Several years ago, against the base of a mountain north of Spokane, friends and I escaped from our service-industry jobs to shoulder shotguns, sling clays, and let fly strings of lead, watching as the discs turned to dust and showering pines and dirt in bursts of orange. It was cheap fun — gas was likely…
Though the seeds of Kimber were sown in the late 1970s and many rifles and designs came before, everything really came to fruition with the release of their first 1911 pistol in 1997. And damn, they really shook things up by releasing a standard gun full of previously-custom-only features at a lower price point. With…
Suppressing pistols has always been a tricky business. To begin with, many semi-automatic pistols have narrower operating windows than you might think, depending on factors such as the type of ammunition, mass of the parts and attachments, springs, and the shooter. On top of this, the Browning tilting-barrel design is ubiquitous in modern pistols. With…
I love nearly everything about the MP5. The soft recoil impulse, the die-hard reliability (geddit?), and, of course, the superb aesthetics. But there are two things about the gun that count against dedicating it to the role of bugout gun — terminal ballistics and effective range. For all its greatness, the MP5 is still just…