Recent content by Steve Moses

Reasons for trunk gun: You know you are going to be involved in a fight, and you have 30 seconds to prepare for it. I would not take a pistol to a fight that I knew was going to take place unless that is all that I had, but take a rifle or shotgun instead. Examples of fights that I might...

One more thing- I don't care for IER scopes. IMO, they suck scummy pond water in low light. A conventional 3x scope or 1.5-5x is fast and gathers light very well if it has a 32 or 40mm objective. I do a lot of pig hunting in low light and am quite opinionated. This is one of my less...

It may be just me, but I much prefer the 7mm-08 to the .308. For some reason, .308 recoil in a light rifle just crosses the line of being tolerable. My Savage 10 Sierra with a Decelarator recoil pad can be shot all day, and just hammers deer and pigs. It will shoot into an inch with...

Here is my two pennies worth. Get the 870. The ejection port on the 870 is larger in case you have to manually dig a shotshell out of the action. After-market accessories abound for the 870. If you opt to someday mount a sidesaddle on your shotgun, the steel receiver of the 870 is...

Sorry, did not get the rest of my message completed before I posted it (twice, what a schmuck!). I don't feel good about my ability to choose between a handgun or a knife when someone assaults me. My handgun is my primary, so I will probably default to it as a conditioned response, assuming...

I think that if the red flag goes up at near contact distance, and I have access to both a handgun and a knife, I am going to be hard-pressed to make a conscious decision to choose one tool over the other. To that end, I focus both on learning how to best use a handgun at contact distances as...

You will be hurting like crazy when you wake up after surgery, and pretty miserable for a couple of days. By day three, you will be feeling much better. Expect to miss a month worth of work. After that, you will probably be working half-days and doing physical therapy for another month...