When I was a young lad, I was enamored with pellet guns and air rifles. I can remember stopping at the hardware store and local sporting goods shop with my dad, and always going over to admire the shiny wood stocks on the airguns lined up on the rack. I couldn’t help but put my hand out and touch the …

  Jim Cannon takes you on a tour of the ELEY Test Range in Winters, TX.  Cannon is a professional .22LR competition shooter that won the 22LR Marksmen Challenge in 2015 and came in 2nd the year before.  Keep your eyes on him in the future of competition shooting. ELEY has been the apex of competition shooting ammunition for well …

During the course of some fifty plus years of shooting off a bench rest, I have come to understand the value of a quality system.  Something that is simple to use, light to transport or carry, and for the most part gets the job at hand done well. I have used systems that were flat out not transportable, and at …

Suppressors reduce the sound of shot by an average of about 30 dB(decibels), but they do nothing to reduce the sonic boom that a bullet makes as it flies through the air.  The only practical way to eliminate the boom is to use subsonic ammo. Sonic Boom When a bullet travels through the air it creates two pressure waves – …

Up front; regarding rifles, I’m an unmitigated accuracy snob. I meet friend’s show-and-tells of classic lever guns, pencil-barreled deer rifles or rare antiques with a yawn. I don’t rifle hunt big game (also being an archery snob), but am obsessed with predator and small-varmint shooting. Only tack-driving accurate rifles are interesting to me, as a ground squirrel or prairie dog …

When the .22 rimfire emerged from the primordial mists of the 1850s, hunters had no hotrod .22 centerfires. Heck, there were no hotrods, because cars hadn’t been invented. The Henry rifle in .44 rimfire had yet to evolve into Oliver Fisher Winchester’s first repeater. Verily, Winchester was still a shirt-maker, contemplating purchase of a bankrupt gun project.   About 30 …

The more I test and use handguns the more respect I have for the operating reliability of these machines. Tolerances held by Kimber, Colt, Springfield, Ruger, Smith and Wesson, SIG and CZ are excellent. When we use these handguns on the range we should have every confidence that they will fire time after time without any type of problem. The …

It was too close to miss. But I did miss. By the third shot, I was shading high, then low. The kudu at last caught a softpoint and wilted. “Not a typical shot,” said my pal, charitably. Not my typical performance, I thought. But to say so would have been to whine. The results were mine to own.   Had …

It is easy enough to take true innovation for granted when it has changed the market so completely. Within a few years CrossBreed holsters made big changes in the concealed carry holster market. CrossBreed holsters paved the way in modern hybrid holsters. I respectfully submit that they have been copied, shamelessly, but never equaled. The original CrossBreed design by Mark …