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- Save a Boat Load Of Money Installing Your Own Tow Hooks On A 2019 – 2021 Ram 2500 or 3500 November 7, 2021In September I bought my first new truck from a dealership – a 2021 RAM 2500 with the 6.4L Hemi engine. It was a Tradesman with a crew cab and the 2GA customer package group – meaning it had the Snow Chief, Chrome Appearance, Tradesman Level 2, Shift on the Fly transfer case, Power ...
- Are You Looking For A Great IMI Galil Sling? November 7, 2021When I was tuning my JRA Gallant, I started hunting around for a good sling for it. In looking at eBay, I saw an IDF / Zahal Galil Sling w/Laces sold by zorbal39 in Israel and bought it. Zorba was great at communicating and fast to ship. A bit over a week ...
- How To Easily Assemble A Removable LED Light Bar For Your Truck Or Car’s Roof October 31, 2021Okay, I’m the proud new owner of a 2021 Ram 2500 Tradesman and the original halogen lights were pretty anemic. I did two things to address this – first, I replaced the high beams with Lasfit LED emitters and that’s a story for another day. With that said though, I’ll tell you that ...
- Are You Looking For A Great Deal on The ALG Enhanced AK Fire Control Groups – the AKT-EL Model? October 30, 2021I wrote about this recently that my go-to fire control groups, meaning the trigger, disconnector and hammer, are now the ALG Enhanced Triggers – model AKT-EL. There are two challenges that interested buyers have – #1 they can’t even find them in stock at most websites and #2 even if they do, they are ...
- How to Replace An IMI Galil Recoil Spring October 30, 2021I have written a number of posts now about my purchase of a James River Armory Gallant, which is a Galil ARM. During function testing, I noticed that the surplus recoil spring that JRA used was on the weak side. I would pull the bolt carrier back just a bit and the ...
- Cleaning and Tuning IMI Galil 5.56 Magazines September 28, 2021I have written a number of posts now about my purchase of a James River Armory Gallant, which is a Galil ARM wherein they provided a new US made receiver, barrel and pistol grip. They wanted to keep their costs down so the remaining three parts they needed for 922r compliance was to use ...
- Function Testing an IMI Galil / JRA Gallant September 27, 2021Let me open with this comment: ALWAYS Function Test Before You Go To The Range With a New or Modified Galil or AK Rifle or Pistol!! Seriously – don’t wait to go to the range to do this. You can find out a lot of things at home with all your tools and supplies on hand ...
- Shimming The Loose Handguard on my IMI Galil / JRA Gallant August 22, 2021Second on the list of things I needed to fix right after the buttstock was the loose handguard. It’s a personal preference thing but I don’t like handguards that wiggle and this thing could move front to back as well as side to side. The reason this happens is usually because the handguard retaining slot ...
- Replacing the IMI Galil / JRA Gallant’s Fire Control Group with a New ALG AKT-EL set August 21, 2021The AR, ARM and SAR IMI Galil rifles use an AK-style fire control group. I didn’t include the little Micro Galil as I am not sure about them. For the others though, this means you can swap out the IMI-designed group for the AK group of your choice. I needed to do this ...
- Replacing the JRA Gallant’s Buttstock and Refinishing It August 11, 2021The first thing I decided to do was to replace the buttstock and it was purely for cosmetics – the original locked up solid and did the job. I happen to have two SAR kits that I hope to build some day so I could look at them and pick parts. It just so ...
- My First IMI Galil Kind Of – First Impressions of My New James River Arms Gallant August 11, 2021I have wanted to build an IMI Galil from a kit for years and just never got around to it. One thing that kept me from jumping in was that I had never really dug into the design deeply by taking one apart and looking at everything. In 2006, like a lot of guys, I read ...
- The Japanese Beetles Are Awful This Year – Use Traps To Save Your Plants July 25, 2021There seems to be a ton of Japanese Beetles this year – these fat little buggers can really do a number on plant leaves – eating them leaving holes or just ragged parts of leaves. Spray is one option and I know folks who use Sevin and others but another option that does not ...
- Introducing Our New Third Generation 16 Round 10mm Magazines for Rock Island Armory High Capacity FS A2 Pistols July 9, 2021This is our third generation of magazine for the Rock Island High Capacity FS A2 10mm and .40 S&W pistols that use the 16 round magazines – not the single stack 7-8 round mags. This is one of the new mags. You can see a dummy 10mm round poking out from during testing. These are converted ...
- Still Nuking Mosquitoes and Ticks With Talstar and The Ryobi Power Washer July 1, 2021A reader dropped me an email and asked if I am doing anything new this year for mosquitoes as he read my past posts. I’m still very happy with the effectiveness of the Talstar insecticide plus the combination of the Ryobi 120350 Power Washer and 10-gallon tank strapped to a dolly continues to work ...
- US Coast Guard Response Boat Medium (RB-M) 45754 Stationed In Saint Joseph, MI July 1, 2021We were walking on the south pier in Saint Joseph, MI, on a fine June evening enjoying the cool Lake Michigan air. Coming in from the lake was one of the US Coast Guard boats that are stationed here. As it came in I decided to snap a number of photos plus look ...
- June 2021 Lest We Forget Event Was Held in Benton Harbor, MI June 29, 2021Lest We Forget is an organization dedicated to keeping the memories of what our military has done for us. The 2019 event was the last one for WWII, 2020 was cancelled due to COVID and 2021, this year’s event, remembered Korean War veterans. They have static displays, food, vehicles you can ride on and re-enactments. ...
- Used DryLok To Stop Brick Spalling And Sealed a Chimney Cap June 28, 2021Our home was built in the early 1970s and someone decided to use same relatively soft red brick at the threshold of the door as the rest of house’s exterior walls. I noticed in the fall of 2020 it was really starting to spall – meaning the brick was starting to flake apart. This ...
- The M103 and M60 Tanks At The Dowagiac, Michigan, National Guard Armory – Cold War Armor June 28, 2021My wife and I like driving around and war memorials, VFW displays, and military tributes are always likely to cause us to stop, read and take pictures. Dowagiac, MI, is about 45 minutes from where we live and one fine summer day we decided to stop at the National Guard Armory there and ...
- I Found Some Surprisingly Good Coated Carbide End Mills On Amazon June 27, 2021Hi folks, I’ve been doing plunge cuts on Mec-Gar magazine tubes to remove an indent they have to limit rounds. Mec-Gar magzines are high quality and the tubes are hardened high carbon steel. I dulled two uncoated carbide bits that I had bought from either MSC or McMaster before I decided I better ...
- The ATN X-Sight 4K 5-20x Scope Is Surprisingly Effective But Expect A Learning Curve June 27, 2021I never was that interested in ATN scopes until maybe a two years ago. I was at the range fiddling with something and a fellow pulled in and set up a varmint AR with a big blocky optic on a Bog Deathgrip tripod. I could not help myself – I had to go over ...