by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
So what exactly makes a boot “tactical?” And perhaps equally important, what is Oboz and how do you pronounce it? These are burning questions born of historically flat achy feet and an inquiring mind. Here at Special Hog Weapons and Tactics™, we’ve...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
Running the Centurion Arms CMR rail is quite a reversal for me. I’ve run quad rails since my first DPMS rifle was modified at a gun store in Garland, Texas, long before there was a SHWAT™ website. Even before I’d shot my first hog. Fast forward, I’ve used plenty of...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
Tactical hog hunting is about a lot more than hunting, a lot more than eradication of an invasive destructive species. It’s about more than thermal and night vision gear, black rifles and Kryptek camo. Sometimes tactical hog hunting is high speed up close. Maybe...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
It’s like owning a Ferrari but knowing next to nothing about driving a stick shift. Try owning a finely built precision rifle whose job is long range hunting, but knowing next to nothing about getting the bullet to hit the target 1000 yards downrange....
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
We’re giving away a Free Nightforce NXS Scope! It will be mounted to something very special as well… In this article you’re going to find out why you’d want this $1800 optic, as if that were a real mystery. This is one of two high end optical performers sold at Bill...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
“Seriously?” “That’s it?” “I’m retiring my old suppressor…” All that gushing followed a single pull of the trigger on our custom rebuilt Remington 700, now chambered in 300 Winchester Magnum and sporting an SWR...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
Can a .22 help you kill more hogs? Absolutely! Indirectly at least. The more you practice, the better the results should be, and a .22 caliber dedicated upper or conversion kit is a part of that equation. Since quality gear matters, you’ll be glad to know that the...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
If you add up all the parts in the Grandpa’s Gun Reborn project, it would amount to a stack of cash. But if there was ever an occasion where “The sum of the parts is greater than the whole” was true, this rebirth of the old Remington 700 as a...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
Everything about our tactical long range precision rebuild is top tier. With names like Nightforce, Cadex Defense, and SWR Suppressors in the mix, we carefully weighed our barrel choice options. There are many barrel makers with outstanding reputations in the shooting...
by Jonathan Owen | Special Hunting Weapons & Tactics™ - The Center of Gravity for Tactical and Long Range Hunting
Last week I had the opportunity drive 2500 miles in six days in a loop that took me to places and people you need to know. Why would you want to know them? Excellence and advancement in their own fields that delivers for you and me, the end users. We’re talking Ammo,...
