#Mars

Montana-based Olympus Arms returns to SHOT Show’s Industry Day at the Range with their Vulcan rifle. The company has been busy refining the design of the weapon and has decided to bring the bulk of its parts manufacturing in-house, making a significant investment in new machine tools.

Rimfire PRS (Rimfire Precision Rifle Series) shooting is fast becoming one of the most popular shooting sports in America. Not only does the sport have a lower upfront cost for most shooters, but the series also invites newer and less experienced shooters to the fun with its fun and friendly environment. In that same vein, Dave and Tony with the Modern American Rimfire Series (MARS) club have gone above and beyond to bring more and more shooters into the sport and MARS has now expanded to cover nearly half the country and is becoming more and more organized as members start to join in greater numbers. If you’re curious about MARS or rimfire PRS shooting competitions, this podcast is just for you.

Rimfire PRS is a rapidly growing sport in the United States and organizations like the Mid Atlantic Rimfire Series are also feeling the accelerated growth. A while back you guys will remember that I wrote a  Rimfire Report article on the eastern-coast-based competition which had a good mix of new, old, and younger shooters who were all competing with one another across the eastern seaboard of the United States. Now, the Mid-Atlantic Rimfire Series has decided to rebrand itself as the Modern American Rimfire Series to reflect the growth that MARS has seen as well as to more accurately represent the organization.

In a few years Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, plans to get humans to Mars. I’m pretty sure most people have seen the Planet in the sky, knowingly or not. It’s the 4th planet from the Sun and it’s a rather cold one. It also has the largest volcano in the Solar System, and to me, it sounds like a one-way road to go there. I’d rather watch as others take-off, but if I was going there I’d rather go armed, and what better choice than a CZ BREN? A sound suppressor might not be needed in space, but who knows?

Hello and welcome back to another edition of  The Rimfire Report. In this ongoing series we discover, review, and discuss anything and everything surrounding the rimfire firearm world. Recently we covered a few lessons we learned from a competitor’s perspective when it comes to competing in a Precision Rimfire match such as the Mid Atlantic Rimfire Series. I was fortunate enough to be able to have a friend of mine interview a match director so that we could get a good perspective on what it is like to actually set up and run a PRS match.

Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Rimfire Report!  I recently had a chance to speak with a couple of friends of mine who had the opportunity to compete in the Mid Atlantic Rimfire Series (MARS). My friends (Josh and Tom) both shared with me some lessons learned from their most recent competition. From the conversations, I was able to pull four solid tips that I think would be helpful for all people interested in competing in a Precision Rimfire Series Competition.

Last year at SHOT Show 2019, I had a chance to take a look at a prototype rifle by MARS Inc. Back then it was in an early development stage with most parts being in white. Later, during 2019, we learned that MARS and Cobalt Kinetics submitted a rifle to NGSW trials that was based on the general design of the gun we saw at SHOT 2019. For SHOT Show 2020, MARS brought the civilian version of the rifle chambered in .308 Winchester. This final iteration of MARS rifle is called M19 Mustang.

I learned about the MARS rifle right before the SHOT Show 2019. The video demonstration of this rifle on the company’s website showed that while being chambered in .308 Winchester, the rifle virtually has no recoil. Needless to say that I was curious to find the MARS Inc. at the show and see if the gun matches the claims.

United Kingdom goes on with another “there’s nothing to worry about, we are only going to ban the most dangerous firearms this time“.

B&T AG out of Switzerland released a new suppressor at Enforce Tac and IWA 2018 in Germany.

If you ever wanted proof that there is no end to the forces that want to ban firearms and knives here it is.

As you may remember we’ve already talked about the Soviet “space guns” (firearms developed to issue to astronauts) in the past. Particularly we had a couple of  posts on TFB about the TP-82. It was officially adopted and was issued to Soviet astronaut since early ’80s. In this article, we’ll take a look at another such firearm, which was not adopted, yet it is pretty interesting in terms of its mechanism and the history of firearms development.

Today on Modern PDW Calibers we’re going to look at what might seem like a humdrum round, but which represents an important performance band for the modern personal defense weapon. That round is the 5.56x30mm MARS, a purpose built “micro assault rifle” cartridge from Colt designed to fill a similar niche to the WWII-era .30 M1 Carbine.

What was the first double-stack .45 ACP handgun in the world? Well, Springfield Armory Inc might have you believe it was their XD (originally called the HS2000 – and then and now made in Croatia), but more plugged in gun nuts will point to the Para Ordnance P14-45 wide-frame 1911 pistol. It turns out that double stack .45s go back before then… WAY before then. Meet a gun that never lived long enough to get a real name, a double-stack 15-round .45 ACP handgun designed by Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis:

We are currently living in the most exciting era in space exploration in history, one arguably even more important – and certainly more dynamic – than when the Apollo Moon landing program was ongoing in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, a commercial space industry is set to provide transport to low Earth orbit (LEO) for NASA astronauts or even commercial passengers, and just yesterday Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, gave a presentation detailing his vision not just for landing humans on Mars, but for making the human race a true interplanetary civilization by opening up access to the rest of the solar system for anyone willing to go.