Author: Braxton Taylor

Hawke Optics recently unveiled its new Endurace 30 FD (Fiber Dot) line of riflescopes. These scopes are built around 30mm maintubes and Hawke Optics’ System H5 optics. The lineup includes six different models, including a 1-6x24mm, a 1.7-10x44mm, a 2-12x50mm. a 3-18x44mm SF ‘Mountain Hunter’ (Lightweight and purpose-built for high-country hunts), a 3-18x50mm and a 4.5-27x56mm SF optic. All Endurance 30 Fiber Dot riflescopes come with .25 MOA click values and second focal plane reticles along with the Hawke Optics Fiber Dot red digital fiber optic illumination arrays, which are designed to offer hunters eleven different levels of brightness adjustment.…

Before the election, I had stocked up on some ammo just in case internet sales were abolished, which thankfully did not happen. I enjoy shooting my 1911 chambered in .45 ACP, but more with a lighter 185-grain target load as opposed to the 230-grain hardball. I came across an online sale for some non-toxic Winchester Super Clean ammunition, which is loaded with 165-grain FMJ lead-free bullets. So, I bought a case of this ammunition, thinking that this should be a nice-shooting load with even less recoil than my 185-grain target loads. Surprisingly, the boxes that arrived were labeled for 160-grain bullets, not…

Bushmaster Firearms is launching the newest model in its V-Radicator series, the V-Radicator 22ARC Pistol. Engineered with the latest technology and designed for long-range performance, this new addition to the V-Radicator line is designed for portability, fast target acquisition and ease of use. The V-Radicator 22ARC Pistol is optimized for gun owners seeking accuracy, versatility and superior ballistics in a compact, pistol profile. The Bushmaster V-Radicator 22ARC Pistol was created to fill the gap for a more compact AR-pattern gun, and the V-Radicator 22ARC Pistol is designed to be everything you need for accurate shooting in one compact and efficient…

The Bren Ten started as a cartridge in search of a pistol. No less a subject-matter expert than the late Col. Jeff Cooper had a vision of the perfect combat-handgun cartridge: a .40-caliber, 200-grain bullet that left the muzzle at 1,000 fps. While working on this round, dubbed the .40 Super, Cooper met Thomas Dornaus and Michael Dixon in 1980. A year earlier, the two men formed Dornaus & Dixon Enterprises to develop an improved and more powerful alternative for the Government 1911. The three men joined forces, with Cooper as an outside technical consultant. With this arrangement, Cooper’s cartridge…

President Donald Trump’s administration is sending multiple F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico in operations against drug cartels – another major escalation of force in the region that is concerning legal experts and stoking international tensions.A source familiar with the plans confirmed the deployment of 10 F-35s to Military.com. Reuters first reported the F-35s would be used in operations against designated narco-terrorist organizations operating in the southern Caribbean, and they’re scheduled to arrive in the area by late next week.The escalation and planned use of the highly advanced and costly stealth aircraft come after the Pentagon sent out a public…

The Trump administration is now referring to the Pentagon as the Department of War, even though the name has not legally changed.On Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed an executive order giving the Department of Defense the “secondary name” of the Department of War – a workaround for the fact that a formal name change requires an act of Congress. The order also authorizes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use the “secondary title” of secretary of war.The change aligns with the administration’s fixation on “lethality” and a “warrior ethos,” and exemplifies the more aggressive military posture it has been taking,…

The future of soldier “super goggles,” designed to give frontline troops an AI-enabled view of the battlefield and voice command over drone swarms, is unlikely to look like the bulky, Star Wars-style face computer that might come to mind. Instead, the new tech may look more like the glasses you could see on patrons in a Brooklyn coffee shop, according to the company chosen to make them.The Army has awarded a $200 million contract to a startup called Rivet to develop prototype computers, goggles, and watches to give soldiers a battlefield intelligence edge, as part of the Soldier Borne Mission…

The Coast Guard is changing its physical fitness assessments.The service announced this week that all military personnel will be required to undergo mandatory physical fitness tests, or PFTs, beginning next year, Military.com reported. Those tests will be based on the existing boat crew fitness standards.The boat crew test involves planks, push-ups and a 1.5-mile run. A 2,000-meter row or 12-minute swim can be done in place of the run, though, with time or distance requirements based on one’s age group.While the events in this fitness test are not new to military testing, sit-ups have been replaced by the plank pose,…

Every year, right about the time the leaves start to turn and kids head back to school, the headlines start rolling out: “Brace yourself, the September Effect is here.” For decades, September has carried the reputation as the worst month for stock market performance. Historically, the S&P 500 has stumbled more often than it has soared in September.But let me share a perspective that may surprise you: The so-called “September Effect” matters a lot less than you think.Yes, data shows September has historically been a softer month for stocks. But we’re not building our retirement plans on what the market…

Veterans maintained a remarkably low unemployment rate in a cooling economy Friday in the first monthly jobs report since President Donald Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner over data showing that hiring had cratered.The BLS report for August put the jobless rate for veterans at 3.0% even as the national unemployment rate ticked up from 4.2% to 4.3%, which was the highest rate recorded since October 2021.The latest BLS data, which was collected through the mid-month of August, showed that the unemployment rate for all veterans was 3.0% in August while the subset unemployment rate for the post-9/11…