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Professional Gear Reviews
Rudy Project Rydon glasses use science, advanced materials, and computer technology to create advanced eye protection. They had me at science. Designed to provide total comfort, fog-free performance, and styling, they are unlike any other glasses out there. What is different here is Rudy Project’s indestructible ImpactX-2 lens with a lifetime replacement guarantee. Not impressed yet? […]
If you want to have fun shooting, you have to be able to hit something. Tech Sights offer a replacement to the antique fixed sights on the ubiquitous Ruger 10-22 rifle with their modern adjustable aperture sights. If you want to train your offspring or the extended family to shoot rifles, this combination of quality and […]
There’s been a major breakthrough in the world of AR rifle scopes. In fact, it’s been over 100 years since we’ve seen anything of this magnitude in shooting optics. Special Forces members of the United States military went in search a different kind of scope, a scope that would allow the shooter to adjust the zoom […]
ELCAN produces high-resolution optical lenses for visual reconnaissance, night-vision equipment, and other sighting systems for many NATO militaries. They got their start in 1954, when ELCAN began supplying aircraft gun sights to the Canadian military. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy used an ELCAN camera system based on Leica’s technology, with a specially made low-light Noctilux lens. […]
I saw this on the Vortex Facebook Page and wanted to share. If you reload or shoot reloads, check twice. “This was my Savage 111LRH 338 Lapua I had accidentally loaded it with Hodgdon H-110 handgun powder instead of H-1000 rifle powder so when I touched it off the whole gun blew up like a […]
Sightmark® Debuts its First Hybrid Night Vision Riflescope Sightmark out of (MANSFIELD, TEXAS) – released the Photon 5×42 Digital Night Vision Riflescope. They took a daytime riflescope, removed the objective lens, and replaced it with a cutting-edge night vision attachment. The unit comes complete with a CCD sensor and built-in infrared illuminator and it is also capable […]
A handheld or weapon mounted thermal sight that works well in rain, smoke, snow and of course total darkness. The Light Weapon Thermal Sight (LWTS) sports a 640 X 480 uncooled micro bolometer which means nothing unless you look up “bolometer” which is a device for measuring the power of radiation. The LWTS allows for […]
I am often asked, “What reticle do you use on your carbines?” and “What do you think about the Horus Optics/reticle?”. I came across the Talon Horus Optic this weekend and decided to give my views, along with my experience with the Horus reticle as a short/medium and long-range shooter. The Talon scope, and H50 […]
A few months ago I was searching for the perfect optic to outfit my new LWRC SPR platform. I was having a hard time finding an optic that would fit the demands of everything I wanted to be able to do with the rifle. When I decide to purchase or have a rifle built I […]