Videos tagged with Chris Baker

The AK-50 project, a 10-year endeavor by Brandon Herrera, aimed to scale the AK platform to .50 BMG. Early prototypes like V1 struggled with feeding, while V2 introduced a stamped receiver and a triangular bolt head. The refined V3 prototype features a match-grade barrel and monolithic handguard, demonstrating significant reliability improvements after approximately 500 rounds.

Project Rimfire aims to provide standardized, comparative data for .22 LR handguns, addressing a gap in fragmented reviews. The series categorizes handguns and employs a consistent testing methodology including speed-focused stages, practical accuracy tests, and mechanical accuracy evaluations. This approach helps consumers make informed purchasing decisions for training, pest control, or recreational shooting.

This video provides essential tips for the Beretta 1301 shotgun, covering loading procedures, the 'Cruiser Ready' condition for home defense, and advanced techniques like ghost loading for increased capacity. It also details safer unloading methods and crucial safety advice to prevent negligent discharges during high-speed reloads, emphasizing proper finger placement and avoiding trigger guard interference.

Chris Baker of Lucky Gunner Ammo provides an expert review of the Beretta 1301 Tactical after a decade of ownership and extensive use. He highlights its robust gas system, accurate barrel, and numerous factory and aftermarket upgrades that enhance its performance and reliability. Baker concludes it remains a top-tier semi-automatic shotgun for serious users, offering superior performance even compared to some pump-action models.

This guide covers the fundamental safe handling and operation of an AR-15 rifle. It details the four universal gun safety rules, proper clearing procedures, loading and chambering a round, and basic shooting stances and grip. The video also touches on sight usage, including red dots and iron sights, and emphasizes the importance of disengaging safety only when ready to fire and re-engaging it immediately after.

Mastering snub-nose revolvers involves addressing their inherent challenges: poor sights, recoil, heavy triggers, and small grips. Improving sights with bright paint or aftermarket options, managing recoil with steel frames and .38 Special wadcutters, and refining grip and trigger techniques through dry practice are crucial. Aftermarket grips and proper finger placement enhance control for accurate shooting.

The Ruger Mini-14 persists due to its legal status in restrictive states and a non-tactical aesthetic, despite functional inferiority to AR-15s. While it offers a lower sight radius advantage, its reliability (1 malfunction per 70 rounds) and accuracy (2.2-6.7 MOA) are subpar for its price point. Aftermarket support for optics and folding stocks exists, but magazines are expensive.

This video tests the WWII M1 Carbine qualification course from the 1942 field manual, involving 40 rounds across five stages at 100, 200, and 300 yards. The speaker, Chris Baker, scored 172 out of 200, highlighting the challenge of the 35-second time limits and the difficulty of precise shots at longer ranges without modern aids or extensive practice. The course emphasizes foundational shooting positions and skeletal support, offering transferable skills for adaptability.

This review re-evaluates stockless shotguns like the Mossberg Shockwave and Remington Tac-13, initially deemed 'mostly useless' by the reviewer. Through structured testing using a 'cheek pistol' technique developed by Rhett Neumayer, the performance in speed and recoil control was found to be nearly on par with traditional stocked shotguns for home defense. While shooter fatigue is a drawback, the semi-auto Tac-13 is recommended for its ease of use.

This guide explores the common advice of shooting handguns with both eyes open, detailing its benefits like improved peripheral vision and reduced eye strain. It addresses the challenge of visual confusion and offers expert advice from Gabe White, suggesting temporary squinting or closing an eye to clarify the sight picture when needed. The role of red dot sights in facilitating both-eyes-open shooting is also highlighted.

This guide details the 'cheek pistol' technique, popularized by figures like Rhett Neumayer and Ian McCollum, and demonstrated by Chris Baker of Lucky Gunner Ammo. It involves using the rear of a large-format pistol as a cheek weld for enhanced stability, combined with an overhand grip, high-mounted optic, and sling tension. The .22 LR Kel-Tec CP33 is presented as an ideal platform for learning this unconventional yet effective shooting method, offering rifle-like stability in a pistol platform that avoids NFA regulations.

This video clarifies why Kahr Arms pistols were excluded from a previous discussion on double-action carry pistols. Instructor Chris Baker explains that while Kahr pistols are slim and striker-fired, he differentiates them from traditional double-action designs due to their mechanism. He details the safety benefits of true double-action pistols and contrasts them with striker-fired systems like Kahr's, which he likens to DAO in function but distinct in design.