Shooting - News, tests and new products for the sport shooter

Linda Mellor, 52, has had a lifetime around guns but only started shooting four years ago. Determined to approach shotgun shooting correctly, she contacted Perth based shotgun coach Iain MacGregor. Iain has been coaching since the early 1980s, and is one of the UK's few highly qualified shotgun coaches, and holds international qualifications at the highest level.

The NX3G is specifically built for 3 Gun stages and sporting applications. Thanks to its “hybrid” .223 Wylde chambering it will accept .223 Remington and 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition offering  the same accuracy and reliability with both cartridges. 

Ammunition that produces a high level of felt recoil can cause the manual safety to move from the fire to the ‘safety on’ position during firing. The manufacturer offers a no-cost upgrade

Emma Christie works in the shooting industry, and each day she handles guns, cartridges and clays at the family run Auchterhouse Country Sports, a popular clay target shooting ground, near Dundee, Scotland. In 2017, she shot game for the first time, and this year, Emma has her sights on shooting for the Scottish Ladies Team Down the Line team.

IWA 2018 / New from Evolution International: the Italian company specialized in the production of high-end airsoft replicas presented the prototype of a proprietary design pistol that will not only shoot 6 mm plastic pellets but also...

The Hamburg-based company produces high-end, customizable revolvers in calibers ranging from .22LR to .454 Casull in fixed barrel lengths as well as with a Quick Change System. In 2018 Janz is also introducing a 9 mm pistol.

The RPK-16 light machine gun (LMG) in 5.45mm, designed and manufactured by the Russian small arms manufacturer Kalashnikov Concern (a subsidiary of the Russian ROSTEC state corporation), will equip the Russian armed forces. The contract between Kalashnikov and the Russian Defense Ministry to supply the new machine gun was signed last February.

The agreement with Barzan Holdings, a company specifically set up and controlled by the Ministry of Defense of Qatar, includes the manufacturing under license in Doha of 5.56x45mm ARX 160 and 7.62x51mm ARX 200 rifles, and 9mm 92F pistols.

The one-piece Ridge-Lite Barrel Upgrade includes a 6-in barrel and a Picatinny rail, featuring fiber optic front and fully adjustable fiber optic rear sights. It can be easily installed and weighs just 8 oz.

A short overview of the more interesting, curious or crazy products we saw at the Nuremberg Fair. Gold-plated and showy firearms, antique guns, new ideas, “hunting” submachine guns, survival tins with strange contents: they are all here!  

After the US Army, the US Marine Corps will replace its sidearms with the new SIG Sauer handguns. The procurement will cost 6.3 million USD and includes both the full size XM17 and the XM18 compact version.

IWA 2018 / Chiappa Firearms celebrated its 60th anniversary at IWA OutdoorClassics at the booth, presenting the new products for 2018. The italian company was founded in 1958 by Ezechiele Chiappa.

IWA 2018 / New from Winchester: SXP XTRM Defender. Available in two versions, both of which also produced with rifled barrels, the new pump-action shotguns of the SXP series are equipped with pistol grips.

IWA 2018 / News from FOX: the Arditi dagger. A hundred years after one of the first elite force in history was officialy formed, Fox pays tribute to the Italian “Arditi” reproducing their famous dagger.

IWA 2018 / New from Fabarm: STF 12 Compact 11" shotgun. With its 11-inch  (28 cm) long barrel, this new version of the 12 magnum gauge Fabarm STF 12 shotgun fully deserves the "compact" definition.

IWA 2018 / New from KAHLES: the K525i 5-25x56i riflescope. The Austrian riflescope pioneer company presented itself in the new corporate design at the trade fair. But the manufacturer also showed a novelty. The K525i is the new flagship in the field of tactical riflescopes from KAHLES.