In the 1860s, as nations reeled from the shock of industrial warfare and scrambled to modernize their armies, a curious firearm quietly entered service with two very different militaries: the Union Army of the United States and the Austrian Empire. Known today as the Austrian Lindner Carbine, this weapon embodied the improvisational spirit of its...
Category: Rifle/Long Guns
Sharps Bros. Heatseeker Chassis: A Modern, Lightweight Bolt-Gun Backbone
The Sharps Bros. Heatseeker family is a line of 6061-T6 billet aluminum bolt-action chassis with long free-float handguards, AR-15 or 1913 stock interfaces, and broad M-LOK coverage. The lineup spans Remington 700 SA, Savage 110 SA, Ruger American (SA/LA/Ranch), Ruger Precision Rimfire, and Ruger 10/22—plus left-handed Ruger options. In May 2025, Springfield Armory validated the...
Short-Action vs Long-Action Cartridges: What They Really Mean and Why It Matters
If you spend any time around bolt-action rifles, you’ll hear shooters toss around terms like “short action” and “long action.” It sounds simple enough—one is short, the other is long—but there’s a lot of myth and half-truth floating around this subject. The reality is more nuanced, and once you understand how cartridge length, magazine dimensions,...
The H&R DOE 9mm AR Pistol: A Retro Revival of a Cold War Security Classic
In the shadowy world of Cold War-era federal security operations, few firearms reflect the convergence of tactical necessity, government contract secrecy, and evolving firearm design quite like the Colt Model 633—a compact 9mm submachine gun built for the U.S. Department of Energy’s security teams. Now, four decades later, its spirit lives on in a faithful...