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1 week ago | 
gunsmagazine.com | Jeremy Clough
; . It’s hard to know where to start with the .38 Super. Its roots as a hotted-up version of the .38 ACP of the Colt 1900, the first semiauto pistol produced commercially in the U.S.?
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4 weeks ago | 
gunsmagazine.com | Jeremy Clough
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2 months ago | 
gunsmagazine.com | Jeremy Clough
; . We all think we know the AK47 — a simple, rugged rifle that may not be particularly accurate but runs no matter the conditions or care given.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
americanhandgunner.com | Jeremy Clough
Sometimes, going back to the beginning helps flesh out where you are. This is as true of defensive pistolcraft as anything else, which is still a relatively recent discipline. For example, the point-shooting/combative/threat-focused guys look backward to Col. Rex Applegate. He, in turn, studied Wild Bill Hickok while developing the OSS shooting curriculum.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
americanhandgunner.com | Jeremy Clough
The components that make something a luxury item — leather seats, granite countertops, fine wood paneling, diamonds, a million-dollar view — almost invariably are not man-made. There’s a whole theology that explores the significance of lovely things in nature as evidence there is something greater than us, and there is a unique sense of awe brought on by encountering stunning beauty concealed in places it was never seen for thousands of years.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
gunsmagazine.com | Jeremy Clough
;. His text said, “I’m dying,” and he was and we both knew it. We’d known it since the last October when his doctor gave him 48 hours to live. God, it would seem, had given him another year. When I got to his house several hours later, I sat awkwardly among his subdued wife and children, waiting. Wrenching as it was, I would wish everyone the chance to have a conversation like the one we’d had the previous Fall.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
americanhandgunner.com | Jeremy Clough
If you’re into the classic stuff, the only thing cooler than a proven service pistol is a slightly smaller version better equipped for concealed carry. The CZ75 9mm is a Cold War icon, a stark departure from the largely graceless Czech holster guns that prefigured it.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
americanhandgunner.com | Jeremy Clough
The first reason — the stagecoach in the room, if you will — is the nostalgia and the coolness factor. Even if you didn’t grow up marveling at John Wayne’s 32-shot single action as I did, the Colt Peacemaker is the definitive American Gun. It’s the scion of the first gunfighter’s gun, the Wild-Bill-approved ’51 Navy Colt that went into the California gold fields with the Forty-niners and was used by Texas when it fought for independence from Mexico.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
gunsmagazine.com | Jeremy Clough
;. Competition betters the breed. This has been common knowledge since the halcyon race days of the ’60s when the automaker’s slogan “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” ruled the roost. In fact, the earliest races were contests less of speed than reliability, for manufacturers to prove the durability of their wares. It’s not all that different with defensive guns — many of the innovations we take for granted came from competition. Think red dot sights, the 2011, etc.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
americanhandgunner.com | Jeremy Clough
There are things in this world that are hard to measure: the exact path, for example, that a toddler will take to cover any particular distance you ask them to traverse. Things with outsides, like the diameter of a barrel, are, generally speaking, easy. Insides are harder. This is especially true if it’s an irregular cavity such as a chamber with a taper or bottleneck, where just measuring the diameter of the hole won’t tell you what you need to know. For these, there is Cerrosafe.
