“Tag: AR-15”

Most of the employees at Daniel Defense are hunters, and they convinced Marty there is a good market for ARs on the hunting side. As a result, he recently branched out and created Ambush Firearms, a company that makes AR-15 rifles for hunting. The guns have the same quality and attention to performance as the defense models, but in designs by hunters, for hunters.

SHOT Show 2016 new product announcements have started to trickle out, and the folks have Smith & Wesson were happy to join the party with the announcement of their new M&P15-22 Sport, an update to its wildly popular M&P15-22 line.

Can a rifle really be optimized for hunting and home defense, at the same time? Yes, you can have the best of both worlds.

Lasergrips aren't items we typically spend much time discussing here at American Hunter—we're far more likely to leave that particular family of accessories to our colleagues at American Rifleman and Shooting Illustrated. There comes a time, though, when a product simply demands a closer look.

Burris Optics is offering a free FastFire 3 Reflex Sight with a 3-MOA red dot with the purchase of a Burris AR-332 or AR-536 sight from now until April 1, 2016. The package is designed with tactical shooters in mind, but turkey hunters and Modern Sporting Rifle owners should pay attention. In total, the deal offers savings up to $249.

The "big brother" to the company's SR-556, Ruger's 7.62/.308 Win. chambered SR-762 has been well-received by the AR industry at large.

DPMS, a part of Remington Outdoors, has invested significant resources for developing new concepts, which is how the new DPMS GII, LR rifles came to be offered. Our friends at American Rifleman recently covered the DPMS GII in .308 Win. during a "Rifleman Review" segment on Outdoor Channel's American Rifleman TV.

The Sharps Rifle Company (SRC) developed the .25-45 Sharps cartridge and introduced it in 2012. Not to be confused with Shiloh Sharps—a company that makes historically correct blackpowder cartridge rifles—SRC is for all practical purposes built around this one cartridge, which is designed to replicate .250 Savage ballistics in an AR-15. Four years after its introduction, most hunters have never heard of the .25-45 Sharps. That’s about to change.