It was thirteen months ago when I published the Coonan Classic .357 Magnum review, and you can read that by following this link. It was at the 2016 NRA show where I learned Coonan was building a pistol in .45 Automatic. Here I was able to look over the prototype and talk to my friends…
1911 School. Subject: Cocked and locked and ready to rock…the way that JMB intended! Right? Well, no. Not really. John Browning didn’t have a free hand with the 1911 and he didn’t do it alone. The 1911 was designed by a committee. Browning was hired to guide and direct as he worked on past designs…
The most prolific small arm on this planet is the AK-47 and it’s variants, with over 100,000,000 in worldwide circulation. For those who do not know about it’s beginnings, I will be brief. If you already know all this feel free to skip ahead. The Автомат Калашникова, in English meaning Kalashnikov automatic rifle, model of 1947,…
The slide stop actually performs five functions if we don’t count the takedown feature. If all it’s meant to do is act as a slide stop, then why go to the trouble of machining it to protrude from the frame and then go to even more trouble to cut a non-skid surface on it?…
I get a lot of folks inquiring about the ballistic tests I have done so I thought it would be easy to link them all in one post. For each test Clear Ballistics gel was used. Specific details are contained in the reviews. Velocity and performance were compared over several rounds fired, from about 25…
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