2012年04月11日
Predator Tactical Night Shrike .45 ACP
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Custom-built 1911 with enhanced touches and lightning-fast reloads!
The Night Shrike is a 4-inch defense gun with an alloy frame.
Starting a new company to manufacture 1911 pistols makes as much sense to me as starting a new AR-manufacturing company—the market is just too saturated with companies building the same style of guns and chasing the same dollars. Matt Burkett of Predator Tactical has a plan and begs to differ, however.
While many readers will recognize Matt Burkett as a guest instructor on the History Channel’s popular Top Shot show, he’s achieved worldwide success as a pistol and 3-Gun competitor with a list of titles and championships that are only surpassed by the numbers of elite military and law enforcement units that he has trained.
Customers can order customized engraving on the slide flats of their Night Shrike.
“My philosophy is to do things well and do them right, and then back it up with unmatched customer service. After all, it’s my name and reputation on the company. Scot Towner and Lynn Harrison convinced me that we could do something right that no one else has been able to do. Between the two of them, they have 25 to 30 years of experience building 1911s,” said Burkett.
I was at the Tempe, Arizona, manufacturing facility of Predator Tactical, attempting to discover what would set this new brand apart from other 1911 companies. “Look,” said Burkett, “I don’t want to build 10,000 guns a year. I’ll be happy building just 300 to 400 guns and being able to maintain my level of customer service.”
Weighing just 30 ounces, the Night Shrike epitomizes what every carry gun should be
The topic of my meeting this day with Burkett was to discuss Predator Tactical’s newest pistol, the Night Shrike. It’s a 4-inch barreled 1911 pistol built on an alloy frame for weight savings and incorporates the new Predator Tactical magazine well.
The polished stainless steel parts contrast nicely with the matte frame.
It’s a gun that possesses the perfect balance and a feeling of quality. I handled five different Night Shrikes at Predator Tactical and each possessed an amazing degree of fit and finish. The frame-to-slide fit is absolutely impeccable, yet the slide cycled as if it rode on ball bearings. The ambidextrous thumb safeties, beavertail and slide stop were all fit with the same flawless precision.
Predator Tactical’s TacWell doubles the size of the mag well without adding length or girth to the frame.
Predator Tactical serrates the top of the Night Shrike’s slide to reduce glare.
The Night Shrike uses a Wilson Combat bushing-less bull barrel and material is relieved from the inside of the slide for a precision fit. That same fixture is also used to trim the barrel hood.
Checkering is included on the Night Shrike’s frontstrap. Machine cut at 30 lines per inch, I could not find a single flat diamond or overrun on any of the shop guns. Once all of the parts are fit to the frame, the gun is stripped and blasted with Ziconia, a non-embedding ceramic media that doesn’t shatter like glass beads and smoothes the surface of the aluminum without freckling. Customers have a choice of colors for the frame. While I was in the Predator Tactical manufacturing facility, I saw varieties of desert tan, OD green and matte black.
Predator Tactical machine-checkers the Night Shrike’s frontstrap at 30 lines per inch.
Perhaps the most eye-catching feature of the Night Shrike is its new Predator TacWell. PT’s magazine well is cut flush with the frame yet doubles the area of the chute. The patent-pending part requires the frame to be cut on the sides and the part slides on and is anchored with the mainspring housing pin. Once attached, the TacWell becomes part of the gun and is rigid without any play. The mag well opening is deeper in the back and requires a mainspring housing cut specifically for this mag well.
Predator Tactical’s TacWell supplies the shooter with a mag well twice the size of a normal mag well for quick and sure magazine changes, yet the outside diameter of the mag well is not any bigger than standard frame dimensions, making it perfect for serious defense work.
Customers can order their Night Shrike with the newest set of Crimson Trace Masters Series grips.
