To readers of The Armory Life and many 1911 afficionados, Hilton Yam is going to be a familiar name. In the company of the many great gunsmiths and competitors who have built their professions around the construction or use of 1911 pistols, Yam offers a very unique perspective. Excepting, perhaps, a dwindling corps of old-guard military armorers, few have amassed more experience using, maintaining, and improving real-world, hard-use duty 1911’s than Hilton Yam. The Springfield Armory 10-8 Performance Master Class combines Hilton Yam’s decades of FBI duty experience with Springfield Armory’s 1911 manufacturing capabilities. Image: Carson McDaniel The late 1980s and early 1990s…

Grzegorz Grabarski, otherwise known as Kombou, is back at it with a new Bestech collab for the new(ish) year. This is the Senu, a premium offering all about sinuous lines and high-performance slicing. Drop point? Spear point? You be the judge. Some blades toe the line between two patterns so delicately that, really, it becomes an eye of the beholder situation. However you slice it, though, the Senu looks like it’ll be a fine slicer indeed, with a 3.48-inch edge offering up a balanced diet of straight edge, belly, and tip. It seems like more and more knives are gravitating…

United States ruler Donald Trump said that kidnapping Cuba’s ruler, Miguel Diaz-Canel, “wouldn’t be very tough.” But Trump added that an operation to take out the Cuban leader won’t be necessary anyway, due to the worsening US-induced energy shortage. Trump made the comments while speaking on Tuesday to reporters aboard Air Force One. He praised his strategy of economically isolating the island nation, which has been under a US trade embargo since 1960, as a means of forcing Havana to make concessions. “In the meantime, there’s an embargo. There’s no oil. There’s no money. There’s no anything,” he said, taking…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The trans suspect accused of shooting and killing two people at a Rhode Island ice rink on Monday had posted on X about going “BERSERK” after an actor insisted that Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., is a man. McBride identifies as a transgender woman.Robert Dorgan, 56, appeared to become agitated after actor Kevin Sorbo wrote on X that “Tim McBride is a man. Community note this if I’m wrong,” alongside a photo of the Delaware Democrat.In response, Dorgan — whose profile listed the name Roberta Dorgano — wrote: “Keep bashing us. But do not…

Girsan, through EAA, has introduced a new variant of its Witness 2311 pistol, the new Girsan CMX Witness 2311. The new CMX Witness 2311’s main feature (or lack thereof) is its omission of a grip safety. Instead, this double-stack 1911’s grip module is smooth. In addition, Girsan added an “Auto Firing Pin Block Safety” internally in order to take the missing grip safety into account. When it comes to competition pistols, some shooters opt to disable the grip safety on their discipline-specific pistols because it can get in the way of their specific two-handed “high up” firing grips. Likewise, a…

Presented by Leupold Optics Supported by MDT Inside Pro Match Rifles: PRS, NRL Hunter, and Real-World Setups In Part 2 of our Modern Day Precision Cartridge & Rifle Setups series, Dan Bertocchini goes in depth on precision rifle cartridges, rifle setups, and the exact gear he runs for PRS, NRL Hunter, and real-world hunting applications. Dan breaks down his current match rifles, including his 6 Dasher PRS setup, his 6.5 Creedmoor NRL Hunter build, and his 6.5 PRC hunting rifle. He covers optics, reticles, mounts, chassis selection, barrel length, twist rates, rifle balance, recoil management, bags, bipods, tripods, and ballistic…

Little is known of Wilhelm Smith’s background, save that he was born on April 10, 1870, in a German Empire that would formally unite in the following year. Since then, he emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. By January 1916, he was serving as a gunner’s mate third class aboard the battleship New York (BB-34), one of the most up-to-date and powerful warships of its kind. For all that, though, New York was served by a variety of seamen and engineers in an often claustrophobic labyrinth of chambers and passageways. On Jan. 24, 1916, one…

The renowned M14 service rifle has a complex history: it was the U.S. military’s shortest-lived service rifle yet one of the longest in service. While its time as a standard-issue rifle for G.I.s was brief, its power and performance have ensured its continued use as a sniper and Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR), cementing its legacy. One well-known M21 setup during the Vietnam War included the addition of the PVS2 Starlight night optic. Image: DVIDS In fact, while the M14 initially served as the primary service rifle in the dense jungles of Vietnam, it was also there that it earned its place…

LionSteel is making an even skinnier version of the Skinny this year, called the Emmet. This knife packs a lot of cutting power into a small, integral frame. The Skinny was a 2024 release for the LionSteel – first showed off at SHOT Show, which is where its little brother stepped into the spotlight this year. The Skinny was classic LionSteel, not only in its clean-cut, modern styling, but in its SOLID construction – LionSteel’s designation for an integral folder, a sub-genre they pioneered in the production space and have remained interested in ever since. Although not the biggest knife…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  By the time we got to this stage, I always thought that most people would understand what was happening. But of course, that isn’t true at all. Even though we are literally right on the brink of an apocalyptic war with Iran, most of the population doesn’t seem too concerned. But they should be. The Iranian regime has already shown that it is willing to gun down tens of thousands of its own people. When it comes to securing the survival of their regime, there is no…