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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…
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Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Dr. Will Dabbs examines the versatile Heinkel He 111 in World War II. The German medium bomber became one of the most recognizable Luftwaffe aircraft of the war. Originally designed as a civilian airliner, the He 111 evolved into a versatile combat aircraft that participated in every major campaign. Lt. Mikhail Petrovich Devyatayev was a Russian P-39 Airacobra pilot during World War II. The peculiar mid-engine P-39 offered fairly poor high-altitude performance and was subsequently relegated to second-line duties by the US Army Air Corps. However, the Russians desperately needed a nimble ground attack plane.…
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Watchtower Firearms is now shipping its new commander-size, 1911-pattern, double-stack pistol, the Watchtower Apache Commander. This 9 mm 1911 double-stack pistol was designed by Watchtower Firearms as an everyday carry, medium-size gun. It’s optics-ready out of the box and includes a mounting plate on the back of the slide for red-dot sights that use the Trijicon RMR footprint. With red-dot shooting in mind, the new Watchtower Apache Commander also includes coarse and aggressive slide serrations making it easier to rack the slide and bring the gun into action around the mounted red-dot. This new pistol is available both in a…
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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Wise words to live by, but sometimes you can’t help yourself. The Springfield Kuna is a great PCC on its own, but if it’s possible to make it better… why not? Entier, the Nexus Firearms Billet Aluminum Kuna Lower. NEXUS FIREARMS BILLET ALUMINUM KUNA LOWER Not commonly seen but helpful in this case, the Springfield Armory Kuna has a serialized upper as the actual firearm, with the lower being just another gun part. Because of this, we have some options for aftermarket lowers! After about 2,000 rounds on my OG Kuna, I love…
Police in Carrollton, Texas say a 16 year old boy was shot and killed after he allegedly pulled a firearm during a robbery setup and the 20 year old he met with fired in self defense. Several teens now face aggravated robbery charges, while the shooter has not been charged in the boy’s death as the investigation continues.LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLECARROLLTON, TX (3 minute read) — Police say a planned robbery involving several teenagers ended with a 16 year old boy shot and later pronounced dead at a local hospital. Investigators report that the group drove to meet a 20…
The state of the art in modern special operations, frankly, is remarkable. In 2011, a group of elite Navy SEALs inserted via stealth helicopters deep inside hostile territory to kill the most wanted terrorist on Planet Earth. They successfully accomplished this daring mission for the loss of a single aircraft. Friendly forces exfilled unharmed, and the world stood amazed. However, that didn’t just happen. Side-by-side, you can see how British engineers transformed the basic Sten design into a specialized weapon in the suppressed Sten Mk IIS (top) for the shadow warriors. Operation Neptune Spear, the mission to kill Osama bin…
Bergara just joined the suppressor game with the announcement of its titanium .30-caliber BTi30.Bergara, like just about every firearms manufacturer right now, has just joined the suppressor game. Naturally, however, the company has tailored its cans for precision to be a perfect match for its rifles.Bergara said this about the BTi30:The precision-optimized design is engineered to minimize point-of-impact shift and tighten groupings up to 25% versus traditional suppressors or bare muzzles, providing repeatable and consistent results for precision hunters and shooters.The BTi30 is a vented suppressor, meaning less peak pressure in the blast chamber and less blowback to the face…
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Every industry uses a shorthand. It’s efficient, impresses friends and becomes part of the vernacular. Gun enthusiasts have their own jargon, an alphabet soup of acronyms so confusing that we maintain a list for reference when editing stories. Here are a few explanations that might be helpful to the uninitiated. We’ll start with the bullet nomenclature often employed by gun enthusiasts: FMJ—Full metal jacket; best for practice ammo only. JHP—Jacketed hollow point; best for personal protection. BTHP—Boattail hollow point; low-drag and capable of going some distance. OTM—Open tip match; makes steel ring at long range. Here are a few…