The polished stainless steel part contrasts nicely with the matte finish there. The ambidextrous thumb safeties and beavertail grip safety are brightly polished stainless steel, too. The fit of the beavertail is impeccable. It moves smoothly and possesses less than a hair’s thickness between frame and beavertail. Lynn Harrison is in charge of cosmetics and fit of these parts. He’s also the man responsible for the super crisp 3-pound trigger pull the Night Shrike possesses.
Predator Tactical outfits the Night Shrike with a full-length recoil spring guide. Its bushingless barrel design makes it easy to disassemble.
Predator Tactical gets their fire control parts (hammer, sear, disconnector) from Extreme Engineering. The wire EDM parts are popular with the competition market but are also perfect for custom defense guns. Harrison says that the parts are so consistent that he can get a perfect trigger pull every time.
PT serrates the top of the slide to reduce glare and the three middle lines are cut a little deeper to accentuate the center of the slide. Customers have their choice of sights. PT uses Tripp, Dawson and Heine rear sights and can outfit the Night Shrike with a tritium, fiber-optic or plain front sight.
The Night Shrike’s light weight and features make it ideal for a custom defense handgun.
Burkett’s thought here is to offer sights that the customer can best utilize. Burkett said, “One older customer bought the Night Shrike from a dealer’s shelf and called and asked if he could make the trigger pull heavier and also wanted a fiber-optic front sight that he could see better. He sent us the gun and we made the changes at no charge. We’re not a rigid assembly line here at Predator Tactical.”
The Night Shrike’s ejection port is lowered and flared, and PT craftsmen break all of the sharp edges—but not so much that the gun doesn’t have a nice sharp, detail-filled appearance. All engraving is CNC machined and customers can have virtually anything engraved on the slide flats.
An alloy frame with a tactical rail is used on the Night Shrike.
The grips are machined from rugged G10 Micarta material and cut to fit the PT TacWell. They have colors to match all of the different frame colors. While I was in the shop, Burkett showed me a new generation of Crimson Trace Master Series grips that had been fit to a Night Shrike. The new grip does not require shortening the weak-side safety.
Performance
Burkett fires and sights in every gun produced in his shop. According to Burkett, “Every gun has a minimum of 100 flawless rounds through it when we ship. I’ll do at least two cycles with every magazine. So, if a customer orders 10 magazines with his gun, I’ll fire a minimum of 160 flawless rounds through it. People rely on our guns for competition and real-world defense and we can’t take a chance that they’re not right. I want them to be able to go shoot a match or start carrying the gun the day they get it with complete confidence that gun will help them win a match or survive a deadly encounter.”
The Night Shrike is available with a choice of front sights. This pistol was outfitted with a fiber-optic front sight.
Burkett emphasizes, “These are all custom guns. You can have them anyway you want them and we can put your name on them. We sometimes try to build forward; in essence, we get the gun to the point where the customer wants to customize it with engraving or sights etc.” So turnaround time for a custom gun, built on the Night Shrike template, is very quick.
Predator Tactical offers the Night Shrike in a myriad of colors.
The Night Shrike comes with a lifetime warranty and the people who buy Predator Tactical guns will shoot them a lot. So if you have a breakage after 100,000 rounds, Burkett will happily replace the part and make it like new.
Predator Tactical’s Night Shrike is expensive at $3,950, but as Burkett notes, “Not everyone can drive a Ferrari, either.”
By Mike Detty, Images by Alex Landeen
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Custom-built 1911 with enhanced touches and lightning-fast reloads!
The Night Shrike is a 4-inch defense gun with an alloy frame.
Starting a new company to manufacture 1911 pistols makes as much sense to me as starting a new AR-manufacturing company—the market is just too saturated with companies building the same style of guns and chasing the same dollars. Matt Burkett of Predator Tactical has a plan and begs to differ, however.
While many readers will recognize Matt Burkett as a guest instructor on the History Channel’s popular Top Shot show, he’s achieved worldwide success as a pistol and 3-Gun competitor with a list of titles and championships that are only surpassed by the numbers of elite military and law enforcement units that he has trained.
Customers can order customized engraving on the slide flats of their Night Shrike.
