Geneseo, IL – The countdown has begun for the 2015 National Matches at Camp Perry, OH, where only the best of the best compete in what is considered the “World Series of the Shooting Sports.” Competition at the highest level requires only the best equipment and Armalite is here to deliver!
For more than a decade, Armalite rifles in both the AR-10® and M-15™ platforms have decorated the firing line as the choice of some of the best shooters on the National Match circuit. Join them by ordering one of the following Armalite National Match rifles today! Read more
Henderson, NV – Hogue, Inc., America’s premier manufacturer of firearm grips, stocks, AR components, knives, holsters, gear and accessories is proud to announce their line of automatic retention carry holsters for a wide variety of handguns. “We’re designing and building first rate carry holsters from the ground up,” explained Hogue President Aaron Hogue. “We see a great opportunity to offer a superior product at an affordable price point to practically everyone who owns a handgun.” Read more
Houston, TX—Blinn College student Nicole Sanders filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the public institution near Houston on Wednesday after being told by an administrator last February that she would need “special permission” to display a gun rights sign and collect signatures for her student group on campus. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) assisted Sanders in filing the federal lawsuit, the tenth lawsuit filed as part of FIRE’s national Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project.
The lawsuit challenges Blinn’s policy of restricting speech to a tiny “Free Speech Area,” as well as the process that led the college to take over a month to approve a palm-sized card Sanders wanted to hand out to students explaining their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. Read more
Pomona, NY – In February of this year, Magnum Research introduced the first in a series of animal print Desert Eagles. Following in the success of the Cheetah print, which is now sold out, MRI is now introducing their latest two animal prints, the Kryptek Highlander and the Snakeskin, available in either .50 AE or .44 Mag.
“Our Desert Eagle in the Cheetah print was a huge success” stated Frank Harris, VP of Sales of Marketing. “We introduced it to our dealers early in the year, and it sold out very quickly shortly thereafter. It just proves that gun enthusiasts have a growing interest in something a little different from the norm to show off at the gun range.”
The two new designs, the Kryptek Highlander and the Snakeskin patterns utilize a water transfer method. It has been extensively tested for durability and has proven to be very tough; even cleaning solvents and acetone will not soften or damage the finish.
The Desert Eagle .50 AE is a gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol with a 7-round capacity in .50 AE and 8-round capacity in .44 Magnum. Both guns measure 10.75″ in length with a 6″ barrel. Slide width is 1.25″, height 6.25″ and the weight with an empty magazine is approximately 4 lbs. 5.8 oz. in .50 AE, and 4 lbs. 6.6 oz. in the .44 Mag. It has a trigger reach of 2.75″ and a sight radius of 8.5″ with the 6″ barrel. The construction of the Desert Eagle utilizes the latest CNC machine technology providing exacting specifications with tight tolerances creating a work of art in a precision firearm. The grip is anatomically formed and provides an ideal hand seating angle for two-handed shooting allowing for comfortable, rapid and accurate firing. The Weaver style accessory rail easily allows for aftermarket optics and scope rings. Read more
One man is dead and another in stable condition at the hospital, after a 77-year-old Florida man found them in his Redland home, grabbed his gun, and fired and struck them both, police said. Details here…
New for 2015 in Browning’s Black Label flashlight lineup is the Disrupter. Though no bigger than a can of soda, the Disruptor pumps out a stunning 2800 lumens of bright white light that reaches out 500 yards.
Its rugged all-aluminum construction houses a 10400 mAh rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The anti-roll bezel profile helps prevent the Disruptor from rolling off a table. The lamp head incorporates heat-dissipating fins to keep the light running cool. Optically clear and scratch-resistant, the glass lens is built for years of rugged duty. Read more
More than 100 years ago on April 21, 1909 President Theodore Roosevelt began an 11-month safari in Africa. With him was a Winchester lever-action rifle chambered in .405 Winchester, and Roosevelt soon deemed it Big Medicine for animals that might bite back—lions in particular. The president knew that he needed a hard-hitting and fast-firing repeater to deal with animals with an attitude. It is no different today, but now we have a rifle that retains the reliability and fast-firing capabilities of Roosevelt’s famous Winchester chambered in a cartridge with even more attitude than the one the president used.
