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Wasteland Wonder: This Custom Challenge Fabarm STF/12 Blew Us Away THE BALLISTIC CUSTOM CHALLENGE GIVES YOU A CHANCE TO TAKE HOME THIS INCREDIBLE PUMP-ACTION FABARM STF/12 FROM PRO 2 CUSTOMS. ENTER AT BOTTOM. By SEAN UTLEY

The Ballistic Custom Challenge gives you a chance to take home this incredible apocalyptic pump-action Fabarm STF/12 from Pro 2 Customs

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Earlier this year, I took on the assignment of creating an Athlon Outdoors video on the Fabarm STF/12. As a contributor, this was initially just another assignment, another gun to review and share my experiences with you. As a lover of rifles, I thought, “It’s a shotgun,” so I wasn’t overly excited as I didn’t expect anything beyond the typical 12-gauge experience. Boy was I wrong.

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The Fabarm STF/12, all puns aside, literally blew me away with its fit and finish, and excellent manners. This Italian pump-action wonder caught me completely off-guard. Every surface of the Fabarm is right with the materials coming together to create ear pleasing mechanical noises, accompanying tones and satisfying tactility. Clicks. Clacks. Schuu-lunks. Noises that you would find written out in your favorite graphic novel (read comic book) are delivered in an acoustic display that is wonderful. And I truly mean that.

The STF feels as if its one piece of material with a ball-bearing-driven pump action. All of the movements are positive with mechanical and audible feedback. These attributes guide you in its function, letting you know what you’re doing at every moment of operation. I’m used to these types of interactions with bolt-action rifles and custom 1911s, but not so much with pump-action shotguns—especially ones dubbed as tactical types.

Shooting the actual STF/12 itself also caught my attention. The recoil—it’s different, even without the included muzzle brake. It’s solid but muted. It doesn’t want to knock you over. So, we’ve established that the STF/12 is a great shotgun, thus, a great inclusion for this issue’s Custom Challenge giveaway.

Making the Wasteland Wonder

The Fabarm STF/12 would be an excellent if not necessary purchase for any shotgun lover, but imagine receiving one as prize package! Well, that’s’ what’s happening with the very Fabarm STF/12 that I’ve been drooling all over in the previous paragraphs. And while the STF is awesome, we thought we’d spice it up and make it different—as in “Apocalypse Wow” themed, much like the bulk of the editorial content in this issue.

The Fabarm STF/12 custom challenge proved extraordinary.
(Photo by Sean Utley)

The most notable change is the custom paint job. This Road Warrior meets steampunk finish is absolutely amazing, setting the tone of high-speed desert, post apocalyptic shenanigans, which is quite fitting for the man responsible for its look—Bryan Welch, owner and operator of Pro 2 Customs in Phoenix, Arizona. Pro 2 is without a doubt one of the premiere custom gun coating/finishing businesses in the space—and there are many.

Lots of people can Cerakote a gun, but few possess the artistic ability to take a concept from a brain spark to a final, fully fledged, period accurate, color and tonally correct, functioning representation of that spark. It takes a special amount of talent and skill (which aren’t the same), and Bryan has it. I watched as he created this finish in a matter of a couple of hours while I waited. We talked throughout the process, which never seemed to distract him from this meticulous execution.

Pro 2 Custom Delivers the Look

Bryan created everything from a brushed metal look to convincing rust, patina and a wooden finished collapsible AR stock. Coating since 2015, Pro 2 Custom has completed some 13,000-plus serialized guns. This doesn’t include slides and other parts that aren’t serialized. This is experience that’s hard to find. On top of that, Pro 2 provides coatings for automotive, laser engraving (which is insane), grip work, custom guns and built-to-order index holsters.

We didn’t stop at the refinish. The Fabarm STF/12 is a great platform for tactical accuracy, so we added an Aimpoint Micro H-2 with 2-MOA dot. This sits on the Picatinny rail that runs the length of the STF and nestles in nicely with the ghost ring sight assembly for a near co-witness.

Also included with this awesome scattergun is a SureFire Scout Light Pro. It provides 1,000 lumens of blinding output to stop anyone and anything in its tracks. It also has and impressive 1.25 hours of run time.

Good Bones

The STF itself has an impressive list of features outside of the additional custom touches, including a monolithic 7075 receiver, 18-inch barrel, 5+1 feed tube, heat shield and compensator with spikes. All of this adds up to be one of the best firearms on the market and an insane Custom Challenge giveaway gun.

