POTD: Gestamen Machine Guns in Hungarian Service Use

Less familiar than legacy platforms, machine guns from Gestamen Arms take the lead during a recent live-fire training in Hungary. The G224 LMG and G762 MG are both made by Gestamen in Hungary. I’m not entirely sure exactly which model is used here, as they look very similar, but they are al...

By Eric B

Fudd Friday: What Happened To The 16 Gauge?

When I was a kid growing up around marshes in the northeast, I used to pick up empty shotgun shells whenever I found them in the weeds, left there in duck season. 12 gauge was the norm, with the occasional 10 gauge hull spotted. I never found 20 gauge shells back then, but I did find my fair shar...

By Zac K

A Tactical .380? Meet the Beretta 80X Cheetah Tactical Special Edition

Beretta has continued to iterate on their surprisingly popular revival of the 80X Cheetah platform with this Tactical Special Edition. Built for real dirt-and-weather days, the new 80X Cheetah Tactical SA/DA .380 ACP now rocks a blacked-out slide, barrel, grips, and mag base pad against the bronz...

By Luke Cuenco

The New Bronzed & Comped Beretta 80X Cheetah Tactical Special Edition

While it’s not bronzed in the literal sense of the word, Beretta continues expanding the modernized 80X Cheetah platform with the introduction of the newest Tactical Special Edition. The “80X Cheetah Tactical” is a dual-tone variant that layers additional “tactical” ...

By Luke C.

New: Springfield Model 2020 Heatseeker Pistol in .308 Win.

Springfield Armory has added a bolt-action pistol variant to its Model 2020 Heatseeker lineup. The new Model 2020 Heatseeker .308 Pistol pairs the proven Model 2020 action with a shortened Sharps Bros chassis configuration, producing a compact, modular platform chambered in .308 Winchester (7.62x...

By Eric B

The Ultimate .25-Caliber Shootout: Newcomers vs The Classics

I conducted a good old-fashioned shootout to see how the 25 Creedmoor and 25 Weatherby RPM stack up against quarter-bore classics like the .25/06 Remington, .257 Roberts, and .257 Weatherby Magnum The post The Ultimate .25-Caliber Shootout: Newcomers vs The Classics appeared first on Outdoor Life.

By John B. Snow

First Look: Model 2020 Heatseeker Pistol

As Bob Dylan once sang, “The times, they are a-changin.” I remember an era where bolt-action pistols were associated mainly with long-range metallic silhouette shooting. Magnum handgun cartridges offered a good amount of up-close knock-down power where steel pigs and rams were concerned, but ...

By Clayton Walker

Ol’ Man Outdoors Introduces the OF-300 Chuck Wagon Deer Feeder

Ol’ Man Outdoors is rolling out something this spring: the OF-300 Chuck Wagon, a 300-pound stand-and-fill deer feeder. The premise is simple: big capacity, minimal trips, no babysitting. Three hundred pounds on a 19.5 by 27-inch platform. If you’re running multiple stands or managing ...

By Sam.S

POTD: Colt Courier – The 3,000-Unit Failure That Became the Agent

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a 1955 Colt Courier in .22 LR, one of an estimated 3,000 manufactured 1953-1956 before being phased out in favor of the Colt Agent. The Courier was Colt’s attempt at a lightweight compact revolver for plainclothes police and civilian co...

By Sam.S
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