Every shooter has two grips living inside them, and most never realize it until they are exposed by a timer. One grip is built for applause, the sub-second draw, the clean first shot, the illusion of total control. The other is built for consequence, the second, third, fourth and everything that comes after recoil starts demanding enduring muzzle control. The problem is a majority of shooters only train one of them, and it’s the wrong one. You see it all the time. Clean presentation, lightning hands, gun gets out, sights flash, pew. It looks good. It feels good. The timer…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: What is going on? 00:00:00 Speaker 2: We’re back with another episode of Back forty. I’m your host Jake Hoefer. In this week, we’re diving into this whitetail dilemma of a serious tear hunter that sometimes people fall into the traps where you do all these different things, you work really hard, but you’re not necessarily seeing the results that you’re hoping to see. 00:00:18 Speaker 1: And so is this a behavioral thing? Is this doing too much? 00:00:22 Speaker 2: Is this not realizing as the harder you work, your goals also evolved. And we…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: I actually think a lot of I would say a lot of people probably under prepare. And then they do go out and they hike for eight ten miles a day, maybe for five or six days in a row. 00:00:12 Speaker 2: They go all, why is my back hurts? 00:00:14 Speaker 1: Say, well, you haven’t trained in those shoes, you haven’t walked that far, if you haven’t worn a pack that heavy, so like, yeah, of course your lower back hurts. You’ve been carrying forty pounds every day out here. 00:00:27 Speaker 3: The…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show everybody. This week, we’ve got cows not condos, a bit about housecat jerky, army tanks are using up all the turkey. Ammo Randall covers a chimpanzee war. An American hunter is killed by elephants. Spencer covers a war on cocaine, hippos, and more, including for real. This time, we cover the ongoing goofiness and cluelessness of Colorado’s animal rights movement. But first, Seth Morris is back from his year long paternity. He has a new baby. 00:00:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, a new baby kept me up all night last night. 00:00:40 Speaker…

Several months ago, I drove out to a place to hike and bike here in New Mexico. The last four miles of the trip were on a dirt road. Some parts of the road were in such bad shape that it seemed like I was driving over an old-time washboard. I slowed down for those portions of the road, but evidently I didn’t slow down enough, for my car started leaking oil and transmission fluid shortly afterwards. I didn’t hit anything in the dirt road; it was the vibrations from driving over those portions that caused the leaks. These definitely…

On April 30, 711, the Islamic conquest of Iberia began. Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad (pictured) landed at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. (The Al-Andalus Umayyad Caliphate eventually supplanted the Visigothic Kingdom.) — April 30, 1864: New York became the first state to charge a hunting license fee. — Today is the birthday of sci-fi novelist Larry Niven (born April 30, 1938). Along with Jerry Pournelle, he co-authored the survivalist classic Lucifer’s Hammer. — Today’s feature is a reader-written piece that was to short to qualify as an entry for Round 124 of the…

I am a huge fan of anything .45-caliber, especially single-action revolvers. I have five Ruger Blackhawk revolvers in different barrel lengths, all chambered in .45 Colt, two of which have extra cylinders chambered in .45 ACP. Since .45 ACP ammunition is more plentiful for me, I shoot more of that cartridge than I do of the .45 Colt. I contacted Ruger’s customer-service department to inquire about obtaining .45 ACP cylinders for my three revolvers that only came with the .45 Colt cylinder, but was told in no uncertain terms they didn’t provide that service. The expense of having cylinders made…

The Italian replica firearms business is known for bringing back designs from the Old West and Civil War eras, with some designs going even further back in history. While 70 years may not seem like “history,” that is the time period that Pietta is reaching back into for the inspiration for its Blacktooth revolver. With the Blacktooth, Pietta seeks to bring back the first-generation Colt Python. As can easily been seen, the .357 Mag.-chambered Blacktooth is a replica of a first-generation Colt Python. The Python was originally introduced in 1955 and quickly became regarded as the world’s premiere double-action revolver.…

At the conclusion of the American Civil War, the U.S. military developed a new kind of rifle that could accept a self-contained metallic cartridge. Eventually, this spawned an entire line of breechloading firearms collectively known as “Trapdoor Springfields” that armed American troops from the 1860s until the turn of the 20th century. Of all the designs, one of the most refined and popular was the Model 1884 Trapdoor Springfield. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: I Have This Old Gun” segment above to see the details of the ’84 Trapdoor. “There were various systems. The British had the Snider conversion for…