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Matchbox Parts

Depending on configuration, there’s around 100 individual parts in an AR15 rifle. Clearly, most aren’t big but all matter. Not all have to be perfect...

Stock Options?

When I get several questions on the same topic, I commence thinking: time to spool up a collective answer and share it here. I’ve based many a column on...

Retro Fever Part 2

Last time I took my own trip down memory lane with respect to my old “original” AR15s and — I hope — opened you up to the joys of early rifles for...

Retro Fever Part 1

\I love this gun. The look of an original — and the feel of it — is very different from what we’ve come to identify as an “AR15.” Nobody much...

Ejection-Rejection

There’re two components involved in getting a spent case out of an AR15: the extractor and ejector. After firing, when the bolt moves back and rotates,...

Extraction Is Essential

Common AR function problems are failures to feed the next round and failures to extract the fired case. Aside from something like a trigger malfunction,...