SIG Sauer has been in the 1911 business for a good while now. It's a deep and murky gun niche, but as you can imagine, there are strong feelings about SIG 1911s in the hardcore 1911 community. Putting those folks aside, the gunmaker has produced some ...
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We Have a Tommy Gun at Home: New Diamondback TG-Nine PCC
“But I want a Tommy Gun!” “Keep quiet, we have a Tommy Gun at home.” This is the Tommy Gun at home, the new Diamondback TG-Nine PCC that just dropped as part of the company's 9mm pistol caliber carbine DB9R platform. The heritage of this AR ...
SIG Cross Trax: A .308 Hunting Rifle Sized Like a Survival Rifle
Survival rifles exist on the fringe of firearms. They're a cool idea — a gun that disassembles or breaks down or folds to be ultra-stowable and lightweight. The idea is you pack it away in some kind of large survival kit or pack so that it will be ...
‘New’ Glock Models Coming in 2024
Last week, the media got a look at what Glock will be releasing in 2024 at a special invite-only event at the company’s new Georgia manufacturing space, which Guns.com says is “pristine and in line with every other Glock manufacturing ...
Magpul’s New Light, Sub-$70 MOE X-22 Stock for Ruger 10/22s
Who would have thought that Magpul would become one of the premier producers of affordable polymer stocks for a bevy of firearm platforms? But here we are. The company makes what is arguably the best tactical shotgun stock, a bunch of AR stocks and ...
Quiet Drop: New Colt Python Combat Elite 3-Inch Revolver
Maybe it’s an attempt on Colt’s part to seem exclusive and niche — you have to be in the know to find out about new additions to their catalog — or maybe it’s just bad comms from the Czech company that now owns the brand about its new product. Hell, ...
New S&W Performance Center M&P9 Metal M2.0 Spec Series Kit: $999
Smith & Wesson has released a new entry in its Spec Series of limited edition handguns, and it's the first to come out of the company’s revered Performance Center line. The gunmaker says this new version of the gunmaker’s M&P Spec Series ...
How To Buy the Right .22 Rifle for Plinking, Training, or Hard Use
Ammo prices have come down from pandemic peaks, finally re-entering the territory of not having to sell plasma to be able to afford to shoot. One caliber that remained mostly untouched was .22 Long Rifle, a storied entry in the family of rimfire ...
The New Glock 49 MOS: An Official G19L Pistol
There’s officially a new Glock model on the market that’s largely a response to hacks Glock fans and concealed carriers have been making for years. TALO Distributors is bringing the Glock 49 MOS to the U.S. market for the first time. Glock has ...
How the 300 Weatherby Magnum Redefined .30-caliber Velocity
Americans have loved .30 caliber rifle cartridges since the 1890s when Winchester released the .30-30 Win. And when Americans love a thing, they’re driven to improve it. That’s the story of Roy Weatherby and the 300 Weatherby Magnum. While the ...
Ruger Revives the Marlin Dark Series Rifle Line
The Marlin Dark Series has finally been reintroduced to the gun world under Ruger's banner for the first time in three years. The rifle line was the first lever gun from a major manufacturer to include modern features from the factory, like a unique ...
MOA vs MRAD: Battle Royale Of Rifle Scope Reticle Systems
Picture yourself getting the jump on a big prairie dog town. You crest a hill, lay your trusty .22 across a fencepost, and peer through your scope. It’s pretty far. You might need to aim a little bit high. If only you paid more attention to the MOA ...
The Remington 870: America’s Best Selling Pump Shotgun
My first exposure to the Remington 870 was not at a shooting range or in the woods pursuing wild game. It came when I was 10 years old, sitting on the couch at a buddy’s house watching an R-rated movie I shouldn’t have been. Point Break (1991) ...
The 7mm Remington Magnum: The Hunter’s Cartridge
The 7mm Remington Magnum has cemented itself as one of history’s most popular hunting cartridges. It walks amongst giants. Capable of taking all game animals in the lower 48 and doing it well, the 7 mm’s versatility shines when looking on the shelves ...
Why the 6mm Creedmoor Bugs Me
I admit I got annoyed with the 6mm Creedmoor. Why? The same reason I got annoyed with the 6.5 Creedmoor when it came out. For a while, the relatively new caliber was everywhere. If I read an article in a magazine, it was about how the 6.5 ...
