As a newer AK shooter, I benefitted from actually getting out there and putting myself and my carbine thru the paces. Having basic safe gun-handling skills, knowing how to bring your weapon on-line, how to handle reloads and malfunctions and the like are unspoken minimum expectations. I got to see which accessories worked with it and which ones were rubbish. Also saw how others had theirs’ dialed and what they recommended to get/avoid.
Read More“I grew up with shotguns” is a veritable cliché within the firearms community. It certainly holds true for me. From skeet to upland birds to deer, many of my earliest hunting and shooting experiences revolved around shotguns.
However, like most people, I had never taken a defensive shotgun course. While I had numerous firearms classes under my belt, they had all revolved around pistols and/or rifles.
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