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With all they advancements of AR-15s it’s easy to forget that the original intent of Eugene Stoner was to build a battle rifle, not an assault rifle. The original design, the AR-10 was for the .308/7.62x51mm cartridge. There are several reasons why that model was droped by the military and the M-16 was born, but […]
Not long ago we brought you an up-close look at the Roadhouse AR-10 in .308 from Spike’s Tactical. Ambidextrous controls and no detail overlooked describes this battle tank of a rifle. On a bitter-cold morning with sleet accenting the weather I hit the range for testing. Does the cold impact ammunition performance? Yes. Does the […]
Caldwell’s Stinger solves some fundamental challenges with rifle shooting. I had been resistant to the use of rests, perhaps as an old Soldiering habit. Train as you fight, so shoot free-hand was the mantra. All of that goes out the window however if you are truly trying to test, zero, or even teach with a […]
Hardened Arms is a growing company based in Washington State. It makes sense that folks living and working in a land that sees limited sunshine would create a way to fight the dark and what lurks within it. Boasting dual 1150-lumen lumination built into the hand guard the LumaShark is available both as a complete […]
With a flooded AR-15 market it’s easy to ignore models that have been out there for a while, and even easier to ignore them if they haven’t been recently seen on a magazine cover cradled by some full-sleeve-tattooed gym rat with a perfectly-groomed operator beard. Add to that the increasingly affordable options for home builds […]
While some have raced to ride the wave of ultra-modern accessories for their AR, others like to keep it classic. Admitting that “classic” for the AR is neither the most comfortable, nor the best looking there are a few of us who search for classier ways to adjust things. In a forest of plastic stamped […]
The Roughneck 10 delivers more than enough power for most users. The venerable .308 Winchester round spits from a hand-lapped stainless Lilja barrel that begins at Roughneck as a blank and is matched to the specific bolt your rifle arrives with. It may not have leather seating, but the Roughneck 10 does have hand-matched and fitted receivers and hand-reamed and finished takedown and pivot pin holes.
AR-15s have been described as the “barbie dolls for men”. I prefer to look at them as Legos with which we can build any rifle, pistol, or Short-Barreled Rifle style we want from a $400 plinker, to $3,000 safe queens. The available mix of after-market and factory parts is bewildering and offers more choice than […]
In the name of presenting what a consumer might do we did not follow normal barrel break-in procedures. We did not specially prepare hand-loaded ammunition. We did not mount $3,000 glass on the rifle, nor did we wait until ideal weather conditions. The rifle is Ranger Prof anyways, right? We like to consider our rifle accuracy testing to be fair both to the consumer and manufacturer.
I had just ordered my first Remington 700 and the next day the internet was ablaze with news about yet another recall from one of America’s most famed manufacturers. Remington has recalled an American classic, the Remington 700. Unfortunately I believed the more tabloid-like gun blogs and thought it included all Remington 700s. Fortunately that […]
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