The Luger Pistol: The First Iconic 9mm Handgun
Some firearms have an aura of mystique that is imparted to them at some point in their history for a variety of reasons. They’re guns that people the world over can identify simply by sight, and hearing their name instantly conjures up images of it. ...
History of the Semi Auto Shotgun
The semi auto shotgun is everywhere, and why shouldn’t it be? Every time the trigger is pulled, the gun ejects a spent shell and then chambers a new one. You don’t cycle it by hand like a pump gun, and it offers more firepower than an over-under. ...
Why People Love to Hate the 6.5 Creedmoor: It’s Just Too Easy
It is no secret that people love to hate the 6.5 Creedmoor. Why? Because it is almost too good at what it was designed to do, shoot long-range. It introduced a whole new methodology in the cartridge world that changed the market. Hornady proved ...
What To Do — Legally — After a Self-Defense Shooting
Responsible gun owners spend considerable time at the gun range training for the possibility they may have to use their firearm as a last-resort tool to protect themselves or their families. Most concealed carriers likely don’t spend enough time at ...
Did the ‘Steven Seagal’ Press Check Come From Col. Jeff Cooper?
We all know what a press check is, or at least we should. When loading a semi-auto handgun, or during the process of checking its readiness, you partially pull back the slide or bolt and visually verify that there is a round in the chamber. It's a ...
Best Glock of All Time: Pick Your Brick
Ask someone which pistol you should buy, and there’s a good chance they’ll tell you to just get a Glock. That answer isn’t necessarily correct, but it’s also not wrong. Glock pistols are massively popular for a reason: they’re famously reliable, ...
Want to Shoot a Machine Gun? Best Full-Auto Ranges in the U.S.
My brother was right, I thought, as I looked over three tables filled with machine gun after machine gun. We’d been to Washington County Machine Guns years ago while on a road trip. And since then, my brother Sam said they’d “expanded their ...
A Vickers Machine Gun That Fired 5 Million Rounds: Fact or Myth
There’s a piece of firearms lore involving one of the most respected and used machine guns in history, the Vickers machine gun, that's almost too fantastic to believe — but apparently, it did happen, and that's why we're talking about it now. So ...
Remington 700: From the Deer Stand to the Battlefield
In 2021, Wesley Pootoogooluk set his sights on one of the biggest grizzly bears to ever hit the record books. The rifle he trusted to do the job was a Remington 700 chambered for .340 Weatherby Magnum, and the confidence he placed in it was ...
The 17 Winchester Super Magnum: A Nail Gun’s Bastard Child
Speed is the name of the game when it comes to varmint cartridges. Flat-shooting little bullets excel in this realm, minimizing fur damage and hitting like a lightning bolt. Previously, this world of cartridges was very niche and mostly reserved for ...
New Mags! Springfield Ups the Hellcat Pro to 17+1
Springfield Armory is turning the Hellcat line of CCW pistols into a platform for modification, and the latest release is a 17-round magazine for the Hellcat Pro. The new magazine offers a two-round advantage over the original 15-round mag, and it ...
Mossberg 940 Pro Tactical: Blue-Collar Badass
Mossberg has been getting a little weird and outside-the-box with its latest new firearm releases, but shotguns are still the brand’s bread-and-butter. The company’s scatterguns have been crushing it in the wetlands, the woods, and at skeet ranges ...
How to Shoot a Hunting Rifle Off-Hand With a Sling
In every profession or hobby, skills die out over time as technology offers easier, better solutions. But some skills are worth retaining, because you never know when you might need them, and when you need one, you typically really need it. Using a ...
Bullpup Shotgun: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In the early 1900s, Thorneycroft Carbine developed the first bullpup rifle design, which placed the action to the rear of the trigger and shortened the overall length of British military rifles. It was an inventive piece of engineering, but the guns ...
360 Buckhammer: Remington’s New Straight-Walled Deer Slayer?
The name “360 Buckhammer” doesn’t exactly sound like a traditional moniker for a rifle caliber, does it? That’s because rifle cartridges were historically named with the numerical bullet diameter, the manufacturer, and then sometimes a modifier like ...