“My philosophy is to do things well and do them right, and then back it up with unmatched customer service. After all, it’s my name and reputation on the company. Scot Towner and Lynn Harrison convinced me that we could do something right that no one else has been able to do. Between the two of them, they have 25 to 30 years of experience building 1911s,” said Burkett.
I was at the Tempe, Arizona, manufacturing facility of Predator Tactical, attempting to discover what would set this new brand apart from other 1911 companies. “Look,” said Burkett, “I don’t want to build 10,000 guns a year. I’ll be happy building just 300 to 400 guns and being able to maintain my level of customer service.”
Weighing just 30 ounces, the Night Shrike epitomizes what every carry gun should be
The topic of my meeting this day with Burkett was to discuss Predator Tactical’s newest pistol, the Night Shrike. It’s a 4-inch barreled 1911 pistol built on an alloy frame for weight savings and incorporates the new Predator Tactical magazine well.
The polished stainless steel parts contrast nicely with the matte frame.
It’s a gun that possesses the perfect balance and a feeling of quality. I handled five different Night Shrikes at Predator Tactical and each possessed an amazing degree of fit and finish. The frame-to-slide fit is absolutely impeccable, yet the slide cycled as if it rode on ball bearings. The ambidextrous thumb safeties, beavertail and slide stop were all fit with the same flawless precision.
Predator Tactical’s TacWell doubles the size of the mag well without adding length or girth to the frame.
Predator Tactical serrates the top of the Night Shrike’s slide to reduce glare.
The Night Shrike uses a Wilson Combat bushing-less bull barrel and material is relieved from the inside of the slide for a precision fit. That same fixture is also used to trim the barrel hood.
Checkering is included on the Night Shrike’s frontstrap. Machine cut at 30 lines per inch, I could not find a single flat diamond or overrun on any of the shop guns. Once all of the parts are fit to the frame, the gun is stripped and blasted with Ziconia, a non-embedding ceramic media that doesn’t shatter like glass beads and smoothes the surface of the aluminum without freckling. Customers have a choice of colors for the frame. While I was in the Predator Tactical manufacturing facility, I saw varieties of desert tan, OD green and matte black.
Predator Tactical machine-checkers the Night Shrike’s frontstrap at 30 lines per inch.
Perhaps the most eye-catching feature of the Night Shrike is its new Predator TacWell. PT’s magazine well is cut flush with the frame yet doubles the area of the chute. The patent-pending part requires the frame to be cut on the sides and the part slides on and is anchored with the mainspring housing pin. Once attached, the TacWell becomes part of the gun and is rigid without any play. The mag well opening is deeper in the back and requires a mainspring housing cut specifically for this mag well.
Predator Tactical’s TacWell supplies the shooter with a mag well twice the size of a normal mag well for quick and sure magazine changes, yet the outside diameter of the mag well is not any bigger than standard frame dimensions, making it perfect for serious defense work.
Customers can order their Night Shrike with the newest set of Crimson Trace Masters Series grips.
The polished stainless steel part contrasts nicely with the matte finish there. The ambidextrous thumb safeties and beavertail grip safety are brightly polished stainless steel, too. The fit of the beavertail is impeccable. It moves smoothly and possesses less than a hair’s thickness between frame and beavertail. Lynn Harrison is in charge of cosmetics and fit of these parts. He’s also the man responsible for the super crisp 3-pound trigger pull the Night Shrike possesses.
Predator Tactical outfits the Night Shrike with a full-length recoil spring guide. Its bushingless barrel design makes it easy to disassemble.
Predator Tactical gets their fire control parts (hammer, sear, disconnector) from Extreme Engineering. The wire EDM parts are popular with the competition market but are also perfect for custom defense guns. Harrison says that the parts are so consistent that he can get a perfect trigger pull every time.
PT serrates the top of the slide to reduce glare and the three middle lines are cut a little deeper to accentuate the center of the slide. Customers have their choice of sights. PT uses Tripp, Dawson and Heine rear sights and can outfit the Night Shrike with a tritium, fiber-optic or plain front sight.
