GUNS INSIDER

When considering pocket carry, the question boils down to which is more important in your situation: concealability and convenience or having the ability to...

Wearing a pack is an integral part of work or play outdoors, but packs create a number of challenges for carrying a handgun. Here are some solutions.

Though it might seem like a small thing, trigger pull is the keystone to the entire shooting process. If you can master the simple but not easy task, you...

Someone recently asked my opinion concerning hunting dogs as they were in the market for their first pup. Unfortunately, based on my decades of hunting and...

Using some of these night vision tips can help you operate effectively at night without thermal imaging or light-intensifying devices.

If you’ve been leery of taking a gun with you on a commercial airline, fear not. Here's the quick-n-dirty on how to make the process of flying with guns...

When the onlookers need psychological counselling services after seeing one of your reactive targets in action, you know it’s a good one. I like the good...

If you hang around hunting camp or the shooting range for more than, say, seven seconds, you will soon be regaled with the most outrageous fibs,...

Forgive me reader, for I have sinned: I spoke to “The Media.”

I’m an inveterate duck hunter but in my case, don’t take enthusiasm to correlate with any skills.

Our sermon of the month is simple: Know when to stop hanging crap off your gun!

Cops pretty much put everyone in the world into three general categories: suspects, victims and witnesses. Which one are you?

About two years ago in this corner, I shared my own trials with some rodent yard raiders but recently I’ve heard another such yarn that puts my own to shame.

So why had I agreed to purchase this gun safe?

Whenever your workday involves evaluation by two trauma surgeons, you probably should have stayed in bed. Let me explain.

I couldn’t help myself. Life had grown so chaotic, cluttered and unruly I was forced to commit the ultimate act of despair for a firearms enthusiast — I...

I was recently at one of the mega-outdoor retail stores trying to spend a gift card and became enraptured by the trapping equipment.

CRASH!!! I sat bolt upright in bed after a smashing, clattering noise burst from my living room.

There is a special magic when hunting in the snow, especially for deer, especially in late December.

Soon after these words cross into your frontal lobe, I should be safely nestled among the branches of an old oak tree, waiting, watching and hoping.

During a recent editorial strategy meeting on the panoramic top floor of the 50-story GUNS office building in East Bumphrey, someone discovered a new trend.

I will hereby lay claim to the spurious honor of being the world’s foremost “good example of a bad example,” especially in the arena of personal safety.

Aside from being a magazine editor, you might be surprised to learn I am a world-class dancer, as verified by several national shooting organizations. Let...

Bears are no laughing matter, especially whenever one is actively gnawing on your lower giblet region.

I’ve been the Lord High Protector of the GUNS realm for a couple of years now and it’s finally time to fess up to both regular readers of this corner...

In this regard, has anyone else noticed a trip to the range, hunting, fishing or outdoors adventure in general almost always involves walking in the door at...

Now that I’ve officially earned my field commission as a Grandfather, First Class, the subject of children interacting with firearms takes on a new...

Today I was perusing a nearby “outdoor” store. I use quotation marks around the word Outdoor, as most of these stores are nowadays quite unrecognizable...

A few months ago I wrote the definitive treatise on “How to become a gun writer.”

As we reach the collective end of the deer season in many locales where this magazine is read — or is otherwise put to good use in the hunting camp...