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Camping & Survival

Training for Shooting and Survival—Building Your Buns

Your arsenal wasn’t built in a day, and your body won’t be either. Start with basic exercises. Think about your stance for shooting. It doesn’t matter if it’s an Isosceles or Weaver stance, kneeling or prone, what’s the most important component? Read this article to learn more.

Tactical medicine scenarios with medics, instructors and victims

Camping & Survival

Wounded, Alone, but not Helpless

Whether you’re alone in a remote location, pumping gas past the hours of normal street traffic or dropping the kids off at school, everyone runs the risk of being a first responder. It may be your best friend, a loved one at a gas station…or it could be you. The whys and hows, the lessons learned and armchair quarterbacking can all be handled later, because when you are the primary first responder, life—possibly your own—is on the line. Are you prepared?

Resident Goose Hunting

Hunting and Outdoors

5 Tips for Bagging More “Residents”

Discover 5 tips to help you make the best of the Canadian geese hunting season and understand the differences in migratory patterns. Make sure you hunt where the birds are, hunt the flight path, use the right decoys, learn how to “hide in plain sight” and shoot the roost.

Camping & Survival

Seconds Will Get You Seconds

Srengthening your body’s secondary muscle groups, such as your shoulders, calves and hands, makes your shooting more gains seconds for your shooting and hunting activities. These exercises can be done without expensive gym memberships or special equipment, in your own home or back yard.

Camping & Survival

Getting in “Shooting Shape”

No, this is not gunny’s beloved Marine Corps. What we are talking about is your body’s core. Typically, we are talking about the core muscle groups and large muscles of the body that are the base for the majority of motion and movement. Your body is a marvelous machine that tries to perform each activity with the least amount of energy expenditure. These exercises will help you build a better base and allow you to develop a solid shooting and overall performance platform.

Camping & Survival

Getting in Shape for a Bug Out

Being prepared for a crisis or bug-out situation is a matter of being prepared. Adding a training plan to your regular activities is a simple way to make sure you’re well-trained and ready to go if, or when, the time comes. In this post, learn how easy it is to train at home.

Slip on recoil pad added to rifle stock

Firearms

5 Lessons for Recoil

Shooting a rifle is different than shooting a shotgun. Having fired thousands of rounds from both, I have developed and learned several best practices that will help you enjoy the practice sessions that will ensure when your opportunity arrives you have the best chance of winning the match or harvesting the game.

News

NRA Women: Tips and Tactics

Kim Heath clues us in on a counter supination grip. This grip uses more shoulder and back muscles while relying less on the bicep muscle group.

How-To

How to Clean Your AR

Are you a new AR owner? Keeping your rifle in tip-top shape is easy when you watch our AR-15 cleaning video.