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Image of AR 15 Breech Feed RampsThe Most Common Feeding Problems with an AR-15
Last Summer my neighbor, his son and a couple of his friends were shooting on the back side of my property. Laura (wife) yells to me while I was working in my gunsmith shop telling me that I better get to the range because two of Warren County’s finest had shown up. While the Sheriff department is great, they don’t normally just stop in to be friendly. The deputies were very nice and said that they received a call from an anonymous person who was worried about all the shooting. The officers said their concern ... (Read More)

 

Image of Frankensien's Face The Monster AR
In my previous article, “The Most Common Feeding Problems with an AR-15,” I called Sam’s black gun a “Frankenstein.”  In the current political environment, I’m NOT calling the AR a monster to be feared, the fake news has that covered, but rather a nickname used within the gunsmith community to describe a specific rendition of firearms; in most cases an AR.   Let me ask a rhetorical question.  What makes Frankenstein a Frankenstein? First, as I understand it, the original monster was called “Dr. Frankenstein’s monster”, so the name comes from the mad doctor.  As humans like to do, we shorten, abbreviate, or acronym any word, sentence, phrase or title with more than one syllable.  Therefore, Dr. Frankenstein’s monster was shortened to Frankenstein.  In keeping with the tradition of unnecessary  abbreviations, I’ll call Sam’s AR-15 “Franky.”  Second, Frankenstein was manufactured by... (Read More)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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