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Taking Care of Your Guns Before You Store Them
After you purchase a gun, you must store it properly. But, just like that lovely vintage lace dress from your great grandmother or a treasured coin collection from your favorite uncle, you must take...
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New Guns: What to Do When You Take Them Home
Everyone takes several factors into consideration when purchasing a firearm. What am I planning on using it for—personal protection, hunting or target shooting? Of those firearms that fit my uses, how...
View ArticleA Conversation with Kenn Blanchard, “Black Man With A Gun”
Kenn Blanchard tells the story of having an edgy name. While in a men’s room, someone noticed him and called out loudly, “Hey! Black man with a gun!” The other occupants of that room immediately went...
View ArticleNew Winner, New Contest!
Thank you to all who entered the drawing for the $25 Bass Pro Shops gift card. Congratulations to Gill M. of Whittier, California, the winner of the September drawing. To enter the drawing for the...
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First Shots News – October 2014
advertisement Hooray for Hollywood By Tisma Juett, NSSF Manager, First Shots I grew up with guns, but they were always the two-dimensional type. I still laugh every time I see Bugs Bunny put his...
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Shooting Sports to Try: Metallic Silhouette Shooting
Have a gun? Almost any gun? Pistol, revolver, smallbore rifle, hunting rifle, lever-action, blackpowder rifle or even an airgun? Then you might find metallic silhouette competition is the game for you....
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Movies and Gun Blunders
You know what they say: You can’t believe everything you see on TV. That’s knowledge to keep in hand, for awhile the folks in Hollywood do have a wonderful flair for the dramatic, no one has ever...
View ArticleVideo: “Lock, Stock & Barrel: Understanding the Firearms Industry”
For more than 200 years, America’s firearms industry has made products that have been part of our country’s great tradition of freedom, self-reliance and enjoyment of the outdoors. “Lock, Stock and...
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Cartridge Parts—The New Shooter’s Dictionary
Cartridge Parts Shooting seems pretty simple. You stuff some of those shiny brass-colored thingys into your pistol or rifle, aim carefully at the target, squeeze the trigger—Ka-BOOM!—and you check the...
View ArticleHooray for Hollywood
I grew up with guns, but they were always the two-dimensional type. I still laugh every time I see Bugs Bunny put his finger in the barrel of Elmer Fudd’s shotgun and it blows up in Elmer’s face. Also,...
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Conversations with New Shooters:Lucretia Free
She says she wears a “publisher’s hat.” Meet Lucretia Free, founder and publisher of The American Woman Shooter. Free isn’t new to the publishing business, having already launched the successful...
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First Shots News – November 2014
advertisement Practice Makes Better By Tisma Juett, NSSF Manager, First Shots A basic part of human development is learning and growing. We grow as we get older, we grow from experience and we grow...
View ArticleNew Winner, New Contest!
Thank you to all who entered the drawing for the $25 Bass Pro Shops gift card. Congratulations to Rachelle M. of Evansville, Indiana drawing. To enter the drawing for the $25 November Bass Pro Shops...
View ArticleNew Shooter Profile: A Conversation with USA Shooting’s Jessica Delos Reyes
Jessica Delos Reyes is the Media and Public Relations Manager for USA Shooting, the national governing body for the Olympic shooting sports, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A relative newbie on...
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Shotgun Shells Explained—The New Shooter’s Dictionary
The shotgun is designed to throw a group or “pattern” of many small pellets called “shot,” which makes hitting a flying or moving target much more feasible than using a single projectile, as fired by a...
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Dry-Fire for Handgun Shooting Success
If I told you there is one technique that, once mastered, will allow you to hit your target every single time, you’d probably write me off as one of those infomercial con guys. But, believe it or not,...
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This Month’s Shooting Sport: Progressive-Position Air Pistol
Looking for a sport for a budding young pistol shooter? Check out Progressive-Position Pistol (PPP), designed to take a new youth shooters from beginner to competitor. With no minimum age restrictions...
View ArticlePractice Makes Better
A basic part of human development is learning and growing. We grow as we get older, we grow from experience and we grow from our mistakes. A huge part of our growth is through repetition; yes,...
View ArticleTrigger Press & Trigger Control – Competitive Shooting Tips with Doug Koenig
Champion handgun shooter Doug Koenig shares his thoughts on trigger press and a tip on how to improve your trigger control.
View ArticleHoliday Gun Buying: Things to Remember
With gift-giving season approaching once again, we remind readers who intend on purchasing a firearm as a gift for a family member or friend that there are many laws and regulations, from federal to...
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