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Survival Gear Review: Streamlight TLR-3

Shared from Zite   What It Is The  Streamlight TLR-3  is the most diminutive of the  Streamlight Tactical Gun Mount series  of weapon-mounted  lights.  Streamlight has made a serious name for itself in the illumination market, perhaps even coming close to dominating the weapon light market.  Their product offerings for weapon-mounted lights range from the  TLR-1 HL  with a turn-bread-into-toast-at-25-paces 630 lumen output all the way down to the tiny TLR-3 and  TLR-4  (which looks to be a TLR-3 with a red or green laser incorporated into it.). John Hames shared with you:   Survival Gear Review: Streamlight TLR-3 survivalcache.com - As I sit here typing this out, I have a neat little self-defense package nestled on my hip, residing there quite ...

Greatest Cartridges: 7.62x51 NATO or .308, Either Way it Packs a Punch

Shared from Zite   The cartridge was developed in the 1950′s as the NATO standard small-arms cartridge. Standardizing a single cartridge for use among all the NATO allies provided a substantial advantage over the previous situation whereby each NATO nation was armed with its own cartridge with little, if any, interchangeability John Hames shared with you:   Greatest Cartridges: 7.62x51 NATO or .308, Either Way it Packs a Punch gundigest.com - The 7.62×51 NATO or .308 Winchester offers nearly the same ballistics as a .30-06, but in a more compact cartridge. First, let's start this discussion with a comparison between the 7.62×51 NATO cartridge and its civilian counterpart, the .308 Winchester. The differences between them are very...

The 5 Most Expensive Firearms in RIA’s September Auction

Shared from Zite   Final price: $161,000. This rare Luger is believed to be one of three seven-shot baby Lugers to exist in the world, and it happens to be the one in the best condition. According to RIA historians, this pistol may have been constructed as a prototype under the supervision of Georg Luger himself, and possibly even hand-built by the designer. John Hames shared with you:   The 5 Most Expensive Firearms in RIA's September Auction outdoorhub.com - For three days in September, thousands of the rarest and strangest firearms available to collectors were up for grabs by the Rock Island Auction (RIA) company in Illinois. The myriad collection of Colt revolvers, finely engraved Winchester rifles, tiny derringers, and other historic...