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Man's most basic tool & weapon: A good stick I do now have injuries and infirmities that require my use of a cane, but I carried a cane everywhere even before that. One I figured out how useful they are for a million different things it was difficult to go without it. Self defense, and its...

Due to wrist injuries (both wrists crushed in a road accident) I'm very sensitive to handgun recoil. But after trying to stick with .22s and other very low recoil pistols, I found (by just trying it) that I can shoot an S&W XVR revolver .460 Magnum. I started out shooting the XVR revolver...

Marlin 1894C carbine in .44 or .357 Geez, I have some experience-based learning to pass along to the original poster, but I'm almost afraid to jump into this rip-tide of a thread...~ I think a lever gun could make a very good home defense tool. They can be light, compact, light in recoil...

Well, that's a good thought, Big B, but it's nowhere near that for me :-). (Or should that be "not yet"? :evil:) I think I'm just particularly disappointed because it's Ruger, a company whose products and philosophy have made it probably my favorite gunmaker over the last 30+ years. So to see...

Newest gun: Ruger Mk III .22LR pistol, the new one with M1911 grip style and controls, threaded barrel and under-barrel rail. And for the first time in the purchase of a Ruger firearm (going back more than 30 years now), I'm disappointed. Quite disappointed. Almost 30 years ago I bought a...

What a laser can do, though, is train you to be a much better trigger-puller. Turn on the laser for dry-fire practice and it will mercilessly show you every little flaw you have in your trigger pull. Wonderful training aid.

. Hmmmm....this may not be correct, or perhaps no longer correct. I just purchased a TLR-2s and found that the strobe function does not require that the rocker switch be held down. IOW, it is possible to set and leave the strobe function on and engage a target. Here's how it works on my TLR-2s...

It's the gas operation, y'all I have a Benelli M2 12-ga tactical. It's very well made, very reliable, and it kicks mercilessly with any serious tac loads. I get headaches after firing serious buck and slug loads in it. In that regard it's not much different from the 12-ga M870 I also have...

stonecutter2 wrote: "Streamlight Nano...It's amazingly bright for such a tiny little flashlight" Exactly my same thought about the e-Gear Pico Lite, which is virtually the same thing as the Streamlight Nano. See my couple of posts on this earlier in this thread. They *are* amazingly bright...

Imon wrote: "I have to say though, those pico lites look meh." I don't disagree -- there's nothing particularly exciting about one these little Pico Lites. It's not that any of them is all that exciting, it's more about their "swarm capability." Because they're so tiny, unobtrusive, and cheap...

A radical break from the norm, sort of I have a background in optics and photonics, and that's gotten me a few gigs testing flashlights for several flashlight vendors and one well-known survival-education site. One of the results has been sort of a "geek's dream" of a growing stockpile of...

+1 on the shrouded J-frame or Kahr PM-9, -1 on the Ruger LCP. I own or have owned and carried all three of the above. The PM-9 works well, is reliable, but be sure to get the latest variant with latest changes. (Mine was not, had some quirks.) The Ruger LCP was (note past tense -- sold it) was...

One thought about snakes and snake-shot: I've been running around and/or living in the desert for more than 30 years, including a stint in desert Search & Rescue. In all that time I've come across many, many rattlesnakes, but I haven't yet had to shoot one. They're shy, they make themselves...

"Good trail gun" depends on the trail If it's a desert trail and nothing there is bigger than perhaps a feral dog, a lightweight .22LR or .22 revolver will work great. If it's in woods or mountains where bears might be a problem, you'll want a .357 Mag minimum. Me, for those situations I...

Yeah, OK, this is probably a unnecessary thread :). But as long as we're opining on Glocks vs. the rest and I'm new here, I'll put out my for criticism what I've concluded over the years. Background: Since my first CCW in the early '90s my primary carry pieces have gone from M1911 to Glock 27...