MOA, Mils, and Angular Measurement for Rifle Optics
Understand minutes of angle and milliradians for group measurement, optic adjustments, reticle holds, and corrections at different distances.
Miscellaneous P&S
Primary & Secondary articles that do not fit a narrower topic category but still offer useful perspective, discussion, updates, or community context.
P&S ModCast 84 — Gun Nerds 1: History & Advancement in Firearms
The first Gun Nerds panel examines the history and advancement of firearms, weapon-system development and the context behind modern designs.
Rifle Sighting Systems: Iron Sights, Optics, and Lasers
Compare rifle iron sights, red-dot sights, magnified optics, and laser aiming devices by capability, limitation, mounting, zero, and intended use.
Why We Train Toward Weapons Mastery
Weapons mastery combines reliable mechanics, system knowledge, diagnosis, judgment, and adaptable performance beyond minimum qualification.
Machine-Gun Fire-Control Methods Explained
A doctrine-informed overview of oral commands, visual and prearranged signals, personal contact, range cards, redundancy, and confirmation in machine-gun fire control.
Malfunctions with a Primary Weapon, Part 2
For Manual Monday, we are continuing our discussion on Control. Specifically, we will continue our discussion on malfunctions as we address when in the cycle of function immediate action will correct the malfunction, and the rules of correcting a malfunction, which is a specific part of the shot process that was not addressed under the … Read more
Primary-Weapon Malfunctions: Diagnosis and Corrective Action
Understand how weapon malfunctions interrupt the cycle of operation, how immediate and remedial action differ, and why safe diagnosis must guide corrective action.
Running the Irons.
Iron sights have been part of shooting since the very least April 19th 1775. Aiming was a major part of our tactics that helped defeat the British unaimed volley fire. This being said, it should come as no surprise that we have learned, used, and lost uses for iron sights in all environments from jungles, … Read more
Inforce WMLxIR review
I recently purchased a WMLxIR for use on a training/duty rifle. The rifle is used primarily for low light and night vision training. Having learned the hard way how difficult it is to operate under NVGS without proper IR illumination I was very excited to see a recently released and updated WMLxIR with better white … Read more
Vehicle Loadouts
Vehicle Loadout – carrying stuff out of sight, out of mind. Frame of reference: Carried this way when I lived in a small town in a Western “Cowboy” “pro gun” area. *When I travel to less “pro gun” or “Cowboy” regions into a more “Hippie” region, I cover up my gun stuff with less gun/tactical … Read more