Media Day at the Range brings together media types and manufacturers along with their associated New Products for a little “hands on” time. This is great as it allows the writers to get to briefly try out the new firearms and other products as well as talk to the manufacturers representatives to put a face with a name. Valuable contacts are made here.

SlideFire Solutions had their new belt-fed .223 AR-15 rifle on display at Media Day. They promised that the rifle will be in full production and shipping by the end of March or the first of April. The belt-fed rifle can be combined with their SlideFire stock to give users full-auto rates of fire without the NFA hassles. The rifle can also be instantly converted to use standard AR magazines.

Sword International chose Media Day to introduce their new rifle. An AR platform rifle chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum. The rifle is piston driven and uses Sword’s proprietary 5-round magazine. This powerhouse is also slated to be produced in select-fire.

Bullseye Camera Systems LLC was showing off their new wireless target camera system. The system can be operated anywhere even in very remote locations as it is totally self-contained and requires no cellular or internet service. You load the included software into your wireless enabled laptop and it then connects to the downrange system and starts sending back a video of your target from the camera. Shots are recorded as they happen and the last shot fired shows flashing on the screen. Watch an upcoming issue of SAR for a complete in depth article on this very innovative system.

Large caliber AR platform are very popular this year. This photo shows the new Guardian rifle from Miller Precision Arms. Chambered in 300 Win Mag the new rifle uses AR-10 internals and will accept standard market components such as forearms, pistols grips and buttstocks. The Guardian was designed to duplicate the weight of the M110 rifle but has twice the range.

The author got a chance to try out one of the new Browning 1911-22 pistols. This 10-round .22 is lightweight and produced very good accuracy. It looks as though Browning will have a hit with this quality built .22 pistol.

Adams Arms has a new AR rifle that will really appeal to the 3-gun shooters. Their new gun has a full-sized rifle piston system on a 16 inch barreled gun. The new system produces an even softer felt recoil allowing it to get on target faster. It also has several other innovative new features such as a right or left side cut away mag well to allow easier and faster prone magazine changes.

Lancer was there with the first samples of their new .308 magazine. The new magazines combine the strength of steel with the toughness of polymer. The magazines dubbed the L7AWM are designed to fit the SR-25, Sig 716 and DPMS .308 guns as well as others that use this pattern magazine. The 20-round mags will be available in translucent Clear, Smoke, Black, Dark Earth as well as opaque Black and dark earth. These new magazines even have a switchable drain located in the floorplate. This allows the user to configure the magazine between water bourne and extreme dust conditions.

Caracal introduced their new CS308 bolt action sniper rifle this year at Media Day. The new rifle features a fully adjustable stock, feeds from a 5-round detachable box magazine and has a muzzle brake that works outstandingly well. Later on the rifle will also be available as the CS338 (in .338 Lapua Magnum) and the CS50 (in .50 BIG).

EOTech has just introduced a new battery cap for their 512 and 552 holographic sights. The new cap housed a visible laser, an IR laser or both. The additional lasers run off of the same batteries as the sight and have ports that accept remote activation switches.