Hunting on the Boundaries

One of my favorite podcasts comes from the good folks at Hornady. Seth Swerczek frequently hosts with engineers Joe Thielen and Jayden Quinlan along with a wide variety of guests. They cover subject matters ranging from varmint hunting, rifle construction and PRS competition, to bullet design. Wh...

By Joe Woolley

Ayoob: Can You Shoot Your 1911 Backwards?

The 1911 is truly a classic gun. It is robust, reliable and easy to shoot well. Well, it’s easy to shoot for right-handers, that is. Historically, the 1911 pistol has been a right-hander’s gun. Now, the history books tell us there was a time in America when a teacher would rap a naturally lef...

By Massad Ayoob

Off-Grid Comms: Going Stealth with the Starlink Mini

Reliable communication used to be the first thing you lost the moment you stepped away from the grid. Once your cell signal faded, you were effectively on your own. Starlink, and now the Starlink Mini, have changed that reality in a way that is nothing short of game-changing. In a compact, packab...

By Scott Conditt

Built for Spec Ops: Vortex AMG 1-10X LPVO

Maximizing accuracy and performance seems to be a white whale we all chase. We want the shortest package with a minimal footprint to reach out to 500 and beyond with ease. But we still want to run the rifle fast at closer targets. For this scenario, the low power variable optic (LPVO) h...

By Michael Mills

ZEISS to Spin Off Hunting & Nature Division Into Independent Company

ZEISS has announced plans to spin off its Hunting & Nature business into a new independent company. The agreement will see German investment firm palero become the sole owner of the new entity. Under the deal, ZEISS will license its brand to the company, allowing the business to continue oper...

By Eric B

A Student's Vision of The New Generation of Russian Light Machine Gun

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...

By Lynndon Schooler

Review: Springfield XD Mod.4 OSP 9mm

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...

By Richard Johnson

101st Airborne Division Tests Next-Gen Drones

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) tested their ability to integrate unmanned aircraft systems to support ground forces during a live-fire exercise on March 12. “We are no strangers to innovation here on Fort Campbell,” said Brig. Gen. Travis McIntosh, deputy com...

By Eric G
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