Meprolight is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. The company’s first designs for defensive shooting and precision marksmanship included innovations in tritium and fiber-optics, which quickly gained favor among enthusiasts and professionals alike. Today the firm has expanded its line to include high-performance red-dot sights and variable optics that are trusted by military, law enforcement and civilian shooters around the ...
Everyone knows that the quality of shotgun triggers is typically inferior to that of rifles. My personal data gleaned from years of trigger-pull-weight testing indicates that modern rifles average roughly 5 pounds of pull weight while shotguns average 6.5, though that 6.5 pounds often feels much heavier than it actually is due to the amount of creep found within. Long, ...
If you’ve been shooting for a few years, it’s time to get your blood lead levels checked. I first met Tom in 2011 at the MGM Ironman 3-gun match, a legendary, high round count blast fest in the Idaho desert. We bullshitted between stages, hit it off, and the bromance continues to this day. At the time, he’d just returned ...
Stun grenades, commonly called flashbangs, are diversionary devices intended to distract and disorient enemies in a non-lethal manner. First used in the 1970s, they’re explosive devices that rely upon a blinding burst of light, painfully loud noise, and overpressure to disorient the enemy. The flash of light is generally measured in millions of candela, and the bang is typically over ...
Attaching a suppressor to a barrel shouldn’t be complicated, but it often is. Here we give an overview of the most common types of suppressor mounts. Do you think I need to go with a QD- or a HUB-style mount on my suppressor? What about direct-thread, is that even a thing anymore?” Chances are good that, if you know little ...
Bear Creek Arsenal is launching a new line of AR10 uppers and rifles in a new bolt-action style. This new line is designed to offer precision, reliability, and versatility to shooting enthusiasts and professionals alike. The new bolt action AR10 uppers and rifles will be available in five popular calibers: .308 Win, 6.5 Creedmoor, 8.6 BLK,.243 Win, and .22-250 Rem. ...
Ace Virtual Shooting and SIG Sauer are releasing the SIG Experience, which features SIG Sauer replica handsets and optics. The ACE marksmanship simulator lets fans experience SIG Sauer products in an all-new, groundbreaking environment. For current members of the thriving Ace community, this collaboration unlocks more opportunity to build skills and connect with SIG Sauer enthusiasts from wherever you are. ...
Home defense is one of the most common reasons given when someone buys a gun. Like any tools, different guns can be suited for different purposes. So, if you are looking for a home defense gun, what should you buy? What is the best affordable home defense pistol? The author makes a good case for the Springfield XD Mod.3 being ...
The chassis of a SIG Sauer P320 legally constitutes a firearm and is therefore engraved with the serial number. It can be fitted with interchangeable grip frames, barrels and slides. To open this column, let’s stipulate one thing: If we are going to have laws regarding handguns, there must be some part of that handgun that has the irreducible element ...
I teach a class called “Intro to Pepper Spray” that focuses on the many layers of effective personal protection. Some of the goals in class are seeing danger at a distance and avoiding it; making good, quick first decisions; acting on those decisions with confidence; understanding how to use pepper spray through scenarios and repetition; getting to safety and calling ...