The UTG Recon Flex Bipod mounts to the sides of a rifle forend with the included M-Lok screws. A solid bipod, the Flex is well made and reasonably priced, Firearms Instructors, and anyone who uses a firearm for recreation or as part of their duties recognize the value of having a stable platform when firing […]
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The Softest-Shooting AR, DPM Systems Recoil Reducing Buffer
DPM Systems has been finding ways to reduce felt recoil in all sorts of handguns. I’ve been using their system in my Walthers for a couple of years and am happy to see they now have a system for the AR-15. The concept is simple: Most perceived recoil comes from the slamming of mechanical parts […]
CruxOrd Muzzle Brake: Performance On The Tavor
In order to maximize the performance of our 5.56 AR-style rifles, we typically need to be picky about the parts we use and we need to be sure they do exactly as advertised. Muzzle breaks are said to lower felt recoil and muzzle rise. In my test of the CruxOrd muzzle break, I am using […]
Tame Short Barrel Madness with the Troy Claymore
The gun industry and general gun population tend to work in interesting cycles. A certain platform will become popular and it will spread like wildfire for some time. Everyone remember piston driven ARs? Right now we are deep into two big fads that are somewhat related. The first is pistol caliber carbines and the second […]
An AR 15 that takes 1911 Mags? TorkMag does it
Sometimes things just catch your eye and SHOT Show and you just can’t stay away. Some guns just sing that Harpy’s song a little too well and you’re drawn into a booth before you know it. Torkmag’s Booth offered me something I’d never seen before. An AR 1911 conversion. Well, an AR that takes 1911 […]
Is There a Difference Between .223 and 5.56?
The comparison between .223 and 5.56 isn’t a new one, so there is a lot of discussion to weed through to learn about the two. Ultimately, because they originated from the same cartridge, they are very similar, but that does not mean that they are necessarily interchangeable. This article discusses three key differences between .223 […]
Best Modern Sporting Rifle: AR vs AK
One of the fiercest, and longest running, debates within the firearms community is this: which is the better “battle rifle:” the AR or the AK. The topic has been done to death, so I thought I’d feature the two rifles in a different setting: working together. The video embedded above features an AR-15 and an AK-74. […]
Light Shed on a Hidden Gem: DoubleStar Midnight Dragon
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 […]
Ultralight AR-15 ver 2.0 | Final testing
If you’re a regular reader of Loadout Room, you may have seen a few articles I’ve posted over the last year detailing the building, then improvement of an off-the-shelf AR-15 that was as light as I could make it while staying within certain constraints. I wanted a rifle that was under 6 pounds, with the […]
ALG Defense QMS trigger | Range time
While fancy flat triggers show up nicely on Instagram feeds and super race triggers can improve the group size and split speeds of talented shooters, most AR owners are still using a basic mil-spec trigger. In fact, many agencies are prohibited from straying far at all off the beaten path. As ALG’s website states, the Quality Mil-Spec trigger […]