The Redwood Gun Guy

Introduction: Innovations surrounding pistols have been largely stagnant for decades. Most modern pistols are derivatives of either the Browning High Power or the Glock. Sighting systems have also been the same since the invention of pistols in general. The overwhelming majority of pistols use a simple notch in the rear and a post in the front, with three white dots. Over the years, there have been some variants of this, including sights with glow-in-the-dark painted dots, or tritium inserts for shooting in low-light. Things are different now though, Nowadays, red dot sights that became incredibly popular on rifles have gotten smaller in smaller. They've gotten small enough, in fact, that red dot sights can now easily be mounted to the slide of a pistol without adding significant weight. Details: Pistol red dots have come a long way in a short amount of time. In the early 2000's, the idea was fairly new and limited. The first pistol red dots were essentially just r...

  Site: SGAmmo.com Introduction: If you're into guns, and enjoy shooting them, then you know that ammunition prices have gone through the roof this year. Standard M193 ball 5.56 ammunition that could be found for around $0.23 a round in 2019, now can only be found at insane prices if it can be found at all. Shares of Vista Outdoors, the parent company of brands such as Federal Premium, CCI, and Bushnell, have quadrupled since the low point in March. What I want to try and do tonight is break down some of the reasons that the ammo supply has seemingly dried up and why shooters are stuck paying multiple times more than they did a year ago. There are a lot of things that play into this, but I want to try and look at some specific causes and the effects that they're having.  Details: One of the major reasons for the apparent ammo shortage is the fact that it's 2020. Not just because 2020 has been the most eventful year in recent memory, but also that 2020 is an election year wi...