SWATCOM Active8 waterproof ear defenders are designed primarily for shooters in Police, Military and Professional scenarios with the greatest need for protection, whilst retaining full situational ...

Protecting your hearing sounds simple. Buy something with a high rating, put it on, and you’re set. In reality, most shooters ...

Good trigger control is vital to accuracy, particularly when using a spring-powered recoiling airgun. In relation to that statement, if there’s one area/part that ‘can’ be bettered to suit individual ...

The shape of flasks made from horn or bone is determined by the configuration of the material itself, whereas all of the others usually conform to a similar basic outline. This is a narrow neck ...

Nothing in recent times causes more controversy and consternation than rifle shooters talking about what is the quietest sound moderator on the market. In my time I have had a real passion for ...

On test here is one of the new breeds of bullpups from the popular Turkish brand, Reximex. It boasts a regulator, a multi-shot magazine system, a 260cc cylinder, and an ‘Integrated Silent Force’ sound ...

Singling out a high goose or a fast flying duck cleanly from the sky can take some doing. Equally, given the fact that you can only use non-toxic loads and that they rather need to be of the Magnum ...

The advent of smokeless propellants, at the turn of the previous century, saw a flood of new or ‘redeveloped’ calibres from the commercial cartridge manufacturers of the day, and none more so than ...

Sam Colt was nothing if not persistent. Fascinated by guns from an early age, his dogged determination paid off when a number of friends and family agreed to invest in his manufacturing venture in ...

Since full-bore moderators have become a household item for centrefire rifle shooters, we have seen several different designs and multiple companies producing them come and go. Long, muzzle-mounted ...

Tracing its influence back to the postwar M48 tank, when it appeared in 1960 few realised how important the M60 tank would become to so many countries around the world. The M60 was produced between ...

These days, it’s fairly commonplace for products to begin to resemble one another, with unimaginative companies just bringing out their own version of an accepted design brief. An obvious example is ...