Gear

Enter The Concealed Carry Spring 2020 Giveaway

By Joshua Gillem / May 22, 2020

The Concealed Carry Spring 2020 Giveaway is currently underway. You have until May 31st to enter and the winners will be drawn on June 1, 2020. It’s a very simple…

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7 Movements That Give Away Your Concealed Carry Advantage (And How To Fix Them)

By Matthew Maruster / May 21, 2020

If you carry a concealed gun, there was a “day one” when you went out into public carrying your handgun for the first time. Or, maybe that day is coming…

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You Decide: Are These 3 Items Good Pieces of Gun Gear?

By Joshua Gillem / May 18, 2020

Every so often we’re made aware of items that we’ve never seen before and really don’t know what to think about them. Actually, that’s not entirely true because we do…

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5 Essential Traits Every Carry Gun Needs

By Joshua Gillem / May 14, 2020

Your gun should have certain traits or attributes to make it an effective concealed carry tool. That is, by the way, exactly what your CCW weapon is — a tool.…

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Top 3 Best Spare Magazine Carriers According To This Guy Right Here

By Joshua Gillem / May 13, 2020

It makes sense to carry a spare magazine on your body for defensive purposes. We’ve highlighted the main reasons why this is a good idea in this article, here, but…

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What I’m Carrying Right Now, In Which Holster, And The Ammo I Trust

By Joshua Gillem / May 12, 2020

I’ve been carrying a concealed gun for a while now. I’m not exactly sure how long it has been but I think I’m approaching a decade (though not quite yet).…

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On Your Six Designs Holster Review [Video]

By Matthew Maruster / May 11, 2020

The fellas at On Your Six Designs produce a high quality, very affordable kydex IWB holster. They have a wide selection of firearm models and offer a lifetime warranty. The shipping is super fast and customer service could not be any better.

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Women’s Concealed Carry Holster Options

By Jacob Paulsen / May 1, 2020

In speaking with female students who come through our firearm training course the most common concern initially is in finding a way to carry a concealed firearm that is in line with modern female style and also functional as it relates to self-defense.

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Concealed Carry App Review: Smartphone Gun Knowledge At Your Fingertips

By Joshua Gillem / April 23, 2020

Very rarely is something made available for free that is actually a very good resource. There are some paid apps that range from okay to great, and some free ones…

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More Light Shined On Recent Spike In New Gun Owners

By Joshua Gillem / April 22, 2020

March 2020 saw the highest number of gun sales in a single month. Ever. Almost 2.5 million guns were sold and we all assumed that many of them were new,…

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Reasons to Carry A Backup Gun

By Joshua Gillem / April 21, 2020

We’ve gone really far in depth about the amount of ammo you should carry, why you should consider carrying extra ammo, and the importance of using the proper type of…

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Introducing The Mountain Man Medical Blog

By Joshua Gillem / April 17, 2020

It’s a rare occurrence where we release a new blog. In fact, it seems like we’re releasing new podcasts faster than we’re releasing new blogging platforms. (Which, by the way,…

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COVID-19 Quarantine Staff Picks

By Joshua Gillem / April 13, 2020

So we’ve been trying to have as much fun with this quarantine thing as humanly possible, and something we’ve all done recently is share things that we cannot do without…

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As Gun Sales Rise, Thefts May Also Rise By Default

By Joshua Gillem / April 9, 2020

Firearms were already a hot commodity for criminals to steal, or so I assume. I’ve never bought a gun illegally before so I can’t really be sure. That being said,…

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Springfield Armory Hellcat Review

By Joshua Gillem / April 7, 2020

I chewed up a lot of brass doing gun reviews right before this COVID-19 thing hit. The gun I was working on as the collective crap hit the big reciprocating…

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