Colt Combat Elite, what was old is new again My first handgun was a Colt enhanced Combat Elite; I bought it at the Post Exchange on Camp Lejeune shortly after I turned 21. Now I have picked up the new Colt Combat Elite test pistol to see how they compare. I am digging the new…
CZ –P09, pushing past what a duty pistol is. Ceska Zbrojovka is a firearms manufacture from the Czech Republic started in 1936. The plant was formed during the rise of the Third Reich so Czechoslovakia would have the means for production of defensive weapons. In 1991 CZ entered into the free market and in 1997…
Magnum Research Desert Eagle .50 AE, handheld artillery strike Magnum Research Inc was founded by Jim Skildum and John Risdall in 1979. The flagship pistol developed by MRI is the Desert Eagle, which was manufactured by Israel Military Industries beginning in 1985 and continued until 1995, when MRI moved the manufacturing contract to Saco Defense…
Lone Wolf 9mm threaded barrel First, there is absolutely nothing wrong with factory Glock barrels, but there are a few reasons to swap out the polygonal barrel from Glock for one with traditional rifling. The first and maybe most important is while Glock advises against shooting lead bullets in their pistols, with a quick and…
Get a grip with AlumaGrips, replacement grips for handguns Replacing the stocks, or grips to some, on your pistol serves several purposes. First and foremost for me, some handguns come with stocks that maybe just don’t do it for you in keeping a solid purchase on your handgun. That is the utilitarian reason but there…
Advanced Holster, keeping your sidearm securely at your side. I have been shooting a few action pistol matches and one of my favorites is at Range 37. Brent, the owner of Advanced Holster also shoots at Range 37 and generally we catch up and talk guns and such in between stages. Waiting for our turn…
Stove Pipes and Double Feeds: Is it your grip? As a Range Safety Officer, and Firearms Instructor, I see a lot of malfunctions that shooters believe are gun related. However, many times it is due to an improper grip that is easy and free to correct. So, before you go out and spend money…
1911 Recoil Spring Information Back in the day, there was only one spring for the 5-inch 1911 pistol…and it wasn’t identified by “pounds.” Neither was it the now-accepted standard 16 pound spring. Sometime in the last 30 years, 16 pounds came to be standard, and everybody accepted that figure…because it was close enough for gub’mint…
Streamlight TLR-1 HL, add a sun to your gun. In the Marine Corps we generally trained with a separate flashlight from our sidearm so that was the method I became accustomed to. With that in mind, I generally avoided weapon lights. About a year ago I got involved with the Infidel Gunfighter League and…
Bitterroot Tool and Machine, Alpha Loading Systems. Bitterroot Tool and Machine began operation in 1999 in Bitterroot Valley, western Montana. They incorporate precision tooling and a skilled workforce to deliver quality, reliability and efficiency in the machine and tool industry. Excelling at specialty tool and die manufacture, with innovative approaches. BTM was certified ISO 9001:2008…
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