And now for something completely different... Among the most interesting (and expensive) items to be auctioned from September 6-9, 2019, a Colt Model 1847 Walker Revolver (estimated price: almost one million dollars!) and a Model 1877 "Bulldog" Gatling Gun with tripod. But also Elmer Keith’s Smith & Wesson .38/.44 Outdoorsman revolver used in the development of the .357 Magnum cartridge in the …

In the last installment of this series we dealt for the first time with CBC (Counter-Blade Concepts), the unarmed knife defense. The key to the success of this system is the analysis and knowledge of the reality of today's knife attacks in the street. Our close combat expert Michael Janich has developed a CBC system called "Split X". On all4shooters.com you can learn everything about this …

With a new camo look and its 16.5” / 42 cm barrel, the Model Seven Kuiu is ideal for tight quarters such as wood hunting, but still offers great accuracy at longer ranges. It's chambered in  .308 Winchester or .300 AAC calibers, also featuring a threaded barrel and Remington's adjustable X-Mark Pro trigger. The Model Seven is light too, but thanks to "three-rings-of-steel" concept, its sturdiness …

Sarah White shoots competition clays internationally and is a member of the Great Britain and England FITASC Shooting Teams. Among the other things, she won the Ladies English Sporting Open in 2012, Great Britain FITASC team silverin  2017 and in 2018, and the England Ladies FITASC Team Gold at the Home International, Scotland. She was the CPSA Coach of the Year 2015, and a very busy principal …

The Slide Spider is an adhesive grip that you can place inside the slide serrations of your firearm for increased grip.  Once installed, it enables the shooter to gain increased control through a safe and secure hold. Besides being “tacticool”, it can also aid shooters with medical conditions such as arthritis. The Slide Spider is available for most semi auto pistols models and manufacturers, and …

STP – the three letters stand for "Sport Target Pistol" and designate the pistol series made in-house by the gunsmith Karl Prommersberger from Kühbach, Germany. Not only has Prommersberger been the chairman of the German Club 30 tuning association for years, but he also introduces a series of (in the best sense of the words) highly bred handguns with the STP models, which are precisely tailored to …

The Crispi Highland Pro are highly technological boots for hunting in wetlands. With a water-repellent leather and cordura upper, they are designed to offer full comfort and maximum water resistance, featuring a BOA millimetric closing system, shock-absorbing midsole and Vibram sole. The new CCF shock absorbing system ensures maximum stability and support.

The Tank Festival at the Bovington Tank Museum: unique and exciting. A special guest, the Panther “Bretagne” from the Musée des Blindés de Saumur, came to the Tankfest 2019. But there were also T-34s, the Sherman from the film "Fury" starring Brad Pitt, a Jagdpanther or a rare Japanese Ha-Go tank - and our editor Alex in the middle.

In the last two installments we dealt with the "Martial Cane Concepts" (MCC) stick defense system, where a simple walking stick in combination with easy techniques can be used as an effective defensive tool. But this time the US close combat expert Michael Janich demonstrates on all4shooters.com the techniques for unarmed knife defense.

At the IWA in March 2019, GECO introduced a new all purpose cartridge for handguns: the GECO Action Extreme, designed for shooting , self-defense and hunting. Thanks to its excellent expansion behavior, the new ammunition should produce an unmatched stopping effect. We tested the new GECO bullet in 9 mm Luger on the firing range and we fired test shots into clear ballistics gelatin blocks. Watch …

On April, 25, 2017 the Council adopted  an important directive on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons and firearms. Even if the directive is from 2017, EU countries are implementing it only now in summer and autumn 2019, so that many shooters and collectors still don't know much about it. So let's talk about it now. Because this EU directive radically modifies and renews the …

Updated version of the knife adopted by the "Gruppo Operativo Incursori " - GOI - Special Forces unit of the Italian Navy , the S.E.R.E. 2 (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) by Extrema Ratio, is an innovative "push dagger" fixed-blade design sporting very special features. Designed for combat, survival, emergency and rescue tasks, it's compact and the grip angle is very similar to the grip …

Police Pistol Schmal, or PPS for short: this is what Carl Walther from Ulm, Germany, called a polymer pistol with striker-fired action introduced in 2007. Exactly nine years later, Walther’s pistol underwent a facelift à la Hollywood star – in other words: so thorough that you have to look twice to recognize it. We have now tested this model on all4shooters.com.

Jean Marc Coyault from the Ain Region, France, hunts deer and wild boar and eland in Sweden. He has hunted for years in Cameroon and South Africa and shares with all4hunters why the beauty and diversity of landscapes draw him back to Namibia to hunt with Ozondjahe Safaris. In these fascinating places you can hunt impala, blue and black wildebeest, oryx, baboon, zebra, duiker, cape eland, …

The Colt 1911A1 in .45 caliber is one of the most iconic handguns ever. Reliable, spartan, easy to strip and clean, but... it may happen to spoil the finish of the frame if the pistol is not reassembled carefully. With the help of an expert gunsmith, let’s see how to avoid the damage known as the "idiot mark".  

In the last installment of our series we dealt with self-defense using the standard motion sequences of the "Martial Cane Concepts" (MCC) system, which can of course be instinctively adapted to the circumstances depending on how serious the situation is. This time, our author Michael Janich deepens the topic and shows advanced stick techniques for all4shooters.