Back in June, we reported that the US Department of Treasury had added Molot-Oruzhie to the sanctions list. As a result, further import of the 12 gauge shotgun based on Kalashnikov’s design as well as any other product that Molot might produce is no longer [Read More…]
If you’re a gun guy, odds are pretty good that non-gun people often ask your opinion on things. At least, People often make the mistake of asking my opinion, anyway. I guess they figure that just because I write about and make videos about guns, that my opinion is [Read More…]
Ballistic Machinist (formerly known as Tactical G-Code) has been designing, machining and testing all kinds of unusual shotgun slugs. You might have seen some of his designs on his YouTube channel or TAOFLEDERMAUS channel. Recently, he announced that he will start [Read More…]
It’s no secret that the field of war is changing, and that fact is just as true for the infantryman as it is the F-35 Lightning II pilot. Increasingly, small, inexpensive, expendable drones are being used as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) [Read More…]
The NRA Whittington Center in Raton, New Mexico has long been established as one of the premier shooting locations within the United States. With everything from skeet, trap ranges to thousand yard and silhouette ranges, the center is truly an all encompassing [Read More…]
UTAS-USA has launched a new limited edition of the XTR-12 competition shotgun being produced by their custom shop. Sadly, UTAS-USA’s press release offered near no information about the limited edition shotgun other than an MSRP of $1349, the fact that there are [Read More…]
Kalashnikov Concern has published some images and information about a very interesting pump action shotgun design. The shotgun is called MP-131K. It was designed in 1997 and sold in very limited quantities. What sets it apart from an ordinary pump-action shotgun is that [Read More…]
The Polish national Central Board of Prison Services has released a solicitation for 600 5.56x45mm rifles and 500 pump action, tubular-magazine fed shotguns. Currently, the Government service has a number of Polish MSBS rifles in the inventory, the most recent of such [Read More…]
A German company called Ergosign (an acronym made of the words ergonomic and design) manufactures adjustable shotgun stocks called EvoComp. The stocks are available both in a standard configuration and also have a variety of options including lightened versions, [Read More…]
Turkish firearms manufacturer Pardus has just announced an update to their line of LAX12 lever action shotguns. Now with a ‘MF’ designation, the new models are removable box magazine fed rather than tube fed like its predecessors. For some reason I find [Read More…]
The idea of .366 TKM cartridge was accepted really well in the Russian shooting community. What makes it unique for them is that firearms chambered in this caliber have partially rifled barrels which qualify as a shotgun in Russia and don’t require 5 year wait [Read More…]
American Tactical announced the company was now selling and shipping its new line of shotgun ammunition. This ammo is available in a variety of gauges and loads to meet your needs. American Tactical is known for a number of products including the Omni Hybrid polymer [Read More…]
Shotguns seem to breed nonsense ideas more than any other type of firearm, except perhaps 1911s. That guy with a greasy John Deere cap who seems like his elbows are Krazyglued to the counter at your local gun shop is always happy to tell you about how shotguns are great [Read More…]
French firearms manufacturer Verney-Carron makes a hunting shotgun called Veloce which features their Stop&Go technology earlier seen in their Speedline family of hunting rifles. The way the Stop&Go concept works is that after each shot, the bolt cycles back [Read More…]
Are your eyes having a hard time picking up that small factory bead sight? Installing a larger front sight from XS Sights is easy and painless with the right tools. Now you will be able to quickly find that front sight day or night with the new tritium Big Dot. Many [Read More…]
Can a computer pick out and identify guns directly from video footage, without the aid of a human? That’s the technology being demonstrated by a program at the Spanish University of Granada, which earlier this year released a video purporting to show an computer [Read More…]
Recently, a Russian competition shooter released a video where he points out an issue concerning the VEPR shotguns. Well, considering the amount of rounds competition shooters put through their guns, this might not even be an issue for an average shooter. Anyway, looks [Read More…]
G2 Research has shown on their social media pages several pictures of a new 12 gauge slug that they are developing. This slug is designed for smoothbore shotguns only with cylinder bore or cylinder choke installed. Looks like they’ve incorporated some of their [Read More…]
Italian gun maker Fabarm announced that it was now selling a new 12 gauge shotgun called the L4S Sporting. The L4S Sporting is a semi automatic shotgun that is designed to “point and balance like a fine double gun with perfect balance and weight [Read More…]
Two popular YouTube gun channels TAOFLEDERMAUS and C&Rsenal teamed up to prove or bust a myth! There is a popular belief that the trench shotguns issued to US troops during the WW1 were not only used for their main purpose of providing a huge firepower when fighting [Read More…]
I know Robert Wright of R and R Targets since the World Shoot Shotgun 2012 (Debrecen, Hungary) where we stayed in the same hotel and competed. For a little more than a week we did our best to smash down steel targets and clays as fast as we could. I remember we had so [Read More…]
O. F. Mossberg & Sons announced a line of retrofit kits to upgrade existing shotguns to use the company’s FLEX technology. FLEX is a modular shotgun and accessory system that was introduced by the company several years ago at the SHOT Show. It would seem that [Read More…]
Have you ever found yourself having to load your shotgun in the dark and you just couldn’t get the shells loaded into your shotgun mag tube? I’m sure we’ve all been there before. If you’re tired of fumbling in the dark as you load your shotgun [Read More…]
The multi-lug rotating bolt as used in a number of semi-automatic firearms today has a significant number of advantages over numerous other designs, to include tilt locking or blowback operated mechanisms. Ability to unlock becomes easier than a standard two lug design, the forces on the lugs are [Read More…]
Several years in the making, the new Omni Hybrid 410 is now in production and has been released to the public. The Omni Hybrid 410 is a semi-automatic shotgun chambered for the .410 bore shell and is built on the company’s Omni Hybrid AR lower. It can be [Read More…]
At the 2017 National Defense Industry Association small arms conference in April, the US Army revealed its efforts to produce new improved varieties of 40mm low velocity ammunition for the M203 and M320 grenade launchers. Product Director for Medium Caliber Ammunition [Read More…]
If you look in the trunk of just about any patrol car in America you are going to find a Remington 870 of one flavor or another. Over ten million of the legendary pump action shotguns have been produced over the years, and there is no sign of them stopping now. In this episode of […] Read [Read More…]
The US Department Of Treasury released an update to the sanction list in connection to the Russian – Ukranian conflict today and it appears that as a result of the change to sanctions the US has banned VEPR rifles and shotguns from further import. Well not really [Read More…]
While the US education system tends to highlight and overemphasize the effect of the United States in World War 1, C&Rsenal has not. For the first 50+ episodes, the channel has been covering the various primarily european weapons from The Great War (though there has [Read More…]
Here’s another one for the “new to me” category. Steiner Optics has an illumination product specific to the shotgun platform. While researching weapon lights for a fun project, I stumbled across the MK7 Battlelight, a magazine tube endcap replacement [Read More…]
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