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Free “Gun Disassembly 2” App A Fun Learning Tool
As a gunsmith I sometimes find myself squinting at poorly scanned schematics of rare guns. Stumped halfway through a project, I scratch my head trying to figure out how the doohickey is held in place...
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High Tower Armory Shipping P90-ish Ruger10/22 Bullpup Conversion Soon
High Tower Armory’s innovative HTA 90/22 stock is shipping in a few weeks. The stock includes everything needed to make a standard Ruger 10/22 into a P90-ish bullpup and comes in three flavors; black,...
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Happy New Year! Remington Teases With Advert For New Bolt Gun
Remington has released an image promising something new and special for 2013, but it seems they are keeping their cards close to the vest until SHOT Show. The image was sent out via email earlier...
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The Mystery of the Stamped Steel 1911
It appears that The Internet does not know everything after all! I have been trying to find solid information on this hideously ugly .45acp pistol prototype, but without much success. Apparently less...
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South Korea to adopt K14 Sniper Rifle
South Korean media is reporting that the Republic of Korea Armed Forces have awarded a 3.2 billion wong contract to S&T Motiv (formerly Daewoo), for procurement of new K14 sniper rifles. 3.2...
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.375 H&H Magnum Still Going Strong 100 Years Later
Happy 100th birthday, .375 H&H Magnum! Why, you’re looking downright spry for your age, what’s your secret? The .375 H&H is proof that sometimes you can get it right on the first try. Holland...
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Winchester Introduces 3,000 fps Rimfire Cartridge
Winchester officially announced the .17 Winchester Super Magnum cartridge today, and it does appear to be the fastest and most powerful rimfire cartridge ever. Two flavors have been announced so far; a...
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Winchester to move Model 70 production to Portugal in 2013
Winchester has recently admitted on its Facebook page that 2013 will see Model 70 rifles assembled in Portugal instead of South Carolina. Winchester states that the change will allow them to increase...
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Seen at the Gunsmithing Shop–Why Not to “Mortar” Your Pump Shotgun
“I bought a pump shotgun because they never jam.” This proud statement is a staple of gun store conversation. Normally it comes either just before or just after the “you can’t miss” and “sound of the...
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Custom Patterns Coming for Magpul AR-15 Furniture
Tired of Flat Dark Earth and O.D. Green? Basic Black too plain, Foliage Green not different enough? Sports South will soon be offering Magpul MOE furniture for AR-15s in all the latest patterns and...
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Ruger Bringing New SR45 to SHOT Show
We are hoping to get our hands on the new Ruger SR45 at SHOT Show this year. Dimensions are just slightly larger than the 9mm and .40S&W versions we’ve become accustomed to, with the exception of...
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Magpul Announces New AR Grips
Magpul is showing off a very nice MOE AK Grip at SHOT Show, but don’t think they are ignoring their core AR market. They are offering two new grips for AR-15s and AR-10s. The first new AR style grip is...
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Magpul Expands Shotgun Furniture To Include Mossberg
Magpul’s Remington 870 stocks and forends have been so successful that the company has expanded the line to include Mossberg pump actions. With many thousands of Mossberg pump action shotguns in use...
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Buy Low, Sell High: Freedom Group May Be Bought Out By… Taurus?
Bloomberg.com reports here that the Freedom Group firearms companies, which were put up for sale last month by Cerberus, have a suitor with cash in hand. Taurus! It turns out that the Brazilian company...
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Blast From the Past: 1867 Dreyse Carbine
I recently had a chance to take some photos of a truly ground-breaking assault weapon. The Dreyse “Zündnadelgewehr” or needle-gun was at first derided as a mere novelty. Then, during the...
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Rifles of the Foreign Legion, Then and Now
It has now been confirmed that Sunday night the French Foreign Legion conducted an air assault in Mali, parachuting into the northern suburbs of Timbuktu. Other French forces control the south, while...
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Best YouTube Channels For 2013: Mr. Colion Noir
If you haven’t subscribed to Mr. Colion Noir on YouTube, you are missing one of the funniest, most intelligent, and best spoken gun culture personalities on the web right now. His videos are short, to...
