Author: Braxton Taylor
The NRA Education and Training Department’s best kept secret is the Marksmanship Qualification Program (MQP). A person does not have to be a member of the NRA to shoot the program and earn the associated awards. What is the MQP and what is the benefit of shooting the various courses of fire it contains? The MQP began in 1903 as a collaboration between the NRA and the New York City School System (!) as a way of teaching gun safety using .22LR rifles to school children. As a result of a merger with the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps in 1926,…
Safariland recently launched its latest crop of law enforcement and military rated duty holsters with the introduction of the new Ballast series of duty holsters. This next generation duty holster from Safariland aims to maximize space on an officer’s duty belt while also protecting their side-arm from unauthorized access or the surrounding environment. Although Safariland has traditionally used a thermo-molded material to form the holster bodies of their flagship duty rigs, the Ballast takes a different approach by using an even stronger injection molded polymer material that’s more durable in extreme heat or cold settings without the eventual wear of…
Firearm: Kimber 2K11 (MSRP: $2,125) Double-stack, 1911-style pistols are certainly popular right now, and presented as exhibit number – well, I lost count, but it’s a lot – is the Kimber 2K11. The company, long known for its traditional 1911-style handguns, has branched out recently, with micro-9 mm pistols in both 1911-style and double-stack, striker-fired, polymer-frame variants. The company’s latest offering is the 2K11, a double-stack 9 mm 1911 pistol with all the extras you’ve come to expect from Kimber. The 2K11 has dimensions similar to other double-stack 1911 pistols: 5-inch barrel, 8.6-inch overall length, 5.7-inch height and a weight…
Hosts Ryan Callaghan, Randall Williams, and Corinne Schneider take the good news with the bad on the public lands front, get a tour of the goodies at Gulf of Maine Inc. from “Tidepool” Tim Sheehan, suss out fake news, catch up with Jordan Sillars about his “Blood Trails,” and get served a MeatEater Menu. Read the full article here