by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
This simple post to LinkedIn revealed again that when it comes to dealing with wild hogs, we’re not educating people well: “Never bought gear to hunt at night? Rent it! Here’s the @trijicon @irdefense Hunter MK2 from @ultimatenightvision and the results. Paired...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
If you’re like the vast majority of hunters and shooters, you probably don’t give the process of manufacturing the ammo you use a lot of thought. Reloaders, don’t tune out just yet… Not long ago I was invited to tour Remington’s ammunition plant outside Little Rock,...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
The choice of communists and dictators worldwide, the AK47 and AK74 are simultaneously lauded, hated or just overlooked, but almost never are they suppressed in the West. Until now, that is. I’ve just returned from a trip to the Dead Air Armament Utah headquarters...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
I wonder how many “best hog hunting rifle” stories have been told? Seriously, four years ago we ran a top ten hog hunting rifles story that still has traction on Google. But it’s not 2012 anymore and after spending the night hog hunting with the newest offering from...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
Much has been written about the Trijicon MRO already. One forum has no less than 52 pages of arguments, many of which seem to be written by people who don’t actually USE their optics beyond their couch or local range. I think many people are looking at this Trijicon...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
Are you a quality or quantity kind of gun owner? Of course, you could be both and AR-15 parts maker Forward Controls Design really makes it easy to check the quality box. Owner Roger Wang has a rock solid track record here. I’ve known him for about five years...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
It’s 2016, the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting (or NRA Show) is now history, and the bullpup rifle genre is bigger than it was. American shooters and hunters now have bullpup rifle options in calibers from the always fun .22 long rifle all the way up to the...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
Gadgets. Who doesn’t love a good gadget, especially one that make other things you enjoy work better? Or in this case, makes cleaning your AR-15 or other guns a task less daunting for those of us who dread those days. Our friend Nate put together this video...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
Here at SHWAT™ we rarely publish anything off a generic press release, usually we try to be more in depth. I’m making an exception given the nature of the announcement. I think this is something a lot of us would be interested in: a monolithic integrally suppressed...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
For three years I’ve used and loved Elite Survival Systems gear, so when they rolled out the PULSE 24 Hour Backpack I wanted to get my hands on one. In doing this review, I discovered that I’m a bit of a backpack aficionado. I didn’t even realize it, but it seems I...
