Daily Archives: September 30, 2009

This is my rifle

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September 30, 2009
This is my rifle

These are the guts of my Smith & Wesson M&P-15 MOE rifle. You can see the Trijicon TA-11G, which is a 3.5×35 optic, utilizing Trijicon’s new green circular reticle.
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Gunsite Carbine Class: Day 1

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September 30, 2009

Yesterday was the first day of the carbine class at Gunsite, which was mostly focused on zeroing our rifles with the excellent Trijicon 3.5×35 optic mounted on the S&W MP-15 MOE rifles.  After the rifles were zeroed, we worked on snaps at 15 and 5 yards so that the instructors could get a feel...
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Gun Nuts Radio: Gun Culture

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September 30, 2009

Did you miss last night’s Gun Nuts Radio? If you did, you miss a hell of a show. Breda and now semi-official guest co-host JayG had a great show on what “gun culture” means to us as gun owners. If you missed it, check out it here on download. If you’re interested, you can...
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National AR-15 Bolt Maintenance Day!

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September 30, 2009

One of the more critical bits of information to percolate out from the massively parallel carbine training efforts in this country is that the bolt in the Stoner pattern rifle has a limited lifespan.  Typically, the failure mode is to crack around the cam pin hole.  The rifle will continue to operate with a...
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