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Are you Prepared or Playing Dress Up With Your Gear?

Are you Prepared or Playing Dress Up With Your Gear?

Gut check time. Many of you folks went out during the last few years and spent hundreds and thousands of dollars on guns and gear. With a collective effort, you set the black rifle market on its ear and pushed sales and production to record levels. Gun shops and online dealers quickly ran out of AR-15 magazines soon to be followed by ammunition and AR parts and components. Ammunition sales spiked and most every common caliber was picked clean from the shelves. Innumerable articles and forum posts popped up bemoaning the lack of availability of every type and style of handgun and rifle ammo. Those who hesitated were lost and began to complain about “hoarders” and griped at ammo companies…

Wilson Combat: AR-10 Performance From an AR-15 Platform

Wilson Combat: AR-10 Performance From an AR-15 Platform

“The 7.62×40 has no business performing as well as it does, but it does.” That quote from Bill Wilson, founder of Wilson Combat pretty much sums up lethal force of the new 7.62×40 Wilson Tactical round. “This project began when I started tinkering with the .300 Blackout cartridge. I wanted to get more out of the round than the factory ammo could give.” Wilson continued. “I was working in my reloading room and put together a .30 caliber round using a .223 Remington case. It occurred to me that this idea was so simple that surely someone else had already done it.” Bill did some research and found that a man named Kurt Buchert had previously worked up a similar…