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• Installing the Vortex PST Gen 2 Scope and Making the Plano Case for the Sabatti Urban Sniper October 31, 2018
  In my previous post, I gave you my out of the box impressions of the Sabatti .308 Urban Sniper.  In this post, I’ll give you an overview of the scope I went with, mounting it and the Plano hardcase. A Vortex 3-15×44 FFP PST Gen 2 Scope and PMR Rings I contacted Travis Boran, a fellow I ...
• First Impressions of the Sabatti Urban Sniper Out of The Box October 29, 2018
  This is the second post in the series about the .308 caliber Sabatti Urban Sniper.  In the first post, I provided a bit of history about Sabatti and the Italian Firearms Group (IFG) plus why I was intrigued by the rifle and its claim of sub-MOA accuracy with the Multi Radial Rifling (MRR).  In this ...
• The Remarkable Sabatti Urban Sniper – An Affordable Compact Sub-MOA Rifle October 28, 2018
  It’s interesting that a 400+ year old Italian firearms company is relatively unknown in the United States.  In the early 1700s, Mr. Ludovico Sabatti was making flint lock pistols and barrels.  Subsequent generations developed specialized barrel making capabilities as well as other parts.  It’s worth noting this history – they have been making barrels for ...
• Tips on Finding Decent Gunsmithing Tools on eBay October 27, 2018
  One of the challenges when starting out working on guns is building your tool collection.  It’s hard to find cost effective tools so you wind up making do with stuff, creating tools ad hoc, etc.  Interestingly enough, this is where eBay just might help.  While I’m not happy with their anti-gun position, there are a ...
• New SDS 10 Round Magazines At The Range – They Worked Great October 27, 2018
  As you may have read, my first range session with my new SDS Lynx shotgun didn’t go very well when I used new untested 10 round SDS brand magazines.  I posted my findings and David Fillers of SDS immediately reached out to me to address the issue. David told me they did have a few quality ...
• Fitting a Csspecs Steel Magazine To A SDS Lynx 12ga Shotgun October 14, 2018
  Csspecs makes wicked steel magazines for a variety of niche weapons. They make a well respected magazine for 12 gauge Saiga shotguns. That meant it would fit my SDS Lynx 12ga also. I placed my order on their website and within a week receive to magazines that were built like a tank. I had a problem ...
• Slick AR Rifle Shirts and Sweatshirts October 14, 2018
  I like weapons based on the Armalite Rifle (AR) design and have owned a variety of them over the years including a variety of AR-15s from Colt, Rock River, Palmetto State Armory and others plus a whole slew of pistols. I also like having cool T-shirts and hoodies that reflect my interests and opinions about firearms ...
• Tuning SDS 10 Round Magazines for Saiga and Lynx Shotguns October 14, 2018
  Well, Scott, Brooks and I went shooting a few weeks back. I was really excited to take my new SDS Lynx out and I had bought four brand news SDS 10 round magazines that I took out of the wrapper and threw in my range bag. That turned out to be a mistake. The photo ...
• Using Super Lube Grease on a McKay Semi-Auto Uzi October 7, 2018
  In an earlier post, I mentioned that I have switched to using Super Lube Multi-Purpose Grease on my firearms.  One of my test platforms was a semi-auto Uzi I built using a McKay receiver and McKay closed bolt group. To legally build a semi-auto Uzi, you need to run a closed bolt system vs. the original ...
• Switched to Super Lube Multi-Purpose Synthetic Grease For All of My Firearms October 7, 2018
  I’m always searching for better lubricants.  Many of the so-called specialty weapons lubes are just marketing hype with some bulk lubricant poured into their container.  In terms of greases, I’ve used quite a few over the years including wheel bearing grease and Tetra Gun Grease.  I wanted to find something effective, non-toxic and less expensive. A ...
• Taming the ‘Wulf – My Adventure With a .50 Beowulf AR Rifle October 6, 2018
  When I first heard of the .50 Beowulf cartridge, it got added to my bucket list immediately. What’s not to like – the ballistics of the .45-70 cartridge in an AR platform that hits like a freight train. Somewhat humorously, I’d also point out that it drops noticeably at 150 yards and like a pumpkin ...
• How to Convert an Aluminum AR-15 5.56/223 Magazine For .50 Beowulf Rounds October 6, 2018
  When Bill Alexander decided to make the .50 Beowulf round, he really got me excited 🙂  The idea of a heavy thumper round in an AR platform really appealed to me so I bought one and one issue that popped up was where to find magazines that were not really expensive. D&H 5.56 30 RD Aluminum ...
• How to Lubricate a “Flipper” Folding Pocket Knife October 6, 2018
  I really like assisted opening folding knives.  For example, I routinely carry either a Hogue X5 that my wife and kids bought me for Father’s Day or a ZT 350.  I am working all the time and often find myself needing to cut something.  In the old days, that meant I would have to fish ...
• Awesome Shirts and Hoodies for AK Fans September 29, 2018
  Folks, I’ve been involved with AKs since about 2006 – not a long time but long enough to watch the AK, or Avtomát Kaláshnikova, rise from a firearms embraced kind of at the fringe by preppers and guys who realized that it was extremely reliable and fun to shoot. Today, the AK and its many, many variants ...
• 17 cm mittlerer Minenwerfer Trench Mortar (17cm mMW a/A) Found in Dowagiac, MI, WWI Memorial September 14, 2018
  My wife and I were walking around downtown Dowagiac, MI, when I spotted a memorial with an odd little piece of artillery sticking out above a bush located by the intersection of South Front and Main Street. I walked over and realized I had no idea what it was.  Given it was a WWI monument, it ...
• Houston We Have a Problem: The Onyx 1828 3/8″ Nano Impact Wrench Breaks Its Retaining Clip – Resolved September 12, 2018
  Well, after only moderate use my Onyx 1828 3/8″ Nano Impact Wrench has a problem.  On the nose is a small retaining ring, that holds sockets in place.  It came out of its groove and bent.  At first I couldn’t figure out why it was so hard to put sockets on or take them off ...
• THE LYNX 12 – POST 3 OF 3: Adding the Customizations September 12, 2018
  This is the third post in a three part series about customizing a Lynx 12 Shotgun.  In the first post, I wrote about my “out of the box” observations and in the second post, I disassembled the Lynx and also recorded observations.  In this final post, I’ll add in my planned customizations and explain my ...
• The Lynx 12 – Post 2 of 3: Disassembly and Observations September 9, 2018
  In the first post, I documented my favorable first impressions of the SDS Lynx 12 shotgun.  After posting, at least 10 gentlemen have come forward stating how much they like their Lynx 12 shotguns and nobody reported any problems.  In this post, I’ll write about taking the shotgun apart in order to install my planned ...
• The Lynx 12 – Post 1 of 3: Unboxing and First Impressions September 8, 2018
  For some reason, I never really got into the Saigas when they were the hot conversion ticket. I guess it was because I was mainly working on rifles and had a Vepr 12. At any rate, when I heard from Paul Popov that SDS was importing a Saiga-12 clone known as the Lynx 12 from China ...
• Cool Video of The Parts Break Down and Operation of a Type 2 Milled AK August 10, 2018
  I posted a Forgotten Weapons video a few months back  where Ian does a great overview of the Type 2 Avtomát Kaláshnikova (AK).  Џон Ивошевић shared with me this cool computer animation of the parts and operation of a Type 2. This is incredibly detailed – if you are into AK rifles, this is worth watching: I’m amazed and ...

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