The Ideal Way To Be Fired[b] be ready to be fired if you wish to be ahead in the race of jobs[/b]It is quite a reality bite for every employee working in a modern non governmental organization. This is also because it's not only your assignments and job completions that...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Maui Wowi Hawaiian Inks New Master Franchise Pact with Dubai EnterprisesC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Maui Wowi Hawaiian, a destination for authentic Hawaiian products on the mainland, announced it has expanded its worldwide corporate ohana to the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN EMBER Seet, 27, joined Big Four Consultancy as an auditor, she was very happy in her work as the management was pro-family and the staff members worked as one happy family. During the employment interview with the managing partner, Lim Ooi Keat, 48,...
Developed to duplicate the performance of the fabled 125-grain .357 Magnum hollowpoint revolver load but from a semiautomatic pistol, the .357 Sig cartridge is standard issue for numerous police agencies, as well as the US Secret Service and Air Marshals. The most popular duty load involved in the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] That wonderful year was 1958. Ike was still in the White House, Khrushchev came to power in Soviet Russia, the Yankees beat the Braves in the World Series after losing the first three games, and a young fellow by the name of Arnold Palmer won his...
Revolvers still make a lot of sense for self-defense. High reliability, low dependence on ammo type or maintenance and more. Wheel guns don't go out of battery when jammed against an attacker's body at contact distance, they just go bang and tear hellacious wounds with bullet and muzzle blast combined....
This past February brought news the handgun world had lost another of its greats. Ray Chapman had died peacefully at 79, in a Texas hospital with the love of his life, Beverly McCord, at his side. Chapman was one of the original Combat Masters to whom Jeff Cooper...
Traditions has a tradition of packaging their products in an all-inclusive, convenient and useful way. One of their accessory packs I've become very fond of is the "EZ Clean Value Pack." Simply, the EZ Clean Value Pack contains all of the items necessary to clean and preserve firearms whether they...
It looks like smokeless powder. It smells like smokeless powder. It ignites like smokeless powder. It is non-corrosive, non-hydroscopic, temperature insensitive, leaves minimal fouling and cleans up with normal oil-based solvents. Ah, but it also produces big billows of acrid smelling smoke, can be loaded volume-for-volume with black powder, produces...
During boot camp, the M16A2 service rifle becomes a recruit s best friend. They do everything together including eating and sleeping. Recruits can't literally be friends with a piece of metal and plastic, but the relationship helps recruits understand their rifles inside and out. Like a friend, the rifle helps...
Amongst Armed Forces Personnel receiving their honours at an Investiture Ceremony at Buckingham Palace last 6 June 2008 was the first woman ever to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Flight Lieutenant Michelle Goodman, of the Royal Air Force, was Aircraft Captain of an Incident Reaction Team IRT...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I have fired hundreds of .44 Special loads through dozens upon dozens of .44 Magnum sixguns and even though every sixgun is a law onto itself, I have yet to find a substantial difference in accuracy between using the shorter .44 Special brass and .44 Magnum...
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Hot news from Smith & Wesson is the PowerPort Pro series of revolvers. With the surge of interest in self-defense revolvers, more and more shooters have come to respect these reliable, easy-to-carry pocket guns. S&W's hand-crafted touch is obvious in the silky-smooth double action of the...
Wanting to make this a positive experience, I assembled a good selection of fun guns to shoot. I grabbed a .22 rifle and a .22 revolver. I also grabbed a 9mm and a .45 pistol, and for the best ride in the park, I borrowed an MP-5 from one of...
Fifteen years ago I met an officer in a gun store who was looking for .44 Specials. Yesterday, Cactus Tubbs, now retired, called me all excited for two reasons. First he had picked up a late production Ruger Three-Screw .44 Magnum Super Blackhawk at a great price, and after firing...
When the Springfield Armory people told me they changed the XD, in all candor, I just short-of puked. There is no question I like the XD and have put it in writing numerous times, so I was not excited about changing anything, including the safety thing they were going to...
On the morning of 3 June 2008, just after Canadian Commodore Bob Davidson assumed command of Combined Task Force 150 from French Rear Admiral Jean-Louis Kerignard, one of Canada's Sea King helicopters, embarked in Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Calgary, intervened in an ongoing piracy attack on a commercial vessel transiting...
Champion Traps & Targets, makers of interactive and challenging target systems. announces a new target material certain to gain attention in shooting circles. Offered in a prairie dog configuration (single and multi-dog options), the new DuraSeal Spinner Targets feature either 5-1/2" or 7" targets that are counter-weighted for maximum wobble...
Q: In the March issue John Taffin wrote an article about the Para-Ordnance LDA .45 ACP. The article started out saying conversion kits to double action were available for 1911 pistols. Who is the source of these conversion kits? I've been looking for one for quite awhile and would like...
I often get inquires about what gear I use on an everyday basis while on the range. First of all I think an explanation of "on the range" is in order. On average I actually spend an average of three weeks per month on the range deck. During this time...
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