Gun Review: The New Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro Comp OSP
Making a pistol wider, longer, taller and heavier is usually not a great idea, especially in an EDC gun. But that is exactly what Springfield Armory did to the original Hellcat to...
Light, Lively, and Deadly: Benelli’s Super Black Eagle 3 in 28 Gauge Is the...
I was dumping wind-driven mallards with enough consistency to quietly praise both my ability to visualize the crazy amount of lead required and the snappy 12-gauge Franchi I was swinging.
But for every bird I...
Gun Review – The Rossi Brawler
Cheap, silly guns will always be my favorite firearms genre. Sure, sometimes they don’t work all that well, and other times they aren’t all that useful. When they work, they tend to...
Obscure Object of Desire – High Standard Model 10
How many times have you heard phrases like game changer, revolutionary and neva ben dun befo in regards to firearms? I've probably been guilty of it, and sometimes, you just get excited about a...
First Look: The All New Taurus TX22 T.O.R.O.
When I saw the new Taurus TX22 T.O.R.O. drop I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, I actually love my current TX22, and it's my favorite .22 suppressor platform. On the other hand,...
Barely Legal Yet Positively Awesome: The M1A Scout Squad in Illinois
Thanks to the crypto currency Solana’s meteoric rise earlier this year, I could afford my own copy of the “great gun” Guns Save Life selected for our Great Guns 2024 drawing. For those who...
Gun Review: The S&W M&P Metal Performance Center SPEC
Polymer frame striker-fired handguns are affordable, lightweight and reliable in most models. But striker-fired guns don’t have to be made of affordable polymer at all times. There is room for metal frames in order...
The Colt 1860 Army Revolver: The Union’s Sidearm of Choice
Boston Corbett stood ready, Colt 1860 Army revolver in hand, and had a split-second decision to make that would determine whether his fellow troopers would live or die. After a lifetime of sin, he...
MAC 1911 JSOC 45 Review: Retro-Tactical 1911 With A Special Forces Heritage
Back in the early 1980s and ’90s, the Joint Special Operation Command (JSOC), the Army’s SFOD-D or Special Forces Operational Detachment, Delta more commonly known as Delta Force and the Marine Expeditionary Unit Special...
Cimarron US Cavalry 1873 Revolver: A Great Take on the Colt Peacemaker
The Colt Single Action Army revolver is probably the most recognizable handgun ever, and its silhouette has graced the big screen in the holsters of heroes and villains, both real and imagined. Colt has...
An Icon Revisited: The HK USP in Focus
Originally introduced for sale in 1993, the HK USP (Universelle Selbstladepistole or Universal Self-Loading Pistol) is an overbuilt tank of a pistol that first came to market chambered in .40 S&W. While many other pistols...
Sci-Fi and Space Gat 2: The AR-15-Based XCOM X-9
As I wrote in Sci-Fi and Space Gat 1, I feel like most folks are going to recognize Han Solo’s blaster, even if they don’t know it’s called a DL-44. I’ll admit, my next...