Featured

Soup It Up For Soldiers Step 3: Ruger 10/22 Competition Trigger and Magazine Release

by Tom May 16, 2012 My Gun Culture

Now that steps 1 and 2 are complete, we’ve got one nasty accurate rifle with what is perhaps the world’s most comfortable (and sporty) stock. What’s next? How about a two-fer. This week in Step 3, we’re adding a Force Trigger Housing System which gives us a competition grade trigger AND an extended magazine release [...]

Read the full article →

Fun Hakim Rifle Facts – Only Surrendered Once!

by Tom May 15, 2012 My Gun Culture

Fun Hakim rifle facts… The Hakim was begat by the Swedish Ljungman AG-42, designed by Erik Eklund around 1941. Bored with designing guns for a country who hardly ever goes to war, Eklund later founded the pop group ABBA, where he had many fun escapades with that other guy and those two Swedish singer-babes. Sweden [...]

Read the full article →

Doe Decides Back Yard Is Appropriate Place To Give Birth

by Tom May 12, 2012 My Gun Culture

Filed under the ‘something you don’t see everyday’ category… Our female Welsh Springer Spaniel has extra-sensory perception. She can spot a bird, squirrel, chinchilla, or any other furry living being from a distance of 42.7654887 light years, provided that sun spots are not acting up. Late this afternoon, she starts barking at the back yard [...]

Read the full article →

To Load Or Not To Load, That Is The Question…

by Tom May 7, 2012 My Gun Culture

I’m one of those guys who enjoys reloading. Yes, I can save some money on a cost per round basis – if I place an hourly value on my time somewhere below the cost of 1/3 of a Wintergreen Tic Tac. The main reason I reload is that I like to tinker. Why experiment with [...]

Read the full article →

Soup It Up For Soldiers Step 2: Bull the Barrel

by Tom May 1, 2012 My Gun Culture

Last Week… Last week in Step 1: Sportify the Stock, we replaced the standard stock on our Ruger 10/22 with a custom Revolution Extreme one, graciously donated by Brownells. This week, we’re going to replace the barrel with a sporty competition model from Tactical Solutions – also graciously donated by Brownells. Remember, at the end [...]

Read the full article →

Brownells 2012 Gunsmith Career Fair: Does Rifling Really Make Demons Fly Off The Bullets?

by Tom April 30, 2012 My Gun Culture

Continuing momentum for the gun industry was evident at the Brownells 2012 Gunsmith Career Fair. Attended by nearly 200 current and prospective gunsmiths and 50 exhibiting companies, Larry Weeks of Brownellscalled the event a great success. “I was particularly impressed by the professionalism of the attendees” noted Larry. “Many participants from various gunsmithing schools showed [...]

Read the full article →

Breaking It Down, Part 2

by GunNutmegger April 28, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

In Breaking It Down, I talked about some of the take-down .22 rifles that are available on the new and used market. But there have been a lot of factory take-down centerfire rifles over the years.  This article in Outdoor Life has a good summary.  A lot of take-down hunting rifles have been offered to [...]

Read the full article →

Soup It Up For Soldiers – Step 1: Ruger 10/22 Stock Upgrade

by Tom April 20, 2012 My Gun Culture

The Mission We’re building a custom rifle. For education and charity. And fun. We’ve always thought that the Ruger 10/22 rifle is one of the classic customizable platforms out there. It’s so popular, and so extensible, that an entire supporting industry has sprung out out of the (gun) works – so to speak – offering [...]

Read the full article →

Silly Gun Trends

by GunNutmegger April 18, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

A couple of recent gun trends have me puzzled.  Not at the trends, which are simple enough concepts.  But the fact that they are trends at all is baffling. Zombies.  It started as an offshoot of the zombie trend in entertainment.  “What gun would you choose to fight zombies?”  It was an interesting enough hypothetical, [...]

Read the full article →

Signs, Mom Counting to 3, and Caning by Celery at the NRA Annual Meeting

by Tom April 17, 2012 My Gun Culture

“Oh, signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs Blocking up the scenery, breaking my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?” While the 5 Man Electrical Band was nowhere to be found, the city of St. Louis took the message to heart – and even hired James Earl Jones to make new audio [...]

Read the full article →

Top 5 Niftiest Thing Seen at the NRA Annual Meeting Day 3

by Tom April 16, 2012 My Gun Culture

Final day of the NRA National Meeting checklist: Bottoms of feet on fire. Check. Knees swollen to the size of basketballs. Check. 3 days. 3 hours of sleep. 3 gallons of Mountain Dew. Check. With that said, here are the top 5 niftiest things we saw on Day 3 of the NRA Annual Meeting 2012. [...]

