Tactical Skills for a Life Well Lived
Equipment and gear is secondary to mindset and skillset, but still very relevant to success. The right piece of gear at the right time can make all the difference. As fun as it may be, trying to purchase new equipment to overcome challenges is not the best way to go. Contained here are all posts about equipment, from reviews to employment.
The Thrym Pyrovault is a nifty little gizmo for protecting a classic Zippo insert and helping slow the evaporation of the lighter fluid.
I recently received one as a birthday gift from family, and thought I’d look at it from the perspective of someone who EDC’s a lighter every day for those “just in case” moments.
The findings are a mixed bag. [Read Full Article »]
The Vortex Solo R/T 8×36 monocular is a handy piece of kit. It is lightweight, compact, and useful for daylight spotting. Its mil-hash reticle and silhouette-based ranging tools are an added bonus for competition and tactical shooters.
However, it’s ideally used for daylight. I’ve always had trouble with it at dusk and into the evening. As with most optics, that’s really where the lower price really starts to show through.
In all, it makes a great inexpensive gift for quick spotting and practicing your mil-ranging. [Read Full Article »]
I’ve touched on the magic of angular measurements before. Typically, you’re going to run into one of two flavors: minutes of angle or milliradians. The quick version of this is to understand that a radian is another way to measure rotation around a point. A milliradian, sometimes called a mil or MRAD, is 1/1000 of a radian.
Nobody really wants to be handling a calculator when out in the field, and the little Mildot Master is the answer. It’s a handy little tool for simplifying the process of getting to a shooting solution.
Even in a world full of laser rangefinder, having a backup and the know-how to use it is never a bad idea. [Read Full Article »]
If you haven’t figured it out yet, I have a strong distaste for internet and gun store lore. That’s especially true if that lore isn’t much good for anything other than burning a hole in your pocket.
My very first firearm purchase was a Springfield M1A Loaded Black Stainless. The internet lore won me over.
The M14 was the classic American manly rifle. The combat rifle that should have been.
That’s when the trouble started. [Read Full Article »]
Next to barrels, AR-15 trigger selection is the most contentious issue for enthusiasts. It’s actually frustrating, because so much of it is personal preference, yet everyone will tell you unequivocally that you should get whatever model they like.
This article is less about me telling you what trigger to buy, and more about considerations between a single stage or two-stage trigger. I’ll also offer some advice on material selection as well as safety concerns [Read Full Article »]
As a quick follow up to the article on zeroing your iron sights, I wanted to share this video. It’s a USMC Primary Marksmanship Instructor teaching about zeroing the M16A2 rifle.
He makes some interesting points about battlesight zero, range estimation, and how gear affects marksmanship. [Read Full Article »]
Most articles walk you through the basic steps of getting your iron sights zeroed, but they lack an explanation of why you’re doing the steps you’re doing. Let’s change that.
We’re going to dig into exactly what a minute of angle is and how it relates to your rifle’s iron sights. Then we’ll get to my preferred method of zeroing my sights and confirming that they’re on target. [Read Full Article »]
After attending an Appleseed shoot in 2014, I was all hopped up on learning and preaching iron sights. I treated them like some kind of magic voodoo that I had learned, and that magic made me a real rifleman.
Iron sights are merely a sighting device used to estimate the point of impact based on point of aim. That is their sole purpose in life, the same as any other sighting device. So why have they obtained magical status? [Read Full Article »]
The GR1 is like one of those mythical objects that people on the internet talk about, but nobody you know actually has.
As the saying goes, though, you get what you pay for. In this price range, there is a lot of competition from other gear makers like Kifaru, Mystery Ranch, Crye Precision, London Bridge Trading, and more. All of these are considered top notch. Yet, when you search around the web, the GR1 consistently has loyal advocates.
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The Trijicon TR24 is one of the all time greats of the low power variable market. I’ve been using one since 2011, and it’s never let me down.
But times have changed. New options have hit the market, and even my own style has shifted.
Does the TR24 still feel relevant today? Let’s look. [Read Full Article »]
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