In today’s article, Joe Kurtenbach reviews the Fiocchi Hyperformance SBR Enhanced ammunition. The tested load, the .223 Rem. 77-gr. hollow-point boat tail (HPBT), was provided by the company for this review. “It’s about the most accurate AR ammo I’ve ever tested,” I said to Matt Gann, manager of 340 Defense near Charles Town, West Virginia, as I walked toward the office from the range. I’d just concluded performance and gel penetration testing on Fiocchi’s Hyperformance SBR (short-barreled rifle) Enhanced 77-gr. hollow-point boat tail (HPBT) .223 Rem. ammunition and he’d just asked how the ammunition test had gone. Fiocchi’s Hyperformance SBR…
Federal just gave Creedmoor its man card with 6.5 Creedmoor +PEAK. Here’s what you should know about it.In June of this year, Federal introduced one of the most significant advancements we’ve seen in metallic cartridges since maybe … well, forever. Their new +PEAK loads for the 6.5 Creedmoor have given that cartridge somewhere between a 250- to 300-fps velocity boost. Granted, we’ve seen what are commonly called “+P, Superformance, or Lite Magnum” ammunition advancements before, and all those loads offered a slight velocity advantage by virtue of the use of more or different powders.However, +PEAK ammo not only provides a…
The Hi-Power, a single-action, double-stack 9mm service pistol, was John Moses Browning’s final design. In fact, it was completed after his death by his protégé, Dieudonné Saive. Browning left behind an indomitable legacy in the world of firearms, and while many of his guns are extremely well known around the globe, the Hi-Power may be one of the most famous. Its prominence was overshadowed in the United States by our affinity for the 1911, but in the rest of the world, the Hi-Power is one of the most prolific and loved military pistols of all time. Now, the design is…
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A coordinated cyberattack targeted more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota on July 26 and 27, but the story did not stop at the Minnesota state line.By Thursday, July 30, the FBI was warning that water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states had reported similar incidents. Some of those attacks did more than knock out a computer screen or inconvenience an office worker. According to the FBI, the attackers disrupted water operations, caused pressure loss, triggered flooding, locked operators out of equipment and forced utilities to run portions of their systems manually.This is what years of warnings…
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By Dave Merrill and David Lane If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. But what happens when it walks like a Glock, talks like a 1911, and shoots like a CZ SP-01? Well, you’ve encountered the Wilson Combat Bulwark. The Bulwark is a Doctor Moreau monster-mash of John Browning and Gaston Glock, done in a different way. This pistol intrigued us so much, a pair of us tackled it for this review: CONCEALMENT Editor Dave Merrill and RECOILweb Editor David Lane. We didn’t have a gun like this on our 2026 bingo…
What are the odds that you’ll ever need to use a gun for self-defense? Here we break down the data.A few months ago, John Correia of Active Self Protection was confronted by a burglar in his own home. The man fled, no shot was fired, and Correia walked away thinking about a question many armed citizens eventually ask. Realistically, what are the odds I will ever need my gun? In a video on his channel, he ran the numbers from two major firearms surveys and arrived at a startlingly large lifetime probability. This article borrows his framework and pushes further…
Palmetto State Armory has just launched the PSA 570 series, a modular, pump-action, 12-gauge shotgun system.After teasing it for the past couple of SHOT Shows, Palmetto State Armory has just launched the PSA 570. This 12-gauge shotgun system takes inspiration from both the Remington 870 and the Mossberg 500 and combines it with plenty of PSA’s original ideas. The PSA 570 was designed to be a modular system, and previous information about the concept included the ability to convert the shotguns to semi-auto, but we haven’t heard anything new about that yet. At least for this initial launch, the 570…
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Big news for the FAST matches and anyone with an FRT or full-auto rifle: FAST has designed an Auto-Rifle division specifically for you! See the full release below: Forced Reset Triggers continue to gain popularity as American gun owners starved for true machine guns for decades adopt FRTs as an alternative. End users and some companies such as Red Right Hand have been building “civilian SAWs” incorporating FRTs Shooting competitions have a long history of being the test bed for new firearms technology and giving citizen-marksmen a place to hone their skill at arms. In consideration of these factors, Firearms…
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Everybody who preps spends their first dollars in the wrong place. Water filters, food buckets, a generator, maybe a gun and a few boxes of ammo. All good. All necessary. But almost nobody preps for the thing that’s actually going to try to hurt them, and it isn’t the hurricane, the blackout, the earthquake, or the empty grocery store. It’s people. People who didn’t prep, people who prepped for all the wrong things, and people who were always a little rotten and just needed the lights to go out to finally show you who they really were.The disaster itself is…
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In the summer of 1918, a new fighter ascended in the German Air Combat Forces, or Luftstreitkräfte, boasting a level of performance that would outpace any of Anthony Fokkers’ famous designs. The Fokker E.V parasol monoplane, eventually known as the Fokker D.VIII, demonstrated tremendous combat potential during Germany’s Second Fighter competition of May-June, and multiple frontline pilots lauded the E.V’s outstanding maneuverability. But in a bizarre twist of aviation fate, the new Fokker was grounded by the end of August. The “Flying Razor” had become a blade that cut both ways, and its reputation forever clouded in controversy. A Fokker…
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