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RECOIL has teamed up with EOTECH to give one of our readers a Vudu 4-12×36 FFP rifle scope. This is EOTECH’s super-short first focal plane optic, measuring just 7.1 inches long. That makes it a smart fit for short rifle systems, limited rail space, or setups where you want room for a clip-on night vision or thermal device forward of the scope. The Vudu 4-12×36 FFP features an aircraft-grade aluminum body, illuminated reticle with 10 brightness settings, capped 0.1 MIL turrets, and a CR2032 battery with roughly 300 hours of runtime. Since it’s first focal plane, the reticle subtensions stay…

We take a quick look at 6mm Remington, aka .244 Remington, a true middle-weight heavy hitter of a cartridge.The 6mm Remington has exactly the same case dimensions as the .244 Remington. They differ only in the fact that the 6mm Remington is loaded with bullets of up to 100 grains, whereas the .244 Remington was never loaded with bullets of more than 90 grains. Ammunition marked .244 Remington can be fired in 6mm Remington chambers and vice versa. However, rifles marked .244 Remington will not always stabilize the 100-grain bullet. The difference between the two is that .244 rifles (if…

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For years, officials, water managers, and politicians have watched Lake Mead slide lower and lower while pretending there was still plenty of time to figure it out. Now that game is ending. The country’s biggest reservoir just dropped to a new record low, Hoover Dam is getting dangerously close to the point where it loses most of its generating capacity, and the people who are going to feel it first are the same people who had the least say in any of it.Popular Mechanics recently called Hoover Dam’s decline the “slowest-moving train wreck in history.” The problem with that line…

Open five articles promising the “ultimate survival kit” and you will usually find the same collection of gear listed in almost the same order. A ferro rod, some paracord, a Mylar blanket, a tactical flashlight, a folding saw, a multitool, a filter straw, waterproof matches, a whistle, a compass, a first-aid pouch and some kind of hollow-handle knife stuffed with fishing line.The lists look similar because the writers are copying one another. It is not because those same twelve items happen to be the right answer for every climate, household and emergency in the country.Most of the people producing these…

This overview of the Springfield Armory Echelon 4.5F paired with the Aimpoint COA is focused as a possible law enforcement duty pistol. Because if you’re carrying a pistol for the job, the question isn’t “Should I run a dot?” anymore. The real questions when looking at a duty pistol with a red dot are: Which dot? How is it mounted? Will it hold up? Is it reliable to the point I am betting my life on this piece of equipment? The Springfield Armory Echelon 4.5F paired with the Aimpoint COA arrives as a complete duty package at a $1,119 MSRP.…

The Brief: A fatal shooting occurred at a Riverton, Utah, gas station after a suspect was denied alcohol for lack of identification. After a brief verbal confrontation and departure, the suspect returned with a shotgun and opened fire inside the store. An armed customer who had previously tried to de-escalate the situation returned fire, killing the suspect. Local police confirmed no bystanders or employees were injured during the exchange. The citizen is cooperating with investigators, and authorities noted the rare nature of such violent incidents in the community. RIVERTON, UT — A routine late-day retail interaction rapidly devolved into an…

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