If you transport guns via your checked baggage when flying, you know the requirements are pretty specific for transporting any firearm – hard case, locked, checked at TSA. The devil’s in the details though. Here I look at my solution for transporting longer-than-average rifles.
Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed in the knowledge and use of firearms may find that information and skill of great importance.
[the sporting-goods dealer] has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, and marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them.
The human quest to ‘hit the mark’ is an endless challenge for perfection in aiming and controlling a gun while overcoming the fear of missing the mark.
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.
The one weapon every man should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power.
The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the essence of good citizenship. It is too easy to say that a good shot is automatically a good man, but it would be equally incorrect to ignore the connection.
A fine marksman with a second-rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.
Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.
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