Is a minigun an option on your vehicle?

Apparently someone does think that putting a MiniGun on a Suburban might be a good idea. I'd guess we're talking about private security firms, but there have been times in rush hour that it would seem like a good idea (obviously joking).




DillionAero appears to be a company entirely focused on bringing miniguns out into the world. And here I thought that we had to rely on a former Minnesotan governor to show the true value a minigun can offer your discerning forest hiker. Check out their videos section.

Spray and pray

There has been quite a push lately in the non lethal weapons realm. Kimber in particular has been pushing the LifeAct "pepper" spray device in a variety of gun magazines. Advertised at ~$30 it is on par with most pepper spray products, while having a smaller size.



Initially I was interested in that I know that Kimber produces quality products and like most I'd prefer my wife carry "something" as opposed to "nothing" sometimes. For some reason, I had thought this thing would shoot out a jet like a micro water gun, but that's far from correct.



As you can see from the video, it's much more like a compressed jet of liquid flying out of this device instead of a weaker stream. Kimber lists the range as 2 to 13 feet which seems reasonable given the size and cost of the device.

On the other hand, I've seen a couple of advertisements for the Avurt IM-5 launcher lately.

It's a much more expensive option (at $300 US) but also works quite differently from the Kimber device. As explained in the video below, it fires (with sound!) a pepper spray "paint ball" that explodes on contact. From the video below, it would certainly seem like it has more stopping power than the Kimber device. Of course, it's quite a bit bigger and with 10 times the cost, you'd hope it'd be a "better" device.

Check out the video:




Let me know if you have any experience with these products.

USMC 232nd Birthday

Today is the 232nd US Marine Corps Birthday! (via link)

A gatling gun LED flashlight

While Surefire surely has a hammerlock on the tactical light accessory market, this flashlight looks like it would pack a punch. While it's 240 Lumens of light output, the 100,000 hours of continuous on looks interesting.

via Uncrate

An AK-47 burns worse than a toaster, a Saiga 12 goes boom, and other recent adventures

Keith (a college buddy of ours) just made it back from Iraq last month, and after relaxing back home, stopped by on his way back to Texas. Jon and I decided it was entirely worth a day of leave to take Keith out to the gun range and get some new pictures, but couldn't talk Old Ike into leaving WSMR for the day. I've heard that "a day at the gun range doesn't count against your days here on Earth," and I'd say it's a philosophy that Jon and I subscribe to pretty well. 'Course we're both from Kansas, whereas Ike is from Colorado, so maybe that has something to do with it...

So we packed up The Element (yes, I know) and headed out to the range bright and early on a nice Friday morning. The days are starting to actually cool down here, in sunny New Mexico, and being a Friday we were hoping to get a quiet range for our little group. While there were a couple of other's out there (I'm convinced Las Cruces is the place retirees choose if they want a nice public range nearby, and they don't want to be up in Raton), we did manage to grab a couple of benches to ourselves and setup shop.

Keith has been full time National Guard for a while and spent most of his time overseas (Bosnia and Iraq so far). While we all grew up shooting, I'd say that the shooting bug bit most of our crew recently; not so with Keith, who got an AK-47 and 2,000 rounds of ammunition for his 18th birthday from his dad (retired highway patrol and now gunsmith).

'course he's from Kansas too...

We had several new guns to test out that day:

• Remington 700 in 300 Win Mag
• Saiga 12
• AK-47

and I hope to get the movies from that day up on the sight soon. We tried to fill out the regular targets (cantaloupe, car door, etc) and we did some silhouette work as well. Look for a future post when I get the movies online.

- Frank

New Ruger GP 100 review

I've had my Ruger GP 100 revolver for about 6 months now, and finally felt like it was time to write up a review. See it the review over at stoppingpower.info. Let me know if you have any additional questions, and I'll try to get them answered.


Ruger GP 100 review

Jobs board added

I've added a new jobs board that may be of interesting to StoppingPower.Info readers. It's powered off of Simply Hired's Job-o-Matic application. Their application allows anyone (including me) to stick a job board up on their web site, link to it, and have the ability to accept new job postings for $X dollars for Y days.

Given all that, I threw up a job board that's filled with "hunting fishing gun" related search terms, so that StoppingPower.Info readers might find a new job if they're looking for one. Given the limited searches I've done on the job board, it sure does seem like Cabela's is really on a hiring binge.


StoppingPower.Info Jobs board