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If you want a pistol for concealed carrier, plinking or for personal protection, then the Ruger SR9C might be the pistol for you. Some folks try out guns to see how it feels and perform before deciding to get one, which is a great idea. Some of the qualities from the Ruger SR9C were design to match certain types of shooters. These upcoming questions can help you decide whether the SR9C is for you, if you answer yes consider looking into the Ruger SR9C. Are you sensitive to Recoil? Well, the low recoil of the 9mm cartridge is easy...

Thank you RoosterRedux ! Five years after that evil car ran me and the bicycle down, my shoulders and upper body feel better than ever. Even my thumbs that had been broken are much improved. I've been on a bicycle, rollers and spinning, all this time and not much else since the accident. The first three months doing moderate 5K &10k s most days and making friends with the beast. Having only cycled since my accident in 2012, just light therapy and range of motion upper body, I felt three months plus seemed like a good number for muscle recruitment....

An English bulldog with an underbite and muscular, rounded front legs won the 30th annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest on Saturday night. The 9-year-old winner, named Zsa Zsa, was found via a pet-finding site by owner Megan Brainard of Anoka, Minn., according to a biography supplied for the contest.

A while back there was a story of an Alabama man that shot this huge humongous hog from his porch. This hog is huge, check out the photo. At the time there was much bickering on whether or not the hog was wild. Not claiming that the man poached it or was claiming it wasn't, it’s just that the public was curious. As the story goes an Alabama man, Wade Seago shot it from his front porch with a revolver when he saw the hog near his porch and dog. Most people could careless about Wade's rights to shoot the...

Could a soda machine stop a large-caliber bullet and save your life? Another question to ponder with us plinkers that have nothing to do. I'm sure most of us normal people don’t think of this but if there were a hail of bullets coming their way. They probably would not think twice to get behind it for some cover. Which brings us back to the question. Again, Youtuber Edwin Sarikissian tries out some different calibers on a vending machine just to see if it is bulletproof. The results were very impressive. This metal box stood up to .500 Magnum and...

This Alaskan Guide has a true tall tale to tell you. Phil Shoemaker, an experienced Alaskan hunting and fishing guide, was guiding a couple of clients on a salmon fishing trip in the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska. While there they encountered at close range with an angry bear. Thank goodness nobody got hurt just the bear. Whats amazing and you don't hear too often is that Phil stopped this raging bear with a 9mm pistol at close range. Phil and his clients were lucky enough to walk away without a scratch. Seasoned outdoorsman who pack hand cannons...

Don’t let your Gun get Stolen Back in April of 2018, a small import company released a new handgun safe onto the market through Amazon. The company, called Amarey, is no big player in the gun world, but its gun safe rose to #1 New Release status within two weeks, then went on to become Amazon’s bestselling handgun safe. As the guy who runs HandgunSafeResearch.com, I decided to look at Amarey’s gun safe. The handgun safe, model HFGS-089, is supposedly designed to do double-duty as a handgun safe and portable case. The blurb on the Amazon product page says: Gun...

Yeh, I think most gun enthusiasts understand how powerful both these handguns are. For the non-gun educated, the term .357 magnum itself is enough to bring fear into their minds. Both the Glock 10mm and the .357 magnum are serious personal defense calibers. Which caliber is best against real muscles or something that simulates it? YouTuber mark3smle tests this out by demonstrating which caliber is capable of against a ballistic gel. Ballistic gelatin is a testing medium scientifically correlated to swine muscle tissue (which in turn is comparable to human muscle tissue), in which the effects of bullet wounds can...

If you’re into hunting smaller things and want to get a handgun for this, here are some things to consider. Having the right handgun is a plus, don’t get stuck with the wrong one, you’ll just be wasting your time. So here are some tips that can help you make the right choice.What's your Game? So what are you hunting? If you're going for bigger animals its going to require bigger bullets, which has power. For that bigger game, you shouldn't be dinking around with anything smaller than a .357 Magnum. Revolver or semi-automatic? Here’s a quick pros and con:...

Any time we talk about handgun cartridge comparisons, the .357 magnum vs 9mm comes up and is a good talk. These two cartridges are very popular for personal defense. However, when debates are in motion within the two school of thoughts, objectivity isn’t always clear. In this segment we'll compare the ballistics and performance of these two cartridges next to each other with an unbiased approach not on implying on one cartridge is better than the other. When it comes time for you to choose which is the better, it's all about picking the cartridge that is going to work...

