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BASIC FIREARM NOMENCLATURE

Regardless of where you stand on the inaccurate use of firearm nomenclature, it definitely separates the educated from the uneducated. Therefore, if one wishes to sound knowledgeable about the topic of firearms, one should understand the vocabulary[...]

MARKSMANSHIP FUNDAMENTALS

In the Marine Corps, the fundamentals of marksmanship are known as aiming, breathing, and trigger control. U.S. Army rifle training list the fundamentals as steady position, aiming, breath control, and trigger control I'm going to take a different approach: body, sight, grip, recovery.[...]

PRECISION & ACCURACY

Marksmanship is verbosely defined as the skilled manipulation of a firearm to consistently generate impact of fired projectiles on an intended location. More simply, marksmanship is the skill of accurately hitting a target with a firearm. [...]

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FIREARM SAFETY

As a Marine, I had four very important rules pounded into my brain housing group. We called them the Four Rifle Range Safety Rules. If a person follows these very simple rules when handling firearms, I believe most, if not all, accidental injuries can be avoided.[...]

FRILUFTSLIV - AN OUTDOOR LIFESTYLE

Nordmenn (that's Norwegians for the rest of us) have a word for this sort of communion with nature: friluftsliv. Friluftsliv, which is pronounced free-loofts-liv, translates to open air life, or outdoor living[...]