6.8 SPCII vs. West Texas Wild Hogs
I’d been waiting for this opportunity. I’d already set up and reviewed the Daniel Defense M4V7 chambered in 6.8 SPCII a couple of months ago. The AR-15 is solid, well made with all the trappings of a top tier mil-spec rifle, and I liked almost everything about it. I...
Grandpa’s Gun Reborn – From Dust Collector to Long Range Precision Rifle Part 1
Loaded question: What if the law of the land prevented you from shooting, training, hunting or even owning an AR-15, an AK-47, or the highly anticipated Israeli Tavor? What if semi-automatic guns and full capacity magazines got banned? Or maybe these great parts of...
Tactical First Aid for the Hunter – “What goes in your kit?” Part 1: Tourniquets
Types of Tourniquets Tourniquets are one of the most valuable lifesaving tools you can have in your kit. Every Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) on the market these days comes with some version of a tourniquet. If you currently have some sort of first aid kit, be sure...
First Hunt – Natalie Foster from A Girl’s Guide to Guns Takes On Tactical Hog Hunting
By Natalie Foster at A Girl's Guide to Guns It all began with an email from Nathan Dudney of Dynamic Research Technologies. We had met a few months earlier on a rainy April day at a Starbucks in Memphis. I was on my range tour trip for my website,...
Night Vision on a Budget – Is the $269 ATN DNVM-4 Useful or Not?
If you’ve been paying any attention to SHWAT™ you know we get to use some amazing gear. It hasn’t always been that way for me though. Prior to founding SHWAT™, I’ve worked some low paying jobs, been through the fun of being laid off, and experienced some of the...
My Daily Carry Gun and Tactical Hog Hunting: Do They Go Together?
Every now and then, you get the opportunity to do something when you least expect it. The circumstances are all wrong, but it’s just too irresistible. Last night was one of those times for me. I was out at relative’s farm north of Dallas trying out a night vision...
Daniel Defense M4 Carbine V7 in 6.8 SPCII Hands On Review
What is quality? You read a gun review, and it seems like more often than not you get something like this: “With a name like X, you know you’re getting quality.” With the number of solid AR-15 manufacturers in the market today, there’s probably some truth to that....
SHOT Show 2013 – Stories and Pictures Continuously Updated
Dateline Las Vegas - SHOT Show 2013 is on, and SHWAT™ founders are here. We're going to continuously update this article for you, so keep checking back to see what's exciting in the firearms industry right now. Politically, there are a lot of unknowns at the moment,...
“Gun Control” – Why We Care About Magazine Capacity, Semi-Auto Actions and More
Over the last few years, we have seen several shootings highly publicized in the media. Yet, as a country, we have been growing more and more pro Second Amendment or “gun friendly” if you will. Many Americans have recognized that guns themselves are not the problem. ...
Review: Smith and Wesson’s New VTACII Rifle–It’s Got Tactical Hog Hunting Written All Over It!
The first thing I noticed when I picked up Smith & Wesson’s (S&W) new VTACII rifle was the way the rifle’s slim smooth handguard fit my hand so nicely. Without the quad rail design I usually see, I found the tube handguard with a single picatiny rail running...
