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Next Post Coming Soon…▶ Benchmade doesn’t make a lot of assisted folders and they’re generally not my cup of tea. Opening a knife with a flick of a flipper or thumb stud is plenty fast enough for me. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have their attraction for a lot of people and spending some time with the Benchmade Mini Barrage could make you a convert. Benchmade makes a couple of versions of the Osborne design Model 585 Mini Barrage that gives you choices as to materials and colors. While both are assisted openers, the standard 585 model’s blade is…

Next Post Coming Soon…▶ “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” So said my Grandma and yours, on down through the generations. When GLOCK, Inc. submitted their Model 19X in coyote tan color for the U.S. Army modular handgun system trials, they had high hopes. Unfortunately, rather than select a handgun design with a 35-year track record for success, the Army instead chose a new, more modular pistol design. Rather than cry in their milk, GLOCK took the lemons that the Army handed them and made lemonade in the form of the G45. For the uninitiated, the GLOCK 45 is…

As a long term knife nerd and a writer who has covered knives for a couple of decades now, I’ve had a lot of knives in my pocket over the years. Having started that journey in the days of the slipjoint and lockback folders typically made from 1095 carbon steel, or 420HC or 440C stainless, I can easily say that we currently live in a golden age of cutlery. There were never more choices in designs, quality materials, and styles than there are today. With so many good options available I still find myself coming back to a handful of…

Ultradyne UD Carbon Tripod and UD Orbit Ballhead (Image courtesy JWT for thetruthaboutguns.com.) It’s rare that I walk out the door to hunt without a tripod anymore and for range days, the tripod is never left behind. Over the last 20 years, nothing has changed how I hunt and shoot like a good, solid tripod. With their new UD Carbon Tripod and UD Orbit Ballhead, Ulradyne has released the best tripod/ballhead combination I’ve used yet. Like everything I’ve seen from Ultradyne, the UD Carbon Tripod and UD Orbit Ballhead are well-made, well-engineered, and extremely versatile. This is a full-size tripod,…

Desert Tech Trek-22 Chassis (Image courtesy JWT for thetruthaboutguns.com) Desert Tech is well known for making some of the best bullpup center-fire semi-autos and bolt action rifles on the market. In an interesting turn for the company that seems to reinvent everything, Desert Tech didn’t make a bullpup rimfire gun. Instead, they came up with the Trek-22, a simple clamshell chassis solution for America’s favorite rimfire rifle, the Ruger 10/22. Compared to one of my basic Ruger 10/22 carbines, the Trek-22 dramatically shortens the overall length of the gun. The Trek-22 brings my factory carbine’s total length down to just…

Leupold Patrol 6HD (image courtesy JWT for thetruthaboutguns.com) Next Post Coming Soon…▶ The Leupold gold ring has long been the hallmark of quality and trust for hunters around the world. Bit by bit, Leupold has been earning the trust of the military and law enforcement community as well with a series of long-range tactical optics. Now, with the Leupold Patrol 6HD 1-6X24, one of America’s oldest optics brands has offered an LPVO worthy of the brand’s legacy. I tend to like Leupold scopes, a lot. They feature consistently great glass and I’ve come to expect that of all of their better…

Next Post Coming Soon…▶ I love large-format pistol caliber pistols. You know, guns like the Ruger PC Charger, the Micro Scorpion, the SIG MPX K, the CMMG Banshee, and all the other micro pistol caliber braced pistols. I just call them subguns and blame that on my love of submachine guns. I was a kid raised on ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Cobra’ so what do you expect? Along with the rise of braced pistol subguns, we’ve also seen the rise of a supportive industry to cater to them. One such company is Lynx Defense and their Byte bag. The Byte –…

Next Post Coming Soon…▶ I never thought I’d see the day when 5.56mm AKs made financial sense. Sure, they’ve always been a cool concept, but one that was so expensive compared to running cheap 7.62×39 ammo and cheap surplus magazines that only collectors and guys with stocks of 5.56 ammo ever bought them.  On top of that, early guns weren’t very reliable…especially compared to 7.62 guns, plus most of the options available at the time were very expensive overall, namely Arsenal and Beryl clones. Sure, the WASR-3 existed, but it, like all early WASR rifles, was seen as crude with…

Next Post Coming Soon…▶ The venerable AR-15 platform rifle can seemingly do anything and chamber any cartridge…as long as it’s intermediate. Well, mostly intermediate. AR-15s in the 7.62×39 have always been an interesting conundrum. Some work perfectly well while others will have problems from day one. Those problems include light primer strikes, weak bolts, and weird magazines. Yet, those striving to use the 7.62×39 in an AR platform design haven’t given up, and the latest to make an attempt is 21st TEC with their TEC-47. The TEC-47 has no relation to the TEC-9 of old. The TEC-47 rifle aims to…

Next Post Coming Soon…▶ Last year, I posted several reviews, including full-size M&P 10mm pistol with an upgraded spring, Crossbreed’s modular purse and bellyband holster, a Blackhawk T-series open carry holster for the desert and woods, and Primary Arms’ version of the Holosun 507C-X2 with a chevron reticle. It’s been a little over a year, so I wanted to give readers a follow-up on how going with all of that gear. Long story short — everything is doing pretty well with some minor issues that have cropped up with the Crossbreed purse board. The Gun and the ‘Sun I’m pleased…