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Went shooting on New Year's Eve with my brother in law. Weather was kinda chilly and windy, but WTF when ya need to shoot, you need to shoot. Decided to take my Rock River Varminter out and run some of it's favorite loads through it. Below are some pics of my baby.

All my shooting was done at 100 yds, off a bench with sandbags. My Rock is one of the most accurate rifle's that I own. At the same time, it's also the most unforgiving in terms of showing me what a poor shot I can be. If you aren't at the top of your game and doing everything correctly, the Rock will definitely let you know.

Below are a couple of targets that illustrate what this little beauty is capable of. All the groups where shot by me, and are hand loaded.

My favorite Firearms are Heckler&Koch. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to co-direct a large IDPA pistol match at the Tactical Defense Institute located in West Union, Ohio. Some of the participants that attended were affiliated with H&K and brought some of the more exotic firearms with them.

It has often been said by weapons experts that there are very few new developments on the small arms horizon that are truly revolutionary; that we have reached a plateau. Though the G11 project is dead, and was certainly a harbinger of what is possible over the horizon, the G36 is a combination of old and new, tried and true that when combined makes for the further refinement of the small arms maker's art. Instead of starting from scratch with totally new design, the engineers at HK, led by the young and rising star Ernst Mauch, through the early years of the 1990s made what was internally called the HK50. It now carries the Bundeswehr designation G36.

A first departure from the signature HK operating system, roller delayed blowback, the G36 is gas operated.

They borrowed from other tried and proven designs. There is the short gas piston reminiscent of the Kalashnikov and FAL designs. The rotating bolt of the M16 series. The bolt carrier of the AR18. The folding stock of the FAL and SIG 550 series. But in the newest refinement of the gunmaker's art with respect to military rifles, the extensive use of polymer throughout the rifle makes it lighter and more corrosion resistant; two qualities essential to the soldier.

The G36 is a reliable rifle, much more so than the M16 series. Though hard core M16 and AR-15 aficionados will have a difficult time accepting what they might describe derisively as 'Euro-Trash,' there is no denying the fact that the G36 rarely, if ever, jams. The most desirable departure from the M16 design is the fact that the gas used to operate the action is vented in the forearm, and not blown back into the action like the 'exhaust pipe' of the M16 gas tube. The G36 jams so rarely that HK has said that they have a G36K that has been fired more than 25,000 rounds without cleaning and no failures. I defy an M16 to duplicate that.

Though it would be doubtful that the G36 would ever replace the M16 for the U.S. military, it is taking off in the U.S. law enforcement community. Why not? Quality is in high demand.

Below are some pictures of me shooting this German Hot Rod. If you look closely, you can see a steady stream of spent 5.56 brass in the air.

It is simply an opinion, but one shared by the majority of tactical teams at all levels in the United States. You can sense it the first time that you fire one. The MP5 is the culmination of countless efforts to blend reliability, controllability and firepower into a small package. With the MP5, that design objective has been achieved. The MP5 is that by which all other designs are judged.

Appearing in countless movies of late, it does not have the catchy name of some guns that have been demonized by the press and some politicians, who quake in fear at the mere mention of names like 'Uzi' or 'Tec 9' or 'MAC 10.' Your average street criminal might not know what to call the greatest submachine gun ever designed. Chances are, if you laid one down next to a Tec 9 and asked the criminal to choose one, he might opt for the Tec. So much for good taste. There are many photographs of the MP5. I will share some of my favorites with you here. Just for the record, many published articles designate the MP5 as thus: "MP-5." Not correct. There is no hyphen.

All of the forces of nature were in perfect alignment when the MP5 was designed. Below are some pictures of me and the object of a serious obsession, an MP5. You would not believe the level of controllability and accuracy you can achieve with the MP5. I put 30 rounds of 9mm on a steel plate in full auto, and I haven't been the same since.