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@olderguns...then you're a lucky member. Taurus has a certain notoriety about them in these parts. And, well, all over from what I hear.

@Avenger29...yeah it was a bit rude. But what's a little gun store humor amongst Marines. We all laughed and I moved so they could browse. No biggie.

Just today I was at the military exchange on base where there is a pretty respectable firearms department. I was chatting with a Gunnery Sergeant friend of mine who moonlights over there in the evenings. As we were BSing about work, etc., I was absentmindedly flipping through a Brownells...

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So the Marine Corps adamantly frowns upon the use of recruits and Marines using their inserted rifle magazine as a type of monopod when in the prone. I understand that this could perhaps unfairly benefit some (when shooting for score) by falling under the classification of a "supported prone...

If I leave the base where I'm stationed, I'm carrying. Period. The surrounding town is pretty ghetto and conflicts occur at any time and in the strangest of places. I've never had to draw on another, but I did have to flash a little pistol grip before in order to get some persistent bum the hell...

From a marksmanship training perspective, I'd keep him with the righty pieces. As you said, he'll likely encounter many many more righty guns in his lifetime so better to learn with what he may have to pickup and shoot in a pinch rather than a customized deal that may be initially more...

Not that this tidbit will do you any good, but your sad situation made me think of a conversation I had years ago with a friend. I was moving into a house in shady neighborhood with, amongst everything else, my two pit bulls and my firearms. My buddy said to me, "make sure when you're carrying...

A USMC recruit at Parris Island once decided that he's had enough, turned completely around, and began snapping-in on one of his Drill Instructors.

Bro...bowling pins. Your local alley should give their retired ones to you for free. Find a cross beam and screw an eyelet into the head of the pin, then suspend the pin from the crossbeam so that it's hanging. It's pretty sweet. Takes 9mm UZI and AR15-9mm well. Haven't tried with a pistol, but...

Tap away, Marine. That's common practice for setting the screws in our issue ACOG anyhow and those are sold by Trijicon to the USMC for 780 apiece. As a Sniper Instructor and Combat Marksmanship Instructor for the Marine Corps, I had the pleasure of attending a Trijicon ACOG+ seminar a couple...

I am a USMC sniper/sniper instructor and a Combat Marksmanship Instructor at Parris Island. I train recruits on the ranges here. At basic training, the recruits only get 3 weeks and a day of marksmanship which in my opinion is not nearly enough. Just as much emphasis is placed on Drill and...

Sharps, don't you love how a simple hypothetical can be taken to the extreme, read into, and shredded by "those of us" who have the "common sense?" (E.g., Mandolin.) I mean, I sit around and daydream these "what if's" up as well - largely to consider how I may react to them. It's fun to think...

Rugers My first handgun that I bought about 10 years ago from a classified ad was a Ruger kP95 (9mm). It ran just fine and like many Ruger auto-loaders, it's accuracy left a lot to be desired but it functioned. I probably only put a couple of thousand rounds through it. Then eventually I...