A while back, I covered a few observations gleaned while working with a dozen rifle owners in both classroom and range settings. Having just repeated that process with a similar group, several new takeaways have emerged. The first is that while the class centered around improving each rifle’s accuracy potential, range testing made clear that not everyone has the same ideas about suitable ammunition for such work. As was the case last time, this group’s age ranged widely, from late 20s to early 80s. They were more experienced than the previous riflemen, both in the shop and on the range.…

The car is racing across the high Utah desert, your foot pressed to the gas, but someone else is steering and you’re blindfolded — like a high-speed trust exercise with an Abu Ghraib aesthetic.  As the hood is pulled from your head, you grab the wheel, scant feet and split seconds for quick decisions as the car speeds toward an obstacle course and makeshift checkpoint. One wrong move and you’ll spin out or end up in the scrub; in the real world, it would be a crash or worse.  It’s a drill meant to press your reaction time and test…

Some Army officers will be shuttled into new job specialties or even transferred to a different service as certain jobs are eliminated, Military Times has learned.The restructuring cuts come on the heels of a service-wide officer career field review conducted over the last 10 months, Brig. Gen. Gregory Johnson, the Army’s director of Personnel Management, said in an interview. The officer functional areas, or career fields, that are affected include Force Management, Functional Area 50; Acquisitions, Functional Area 51; Simulations Operations, Functional Area 57; Strategy, Functional Area 59; and Marketing, Functional Area 58.The entire officer populations of these job specialties…

“Missed Peleliu because of that damn thing.” The old 1st Marine Division veteran massaged a spot on his upper chest and grimaced. “Told us we could fire that mortar from the prone and get direct fire into Jap bunkers. I was one of the first to give it a whirl. Broke my collarbone.” The T-20 Garrett shoulder-fired mortar was developed to meet a specific need. It worked, but at a cost. Image: U.S. Bureau of Ordnance He was talking about his experience with the Garrett 60mm shoulder-fired mortar, an innovative Allied response to tenacious Japanese defensive fortifications in the Pacific, that proved…

Fresh off the line from TOPS we’ve got El Chappito, the frankly adorable, shrunk-down, EDC-sized brother of the company’s famous heavy duty cleaver. El Chappo is a bit of a modern legend in the TOPS lineup. Designed, like many of the company’s signature blades, by TOPS CEO Leo Espinoza, El Chappo impressed not only with its obvious capability in the kitchen, but by its robust build quality that allowed it to tackle some chores not strictly speaking of a culinary bent; when we first covered El Chappo in 2018, we dubbed it an “outdoors-oriented cleaver.” El Chappito on duty The…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The French hockey player who fought Canadian star Tom Wilson during their qualification round matchup at the Winter Olympics was suspended for the rest of the Games on Monday.Pierre Crinon will not play Tuesday against Germany as France’s hockey federation determined that the defenseman’s actions were against its values. Furthermore, Crinon will not be able to play should France make it further than the qualification round. “The provocative behavior of Pierre Crinon when he left the ice, even though he had just been excluded from the match for a fight, constitutes a…

CrossBreed Holsters has recently unveiled the new CrossBreed LightGuard holster, an IWB (inside-the-waistband) concealment holster that accommodates pistols with tactical lights built on CrossBreed’s Multi Flex platform.  Crossbreed LightGuard holsters are of hybrid construction. They combine a precision-molded, modular Kydex lower shell with an injection-molded piece that specifically secures the pistol. There are numerous fits available for specific makes and models of defensive handguns. By combining the Kydex lower shell with the injection-molded polymer upper shell, users are able to easily swap the light-specific part of the holster without needing to replace the entire unit. This ensures that carriers aren’t…

In 1947, Bruce Hodgdon, a Navy veteran, got word the military was planning to dump 50,000 pounds of surplus gunpowder into the ocean following World War II. Bruce saw an opportunity: Instead of discarding gunpowder now that global conflict had ended, purchase the surplus and sell it to reloaders in America. Bruce cut through government red tape — something he and family would continue to do for decades — and purchased 25 tons of government surplus 4895. To advertise, Bruce rented a farm pasture and moved an old boxcar into it, took a photo and placed a 1-inch ad in…

The Pentagon wants sensors that can detect small drones threatening military installations across the United States. And it wants them fast. “Due to the urgency of the threat and the need to assess capability readiness,” the Defense Innovation Unit needs products in time for a spring 2026 demonstration a Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, according to a DIU solicitation. “Invited companies may have 30 days or less between notification and execution of the demonstration,” the solicitation adds. The project, titled “Counter UAS Sensing for Homeland and Mobile Defense,” seems aimed at both civil defense and battlefield protection. The first track is…

DPP, RMSc, RMR, ACRO, and Doctor Optics: all similar but different red dot footprints. Are you confused yet? The world of optics footprints is messy and confusing. The naming conventions sometimes overlap, also adding to the quagmire. In this article, we’ll sort through it all to provide a clear answer as to why each exists. Hopefully, you’ll be less confused by the end. There are a variety of red dot optics on the market. Not all of them share the same mounting footprint. Shown here is a close-up of the Steiner MPS Bottom and plate for Springfield Echelon 4.0C. While…