Author: Gunner Quinn

There is a particular jolt of joy when a shooter nestles behind a perfectly stable rifle and puts the ideal bullet exactly where intended. The dopamine dose is often correlated with the difficulty of the shot. Thus, we riflemen spend a lot of time seeking the best possible support to steady the rifle and guarantee a hit. As the makers have given us ever-improving rifles, optics and loads capable of precision deep within fish-story territory a generation ago, there has been a parallel development in bipods, tripods and rests. With these, a shooter can lock the rifle into position to…

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00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cal as though public land employees don’t have it hard enough these days with staff cuts and slashed budgets. Two seasonal workers with the Forest Service were kidnapped and held at gunpoint last week in the shaft at Trinity National Forest in northern California. According to authorities, forty nine year old Joseph Charles Henrickson and his twenty three year old son Phoenix, were motivated by extreme anti government sentiment, which you know, even if you’re on that…

European American Armory’s (EAA) recent acquisition of a large manufacturing facility in Mountain City, Tenn., is further evidence that the firearm importer plans to establish a domestic manufacturing presence. EAA, headquartered in Cocoa, Fla., and established in 1990, currently imports a popular line of Turkish-made Girsan pistols, as well as Balikli rifles, shotguns and more.   Negotiations for the 33,000-square-foot Tennessee plant—once home to the Bike Factory Outlet—were nearing completion in April, according to the Johnson City Press. The newspaper reported that on April 27 Keith Bernkrant, president of EAA told the Johnson County Economic Development Commission that, “Since President…

Most shooters don’t fall apart on the first shot; they fall apart somewhere in the middle of a string of fire—that’s where this drill lives. The secret is to build your firing platform early enough and hold it together long enough to make it through the entire string without degrading your stability. At the core of this training drill is a sustainable grip from the get-go, which is an integral part of your shooting stability. A sustainable grip is one that does not change pressure or position midstream and cause unwanted input onto the gun or move your muzzle out…

One of Garmin’s notable new products for 2026 is the new Garmin Xero C2 chronograph. The company showcased its next-generation design right before SHOT 2026 started, and I saw it at Beretta’s customary pre-show range event. Of course, that day, I was expecting to see new handguns and shotguns. And I sure did, but I wasn’t expecting running into Garmin’s staff, which had a brand-new chronograph to show off. You’ll recall that the original Garmin Xero C1 launched at the end of 2023, which wasn’t too long ago.  Before shifting the discussion to the new Garmin Xero C2, it’s important…

The reduction of the National Firearms Act (NFA) tax on short-barreled rifles (SBR) this January from $200 to $0 made compact rifles more accessible to a larger swath of the public, and manufacturers responded by adding SBR options to many of their popular models. While many of these were the latest and greatest high-tech firearms, a few classics snuck in as well, such as Auto-Ordnance’s M1 Carbine SBR. Auto-Ordnance’s M1 Carbine SBR reduces the carbine’s traditional 18-inch barrel to 12 inches. While the Auto-Ordnance name is synonymous with the Thompson submachine gun, which the company makes semi-automatic civilian-legal versions of,…

Armed Citizen® Today A man in Tulsa, Okla., reportedly came onto another man’s property on July 15, told him he would steal his truck and threatened to kill him if he resisted. The homeowner decided to go into his house and armed himself with a baseball bat when the stranger followed him in. He struck the intruder and a struggle ensued. The fight continued back outside, where the homeowner reportedly tried to disengage, but the man turned and charged at him again, causing the homeowner to fire one shot, striking the purported assailant in the leg. The suspect was transported…

KelTec’s SUB2000, first introduced in 2001, has been one of the most popular and affordable pistol-caliber carbines on the market, and recently, the design has undergone several updates, most notably with its GEN3 improvement introduced in 2024. Now, KelTec is expanding its SUB2000 line yet again with the SUB-SDP, a foldable, braced pistol that KelTec folks colloquially refer to as the “NUB SUB.” With the SUB-SDP, KelTec takes the already-compact SUB2000 platform to a new level of compactness. When deployed with the brace fully extended, the design measures just 17.7 inches long and is equipped with a 6-inch barrel chambered…

One of the dominant brands within the marketplace of 2011 handguns is European American Armory Corp., and the company has expanded its 2011-style Witness 2311 line of handguns produced by Turkish manufacturer Girsan to encompass a number of different variants and chamberings. One of the latest options is the Witness2311 CMXX, which incorporates a large, single-port compensator at the muzzle end. Watch our latest “Gun of the Week” episode above to see the details. “EAA has really done a lot of work in making a ton of different versions of the 2011-style handgun available over the past few years,” American…