However, if Roosevelt was alive today, there’s a good chance he might have taken Big Horn Armory’s Model 89 rifle with him to the Dark Continent. Chambered for the bone-crushing .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum, this American-made rifle is tailor made for hunting big animals at moderate ranges. When fired from a 22-inch barreled Model 89, the .500 S&W Magnum has 10-percent more velocity than the .405 Winchester and 11-percent more energy. The Model 89 churns up some 38-percent more velocity and 45-percent more energy than the time-honored .45-70 Government factory load. Read more
A Cowboy CompTM U.S. action job and a 25% shorter hammer stroke are standard features with Cimarron’s new Eliminator Series. This series was designed specifically with SASS and CMSA shooters in mind. Cimarron is proud to introduce The Eliminator8, The EliminatorC, and The EliminatorTS. The Eliminator series is made exclusively for Cimarron by Pietta. Read more
With Michigan’s late turkey hunting season well under way, it was time for me to see if I could bag a bird of my own. A Day 6 Plotwatcher Pro trail camera showed a few hens as regular visitors at one property, but not one gobbler. Another riverfront property, where I’ve had permission to hunt for many years, had been good to me during previous turkey seasons, so I made an early morning visit to see what I could hear.
The raucous gobbling of toms from the roost before sunrise can give their location away. With that in mind, I cupped my hands at my ears for increased volume and patiently waited for the call of the wild. Nothing.
My hunting partner, Joe, later phoned to let me know he’d be available to operate the video camera on a hunt, (he already tagged a turkey) but Tuesday would be his only chance during the workweek. Without a clue, I knew I had to put the Browning Powerhouse blind up somewhere, so I loaded the ATV with the gear on Monday and headed to familiar grounds.
In the cutover corn field, I poked along and viewed a hen turkey several hundred yards away. The bird soon noticed my approach and scampered to the confines of the nearby woods. Proceeding down the lane at the field’s edge, I noticed some distant tom turkeys in full display that hadn’t seen me, but I proceeded, nonetheless.
After scaring them off, I set up the portable blind under a shagbark hickory conspicuously located alone in the field, trusting that the turkeys would have a short memory of my intrusion into their world.
The next day at 5:15 am, Joe and I made our way to the hideout and I set the cheap rubber decoy, dubbed Miss Direction, about 30 yards in front of us. Shortly after 6 am, far-off gobbling from the roost commenced, while a lone hen worked the cornfield.
Before long, several whitetail deer emerged from the forest, and one in particular realized the presence of the blind and began protesting with foot stomps alerting the others. Finally, it snorted loudly and the field cleared. The fact that the deer picked off our shelter reaffirms my belief that wise deer must get used to blinds for them to be effective hunting tools; however, we weren’t hunting deer today.
The gobbling got louder as the toms edged closer – still undetected visually. I scratched out the first hen calls of the morning with my cherished Ring Zone slate call and was rewarded with an immediate and resounding response. Game on!
At long last, two proud toms revealed themselves only a hundred yards from us. With the decoy in their sights, their purposeful approach continued with no additional effort from me. That same blind that spooked the deer earlier meant nothing to these love-struck fellas!
I’ll never know which of the two was a better choice but the Winchester Long Beard XR shotshell ammo with number 4 shot and my Browning Silver shotgun made the comparison a moot point, as a mature gobbler lay on the ground 35 yards away.
The beard measured 10 ¼ inches and one spur was 1 ½ inches long, while the other had been broken off quite shorter than that.
At 7:08 am – the first day of my hunting – the season was over, all because we had become “invisible” in plain sight with the help of a little misdirection.
