SHOOTER'S Rx

The Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) program ran from 1959 to 1974. They pronounced it “Spew.” The mission was to increase the lethality of the...

I glanced at my buzzing phone between crises at work. There was a kid with an ear infection screaming in Room 2, and the elderly man with chest pain in 3...

The culprit was one of those adorable little 3-year-old tow-headed scamps who already wore glasses. He scurried into his mom’s bedroom with a friend to...

The man and his adult son had burned a pleasant afternoon deer hunting but came up empty. Their deer stands were maybe a half-mile apart, and the plan was...

America, while still the finest place on earth to live, seems awash in a sundry of tribulations these days. Our moral compass spins faster than the federal...

It is 2 a.m. and the rucksack is heavy on your back. The hated American military, the only thing standing between the faithful and the divinely ordained...

I was a corn-fed backwoods American kid who had not gotten for outside of my hometown. I had plenty of homegrown experience, mind you, but it was the...

The psychologists call it “learned helplessness.” When something unpleasant is inevitable, the eventual result is reluctant acceptance. After so many...

I recently reconstructed a gentleman’s left hand after he had an unfortunate encounter with a belligerent canine. The dog’s owner arrived before things...

What exactly is wrong with America today? Rivers of ink have been spilt investigating that one simple question.

History has shown us testosterone is perhaps the most potent poison known to man. “Hey, dude, watch this!” has launched more than a few unfortunate...

Chances are you will not be called upon to defend yourself as you are strolling up to the bench at your local range carrying your favorite tricked-out black...

What pops to mind when you think of a reliable military firearm? The M1 Garand seems fairly well respected. The Browning 1919 machinegun runs about forever,...

When it comes to personal defense handguns, a person’s innate proclivities are put on display. Some folks swear by revolvers while others will fill their...

It was a beautiful spring day in rural Mississippi and my two boys and I were in our element. The family term was “going on an explore” and such...

They make indisputably great cinema and simultaneously sell a lot of weapons. Battalions of the walking dead swarm after the living, intent on consuming...

Guns are innately dangerous tools. Were we completely honest with ourselves, this is part of the allure. The thrill of harnessing and controlling power is a...