Almost all shooters – and hunters – are plenty familiar with how Old West cowboys acquired both a long gun and handgun in the same chambering. That combination was most likely a lever-action rifle and a single-action revolver. A few popular pairings would have been traditional handgun rounds like the .44/40 Winchester, .45 Colt,…
Some 12 million Illinois residents now must deal with the fallout from a rushed prohibition on commonly owned firearms and their magazines. Democrat Gov. Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker, a billionaire that Forbes describes as “the richest politician in office in the U.S.” who was backed for office by President Obama and national anti-gun groups, signed an “assault weapon” ban into law on Tuesday, just…
A trio of new .357 magnum wheel guns are headed to the market in 2023 under a familiar old name. Turns out, Rossi is back in the revolver game. Amadeo Rossi, first established in Brazil in 1889, long had a history with various double-action .38 and .357 Magnum revolvers and only exited that market in recent years while…
With the lower chamber of Congress under new management, a fresh bipartisan proposal for installing national concealed carry reciprocity has been introduced. The concept to sidestep a patchwork of reciprocity laws and agreements between states has been kicking around Capitol Hill for a decade and even made it through a Republican-controlled House in 2017 only to die in the Senate. Its…
Taming the SFAR: How Ruger’s Small-Frame .308 Runs Suppressed We’ve been wringing out the SFAR for several weeks and, with the first 500 rounds in the rearview, decided to go for some quiet time. Ruger’s new Small-Frame Autoloading Rifle is aptly named, as it is a .308 Winchester-chambered AR that, rather than dog pile atop the familiar AR-10/SR-25…
Mossberg Patriot LR Tactical Bolt-Action Rifles Available in .308, 6.5 Creedmoor, and 6.5 PRC, Mossberg has added the new Patriot Long Range Tactical bolt-action rifle series to its catalog for 2023. Using an adjustable, customizable MDT Field Stock chassis system and fed from a standard AICS-style metal magazine, Mossberg lends its popular Patriot bolt-action platform and in-house LBA adjustable…
SIG SAUER TANGO MSR OPTIC REVIEW: YOUR VALUE & PERFORMANCE LPVO GRAB YOUR SIG TANGO OPTIC I’ve been on a low-power variable optic kick for a while now. I find them to be very useful for a great many purposes. Despite my focus on precision and long-range shooting, LPVOs still make up a good portion of…
ATN Smart HD Optics X-Sight for Day & Night Shooting and Sporting Night Vision Rifle Scope Features The ATN X-Sight is a Day and Night Vision Rifle Scope. This means that it has a night vision sensor and it can be turned on or off so that during the day you look through the scope like any…
How to Zero Your Optic or Scope Whether you’re sport shooter, hunter, prepared citizen, or all three, your rifle is as useless as an ejection seat in a helicopter if you haven’t learned how to zero your scope or optic. In this post, we’ll teach you how to zero your scope or optics in 3 easy steps,…
