The final part of my Meopta Factory tour was led by Stanislav Palicka. The Mechanics Division is where they machine and coat the components for assembly. Luckily, most of the employees of the mechanics division were on vacation so Stanislav could explain aspects of the [Read More…]
Tactical-Life.com takes a look at 7 megapistols. Hybrids of rifles made into the pistol category. The obvious benefits are high powered and no Class 3 ATF license and tax stamp. Most of the 7 are a form of an AR pistol. Here are the ones that stand out. CzechPoint SA [Read More…]
SureFire has released a more powerful Fury Scoutlight. Now it is boasting 600 lumens. According to Soldier Systems: SureFire has expanded its signature Scout Light Series with the new M600P and M620P Fury Scout WeaponLight models. Both models feature SureFire’s newest [Read More…]
Caldwell has a new brass catcher that mounts to your top picatinny rail. It is adjustable and quick detaches for depositing your spent brass and for storage of your rifle. It retails for $49.99. It can even fit under your scope. Thanks to Accurate [Read More…]
Roman Taborsky and Surujh Roopnarine continue the next part of the Factory Tour at Meopta. They took me to one of the Assembly workshops where they assemble their most popular scope, the MeoStar R1r 3-2×56. According to Roman, this workshop produces about 200 [Read More…]
Zeiss has a Ballistics Calculator App similar to the Nikon Spot On app. The App is used in conjunction with a Zeiss Scope and their ballistic reticles. The new user-friendly ZEISS Ballistic Calculator app helps hunters and shooters of all levels to master the long range [Read More…]
Not exaclty new but for those who don’t follow 3Gun, FNH has a one of a kind Blue Anodized SCAR 16S. I saw it during my first year staffing the 2012 FNH 3Gun Match at Peacemaker National Training Center. If you notice, the laser engraved markings are all there. So [Read More…]
Meopta has a couple optics that are not available in the US at the moment. No idea if Meopta USA will be carrying them but they look cool. First up is the ZD-Dot. According to their website: ZD-Dot red dot sight is a ruggedized and shock-proof tool suitable for any [Read More…]
Jerry Miculek is at it again with the unicorn guns. This time he gets to try out a FN CAL. It is designed like the FAL but is chambered in 5.56. The selector switch is very interesting. It of course has safe, semi and full auto but it also has a 3 round burst. And [Read More…]
Hynek Vykoukal and Surujh Roopnarine took me on a tour of Meopta’s optics department. Unfortunately the first 7 mins of footage is corrupt so here are some pictures I took. Here the worker is applying natural waxes as a bonding agent to hold the raw glass down [Read More…]
In Fremont Township, MI, a woman was “trying to make a point” and to help illustrate this point, she grabs a shotgun and slams the butt of the shotgun onto the ground. The shotgun fires and the blast catches her in the face.The woman was taken to St. [Read More…]
At least the Police in Brno are using the H&K G36 with an Eotech. Saw this officer looking official, there were some police cars and a police van up the street but you couldn’t see anything. I was more interested in the weapon he was wielding. As you can see, [Read More…]
A big thanks to Reinhard Seipp, General Manager of Meopta USA, for inviting me to the Meopta factory in Přerov, Czech Republic while I was visiting Brno. For those who have not heard of Meopta, they are an optics manufacturer in the Czech Republic. They are one of the [Read More…]
So a slight continuation of my “shooting guns in the czech republic” is the actual indoor range that I went to. Trigger Service is in Brno. Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, second to Prague. The owner is Zdenek Malanik and he is very [Read More…]
Guns Save Lives noticed that almost any reference to the R51 pistol seems to have been removed from Remington’s website. Now, it seems that Remington has scrubbed their website of nearly all mentions of the R51 pistol (H/T Tactical Existence). It is not [Read More…]
Lidová Obranná Střelba, aka LOS, translates to People Defensive Shooting. It is a Czech shooting competition. It was started by the LEX Association. They are an association for the protection of rights for gun owners. They started LOS back in 2005. It is similar to [Read More…]
While staying in Brno, CZ I went to a local range to try out some Czech made firearms. The range is called Trigger Service. They have two ranges. Range A is your traditional range with lanes and electronic pulley system for setting paper targets out to a set distance. [Read More…]
Tactical-Life posted this up, Taser has a small POV camera that is targeted for Law Enforcement. It has 130 deg field of view but only standard resolution of 640×480. The device is rather small and they could have gone with higher resolution however I do [Read More…]
Landed in Prague on Friday. Hotel check- in isn’t until 2pm so I left my luggage at the hotel baggage room and headed for the Česká Zbrojovka store. I asked about taking photographs and they were a bit cautious about it. They were concerned that I was casing [Read More…]
Nick Irving over at The Load Out Room analyzes the increasingly popular “C”-Clamp grip. It comes from the competition world where targets are mostly stationary. However the major draw back is the lack of peripheral vision on your support hand side. There are [Read More…]
According to Shelley at Gun Nuts Media, Kahr Arms will be offering two pistols with purple frames. The CW9 and CW380. These will be exclusive to Davidson’s According to Shelley: The MSRP on the purple CW9093PRDAV is just $435.00 and the MSRP on the [Read More…]
BulletSafe makes bullet proof vests out of Troy, MI. Tom tests his vest against a Desert Eagle .50AE and repeats the test against his own version of the Box O’Truth. His box has 24 layers of drywall. I am not sure what he is trying to prove with the drywall as [Read More…]
GoPro finally has a mount for the hunting/fishing enthusiast. The Sportsman Mount. It retails for $69.99. It is designed to clamp onto the barrel of Shotguns or Rifles. It can also mount onto fishing rods and bows.
Haley Strategic has a new product called the Incog Rifle Bag. It is designed to be a discrete rifle bag. It can also be placed inside a 1700 pelican rifle case. The bag is made of 1000D Cordura and measures 10″ x 31″ x 3″. The bag retails for $170 and only comes [Read More…]
Kit Up! posted a video of an AR-15 test. A Std M4 style AR with traditional charging handle vs the new Adcor piston AR with a proprietary forward charging handle. Not surprisingly, the forward charging handle is faster. When Dave Cloyed shot the ADCOR, he mistakenly [Read More…]
Dave Harrington shows a very clever drill/stage. It focuses on shooting on the move. However he wants to focus on the moving so he brings a treadmill out to the range. One aspect to the treadmill is that the targets remain at the same distance. You can take that as a [Read More…]
American Rifleman posted that the Pennsylvania State Trooper have opted for the Sig P227 as their new issued service sidearm. The contract calls for 5,000 handguns. The P227 is being issued to the current class of State Troopers. According to American Rifleman: The [Read More…]
Jerry Miculek gets to play with all the cool toys. He goes to the Institute of Military Technology in Florida. Reed Knight brings out a rare Armalite AR-10 made in 1957. It only weighs about 6 lbs and the rate of fire is really impressive.
Thanks to Soldier Systems Daily for this sneak peak. One aspect that I liked of the older and bigger Millenium Weaponlights is the XM dual switch tailcap. It has a rear mounted tailcap switch that clicks on and off or can be used momentarily. The XM also has a [Read More…]
Hellinahandbasket.com posted about the popularity of James Bond helped to create the TV show, Man from U.N.C.L.E.. The propmasters used a Walther P-38 and tricked it out. The popularity of this show inspired the Transformers character Megatron. However before [Read More…]
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