Maintenance

Vuurwapen Blog will soon be down for maintenance. This will hopefully be brief and painless.

Hughes Amendment Vote Video

Charlie Rangel apparently thinks it’s a Home Depot commercial…stop hammering, Charlie!

Sig P226 X-Five Tactical: Short Attention Span Review

Again, new video format. Will supplant, not replace, older style videos if it is well received. The goal is to create a descriptive 1 to 2 minute video on a firearm or accessory.

Doug Ritter RSK Mk1 M2/Benchmade Griptilian Review

Test of a new review subject…Further reviews subject to how this one is received.

http://www.kniferights.org/ – For those interested in supporting the right to carry knives.

7.62×25

I don’t even have time to take a halfway decent picture…I’m off to the range! Some of my friend Kristofer Gulbrandsen’s hard work has finally paid off.

Edit – back from the range – it works! More video to come.

Vltor A5 Stock System Followup

 

After 4 months with the Vltor A5, I have found that it just works – with everything. Every possible 5.56mm upper, and many other calibers, have been tested with the A5, and the results are always more than satisfactory. It builds on the reliability of the rifle buffer system while expanding the length of pull range of the traditional collapsible stock system. In addition, it offers increased durability when longer stocks such as the Vltor EMod or Magpul ACS are used.

The Best $100 I Have Ever Spent

I have purchased a lot of things that have been exceptionally useful. Some of them have been expensive, and some of them have been cheap. $100 is a decent amount of money, but well within the price range of many shooters out there.

So, what is it? A muzzle device? A 60 round magazine? A vertical grip? A holster?

No, it’s a camera.

The Casio Exilim EX-FS10, to be exact.

All of the high speed video on this blog, as well as almost all of the HD video (with the exception of SHOT video), and many of the still images were shot with this camera, which is currently available for $90 on Amazon.

“But hey,” you say. “I don’t want to start a blog. Why would I need to buy this camera?”

Even if I had never made a single blog post, this camera would have been worth its weight in gold to me. I have been able to analyze (and improve) my own shooting, discover exactly how my weapons malfunction, and help countless shooters at the range with their own training or equipment issues, by being able to show them what’s going wrong in slow motion.

It’s been pretty durable, too – the scratches on the side are from when the (poorly secured) camera flew off the hood of my Jeep while I was practicing shooting from a moving vehicle.

It’s small enough and light enough to fit in any pocket – meaning that I can take it anywhere – and its reliability has meant that when my DSLRs failed, I still had something to shoot with.

As a run of the mill point and shoot camera, it is outclassed by many other products. The high speed functions, though, make it uniquely useful to shooters and possibly to other professions/hobbies/sports as well.

It can take decent photos – it just requires a little more concentration and effort than “better” point and shoot cameras or DSLRs.

Whether you’re in the market for a digital camera or not, the extra features of the Casio EX-F line of cameras should really interest many shooters, hunters, law enforcement, and military personnel.

You Guessed It… More SHOT Videos

Let’s hope that “modern improvements” does not mean “we screwed it up.”

Closeup of the LaRue PredatAR rail.

More SHOT Videos

Will update this post as they upload. More will be added in the future.

SHOT 2011 Photos/Video

A few, anyway.

Vltor lower receiver

Is that a LaRue part number on that suppressor? I believe it is…