If you carry your pistol (or even use it much) eventually it will get nicks, scratches and dings. If your carry a 1911 this can be horrifying, but on a Glock, M&P or an old compact revolver they are “character marks” and
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How to Restore Beat Up Sights
Naughty or Nice
While I’m hopeful to be put on the “nice list” this year by Santa, there’s no guarantee, so I may need to take gift selection into my own hands as a lump of coal hardly fills me with Christmas cheer!
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What makes a good trigger pull?
If you put 2 gun guys in a room with their favorite firearms the topic of trigger pull in an inevitability, but with terms like take-up, over travel, break, and weight and adjectives like “gritty,” “glass rod,” “surprise break” and my contribution
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Smith & Wesson Introduces New M&P Pro Series C.O.R.E. Pistols… Why?
Smith & Wesson introduced a new pro-series of M&P pistols yesterday called the C.O.R.E. and I just don’t get it. I know that seems odd as I have writing about red dots on defensive pistols, I’m in the early process
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The IDPA Nationals: By the Numbers…
Among the quotes by Massad Ayoob that stick with me the most “A pistol competition isn’t a gun fight, but a gun fight is definitely a pistol competition” rings the loudest. It is true that no practical pistol competition will prepare you completely for
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What is a “Full Length Dust Cover”?
There are a few shooting terms terms that are almost never used outside of a rule book and “Full Length Dust Cover” is possibly the most confusing for the new shooter. In the IDPA rule book the term occurs in
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Finally… results of the Carolina Cup gun survey have been announced
The Down Zero blog has been trickling out the results from the Carolina Cup shooter questionnaire this week and forcing me to return to the site day after day and has been holding back the data on guns… smart! But
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Does winter weather affect what you carry?
As the weather gets cold many people chose to change their carry gun to something with a larger frame, because they can conceal it more easily. Considered thoughtfully, this isn’t a bad thing because it can provide more control, better
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