Category: Tips and Techniques
The Key to Increasing Your Speed – Competitive Shooting Tips
Champion pistol shooter Doug Koenig offers training advice to competitive shooters to improve their speed. Doug discusses how by pushing your limits in training you can increase your scores.
Shooting steel ammo in your AR-15
Being a gun manufacturer and re-seller, you have no idea how often I get the question “can I shoot steel-cased (ie. Wolf) ammunition in my AR-15? Believe it or not, the answer is YES, but with a caveat. There are tons of made-up and illogical reasons that people don’t shoot steel out of their ARs, [...]
In The Other Hand
Each of us develops our own preferences in shooting over time. It is natural to throw all of the handgun’s control to your dominate hand. Do you ever switch and shoot with your non-dominate hand? One of the reasons to carry is to be prepared in the event that we must defend ourselves or others. [...]
A Guns Favorite Meal
Every gun, like each of us performs different depending on what it’s fed. If you feed your gun a steady diet of its favorite ammo you could see dramatic improvements in your shooting results. I have seen expensive custom guns that performed better with cheap ammo and cheap guns that perform better with the expensive [...]
AR-15 Mid-Length vs. Carbine Upper: What’s the difference?
There is a slew of misinformation on AR-15 upper configurations on the internet, but sometimes it’s more a lack of information than anything. When it comes to the somewhat unknown mid-length upper for the AR platform, the latter is the issue. While there are mid-length uppers for even the LAR-8, AR-10, SR-25 platforms, this article [...]
What Works for You
Champion shooter Doug Koenig (NSSF Video) covers the importance of experimenting with a variety of techniques and equipment to determine what works best for you. (NSSF Video) If you want to become the best shooter you can, don’t force yourself to learn one shooting stance, grip, DOPE technique, etc – learn many and hone in on [...]
Lee Load-All
If you’re anything like me, you’ll look for ways to save some money on you’re shooting hobbies so you can do more of it, more of the time. One thing that I’ve done to save some dough for years now is reloading. I’ve been reloading centerfire cartridges since about 1990 and shotgun for the [...]
TAPCO Intrafuse SKS Stock Installation
Making modifications to guns is an area that can be intimidating to many. For many years there was little help in this area short of taking your gun to a professional gunsmith, which could often times result with a costly bill. Now modifications can be as easy as a click of your mouse. One of [...]
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Claybuster 1034-20 3/4oz 20 gauge Wad [Recipe and Review]
As lead prices rise, it’s always nice to find another way to reduce shooting costs. It is even nicer when that comes with the promise of even lighter kick out of my 20 gauge practice loads. Last weekend I picked up a relatively new offering from Claybuster: their new 20 gauge 3/4oz wad designated CB-1034-20. [...]
Reloading Station Setup
I currently have three reloaders for shotshells. Two MEC 600 Jr single-stage presses for 28 and .410 and an MEC grabber progressive reloader for 12 gauge. I am practicing 12 gauge for skeet at the moment and that progressive really turns out shells. Each pull of the handle yields a shell, where the single-stage presses [...]
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