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Shooting Competition as Training: How ‘Real’ Is It?

Shooting Competition as Training: How ‘Real’ Is It?

Though certainly not complete training in and of itself, shooting competition (IDPA, IPSC, etc.) can be a useful component of firearms training, skill maintenance and skill assessment.

Seven Tips to Choose a Handgun for Self Defense

Seven Tips to Choose a Handgun for Self Defense

Selecting a handgun is personal—too personal to allow me or anyone else to do it for you. That said, it needs to fit your hand, have a recoil impulse you can control, and be small enough and light enough you might actually carry it and have it with you when you need it. Yes, you need to like it. Not I nor anyone else is qualified to make those decisions for you. I don’t want you buying my underwear and I’ll bet you don’t want me picking out yours.

The SnagMag yields a spare Glock magazine from a trouser pocket. At rest, it looks like a pocketknife.

Concealed Carry: Is Spare Ammo Necessary?

With the opportunity to expand on his previous work in Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry, Massad Ayoob took the opportunity in “Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry 2nd Edition” to talk about the issue of concealed carry and spare ammo.

Reloading: What Do You Really Need to Get Started?

Reloading: What Do You Really Need to Get Started?

While the basics are simple when it comes to getting set up to reload ammunition for your handgun, there are still some critical choices that need to be made. Here’s some advice from long-time reloader Patrick Sweeney, from “Reloading for Handgunners.”

Originally made with 20-round magazines, eventually 30-round stick magazines and 50- and 100-drum magazines were manufactured for use on "the gun that made the '20s roar."

Gun Collecting: The Venerable Thompson Submachine Gun

With only about 2,400 Thompson submachine guns in a transferable state today, the price for one of these beauties reaches well into five digits.

Find Out Who Won the AR-15 Book Giveaway

Find Out Who Won the AR-15 Book Giveaway

Thanks to everyone who entered for a chance to win the “Gun Digest Book of the AR-15 Volume 4.” The comments were a lot of fun to read, and some of your torture tests were even more extreme than the ones in this book!

If the right-handed shooter fires with thumbs curled down, thumb won’t block operation of slide lock lever.

Gun Review: Shooting SIG-Sauer’s P226

In the 1970s, the SIG-Sauer brand was new to American firearms enthusiasts, and the company’s pistols took America by storm. For a long time, the P226 was the most popular of the series, for very good reasons, according to Massad Ayoob.

Still not convinced? Click the image to see photos from the author's AR-15 torture test.

Giveaway: AR-15 Guide With Torture-Test Gun Reviews

When Patrick Sweeney said he was going to put a batch of ARs through some intense torture testing to do gun reviews, we had no idea he’d go this far. Here’s your chance to win a copy of the book that shows the results – “Gun Digest Book of the AR-15 Volume 4.”

The Savage 110 Tactical .308 Carbine is a five-shot bolt gun that would do for long-range defense, though it is limited in capacity and speed.  Factory equipped with an Army Digital Camo stock, the Carbine is shown with a Vortex scope and bipod. The tactical carbine is lighter than many sniper rifles currently available.

Is There a “Best Survival Gun” For Home Defense?

When preparing for emergencies and survival situations, many of us will rely on firearms purchased for other purposes, such as hunting, target or informal recreational shooting, or defense of home or self during “normal” times. If you’re thinking about the security resources you’d like to have on hand in not-so-unlikely survival situations, keep in mind these important strategies, from Scott Wagner in his new book, “Gun Digest Book of Survival Guns.”

Shells raised by the single extractor for manual removal get well within reach.

Gun Review: The Trilling 3-Barrel Shotgun

Over/under & side-by-side shotguns are common, but a three-barrel shotgun? In the “1991 Gun Digest,” Larry Sterett wrote a gun review about just such a gun.