Gun Talk

In this episode from the third season of Gun Talk Television: Ryan Gresham goes hog hunting in Louisiana - at night - using some high-tech, and high-flying, gear. For this hog hunt, Gresham partners up with Cy Brown and James Palmer of Louisiana Hog Control. Brown and Palmer use a drone outfitted with a FLIR thermal imaging camera to track the exact location of wild hogs, and relay the information on the video screen out to the hunters in the dense fields. Along with aerial coverage, Gresham uses different optics, such as ATN's ThOR riflescope and night-vision goggles to aid in the hunt. But before the guys can begin their evening, they have to sight in using the ThermBright thermal target from Range-Systems. Also featured in this episode: the Ruger Mini-Thirty, the Smith & Wesson 300 Whisper, the Smith & Wesson M&P 10 in .308, the Sig Sauer 716, Colt's Delta Elite pistol, ammo from Black Hills Ammunition and Nosler, and the Lasermax Micro IR.

In this episode from the third season of Gun Talk Television, it's a look at Gun Talk's new web series, First Person Defender. First Person Defender takes regular "good guys" and puts them in an intense, real life, self defense situation. Using Simunition guns and force on force training, the Defender in each situation finds out what works and what doesn't. In this episode, two Defenders are put into very different scenarios -- first, it's a hostile situation at a Defender's home, then it's on to a Defender leaving a grocery store, baby and groceries in tow. First Person Defender features gear and guns from Smith & Wesson, Ruger, XS Sights, Crimson Trace, Nosler, and Remington and Para USA.

Whatever you choose to call this 9mm caliber, it offers less recoil, and is cheaper, than the .45.

In this episode from the third season of Gun Talk Television: It's all about NFA firearms and accessories, including machine guns and silencers. In 1934, Congress passed the National Firearms Act, enacting a tax and registry on many different firearms and accessories, including machine guns, short barrel rifles, and silencers. Gun Talk's Tom Gresham goes on an NFA tour in this episode and visits Sig Sauer Academy to view and shoot their new line of suppressors on the Sig P220 and more, checks out a suppressed Ruger 10/22 rifle, and takes Kel-Tec's SU16-D9 short barrel rifle to an indoor range. Gresham also meets with gun collector John Long, who shows off his extensive collection of machine guns, sub-machine guns and silencers.

Gun Talk Television, hosts Tom Gresham and Ryan Gresham examine the past and present of the Modern Sporting Rifle, or MSR for short. Springfield Armory’s Rob Leatham and Louisiana Shooting Associations’ Dan Zelenka explore the history of the Springfield Armory M1A, while Ruger’s Mark Gurney discusses how the Mini-14 came about. Then it’s on to Jim Clark of Clark’s Custom Guns with his custom rifles designed for 3Gun competitions, and KelTec’s Rifle, Forward-ejecting Bullpup (or RFB) and lightweight SU16 rifle with a folding stock and bi-pod. Finally, Tom takes to the range with one of his favorite MSRs – the Ruger 10/22, and explains the importance of using the right ammunition from companies like Nosler and Black Hills Ammunition that are offering different loads and different bullets for any Modern Sporting Rifle need.

In this episode from the third season of Gun Talk Television, hosts Tom Gresham and Ryan Gresham explore the world of rimfires. There are a variety of rimfires on the market today, and Tom and Ryan try a few out with visits to Smith & Wesson to check out the M&P 22, the Model 617 revolver and the Model 41. A trip to Ruger finds two different rimfires in 17HMR - the Model 77 rifle and the Single-Six revolver, plus the LaserMax laser designed specifically for the popular 10/22 rifle. Then it's on to the range to try out two of the tactical rimfire replicas from Walther Arms and Umarex - the UZI pistol and UZI rifle, and KelTec's PMR 30 in .22 Magnum.

This week on Gun Talk Television, hosts Tom Gresham and Ryan Gresham offer up suggestions for shooting on the cheap. As the current status of ammunition availability varies from day to day and city to city, Tom and Ryan head to the range with a variety of options for training and shooting cheaply, including some low- and no-ammo drills. Springfield Armory’s Rob Leatham shows Ryan the “One Shot” drill, while Tom talks BB guns and blue gun drills. The training continues with dry fire techniques, a hunting drill with Nosler ammunition, AR training with the Smith & Wesson M&P 15 in .22LR, shooting at a moving target with the double-projectile Equalizer ammo from DoubleTap Ammunition, and more!

In this episode from the third season of Gun Talk Television, hosts Tom Gresham and Ryan Gresham delve into the world of targets. Targets can make shooting more challenging, more competitive, or just more fun! Tom and Ryan explore a variety of targets for handguns, rifles and shotguns, including the Spinner, Whirly-Gig®, and Football targets from MGM Targets, self-healing targets from Action Target, the .22 rimfire pop-up from Varmint Target, the remote moving target system from Target Is Moving, and more. They also discuss steel target safety, take on the Sportsman's Team Challenge with Clark Custom Guns' Jim Clark, take aim at non-conventional food targets, and, of course, shoot at some Tannerite ® binary exploding targets.

In this episode from the third season of Gun Talk Television: Hosts Tom Gresham and Ryan Gresham answer questions from viewers. Tom receives hundreds of emails each month with viewers' questions -- everything from how do I shoot faster to what gun do I buy for my wife? With the help of some special guests, including Ruger's Mark Gurney, Springfield Armory's Rob Leatham, Mike McNett of DoubleTap Ammunition, Liberty Safes' Jamey Skousen, and Clark Custom Guns' Jim Clark, Gun Talk Television has the answers to those questions and more!

This week on Gun Talk Television, hosts Tom Gresham and Ryan Gresham address concealed carry. While Tom offers tips on everything from why you should conceal carry to the legal issues of doing so, Ryan takes to the range with VATA Group’s Benny Griffin to shoot a variety of firearms that can be used for carrying, including Ruger’s LC380 and LCP, Springfield Armory’s XDm, Walther’s PPQ, and the Colt 45 1911.Springfield Armory’s Rob Leatham also discusses how and why one should train to shoot one-handed in self-defense situations.