If you haven’t already done so, can we suggest you first read our article ‘Excellent Example of Public Reaction to Justified Shooting part 1‘ then after reading that, come back to this article second. There is a scary lesson in the way too many ill-informed and un-informed comments posted in response to the account of the homeowner who shot a violent intruder who was hellbent on killing the homeowner. The scary lesson is simply this […]

Here’s a short and to the point story about a clearly and completely justified shooting – so clearly justified that it took the police less than 24 hours to announce not only that the killing was justified but that the homeowner had shown extreme restraint. Go read the short report.  It is a short and simple story. A couple were asleep in bed, and woke to the crashing sound of an intruder smashing their back […]

I sometimes work in a gun store, and one of the more common stories I hear from people is that they are buying a gun to protect themselves against bears. Usually, they are buying a handgun rather than a rifle or shotgun, and it is sometimes of a dismayingly low caliber/cartridge power.  The store also has bear spray for sale, but we sell very little of it (even though I recommend it to everyone who […]

We interact with gun owners all the time, and from time to time we encounter groupings of misapprehensions in some strange manner whereby a series of people who don’t know each other will separately each tell us the same thing.  For months, the issue might never be raised, then all of a sudden, we hear it from multiple people in the space of just a few days. Over the last week or so, we’ve had […]

So the worst has come to the worst, and you find yourself in a real life nightmare situation where you have no choice but to use deadly force to save your life and/or the lives of others relying on you for protection and safety. What do you do? Should You Fire a Warning Shot? Do not fire a warning shot.  That bullet is going to go somewhere.  If you fire it down into the ground, […]

We wrote an earlier article about what gear to bring with you to a traditional fixed or ‘square’ range.  By this we mean a range where there is a fixed firing line that you shoot from, and each shooter has their own lane with a single target somewhere down that lane. There are also tactical type ranges, which can vary from ranges where you can safely shoot in all directions, to ranges that are semi-square […]

We have prepared two lists for you to refer to when going to a range for some shooting practice.  The list that follows, on this page, is if you’re going to a regular ‘square’ range – that is, a range with each shooter having a separate lane with a fixed firing position at one end and a target in front of it. The second list is a gear checklist for going to a ‘tactical’ range, […]

It should go without saying that you nearly always should use hearing protection whenever you are shooting, because the shooting sounds are sufficiently loud as to otherwise damage your hearing permanently.  The only exception to this would be to once or twice experience what it sounds like to shoot your defensive weapons with no hearing protection, because that is probably what you’ll experience in real life, and you don’t want the sudden extra loudness of […]

You probably don’t need much advice on what to buy yourself.  This is an article you might find useful to print out and leave lying around somewhere where the people in your life who will probably soon be wondering what to buy you for Christmas might find it.  It might even help to draw rings about the better ideas, and add smiley faces and stars. So what sort of gifts are appropriate for someone who […]