Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is a gear week, and the topic is K9 patrol equipment: the gear that keeps both the handler and the dog alive and working across a career, not a demo. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air Silencers , whose support keeps this column going ever...
Every truck guy knows someone who dropped a Cummins diesel into a Chevy just to see the look on people's faces at the gas station. Grand Power of Slovenská Ľupča, Slovakia, has pulled off the rifle equivalent of that swap. But what is it?
Everyone knows a rifleman wants to make every shot count, but in the world of shotgunning, it’s kind of a given that you’re going to miss some shots, especially when you’re inexperienced. At least, you’re likely to have some misses when you’re wingshooting, especiall...
If you have never shot .22 LR suppressed, you have missed one of the best experiences in shooting. A subsonic rimfire behind a can is genuinely quiet, the whole thing costs very little per round, and new shooters who flinch at a centerfire rifle will happily shoot a suppressed .22 all afternoon. ...
Taurus has added a Flat Dark Earth finish to the TX9, and it covers all three sizes at once: full-size, compact and sub-compact. Both the slide and frame are FDE, with a matte black barrel peeking out through the ejection port. Taurus marketing GM Caleb Giddings put it simply when he said that in...
Editor’s Note: In this article, Dr. Will Dabbs evaluates the Speed-Tac AR Bolt Carrier in his Springfield Armory SAINT rifle. Designed for .223/5.56 and 300 BLK chambered AR-15 rifles, this bolt carrier is specially designed to improve the seating of a full magazine on a closed bolt. The bo...
Not everyone wants a tree. Trijicon has added a Standard Green Duplex reticle option to the AccuPoint 1-8x24, aimed at hunters and shooters who want a familiar, uncluttered sight picture with nothing in the way of the target. It joins the Red Triangle Post version in a lineup that now offers two ...
I have been waiting for this one, as have many, for quite some time, and it's finally here! When Magpul launched the DT Carbine Stock in late 2023 , the main selling point was an internal Dual Tension mechanism that adds friction against the buffer tube without a second locking lever. The ne...
The Schmidt & Bender 3-18x42 Meta FFP with the SBX reticle is a compact first focal plane riflescope for hunters and practical precision shooters. After about a year of testing, training and timed DMR-style matches, my verdict is simple: it handles like a small scope, performs optically like ...
Four glass eyes, a crimson visor and a hose snaking back to the pack. Whatever this operator is hunting probably should not exist. The kit comes from Shaw Concepts , the Alabama gear maker a Force Recon Marine started in 2019 after learning that a sewing machine cost about the same as one custom ...