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Installed by XS sights! By Joe W Gorman In the 1976 Dirty Harry movie The Enforcer, Clint Eastwood (as Dirty Harry) sarcastically says to Hal Holbrook (as Lt. Briggs) “You’re a good man Lieutenant. A good man always knows his limitations.” For much of my adult life, by this measure, I have not been a…
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By Joe Gorman Dan Wesson’s amazing Specialist Commander in .45acp Dan Wesson has been making firearms since 1968. Dan Wesson has been making pistols based on the 1911 platform since 1999. I was woefully ignorant of their products and a friend suggested I try one as, in his opinion, they were very well made. So…
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By Joe W Gorman Colt’s Mighty Kodiak Returns! Colt’s ever-expanding line of cool revolvers has resurrected another bear gun! Alongside the .357 Magnum Grizzly, Colt is making also making a .44 Magnum Kodiak again! Since Colt set their proverbial sights on the wheel gun market again, starting with 2017’s reintroduction of the .38 special Cobra,…
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Smith MP10 308 Volunteer By Joe W Gorman Smith and Wesson’s excellent MP10 Volunteer in .308 Smith and Wesson has been making AR10s (MP10s) for many years and I have finally gotten around to reviewing one. Reviewed today, is a Smith and Wesson MP10 Volunteer X in .308. This rifle sports a 16” Armornite-finished barrel…
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By Joe W Gorman Ruger’s 20” 6.5 Creedmoor SFAR. What a game-changer of a rifle! AR-10s were big and cumbersome when I first handled one some 40 years ago. I did not follow their advances and was content with 5.56 ARs and if I needed to shoot 7.62 NATO well, I had a M-1A. Enter…
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By Joe W Gorman Smith and Wesson’s new 629 Mountain Gun is a Lipsey’s exclusive and well worth the effort it takes to track one down! The Gun One extremely desirable gun that escaped me when it was originally being produced was Smith and Wesson’s 629 Mountain Gun. A late 80s creation that reached the…
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By Joe W Gorman Foreword: The company, Armalite, was formed in the 1950s with Eugene Stoner as chief engineer/designer. Originating as the light firearms division of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation, Armalite operated until the 1980s when it was sold to a foreign interest. In the ‘90s Mark Westrom purchased the company and its designs…
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By Joe W Gorman Us wheel-gunners long dreamt of the day when Colt would once again produce the magnificent Colt Python. Then 2020 hit us like a bag of concrete. Between the pain spikes there were some bright points. For one thing, Colt made the Python again. The 2020 Python was originally released in stainless…
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By Joe W Gorman After 30 years of shooting at very distant and very small objects with a glass-bedded, walnut-stocked national match M1A, built for me 30 years ago by Clint McKee at Fulton Armory, I decided that I would try out one of the new precision stocks that all the kids constantly talk about…
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By Joe W Gorman Think we’d let little things like freezing temperatures and snow and wind interrupt our testing of Joe’s latest build? No way. Sun’s out, guns out. For this project, I wanted to build up a 5.56 mm AR capable of MOA groups (or under) out to 700 yards using heavy match ammunition. …