A Poor Man’s Sniper Rifle

A Poor Man’s Sniper Rifle

  If you are looking for a “sniper” type rifle for use out to 500 yards or so, it may already be in your safe. This is a fun project that gets the gun out of the safe and onto the range. The Mosin–Nagant bolt-action military rifle was developed by the Imperial Russian...
Steyr Mannlicher L-A1

Steyr Mannlicher L-A1

    This is an excerpt from my new book, “Prepper Guns” due out this spring.   I first ran into this new pistol when I was in Bessemer, Alabama in April of 2014 for the grand opening of Steyr’s new U.S. based facility. At first I thought it was “just...
A Serious Long Range Rifle

A Serious Long Range Rifle

 Long range tactical shooting is huge now, both in competition and for serious tactical applications. It’s also a lot of fun. There is something compelling about placing a bullet on a target so far away you can’t even see it with the naked eye. A target...
The Lever Action Alternative

The Lever Action Alternative

This is excerpted from my upcoming book, “Survival Guns for Preppers” due out this spring.     If you are politically oppressed and can’t own the gun you want, this might be the gun you need   There is no question that a magazine fed, semi-auto rifle is the best...

A Buck

I wrote this several years ago when I was starting out as an outdoor writer. It was published several times in The Vermont Sportsman and a few other magazines.  I was back on that mountain a few weeks ago and stood under that old treestand. The National Forrest is...