Ask Foghorn: Best AR-15 for First Time Black Rifle Owners
John writes:
I want to buy my first black rifle. I have decided on a Colt SP6920. I'd buy a LE6920 but I don't feel like paying an extra $200.00 for some roll marks. I...
Ask Foghorn: Best Pistol for Competition Shooting for New Shooters?
A reader writes:
I am interested in getting into some kind of shooting sport. I love the sound of 3 gun however, I am not financially ready for this. It looks like the...
Ask Foghorn: Cheap Red Dot Sights
Ben writes:
I am new to the 2nd Amendment community. I have always had an appreciation and love for firearms, but I didn't put my money where my mouth was until this past summer when...
Ask Foghorn: Cleaning Kit for Firearms
SneakyArab over at Reddit says "I've got a Bersa Thunder 9 and as of right now no cleaning supplies. I'm just getting into the shooting scene, and have only been out to shoot it...
Ask Foghorn: How Do I Become a Collector of Curios and Relics (C&R) (FFL...
Some of the finest firearms ever designed were made before or during World War Two: the majestic M1 Garand, the indestructible Mosin Nagant m1891/30, the Swiss clockwork masterpiece K31, the German engineered K98, the...
Ask Foghorn: Do groups “tighten up” at longer distances?
Tyler writes:
Have you done any research on bullet stabilization? Some of the boys back home seem to think shot groups sometimes tighten up at some point downrange. Have you heard or seen such a...
Ask Foghorn: How does a gun work
Today's installment of "Ask Foghorn" isn't intended so much for you, the readers of this site. Our readers (as the recent survey, which is still going on BTW, shows us) generally own firearms already, so we...
Ask Foghorn: What is Short Stroking?
A reader writes:
Could someone like CUJO please define for me the phrase “short stroking?” Does it have anything to do with shotguns?
Unlike the Urban Definition version of this phrase, "short stroking" a firearm is...
Ask Foghorn: Competition Iron Sights
A reader writes:
A commenter on Foghorn's $500 1000 yd rifle linked to a rifleman's journal post, which in turn linked to a couple sight manufacturers. I've seen giant, weird-looking sights on competition rifles before,...
Ask Foghorn: Trigger Terminology
A reader writes:
“trigger’s a bit gritty and prone to stacking” Educate me, please. What is stacking?
One of the major problems with talking about guns is that you're often trying to convey a feeling with...
Ask Foghorn: Reading a Mirage
A reader writes:
A Foghorn post I read today talks about reading mirages in long range rifle. I've wanted to know more about how to do that ever since I learned it was something people...
Ask Foghorn: ATF Tracking Gunwalker Guns?
RF called me the night after I got home from shooting the ArmaLite M-15 at the Bridgeville High-Powered Rifle Match. "Let's say the ATF wanted to track the Gunwalker guns in Mexico," our Fearless...