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Weekend Photo: First Time Tactical Drills
Duo Z wrote … Today for the first time I tried my hand at tactical drills at the shooting range, and it was quite humbling. I’m an avid hunter and shooter, not the best by any means, but I know my way around a firearm. I spend most of my time shooting long distances. Never […]
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Weekend Photo: First Time Precision Shooting
D T wrote … This is my wife shooting a precision rifle for the first time, she is shooting 12″ steel plates at 300,400 yards and clay pigeons between 100-200 yards. the rifle she is using is a Custom Remington 700 .223 from Roger’s Rifles with a AAC M4-1000 silencer, Leupold VX-3 6×18 and Harris […]
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Small Caliber Book Reviews: The Guns We Left Behind, By Phil Hirsh
Since I started this series, I’ve reviewed books according to criteria of relevance, appropriate audience, strengths, and weaknesses. This method is a shortcut allowing me to provide a compass for my readers without wasting their time. This time, though, I’m reviewing a book that’s different from my usual subject. It doesn’t seek to inform – not in the traditional […]
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Weekend Photo: Alan’s Every Day Carry
Alan sent us a photo of his every day carry (EDC). M&P Shield 40 (Stealth Gear Onxy) XS Big Dots Apex Tactical Duty/Carry Action Enhancement Trigger and Kit Spare 7 round magazine (Snagmag) 2x 8 round Quickstrips Streamlight ProTac 2L FOURSEVENS Mini M2A SOG Spec Elite I W.R. Case Moose Leatherman Super Tool 300 Feel […]
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Weekend Photo: Zach’s M&P
Zach wrote … My M&P with the Apex Tactical Duty/Carry Action Enhancement Kit (Which I HIGHLY Recommend) and my new IWB holster from M3 Tactical Kydex. Thanks Zach.
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Walker’s Ultimate Power Muffs
Walker’s Game Ear announced the new Ultimate Power Muff Quad Series ear pro. These over-the-ear muffs offer a noise reduction rating of 27 dB to protect your hearing while shooting or hunting. The muffs in the Ultimate Power Muff Quad Series have four omni directional microphones built into them. Four mics should offer more natural […]
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Stag Arms Raided By BATFE, Over 100 Unmarked Lowers Seized
Due to what appears to be more oversight than crime, the BATFE raided Stag Arms’ New Britain, CT plant in September, after the gun maker failed to serialized approximately 3,000 rifle receivers within the allotted time. The Associated Press reports: HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating a Connecticut gun-maker after agents found nearly […]
...Expedient homemade submachine gun spotted in Indonesia
Banten’s police chief displays a P.A Luty designed expedient submachine gun equipped with suppressor as well as a crude homemade copy of a Thompson, both of which were seized from militants operating in Java. Fact of the day: convicted drug dealers in Indonesia are forced to burn their own drugs themselves and watch, after […]
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Shooting the Sphinx 3000 pistol (VIDEO)
The Sphinx 3000 pistol is a full-size pistol chambered in both 9mm and .45ACP. These Swiss-made pistols have been described as having the timing of a fine Swiss watch. I couldn’t agree more. I got a chance to shoot both and I really enjoyed the feel of how each gun shot. The red and blue […]
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POTD: A SIG That Keeps Comin’ Home
Justin wrote … This is my Sig P226, built in 1988. It was my second pistol as an adult when I bought it used in 1998. Over the last 16 years or so I have sold it a couple times to friends. But always with the first option to buy if they later want to […]
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Ares SCR Is Now New York City Approved
Good news for New York City gun enthusiasts, the Ares SCR “conventionalized” AR-15 has been approved for sale in New York City, under their more restrictive set of laws. Guns.com has an article on the approval: Ares Defense is now offering special low-rise iron sights for their SCR rifles. The SCR is a new “traditional” […]
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Zero Carry Concealment Holster
The Zero Carry holster is another minimalist style holster on the market similar to the Versacarry holster that was released a few years ago. The Zero Carry will work for both left and right handed shooters and works with handguns chambered in .32ACP and larger with barrels up to 5 inches. The Zero Carry is very light […]
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Common Ballistics Terms by Guns & Ammo
I love it when someone can take the time to break something down Barney-style. Stepping up to the plate to help confused shooters out is Guns and Ammo magazine which has published “Common Ballistic Terms You Should Know” complete with handy graphics (for the reading impaired) and supporting text (for those who like to read). […]
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Area 53 Challenge Coin Lower Receivers
While I would never think of doing this, I am happy to see that Area 53 firearms offers a Challenge Coin lower receiver. Designed to fit any standard 1.75″ challenge coin, the lower receiver’s right face is countersunk to accept a coin. The install is permanent (requires epoxy to attach the coin), but would create […]
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Snakeskin & Kryptek Highlander from Magnum Research
Magnum Research announced two new finishes for the Desert Eagle line of pistols: Snakeskin and Kryptek Highlander. The finishes are applied to the gas-operated pistols using a water transfer method. Both .50 AE and .44 Magnum versions will be offered. These patterns follow the limited run of cheetah print Desert Eagle pistols announced earlier in […]
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Shooting a Reffy Mitrailleuse
Not for a lack of vision did 18th and early 19th Century weapons designers fail to create successful automatic weapons. Attempts were made to facilitate fully repeating, automatic fire as early as they could be conceived with the technology of their period. Eventually, rapidly reloaded fully automatic fire was brought into service in the early […]
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Rifle/Stock/Scope/Bipod DIY Duracoat Tutorial
Youtuber The Social Regressive shows us how he Duracoated his .243 Win Savage 12FV varmint rifle. The video is 25 minutes long but worth watching if Duracoating an entire rifle and it’s accessories is something that appeals to you. He uses a Air Compressor, Air Brush, Respirator, Cotton Balls, Homemade Stencils and of course Duracoat paint. If you don’t have an air […]
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Proposition to merge ATF into FBI
Bridging on the political side of things slightly, but only because this directly affects all suppressor/SBR/ Class three/ AOW owners/dealers out there, a think tank by the name of Center for American Progress released a throughly researched and 2 years in the making report that recommends dissolving ATF into the FBI. This isn’t a new concept […]
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The Desert Eagle
The Desert Eagle XIX handgun is one of the more peculiar handguns of the late twentieth century for a variety of reasons. Most handguns introduced in the civilian and military markets are earmarked for a specific purpose, whether that be a polymer reliable Glock or a safer revolver such as the Ruger transfer bar. They’re […]
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Checking out Rock Island Arsenal Museum
If Rock Island Auction Company claims this area of Illinois to be the ‘gun mecca’ of the United States (with 5 firearm companies within the immediate vicinity), then Rock Island Arsenal is certainly the beginning of that influx of that concentration of firearms companies. Today, it is still an active duty U.S. Army post that […]
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