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Seen at the Gunsmithing Shop: Everyone Makes Mistakes
The indoor shooting range at Douglas County Firearms provides my gunsmithing department with a steady stream of problems needing to be addressed. 90 percent of reliability problems are due to guns...
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12 Gauge, AR-10 Based Shotgun Now a Reality
If you want a high capacity, semi-automatic tactical shotgun feeding from a box magazine, the Saiga-12 is pretty much your only option. Ho hum. But wait, a challenger appears! Intrepid Tactical...
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Ammo Shortage? The Aussies Are Coming, The Aussies Are Coming!
Australian Outback Ammunition has just announced that they will be selling .223 and .308 ammunition here in the U.S.A starting this month. They have developed a few different loadings, but their big...
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Seen at the Gunsmithing Shop: Use the Safety, But Don’t Rely On It!
When I teach any firearms class I always address manual safeties during the preliminary brief. I always emphasize, “Use the safety, but don’t rely on it! It can and will fail!” Gunsmiths make a living...
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SureFire Releases $500 Tactical Wristlight
SureFire’s new model 2211 WristLight is intended primarily for law enforcement officers who don’t have a weapon light mounted to their sidearm. The light is tilted “upward” from the wrist at a precise...
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Blaser Chambers R8 Rifle in 6mm XC
Blaser just announced that they are chambering their fantastic R8 hunting rifle in the equally fantastic 6mm XC cartridge. Wonder Twin powers, activate! If you haven’t heard of 6mm XC, don’t feel bad,...
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Laserlyte Announces M&P Shield Laser
If you are one of the lucky few who shooters who have snagged an M&P Shield, your wait for an affordable laser to mount on it is over. Laserlyte has released the model UTA-SH, which secures to the...
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Wilson Combat Now Offering Billet AR-15 Upgrade
Wilson Combat has been making several top of the line AR-15 variants for awhile now. They aren’t afraid to embrace unusual concepts that some would say are forward thinking, and others would dismiss as...
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Tristar Brings New Auto/Pump Shotgun Option With Tec 12
Tristar, importer of cool looking yet unproven Turkish made shotguns, has released a tactical shotgun that is getting some attention. The Tec 12 appears to be inspired by, if not a direct clone of, the...
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New “Speed Ledge” Promises Improved Recoil Control
Not too long ago, some USPSA “race” guns began to sprout strange angled metal plates from their sides. This modification gave shooters using a thumbs forward grip a way to leverage their support hand...
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Traditions Releases Two New Revolver Lines
Muzzle-loading rifle maker Traditions is partnering up with famed Italian gun maker Pietta to import two new classic single-action revolver lines into the U.S.A. The “Frontier” series are higher end...
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Magpul MS4 Sling Adds Push Button QD Goodness
Magpul has upgraded their iconic two-point/single-point sling to a new “MS4” specification. The MS4 is largely identical to the MS3 sling, but tosses the “paraclip” method of sling attachment in favor...
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Defense Distributed Releases Printable AK Magazine
The fertile minds at Defense Distributed have announced the existence of The Feinstein Mag. Available for free download from their website at defcad.org, The Feinstein Mag is not a magazine, but a...
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Uruguay SF Now Fielding Indigenous .50 BMG
Uruguay’s special forces units are now fielding a .50 BMG precision rifle named the FS50 Peregrino. The single shot bolt action rifle looks very much like a Serbu BFG 50, but was developed and built...
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Seen at the Gunsmithing Shop: A Remington Built to Last
Oh, look, it’s your grandpa’s rusty old shotgun. Ho hum. Not very tactical, is it? Its kinda heavy too. It wasn’t especially pretty to look at when it was new, and there’s not much original bluing left...
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Noooo! Arsenal to Cease Production of Entire SLR-106 Line of 5.56 Kalashnikovs
Arsenal is calling it quits on the 5.56 NATO chambered AK. The SLR-106 line of rifles and pistols broke new ground when introduced nearly a decade ago, and remain popular among AK aficionados and those...
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