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Announcement: Florida's Sales Tax Holiday Is LIVE!
Florida's 2026 Hunting, Fishing, and Camping Sales Tax Holiday is in effect. From September 1 through December 31, 2026, qualifying purchases of firearms, ammunition, firearm accessories, archery equipment, fishing gear, and camping supplies are exempt from Florida sales tax. No coupons, no codes, no mail-in forms. The tax simply does not apply at the register. Here is what qualifies. -- Firearms and Firearm Accessories (No Price Cap) Firearms and ammunition are eligible with
Aug 26


Announcement: Beretta Rebate Are Live!
Beretta is running one of its most aggressive rebate programs to date, covering pistols, rifles, and shotguns across multiple product families. Depending on the model, you can receive up to $350 back on a qualifying purchase. Here is everything you need to know. -- What is Available Pistols 92X Performance: up to $300 back M9A4: up to $250 back 90 Series (92FS, 96A1, M9, etc.): up to $200 back APX A1: up to $200 back 80X Cheetah: up to $200 back PX4 Storm: up to $200 back Tom
Aug 24


Pistol Review: Steyr's ATC Base
If the ATC Rock is Steyr's red-carpet entrance back into the pistol market, all stainless steel and orange grips and ported barrels, then the ATC Base is the one that slips in behind it and quietly makes friends with everyone in the room. Same stainless steel frame. Same match barrel quality. Same modular architecture. But where the Rock strips away double action in pursuit of SAO purity, the Base keeps it. And in doing so, it becomes the more versatile gun, the more division
Aug 21


Pistol Review: Steyr's ATC Rock
For a quarter century, Steyr Arms has been out of the handgun conversation. The company that brought the world one of the most distinctive pistol designs of the Cold War era, the gas-delayed blowback GB, has spent the last two decades focused entirely on rifles and machine guns while the competitive pistol market evolved around them. Then, at SHOT Show 2026, Steyr walked back into the room with the ATC Rock in 5-inch and 6-inch configurations, and the room paid attention. An.
Aug 16


Rifle Review: Steyr's Pro Hunter III
There is a particular quality that European rifles carry. It is not always easy to articulate, but you know it the moment you work the bolt, press the trigger, and feel the stock settle into your shoulder. It is the difference between a rifle that was manufactured and a rifle that was made. The Steyr Pro Hunter III belongs firmly in the second category. Built in Austria by a company that has been making firearms since 1864, the Pro Hunter III is a bolt-action hunting rifle th
Aug 11


Shotgun Review: Benelli's M2-G1
The Benelli M2 Tactical has been one of the most trusted semi-automatic shotguns in the defensive, duty, and competition world for two decades. Law enforcement agencies, home defense practitioners, and three-gun competitors have all adopted it for the same reasons: the Inertia Driven system is legendarily reliable, the gun runs clean, and the 18.5-inch barrel handles like it was purpose-built for close work. But it also shipped with a 5+1 capacity that left two rounds on the
Aug 5


Shotgun Review: Beretta's AX800 Suprema
Beretta does not release new platforms casually. The A400 line has been the benchmark waterfowl semi-automatic for over a decade, and for most manufacturers, owning the top of a category is a reason to sit back and collect. Beretta instead went back to a blank sheet of paper and built the AX800 Suprema from the ground up, not as an incremental upgrade to the A400 but as a clean-slate reimagining of what a hunting semi-automatic should be. From the polymer receiver to the rede
Jul 30


Revolver Review: Manurhin's MR73 Liberty
In 1776, a young nation declared its independence. It did so with French muskets in its hands. That is not a footnote. It is the central fact of the American Revolution's logistics. The majority of the small arms carried by the Continental Army were manufactured in France, many of them produced just miles from a small town called Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, in the Loire region. Two hundred and fifty years later, in that same town, skilled artisans still build firearms by hand. A
Jul 24


New Product Announcement: Meet The New Endura Scope by Swarovski!
The AT Endura 21–65x75 is a versatile spotting scope designed for precise long-range observation. Its 21–65x zoom, 75 mm objective lens, and 1,510 g (53.3 oz) weight deliver clear, high-contrast images, even in low light or during extended use. This helps you identify details reliably and assess situations with confidence. Natural Color Fidelity Enhanced lens coatings ensure realistic, natural color reproduction with improved color accuracy. Optical Performance Delivers shar
Jul 18


Optic Review: Swarovski Optik's AT Endura 21-65x75
For years, the conversation around Swarovski spotting scopes has followed a familiar script. Someone asks which spotter to buy. Someone else says Swarovski. A third person checks the sticker and quietly starts looking at Vortex. The AT Endura 21-65x75 is Swarovski's direct response to that third person. It is the company's newest spotting scope, a replacement for the long-standing ATS/STS line, and it represents a genuine effort to bring Swarovski's HD optical performance int
Jul 17


Revolver Review: Spohr's 284 Carry
There is a sweet spot in the revolver world. Not the shortest barrel you can find, and not the longest. Not the lightest frame, and not the heaviest. The 4-inch .357 Magnum sits at the center of that balance, and it has for decades. It is long enough for a meaningful sight radius, short enough to carry comfortably, heavy enough to manage recoil, and light enough that you do not dread putting it on your hip for a full day. Virtually every revolver manufacturer has their versio
Jul 9


