G&A Online Editors - March 17, 2015

G&A Madness 2015 Bracket Challenge: Vote. Debate. WIN!

March is bracket season and that means it's time to pick your favorite firearms in Guns & Ammo's third-annual bracket challenge!

Only one firearm will be crowned champion of G&A Madness 2015, and it's up to YOU to decide which gun becomes victorious.

How It Works

G&A Madness is just like the NCAA basketball tournament bracket, but with a few twists. Instead of filling out your entire bracket at once, we're asking our audience to VOTE HERE in each of six tourney rounds. We'll start with 64 total firearms. The guns receiving the most votes in each round will move on, narrowing the competition down to a final four and eventually a champion!

We're giving away amazing prizes to voters in each week of the tournament! Vote in each round and you'll be eligible to enter the sweepstakes for that week. This year's prize table is bigger than ever, including great giveaways from: Galco, Burris Optics, Pelican ProGear, LaserLyte and Winchester Ammunition.

G&A Madness starts March 17: Vote. Debate. WIN !

Trijicon RMRcc Reflex Sight – Perfect for Optics-Ready Concealed-Carry Pistols

The people asked and Trijicon answered. Introducing the RMRcc miniature red-dot sight for compact, concealed-carry pistols. Trijicon's new RMRcc features the durability and reliable controls that have made the RMR so successful, but its reduced dimensions make the “Concealed Carry” model better suited for the popular small-frame pistols designed for discreet carry and personal defense.

Shooting 600 Yards with .300 Blackout

The .300 Blackout cartridge was developed to provide greater effectiveness than a 9mm at short and medium ranges when fired from a short-barreled suppressed firearm. Just because the cartridge wasn't designed to go long doesn't mean Rifles & Optics Editor Tom Beckstrand won't take it there, using a large-format pistol, no less. Armed with SIG Sauer's 9-inch-barreled MCX Virtus Pistol loaded with Black Hills' 125-grain TMK ammunition, Beckstrand attempts to ring steel at 600 yards with help from Hornady's 4DOF ballistic calculator in this segment of “Long Range Tech.”

Guns & Ammo TV: Wheelgun vs. Pistol

In this segment of “Pros vs. Joes,” we put competitive shooter and author James Tarr against Guns & Ammo TV cameraman Nathan Wilt. With handguns, they see who can knock down plates the fastest on two Revolution Targets Heavy Duty Plate Racks. Here's the catch: Tarr has to use a Colt King Cobra in .357 Mag. while Wilt shoots a Smith & Wesson M&P9 M2.0 in 9mm.

Benelli Lupo ATR

Quality. Art. Design. History. Precision. Innovation. Family. Passion. Love. These words come to my mind when describing anything Italian, and the same is true for a product bearing the name “Benelli.”