by bmt | Feb 29, 2016 | Towsley on Prepping blog
Preppers need to be a bit thick skinned, as most of the public looks at us with smug amusement. For example during a recent medical visit we were making small talk about how we had spent the past weekend. “I was canning venison,” I said. That brought a little smile of...
by bmt | Feb 26, 2016 | Towsley on Hunting blog
At the SHOT show some years back there was a buzz among the gun and hunting writers that, in order to promote their new products, one of the big optics companies was going to be taking a bunch of writers to Africa for a Cape buffalo hunt. As the week progressed and...
by bmt | Feb 26, 2016 | Towsley on Tactical blog
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...
by bmt | Feb 1, 2016 | Towsley on Tactical blog
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...
by bmt | Dec 10, 2015 | Towsley on Tactical blog
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...
