Recoil

As we meander toward the end of the year, looking back over 2022 in a moment of self-reflection is never a bad thing. While it’s all too easy to riff on doom and gloom aspects of runaway inflation, supply chain disruptions, and rampant financial mism

MSRP: $50 URL: refinedsavages.com As much as shooters like to debate the merits of Glocks versus other handguns, they also like to argue about the gap between the back-strap and magazine. While Glock grip plugs have been available for many years, Ref

Down in southern Alabama on the Gulf of Mexico sits the city of Mobile, which boasts a long history of ship building. During World War II, Mobile employed thousands of workers who built liberty ships and tankers for the war effort. That’s why it’s so

The term “technical” is often used to describe a civilian vehicle — usually a 4x4 pickup like the venerable Toyota Hilux — that has been modified to carry an onboard weapon system such as a heavy machine gun, anti-aircraft cannon, or anti-tank rocket

When you’re first introduced to knives and even later on down the road from then, you’ll realize that there’s a lot of bad information out there. Some of this may involve legislation, yet sometimes it rears its ugly head on the finer points of knife

If you’ve spent much time on Instagram lately, you may have seen in certain circles a trend away from barreled ARs to the original long boys. short-With velocities being what they are and that long-standing thing called physics, longer barrels are ap

I didn’t know him well, but he changed my life. Sadly, I never got to tell him. At the NRA Annual Meeting in 2017, my husband and I flew directly to the show from a hunt in Argentina. I was in the middle of fundraising and renovating the Cody Firearm

HK’s tiny PDW achieved iconic status through a combination of ubiquity in first-person shooter video games, as well as unavailability on the civilian market. There’s a very real sense of wanting what you can’t have, and given the expense of convertin

After years of hinting, teasing, and general government procrastination, we the masses were finally blessed by our ATF overlords with an electronic filing system for Form 4s. The “big deal” is a significantly reduced wait time compared to hand-filled

The company itself started with a simple idea. Back in the day, U.S. service-members came up with all kinds of field-expedient solutions to make it simpler to fish reloads out of clumsy USGI magazine pouches — everything from elaborate arrangements o

If you can believe it, Federal Ammunition has been cranking out boom pills for exactly 100 years, nearly as long as our current president has been alive. The original 19,200-square-foot factory was located in Anoka, Minnesota, and after a shaky start

As they say, the definition of insanity is doing things the same but expecting different results. Just ask anyone who works for a living and votes. The crazy political roller coaster of the last decade has created a mad dash to buy firearms. These da

“Aluminum? On a rifle silencer? Like a real one?” I said over the phone, the incredulity apparent and impossible to hide in the voice because it seemed so ludicrous. “Yes,” JK Armament founder and namesake Jake Kunsky stated with the confidence of so

Some fragrant magic happens when your hands warm a snifter of cognac. We pour cognac at the dinner table in our home but consume it thoughtfully in comfortable chairs. The big red leather chair is my preference. Push your nose as far into the snifter

The 2020s got off to a wild start, with pandemic lockdowns, runs on goods, medical equipment, and food, and a general feeling of unease. Gun purchases, particularly among first-time gun owners, reportedly surged as people discovered that their fellow

Cameras and imaging equipment are ubiquitous in the modern world, where anything and everything seems capable of recording an image. However, this wasn’t always the case, largely due to the nonexistence or limitations of cameras themselves. While the

Sometimes a pistol design comes around that changes the way we look at handguns, becoming a trailblazer in influence and design. Other times, a good design may come and go as an “also ran,” making sentimental shooters wonder, “Whatever happened to it

At the height of the Cold War, the RKKA (Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army) was looking to replace the now 70-year-old Mosin Nagant as their standard marksmanship rifle. We use the term “marksmanship” because it was never really what a Western military

We’d love to say that Enrique “Ric” Prado is a man who needs no introduction. But that’s not true. To the contrary, Ric has dedicated his life to secrecy and security. A life-long veteran of America’s clandestine fight to suppress oppression, Ric has

The great AR versus AK debate will seemingly continue until the end of time, or at least until we can all get phased plasma rifles in the 40-watt range. So what better gun-guy pursuit than to combine them? Back in RECOIL Issue 38, we built an AR in 7

The Mauser rifle isn’t one that needs much introduction, even these days. For many countries, the rifle was a first taste of what the civilized world could provide in terms of technology, and for those being “civilized” it was a truly menacing weapon

After several years of toiling away at this column, we’re finally able to cover what is perhaps the apex vice in most of our daily lives: sweets. Southern Vet Sweets was started by Jason Autry, a former artilleryman from the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry