Competition
First Gen Walther P99 at the BUG Match
Licensed Troubleshooter: The Guns of James Bond is live on Kickstarter now – check it out for lots of super cool exclusive options! Last week Tom and I did a BUG match with 4 different […]
Semiauto pistol
Semiauto pistol
Boring, Durable, Unsexy Bricks: The Remarkably Successful Ruger P85
The Ruger P85 – like so many of Ruger’s products – is not particularly attractive or exciting. It introduced no particular mechanical innovation besides the casting-based manufacturing that would actually probably be seen as a […]
Movie review
Every Gun in “Dr. No” is Wrong
Licensed Troubleshooter: The Guns of James Bond is live on Kickstarter now – check it out for lots of super cool exclusive options! Today Caleb Daniels, author of “Licensed Troubleshooter”, joins me to talk […]
Competition
BUG Match: Guns of James Bond
“Licensed Troubleshooter: The Guns of James Bond” is live on Kickstarter now – check it out for lots of super cool exclusive options! Today my friend Tom joins me at the BackUp Gun (BUG) Match […]
Semiauto pistol
Sig P230JP: A Special Pistol for the Japanese Police
The Japanese national police decided to replace their old Model 60 S&W revolvers in 1995. While traditionalist elements liked the use of a non-threatening compact revolver, others advocated for a modern sidearm – essentially a […]
Competition
Balloons, Bombs, and Sandbags: Finnish Brutality 2024 Day 2
Finnish Brutality 2024 took the standard for practical shooting matches and raised it again – this was the best match that I have ever had the chance to shoot. Run by Varusteleka, a Finnish military […]
Competition
Spanish JoLoAr One-Handed Pistol at the BUG Match
Today for the monthly BackUp Gun Match I am using a Spanish JoLoAr pistol in .380 ACP. It’s an interesting piece designed with a lever on the side that allows it to be cocked one-handed. […]
Semiauto pistol
CZ’s New P09 Nocturne: DA/SA Polymer Frame Now With Optics
CZ has just released their new P09 Nocturne pistols, an update to the previous P07/P09 pairing. These guns fundamentally go back to the classic CZ-75. While that was (and still is) a very popular design, […]
Conversion
Colt Service Model Ace: Carbine Williams Makes a .22 1911
“Carbine Williams”, aka David Marshall Williams, has a reputation as the designer of the M1 Carbine, and a very colorful history. He was a moonshiner who pled guilty to second degree murder of a sheriff’s […]
Prototype
Landstad 1900: A True Semiautomatic Revolver
The Landstad Model 1900 is a magazine-fed, semiautomatic revolver designed by Norwegian Halvard Folkestad Landstad, who lived in Kristiana (now called Oslo). He designed the gun on his own dime, and presented it to military […]