Blackpowder Shooters Redefining Accuracy, Performance
GW: This innovative bullet design looks like a major improvement over typical muzzleloader bullets.
ANOKA, MN – Trophy® Copper Muzzleloader Bullets with B.O.R. Lock MZ™ System from Federal Premium® are designed to maximize the effectiveness of modern, in-line muzzleloaders. Muzzleloading shooters across the nation are now redefining accuracy and performance with this bullet that delivers 200-yard accuracy in a non-sabot bullet design that is easy to load, scrubs fouling from the breech and ensures consistent seating.
The bullet’s exclusive B.O.R. Lock MZ System features an expanding and permanently attached polymer base cup that is forced onto a raised band along the bullet shank. Upon ignition, the polymer base cup expands its diameter to engage the rifling and seal the bore for increased velocity and accuracy. The rear of the B.O.R. Lock MZ cup with its hard, fiber-reinforced polymer ring scours fouling from the breech when the bullet is loaded into the breech. This reduces the need to clean between shots and helps ensure that the bullet is seated at the same depth for every shot.
With no bulky sabot in the way, Trophy Copper bullets require half of the loading force of most sabots, require less cleaning and are approved for hunting in most areas. See video of the projectile in action here.
Like other projectiles in the proven Trophy Copper line, the copper-alloy bullet features a polymer tip with a deep, hollow cavity and skiving that allows for consistent, devastating expansion and maximum weight retention. With its high ballistic coefficient, the bullets produce flatter trajectories and less wind drift to increase maximum effective range in the field.
Part No. / Description / MSRP
PMZ50TC1 / Trophy Copper, .50 caliber, 270-grain (15 pack) / $24.99
For more on Federal Premium and its full line of products, visit www.federalpremium.com.
Kahr® Arms Offers a Gift This Holiday Season
Pomona, NY – During this season of gift-giving, now is the time to purchase any Kahr Premium Series product and qualify for a free Kahr E-Gift Card worth $50.
The E-Gift Card promotion applies to the purchase of any one of the 50+ models from the Kahr Premium Series, which includes the TP, T, P, K, PM, and MK Series. The $50 E-Gift Card can be used towards the purchase of any parts and accessories from the Kahr E-commerce website. IMPORTANT NOTE: CW, CM and CT models in the Value Series Kahr pistol product line are not included in this promotion. Kahr pistol SKU numbers starting with the letter “C” are not included in this promotion, for example the CW9093. Read more
Beretta U.S.A. Debuts the New 486 Shotgun Designed by Marc Newson.
Following on the heels of its European launch, the shotgun, which resulted from this exceptional collaboration makes it debut at a private event in New York City early next month.
A masterpiece is created when the oldest firearms company in the world offers the design of the most traditional and elegant shotgun – the side by side – to Marc Newson.
The new 486 by Marc Newson is a respectful re-interpretation of the traditional side by side with an innovative technological solution: the wooden bridge. With this original design, the safety catch is no longer a remote mechanism on the end of the receiver, but now is seamlessly set into the high-grade walnut, almost like a bridge, creating a beautiful element of distinction. Read more
1911 Grips Celebrate Those Who fought In our War of Independence
Rio Grande Custom Grips created these new 3 Percenter grips for those folks who want to honor and celebrate the history of those who fought in our War of Independence. Three Percenters were the courageous 3 percent of the population who actually took up arms to fight and defeat the British and achieve independence for the United States.
The 3 Percenter image grips are new to the compact-frame 1911s but they are also available for the usual variety of popular revolvers and full-size 1911-type semi-autos. Read more
Florida Legalizes Hunting With Suppressors
KEY LARGO, FL – The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously to repeal the 57 year old prohibition on the use of firearm suppressors for taking deer, gray squirrels, rabbits, wild turkeys, quail, and crows. Following the passage of the new regulation, the Commission then voted unanimously to authorize an Executive Order to allow the measure to take effect immediately. Minutes later, Executive Order # EO 14-32 was signed, making hunting with suppressors for all animals in the state legal, effective immediately.
The new regulation amends 68A-12.002 General Methods of Taking Game; Prohibitions by striking “silencer equipped” from the language. With the enactment of the new regulation, Florida becomes the 33rd state to allow hunters to use legally possessed suppressors in the field for all game animals. 
Earlier this year, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana all enacted similar pro-suppressor hunting reform. Of the 34 states in which suppressor hunting is legal, Montana is now the only state which restricts their use to certain types of animals. Read more
Federal Investigations to Proceed on Operation Choke Point
This from the NRA
As we reported last month, a coalition of congressional representatives led by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) had requested internal investigators at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to conduct formal inquiries into Operation Choke Point, as well as any officials and staff involved in the program. Rep. Luetkemeyer is now reporting that those requests have been granted. According to his press release announcing the decisions, “The correspondence I received from the FDIC and DOJ is a great first step in ensuring that those responsible for Operation Choke Point are held accountable and that Congress and the American people receive details and answers they deserve.” Over the past year, we have reported at length on the abuses of Operation Choke Point, an enforcement program involving DOJ and FDIC (among other agencies) that claims to target financial fraud, but in reality is being used to choke off banking services to legitimate, although politically-disfavored, businesses. These businesses include retailers of firearms and ammunition, a number of which have found their banking relationships abruptly severed with little or no explanation and without reference to anything the individual businesses did or did not do. Earlier this year, a congressional report based on examination of nearly 900 internal DOJ documents found that the operation’s adverse effect on legitimate businesses was not merely an unintended side-effect but the outcome of a deliberate attempt to target entire business sectors that, while legal, were deemed objectionable by regulators. Many questions about the program remain, including who decided which business sectors should be targeted, the extent of coordination between the agencies involved, and who within the Obama administration knew of or encouraged the activity. The forthcoming investigations should hopefully shed light on these and other important issues. What is clear is that DOJ and FDIC have a lot of explaining to do. Read more
The $3,000 Walther Arms Great Guns Giveaway
Walther Arms, Inc. is giving you 17 different chances to win by giving away guns & ammo prizes totaling $3,000 between now & Christmas! Read more
MidwayUSA Black Friday 8 Days of Deals – Starts 11/24
Black Friday deals come early at MidwayUSA, and the countdown starts now! Beginning Monday, November 24th MidwayUSA will kick off 8 Days of Deals on popular Shooting, Reloading, Gunsmithing and Hunting products. Select products will also be eligible for FREE SHIPPING! Read more
Understanding Your Right to Self-Defense – This Week on Gun Talk® Radio
Mandeville, LA – It’s a new book from famed trainer Massad Ayoob, building a customized AR, and more, this week on Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk® Radio, the original nationally-syndicated radio talk show about guns and the shooting sports.
Massad Ayoob has authored more than a dozen books on firearms and self-defense topics, including Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection. He visits Gun Talk on Sunday to discuss the very latest book, Deadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self Defense, which discusses the legal, ethical, social and psychological issues of using lethal force in self-defense. Purchase a copy at Amazon, http://amzn.to/1vtH27k, and find out more at http://massadayoobgroup.com/. Read more
FMG Online Takes A First Look At The Taurus Curve
In a GUNS Magazine online-only article, Mark Kakkuri reviews Taurus’ new Curve, a pistol with a curved frame to enhance concealed carry.
“Taurus Manufacturing has officially released the Curve, a small, polymer .380 pistol with a distinct curved frame, meant to comfortably wrap around your hip or thigh when carrying inside the waistband or in a pocket, respectively,” writes Kakkuri. “We always talked of ‘dressing around your gun.’ Now we have a gun that’s wrapping around you.” The article can be found at www.gunsmagazine.com/exclusive-curve-ahead. Read more