Archive for the 'Guns' Category

Shooting Illustrated.

You can also purchase a new slide or have a current one machined to anchor without adapter intervention. Rival Arms, a Texas-based firm with an enviable reputation for that service, explained, “We offer two different optic cuts, RMR and DOC. The RMR cut, as you can imagine, is the same optic cut as the Trijicon RMR sight and will also work with other optics that follow this footprint (Trijicon SRO, Holosun 507c, Swampfox Kingslayer, TruGlo TRU-Tec Micro RMR variant, etc.). The DOC refers to Docter Optic footprint/setscrew pattern, which is compatible with the following popular sights: Vortex Viper [and] Venom, Burris FastFire, etc.”

I’ve noticed that this is beginning to be a real problem in the gun industry, i.e., choosing the right mounting option for pistol sights.

Here is another interesting article, more detailed and much more technical, entitled Footprints/Mounting Standards on Red Dot Sights.  I catalog this sort of thing just for you, the reader.

You’re welcome.  Enjoy.  Share thoughts.

The 10 Most Powerful Handguns in the World.

The .44 magnum is a sensible buy in my opinion in spite of the stiff recoil.  One can shoot .44 special with it, and then .44 magnum if the need arises.

But I don’t think I want to shoot most of these handguns.

I’ve trained myself so consistently to use the forward aggressive stance for AR and pistol shooting for so long I don’t think I could successfully do anything else.

But if he’s recommending approximately that same stance for combat and competition shotgun shooting (and I think he is), the shoulder is going to take a beating.

Via reddit/Firearms.

I don’t know anything about this machine other than the picture. I do know that at one time I recalled seeing an old oil-fed lantern used by a Boy Scout master who managed “Camp Old Indian.”  It had a mirror and used that to focus the (admittedly weak beam) of light.

But light it was, and when batteries die, oil is still around.  I never found a replica of this old oil lantern.  I’d buy it if I could find it.

Hmm … I have three comments.

First, I’m very impressed with the expansion of the Buffalo Bore PD ammunition.

Second, I’m not sure I’d claim that Buffalo Bore didn’t use +P brass on this round until they confirm that.

Third, as for the so-called “Glock Smile” (a term which I’ve never heard before), I’ve shot Buffalo Bore ammunition as well as Double Tap ammunition in 1911s and never seen this before, including with 450 SMC (Short Magnum Cartridges, super hot .45 ACP cartridges from Double Tap with a rifle primer versus a pistol primer), rated at 1120 FPS for a 230 gr. bullet.  I’ve Never seen it before.  Maybe it’s called “Glock Smile” because of the way it seats in the chamber?

I don’t know.  I don’t do Glocks.