A recent post by Kalashnikov.ru shed light on the work of a young engineering student on a proposed light machine gun design. It was an interesting design recently submitted at the M. T. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU), where the annual exchange between academic traini...
Editor’s Note: The author received a Springfield XD Mod.4 pistol on loan from the company for the purposes of writing this review. I’ve always appreciated the Springfield Armory XD series for what it is: a simple, reliable and accurate 9mm pistol. While the original may have more than two dec...
Hunting rifles have evolved drastically over the years, with modern precision machining and materials such as carbon fiber introduced into both the stock and the barrel, and an off-the-shelf rifle can now outperform custom-built actions from a decade ago. Many people with older rifles seek ways t...
Photo Of The Day: Where winter has arrived in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes the annual shift toward cold-weather kits and specialized camouflage. Today’s image highlights Varusteleka’s new L4 Winter Combat garments, purpose-built for operations where the landscap...
This week in The Rimfire Report, we’re taking a look at another budget-friendly load from one of the world’s best .22LR ammunition manufacturers, ELEY. The last time we featured ELEY, we tested their remarkably consistent and accurate Target 40-grain round nose load . Fired through ou...
No matter what my day demands of me, something that is at the forefront of my mind in recent years is my hydration. So much of what we eat and consume dehydrates us – coffee, energy drinks, beef jerky, salty fast food/convenience food, etc – that we need to be mindful that we are hydr...
Bill Wilson has been building firearms since before most of us were born. Now he's written a book about it. Wilson Combat just released Guns, Hunting, and Shooting: What I've Learned in 60 Years , a 234-page hardcover that spans rifle, handgun, and cartridge selection along with l...
Horus Vision has introduced the TREMOR7 reticle, now available in the HoVR 1-8x24mm LPVO riflescope, a configuration aimed at modern sporting rifles and dynamic shooting applications. The TREMOR7 builds on previous Horus reticle designs and is optimized for use in low-power variable optics. It is...
Let’s get this out of the way up front. I believe the 1911 pistol is just about the finest handgun ever made. A well-built, custom 1911 represents mechanical elegance, history and performance all rolled into one. In my opinion, a pistol of that caliber deserves to be carried in nothing less tha...
Big Horn Armory has introduced the Model 89 CAT 5, a tactical take on its big-bore lever-action platform chambered in .500 S&W Magnum. The CAT 5 blends traditional lever-gun design with more modern features, including a 16-inch threaded barrel and a modular fore-end developed in collaboration...