Rifle

Are Bullpup Weapons Officially a Thing of the Past?

Courtesy of Tactical Life Bullpup rifles will never displace the AR as the modern American gun nerd’s go-to iron. Now that you can land a conventional low-end utility black rifle for around $500, no amount of whiz bang awesomonium is going to convince rank and file American shooters to bin their inexpensive Stoner guns in […]

Soviet R&D: The Many Experimental Weapons of the USSR

Courtesy of Tactical Life Service handguns were among the first indigenous small-arms developments in the Soviet Union. In the mid-1920s, the Red Army was armed with a mix of obsolete Nagant M1895 revolvers and some Mauser C96 pistols purchased from Germany. Thus, the military needed a new service pistol, and the late 1920s saw a […]

Watch: Daniel Defense MK18 CQB Setup

The MK18 is a 10.3 inch short barreled AR-15 made by Daniel Defense. It’s grown in popularity in large part due to its utilization by Special Operators wielding it in the global war on terror. It will do most anything your typical AR-15 can do but better – with a couple of caveats. When you […]

Meet The All New Gunwerks RevX

The new RevX rifle was designed from the ground up with affordability and performance in mind, including entirely new custom action and stock designs. Each rifle is hand built and live fire tested to confirm precision and gather individual ballistic data. We’ve worked tirelessly to streamline and improve product design, supply chain, and component manufacturing […]

Watch: Building the MK18 Block III

Now there isn’t officially a Block III variant of the MK18, but many sources show various groups using the Geissele MK8 rails. The name is part tongue in cheek and part reality. Other rifles are currently being evaluated but Geissele MK8 rails may very well be the future of the MK18. In the following video […]

Ultimate Sheep Rifle – a Lightweight Hunting Build

Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear What came first, lightweight hiking or lightweight hunting? We’d like to think it was lightweight hunting. Man has been hunting since the beginning of time. And the lightweight aspect was probably a thing before it was a coined term. Ultimate Sheep Rifle Why a Professional Hunter Chose PROOF Research Breach-Bang-Clear […]

The Steyr Scout: Cooper’s Frontier Rifle

Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear The Steyr Scout: Jeff Cooper’s Modern Day Frontier Rifle Ian McCollum Jeff Cooper was an icon of the American firearms community, best known for his work with the Southwest Pistol League and father of modern practical handgun competition. Cooper was a Marine Corps veteran and avid hunter in addition, and […]

Celebrate Our Great Nation with the Nosler Model 48 Independence Day Rifle

Courtesy of Tactical Life In celebration of the birth of this great nation of ours, Oregon-based ammo and rifle maker Nosler has announced a special, limited edition run of 25 rifles dubbed the Nosler Model 48 Independence Day. RELATED STORY: 22 Nosler – A Powerful New Cartridge for the AR-15 Chambered in the company’s new 22 […]

New Old West: The Wonderful Guns of Westworld

Courtesy of Tactical Life Since it premiered in October of 2016, HBO’s new series Westworld set its viewers’ imaginations alight with the possibilities of blending futuristic technologies with our desire to live out our fantasies, both wholesome and dark, in a nostalgic world from the past. The mind-twisting revelations from the final few episodes of […]

Quiet Riot: Smith & Wesson’s M&P15 in .300 Whisper

Courtesy of Tactical Life Easing along the creek bottom, I was 300 yards shy of the base of the ridge I would have to climb to try to catch up with a buck that had left plenty of early season signs. A sudden sound halfway up the ridge to my left caused me to freeze and snap my head […]