by Michael de Bethencourt | Nov 4, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt, News, Shooting Drills
Everybody likes Reese’s peanut butter cups on Halloween. They’re definitely extra special when they are pumpkin shaped and have all the extra peanut butter in them. What I really enjoy around Halloween is the Snub Noir Annual Halloween shoot at the...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Oct 27, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt, Shooting Drills, Targets
(Note – I’m feeling under the weather so please forgive me for not having a photo for the post. Just a little too out of it to waddle over to the garage and pull out the target. My apologies. Yours, Michael) I have written before about how much I prefer...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Oct 19, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
I was poking around the office looking at the mountain of work we have looming. The snub book galley proof, version 2.0 is waiting for proofing, four new monograph are wondering when they are heading out, the Halloween match prize collection is piling up, and the...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Oct 7, 2025 | de Bethencourt
Since our inception Snub Noir has had two goals. Our long term goal is to archive the history of the snub revolver as used by the folks from the 1920’s to the 1970’s at the height of the guns common usage. I have always viewed the snub as part of...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt
Gun writer and former Secret Service special agent Walter Rauch is credited with publicizing the importance of religiously checking the firing condition of your self-defense gun any time it has been out of your hands. I thought that this suggestion was so valuable...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 11, 2025 | Blog, de Bethencourt, Range Drills, Shooting Drills
Left a sportsmen’s club meeting two evenings ago and once again I have to marvel at how ignorant I am. In the course of a conversation on handgunning I suggested that a serious gun owner is required to invest in a smaller caliber version of his favorite carry...
