We have covered silencers and suppressing the 45 Auto pistol and .300 Blackout rifle, so it seemed time to address suppressing a small bore rifle. We selected a Mayodan, North Carolina manufactured Ruger SR 556TD for this project because it takes only a handful of seconds to switch between 300 […]

My experience with Burris Optic’s AR-536 came during an extended AR silencer assessment project. A Ruger SR-556TD was shot with both a 5.56 NATO barrel and a 300 Blackout Ruger accessory barrel, with and without, respectively, Advanced Armament Corp’s Fast Attach SR5 and SR7 silencers. The project created a requirement […]

Times have changed, firearms have changed and, certainly, ammo has changed. As a result, the subcompact 380 Auto pistol that was once considered last resort has been replaced with highly reliable subcompacts, with considerable power and certain lethality, like the Remington RM380. The Remington RM380 is supplied with a gun […]

My initial intention was to run both the SR5 and SR7 silencer results together, but the dynamics are quite different so it seemed appropriate to split them up. The 300 Blackout barrel with Advanced Armament 90T 1/2×28 Blackout® Flash Hider Mount was installed on the Ruger SR556TD. Without the silencer […]

As the years go by, I have less in common with younger people… which makes sense, as people are formed by events and experiences and the world is a quite different place now than when I was young. Young people today hold collaboration and popular consensus, rather than individual thought […]

I have the flu, so I am not quite sure in what direction this article will tack. It is difficult to concentrate with watery eyes, dribbling nose and a hacking cough and I have clearly run through my flu per incident allocation of sympathy. Somewhere around the third whining, moaning […]

The name “STI International” should be a component of every handgunner’s vocabulary. The company’s products are prominent in practical pistol competition events and they serve range dwelling paper punchers, literally, the world over. STI handguns fill law enforcement holsters and they provide peace of mind to civilians exercising their Second […]

When we left off in Part II, the following bullets has been selected and dimensions had been determined. I included the information here also to save time flipping digital pages. Bullet Type Application Grains Weight Bullet Length “ Potential COL “ Final COL “ COL Factor Sierra Varmint Master 1710 […]

Been here before. Just finished prepping 6.5x55mm brass, which included removing the protective oil from a set of Redding match grade dies and the use of kerosene, die sealer, Kroil, and case lube. I smell like a gasoline refinery on a dead air day and the legends on my keyboard’s […]

I’m on vacation… taking a break…. momentarily tired of writing about wonderful products, with broad applications, that sincerely deserve objective coverage, but personally bore the crap out of me. Usually a cup of coffee and shooting holes into something can get me there, but sometimes I just have to spend […]