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Riflescopes have come a long way in the last ten years. It used to be that only elite hunters paid big money for high quality scopes, and those scopes mostly came from Germany. I don’t know if patents ran out on manufacturing methods, or manufacturing just got that much better overseas, but these days there are a lot of great scopes that are crystal clear even in low light conditions, and they don’t cost big money. You can still spend over $5,000 on a riflescope, but for $1,000 to $2,000 you can get what I’ve found to be as good a scope for a lot less (and sometimes even less than $1,000). This Burris XTR II 4x-20x is made in Malaysia, and I would put it against scopes many times its cost.

Very few shooting experiences make me smile from ear to ear, so I feel it necessary to share this very unique “full auto” fun surprise. The Gletcher M712 is an “adult” airgun that looks, feels and works just like an original Mauser “Broomhandle,” which is the American name for the C96, called that because of the wooden rounded grip.

How to use or not to use, that is the question. The Sig Sauer SB-15 stabilizing brace for AR-type pistols has exposed some sticky legal questions. Does the use of a product define its purpose? For example, if one uses a hammer to remove a corroded battery terminal from a 1970 Gremlin, does the use [...]

Navy Arms, Winchester and Turnbull team up to produce some of the nicest 1873 Winchesters ever made. Gibbs Rifle AK magazines.

Springfield beat some of their competition to market with the new XD Mod 2. But the have a new caliber, the .45 ACP, and they’re also debuting a couple of sharp new 1911s. Click on for details.

Sometimes an idea just seems so obvious. Why didn’t I think of that? Like the .223 you can carry in your pocket! Heizer has built just that. And soon you may be able to pick up a single stack Heizer semi-automatic. These slabs of steel are worth a second look. And what would you name this beast?

The limited edition Smith and Wesson Bone Collector 460 as seen at SHOT Show 2015. This is a hand cannon.

[one_half padding=”0 0 0 0px”] FNS-9C [/one_half] [one_half_last padding=”0 0 0 0px”] [/one_half_last] SHOT Show 2015 is officially underway. We stopped in at the FNH booth this morning, first thing, and got the run down on what’s going on. When you make as many guns as FN, it is hard to narrow down your choices. [...]

Kel-Tec is heading into 2015 with some serious changes to some of the guns we know and love, and they’re now shipping some of the guns we’ve all been waiting for. So what’s the latest from Kel-Tec? Read on…