Another NRA show is behind us and all went well. It was great to catch up with so many friends and see some new guns. Here are some that caught my eye. Dan Wesson 1911 A2 Dan Wesson Specialist in 9mm CZ P-10 in FDE Colt Competition .45/9mm without a firing pin safety Colt Gold […]
It was a few years ago I reviewed the new Inland M1 Carbine, you can read that article by following this link. It was a few months ago I got the new Inland Advisor for review. The Advisor is based on Inland’s Paratrooper model and is their rendition of, what was a field expedient, cut down […]
Liberty Suppressors introduces the Sovereign, a small lightweight silencer rated up to and including the 300 Winchester Magnum. To save weight and cost the silencer body and baffle stack is made from titanium. The end cap that affixes to the rifle is stainless steel and the muzzle end cap is made from aluminum. The silencer does not […]
My close friend Charles ‘Charlie” Brown acquired a new RP9 through Remington and was kind enough to bring it by for a test drive and to see what is what. At first glance the RP9 is a polymer receiver striker fired duty size pistol, with eighteen plus one capacity. There is no shortage of such handguns […]
DB Foam was introduced at SHOT show 2017 by Inland Manufacturing. The foam is designed to be sprayed into your room temperature silencer to displace the oxygen, eliminating first round pop, and adding an average of three to five decibels of suppression to your silencer from a ten round string. DB Foam is water […]
During one of my rare sojourns away from Castle Doghair, I was privileged to encounter an old First Model Iver Johnson Owl Head revolver in caliber .38 S&W that was still actually functional…which means that it wasn’t fired very much in the last hundred or so years. With wrought iron frames and low carbon steel […]
After some forty years, Olympic Arms closes it’s doors on February 28th, 2017. I have to wonder if this is a sign of things to come, due to the market saturation of AR-15s and manufactures. I truly hope not but I expect to see more manufactures to either go out of business or begin to […]
Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. (NYSE: RGR) is pleased to announce a new Ruger® LCRx® 5-round revolver chambered in the hard-hitting .357 Magnum cartridge. This durable and reliable revolver is equipped with a 1.87″ barrel and features an exposed hammer that allows it to be fired in either double-action or single-action mode. When it was […]
With the 2017 SHOT show in the rear view mirror I though I would share a few photographs of what I saw and some really cool stuff. Click this link to go to the entire gallery, here are just some of the firearms I saw that were very interesting. The Gilboa Snake, double […]
M1911 Locked breech/Short Recoil basic function Caliber .45 Auto firing a 230 grain bullet at 830 fps: Bang! Assuming a condition of zero headspace, both bullet and slide start to accelerate at the same instant. The slide grabs the barrel upper lugs and hauls the barrel backward with it. At nominally 1/10th inch of rearward […]
