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 New for 2023, Nosler teamed up with PROOF Research and MDT to create the long-range Model 21 Carbon Chassis Hunter.

Providing effective defensive systems for rotary-wing aircraft (helicopters) is a problem as old as the choppers themselves.

This week you get to see me eat a little bit of crow as I finally come around from being a dinosaur to embracing the new hotness. Well, maybe not the newest hotness. But I am finally going to admit that something we started to see about 10 years ago is an improvement over the default AR-15 design.

Being able to fill the role of a scanner, clip-on, and dedicated scope puts the RH25 into a category of its own that very few products can compete with.

These are custom guns with the shortest lead times I have seen in the industry. Based on the 1911 design, the Platypus is designed to use Glock 17 mags.

I am not a mechanical engineer or physicist. People like me and my readers may not understand all of what goes on inside the pistol, but experienced shooters know when one pistol works better than another.

I don’t get why Remington doesn’t just tap their shotguns for an optic’s mount. Like all of their shotguns. Mossberg does it, so why can’t Remington? Luckily, solutions exist, and one that has always interested me was the Burris SpeadBead. It seems like a great solution for a complicated problem. Burris designed the Spea Bead to be an optic mounting solution that doesn’t require a tapped receiver.

When it comes to guns and knives, I am generally the practical guy. I write about P320’s and FNH 509s and concealable blades that punch above their weight. We have other people that write about antique machine guns and gadgets, and rarely shall they cross. But I do sometimes get taken in by the cool, even if it is far from the best design.

The war was lost for the Axis as soon as that first bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbor. It just took a great deal of time and suffering to work out the details.