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The US Army’s New Rifle, SAW, and Ammo, Explained

You’ve probably heard by now that the US Army has adopted and is making plans to replace it’s entire inventory of M4s with the Sig Spear. It’s also replacing their fleet of M249s with Sig’s NGSW-AR, and possibly the M240 as well. These new guns will run the new 6.8×51 cartridge, which will be commercially known as “.277 Fury”. The cartridge will launch a 6.8 caliber projectile at near 3,000 fps…

Grest video from S2 Underground, a criminally underrated info source. It’s not a long watch, but full of stuff to think about for yourself. Enjoy. Stay Safe, and be ready, and we’ll see you next Friday. -S_S

Understanding the Upcoming Pistol Brace Ban

Watch the video below. Dude’s a lawyer, not an internet blogger. Keep your eyes peeled, and we’ll see you next Friday. -S_S

The Importance of the First Shot

In a gunfight, the shooter who first scores a hit above the diaphragm of his opponent is the one who seizes the initiative in the incidentClaude Werner Sorry it’s been so quiet around here lately, but I haven’t been idle. Well, not more than normal anyway… I don’t have anything to put out publicly yet, but I am working on it. One of the supporting principles of my little thought project was…

Why Would Stoner Actually Do?

I found the below video very enlightening. It’s interesting to hear the designer of the most influential gun in the past 70 years talk about how and why he made what he did, and about how other people came along and changed it. Food for thought. I’ll see if I can find a link to the videos that were spliced in. If I do, I’ll post them here on PGM. I’ll see you next Friday.

Well guys, I finally did it. I’ve stirred up enough internet drama that I got actual, legit people to host me on a podcast. To hear it, click below to see my friend Matt’s blog post featuring the podcast I was on. He, Ilya (of Optics Thoughts), and I had a discussion of LPVOs with offset red dots. Give it a listen, and tell him what you thought of it. Maybe if all twelve of you mention me,…

What is a PDW?

Just perusing YouTube the other day and came across this excellent video by 9-Hole Reviews. PDW’s happen to have a collection of features that make them attractive to a modern, more urban-dwelling shooter. That, combined with the fact that this is one of the sectors of the gun industry that isn’t completely stagnant make these pretty interesting. The guys at 9-Hole Reviews put together a pretty…

The Mini-14: A Rifle I Wanted to Love

[Editor’s note: This piece was written by a friend of mine, who we’ll refer to as M-M, at my request.] Full disclosure: This review was done on a Southport 180 series of the Ruger Mini-14. This was one of the first production runs of the Mini-14 and only about 1,000 were produced. Oddly, Ruger no longer services this series of the Mini-14. Whether this is from an economies of scale, a tooling…