The Night Shrike’s light weight and features make it ideal for a custom defense handgun.
Burkett’s thought here is to offer sights that the customer can best utilize. Burkett said, “One older customer bought the Night Shrike from a dealer’s shelf and called and asked if he could make the trigger pull heavier and also wanted a fiber-optic front sight that he could see better. He sent us the gun and we made the changes at no charge. We’re not a rigid assembly line here at Predator Tactical.”
The Night Shrike’s ejection port is lowered and flared, and PT craftsmen break all of the sharp edges—but not so much that the gun doesn’t have a nice sharp, detail-filled appearance. All engraving is CNC machined and customers can have virtually anything engraved on the slide flats.
An alloy frame with a tactical rail is used on the Night Shrike.
The grips are machined from rugged G10 Micarta material and cut to fit the PT TacWell. They have colors to match all of the different frame colors. While I was in the shop, Burkett showed me a new generation of Crimson Trace Master Series grips that had been fit to a Night Shrike. The new grip does not require shortening the weak-side safety.
Performance
Burkett fires and sights in every gun produced in his shop. According to Burkett, “Every gun has a minimum of 100 flawless rounds through it when we ship. I’ll do at least two cycles with every magazine. So, if a customer orders 10 magazines with his gun, I’ll fire a minimum of 160 flawless rounds through it. People rely on our guns for competition and real-world defense and we can’t take a chance that they’re not right. I want them to be able to go shoot a match or start carrying the gun the day they get it with complete confidence that gun will help them win a match or survive a deadly encounter.”
The Night Shrike is available with a choice of front sights. This pistol was outfitted with a fiber-optic front sight.
Burkett emphasizes, “These are all custom guns. You can have them anyway you want them and we can put your name on them. We sometimes try to build forward; in essence, we get the gun to the point where the customer wants to customize it with engraving or sights etc.” So turnaround time for a custom gun, built on the Night Shrike template, is very quick.
Predator Tactical offers the Night Shrike in a myriad of colors.
The Night Shrike comes with a lifetime warranty and the people who buy Predator Tactical guns will shoot them a lot. So if you have a breakage after 100,000 rounds, Burkett will happily replace the part and make it like new.
Predator Tactical’s Night Shrike is expensive at $3,950, but as Burkett notes, “Not everyone can drive a Ferrari, either.”
By Mike Detty, Images by Alex Landeen
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2012年04月11日
BCM Gun Fighter’s Grip
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BCM’s Gun Fighter’s Grip is the evolution of the assault rifle grip. Back in the day, armorless shooters were taught to use a bladed stance and a high elbow. But today, body armor and enhanced understanding of body mechanics during shooting and weapon manipulation has lead to changes in how a rifle is shouldered. We now shoot with shoulders squared up to the target and elbows tucked in for stability and to keep from getting shot in the arm.
All of this means shooters no longer grip the rifle like a Vietnam era grunt. To accommodate the change, the grip angle is changed. Looking at a rifle from the side, you’ll see the bottom, leading edge of the newer grip is further forward. Reducing the grip angle allows shooters a straighter wrist which translates into better trigger control, more recoil control and a stronger grip for weapon manipulation.
Travis Haley, who’s company Haley Strategic was consulted by BCM during the development of the grip, says weapon manipulation techniques have advanced as gunfighters adapt their stance to the use of new armor and weapons and apply knowledge gained by studying recent engagements.
He links two benefits of the modern “squared-up” carbine stance to survivability. First, the stance “offers solid recoil control that dramatically increases the shooters ability to balance speed and precision, says Haley, “This improves efficiency, hit probability, effectiveness which leads to improves shooter survivability.
“Addressing the second benefit of squaring up to the threat, Haley says, “although we are still vulnerable in the head, arms and legs, this modern platform aligns the shooter’s armor plate to protect against the threat verses using the bladed stance that presents the threat with the unarmored underarm and has led to countless fatal shootings.”
