On the second day of SHOT Show 2023 our team is again on the road from morning to night at the big gun show in Las Vegas. It's already clear: this year, there are an extremely large number of new handguns, rifles, optics and accessories to discover; the market has regained momentum after the Corona years. This will also have an impact on the European market. Here is our selection of highlights.
SHOT Show 2023 is finally underway! The big gun show in Las Vegas is back as usual. There are all kinds of new products in the areas of long guns and handguns, optics, ammunition and accessories for sport shooters and hunters to discover. all4shooters.com is again this year with a team on site, of course. Here are the first highlights.
In this part 2, wet cleaning methods come into play. Read and see what ultrasonic, drums with steel pins in cleaning fluid or your mom's washing machine can do in our practical test.
Ground walnut shells and corn cob, ultrasonic baths and small stainless steel pins. You can read and discover here, in the first part, which brass cases cleaning methods or media, wet or dry, have which advantages and disadvantages.
The 7mm Precision Rifle Cartridge is designed to fit the niche between previous Hornady's 6.5 PRC and 300 PRC cartridges. Also new, the Precision Lab Scale and Dual-Lid Lock Box. Hornady's subsonic SUB-X bullets are now offered in four new calibers too.
Some developments besides the .223 Remington have expanded the ballistic spectrum of AR-15 platforms – in rather small ways. Read on to discover why the 6 mm Advanced Rifle Cartridge (ARC) could represent a major advance and what its ballistics look like.
Often the topic of discussion and just as often controversial: accurate shooting! This is where opinions differ. What you read in the relevant hunting and sport shooting forums usually hits the nail on the head. Often, however, one also finds dangerous half-knowledge there – or wrong conclusions for error causes. You should not compromise on the accuracy and performance of your rifle and …
The 6.5 Creedmoor is the talk of the town. Sales in the USA have been on the rise since its introduction in 2008. In the meantime, the venerable .308 Winchester has even been overtaken in pure sales figures in the United States. A trend that will also continue in Europe, because the caliber has some advantages that we wanted to show in our comparison with the .308 Win.
You can use hollow-point ammo for self-defense and/or hunting only where allowed by law, of course. But what's the right handgun hollow-point cartridge? We did the test in the widely used 9mm caliber with three cartridges from US manufacturer Hornady – 115-grain FTX Critical Defense, 135-grain FlexLock Critical Duty and 147-grain XTP Subsonic. You can read the results and the direct comparison …
An electronic reloading scale featuring excellent precision, ease of use and quality. The Hornady Lock-N-Load Bench Scale is aimed at precision reloading enthusiasts, measuring powder dose by dose for maximum consistency and accuracy.
With the 6 mm Advanced Rifle Cartridge (ARC) Hornady introduces a brand new and promising round for the AR-15 platform. Other companies such as Brownells, CMMG, Proof Research or San Tan Tactical are following suit and are already offering corresponding complete rifles, interchangeable barrel systems or barrels. A real innovation that you should take a look at.
New for 2020: Hornady introduces the new compact RAPiD Safe Night Guard that offers a dependable access to your firearm in no time while securing it from unauthorized persons – especially malicious intruders.
“The ultimate low drag, high performance match bullet”: this is how the manufacturer describes its new product. The A-Tip bullet features a precision-machined aluminum tip which is longer than usual polymer tips, enhancing in-flight stability and reducing dispersion.
SHOT Show 2019 / New from Hornady: new ammunition lines and products. Probably the most innovative US ammunition manufacturer, Hornady Manufacturing from Grand Island, Nebraska, celebrates the company's 70th anniversary in 2019. And, as always, it really cracks on with novelties.
Enforce Tac 2018 / New from Hornady. In addition to the most interesting novelty in the form of the new 6.5 Precision Rifle Cartridge (PRC) caliber, the renowned manufacturer from Grand Island, Nebraska, has come up with a true flood of new products.