Gear Reviews

After a long wait, LWRCI is ready to announce that their UMP-magazine-fed SMG-45 pistol-caliber carbine is now shipping.

In addition to making tissue look like it went through a blender, G9 also touts an unparalleled ability to penetrate auto glass, and stay on target. This is a bigger problem than you might think if you have never spent any time blasting auto glass.

With great ammo, you can turn a $400 handgun into one that shoots as well as a gun that costs many thousands. The opposite is true as well. Sometimes cheap ammo can turn a handgun that cost many thousands of dollars into one that shoots about as well as a cheap one.

Dmitry Sinkevich designed both of these knives for ZT, and I just can’t get enough of them. The feel in the hand and the utility of the blade shapes are perfectly matched in these two knives that are both excellent every day carry options. They are utilitarian works of art.

Nikon’s P-Tactical SPUR reflex sight is built for close and medium range applications. Tiny but mighty, it is rugged enough to handle abuse and recoil on nearly any pistol, rifle or shotgun with a Picatinny Rail.

It has been an amazing year for us 10mm guys, at least on the gun front. Every company in the industry it seems has developed a new 10mm. Options abound in a way we have never seen. But with all this firearm development, how is the ammo?

Getting a new reloading press is a pretty exciting thing! And there is so much to do – from finding the right work area and getting the machine assembled, to deciding what caliber(s) you want to start making. If you are new to handloading then there is also the overwhelming nature of the complexity of the task and the volumes of information to sift through. We’ve all been there!

It is time for another installment of the Factory to Table Series. In Part 5 we will be making a trip to another corner of New Hampshire to visit Edgar, of Edgar Sherman Design. He will walk me through making one of his ESD Slings.

The Leupold VX-5HD 4-20×52 tracked with 99.8 percent accuracy in elevation and 99.2 percent in windage on our tall target test. It has a 34mm tube, a locking ZL2 elevation turret with zero stop, side focus and a throw lever, and weighs 23.3 ounces. Leupold now also sells a VX-5HD Gen 2 4-20×52. Specs and [...]