How do the pros gather competitive research? Follow along as some of the industry's best corporate sleuths track down the information their client needs to compete. Month One: Getting to Know the Client Gottfredson and company embarked on their three-month investigation, but before turning to the...
Ask them what solvent, brush, or compound they use, and you might get just as many. Barrel prep is the new fad of the day. Compounds, solvents, patches, jags, and brushes are all advertised, assuring they do the best job. What is the truth of it all? Until you own...
A while back I reported on Timney's new AR trigger designed for e AR-15 in .223. Not thinking about it, I put the trigger in a .308 AR and wrote the article, noting it was a .308. The trigger worked perfectly and was easy and quick to install. The pull...
Barrett's new .416 is capturing the attention of Law Enforcement, the Military and many long-range shoot-But the addition of the Barrett Optical Ranging System BORS puts this combination in a class of its own. I had the opportunity to spend several months putting the new rifle and integral...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Zeiss is notably one of the oldest optics manufactures, dating back to the late 1800s. World renowned for camera lenses, their binoculars also rank with the top contenders for "High Class Glass." Their new spotting scopes do not take second place to any other in the...
Gun Slick's one-piece carbon fiber shaft is strong but amazingly light, solidly set in brass at the handle and the handle spins freely due to double ball bearings. The tip is fitted with a female brass insert into which brass male jags are attached. The jags sent...
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] As a guy marginally useful with tools, I'll often tackle do-it-yourself projects with some expectation of success. I'm fairly adept at wood shaping and metal polishing, but have no formal training as a gunsmith. So equipped, I often know when to stop and...
As time marches on, so does the inventive spirit of the American shooting industry. Harnessing that determination, Dennis Sammut and 5.11 Tactical together with some clever watchmakers partnered to put Dennis' ballistic software inside one. I spent a good deal of time using Dennis Sammut's Horus Vision scopes...
Handloading the big .50 is easy and satisfying once you get the hang of it and learn a few tricks. Until then you will begin to wonder if you should have taken up an easier hobby, like throwing bowling balls at your daughter's tattooed suitors. I evaluated ArmaLite's...
This article explores the factors influencing high school students" career aspirations with a study analyzing 141 high school students. The Social Cognitive Career Development Model was utilized to examine the interactive relationships among learning experiences, career self-efficacy, outcome expectations, career interests, and career choices. The results of...
The vocational development of inner-city adolescents is often impaired by a number of factors. These factors include a lack of opportunity related to low socioeconomic status (41.6% of all Americans who live in poverty live in the inner cities; Dreier, 2004); lower high school graduation rates, with...
* Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert * Collins * RRP $44.99 About 40 percent of America's senior managers leave office within two years of landing a top job. The median tenure of a chief executive is now just a little over five years. ...
In Part 1 of Understanding and Choosing Optics, we talked about resolution, contrast, the importance of exit pupil and the difference between Porro prism and roof prism binoculars. We also included a Zeiss test chart and showed you how to evaluate an optic for resolution and contrast. We only scratched...
In Part I of Handloading For Precision, I offered this opinion: "Without going to extremes, weighing cases is the single most important thing you can do to improve performance in handloads. Deburring primer pockets in cases is helpful as well." That opinion, however, was offered without much qualification. This part...
INTRODUCTION Hirschi and Gottfredson have argued that using social correlates to explain desistance is misguided, as the factors that explain crime or its absence are constant across the life course (Hirschi & Gottfredson, 1983, 1984, 1994; Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1988, 1990). They showed that a similar age-crime curve...
Note: Children younger than 8 will not be admitted to concerts in the Temple Square Assembly Hall. "Cinderella," Utah Opera, today, 2 p.m., Capitol Theatre, $12- $65 (355-2787, 888-451-2787 or www.arttix.org) Shawna Gottfredson, Julie Wright Costa and Carol Ann Allred, sopranos, today, 7 p.m.,...
There are many ways to improve the accuracy of a centerfire rifle, such as bedding, trigger tuning and myriad others. But as much as all this is done, all barrels still have their own harmonic signature, and ammunition has to be tuned to that signature to obtain optimum precision, given...
I have been evaluating and writing about glass for close to 20 years. As an engineer, the complexity of the physics and the beauty of the result fascinate me. The question is: What are the factors upon which you make your choice? Certainly the foremost consideration is image...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Uselton Arms is owned and operated by Rick Uselton, a 1911 semiauto pistol specialist. His products in that arena are classic, compact and tactical models. He now produces rifles including several models built around either his own modified Remington 700 action with various stocks, weights, lengths...
More than a decade after the influential publication of Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi's (1990) A General Theory of Crime and Robert Sampson and John Laub's (1995) Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points through Life, there remains some confusion in control theory circles regarding the relative theoretical and...
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