Iain Harrison

3 weeks ago | recoilweb.com | Iain Harrison

The Browning Hi Power is one of the most successful handgun designs of all time. In the course of its near-century of production, it has been made not just by FN in Belgium, but also across the globe, often under license from FN, but also by simply ripping off the design. One licensed manufacturer was FM (confusing, we know) of Argentina, which produced a chopped version of the Hi Power with a 3.9-inch barrel that they named the Detective.

1 month ago | recoilweb.com | Iain Harrison

I first met Tom in 2011 at the MGM Ironman 3-gun match, a legendary, high round count blast fest in the Idaho desert. We bullsh*tted between stages, hit it off, and the bromance continues to this day. At the time, he’d just returned from a deployment, and was 230 pounds of tattoos and hate, the archetypal Special Forces senior NCO who’d been blown up twice and shot once, recovering and returning to duty each time. Evidently, the only thing that could kill Tom … was Tom.

2 months ago | recoilweb.com | Iain Harrison

Three distinct things Eugene Stoner and Randy Luth have in common: initial careers as precision machinists, zeal for the AR platform, and the knowledge and experience to advance the rifle’s technology. Yet while Stoner designed the AR-15 and the AR-10, Luth — for nearly 40 years — has served as a driving force for not only improving upon Stoner’s blueprints but redefining public perception surrounding the rifle itself.

2 months ago | recoilweb.com | Iain Harrison

Originally created as a homage to Stoner’s other design, the BRN-180 has undergone not so much an evolution, but a caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation. Almost no parts on the Gen 3 version will interchange with previous iterations, but the family lineage is still obvious.

2 months ago | gundigest.com | Iain Harrison

I first met Tom in 2011 at the MGM Ironman 3-gun match, a legendary, high round count blast fest in the Idaho desert. We bullshitted between stages, hit it off, and the bromance continues to this day. At the time, he’d just returned from a deployment, and was 230 pounds of tattoos and hate, the archetypal Special Forces senior NCO who’d been blown up twice and shot once, recovering and returning to duty each time. Evidently, the only thing that could kill Tom … was Tom.