Petzal SHOT RugerScout
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When anarchies reign, as Tommy Lee Jones put it, this is the gun you want–the Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle. It’s named after Jeff Cooper’s shooting school, and is the best-thought-out example of its genre that I’ve come across. A 10-shot .308, it has a laminated stock that adjustable for length, a flash suppressor, a 16 ½-inch barrel, a rear ghost ring sight, and a rail up front for a horrible IER scope if you want to go that way. If you don’t you can remove the ghost ring and mount a real scope.
Petzal SHOT KaBar
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Put the iconic USMC fighting/utility knife on a steady diet of steroids and weights and you get the Ka-Bar Big Brother, which has a blade that’s 2 inches longer, wider, heavier, and has a serrated cutting section on its spine. If you’re into horrific hacking and hewing, this is your baby; it’s a cross between a knife and a machete, and is a fearsome object.
Petzal SHOT Leupold
Petzal SHOT ZeissSpotter
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This is an updated version of the Alpine draw-tube spotting scope, but it’s not a draw tube, and is completely waterproof. You can get it with a 65mm or an 85mm objective, and it’s designed to work without a tripod. Nor do you carry it in a pack; you sling it o’er your shoulder like a European soldier. Honest. It will save you miles of walking, and as Zeiss prices go, it’s not all that much.
Petzal SHOT VangComp
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These guys soup up riot guns, Remingtons and Mossbergs mostly, but they will also do Ithacas. Send them your gun (or they will supply one) and a check and they will do things to it you can’t imagine, including re-choking it so you get a pie-plate-sized-or-less buckshot pattern at 50 yards. Plus all sorts of other refinements, including their six-round Detachable Side Ammo Carrier, which is ingenious. If the stock in the photo here seems short, that’s because it’s designed for use by someone wearing a bulletproof vest.
