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What this means is basically that if you have a round spinning too fast, it will be just as unstable as a round that was understabilized by rifling that is too slow. Think of the bullet like a top, spin it too slow and it falls over, spin it too fast and it flies around erratically because of...

http://riflemansjournal.blogspot.de/2010/06/ballistics-heavy-bullets-in-113-twist.html I read here and an earlier post I put up that my 175s would more than likely stabilize out of a barrel with 1:12 rifling in my 308. I'm probably worrying for nothing but will the slower twist have adverse...

Someone hit it earlier about the amount of ammo without resupply. The 240 team I was in was a 2 rather than doctrinally coorect 3 man team, so I had to be the ammo bearer as well as the assistant gunner. Let me tell ya, that bag got heavy quick. At one point it weighed around 75-80 pounds with...

I'd honestly go with the 300 WinMag. I had never fired one prior to last year but after we got the XM2010 for deployment and then got to shoot the German army's sniper rifle (an Accuracy International AWP) I fell in love with the cartridge. My favorite rifle is currently my Rem 700 SPS in 308...

What is a good way to clean all the cosmoline and other assorted crap out of the barrel of a Mosin? I was thinking of getting some of that foaming Gunslick stuff or whatever it's called. I know I can only wring so much accuracy out of a 91/30 but I was planning on shooting it out as far as I can...

During training events I never carried the spare barrel for my 249, and I rarely saw our 240 gunners using theirs outside of live fires or when we would use the miles gear. In Afghanistan I was a SAW(M249) gunner for a little over the first half of the deployment, then became the assistant...

I want to put a muzzle brake on my AK, but it doesn't have the retaining plunger on the front sight post. Could I use some kind of heat resistant Locktite type material or am I just kind of screwed? It's a SAR-1 if that helps any.

I always have a long gun of some sort with me, it stays in the truck though. Used to carry a folding stock AK, stock folded, stored muzzle down leaning against the center console and rested on the passenger seat so that I can grab it as I'm bailing out the driver side door, then I figured out...

Can someone please explain California gun laws to me in plain English? I'm considering moving out there for a change in scenery more than anything, but coming from KY where the law is pretty lax to California could present some issues for me. Specifically the guns I was going to take with me are...

Gonna take a whack at assembling my first AR from scratch, I've got the lower figured out, it's a big boys Lego set. However despite using an M4 daily and having intimate knowledge of how they work, I'm pretty intimidated about assembling my upper. Help :eek:

I'm going to build a sort of "MK12" type of rifle for my step dad and am in the process of sourcing the parts for it, I'm stuck on the upper receiver. I found two that I really like, a BCM Mod 3(I believe is the name, it has the quad rail with a monolithic top rail) and a Syrac Ordnance that for...

Oh man, embarrassing to admit it but the apparently no good technique of pushing the table was taught to us as part of our pre deployment training to counter insider threats. Hahaha, why am I not surprised that the freakin Army taught me this now? Also, I forget who it was, but whoever just...

How would some of you pistoleros go about drawing your and firing your handgun while seated at a table? I was taught one technique where you push your chair back while pushing the table into the guy, then coming up and firing, driving your arm across the table to the point that it's almost a...

http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?item=MAK47PS&name=Black+Polish+Radom+AK47+30rd+7.62x39+Synthetic+Rifle+Magazine&groupid=15 At $8 a mag these seem like a steal, but I don't know if they have metal reinforcements. I hear that the reinforced Radom mags are pretty good and that the non...

I mean, you could try running those few miles at the low ready, but that gets pretty tiring really fast. Unless I'm running a short distance, I usually just grab my M4 by the slip ring and run with it in one hand