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Do you carry with a round in the chamber?

Carrying with a round in the chamber or not was previously always a debate for me and in the shop I hear all kinds of reasons why some do and others don’t. Almost any professional tells you that if you are carrying you might as well have a round in the chamber otherwise you’re less […]

SIG Elite Performance 9mm Ammunition : Match Ready

Graham Baates and Erika test the SIG EPA 9mm Ammunition115gr FMJ ball ammo to see if it lives up to the SIG name. The test match quality, they used the precision Walther Q5 Match

Watch: Incredible Axelson Tactical Rifle for Hurricane Relief

Axelson Tactical, Cabela’s, and Hurricane Media have come together with a very special rifle built to raffle for hurricane relief. This is an ultra-premium, amazing rifle in 6.5mm Creedmoor. You have to see it to believe it! Axelson Tactical, Geissele, Proof Resarch, MagPul, Superlative Arms, JP Enterprises, and BCM components are all involved. This rifle […]

Qore Performance IcePlate: Armor, Cooling and Hydration

IcePlate a freezable water bottle designed to fit between any body armor and base layer. It can cool you down, hydrate you, and protect you, all at the same time. Built for hard use, IcePlate is over designed for improvised uses. Condensation from the IcePlate adds cool water to the outside layer of your shirt […]

The Sig 320 X-Five is the flagship of the 320 X-Series. Sig calls it the "pinnacle for competition." It is chambered in 9mm or .40 S&W and ready for a match right out of the box. The X-5 has been upgraded with every feature a boy could want: a five-inch match barrel, flat trigger, fully adjustable sights, detachable flared magazine well, integrated grip weight, extended beavertail, undercut trigger guard, extended slide catch lever and optic ready. I got the 9mm model and I am not disappointed. The gun looks great, the slide has three lightning cuts on top and grasping grooves in the slide that are straight and aligned with the grip angle. To top it all off, each P320 X-Five includes four (4) 21rd steel magazines. It comes in a nice foam fitted Sig pistol box. I wanted the P320 X-Five 9mm because it incorporates all of the features I wanted to maximize accuracy, and ergonomics while maintaining the modularity of the P320 platform. You can buy a cheap gun ad up grade it, but you never know if the parts are going to work well together. The X-Five is ready on arrival. The X-Series grip module has a deep trigger guard undercut, a high back strap and an extended beavertail which combined with the flared mag well exactly form to my hand. This gives me a high grip for great recoil management. The removable grip weight lets me tweak the balance to exactly where I want it. The X-Five has a straight trigger that helps the shooter get a consistent set and press. It breaks at 90 degrees for an even better feeling pull. Dawson Precision® Fiber Optic sights are my favorite. The colored post draws the eye and the wide rear notch lines up fast and provides a very precise picture. The rear sights are fully-adjustable. As if that wasn't good enough, there is more. The X-Five pistol is optics-ready right out of the box. The rear sight plate can be removed as a unit and replaced with a ROMEO1 red dot optic. Specs: CALIBER 9mm Luger ACTION TYPE Semi-Auto FRAME SIZE Full-Size FRAME MATERIAL Polymer SLIDE FINISH Nitron SLIDE MATERIAL Stainless Steel BARREL MATERIAL Stainless Steel ACCESSORY RAIL M1913 TRIGGER Striker TRIGGER TYPE X-Series Straight BARREL LENGTH 5 in (127 mm) OVERALL LENGTH 8.5 in (216 mm) OVERALL WIDTH 1.6 in (41 mm) HEIGHT 5.8 in (147 mm) WEIGHT 35.6 oz (1 kg) The Sig 320X5-9-BAS has a MSRP of $1,005.00 Once I get the X-5 out to the range and get a few thousand rounds through it, I will report back and give you an update. Featured photo by author. Holster by Bravo Concealment, Ammo from Sig Ammunition

Modular Pistols : Are They The Future or A Fad

Modular pistols, are they the future of pistol development or are they just a passing fad like the GyroJet and the Heckler & Koch squeeze cocking P7M8 ? The modular pistols like the Sig Sauer P320 and P250 designs certainly turned some heads when they first came onto the scene but how serious of a […]

Infographic on the Beretta 92 (M-9) and the Sig 320 (XM-17): U.S. Army Upgrades to the MHS

We have written a lot lately about the Sig 320. It has won the ICE contract and was recently selected by the Army as the winner of the Modular Handgun System (MHS) competition. In the latest news, Glock filed a protest with the government about the Army awarding the MHS contract to Sig Sauer. This […]

2016 Year in Review

As December winds down it bring with it a time of reflection as we look back on both our personal and professional accomplishments for the year. We here at The Arms Guide are not immune to looking back at our complete body of work and taking a few moments to admire it. That started us […]

For the Man who has Everything: RPG-7 Trainer

Ordnance.com offered this on GunBroker (it will either sell, expire or roll over to a new listing today). It’s a live RPG-7V trainer that shoots, not rocket-propelled grenades, but 7.62 x 39mm rounds. It’s regulated to shoot to the same point that the normal PG-7V grenade hits, with tracer ammo, but it’s all-around a great procedures […]

Building a Precision Sniper Rifle on a Budget: Part 1

by Juliet One My next series of articles are going to be covering the topic of building a precision sniper rifle. I will be covering everything from putting together a relatively low-cost budget build to having a high dollar custom rig built. There are many misconceptions in regards to precision shooting. One of the biggest […]

CMMG’s MkGs GUARD 9mm 3000 Rounds Later: Spoiler Alert…Feeds Everything

The 9mm GUARD from CMMG is an AR-15 pistol caliber carbine (PCC). Not just another Colt clone, the GUARD uses CMMG’s patent pending Radial Delayed Blowback system and is fed from Glock 33 round magazines. The Guard has fully functional AR-15 controls, including last round bolt hold open. The 9mm Guard is available in six […]