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The Astra Model 80: A (Sorta) Spanish SIG

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The modern Spanish Arms industry started when one company copied the Colt M1903 and called it the Ruby pistol. The French purchased a ton for WW1, and dozens of Spanish firms produced them.

Customize Your AR-15 the Right Way

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With so many aftermarket parts, it is fun to tinker with the platform. My recommendation is that if you customize — and you know you will — first determine how the rifle will be used.

Simone Segouin

Simone Segouin: The Photogenic Partisan of Chartres

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Simone Segouin rose to the occasion. A rural farm girl with limited education, her passion for her people and her country drove her to some truly epic levels of heroism in the face of profound peril.

X-Vision Flex 2 Review: Reflex Style Thermal Sight

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With a traditional optic, you would see the clump of grass but not the coyote. With a thermal optic, that coyote can be seen as plain as day.

Sig Sauer Cross Sawtooth Magnum 7PRC

SIG Sauer Cross Sawtooth Magnum

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The Sig Sauer Cross-Magnum Sawtooth rifle is a beast to say the least. It is highly accurate and easily took two coyotes and a bear.

three guns on range bag

Battle of the Plastic Pistol: Anderson vs. Glock vs. Savage

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Plastic pistols are nothing new—the first was made by Heckler & Koch in the 1970s—and you’d be right to say there’s a glut of them on the market. Just because there are a lot of options doesn’t mean they’re all the same, though. It’s even become increasingly common for polymer pistols to be sub-$500 guns—new. [...]

LAR-9 rifle sitting on ground

The Rock River Arms LAR-9 – Retro Carry Handle

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The LAR-9 has that old school cool look and feel we don’t often see from PCCs. When it came up for a crazy low price at auction, I had to have it.

DP Shooting Solutions Pivot Lock Pro – Game-Changer Red Dot Mount

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I’m always on the hunt for new, innovative products that don’t break the bank and that do it better than other offerings on the market. Enter the Pivot Lock Pro offset red dot mount—the debut product from DP Shooting Solutions—and one that’s likely to gain quick traction among competitive shooters, hunters, and tactical professionals alike. [...]

Springfield Armory TRP 4.25” CC Review: A Bobtail 1911 

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A bobtail modification consists of removing about half an inch of metal from the rear backstop and bottom of the mainspring housing.

The Bear Creek Arsenal AR-15 Complete 7.62×39 Rifle

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The Bear Creek Arsenal’s new rifle is a hybrid of sorts: an AR-15 platform rifle chambered in the popular “AK-round.” It also features a side-charging handle.