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Ballistic Engineering AR-15/10 Adjustable Trigger: A Must-Have

Customizing the trigger on your AR-15 is one of the most important upgrades you can make. A smoother and often lighter trigger can increase your accuracy and speed. Today, we are looking at the...

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Tyrant Designs P365X MACRO Mag Upgrades: Quality Aftermarket Goods

There’s a reason the P365X Macro is so popular. Sig created a functionally refined, highly modifiable gun with the P365, and they keep adding new variants. The P365X Macro versions take the gun out of...

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DIY PVC Target Stands: Cheap Stands for the Home Range

Needing to zero a rifle or get some trigger time but without a place to stick a target? We’ve all been there. Maybe the land you’re on is wide open and offers a safe backstop, but there’s just no range...

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Gunsmith 101: How to Install a Glock Trigger

One of the reasons Glock pistols are so popular is because they’re relatively easy to customize. Plus, they’re affordably priced, ruggedly built, and versatile. The top two parts most gun owners end up...

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Modifying the Sig Sauer P365: Frames, Slides, Controls

The P365 family of handguns, Sig Sauer’s EDC powerhouse, is comprised of guns that run perfectly fine in their stock form. Sig has gone to great lengths to add modifications themselves to preempt the...

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Bullet Casting: Essential Tools of the Trade

If you want to load your own ammunition, there are essential components and tools you need to accomplish the mission. You need powder, primers, and bullets, and a means to load them into an assembled...

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AK-47 Upgrades: Why Add an Adjustable Gas Piston to an AK-47?

When I began this project, overhauling a stock WASR Romanian 7.62 x 39 AK, I really wanted to address the externals. AKs have always fascinated me, and I wanted to take one through a solid revision and...

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Handgun Optic Pairing: Aimpoint ACRO P-2 and Glock 49

Since Glock has produced the G49, it has remained one of my favorite handguns. A crossover between the G19 and G17, the new G49 has the shorter grip of the G19 and the longer barrel of the G17. This...

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Sandbags and Lead Sleds: Best Ways to Stabilize Your Rifle

Lead sleds and sandbags. Which is best to stabilize your rifle? Is one or the other better under certain circumstances? Let’s have a look! First, though, we have to look at how stable we need to make...

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Zeroing Your Pistol Red Dot: A How-To

Red dots on handguns are here to stay. Even some of the smallest guns can now wear dots. If you had told me a decade ago that my subcompact 9mm handgun would be wearing a red dot, I would have “yeah...

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