Competition
Bonus: Ian’s Boombox Shootoff with Mitch from Q
Mitch, design engineer at Q, challenged me to a shutoff at Moons Out Goons Out 2024. If I win, I get a Boombox from Q. If he wins, I have to embarrass myself on the […]
Video
Competition
Hi-Point / MAWL at MOGO24: Wheels Come Off the Struggle Bus
For my Active Division run during the staff match portion of Moons Out Goons Out 2024, I set up a 9mm Hi-Point carbine with a BE Meyers MAWL last unit. Great laser; terrible gun. My […]
Commentary
Moons Out Goons Out 2024 Overview: Yeah, I Ran a Hi-Point
Last weekend we ran Moons Out Goons Out 2024, a night rifle match presented by Tactical Night Vision Company at the Echo Valley Training Center. The match was a fantastic success, and I figured I’d […]
Book review
Book Review: Vickers Guide H&K Volume 2 (SMG & PDW)
Available direct from Vickers Guide: https://www.vickersguide.com/hk-vol-2 Or from Headstamp Publishing: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/purchase?tag=hkv2 About a year ago Larry Vickers and James Rupley published the first volume of a series on H&K firearms, beginning with handguns. After some […]
Shotgun
Skeet with the M90 Shotgun From Halo (What Could Go Wrong?)
Today is my last chance to take the Halo M90 out for a fun day at the range…so why not make it the worst possible application for this sort of shotgun?
Semiauto pistol
Two World Wars: Finnish C96 “Ukko-Mauser”
A decent number of C96 Mauser pistols were present in Finland’s civil war, many of them coming into the country with the Finnish Jaegers, and others from a variety of sources, commercial and Russian. They […]
Conversion
Electrolux Charlton: Washing Machine Company Converts Bolt Action to Semiauto
The Charlton was a conversion of a bolt action Lee rifle into a light machine gun, designed by New Zealander Phillip Charlton. Some 1500 were made in New Zealand, but a bit later it appears […]
Commentary
Intro to Prism Scopes: What are they Anyway?
At SHOT Show this year I took some time to speak with Mike Branson of Gideon Optics (formerly of Primary ands and Swampfox). Mike’s a friend and a true optics nerd, and I figured he […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Romanian Berthier Carbine Conversions
Romanian had more than a million rifles in its inventory after World War One, but they were mused between Mannlicher 88/90, Mannlicher 95, Mosin Nagant, and Berthier patterns – and they were almost all rifles […]
Submachine Guns
Zagi: Croatia HK’s a Sten Gun
The Zagi is one of the more prolific of the Croatian homeland War submachine guns. It was developed with the intention of making substantial numbers, and a lot of capital was put into the PHTO […]