Safeties Suck
It has been said that the two most terrifying noises a gun can make are a “click” when you expected a “boom” and a “boom” when you expected a “click”. As far as dealing with the click when you expected a boom….well that’s another article. The boom when you expected a click, however, is my focus today…sort of. Continue reading
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A .22 for defense? To what end, Sir?! To what end?!
If someone breaks into my home while I’m out of town, I want my wife to have the biggest handgun she can possibly hold. I want that gun to hold 150 rounds and shoot bullets the size of my thumb. And when those bullets hit that home invader, I want them to magically turn toward his heart, pierce his aorta and explode. Continue reading
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It’s Good to Be A Noob!
My father once told me “It’s only what you learn after you know everything that counts”. I think this was in response to me being a typical know it all teenager at the time. Now that I’m older, I’ve come to fully understand what he was talking about. Continue reading
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New Guide: Your First Day at the Range
Every shooter has been through it: the first day at the range. This can be a bit intimidating. Don’t worry, Gun Noob is here to help with our Guide to Your First Day and the Range! Head on over to our General Guide section and check it out.
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A Real Noob
Everyone starts out as a noob, but you have to give credit to Washington Times’s Emily Miller, who’s trying to get a gun in one of the most firearm-hostile parts of the U.S., Washington, D.C. You can follow her journey in procuring a firearm in her WT blog, Emily Gets Her Gun.
TJ
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Beginner Gun Review: Glocks
I’m just going to say it right off the bat: Glocks are a love them or hate them type of gun. It was the first gun I ever fired and I hated them back then. Years later, when I got to know guns a bit more and rented one at a local range, I absolutely fell in love with them. Some people don’t like that they’re not the prettiest guns to look at. In fact, they’re well past the “utilitarian” category and safely sitting in the “damned ugly” class. Some don’t like the striker. Some don’t like the polymer handles. So what is it about these things that make them so polarizing? To be honest, I have no clue and I could probably write a whole book on the various arguments you’ll hear.
In terms of starter guns, however, that’s a much easier one to cover. Continue reading
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New Guide: Target Quick Fix
Just added the Target Quick Fix Guide to the Handgun Guides section. This guide teaches you how to spot the 3 most common problems with target shooting and how to quickly correct them.
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It’s ALWAYS loaded.
A Navy SEAL in San Diego has died after putting a gun he thought was unloaded to his head and pulling the trigger in order to impress a girl.
There are lessons here.
1. It’s ALWAYS loaded. Always, always, always.
2. It can happen to ANYONE. There’s no one more experienced with weapons on this Earth than a Navy SEAL, and it happened to one of them.
3. It happened because he was screwing around with something that you just don’t screw around with. If he wanted to show her it was unloaded, he could have shown her how to work the action (which, BTW, would have saved his life). Guns aren’t toys, and when you start treating them like they are, you’re more likely to have an accident with them.
Our thoughts and prayers go out PO3 Gene Clayont’s family, his friends and his team.
TJ
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Coming Soon: Noob Reviews!
There used to be an entry in the FAQ section of the site that said something along the lines of:
Q: Why don’t you have any gun reviews?
A: Because I’m still relatively new to firearms and I don’t think I have had enough experience
with them to be able to give a decent opinion on what constitutes a good gun.
That particular statement was removed recently for 2 reasons:
1) Between renting them, borrowing from friends and adding to my own collection, I have gone out of my way in recent months to try as many different guns as humanly possible. As such, I now feel that I have at least a decent understanding of what is meant by things like “terrible trigger pull” and “eats whatever you put into it”.
2) A good friend suggested that I should review guns not from the “expert” perspective that most reviewers go but from the perspective of “Is this a good starter gun?”
That last statement is the key. Gun Noob is and will always be a resource for the absolute beginner to intermediate gun user. I am formulating a list of tests and criteria for reviewing guns from this perspective. Things like “how easy is it to break down” and “how forgiving is it for poor technique (limp-wrist friendly)” and more.
Keep your eye out in the next few days for the first of many reviews concerning beginner friendly firearms.
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