Monthly Archives: April 2013
Just Hanging Out (How to Deal with Hang Fires)…
Oh boy! It’s a perfect day to be at the range. There’s no one here and you’ve miraculously scored a pretty hefty box of ammo. Line is hot, you’re loaded and ready. You pull the trigger and “click”. Nothing.
“That’s odd” you say to yourself. You could have sworn there was a round in the chamber. Right as you go to rack the slide “BLAM!” the gun fires. Thank goodness you still had it pointed down range.
Welcome to the wonderful world of “hang fires”. Continue reading
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Schlick Schlock for very little cha-ching (Cheap Guns Part II: Shotguns)
My original intention was to write a quick guide to some quality cheap guns. Boy and howdy did I open up a can of worms with that one. It turns out, there were a large number of guns that met my requirements and that was just in handguns. Far too many to cover in just one article, even! As I kept looking, I saw numerous shotguns and rifles and even more handguns. I’m trying my best, however, to restrict the list to guns that I personally know to be of good quality. At the same time, there just isn’t a way to list all the individual guns that are within my search restrictions.
But that won’t stop me from trying… Continue reading
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The Lament of the .25
There isn’t an expert out there that won’t tell you Betamax was way better than VHS. It was a smaller, sturdier cassette with higher resolution than VHS. Heck, while we were recording TV shows at home on VHS, they were stored and broadcast from the studios using Beta tapes. So why did VHS catch on while Betamax became another paragraph in the endless numbers of “Top X Technology Failures of All Time” articles?
Well, for the most part it was marketing and price. Yes, Beta had some shortcomings. It had a shorter recording time than VHS tapes, for example. In the end, however, it was Sony’s historical idiocy overconfidence that lead to JVC and RCA (the makers of VHS) being able to outmaneuver them in the market. While Sony learned their lesson with BluRay technologies (something Microsoft didn’t learn when they tried to release HD-DVD), you can take a look at the PS3’s launch and the PS4’s marketing for modern day examples of Sony’s shortcomings.
But this isn’t a discussion on gaming consoles… Continue reading
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Grab the Bull By the Pup (Get It? Bullpup?)
Every now and then, you get a trend that seems to pop up out of nowhere. Once one company latches on to it, more and more come on board. Next thing you know, it’s the new standard. The fun thing is, often times that “new trend” is nowhere near new. It’s just someone took an old concept and finally got it right. Take smartphones, for example. They’ve been around, sort of, for a long time now. The Palm PDA by 3Com was a big jump in technology and eventually came with cell service for email and such. This was years before Apple even started considering the iPhone. Believe it or not, there was one of those “House of the Future” type of videos in the 1950’s that almost perfectly described the iPhone as it exists today! There truly is nothing new under the sun. Continue reading
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GunUp Sponsors BJ Norris
Sioux Falls, SD – GunUp Inc is proud to announce their sponsorship of BJ Norris in the 3Gun Nation Pro Series. BJ Norris is a talented shooter with multiple national and world championships under his belt. This year he’ll be competing in the 3Gun Nation Pro Series for the first time with the support of GunUp. Continue reading
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Reloading and You: A New Guide and Section!
In an attempt to cover starter information for all things gun, we’re proud to announce the launch of a new Reloading section of the site! In the coming weeks/months, we’ll be adding more guides and videos to help get you started in the world of reloading your own ammo.
The first guide we’ve added is the Getting Started Guide where we talk about why you should start reloading, why you shouldn’t and what you’re ultimately going to need.
Head on over and check it out!
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