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Best “real world” training for the price? Compete!

competition1There was a scene in the Bruce Lee film “Enter The Dragon” that comes to mind. Some big, mean-looking bad guy was trying to intimidate Bruce’s character. He held up a piece of wood and easily smashed it with his other hand. Bruce just shrugged him off and said “boards don’t hit back.” As I think back to the numerous holes I’ve put in all manner of silhouettes printed on paper, the striking reality of it all comes into an obvious but often ignored cognizance: paper targets don’t shoot back.  Continue reading →

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Who is Rebeccaguns?

Hello.  My name is Rebeccaguns.  I like kittens and rainbows and Pina Coladas and long walks on the beach.  I also like stainless steel 1911s chambered in .45, vintage sniper rifles, fixed blade hunting knives and videos of things exploding.  

If I could have any car it would be an Audi S5 (or a BMW Z8, if I’m having a real James Bond kind of day).  

My favorite gun is my CZ 83, though my new Smith and Wesson Shield is gaining ground fast.

I spend most of my time being the other half of PHLster holsters, shooting guns, writing a blog about guns, making up voices for my ridiculous cats, shooting more guns, thinking about shooting more guns, thinking about all of the guns I want to buy, etc.

Up until about 2 years ago, I didn’t know a Glock from a hairdryer.  I am genuinely (and pleasantly) surprised to be here.  I have found gun folks to be some of the warmest, funniest, smartest and most down-to-earth people I have ever met.  Thanks for welcoming me into your community.  I think we’re going to have a good time together.  Who knows?  Maybe we’ll even get to blow some shit up.

Oh, and by the way, I hate Pina Coladas.  They taste like sugary suntan lotion.  I drink whiskey, and you should too.

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When is hipster-doofus season again?

So a group of film-making hipster morons in New York are getting a lesson in what it means to get caught poaching.  They’ll probably get off with a slap on the wrist where if you or I did the same stupid thing we’d be hit with a $2,000 fine and jail time.

This is one of the reasons I started off my hunting series on learning the legalities. These MENSA candidates didn’t even know there were regulations. Well, there are, and they’re taken very seriously. How seriously? Seriously enough that I’ve known people who’ve been rounded up in sting operations because they were out hunting when they shouldn’t have been. Seriously enough that when you do take a deer and mount that beautiful rack on your wall, the tag you used to kill him with must follow that rack forever. Get caught without it, and you’re a poacher.

That’s why it’s important to do your research and know the regulations beforehand. That’s why you tag that deer you shoot right away and not wait on it. The game wardens are out there, and they take their jobs seriously, and so should you.

Sometimes it seems draconian, but one of the reasons we get to hunt deer year after year is that the populations are managed so that they’re A. not hunted down to nothing and B. not allowed to grow so numerous that they eat themselves into extinction. Those regulations are put in place toward that end.

Hat tip: Shalt Not Be Questioned

TJ

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A warm welcome to Rebeccaguns!

Ladies and gentlemen! If I may have your attention please! Gun Noob would like to announce our newest full time blogger: Rebeccaguns! After so much positive feedback from her guest article, we would have been fools not to invite her to write for us full time. 

So expect to see some articles for all you lady gun noobs out there and let’s give her a warm welcome!

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Take your daughter to the range

So June 9 is National Take Your Daughter to the Range Day, which is something I can agree with wholeheartedly. For years the stereotype has been that guns are the realm of men. Boys played with toy guns, and girls played with dolls. But recently that’s been changing, and it’s a good change because women are more often the targets of criminals, and even if a woman chooses not to own a gun, it can’t hurt her to know how to use one.

When my sister was little she was having a get-together at our house with some of her friends from school.  Suddenly, the neighbors’ dogs come running into the backyard after our chickens. Without a thought, and to the fascinated horror of all of her friends, my sister picks up the air rifle my dad kept near the door, gives it nine pumps and shoots the lead dog in the ballsack.

In. The. Ballsack.

And I can’t think of a better reason to teach your daughter to shoot.

Because you never know when she’s going to have to shoot some filthy dog in the nuts… whether he walks on four legs or two.

TJ

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Guest Post: An Open Letter to the Firearms Industry

RGSome of us like pink things. Some of us do not. Most of us like things that are beautiful. Just slapping a coat of pink paint on it doesn’t necessarily qualify as beautiful. There is something childish and Barbie-esque about pink plastic, and we are grown women who packed our Barbies away long ago. A lot of us like engraved revolvers, shotguns with handsome wooden stocks, vintage rifles or stainless steel 1911s. We are drawn to the beauty of firearms and sometimes the history, but our taste in guns is as varied as our taste in shoes. Continue reading →

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Guest Post: How To Prepare For Serious Training

teacherWhen you first set foot in the firearms world, you might get some basic training on firearm safety. If you are responsible, you need to know which way the bullets come out and know how not to shoot yourself or anyone else on the range.

If you intend to take your shooting to another level and to learn things like defensive shooting, you need a different kind of training. These classes can be intimidating for the new shooter, but are well worth the time and effort. With a little preparation these classes can be far less intimidating. Continue reading →

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