I’m sure everyone here knows that a bullet is most effective when it’s traveling through the air at its prescribed velocity. After all, that’s what the bullet is designed to do. The cartridge holds the powder, and once the powder ignites, initiated by the primer, the projectile unseats from the casing, travels the length of the […]
Update on the FK Brno 7.5: 30 caliber copper bullet going 2000 FPS
We have written about this pistol before, but it’s had a long and arduous trip to market, and it’s still not really here. It may finally be coming (and here’s another allegation of imminence from four months ago). In any event, we haven’t got hands on one yet — hell, we haven’t seen one for sale, but we’ve found […]
Collectible Firearms Protection Act could bring South Korean M1s back from overseas
U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., has sponsored the Collectible Firearms Protection Act, which could override the Obama State Department’s 2009 decision to block the importation of some 87,000 M-1 Carbines and M-1 Garand rifles provided to South Korea. H.R.1137 – To amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide that certain firearms listed as curios […]
Wanna Re-load Fast? Speed Shooter Specialties: Magwell and Base Pad Review
Wanna go fast? There’s no substitute for training, but getting good gear can help. What I’ll look into for this article are the magwell and base pad by Speed Shooter Specialties. Recently I acquired a Smith and Wesson M&P9. For some reason, it just felt that the gun was lacking something, just a bit, in the […]
A Bombproof Single Point Sling Mount for your AR
Today, I’d like to bring an AR single point sling mount to your attention for consideration. “All-business” & “bomb-proof” are adjectives that come to mind after over two months of testing this mount from Troy Industries. I happen to lean toward two-point slings for my rifles but have often used a single-point sling for my […]
TorkMag Extended Capacity AR Mags: Dual Spring for Balanced Torque
TorkMag’s dual 35 and 50 round AR magazines are the genuine article. Large magazines that work all the time. In combat and competition, reliability is critical. Nobody needs a mag that works most of the time. TorkMag is not your typical mag. The market is flooded with ARs and AR mags. Travis Pike just wrote […]
Advice for Single Ladies? Go to the Range
Advice for single ladies is not normally within the left and right limits, or even the overall mission scope, of gun websites, but this column (by “AmmoGrrl” at PowerLineBlog.com) tickled our funny bone. She addresses this question to her readers: [W]here do appropriate men hang out? You know, the kind who are never even momentarily ambivalent […]
Hop up your Glock: JagerWerks Glock Upgrades
Love it or hate it the aftermarket world for the Glock series of handguns is exploding. One particular side of this market that is taking off are custom slide shops. They’ve come about for a variety of reasons. Stock Glocks are very capable firearms but leave something to desired with general ergonomics / features. Large […]
Hardened Arms LumaShark Handguard: First Look
The Hardened Arms LumaShark Handguard eliminates two problems that often plague AR-15 owners, the first is finding a quality hand guard and the second is finding a quality light that meshes well with the hand guard. The Hardened Arms company of Friday Harbor, Washington had the new rail on display in the NEXT section of […]
Think Like Green Beret: In Death Ground, Fight!
“In difficult ground, press on; On hemmed-in ground, use subterfuge; In death ground, fight” – Chapter 11 of Sun Tzu‘s The Art of War For decades, Green Berets have been sent all over the world, often going into complex dangerous situations with host nation forces. The opportunities for disaster are obvious and frequent. How do […]