LaserMax Announces Holiday Promotion

from: http://www.shootingwire.com/story/273243

LaserMax is pleased to announce a holiday promotion on two of its most popular products. The promotion includes a $60 rebate on Guide Rod Lasers and $20 rebate on CenterFire lasers. The offer is valid for purchases made between November 23, 2012 and December 31, 2012.

The offer is easy to take advantage of. Purchasers simply need to download the rebate form from the LaserMax website and mail it in with their original receipt no later than January 15, 2013 to receive their rebate. Visit www.lasermax.com for the full list of terms and conditions.

Mini Shot Pro Spec Reflex Sight

from: http://www.shootingwire.com/story/273189

The Sightmark Mini Shot Pro Spec Reflex Sight is an improved version of the most compact, lightweight reflex sight in the Sightmark reflex sight line. Its compact size improves the shooter's field of view of the surrounding environment. Featuring five brightness settings, double-paned glass and two models available with either a red or green reticle, the Sightmark Mini Shot Pro Spec is designed for users to keep both eyes open during use, which allows the shooter to maintain peripheral vision and depth perception.

Brownell's "30 Days of Thanks" Offers Daily Prizes

from: http://www.shootingwire.com/story/273189

Each day during the month of November, one lucky winner will receive a thank-you gift courtesy of Brownells. Prizes range from eyewear and AR-15 accessories, to riflescopes and holographic sights. Brownells will give away nearly $4,000 in total prizes throughout the month.

To be eligible for prizes, customers must enter the drawing each day. This can be done by clicking "Like" on the Brownells Facebook page, then filling out the sweepstakes form. Customers without a Facebook membership may visit the sweepstakes sign-up page on Brownells website.

Concealed Carry and the "Pea Shooter"

By Chuck Haggard (http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/specials/2012concealed_story.html?id=226741)

During the past 25+ years I have carried a pistol at work I have often heard some variation of "If you don't carry X, then you are dead," X being whatever the person thinks one must carry. Since I have carried a 9mm service pistol of some type at work for better than 20 years I get to hear this a lot from folks who espouse calibers that start with ".4".

This same mindset often carries over to concealed carry handguns, with disparagement of the smaller guns such as five shot snubs and sub-caliber pistols being common by the "tactically correct" crowd (not enough capacity or power, too hard to shoot, etc.).

The issue I see with this idea is that real people often find themselves on the wrong side of "the first rule of gunfighting," to wit; "have a gun", and the tactically correct crowd can often be found with no gun at all when they can't or won't carry their favorite blaster for whatever reason.

Skill Set Special Edition: What Gun?

By Tiger McKee(http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/specials/2012concealed_story.html?id=226740)

Once you've made the decision to carry a pistol for personal defense there are a lot of questions to be answered. One of the questions I get asked most frequently is what type handgun one should buy. The answer to this question is very subjective, especially when talking about a pistol for concealed carry. The key for the new gun owner is that your first pistol should be one that is easy for you to learn the fundamentals - marksmanship, manipulations, and tactics - and may not be the pistol that you actually end up carrying.

Micro-Nine Pistols

By Rich Grassi
Editor, The Tactical Wire (www.theoutdoorwire.com/specials/2012conc...story.html?id=226739)

Selection


Standard pressure 9mm loads are better in small pistols as this minimizes the recoil recovery time between shots.In this short space, there won't be an exhaustive treatment of all unusually small 9mm pistols. I've selected two; one is very new and the other has been around a few years. The concept is considerable power in a small, but controllable, envelope.

I've searched for the right concealment pistol for many years. I was astonished at Kahr Arms when they opened way back in the 1990s. Here we had a slender, powerful pistol of compact dimensions that handled like a service size pistol. The K9 had the feel of the Browning Hi-Power and the size of a Walther PP (normally chambered in 7.65mm or 9mmK).

Fast forward to the 2004-5 time frame, which ushered in a new development by Kel-Tec, the PF-9. A lightly built compact 9mm, it was hammer-fired DAO and not a bad effort.

Since then, Beretta has a Nano, SIG-Sauer has the P290 (which is really quite a shooter) and Ruger developed their LC9. The LC9 wandered in here as the result of some gun trading skullduggery.

Understanding the Hammer

By Michael Bane (http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/specials/2012concealed_story.html?id=226738)

"I suppose it's tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail..."

"The Law of the Instrument"
Abraham Maslow, 1966

Sure, it's a cliche, but that doesn't make it any less true. I actually prefer the earlier incarnation of the homily from yet another famous psychologist, Abraham Kaplan, who noted that, "Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding."