Marky
Writer for john1911.com. Co-Host of the John1911 Podcast. Video content provider for John1911-TV.
Areas of focus: Defense and National Security, Modern Light Weapons, Small Arms, Weapons Training.
Magneto Speed Chronograph Testing.
A co-worker of mine recently purchased a Magneto Speed Chronograph. This is a big upgrade to this 20 year old 3 screen model. I...
Getting The Crossbow’s Ready For The Season: Horton & PSE
So it's well into summer and now is the time to check your hunting gear. We always start with archery since it is the...
The Arrogance Of The Trained.
The Shooting of the two Police Officers and the subsequent shooting in Walmart have just happened. This post addresses something that has been bothering...
Pulling Out The Backup CCW Glock 19
I travel quite a bit. Mostly by airplane. As such, checking luggage is simply a reality. When I made the switch back to Glocks...
Les Baer TRS 1911 with 30,000 Rounds
I will say this right up front: I have a pet peeve. Especially when it concerns 1911 users. The hypocrisy. Have your attention yet?...
Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot 2014 Highlight Pictures
Some of our staff went down to the 2014 Spring Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. We always go with a to-buy list of certain...
Shooting Pigs In Texas
A couple of good friends went down to Texas for an annual pig hunt. Those bad-boys down in Texas are quite skittish and are...
Cracked 1944 Finnish Mosin Nagant Getting Ready For Coyote Hunting.
As some of you are aware, Freeze at one time was a very large Mil-Surp collector. Specializing in WW I and WW II firearms...
Hard Primer Testing. 308 ASYM Ammo.
We were out getting some training and I had a hard-primer strike. Well...at first I didn't know it was that. I was fearful the...
338 Lapua Rifle KaBoom.
Here are some photos of a Savage 338 Lapua that suffered a catastrophic failure when the user, finding his brass cases were sticking in...
Schmidt-Rubin 7.5 Swiss At the Range
We ran across a guy shooting a Schmidt-Rubin the other day. Very nice rifle. Since we were also running a straight-pull rifle (Blaser R8),...
Cold Weather Zero Testing: Blaser Tactical 2 & 308 ASYM 175g...
The day before Thanksgiving.
I took some time on Wednesday to sneak out of the office and do some cold weather / zero testing. It...
Home Camo Job on Your Rifle. Sig Sauer / Blaser Tactical...
The Blaser project has been proceeding nicely. It's a very nice rifle with lots of features but still doesn't weigh a metric S-Ton. The...
Asym 308 175 Grain Ammo. 100 Yards. Sig Sauer / Blaser...
We had stopped up at Cabelas a few weeks ago and saw some of Stan Chen's Asym ammo on the shelf. Been meaning to...
10-8 Performance Sites on Glock 19 Gen 4 FDE.
I've always been a big fan of 10-8 Performance. I use some of Hilton Yam's parts on my 1911s. I am very comfortable with...
