Top 10 Cringiest Stock Photos of Women and Guns

More women are buying guns and taking classes on how to correctly and safely use them. At the same time, some media outlets occasionally post photos of women and guns that makes one scratch their heads.

As there's dos and don't of firearm use, NRA Women posted a list of the cringiest stock photos of women and guns. 

They begin it with:

In the media, we often rely on stock photos sites to provide kind of generic images to go with articles. This works well enough when you need a picture of, say, an elk standing in a field, or a “bad guy” type looking threatening. But if you need a photo of a woman shooting a gun, drawing a gun, preparing to defend herself with a gun, hunting with a gun or basically anything that involves women and guns? God help you, because the internet’s idea of what women do with guns is downright absurd. You see the same eye-rolling poses, stupid safety violations and general WTH over the over, like you’ll find in these 10 cringy stock photos.

To read more, go here.

Scope Adjustments Made Simple

Above, yours truly with the Ruger 10/22 yesterday. Photo by Larry Lucier.

Yesterday, I had some difficulty with my Ruger 10/22 rifle. I have a Bushnell scope on it, but it wasn't hitting where the cross hairs were aimed at. 

Obviously, I have to adjust, or zero, the scope.

I found a website explaining how to do scope adjustments. It is from NRA Women.

It starts with:

Though most of us utilize a riflescope on our hunting or long-range precision rifles, few of us (myself included) truly grasp the real complexity of our optics. We know to turn this dial to do one thing and turn the other dial to do another thing, and that’s about it.

Truth is, that’s really enough for most of us. Studying optics gets you deep into the weeds very quickly, and most of us don’t need to know exactly how the image we’re seeing through our scope is produced. But knowing just a little bit about what’s going on inside that scope will help you better understand why and how your dials work the way they do.

First, a quick primer on what those dials (called turrets) do.

Above, the scope with the turret caps on. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Above, the scope's elevation turret with the cap off. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Above, the windage turret with the cap off. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

This post is for my future reference and for those who have to adjust their scopes. 

To read more, go here. 

Top Deer and Varmint Cartridges of All Time

Above, the .30-30 Winchester cartridge
made the list. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Whenever I see (or hear) the word varmint, I tend to think of Yosemite Sam or Elmer Fudd from the Looney Tunes cartoons. 

Anyway, the reason I am bringing that up is that NRA Women has posted a list of the top deer and varmint cartridges of all time. 

They begin it with:

We all love top 10 lists, but there’s a problem when it comes to determining the “best-selling” cartridges: Ammo manufacturers don’t like to share sales data, and who can blame them. When it comes to picking the top-selling cartridges, we’re forced to rely on other factors, like how long a cartridge has been around, how many rifles have been chambered for it and how popular those rifles are, inventory rankings from retailers, industry surveys, search demand data, and more.

So I asked ChatGPT to give me a list using the best data it could find, and it spit out the following list (but rest assured, the expository information is mine, not AI-generated). If I had been asked to come up with a list off the top of my head based on my best guess, it would have looked pretty much exactly like this, at least until we got to the end—a lot of these choices are obvious to hunters. That said, there’s no way to guarantee that this list is 100 percent accurate or in perfect order by volume, but it’s a good best estimate. It also lines up pretty darn well with this 2014 list of sales data from Federal.

So, without further ado, to read the list, go here.