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Currently the record pistol shot is 2,010 yards with a 10mm. using a customized Glock by retired ICE Special Agent Victor Avila. I remember the SF writer L. Neil Smith wrote in an alternate universe future history that Dornaus and Dixon finally delivers magazines for the Bren Ten several...

Plug for hometown business: El Paso Saddlery makes "Texas", "Hardin", Doc Holiday. and Tombstone Speed Shoulder rigs, as well as tanker and modern rigs. The first Hardin rig is supposed have been made for the Dark Angel the year he died...

Hopefully I can adapt information from this to my particular problem. My weak hand is arthritic enough to make firing my preferred round painful enough to interfere with my aim, and my dominant eye is developing a cataract. While it is not yet bad enough to justify surgery, my vision out of my...

If I remember correctly, Inglis in Canada made P-35's with tangent sights that were supposed to use detachable shoulder stocks to be sent to the Chinese during WWII. Special pistols are scant recognition to men who "were never there, doing things that never happened," and whose few medals often...

In listing Capt. Dye's credentials, you forgot to include his work as a regular contributor to Soldier of Fortune Magazine.

One of the casualties of the Aleutian campaign was Kermit Roosevelt. While not significant in the outcome of the battle, he did serve as an intelligence officer at Fort Richardson and worked to raise Aleut and Eskimo militia. He succumbed to depression and alcoholism, which he had battled for...

I like my .40 and shoot well enough with it. However, it does hurt my arthritic right hand to shoot, making me happy to be a lefty. I can shoot .40 all day left-handed, five rounds right-handed. Guess I can't just stand on my hind legs and dump a 10 to 14-round magazine in a paper target or a...

Back at the end of WWII the British developed the .280 British, but the US insisted on a full power cartridge. Apparently, the Army did not understand the concept of "intermediary power cartridge." In the 21st century Remington developed the 6.8 SPC to try to replace the .223x45, but apparently...

Calling the action in which Roy Benavides earned his Medal of Honor "an especially violent helo extraction" maybe the most masterful understatement I've read this year...

Mr. Ayoob, speaking as a not particularly good Catholic, I would recommend receiving the Sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation if your Church practices it, and seeking out counseling from clergy even if your faith does not use that Sacrament. Knowing you are right with God goes a long way to...

On 1 November 1999 Gene Moe took out a Kodiak Bear with a Buck 110 Folding Hunter. Actually, he rendered it hors de combat and finished it off with his rifle, but he did take down the bear with a Buck Knife. Bella Twin killed the 1953 record grizzly bear with a single shot .22 rifle. I'm...

As a literary aside, one of the bomber crew men involved in the bombing of Monte Casino was Walter M. Miller Jr.. The moral dilemma it created for him inspired him to write the award winning A Canticle for Leibowitz, considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. The Allied...

I have only had to fire a pistol for target practice, thank God. I happen to enjoy shooting .40 S&W better than 9x19 mm.. My EDC is a .40 compact. When it first became legal to carry in your vehicle without a license, I bought a 9 mm. because my weak hand is arthritic, and I needed a pistol I...

One of my health problems is arthritis in my hands, which interferes with my pistol shooting. I use corrective lenses and remind my optometrist to prescribe lenses that correct to 20/20 not 25/20. By me. doctors should have a pamphlet to hand to all their patients who shoot to use hearing and...

Part of the success of D-Day was Teddy Jr.'s famous command. "We'll start the war right here" when his troops missed their landing zone and accidently outflanked the Germans. Similarly, our paratroopers missed their landing zones badly and tore into the enemy rather than getting discombobulated...

Given my head I will carry several knives. Usually, I carry a Benchmade Model 62 Balisong, a Benchmade Auto-Triage, and a third knife, plus pen knives. If I was forced to carry only one knife it would be the Auto-Triage. A good knife should be sharp, sharpenable, tough, reliable, and handy.

My wife's stepfather told me that the AVG was recruited pretty openly at Army Air Corps and Naval Aviation bases. This leads one to wonder if they were truly mercenary type soldiers of fortune or agents of the US using the cover of serving as foreign volunteers for the Chinese. Regardless, they...

The Owen came out in Farewell to the KIng. I've heard the Johnson MG was used by Marine Raiders a bit and that the SEALS in Vietnam used the Stoner in MG configuration. Latter probably due to need for 5.56 squad weapon. Be good to make a new movie about WWII Marine Raiders, use Johnson MG's.

A few years ago after a mass shooting in my town (EL Paso, Tx.) people started the "If I had been there with my gun I would have..." routine. To be honest I don't know if I would have frozen, covered other people's escape, shot and missed, shot and hit, peed or soiled myself, run away, vomited...

My doctor needs to know of my carry habits and how frequently I go to the range if (s)he is treating me for arthritis in my hand and wrists, carpo tunnel issues, hearing loss, or problems resulting from inhaling fumes from the burning powder. My eye doctor might need to know to make sure he...