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A Brit shooting a Glock 17 on a range in the USA

16th November 2020 Going Postal 2810 Comments

In  Sept 2015, my wife and I made it down to the On Target Shooting range in Jacksonville Florida and it was an action packed and very worthwhile visit. Although we had to battle through [more…]

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Culterally-Appropriated Tandoori Pheasant

28th October 2020 Captain Black 3773 Comments

The shooting season is with us again, and many of us are looking for good recipes for our game birds.  I find roast pheasant, frankly, a little dull and dry and the best recipes for [more…]

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Wildfowling: The magic of the foreshore

28th September 2020 Columba Palumbus 2921 Comments

Wildfowling is sometimes known as goose fever, for it is about the most addictive of the shooting sports. There is something primal about being out in the tidal marshes on a moonlit night, or a [more…]

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A Brit Using Handguns in the States

10th September 2020 Going Postal 5989 Comments

My father was trained as a sharp shooter, not quite a sniper but somewhere between that and a regular soldier. Exhibiting better than average shooting accuracy with a strong sense of fieldcraft (as he did) [more…]

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The Sharps Model 1874 and Reloading the 45-90 Black Powder Cartridge

20th April 2020 Tom Pudding 3595 Comments

Introduction One of my favourite scenes in one of my all-time favourite Westerns is when Josie Wales (played by Clint Eastwood) chased by Union Redlegs casually waits for them to reach mid-river on a hand-hauled [more…]

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Reasons to be cheerful

23rd March 2020 Going Postal 2823 Comments

Having lurked around these parts for a while quietly enjoying the conversation, I know that a lot of people on here worry about what sort of world our children will inherit.  Although reports on the [more…]

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Why the Swiss Voted for More Gun Control

1st July 2019 Going Postal 1624 Comments

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. On May 19, 2019, Swiss voters approved a new set of gun control restrictions. This newly-approved gun control measure would put Switzerland’s gun control laws in line with European Union standards. [more…]

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Owning a Shotgun

15th May 2019 Going Postal 2927 Comments

A puffin on here has written a series on firearms and their technology up to the 20th century, but what about owning a firearm in the modern day in the UK? What are the laws [more…]

19th Century

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Eight

4th March 2019 Tom Pudding 3285 Comments

Introduction During the first half of the 19th century great leaps forward were made in firearms technology and by the 1870s soldiers who 50 years earlier would have been supplied with flintlock, smoothbore muskets were [more…]

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