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The Baseline Drill
The target at three yards. When practicing handgun shooting skills, it is important to know if you are getting better. Establishing a baseline can help show where you may need improvement. This drill...
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Handgun Sights
This Kimber Ultra Carry 1911-style pistol is a modern gun, but it wears a very traditional shallow-“V” rear sight. No matter which style handgun is your favorite, one simple fact remains: The sights...
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Trigger Pull Weight
Did you know that your handgun’s trigger has as much or more to do with accuracy as do the sights? Did you know that most triggers can be adjusted to improve their feel and aid in your accuracy? This...
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Shooter Profile—USA Shooting’s Paralympic Rifle Competitor John Joss
There’s a phrase John Joss continually uses to describe himself: A happy-go-lucky kind of guy. Thing is, he really is. And he means it. “Because I’m the best ever and I’m super awesome at everything,”...
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Let’s Go Plinking!
If you have access to a range that allows plinking at objects other than paper targets, then the reactive targets from Champion Targets are loads of fun! While not as long in the tooth as some, I...
View ArticleA Beginner’s Guide to Rifle Scopes
We use glass sights almost to the exclusion of iron, and progress in the optics industry moves at a gallop rather than the stately trot of previous decades. The current medium-priced scope is probably...
View ArticleVideo: Winchester 1873 Found in Great Basin National Park: The Gun Vault #1 –...
Ashley Hlebinsky, the Robert W. Woodruff Curator at the Cody Firearms Museum, share's a close up look at the recently famed "Great Basin Gun"--a Winchester Model 1873 found leaning mysteriously against...
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The Ruger No. 1 Single-Shot Rifle
The author with one of his favorite rifles, a Ruger No. 1. Until the advent of the repeating rifle, which had its earliest form in the lever-action guns often associated with the Old West, most rifles...
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The Truth Behind Twist Rates
Pistols and revolvers—and even some slug shotguns—have rifling, too. Here you can plainly see the rifling twist at the muzzle of this semi-auto handgun. The creation of “rifling” is one of the most...
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True Stories of the Wild West
There’s something about the movies of the Old West. Cowboys riding horses and shooting six-shot revolvers that never seemed to run out of ammunition. Traveling for days on horseback and never needing a...
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Handgun Sights
This Kimber Ultra Carry 1911-style pistol is a modern gun, but it wears a very traditional shallow-“V” rear sight. No matter which style handgun is your favorite, one simple fact remains: The sights...
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New Winner, New Contest!
December Question of the Month Thank you to all who entered the drawing for the $25 Bass Pro Shops gift card in November and congratulations to Michael L. of Davie, Florida, our winner! To enter the...
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Master Craft: Morgan Craft—Muncy Valley, Pennsylvania
Confidence breeds success, and there’s no greater example of that than the rise of skeet shooter Morgan Craft in 2015. In a discipline full of stars, including five-time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode, it...
View ArticleVideo: How to Shoot Trap—Shotgun Shooting Tip
OSP Shooting School's Gil Ash explains how he approaches each station on a trap field. By knowing the proper hold points and focal points for each station you can greatly improve trap shooting. (NSSF...
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Getting Started with Trap Shooting
A squad of shooters on the front line of a trap field. During the 18th century, European hunters began releasing live pigeons from “traps,” which usually consisted of a hat placed over the bird prior...
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Shotgun Fit—A Key Component to Shooting Success
In a word, shotguns are awesome to shoot! They are just so versatile. Whether you’re looking for something when the wolf huffs and puffs at your front door, a short- to medium-range deer stopper, a...
View ArticleYour First Shotgun
A shotgun can do some impressive things: shatter a flying clay target, bring home a duck dinner or repel an intruder. At ranges under 50 yards, a shotgun is the most versatile firearm of all. It’s also...
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The Ithaca Model 37 Shotgun—A Most Versatile Choice
Embellishments on the Model 37 run the gamut from plain to highly engraved. This one is somewhere in the middle. A pump-action shotgun is one of those firearms that can quickly become an old friend. It...
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First Shots 10th Anniversary Coming to Close
The year 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s First Shots program, which introduces new shooters to target shooting and other shooting sports at ranges across...
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The Ruger No. 1 Single-Shot Rifle
The author with one of his favorite rifles, a Ruger No. 1. Until the advent of the repeating rifle, which had its earliest form in the lever-action guns often associated with the Old West, most rifles...
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