While the GFG isn’t the first manufacturer to reduce the grip angle on a carbine, it does offer a few advantages with it’s two shapes, the MOD0 and the MOD1. Both versions have reduced grip angles, and both will come with a pair of trigger guard inserts that allow the grip to work with either a standard AR trigger guard or gapless, integral trigger guards found on newer lowers. Both grips also have a hinged bottom that creates a water tight storage compartment inside the grip.
The MOD0 is a back strapless version that shaped more like a traditional AR grip. It works well with thick gloves or smaller hands. The MOD1 is a little meatier and has a highrise back strap that takes advantage of the the grip surface available under the shooter’s thumb webbing.
The surface of the grips are textured, hard polymer. The hard surface will appeal to shooters that don’t like the tacky feel of a rubber over-molded grip.
By: Rob Curtis (militarytimes)
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BCM’s Gun Fighter’s Grip is the evolution of the assault rifle grip. Back in the day, armorless shooters were taught to use a bladed stance and a high elbow. But today, body armor and enhanced understanding of body mechanics during shooting and weapon manipulation has lead to changes in how a rifle is shouldered. We now shoot with shoulders squared up to the target and elbows tucked in for stability and to keep from getting shot in the arm.
All of this means shooters no longer grip the rifle like a Vietnam era grunt. To accommodate the change, the grip angle is changed. Looking at a rifle from the side, you’ll see the bottom, leading edge of the newer grip is further forward. Reducing the grip angle allows shooters a straighter wrist which translates into better trigger control, more recoil control and a stronger grip for weapon manipulation.
Travis Haley, who’s company Haley Strategic was consulted by BCM during the development of the grip, says weapon manipulation techniques have advanced as gunfighters adapt their stance to the use of new armor and weapons and apply knowledge gained by studying recent engagements.
He links two benefits of the modern “squared-up” carbine stance to survivability. First, the stance “offers solid recoil control that dramatically increases the shooters ability to balance speed and precision, says Haley, “This improves efficiency, hit probability, effectiveness which leads to improves shooter survivability.
“Addressing the second benefit of squaring up to the threat, Haley says, “although we are still vulnerable in the head, arms and legs, this modern platform aligns the shooter’s armor plate to protect against the threat verses using the bladed stance that presents the threat with the unarmored underarm and has led to countless fatal shootings.”
While the GFG isn’t the first manufacturer to reduce the grip angle on a carbine, it does offer a few advantages with it’s two shapes, the MOD0 and the MOD1. Both versions have reduced grip angles, and both will come with a pair of trigger guard inserts that allow the grip to work with either a standard AR trigger guard or gapless, integral trigger guards found on newer lowers. Both grips also have a hinged bottom that creates a water tight storage compartment inside the grip.
The MOD0 is a back strapless version that shaped more like a traditional AR grip. It works well with thick gloves or smaller hands. The MOD1 is a little meatier and has a highrise back strap that takes advantage of the the grip surface available under the shooter’s thumb webbing.
The surface of the grips are textured, hard polymer. The hard surface will appeal to shooters that don’t like the tacky feel of a rubber over-molded grip.
By: Rob Curtis (militarytimes)
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2012年04月11日
Leaked Photo of M&P Shield
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S&W is announcing a new pistol. Rumors flying around the internet say that it will be called the S&W M&P Shield, will be single stack, chamber 9mm & .40 S&W, and is just a little larger than 9mm sub-compacts like the Ruger LC9
Leaked photo.
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2012年04月11日
XPower Claymore
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A new type of airsoft claymore will be out in the market soon. It has 3-way detonator system;: be remote, thru IR, and tripwire.
XPower released a video. This will be available in the market around the month of May.
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A new type of airsoft claymore will be out in the market soon. It has 3-way detonator system;: be remote, thru IR, and tripwire.
XPower released a video. This will be available in the market around the month of May.
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