For a 4000 yard shot, my round had a maximum ordinate, or apex, of around 185 yards (555 feet). When I first fired off a round, my bullet would deal with 1/2 value wind from 2 o’clock. The bullet continued its climb until reaching a height of 185 yards above my position. At this point, the bullet peaked above the canyon walls, where it was exposed to a blast of full value
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Extreme Long Range Shooting with Ritter and Stark – Part 2
Published: April 5, 2018 Updated: March 31, 2024
1873 Winchester – America’s First Assault Weapon
Published: April 4, 2018 Updated: April 4, 2018The 1873 Winchester sported a steel receiver along with proper metallurgy in its barrel that allowed the gun to handle the relatively high performance of the .44 WCF round. Various barrel lengths and contours, engraved variations, and rifle, carbine, and musket versions kept things spicy.
Savage Introducing Enhanced A22 FSS Rimfire Rifle
Published: April 3, 2018 Updated: April 3, 2018Savage Arms is pleased to introduce their new two-tone stainless and black optics-ready A22 FSS rimfire rife chambered for .22 Long Rifle.
Extreme Long Range Shooting with Ritter and Stark – Part 1
Published: March 27, 2018 Updated: March 31, 2024The SX1-MTR is a multi-caliber capable rifle. It features a modular receiver that can be configured with several sizes of magazine wells and barrels. Ritter and Stark currently offer barrels chambered in .308 Winchester, 300 Winchester Magnum, and .338 Lapua Magnum.
Seekins Precision: NX3G Rifle
Published: March 22, 2018 Updated: March 22, 2018In a world where AR-15 clones are built by seemingly everyone but Toyota ( yet), it can be hard to get excited about a new model. But there is something to be said for the companies that specialize in AR’s as the core business. In a hyper-competitive market, they have to come correct to keep [...]
A Glimpse at the Making of a Legend: Springfield Armory’s M1A
Published: March 21, 2018 Updated: March 21, 2018“The careful hours, scrupulous effort, expert machining and meticulous tool work needed to complete an M1A from start to finish, make it a labor-intensive yet wholly worthwhile process,” says CEO Dennis Reese.
Intro to PRS Part 2: Barricades
Published: March 15, 2018 Updated: March 15, 2018Read Part 1: Intro to Precision Rifle Series — Mindset, Equipment & Skills Without a doubt, some of the most dreaded stages during precision rifle (PRS) competitions are where you have to get up from the prone and shoot from a barricade of some type. Hardly anyone likes them, the stages often force the shooter into [...]
A Mosin-Nagant for the US Army?
Published: March 14, 2018 Updated: March 14, 2018Almost every shooter in the US has heard of or seen the Mosin-Nagant rifle, due to the large volume of them that were imported over the last decade or so. The WWII variant was quite readily available and inexpensive until very recently.
Barnes Precision Machine- Workhorse AR’s At A Price That Won’t Break The Bank
Published: March 10, 2018 Updated: March 10, 2018What can I say about Barnes Precision Machine AR’s? Apparently, a lot, since I have written about them here, here, here, here, and here. Oh, and here too. As far as bang for the buck, they are very hard to beat. Most of my personal rifles are BPM, including the one with my ODA number [...]
Nordic Components PCC – Best of the 9mm Carbines
Published: March 10, 2018 Updated: March 10, 2018Let us not forget, in the great gun ban being proposed at the moment, any PCC (Pistol Caliber Carbine) that happens to look like an AR, will be banned. If a 9mm carbine has been on your bucket list, this is probably the time. You can read my full review here, and I believed in [...]