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2 weeks ago | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
Double-stack 1911-style pistols (more colloquially known as 2011s) have generated pretty strong reactions — positive and negative — among the firearms community over the years, but it’s safe to say that they’ve now cemented their position as high-performance pistols. We don’t need to tell you about the 1911, the most American of American pistols, chiseled out of pure badassery by Saint John Moses Browning himself.
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3 weeks ago | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
Suppressing pistols has always been a tricky business. To begin with, many semi-automatic pistols have narrower operating windows than you might think, depending on factors such as the type of ammunition, mass of the parts and attachments, springs, and the shooter. On top of this, the Browning tilting-barrel design is ubiquitous in modern pistols.
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1 month ago | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
The double-stack 1911-pattern pistol, colloquially known as a 2011, has long been a darling of competitive shooters. In more recent years, it’s become a hot segment for tactical and self-defense users as well.
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2 months ago | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
Stun grenades, commonly called flashbangs, are diversionary devices intended to distract and disorient enemies in a non-lethal manner. First used in the 1970s, they’re explosive devices that rely upon a blinding burst of light, painfully loud noise, and overpressure to disorient the enemy. The flash of light is generally measured in millions of candela, and the bang is typically over 170 decibels. That’s some serious flashing and banging.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
Firearms that discharge multiple projectiles at once have been around since the blunderbuss and fowling pieces of the 1600s and beyond, used for hunting birds as well as war. The basic concept of the modern shotgun isn’t so modern; witness the iconic Winchester Model 1897 pump-action shotgun from the late 1800s. They’re simple, reliable smoothbores that shoot shotshells, packed with everything from a clump of shot to a big honking slug.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
Magpul Industries Corporation is now synonymous with their ubiquitous polymer magazines. But that’s not how they got their start back in 1999. Back in the day, when founder Richard Fitzpatrick served in the Marines, operators would attach loops of paracord or duct tape to their magazines to make it easier to grab them and yank them out of mag pouches.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
The concept of a ranch rifle is generally considered to be a handy, compact, intermediate-caliber rifle, carried around all-day long from dawn to dusk while on a ranch. Most people probably envision something like the OG ranch rifle, the Ruger Mini-14 — a magazine-fed semi-automatic rifle in 5.56 or 7.62×39 with a traditional stock. Such a rifle is very effective at policing a ranch, protecting livestock, crops, and more by dispatching pests, predators, and game.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
Life is full of tradeoffs. There’s the old adage: “Do you want it good, fast, or cheap? Pick two.” In other words, you can’t have it all. The same applies when selecting a firearm for concealed carry use. Unless you’re built like a Clegane or dressed for winter, you usually have to settle on some compromise between capability and capacity versus comfort and concealability. On the one hand, a larger, full-size pistol is much easier to shoot well and provides more magazine capacity.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
We’re all gun nerds at heart here at RECOIL. So while it’s neat to check out the latest and greatest AR or the umpteenth refinement of a Glock, we love seeing weapon systems that stray off the beaten path. M+M Industries is based in Colorado and was started by two fellows named Mike, hence the company name. One of the original Mikes, Mike Meier, now runs M+M. Born in Switzerland, he also lived in Venezuela before moving to America.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
recoilweb.com | Steven Kuo
We’ve often referred to the AR platform as LEGOs for adults, because you can build and configure them to your heart’s content. However, there’s a limit to that analogy. You don’t need tools to tear down and rebuild your LEGOs. As flexible as it is, a standard AR lower can’t accommodate longer cartridges like 7.62 or 6.5CM; you’ll need to switch to a large frame AR for that. And it takes tools and some effort to swap out barrels. To be fair, Eugene Stoner invented the thing in the 1950s.
