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In a handgun thread, Will Beararms brought up an interesting point regarding the cost of magazines vs. their inclusion with the new gun. That got me to thinking... How much of a price difference is enough to make you balk when considering otherwise generally similar guns? For example... you...

For grins and giggles I have obtained conversion kits for all the calibers for my Sig P250.* 9mm, .357Sig, .40S&W, and .45ACP- all are full size, and only the .45ACP requires its own grip frame (same exterior size, but the magwell is bigger). I thought it would be nice to be able to shoot...

This week I picked up a Sig P250 2SUM pack (9mm, night sights) from a private party... he had purchased it, set it aside, never fired it (it still had those Tyvek-esque wraps around both frame/slide sets), and decided to sell it to make room for something else. I picked it up for a quite good...

What would it take for a particular gun shop to earn your repeat business to the exclusion of others? As in, you'd drive past other shops just to go to this one or you'd willingly order through this shop before buying in stock from some other retailer? Or do you even consider having that kind...

As I've gotten more and more into reloading, I keep coming across advice in the manuals to keep exacting records- not just bullet/powder/charge type of thing, I mean truly detailed records with the lot numbers and so on. Reason being (as per the Lyman shotshell manual), you can check your...

I saw on Thursday that AIM had come into a shipment of K31 bayonets, some of which had the matching rifle (the bayonets are numbered to the rifle, and as far as I knew were rare as hen's teeth since they were often kept). I had a nice walnut K31 and no bayonet, so I went ahead and ordered a...

Gentlemen (and ladies)... BEHOLD! Here we have a Remington 597 VTR that's been massaged a bit. Stainless steel Jarvis barrel, Troy TRX Extreme handguard, Magpul MBUS, TangoDown battlegrip, some duracoating, etc. Why? Well, I had the parts. The VTR uses box stock AR-15 parts for the stock...

File this one under FYI for those who own or are thinking about owning a Remington 597 VTR. I did some tearing down of mine, and discovered that my hunch was correct- there are exactly four parts on the thing not shared with the regular Rem 597 or with the AR-15. Those parts are the side plates...

Right now I'm looking into getting a .22LR pistol that can be suppressed. I already have a Sig Trailside for most of my plinking fun, so it won't be my sole .22LR handgun. The difficulty level is that it needs to come from the factory with a threaded barrel- I'm NOT spending $400 for the gun...

Well, I had this Saiga 12 shotgun, and it was sorely needing a conversion. I used the Tromix DIY screw in trigger guard and Tromix modified Tapco G2 trigger group. I also Duracoated it in combat green (leaving several spots of the original black for contrast). The optic is a 3rd generation...