Before you start laughing this off, hear me out. I think the best way to start this is to define some terms. Tactical comes from the word tactic, it basically means plans or actions taken to achieve a specific goal. I think most would agree that in war there is no one gun that can do everything. That is why armies have always had a variety of small arms for specific jobs. The question is, might there be a job where a .22 cal semi-auto rifle would be best suited? A .22 LR can most definitely be lethal if the shot is properly placed. The .22LR's point blank range is around 100 yards ..read more

 It occurred to me the other day that Ruger has offered a ton of different factory stocks. There is no way I could cover them all, there are probably hundreds of them, but I thought I would catalog as many as I could. I'll try to keep these in chronological order if possible. Well start at the beginning, the original 10/22 stock was made of straight grain American walnut. Usually the grain was pretty plain, but occasionally the stock would have some burl or fiddle back. Below is a 1st year production. In February of 1966, just two years after the introduction of the 10/22 Ru ..read more

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 Links to the past 9 years of upgrades for the 10/22 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 You might think that there is nothing that can be improved on the 10/22 at this point......and you would be wrong. Believe it or not, we found more good stuff.... While at the SHOT show I spoke to the folks at Tandemkross and they showed me their latest products for the 10/22. Let's start with their Manticore X lower/trigger assembly. Normally a 10/22 has just the trigger group hanging on the bottom of the receiver, but Tandemkross built an assembly that includes mounts for an AR-15 grip an ..read more

This is our tenth and final year of dedicating an entire month to the Ruger 10/22....to be honest we pretty much ran out of material. We covered just about everything there is to this little rifle. Click on the links below to see the previous 9 years. 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Last year, 2024, Ruger introduced a 60th Anniversary model to celebrate 60 years since the introduction of the rifle. The model featured a Magpul X-22 Hunter stock. The Ruger 10/22 Take-Down model was introduced in 2012, 26 years after the 10/22s biggest competition, the Marlin model 60 introduced ..read more

Whitney Arms was a company founded to make one pistol, named after a famous gun maker and a College Sports Team. The story of Whitney Arms and the Wolverine pistol start with its inventor Robert Hillberg. Hillberg was born in Iowa in 1917, grew up hunting and fishing with his father in Minnesota and South Dakota. In 1938, without any formal training he designed a sub machine gun using the .38 Super cartridge and took it to Colt in Hartford. While Colt was not interested in the gun, they were interested in Hillberg's talents and offered him a job. After two years he was lured away by Pratt ..read more

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Another round of Golden Poop competition, this time we celebrate those people in the gun industry who practice capitalism without a conscience. Brought to you by our sponsors: Target, the only thing we love more than money is convincing your children to cut off their genitalia! The Democratic Party, if we can't win fairly (and we can't) we will just manufacture enough votes to win. and Diet Woke, it's not cola, it's not even safe to consume..... and Dirt Ain't Cheap, America's Ultimate Shooting Sports Price Gouger Ammunition Depot gets a nod with this ad. Here is Alamo A ..read more

 February 14th has long been lamented by men as a made-up holiday designed to fleece the working man out of his hard-earned pay. For many years I have been advocating that we "flip the script" and instead of buying flowers that will die or chocolates that will make her fat....buy her a gun. The one tool that will keep her safe ..read more