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- View at Dusk From the St. Joseph, MI, Piers – August 5, 2024 September 22, 2024My wife and I were walking on the South Pier in Saint Joseph, MI. It was a quiet evening with clouds and everything had a soft hue. As we were walking out, there was a sailboat bobbing about under way and made for some nice shots. The following is a tiled gallery – click ...
- Plano All Weather Rifle and Pistol Hard Cases Are Good To Go September 22, 2024I’m a happy user of Plano All Weather rifle and pistol hard cases. Plano Molding harks from Plano, I’m a fan of Plano’s All Weather hard cases. Maybe you haven’t encountered them but they are solid, waterproof, and have pluckable foam so you can easily custom fit whatever firearm(s) you want to store. To fit ...
- Sunset In Saint Joseph, MI – View From The Pier On August 7th, 2024 September 14, 2024My wife and I like going for evening walks. One of our places is the pier on the St. Joseph side of the Saint Joseph River. On August 7th, 2024, we were treated to a spectacular sunset starting with yellows, shifting to reds, then purples and finally night. It was a perfect ...
- Two Bergara Factory Tour Videos – Watch Barrels, Receivers, and B14 Rifles Being Built September 13, 2024During the course of my researching Begara, the history of the brand and the parent company – Dikar S Coop, I encountered this very interesting tour of the Dikar S Coop factory in Bergara, Spain. It was conducted in 2019 and is a chance for you to see some of their barrel, bolt and ...
- Customizing My Bergara B14 HMR September 12, 2024After going over my new Bergara B14 HMR, I realized there was actually nothing I needed to change in the base package itself. You need to understand, it is very rare that I don’t fiddle with a firearm and change things. The B14 HMR is a hidden gem in my opinion. A ...
- The Bergara B14 HMR Is Good to Go September 10, 2024In a recent post, I gave some background on Bergara and as mentioned, after learning more, I did go back to Michigan Gun Exchange and buy the Bergara B14 HMR. The B14 HMR is made in Spain in a modern factory with CNC machines and careful quality control. This results in consistent parts with fairly ...
- Handmade Knives in Alfonso, Cavite, Philippines September 9, 2024We visited a family member in Alfonso, Cavite, in the Philippines. Her home has a small garden in the back filled with various fruit trees and she insisted we take some fruit with us. Part of what caught my eye was the machete being used. That you can see above. I turned out ...
- Who Is The Rifle Maker Bergara? September 9, 2024To be honest, Bergara wasn’t even on my radar until the Summer of 2023. I was talking to my good friend, Scott Igert, who, along with his wife Alicia, own Michigan Gun Exchange, about a slick looking bolt rifle he bought for inventory to sell – it was a Bergara B14 HMR. I’d not heard ...
- Adding a Minimalist Spigot to a KRG Bravo Chassis September 6, 2024In my last post, I mentioned my disappointment that the Kinetic Research Group (KRG) Bravo chassis that Aero Precision sells with some of their Solus bolt rifle offerings is not truly bipod ready. In my opinion, Aero should either have discosed that the stock isn’t bipod ready and/or given an option during the purchase ...
- The Aero Solus .308 Bravo With a 20″ M24 Profiled Barrel Is A Solid Performer – With Four Additions September 5, 2024Most of my time is spent working on ARs, AKs, and various Pistol Caliber Carbines (PCCs). Once in a while, I get a hankering for a precision rifle and take the plunge … in this case two plunges, an Aero Solus .308 with a 20″ M24 profiled barrel plus a Bergara B14 HMR also ...
- Glock Truglo Tritium and Fiber Optic Sights Are Amazing Improvements! September 4, 2024A fellow emailed me wanting to upgrade his from the generic OEM Glock sights that I don’t think really excite anyone to something that would be more visible in general and also work in the dark. My answer was immediate – go with the TRUGLO TFX Pro Tritium and Fiber Optic Xtreme sights. The featured photo ...
- Why grips converted for MP5Ks have a weirdly shaped rear pin hole September 4, 2024Grips for the MP5/HK33 and HK91/G3 rifles can be converted for use on MP5K-type weapons. As you can see in the photo above, a small circle appears at about 2:30 position on the larger hole for the pin when this is done. I used to wonder why and since I started offering converted grips ...
- The Garmin Xero C1 Is The Chronograph We’ve All Been Waiting For September 3, 2024I was always so impressed by all the firearm articles where someone used this mysterious tool called a “chronograph” to report the speeds of bullets. They’d then use formulas, bullet weights, ballistics coefficients and what not to determine an approximated trajectory with velocity and energy along the way. I even bought one once and instantly ...
- The Caldwell Precision Turret Rest And Caldwell RockBR Rest Are Both Rock Solid September 2, 2024I like target shooting but have a tremor – that’s not a great combination. I am always on the hunt for better rifle rests when shooting from a bench. I owned the Caldwell Rock BR for a couple of years and it is a darned good rest in its own right. I ...
- Filipino Knife Maker On Bohol Island In The Philippines September 2, 2024During a recent trip to the Philippines, we visited the island of Bohol. We happened to drive through the village of Loay and saw a shop by the road with an enormous number of blades of all sizes and shapes for sale so we stopped. If you click here, the Google listing will ...
- Stribog SP10A3 10mm At The Range September 2, 2024I posted about the modifications to the SP10A3 as well as magazine loaders and now it is time to talk about how it performed. One of my brother-in-laws and nephews were in town and ready to help me try it out. First off, we had a lot of fun and second, the 10mm ...
- The Stribog 10mm Is Amazing! September 1, 2024Back in 2022, I bought a Stribog SP9A1 and really liked it. Then the ATF brace fiasco rolled around and I decided to sell it. It was a darned nice 9mm pistol caliber carbine (PCC) with the brace and I have since regretted selling it. Once the brace ruling was shot down, it went back ...
- The 5.56 Tavor X95 Is Still Here Three Years Later Because I Really Like It August 28, 2024It’s really rare that I hold on to a firearm for more than a year. I bought my Tavor X95 in August of 2021. It’s now August of 2024 and it’s still here and probably not going anywhere soon. Why? Because I like it – how’s that for a reason? There Is A Learning Curve I’ll ...
- Gunbusters Revisits the AK-12 but the 2023 edition this time August 22, 2024Okay, in 2018, Gunbusters tested an AK-12. Since then, Klashnikov Concern has done a number of enhancement so they decided to torture one again. Watch as an up-armored Gregory Gubich puts the 2023 model through his testing. Have to love the welding gloves and K6-3 Altyn Helmet. I’d want protection too! Here’s a cool ...
- Mini Mill Belt Drive Conversion Kit – Definitely Worth It August 12, 2024I have a Harbor Freight 44991 Mini Mill that I bought in 2006 or there abouts. My use of it has been off-and-on depending on what projects I had. Lately, I’ve been using it a lot and happened across a blog post talking about the benefits of upgrading from the gear drive to a belt ...