Revolver Review: Spohr's 286 Competition
There is something almost unfair about pairing a .22 LR with the kind of mechanical precision that Spohr brings to a revolver. The cartridge itself costs pennies. You can buy a brick of it at a hardware store. It has been putting holes in tin cans and winning bullseye matches since before anyone reading this was born. And yet, when you chamber it in a revolver built entirely from bar stock by a master gunsmith in Germany, with wire-eroded lock parts, a polygonal match barrel,
Jul 1


Pistol Review: Kimber's 1911 DS Warrior
The 10mm Auto has been on a tear. What was once a niche cartridge, beloved by a small but vocal community of ballistic maximalists and backcountry carriers, has gone mainstream in a way that would have seemed unlikely even five years ago. Every major manufacturer now offers at least one 10mm option, and most of them are polymer-framed, striker-fired pistols that get the job done but do not exactly stir the soul. The Kimber 1911 DS Warrior takes a different approach. It puts 1
Jun 26


Pistol Review: Kimber's 2K11 Pro Royal
For years, the double-stack 2011 market belonged to a very small club. You had Staccato at the top of the production heap, a handful of boutique custom builders above them, and then a gap. A wide one. Manufacturers who had built their reputations on single-stack 1911s watched from the sidelines, some cautiously, some skeptically, while the 2011 platform reshaped what shooters expected from a modern semi-automatic pistol. Kimber, to their credit, did not rush in. They took the
Jun 18


Shotgun Edition: Fausti's Class Upland SLX Custom
There is a moment, somewhere between unboxing and first mount, when you realize a shotgun is not just well made but intentionally made. Made with a specific kind of shooting in mind. Made for a specific kind of day in the field. Made to place itself right on the sweet spot of your shoulder. The Fausti Class Upland SLX Custom in 12 gauge is that kind of gun. It is an over/under built for upland bird hunting with the sort of hand-finished detail that elevates it from a field to
Jun 10


Optic Review: Swarovski Optik's CL Pocket
There is a binocular problem that nobody talks about. You buy a beautiful pair of full-size glass. Swarovski ELs, maybe, or Leica Geovids. They ride in a harness across your chest for the first two hunts, and then they start staying in the truck. Not because they are not good. They are incredible. But because carrying 30 ounces of optic on a steep hillside for eight hours starts to feel like a decision you are reconsidering with every switchback. The Swarovski CL Pocket 10x25
Jun 2


Rifle Review: Gunwerks' Skunkwerks Tiny A.F.
Some rifles are named conservatively, but this is not one of those rifles. The Gunwerks Skunkwerks Tiny A.F. is an 11.25-inch barreled, integrally suppressed, folding precision rifle chambered in 6mm ARC that collapses to 19.5 inches, rings steel past 1,000 yards, and ships in a Pelican Air case alongside a Yeti flask and a humidor full of cigars. It is absurd. It is wonderful. And it is exactly the kind of thing that happens when you turn a team of precision rifle engineers
May 28


Announcement: Remember and Honor
Honoring the fallen, respecting the brave, and remembering the cost of our freedom this Memorial Day Our office will be closed May 25th 2026 in observance of Memorial Day
May 22


Accessory Review: Sordin's Supreme Pro-X SFA Slim
Hearing protection is one of those categories where most shooters settle. They grab whatever electronic muffs are on sale, accept the tinny audio reproduction and the aggressive cutoff that makes every gunshot sound like a door slamming inside a tin can, and call it good enough. The Sordin Supreme Pro-X SFA Slim exists for the shooter who has decided that good enough is not, in fact, good enough. Built in Sweden by a company that has been engineering hearing protection since
May 14


Pistol Review: The SAR 7/24 Series
Every few years, a manufacturer drops a pistol at SHOT Show that makes the room pause. Not because of hype. Not because of celebrity endorsements or Instagram campaigns. But because the gun in hand does not feel like what the badge on the slide would lead you to expect. The Sarsilmaz SAR 7/24 series, debuted at SHOT Show 2026 in Compact, Full Size, and Sport configurations, is that kind of surprise. Pick one up and you stop thinking about where it was made. You start thinking
May 8


Pistol Review: Phoenix Arm's Drake
If you have already read about the Phoenix Redback Gen 2 and thought to yourself, "That sounds incredible, but I want more barrel, more mass, and more mechanical accuracy," then allow me to introduce you to the gun that Phoenix built for exactly that impulse. The Drake is the company's larger, heavier, more purpose-built competition pistol, and it represents what happens when a team of Swiss engineers who already made one of the finest CZ-architecture pistols on the planet de
May 4


Pistol Review: Phoenix Arm's Redback Gen2
There are pistols you buy because they make sense. And then there are pistols you buy because you held one, felt the slide travel on rails that had no business being that smooth, pulled a trigger that broke like it was made by people who consider fractions of a millimeter to be rounding errors, and realized that you were never going to be able to un-feel what you just felt. The Phoenix Arms Redback Gen 2 is the second kind of pistol. -- The Sphinx Resurrection To understand w
Apr 29


Rifle Review: Cadex's CDX-R7 LCP
Building a custom precision rifle is a deeply personal process. You pick your action, your barrel maker, your chassis, your trigger, your caliber, and then you spend weeks waiting for a gunsmith to put it all together and hope the result shoots as well as the spec sheet suggests. Or you buy a Cadex CDX-R7 LCP and skip all of that, because somebody in Quebec already did the homework for you, and they did it with Bartlein barrels, a four-lug short-throw action, and the kind of
Apr 24
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