Aimpoint recently debuted their new Micro H-2 red dot sight. Their new Micro H-2 features advanced optical lenses for better light transmission and clarity. The new H-2 also has an improved sight housing which include front and rear protective flip-up covers and [Read More…]
Beretta has a product coming that makes it possible for hunters to keep a truly detailed log of their hunts. The product is the GunPod 2, and it will work with the next generation of the A400 Xplor, which will be hitting the market in April 2015. The GunPod 2 will be [Read More…]
Recently the inimitable Field Sports Channel conducted a global hunting survey, which turned up some very interesting statistics. A video overview is embedded below: The full results of the survey are available at this link. The data are really quite interesting, [Read More…]
If I had a dollar every time I got an email asking me how to take guns from/to the USA I would have been able to retire a long time ago. It is hard enough to understand your own Federal/State law, but when you travel internationally you need to understand the laws of [Read More…]
Good news for hunters who want to stay quiet and don’t want to handload. SilencerCo, who achieved e-fame with the “Wizard Staff”, “Johnny Dronehunter”, and “The Silencing” promotional videos (and who also make silencers) have [Read More…]
As part of their series on interesting weapons found at Rock Island Auction house, Forgotten Weapons has taken a look at something… A little different: The weapon is essentially a Mauser fitted for an under barrel .22 caliber single-shot rifle with a tilting [Read More…]
Good news for hunters in gator country: 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, [Read More…]
Powderhook.com is a website that wants to make it easier for us to find places to hunt and fish. Their new update attempts to simplify the process through the use of a “card” system that allows a user to create a card for a new hunting or fishing trip. A [Read More…]
Georgians have something to celebrate this year as their Governor, Nathan Deal, signed House Bill 60 (HB60) into law which legalized the use of suppressors for hunting in certain circumstances. Daniel Defense invited Gov. Deal to their factory to thank him, and the [Read More…]
Nosler has announced a new line of hunting ammunition, marketed under the Nosler brand name and loaded with their Ballistic Tip line of bullets. From the press release: For decades, Nosler’s Ballistic Tip® Hunting bullets have been the most popular, premium [Read More…]
I will be honest, I am not a hunter. So if you are please speak up. I have spoken to a few hunters due to my day job and the few I have spoken to give the impression that they strive for a clean kill. Does this look like a clean kill? In this video, […] Read [Read More…]
AAC staff met a young man named Aaron Patrick at the NRA Show earlier this year. He suffers from a terrible disease called encephalomalacia that has made him legally blind, effects his motor skills and causes seizures. Because of his condition he has never been able [Read More…]
Henrik sent us the above photo with the following description … Greeting from Sweden. This is me hunting moose and bear in the northern part of Sweden. I figure you guys would like to see something less tactical once in a while. The rifle is a Marlin 1895 [Read More…]
KRISS Arms Facebook Page posted up a customer’s hog hunt photos. Here is what they posted; Now this is awesome. Our customer Todd did some Father & Son hunting recently and managed to bag himself a pretty nice bit of Bacon using his Kriss Vector. – BW [Read More…]
Gun/hunting expos the world over seem to take a perverse delight in biting the hands that feed them. This time the largest South African gun/hunting expo decided to ban personal firearms from being carried at the event. My understanding of South African gun laws is that [Read More…]
Montana-based ProGrade Ammunition will launch a new line of hog hunting ammunition in 2014. The new ammo will be available in 14 calibers with a total of 28 different loads. There will be handgun and rifle calibers included in this line. The Hog Grade ammo will use [Read More…]
Schmidt & Bender is known for high quality glass, and their new line of hunting scopes is no exception. With their Flash Dot technology, you can get a red dot of varying brightness which is very useful depending on the weather. What was unique to this line is the [Read More…]
American Whitetail is a new line of hunting ammo from Hornady. The line, as you might expect, is designed around hunting the popular whitetail deer in North America. The lineup includes many popular hunting cartridges including .270, .308, .30-30 and .30-06 loads. [Read More…]
A reader spotted an auction at Gunbroker.com for a vampire hunting kit produced in 1842. The kit contains a crude percussion lock pistol, four silver bullets (engraved with crosses) and a powerhorn along with numerous other quintessential anti-vampire accessories such [Read More…]
A new public hunting area located a few minutes away from ATK’s Federal Premium factory has been named after the company. From the press release … The City of Anoka officially dedicated the property on Friday, August 10 after the City Council recently [Read More…]
Thom emailed us these photos of his high-end coyote and hog hunting rifle. His SIG 550 is fitted with a ACOG 4X32 LED behind a FLIR T-50 Thermal Sight. The FLIR retails for about $10,000 and the ACOG for about $1,500. What a setup!
A lot of people, including one major pistol manufacturer, were upset with what I wrote yesterday about handgun hunting. I would like to clarify what I meant. This blog is read by a lot of people. I have to be careful what I do and don’t endorse, because if I [Read More…]
This video by OutdoorAdventures demonstrates using Glock pistols for hunting medium-sized game. They are using extended barrels, and I presume the Glocks are loaded with 10mm Auto. (Animals are being shot in the video) I am not an advocate of hunting with pistols. I [Read More…]
Olin Corporation (which trades under the Winchester Ammunition brand) has just been granted a patent (#8161886) for a 12 gauge shotshell design that would be used in conjunction with a barrel insert in order to allow the firing of small-caliber bullets through a rifled [Read More…]
Brothers Randy and Michael Gregg have put up a KickStarter project to develop a gun shaped camera to take “kill shots” of game. They are developing this so that people can experience hunting without killing animals. Gizmag.com reports … Not too long [Read More…]
A member of the Cast Boolits forums posted photos and video of a rifle and .700 caliber cartridge he designed. The only component he did not make himself was the barrel. The cartridge, named the .700 WTF (“What The F…”) and is made by fire forming a [Read More…]
The Advanced Armament Corporation (a sub-division of Remington) has launched a new firearm brand called ‘The Farm‘. The Farm line will include AR-15 and Remington 700 / Model 7 hunting rifles chambered in .300 AAC BLK and designed with suppressor use in [Read More…]
Federal Ammunition has produced a video comparing four hunting bullets, the Nosler Ballistic Tip, Sierra GameKing, Barnes Triple-Shock X-Bullet and Trophy Bonded Tip Bullet. They captured the impacts of the bullets a variety of ballistic gels using a high speed camera. [Read More…]
[ Bill Wilson of Wilson Combat wrote the following for the silencertalk.com forum. rsilvers, who runs Silencer Talk, gave me permission to repost it here. ] Got our first Wilson Combat 300 AAC BLACKOUTs together last Friday. Spent most of Sat and Sun on the range doing [Read More…]
Hundreds of years ago the Indians realized that hunting need not be a sport requiring exertion or discomfort (at least not for the hunters). The concept Jeep Wrangler on display at the SEMA Show 2010 (Automotive aftermarket parts expo) would make any maharaj jealous. I [Read More…]
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