Skill Building
Breakthrough Clean Technologies Announces New Suppressor Cleaning Kit
Breakthrough Cleaning Technologies offers a number of rifle, pistol, and shotgun cleaning kits that include their effective and inoffensive no-order solvent and gun oil. Now BCT has assembled a kit specifically for maintaining suppressors, muzzle brakes, and compensators where a conventional bore cleaning kit falls short.
Unconventional Shooting Positions: A Skills Test
Not every defensive shooting happens on a square range. It's important to practice and be familiar with unconventional shooting positions. Here are some positions and tricks I've learned over the years.
One Handed Shooting: Overcoming Adversity
One handed shooting is a critical tool for survival in a gunfight. Stance, sight orientation, and reloading are all skills that need to be practiced on and off the range. Here are some of the do's and don'ts of one handed shooting.
How to Bore Sight a Rifle Scope
Let’s briefly explore bore sighting, what it is, and how to do it. Like our previously published scope zeroing article, this is a basic guide.
All of us want to shoot better, but how do we go about maximizing our training regimen? Here's some tips on how to do so.
Malfunctions: A Deeper Dive into Diagnostics Under Stress
Malfunctions in semi-automatic handguns can be classified into five categories or events. We train these as F2 (Type 1: failure to feed or fire), E2 (Type 2: failure to eject or extract), and D2 (Type 3: double feed). Although there are five major causes of a malfunction, there are only two techniques for clearing these malfunctions.
Hand Strength and Firearms: A Guide
Don’t give up on your own self-defense just because your hands might be a little weak, small, or just not always up to snuff. Go out there, and get shooting, get trained, and start shooting.
Trigger Control: Six Tips for Hitting Your Target
Trigger control requires consistency, practice, and knowledge of your firearm. Here's six tips to help master your trigger for better accuracy and consistency in follow-up shots.
AR-15 Pistol Grip Storage: What to pack?
Before deciding what to store in the pistol grip, first decide what you will be doing with that rifle. Some people have one multi-purpose AR-15 and some have multiple. If you have “fun guns” for the range and a designated gun for self-defense, this could change what you store in each one.
Beginner’s Guide to Cleaning and Maintaining a Striker-fired Handgun
Striker-fired pistols are a breed of their own. Here's some tips and tricks on how to clean your striker-fired pistol and get through the process safely and efficiently.