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You’re three days into a backcountry trip, your filter cartridge just split, and the only water source is a stagnant pond that smells like a wet bag of ass. Or maybe it’s not a trip at all — the tap ran dry after a storm took out the water treatment plant and you’re standing over a 5-gallon bucket of questionable creek water wondering what you actually know how to do about it.Iodine tablets are the answer everybody memorizes and almost nobody actually carries when it counts. They’re slow, they taste like a swimming pool had a baby with a penny,…
In today’s article, Ryan Domke reviews the Savior Specialist Range Bag. This is the author’s personally owned gear bag, and he offers his thoughts on how well it performs. I’ve owned more than my fair share of range bags over the years. Some were bargain-bin finds that barely lasted a season, others held up decently but lacked proper organization features, and some were so floppy you might as well use a plastic grocery bag. The Savior Specialist’s semi-rigid frame and well-planned organization keep shooting gear sorted and within reach when it counts. Over the last few years, I’ve noticed Savior…
The triple-barreled Luftwaffe Drilling is proof that the German air force took its survival guns very seriously.Beginning in World War I, there was a serious debate over how to arm aircrews. Many pilots carried a sidearm before planes were even armed, and the apocryphal story concerning the beginning of aerial combat is that the first “dogfight” was with pistols from passing pilots. This then quickly evolved into rifles—rifles with extended magazines, multiple pistols and then finally (and thankfully) machineguns being usefully mounted on aircraft.As aerial warfare evolved, aircraft were armed with an array of machineguns, cannon, rockets, bombs and eventually…
We certainly don’t choose the cream of the crop when looking for candidates for this column, but every now and then you find something interesting for the right price and people will inquire about carrying it as a woods or backup gun. So, on a visit to the local Cabela’s gun library, a trade came in that wasn’t exactly on our wish list: a single-action M1895 Nagant revolver made in 1902 in Imperial Russia. With a finish in about 80 percent condition and with no pitting, it looked quite a few steps up from the later Commie revolvers made after…
PROOF Research is advancing barrel technology with its new exponential twist PXT barrels.Rifle barrel technology has been relatively stable for a long time, but PROOF Research may have just changed that. The company’s new PXT barrels, standing for PROOF Exponential Twist, are introducing a seemingly simple change to barrel design that could offer a big improvement to performance and lifespan.While traditional barrel designs use constant-twist rifling, PROOF PXT barrels instead use a progressively changing twist profile. PROOF says that this reduces initial bullet stress, helps maintain rotational stability and prolongs barrel life while improving consistency and performance. As modern high-pressure,…
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Merriam-Webster defines ergonomics as “an applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and safely.” That’s a lot of words to say that a device should be designed to fit the user, not the other way around. For a pistol, that would encapsulate how you interact with the gun, and the biggest aspect of that is how the gun fits your hands. Ergonomics aren’t as important if you have no time constraints and only need to get a single accurate shot off; just align the sights and don’t move…
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In economic times like these, affording a new carry gun isn’t always easy. While some brands have raised prices in their latest generation of “perfect” polymer pistols, Springfield Armory is here finding ways to cut costs and pass those savings to you. Introducing the Echelon Alpha. Bottom line, this is 95% the same Echelon 4.0C people know and love, but with some minor changes to cut the MSRP by over $100. Springfield Armory ECHELON 4.0C $679.00 $620.99 Features that are the same include: Echelon Central Operating Group is the serialized part of the firearm Interchangeable grip modules and chassis Interchangeable…
Springfield Armory has just launched the Echelon Alpha, a more affordable version of the Echelon 4.0C.The Springfield Echelon 4.0C is one of the top concealed carry pistols currently on the market, but with an MSRP of $710, it’s pretty pricey. To make the 4.0C more accessible and affordable, Springfield Armory has just introduced a more budget-friendly version called the Echelon Alpha 4.0C.Thankfully, at its core, the Echelon Alpha is the same great pistol as its full-priced counterpart. That includes its serialized Echelon Central Operating Group that allows for interchangeable grip modules, its interchangeable backstraps, its Variable Interface System optics-ready slide,…
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