Barely returned from the last competition, IPSC shooter Samantha Wendel and her fiancé Horst Holzinger are already back in their reloading room. But why? Why do they spend so much time in front of the reloading presses? Why don't they shoot factory ammunition? Should you reload too? 

Austrian manufacturer Swarovski Optik has revised its Z8i series of driven hunt riflescopes. The two, new optics are now called Z8i+. While one model comes with 1x magnification, the other new model goes negative with a 0.75x magnification. Here on all4hunters.com, first info on the new Z8i+ 0.75-6x20 and the new Z8i+ 1-8x24.

In the Canadian military, the 9mm P320 replaces the 9mm Browning Hi-Power pistol adopted back in 1944. The initial delivery of 7,000 pistols is now complete and soldier fielding of the new gun, designated as C22, is in progress. The contract includes the pistols, holster systems, spares, and operator and maintenance training. 

In 2022, Beretta Holding achieved consolidated net sales of over 1,4 billion euros compared to 958 million euros in 2021, surpassing all expectations. Revenues primarily come from sales to the civil sector, accounting for almost 80%. Beretta Holding also increased investments, especially in R&D.

The Airbase Shooting Range in Wiechlice, Poland, opened its doors almost a year ago and has been hosting top-class events on a regular basis ever since. As one of the largest shooting ranges in all of Europe, it attracted our IPSC-enthusiastic team of authors Tanja and Marijan Loch to Poland at the beginning of May for a challenging competition: not only to go IPSC medal hunting, but also to get a …

Shrink it and pink it - but not at Carl Walther! Normally, when gun manufacturers want to launch products specifically for female shooters, they often just change the color or size. Walther, however, has completely rethought the PDP, especially (but not only) with female shooters in mind. Read on to find out the F-Series features.

Similar in conception to the SIG Sauer Cross, the small US manufacturer Live Q or Die, LLC launched a lightweight, compact and technically interesting bolt-action rifle on the market with the model "The Fix", which we have been able to test in detail. You can read the results here.

The digital platform dedicated to clay pigeon shooting enthusiasts is now also available to Compak Sporting practitioners. There is no better opportunity to try it out than the upcoming Compak Sporting European Championships, which will be held from June 15 to 18 in Foligno, Italy.

Visiting the French Chapuis Armes factory, which has acquired the historic Manurhin brand since 1998, we witnessed the manufacturing of the MR73 revolver, rightly counted among the finest and best performing in its class.

A new knife manufacturer enters the market with an interesting folding knife featuring extremely slender and tapered lines, designed by Italian designer Alessandra De Santis. Let's take a look at all the details of this product with a remarkable quality/price ratio.

At the beginning of the 2000s there was the cult series "Pimp my ride" in which cars were customized and freshened up. Our editorial colleague and IPSC shooter Tanja Loch took the series as a model and had her sporting tool – a Walther Q5 Match Steelframe – "pimped" (i.e. spruced up) with Cerakote. You can read in this article how the whole thing worked and whether the gun is still IPSC-compliant.

all4shooters.com was able to take a close look at the P3000 Tactical pump-action shotgun from Stoeger, which is intended for tactical use. The question for the testers was: how does this pump-action perform in sporting use? We'll tell you in the following detailed test report.

"Fresh to the table!": presented at the SHOT Show in early 2023, the brand-new all-steel classics from Savage Arms in Westfield, Massachusetts, were already available to us for a test. We tell you what the two pistols in the U.S. caliber .45 ACP can offer in practice.

Under review, the Merger LRF XP50 thermal imaging binoculars from Pulsar: streamlined, classic and elegant design, compact size, and top performance. Perfect balance in price, features and overall quality: will the Merger XP50 be the “best buy” in the hunting electro-optics binos world? Let’s find out!

The European Federation for Hunting and Conservation (FACE) handed the signatures to the Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Virginijus Sinkevičius. In a great show of unity and resolve, the campaign petitions the main European institutions to improve collaboration with hunters for nature conservation and the future of hunting. “Bring Back Nature” is the central request.

Who would have imagined reading the name of the quintessential Soviet pistol in a U.S. trademark? Still, the ways of oplology are infinite, and the Tokarev TBP 12 semi-automatic shotgun is here to prove it.