Read the full article →

Top 5 Most Interesting Products from the NRA Annual Meeting Day 2

by Tom April 14, 2012 My Gun Culture

We had more time to wander the floor today, and here are some of the more interesting things we stumbled across: Crimson TraceZombie Lasers – Well, not really, but they are green. A lot of new engineering is going on to fit power-sucking green lasers into the same form factors for which Crimson Trace is [...]

Read the full article →

Top 5 Coolest Things from NRA Annual Meeting Day 1

by Tom April 13, 2012 My Gun Culture

Even with a busy meeting and interview schedule, we managed to spot some pretty nifty things during day 1 of the NRA Annual Meeting in St. Louis. So far, we’ve only covered about 30% of the exhibits, so look for more over the next two days. Here are some of the standouts from Day 1: [...]

Read the full article →

Coming Soon! Colt M2012 CR

by Tom April 13, 2012 My Gun Culture

Colt is showing a couple of prototypes of a very impressive bolt action rifle. The M2012 CR is a 13 pound, decked to the nines tactical and/or fun long range rifle. The first versions should be out in a couple of months in .308. Short term plans include .223 and .22-250 chamberings – among others [...]

Read the full article →

New Smith & Wesson Shield – It’s Finger Candy

by Tom April 13, 2012 My Gun Culture

We’re here at the NRA Annual Meeting in St. Louis fighting the crowds and shoppers – all 80,000 of them. The folks at GunUp.com just arranged a private tour of some of the newest offerings from Smith & Wesson – the highlight of which was the new M&P Shield. Initially offered in both 9mm and [...]

Read the full article →

Breaking It Down

by GunNutmegger April 8, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

I see that Ruger has a take-down version of the 10/22.  Looks nice.  I have no doubt that reviewers will put it through its paces and let the shooting public know whether or not it upholds the Ruger tradition of reliability & value.  I suspect that it will. Take-down rifles are a neat concept.  Nearly [...]

Read the full article →

Soup It Up For Soldiers: You Can Get The Ultimate Ruger 10/22 and Benefit Project Valour-IT

by Tom April 4, 2012 My Gun Culture

We’re going to have some fun, learn some things about home gunsmithing, melt the phone lines to the the Brownells GunTech Team, and hopefully not butcher a perfectly good Ruger 10/22 Carbine in the process. And all for a great cause. At SHOT Show 2012, we got to talking to GunTech Team Leader Dave Bennetts. [...]

Read the full article →

How To Stare A Bull Elk Into Your Freezer: Our Interview With Huntress Mia Anstine

by Tom March 30, 2012 My Gun Culture

Today we have the pleasure of interviewing not just an interesting “gun person” but an exceptionally busy one as well. Meet Mia Anstine – Professional hunting guide at Wolf Creek Outfitters, blogger, Womens Outdoor News contributor, mentor, coach, soon-to-be-official shooting instructor, mom, wife, TenPoint Crossbows pro-staffer, Prois Hunting Apparel representative, and author of “Mia and [...]

Read the full article →

Top 13 Reasons NOT to Join the NRA

by Tom March 28, 2012 My Gun Culture

People who play with guns have all sorts of reasons for not joining the NRA. I forgot. My dog ate my computer. My dog peed on my computer. I am a member – I sent them $10 27 years ago. I bought a used gun, so I’m automatically a member. Isn’t it part of my [...]

Read the full article →

“Glock” Author = Anti-gun?

by GunNutmegger March 27, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

Most people who read this blog have probably heard of the book “Glock: the Rise of America’s Gun” by Paul Barrett.  Gun people who have read the book have given it generally positive reviews. However, that view of the book (and its author) might need to be tempered with the knowledge that Mr. Barrett seems [...]

Read the full article →

Top 5 Ways To Teach A Successful Concealed Carry Class

by Tom March 26, 2012 My Gun Culture

Having acquired concealed carry permits from two different states over the past so many years, and forgetting to renew a license in one of them, we’ve been subjected to three different state-mandated concealed carry classes. Actually, ‘sentenced’ is probably a more accurate descriptor than ‘subjected.’ State mandated classes are always high-quality because legislators have arbitrarily [...]

Read the full article →

Do You Make These 5 Range Mistakes?

by Tom March 20, 2012 My Gun Culture

Spoiler Alert: One of these 5 range mistakes involves the Hokey Pokey. We do a lot of our testing and recreational shooting at a public range, located in an unnamed and top-secret national forest. You can assume that it borders the Area 51 Dreamland property if you like. While the state maintains the facility, it [...]

Read the full article →

I’m A (Drunk) Security Officer!

by Tom March 10, 2012 My Gun Culture

Several days ago, the My Gun Culture team was at an undisclosed outdoor range doing some testing for our Will It Expand series. It was a quiet day with a family with kids and a couple of friends at the other end of the shooting line. While quietly going out our important business of shooting [...]