For more information, visit fabarmpro.com, aimpoint.com and surefire.com. And to see more amazing work from Pro 2 Customs, visit the crew online at wepleadthe2nd.com.

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The Man with a very tall hat might be let loose again! Putin Really May Break the Nuclear Taboo in Ukraine It seems unthinkable, but American leaders’ failure to think about it heightens the risk it will happen. By Peggy Noonan

The Soviets detonate their first atomic bomb in Kazakhstan, Aug. 29, 1949.

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Sometimes a thing keeps nagging around your brain and though you’ve said it before you have to say it again. We factor in but do not sufficiently appreciate the real possibility of nuclear-weapon use by Russia in Ukraine. This is the key and crucial historic possibility in the drama, and it really could come to pass.

And once it starts, it doesn’t stop. Once the taboo that has held since 1945 is broken, it’s broken. The door has been pushed open and we step through to the new age. We don’t want to step into that age.

The war is in its third month. Diplomatic solutions are less likely than ever; war crimes and atrocities have hardened the Ukrainians, and in any case they’re winning and the world is on their side. British intelligence this week reported Russia has lost around 15,000 troops, 2,000 armored vehicles and 60 aircraft. The ground invasion force has lost an estimated 25% of its combat strength. Russia is grinding through a disaster.

We aren’t worried enough about Russian nuclear use in part because we imagine such a thing as huge missiles with huge warheads launched from another continent and speeding through space. We think: That won’t happen! It has never happened! But the more likely use would be not of big strategic nuclear weapons but smaller tactical ones on the battlefield. Such weapons have a shorter range and carry lower-yield warheads. America and Russia have rough parity in the number of strategic nuclear weapons, but Russia has an estimated 10 times as many tactical nuclear weapons as the U.S. and delivery systems that range from artillery shells to aircraft.

Why would Vladimir Putin use tactical nuclear weapons? Why would he make such a madman move?

To change the story. To shock and destabilize his adversaries. To scare the people of North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries so they’ll force their leaders to back away. To remind the world—and Russians—that he does have military power. To avoid a massive and public military defeat. To win.

Mr. Putin talks about nuclear weapons a lot. He did it again Wednesday: In a meeting with politicians in St. Petersburg, he said if anyone intervenes in Ukraine and “creates unacceptable threats for us that are strategic in nature,” the Russian response will be “lightning fast.” He said: “We have all the tools for this that no one else can boast of having. We won’t boast about it, we’ll use them, if needed.”

He’s talked like this since the invasion. It’s a tactic: He’s trying to scare everybody. That doesn’t mean the threat is empty.

There are signs the Russians are deliberately creating a historical paper trail, as if to say they warned us. On Monday Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the risk of nuclear conflict is “serious” and “should not be underestimated.” Earlier, Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to Washington, sent a formal diplomatic note to the U.S. saying it was inflaming the conflict. The Washington Post got a copy. It said shipments of the “most sensitive” weapons systems to Ukraine were “adding fuel” to the conflict and could bring “unpredictable consequences.”

The U.S. at the same time has become rhetorically bolder. This month President Biden referred to Mr. Putin as a war criminal. In March Mr. Biden called for regime change; the White House walked it back. This week Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters the U.S. aim in Ukraine: “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree it can’t do the kinds of things it’s done in Ukraine.” The original American aim was to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence. Has the U.S. strategy changed, or has its officials’ talk simply become looser? What larger strategic vision is the administration acting on?

In my experience with American diplomats, they are aware of but don’t always grasp the full implications of their opponents’ histories. Mr. Putin was a KGB spy who in 1991 saw the Soviet system in which he’d risen crash all around him. He called the fall of the Soviet Union a catastrophe because it left his country weakened, humiliated and stripped of dominance and hegemony in Eastern Europe. He is a walking, talking cauldron of resentments, which he deploys for maximum manipulation. He isn’t secretive about his grievances. In his 2007 speech to the Munich Security Conference he accused the U.S. of arrogance, hypocrisy and having created a “unipolar world” with “one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision making,” headed by “one master, one sovereign.” As for NATO, “we have the right to ask: Against whom is this expansion intended?”

Antagonism to the West has been the central intellectual organizing principle of his life. America is an object of his life’s obsession.

So let me make an argument for my anxieties: For this man, Russia can’t lose to the West. Ukraine isn’t the Mideast, a side show; it is the main event. I read him as someone who will do anything not to lose.

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