Barnes is busy creating some new projectiles for the 300 AAC Blackout, specifically for the hunting crowd. They already have a 110 grain version that I use and love, but they’re in the process of creating a 120 grain version as well. There’s also rumors (well, not really rumors since I’m holding one) that there’s a subsonic 300 BLK round on the way that will fully expand upon impact, unlike the previous iterations. And what better way to test them than by taking down a black bear in New Mexico! Who said that 300 BLK isn’t good enough for big game, anyway? Make the jump for the blurb from AAC’s blog as well as the bear in all its glory . . .
American Hunter Assistant Editor Jon Draper recently set out to test a new Barnes bullet designed for the AAC .300 Blackout. His target? Black bear located at the Jicarilla Apache Nation near Dulce, N.M. Keep your eyes peeled for this new 120-grain bullet in this caliber, which should be available early 2014. In the meantime, check out the photo gallery to see how Draper dropped the hammer on some big old bruins.
So who shall we sue when one of these drones swoops in and startles some hunter out of his tree stand and he breaks his neck. This WILL happen. I, for one, would be happy to be on the legal team that sues PETA into bankruptcy.
While I agree that It’s good to have stable minded people with fire-arms on a college campus, I’m not sure if you want to put a gun in the hands of a guy who just goes around showing it to people.
women should not be allowed out in public without a male escort.
and they need to be dressed in a burkha.
“Given our country’s lax criminal justice system,” there, fixed it for her.
Guy made a mistake. When I absolutely must visit States that are not currently part of the United States of America, I don’t go armed. Just like I wouldn’t take a handgun to the U.K., Europe, or China.
The absolute LAST thing in the world that Shannon Demands Action would want is for guns to go away. No guns = no money, and with Shannon, it’s all about the money.
I find campus bans on handguns is be an almost de facto ban on the right to bear arms for many people, especially those who may not live on a college campus like myself. If I felt the need to travel with my handgun because an area I pass through or live in is dangerous, I can’t do it because one of my daily destinations is a gun free zone. If I was involved in a DGU and a police report was filed, there is a very good chance my school will put 2 and 2 together and figure out I have a firearm on campus illegally and I may be suspended. A person in America, especially one that has been proven to be competent with firearms, should not be forced through these rules to not be able to exercise their right because of fear of punishment.
So hunters hunting is bad, but killing animals to show killing animals is bad is not…?
This was a good review on 1911’s but I saw no real relevance to the Springfield 1911. Generic and safe.
Is it just me or does that cop looks like the soldier on the cover of Battlefield 4?
I know we covered this before but is a .300 Blackout and a .300 Whisper interchangeable like .223 is to 5.56 (meaning you can’t go both ways?)
I like snub-nosed revolvers for concealed-carry. Small form factor, easy to train with, accurate to typical bad-guy distances and almost unbreakable. True, the ammo count is low, but if you need to fire more than 6 rounds on the street you’re probably screwed anyway.
(Before anyone jumps on my sack, I’m NOT saying that nobody needs X rounds or that it should be illegal. It is my personal opinion and nothing more. Carry whatever you prefer that you can control and conceal.)
That’s…. that’s….
Actually, that’s a pretty interesting point.
Robert, let us know how your old and new policies compare after you get signed up with O’Care.
Did they PhotoShop someone out of that picture of does the little girl in the red chair have awfully long legs and large feet?
The primary reason for downloading a 30 round magazine is that most mil-spec metal magazines can be loaded with 30 but when inserted on a closed bolt, as when getting it cruiser/cycle ready, many will not seat properly because there’s no longer enough room for the rounds to compress into the mag when coming into contact with the bolt. That’s why most serious carbine courses have you load no more than 28 rounds. I’ve seen many mags hit the deck after firing a round after a closed-bolt reload because the mag wasn’t fully seated. With P-mags it isn’t an issue since they’ll seat completely even with 30 rounds loaded. The real question here is what kind of cheap-ass crap is that department using for racks? Any substantial rack I’ve ever seen in service is made so that the trigger is covered when the gun is mounted completely precluding an incident such as occurred here.
I work as a soda delivery truck driver, and am in lots of different chain and independent grocery stores every day. Most of these companies, including Stop & Shop, have cut back all of their part-time employees (the bulk of grocery store workers are part-time) to 20 hours a week, when they used to work as many as were needed, sometimes over 40. This is because the companies know they will need to provide expensive insurance premiums to all who work over a certain number of hours, so they are ensuring that no one does. So Obama has seen to it that millions of people will make less money by creating this disincentive. Way to stimulate the economy, eh!
All training is good. But anyone who peruses “Guns Save Lives” on a regular basis will find that almost none of the good guys had any training beyond what was need to obtain their CHLs, yet they won their gunfights. In many of those cases, the bad guys could not be even the slightest bit deader.
So training is good, very good, but better still is the determination not to be a victim and the having correct tool in your hands.
If the statists thought they could get away with it, they would order all privately owned firearms turned in by December 1st and begin confiscation the next day.
Just my 2 cents on this:
Cent 1: When I was a kid, I got the once-standard “hit ’em hard and they won’t come back” advice from my father, and it did indeed work…. but it already was in today’s environment enough that everybody got punished for the fight equally. I remember thinking even back then that “who started it”, or “he hit me first” really DOES matter. The right to self-defense is a human right— endowed by our creator. It is too often ignored with children. ‘Nuff said on that one.
Cent 2: This one has been bothering me a lot, ever since the rise of the modern anti-bullying movement— any of you guys remember when “bullying” meant PHYSICALLY doing something to the bullied person? Every single story I’ve heard about poor-kid-driven-to-suicide by bullying, it comes out in the first paragraph or so that it’s so-called “internet bullying” that was most of the action. As in, with words. What?
Don’t get me wrong— I do understand the inescapable hell of the teasing, insults, or what-have-you never being “off” in the internet age… but on the other hand, they’re WORDS. Ever noticed how flame wars and comment-thread arguments just seem to magically disappear from your life if you don’t READ them?
Even when shouted all day, every day at school, if such a thing is going on, in my day a “bully” was someone who pushed you down, punched you, or forcibly took away your lunch money. Teasing, insults, and being excluded DID NOT COUNT. When I encountered a bully, it was a kid who physically assaulted me— and that was what the “punch ’em in the nose” advice applied to…
I will never be okay with kids calling one another names being referred to as “bullying”. It is not, except in Britian, and never will be. Kids who are harrassed into their graves with words are being teased to death, not bullied. Words matter, as these kids can testify, and it begins with using them correctly.
Eric Holder (not pictured) on vacation with his two favorite body guards.
I fight for MY rights.