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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
3 days ago


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
4 days ago


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


Pistol Review: GLOCK's 20V & 21V MOS
For years, the Glock 20 and Glock 21 lived in a strange limbo. Beloved by the people who actually used them, perpetually overlooked by the company that made them. While the 9mm models got Gen5 upgrades first, MOS cuts, flared magwells, and all the attention that comes with being the center of the Glock universe, the 10mm and .45 ACP faithful waited. And waited. The Gen5 MOS versions of both eventually arrived, but always with the sense that they were catching up rather than l
Apr 21


Rifle Review: Volquartsen's Vanquish 22 Superlite ISR
There is something deeply satisfying about a suppressed .22 LR. The sound drops from a sharp crack to something closer to a heavy stapler. Squirrels stop running. Neighbors stop noticing. And if the rifle behind the suppressor happens to be built by the people who have spent decades perfecting the rimfire platform, the experience goes from satisfying to something you genuinely do not want to stop doing. The Volquartsen Vanquish 22 Superlite ISR is that rifle. It is quiet, it
Apr 15


Rifle Review: Cadex's CDX-R7 Sporter
Cadex Defence has spent years earning its reputation in the precision rifle world. Their chassis systems, competition platforms, and tactical rifles have shown up at PRS matches, on military contracts, and in the hands of long-range shooters who take accuracy personally. So when Cadex turned its attention to the hunting market with the CDX-R7 Sporter, the question was never whether they could build a capable rifle. The question was whether a company wired for sub-MOA obsessio
Apr 9


Pistol Review: CZ USA's Shadow 2 Target TALO
CZ has never been shy about iterating on the Shadow 2 platform. Between the standard model, the Orange, the Compact, the Gold Digger, and assorted other variants, the Shadow 2 family tree has more branches than most manufacturers' entire catalogs. But the Shadow 2 Target TALO, available in both 5-inch and 6-inch configurations, is something genuinely different. This is not another action pistol variant with a cosmetic twist. This is CZ building a purpose-driven bullseye and p
Apr 3


Announcement: Happy Eastern Egg Hunt!!
We will be closed April 2nd and April 3rd to celebrate Easter. We wish you a joyful Eastern Holiday.
Apr 2


Revolver Review: Freedom Arms' Model 97 Custom Engraved
Some guns are built to be used. Some are built to be admired. And then, every once in a while, someone commissions a gun that is meant to do both. This custom engraved Freedom Arms Model 97 in .45 Colt is that kind of gun. A 3.5-inch barreled, round-butt, five-shot single action with full coverage scroll engraving on a platform that was already, before anyone touched it with a chisel, one of the most precisely built production revolvers in the world. -- The Foundation: Freedo
Mar 30


Revolver Review: Spohr’s SPCE6 Club Edition
Every so often you come across a gun that makes you reconsider what you thought you knew about a category. For me, the Spohr SPCE6 Club Edition is that gun. Not because it reinvents the wheel. The double-action revolver is about as mechanically settled as firearms get. But because it takes that settled platform and executes it at a level that makes you wonder what everyone else has been doing all this time. -- A Small Shop With a Big Reputation Spohr is not a household name i
Mar 26


Revolver Review: Spohr Club SPCE-LE - Ten Revolvers. That’s It.
I want to talk about a revolver that most people will never see in person, let alone hold. And honestly, that is part of what makes it worth talking about. The Spohr SPCE-LE6 and SPCE-LE5 are the Limited Edition entries in the Club Edition line from Spohr, a small German manufacturer that most American shooters are only just beginning to hear about. These are not production guns in any meaningful sense of the word. Five revolvers with 6-inch barrels. Five with 5-inch barrels.
Mar 25
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