Reviews - My Gun Culture

Handiest Bench Block for Gun Maintenance?

By Tom McHale|2024-11-15T11:50:33-05:00November 14th, 2024|

This nifty little accessory from OTIS Technology is one of those things I end up using all the time. It’s made from hard rubber, so it won’t mar your firearm and has 11 holes for driving out pins and such. Different “groove” cutouts on both sides keep things like barrels, slides and frames still while you're cleaning or doing routine maintenance.

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A Unique Pocket Carry Solution: The One-Handed Autoloading Pistol

By Tom McHale|2024-11-15T11:58:24-05:00November 10th, 2024|

Firearm design attracts interesting engineering solutions. To offer a “pocket carry” safe autoloading pistol, one Witold Chylewski created a .25 ACP handgun that could be carried uncocked, with chamber empty, but still ready for instant, one-handed deplyment.

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What You Need to Know About Carrying a Gun in Your Pocket

By Tom McHale|2024-11-15T11:49:28-05:00November 9th, 2024|

Carrying a compact pistol or revolver in your pocket can be an effective (and convenient) solution year-round to carrying a concealed firearm. As with most all things related to guns, there are some hard and fast rules to make sure you’re doing it safely. Here are some tips to get your pocket carry solution in order along with some proven pocket holster recommendations.

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A Holster Full of Boom: The Automag III .30 Carbine

By Tom McHale|2024-11-08T15:14:59-05:00November 8th, 2024|

Revolvers chambered in the .30 Carbine cartridge have a reputation for range-clearing levels of boom! One reader suggested when we wants the range to himself, he breaks out a .30 Carbine handgun. Clayton Walker has a great story here about an interesting version of the Automag III chambered in, you guessed it, .30 Carbine.

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Reloading While at the Range?

By Tom McHale|2024-11-08T15:15:35-05:00November 8th, 2024|

Lindsey shares some useful ideas on developing the ideal handload by reloading and making adjustments while at the range. Rather than prepare a bunch of load variants at home and hope for the best, sometimes it’s easier to make load adjustments on the fly when you’re able to immediately see how they perform.

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The Tiny (But Not Really) Beretta Tomcat

By Tom McHale|2024-06-02T13:33:29-04:00June 2nd, 2024|

I found myself carrying what became one of my favorite little pistols, the Beretta 3032 Tomcat.

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Miracle Sight Adjuster: Sight Punch vs. Sight Drifter

By Tom McHale|2024-03-21T12:09:47-04:00March 21st, 2024|

I’ve always wanted to try one of these as it’s somewhat difficult, bordering on impossible for mere non-gunsmith mortals, to adjust a tight steel front or rear sight without making a mess of either the sight or the punch.

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Apparatus Insignis: Remington’s Double Derringer, An Idea Too Good To Die

By Tom McHale|2024-03-21T09:49:43-04:00March 21st, 2024|

From a new regular column in American Handgunner, the Apparatus Insignis feature dives into the history, engineering, functions and obscura of interesting guns from the past and sometimes present.

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The Joys of Ballistol

By Tom McHale|2024-03-20T09:12:55-04:00March 20th, 2024|

You experienced shooters and professional tinkerers out there likely already know many of the uses for this stuff, but for those youngsters reading this, here’s a valuable tip: Look for the green can.

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Trijicon RCR Red Dot

By Tom McHale|2024-03-20T08:56:20-04:00March 20th, 2024|

There are real benefits to a full-enclosed red dot sight where the emitter is not exposed to the world at large. Rain, snow and even lint easily make their way into the tiny nooks and crannies where the magic light exits the computer to be beamed onto the glass itself. An equally real first-world problem is the inside surface of the glass on traditional optics tends to collect dust and it’s tough to reach for proper cleaning.

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