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  • Weekend Knowledge Dump- July 18, 2025
    by Greg Ellifritz on July 18, 2025 at 10:37 am

    Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.   Beretta 1301 Tactical: Still the Best After 10 Years? Excellent information about my […]

  • Free Books- Part 323
    by Greg Ellifritz on July 17, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website.  You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day.  These books can be downloaded to a Kindle reader or a […]

  • Weekend Knowledge Dump- July 11, 2025
    by Greg Ellifritz on July 11, 2025 at 10:19 am

    Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.   Striker Fired Guns Should Probably Not Be Carried AIWB. If you have ever attended one of […]

  • Prime Day Deals 2025
    by Greg Ellifritz on July 9, 2025 at 5:09 pm

    Today and tomorrow are this year’s “Prime Days” on Amazon.com.  For members of their excellent “prime” service, they are discounting thousands of items site wide.   It’s kind of like […]

  • Weapon “Brandishing”
    by Greg Ellifritz on July 7, 2025 at 7:09 pm

    A few weeks ago the crew from CCW Safe interviewed me for their podcast on display of defensive weapons versus criminal “brandishing.”   In the interview, I describe a couple cases I worked as a […]

  • Weekend Knowledge Dump- July 4, 2025
    by Greg Ellifritz on July 4, 2025 at 10:24 am

    Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.   JULY 2025 NEWSLETTER Tom’s excellent monthly newsletter.     The Tactical Truth […]

  • Free Books- Part 322
    by Greg Ellifritz on July 3, 2025 at 7:41 pm

    Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website.  You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day.  These books can be downloaded to a Kindle reader or a […]

  • Weekend Knowledge Dump- June 27, 2025
    by Greg Ellifritz on June 27, 2025 at 11:00 am

    Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.   Vang Comp Thunderstick Summit 2025 Open enrollment registration for the best shotgun […]

  • New Podcast Interview
    by Greg Ellifritz on June 23, 2025 at 8:08 pm

    Lee Weems interviewed me for his “That Weems Guy” podcast a couple days ago.  We discussed current events and strategies for avoiding large scale public demonstrations, riots, and protests.   […]

  • Weekend Knowledge Dump- June 20, 2025
    by Greg Ellifritz on June 20, 2025 at 10:42 am

    Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.   Ceecurets Of Shootin’ Clint Smith’s “shootin’ ceecurets.”     Lasers Vs. Red […]

American Rifleman
  • Gun Of The Week: Wilson Combat Division 77 Project 1
    on July 18, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Join American Rifleman staff on the range in this video to get a closer look at Wilson Combat’s somewhat cryptically named “Division 77 Project 1.” 

  • The Armed Citizen® July 18, 2025
    on July 18, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Read today's "The Armed Citizen" entry for real stories of law-abiding citizens, past and present, who used their firearms to save lives.

  • Review: POF-USA LMR BASE Rifle
    on July 17, 2025 at 2:00 pm

    The Patriot Ordnance Factory LMR Base offers a .308 Win. chambering in a lightweight, AR-15-size package, which makes it a capable platform for today's new gun owner. And it comes at a fair price.

  • 2025 Accessory Of The Year: Wyoming Sight Drifter
    on July 17, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    For each of the past 23 years, the editors of American Rifleman have convened to select our top picks for the past year’s best and most innovative products. Here are the most recent winners.

  • Henry Donates Rifles To Support Young Leukemia Victim
    on July 17, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Henry Repeating Arms has donated a limited run of 50 “Team Keane” Golden Boy .22 lever-action rifles to support 13-year-old Keane Rhodes of Universal City, Texas, who is currently undergoing […]

  • Rifleman Review: Springfield Armory Echelon
    on July 16, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Springfield Armory introduced its Echelon in 2023, bringing a modernized, chassis-style, striker-fired handgun to the market that has since seen several notable line extensions.

  • CzechPoint Introduces New vz.58 Rifles & Pistols
    on July 16, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    CzechPoint USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Czech Small Arms, is now importing a number of new vz.58 rifles and pistols, including a matte "Military Black" version, as well as state-compliant models.

  • Handloads: A Quiet .308 Win. For Large-Format Pistols
    on July 15, 2025 at 2:00 pm

    Of the many commercial .308 Winchester loads, few, if any, are designed for barrels shorter than 16". The one that follows helps address this gap while remaining simple to suppress and light on the […]

  • Court Approves Watchtower Firearms DIP Financing
    on July 15, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Watchtower Firearms was granted final approval for debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas in late June.

  • Review: Ruger LC Carbine In 10 mm Auto
    on July 14, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Following the success of its .45 ACP-chambered LC Carbine, Ruger realized that this platform would go a long way toward making the 10 mm Auto more controllable and fun to shoot, and a new 10 mm […]

Michael Seekings / Shooting Performance
  • Randomizing Training
    by michael seeklander on March 16, 2025 at 2:08 pm

    Guest Post by Matt Little (Graybeard actual) www.https://greybeardactual.com “I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it.” — Pablo Picasso I’ve been […]

  • “David” Fitness Protocol
    by michael seeklander on August 31, 2024 at 9:24 pm

    (Practical (Shooting) Fitness Programming) By: Mike Seeklander Key Concepts First, let me start by saying that I am not a current, certified fitness trainer or coach. I have been in the past, but do […]

  • Carry Optics – Time to Find the Dot! 
    by michael seeklander on June 22, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    Set up and training with your first carry optic handgun. A repost from the Tactical Journal. So you have decided to put an optic on that pistol and try the new carry optics divisions in IDPA and […]

  • The FUNDAMENTAL Program Drills
    by michael seeklander on December 2, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    I get this question all the time: “Mike, I am a defensive shooter and will be practicing on an indoor range, what drills should I do in this circumstance” and I always answer that a drill is […]

  • Each Day, Try to Build One Perfect Chunk
    by michael seeklander on February 9, 2021 at 1:38 pm

    Tip #16: Each Day, Try to Build One Perfect Chunk The post Each Day, Try to Build One Perfect Chunk appeared first on Shooting-Performance.com.

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  • Down for the Count
    by David Codrea on June 9, 2022 at 6:05 pm

     What are people still doing coming here? And no, I don't see the majority coming from links at the new site.Go HERE.

  • Success of Sorts
    by David Codrea on May 6, 2022 at 4:39 pm

    It's not pretty. It's not sophisticated. There's plenty of room for improvement and helpful features.But by God, after several days of inventing new cuss words and letting my inner ADD make me no fun […]

  • 'I Find Myself to be Exorbitantly Superannuated for This Feculence'
    by David Codrea on May 5, 2022 at 4:05 pm

    Trying to set up the new site has been an exercise in pure frustration. It sure adds a whole new dimension to "A man's gotta know his limitations."Nothing about it is intuitive.  You'd think if you […]

  • Blog Update Sitrep
    by David Codrea on May 3, 2022 at 3:38 pm

    I'm workin' on it. I should be able to do a test post at the new place by the end of the week.It's been nice having less hectic days at the keyboard, especially with Spring yard work demands, but I […]

  • ‘Be a Victim’ is No Way to Run the Republic
    by David Codrea on May 2, 2022 at 9:40 pm

    No doubt, there are reasons why citizens should think twice about confronting those committing criminal acts, but prominent among those is that the same “law” that fails to “secure the […]

  • Silence from Black Leaders on Biden ATF Nomination is Deafening
    by David Codrea on April 30, 2022 at 3:23 pm

    You’d think with all their talk about “equity,” more angrily outspoken members of the Congressional  Black Caucus, representatives like Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee, would be demanding […]

  • Armed American Radio Redux
    by David Codrea on April 30, 2022 at 3:04 pm

    David Codrea explores Ukraine disarming citizens for weapons storage? WAT? [Listen]Thursday's Hour 2 program, where we discussed the (thus far unreported by anyone else) Ukraine gun storage order...

  • Donald Trump Jr’s 2A Task Force Needs Closer Scrutiny by Gun Owners
    by David Codrea on April 29, 2022 at 2:01 pm

    Fleshing out the details of the “group,” its organization and specific efforts it intends to make is important because getting visitors to register and donate seems to be the purpose of the 2A […]

  • I'll Be On Hour 2
    by David Codrea on April 28, 2022 at 7:57 pm

     TODAY on #AAR Hour 1, 4-5p ET (1-2p PT) @HT_GunWriter Lee Williams, Hour 2, 5-6p ET, (2-3p PT) @dcodrea. Good hard-hitting talk radio! Make sure to tune in or watch live at […]

  • EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian Territorial Defense Ordered to Turn in Arms 'for Storage' Purposes
    by David Codrea on April 26, 2022 at 4:39 pm

    The disarming of citizen soldier volunteers (especially when a war is still in full swing) is a good indicator that if and when the situation in Ukraine “normalizes,” the plan is to return to […]

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