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A customer asked if it would be okay to put a red dot sight on a rifle. He asked because they were usually advertised for use on shotguns and handguns. This is true, but there is no reason you can’t use them on a rifle. Most rifles are capable of shooting into a couple inch group at a hundred yards. The dot on most red dot sights will cover three or four inches, thereby making your rifle much less accurate. If you’re only shooting at a hundred yards or closer at vital areas the size of a pie plate, that’s

The latest offering from the Swedish company Aimpoint is the Micro red dot. This tiny unit is built to the same stringent quality control standards as all the Aimpoint products, but is in a minuscule package mountable on almost any firearm with Weaver style or Picatinny rails. The Weaver base is integral with the unit, and being one power, has no particular eye relief requirements. You may install it on a shotgun, rifle, or handgun, and it is parallax free. It uses a single CR2032 battery and will last in the on position for five years continuously on setting eight

Shotgun scopes for deer are more popular every year. Slugs and guns shoot more accurately, greatly increasing the effective maximum range. The range is further enhanced by your ability to see your target clearly through a magnified rifle scope. Maximum ranges of 75 to 100 yards just a couple decades ago have doubled, and are getting farther every year with new technology. A scope for a rifled slug gun should have a few attributes. Long eye relief, important in preventing scope eye. A reasonable parallax correction distance. Most are 75 yards, and shooting closer or farther will have minimal

The Aimshot universal laser boresighter is an easy to use product that can save you time, pain, and money. Time because you won’t be wasting it trying to put a bullet through paper when you don’t even know which way to adjust. Pain, because why beat yourself up with the unnecessary firing of high recoiling guns just to adjust a rifle scope. Money, because time and cartridges are expensive. With the Aimshot laser boresighters you simply insert a laser with the appropriate collar into your gun and adjust your scope to the red dot coming out of your bore at

We’ve been adding Galco holsters to our website as fast as we can, and a large variety of them will be in stock at any time. I’ve been using their top quality products for years, and have even had occasion to send one back for repair through no fault of the manufacturing, just my stupidity. Customer service was excellent, and it came back in a couple days. The people making Galco holsters obviously take pride in their job because the details and quality control are superb. The new Matrix line promises to take a large market share of molded synthetic