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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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Inherent Benefits of Ambidextrous Controls
I used to view ambidextrous controls as a novelty thing you add to your AR-15. As I entered law enforcement nearly two decades ago, that thought was reaffirmed to me. You see, most ambi controls back...
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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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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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Dressing Up the Ruger 10/22 with the Samson B-TM Stock
Samson Manufacturing makes parts and accessories for various firearm platforms, including the AR-15, Heckler & Koch, Kalashnikovs, and a few others. Among the products that they make are...
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Homemade Ballistic Gelatin: Part 1
At one time or another, almost every shooter can recall a time they shot a soda can, water jug, or watermelon just to see the awesome energy transfer from high-velocity projectile to object. The...
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Homemade Ballistic Gelatin: Part 2 — On the Range
Your ballistic gelatin is finally ready, and you want to pack up and head to the range. How do you shoot ballistic gelatin correctly? Is there a procedure for shooting gelatin? Can I reuse ballistic...
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Sight Pusher: How to Choose One and Why
If you’ve ever wanted to change the iron sights on your favorite handgun, you’re probably familiar with the fact that some tools are required to get it done. You can’t just push the rear sight over...
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How to Install a Drop-In AR-15 Trigger
It’s common for the factory trigger in an AR-15 to be less than ideal. That doesn’t mean stock triggers are necessarily bad, but they’re not always the greatest. Factory setups are usually marketed as...
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Aftermarket Glock Triggers: Four Upgrades to Consider
As great as Glocks are, they come with probably the most ridiculed tagline in the firearm industry. One word: Perfection. Even the most diehard Glock fans often admit, without much persuasion, that the...
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Inherent Benefits of Ambidextrous Controls
I used to view ambidextrous controls as a novelty thing you add to your AR-15. As I entered law enforcement nearly two decades ago, that thought was reaffirmed to me. You see, most ambi controls back...
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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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Lights, Slings, and Optics: Setting Up the JAKL 5.56
Most of my 5.56 rifles descend from the infamous family of AR-15 rifles. One of my favorites that is not an AR-15 (at least not completely) is the JAKL 5.56 from PSA. This gun is a hybrid AK and AR...
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Vertical Forward Grip: Still Useful?
There are so many different grip techniques and devices that it’s hard to keep track of them all. Everything in the gun world moves in trends; some are good, some bad, and others receive mixed...
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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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