The 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
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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...
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