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EDITOR’S FOREWORD: This article originally appeared in the 1965 Gun Digest annual, and was the first significant coverage of the then-new AR-15. Funny how politics is always involved in weapon procurement. Note the nonsense about “hydrostatic shock” and reports of 5.56mm nearly taking limbs off in Vietnam. This article has been edited and curated to fit this format, but the complete piece with more extensive testing can be found in our archives. The much-maligned M14 is being quietly phased out of production. It has apparently been abandoned by the Pentagon brass, though not yet openly repudiated. A search is in…
Founded in 1949 by three former Mauser engineers, Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch, and Alex Seidel, the success of the G3 Rifle started Heckler & Koch’s changeover in the German defense industry from parts to weapons. The HK MP5A1 and the A2 (shown) launched the firm’s status as a top contender, following the introduction of the world’s most well-recognized submachine gun. It has been in non-stop service since 1966. The MP5A2 circa 1977 was the basis for nearly 100 different configurations and truly epitomized the company’s famous motto: “Keine Kompromisse …” (“No Compromise!”) Author Photo. MP5 Courtesy Indian River Sportsman.The H&K…
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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…
