Is Your Gun Failing to Feed? Check Your Magazines
In our post earlier today on gift ideas for your favorite gun-owning father, Sam Hoober suggested buying pop some quality magazines. He correctly pointed out that a semi-automatic handgun's most common failure point is...
Improving Your Mil-Spec AR Trigger
What's the best way to improve your AR-15's mil-spec trigger? Simple...buy a better one. Seriously, the easiest way to make your mil-spec AR-15 trigger smoother and crispier is to replace it with a better aftermarket AR...
How to Build an AR-15 Lower Receiver and Annoy the Gun Control Industry
The modular, easily customized AR-15 is everyone's favorite “build your own” rifle. Nothing gives you more satisfaction than putting one together yourself (and simultaneously infuriates so many anti-gunners).
Some, especially first-timers, will buy a parts...
The Toil and Trials of Building Your Own Custom 1911 – Part 2: Range...
Click here to read Part 1 of this two-part post.
In the first part of this post, I detailed the hours of effort and frustration that went into assembling a custom 1911. When last I...
The Toil and Trials of Building Your Own Custom 1911 – Part 1: Hand...
I have only known a few people aside from professional gunsmiths who have taken up the challenge of building their own custom 1911. I know a fair number who own guns built by famous...
Budget to Booyah: Top 5 AR-15 Lower Receivers
Building an AR-15 might seem like a daunting task at first but in reality it's a simple process - as long as you follow the steps and use the right tools. Tools are a...
Timney Makes the Best AR Trigger, Hammers Down
Hello, my name is Kat and I am a trigger snob.
It’s true. After years of using all manner of triggers in every platform imaginable I’ve developed the kind of tastes that drain wallets and...
Gear Review: The Device MK 1 Mod 0 Upper Receiver Fixture (M16/AR-15)
Just about a year ago now I was in the back shop at C.a.r. Firearms, just south of Seattle, when a robust, blocky, yet sleek-looking item caught my eye. It consisted of two parts...
Gun Review: Fulton Armory FAR-15 USGI A2 Upper Receiver Assembly
With no prior military service and an affinity for wing shooting, it took a while for USGI builds to reach the top of my list. In fact, I was planning to build a new...
Book Review: The AR-15 Complete Assembly Guide (Vol. 2)
I didn't realize how much I missed instructional books until last month when a copy of The AR-15 Complete Assembly Guide (Vol.2) by Walt Kuleck and Clint McKee arrived at my doorstep with the inaugural...
Gear Review: Brownell’s Magna-Tip Super Set and Gunsmith Master Punch Set
Put down the Phillips screwdriver and hammer. Yes, I see you, banging away at your trigger pins and moments away from the inevitable slip-and-gouge across the side of your AR lower. A gouge you’ll...
Gear Review: Warne RT-1 Range Tool
There are few things more frustrating than being set up on the firing line and discovering you forgot the one screwdriver or drive bit you need to complete the days' primary objective.
I've been there...