Ted Williams played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox. How many professional athletes would halt their careers, while in their prime, to fight for their Country? The post The Science of a Great American appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

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My Prepping Journey began in 1967 when I moved to San Francisco. Spots on the radio urged us to prepare for an earthquake, The Big One. So one day while I was grocery shopping, I threw a flashlight in my cart and then put it in my trunk. On another trip I threw a cardboard box into my trunk. In the ensuing months, I added some bottles of water, a knife, some Power Bars, and cans of soup. I later learned that the heat of the trunk would destroy the soup, so I replaced it with beef jerky and peanuts.…

On April 3, 1910, the highest mountain in North America, Alaska’s Mount McKinley (aka Denali) was claimed to have been first climbed by four local men.  They climbed McKinley’s North Peak, not knowing that the South Peak is actually 850 feet higher. — This is the birthday of Washington Irving, an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for short stories like Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but he also wrote several biographies and served as the US Ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846. — A…

The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Geissele Automatics and Carpenter Technologies entered into Cooperative Research and Development Agreements in 2022 that may signal an all-new era in gun-barrel longevity and performance. How long until it reaches consumers—and becomes affordable—remains to be seen, but in the not-too-distant future, it’s possible we’ll see it being used in small arms fielded by the U.S. Military. A 2021 white paper published to formally introduce a new barrel-making material explains, “Using Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) and precision melt control, Carpenter Technology developed GNB200, a premium remelted alloy steel specially formulated for high…

“Dreaded Dry Fire” is the training conversation most shooters would rather avoid. Mention it at the range, and you can watch enthusiasm drain out in real time. Eyes drift away. Someone changes the subject to ammo or the latest gear review they watched online. Almost anything sounds more appealing than the disciplined, repetitive work of dry practice. The uncomfortable truth is impossible to ignore. Talk to the best shooters in the world—Grand Masters, national champions, professional instructors—and you will hear the same story: the majority of their skill development did not happen on the range with ammunition. It happened in…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: I’ve got a rule. When the kids are around and I am going out, I will ask them if they want to go. Usually mornings are tough, but evenings try surprisingly we’ll get up. Man. If he hears me stirring and all. 00:00:11 Speaker 2: He’s like, I God, that’s how I was when I was age. 00:00:13 Speaker 1: I got up early Lakeland. This year, I bought them a crossbow. She froze up on a dough and then a buck was coming and she was fired up. And so I did have the the I…

With acres of exhibition space, addresses from NRA’s leadership, an epic country concert and literally tens of thousands of guns on display, the 155th NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Houston­—and our nation’s 250th celebration—are not to be missed. Join us April 17-19! It was 250 years ago that the “unanimous Declaration of the 13 united States of America” was signed on July 4, 1776. The shot heard ‘round the world had been fired on April 19, 1775, and the long-fought war that followed led to the noble experiment in human freedom we call these United States. It was a war…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: What is going on? 00:00:00 Speaker 2: I’m Jake Hoper, the host of Back forty. We’re back with another season. You’re going to be getting an episode like this once a month here, and if you didn’t catch any of the Back forty series last year, let me explain how this episode format works is a little bit different. So each episode we’re going to be diving into one specific question, one specific white tailed dilemma that we all likely face, and I bring in a panel of experts. I ask them all the same exact question,…