Read the full article →

Connecticut Medical Marijuana — The Harsh in Your Mellow

by crapgame March 10, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

Let me state right up front: I’m not a lawyer, and I’m not offering legal advice.  What I have seen though, is that in other states where marijuana use for medical purposes has been legalized, the Federal government hasn’t agreed. As I write this, there’s a new law going through the state legislature in Connecticut [...]

Read the full article →

Range Rules, part 2

by GunNutmegger March 6, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

(Updated) We have posted about range rules before, specifically the issue of ammo restrictions and brass retention policies. Another set of rules that many shooters encounter is restrictions on the amount or frequency of shooting. While it is common for publicly-accessible ranges to exclude full-auto weapons, certain ranges take the principle farther.  Some ranges limit [...]

Read the full article →

How to actually contact Newington Gun Exchange

by crapgame March 3, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

I am somewhat baffled. Yankee Gun Nuts is a blog, we write blog posts (well, to be fair, Gunnutmegger writes a lot of blog posts and I generally keep things running behind the scenes…). We are not, and never have been a gun store. Especially when we started this site a little over a year [...]

Read the full article →

Random Shots

by GunNutmegger February 25, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

Yes, I know we have been quiet lately.  New jobs & new people in our lives have conspired to slow down our blog output.  We are working on getting back into the routine.  Rest assured, I will deliver a brisk spanking to at least one of the responsible parties.  (No, not you, Crapgame.  Sorry.  I [...]

Read the full article →

London Olympic Games to Debut Origami Pistol Competition

by Tom February 17, 2012 My Gun Culture

In a surprise announcement today the London 2012 Olympic Committee has reached a compromise on accommodation of the fifteen scheduled shooting competitions at this summers’ games. “Our panties have been in a wad like you wouldn’t believe” complained Neville Wiltchamberlain, Minister of Irrational Worrywarting. “We thought it would be awesome to have the Olympics here [...]

Read the full article →

Who needs sights?

by GunNutmegger February 1, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

The bullets might be aiming themselves soon. Sandia National Laboratories developed a saboted small-caliber guided projectile for smoothbores that is supposed to be able to hit it a target 2km (1.2 miles) away. The projectile is laser-guided.  An optical sensor in the nose detects laser light reflecting off of a target, and steers the projectile [...]

Read the full article →

The Marquis Belt Buckle Gun – Shake Your Groove Thing!

by Tom January 31, 2012 My Gun Culture

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” – John F. Kennedy Fortunately for us, some ideas do not live on. For example, the Marquis Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol invented during World War I and (nearly) fielded ‘en masse’ during World War II. Through an exhaustive research project, with [...]

Read the full article →

Good News, Bad News

by GunNutmegger January 22, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

The good news first:  South Korea has received permission to export 87,000 WW2-surplus M1 Garand rifles to the United States.  They will likely be made available to collectors and shooters via the Civilian Marksmanship Program.  These lightly-used rifles have spent most of their lives in storage, and represent a terrific opportunity for owning a functional [...]

Read the full article →

New Papillon Holster

by GunNutmegger January 15, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

The full-size .38 revolver is a fine weapon.  Not an ideal choice for concealed carry, but certainly not impossible.  The holster is key.  The right holster makes a carry gun safe & secure, and ensures that it is accessible when it is needed. There are plenty of holster styles available, from a variety of manufacturers.  [...]

Read the full article →

Sporting Wood

by GunNutmegger January 14, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

I have always liked the look of a Mannlicher stock.  They just seem…old school, traditional, classy.  I have read that the style originated from the need to use a longarm as a walking stick in the hilly parts of Europe. Yes, I know that the barrel isn’t free-floating. Yes, I know that the full-length stock [...]

Read the full article →

Mule Deer Foundation Launches Underprivileged Deer Grant Program

by Tom January 12, 2012 My Gun Culture

In a surprise move today, Ben Cartwright, CEO of The Mule Deer Foundation, announced a new grant program aimed at giving a ‘hoof up’ to disadvantaged mule deer. “Our hearts are broken” lamented Cartwright. “Year after year, we see the vicious cycle of deer not having the opportunity to realize their full potential. Don’t let [...]

Read the full article →

Can 5.11 Tactical Gear Survive SHOT Show 2012?

by Tom January 9, 2012 My Gun Culture

We’re going to find out. We’ve got three editors going to SHOT. We’ve got three different 5.11 backpacks: RUSH MOAB 10 Go Bag – The MOAB just looks tactical. An ambidextrous single strap design, it features a 1.5 liter hydration pocket, nifty hooks inside for your keychain, and a comms pouch and routing system which [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries