Outdoor commentary and legislative issues.
And, so it has happened. After a New York newspaper published names and addresses of gun owners complete with a map, one of the homes has since been burglarized. It appears as though the thieves targeted the homeowner’s gun safe but they went away empty handed. As predicted here…
Big news came out over the holidays when the ASPCA announced that it would pay Feld Entertainment, owner of the Ringling Bros. circus, almost $10 million to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the ASPCA and others of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. It’s a crack in the defense, and we’re sure that leaders of the Humane Society of the United States—which is still a defendant in the litigation—didn’t sleep well that night. Keep reading here…
GW: Interesting concept. I’ve used other tracer-type shotgun ammo for the purpose of seeing where the shots were going but I still had trouble seeing anything. This may hold promise.
EAST ALTON, Ill. (Jan. 14, 2013) – A fired 12-gauge shotgun shell unleashes a column of shot from a shotgun barrel at about 1,200 feet per second – too fast for the human eye to see the pellets in flight. This can make it extremely difficult to master the correct lead on flying clay targets or game birds.
What if that changed? What if it was possible to track the flight of the shot string? Thanks to Winchester® Ammunition, it’s happening in 2013.
Legendary innovation at Winchester continues with the AA® TrAAcker™, the first shotgun shell to feature a weighted wad that actually tracks with the shot string. This allows the shooter or an instructor to quickly determine where the shooter is missing – making it easy to adjust and nail flying targets shot after shot. Read more
Gun buy-backs are another feel-good ploy to make us feel safer. Trouble is, they never get the bad guys to turn in their guns. Corroboration is here…
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New Berlin, WI – (Jan. 11, 2013) – In a first for the outdoor TV industry, Sportsman Channel and NRA announced today they are bringing the NRA’s popular talk-radio show NRANEWS’ Cam & Company to television every weekday live from 5-6pm ET beginning Jan. 15. Hosted by Cam Edwards, and airing live from the NRANEWS Studios in Washington, D.C., NRANEWS’ Cam & Company will be the one and only news-talk series on television that can authoritatively address the issues that are vital to America’s more than 80 million sportsmen and sportswomen. Sportsman Channel is a national television network focused on hunting, shooting and fishing programming. Read more
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Wixom, MI – Trijicon’s new CCAS (Continuously Computed Aiming Solution) is designed to support a multitude of weapons systems ranging from vehicle mounted machine guns, infantry weapons to sniper rifles. The CCAS greatly expands a warfighter’s ability to quickly identify and engage targets by eliminating the cumbersome and time-consuming process of ranging, gathering and entering environmental data and generating a firing solution with a PDA. Read more
Aimpoint, the innovator and world leader in electronic red-dot sighting technology has unveiled a new Fire Control System for shoulder fired rocket launchers (such as the Carl Gustav) and crew served weapons like the Mk 19 and GMG automatic grenade launchers. This announcement of the Aimpoint FCS12 follows several years of intensive product development and initial deliveries and advanced field trials have been conducted on a contract with the Swedish Defense Forces. Read more
Fort Worth, TX – AirForce Airguns, America’s leader in pre-charged pneumatic airgun technology, has advanced filling air tanks with the new for 2013 Swingline Fill System for use with SCUBA tanks. The Swingline marks a new level of user friendliness for the tank charging process by allowing the fill hose to rotate around a 360 degree range. Read more
LAS VEGAS, NE — Boberg Arms Corporation announced the release of the Boberg XR9-S. The Boberg XR9-S is the world’s smallest and lightest rotating-barrel, locked breech semi-automatic pistol. Combining power, accuracy and soft-recoil, the Boberg XR9-S was created out of a need for a smaller, more effective, handgun. Read more