By The Editors

If you haven't looked through a Meopta scope yet, you need to. What's unique about this scope is that it might be the only scope on the market with a 1-inch tube that also has an illuminated reticle. It will retail for about $800 but it's probably $1,000 worth of scope. [ Read Full Post ]

By The Editors

Benelli's hot M2 platform is now available for 3-gun, kind of. The shotguns includes an extended magazine tube, oversized bolt handle and oversized bolt release. But because of the extended magazine the gun can be imported easily. Now all we have to do is wait for the ATF. [ Read Full Post ]

By David E. Petzal

Despite the fact that residents of New York state have just had a loathsome wad of gun restrictions shoved down their collective throat by their satanic governor Andrew Cuomo, and that President Obama is cooking up something equally as wonderful, the SHOT Show seems to have taken little notice that I can detect as I lurch around the floor.  The one comment I have heard a good bit is that “Obama thinks he’s emperor, and we’re gonna have to show him what’s what.”

Well, I have news. He is emperor, thanks to a Congress that long ago degenerated into a food fight, one that’s peopled by the most ineffectual group ever assembled on the North American continent. Say “power vacuum.”

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By The Editors

This pretty O/U shotgun is replacing Beretta's 682. It's a serious competition gun that retails for about $4,500 (which is significantly less than other top-end competition guns from the likes of Perazzi and Krieghoff). [ Read Full Post ]

By The Editors

This new shooting system from TrackingPoint takes fighter jet technology and applies it to long-range shooting. Here's how it works. First the shooter tags his target. Then the scope takes a ballistic formula accounting for distance, wind, elevation, temperature and a wide variety of other factors and tracks the target. The system only allows the shooter to fire when the reticle (or in this case an 'x') is in proper position to hit the target. [ Read Full Post ]

By The Editors

Following its highly successful introduction of the Versa Max in 2010, Remington is introducing the Versa Max Sportsman for 2013. The Sportsman uses the exact same auto-loading system as the Versa Max but it comes with less features. It doesn't feature molded grips, an adjustable comb, or length of pull kit. [ Read Full Post ]