Have you ever wondered how many cans of spray paint will a shotgun shoot through? If you're a plinker I guess you would be curious of this question. So thank goodness for Youtuber Gould Brothers they have the answer as they have have tried out this experiment. They shot it against 10 cans with a standard shotgun slug nothing fancy. The results are amazing. If you were betting on six cans of spray paint for the slug to go through, then you win the jackpot! We see a lot of unique shooting experiment videos out in the wild internet. Some...

We can all agree that ARÂ’s are not only reliable but are great at short ranges from 0 to 300 yards. But what if you want to reach out further to 400 yard or 1000 yards? For the larger cartridge would the AR be able to deliver the same punch as its cousin the .308 or 6.5 Creedmoor? Before making the decision to go with an AR10 or AR15, lets take a look at the comparisons.AR-10 The AR10 rifle is an air-cooled lightweight rifle that is gas operated and comes with the 7.62mm (.308) barrel. uses the standardized 7.62x51mm loads...

Star Wars has become a pop-culture phenomenon, Harrison Ford who portrays Han Solor is a very popular one. When one think of Han, we can imagine him quick drawing the iconic blaster pistol. Youtuber Slingshot Channel guy, Joerg Sprave, liked the weapon so much that he made a functioning rubber-band replica. Who knew it was based on the real Mauser C96 which shot a 7.63x25mm (almost a 9mm)? Sprave did a great job of recreating the look of Han’s blaster right down to the weathering marks. Yes, this toy isn't a real gun, but if you’re a fan of Star...

For all those Sony fanboys who at one point argued that Ellie from The Last Us wasn’t actually a lesbian, and that the interracial kiss she shared with her dying friend in The Last of Us: Left Behind was just a moment of intense emotional reactions. However, as revealed during this year’s E3 showcase, it was hammered home that Ellie is indeed a full-on, hardcore, need-no-man lesbian. The video cinematic mixes itself in with what Naughty Dog attempts to portray as in-game play, but it’s pretty obvious that the gameplay won’t be anywhere near as cinematic as it’s portrayed in...

When Bethesda announced it was showing off a new Fallout game at E3 this year, it was safe to assume that game would be the major focus of the show. That it would be what we were all be talking about afterward. That would have been normal. It's Fallout, for God's sake. But that wasn't the case. In what I'd call one of the best E3 conferences in recent memory, Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls VI -- plus a whole new Elder Scrolls mobile game -- a new Doom, a new Wolfenstein, showed off Rage 2 and Fallout 76 (of...

Over the years many firearm calibers come and go. Here are some that didn't catch on but worthy a caliber they were. -.22 Hornet Cartridge This caliber really excels as a varmint reaper rifle. This usually comes in rifle configuration - small, lightweight, low recoil, low noise and very accurate. -.32 Extra Long Rimfire Cartridge If you want a little more punch than a .22 then the Rimfire cartridges was the one to go with. -The .405 Winchester Here’s a big caliber for the larger dangerous game, the .405 Winchester can put it down. Many reloaders are the ones that...

Situational awareness is the perception of environmental elements which translate to being aware of your surrounding. This is important for being prepared to defend yourself and your family. Which is becoming more important these days. Having this edge can make a differences in your decision making while in a fight or avoiding one. We don’t necessary have to train to be a Ninja to one with nature, but that is the idea. Don't view this as 007 fantasy or paranoia, but just heighten alertness as part of your lifestyle. Its true that we train for the worse case scenario to...

Its great to have a cell phone these days because you really never know what footage you’ll capture with it. In this case, Braden Liboiron shared a video on Facebook, filming a deer running down the side of the road and it wasn’t anything special. Well, that is, until the deer hit a speed bump. Whats amazing is that this didn’t faze the deer at all. You're about to see this whitetail, at a full trot, super agile, sure-footed does an amazing somersault that any gymnast would envy and even nails a perfect landing. See the full speed bump deer...

Are traffic light pole bulletproof? Its one of those gee whiz question for the gun buff who’s just sitting around figuring out what to plink at. Youtuber Edwin Sarkissian has the answer, as always he goes through an array of calibers to see if the traffic light pole is bulletproof. Here are the calibers that Edwin uses: -.22LR – no effect -9mm FMJ – no effect -Desert Eagle 50AE – penetrate the first surface leaving a dent -500 Smith&Wesson/Extreme Penetrator – penetrated the front surface but not through the second skin -5.56 – Only penetrated the frontend but not through...

The other day out in the wild of Social Media the Russian Systema Serbia was showing off their tactical prowess by surfing down a staircase which caught lots of attention. Well, Mike the Cop on Facebook who always likes to try out new things, decides he wants to see how hard is it to do this tactical surfing and see if its worth doing. What he finds out is that its easy to learn to do but reality is that it hurts (like hell) when you try to surf this tactical style down a staircase. He may have done better...