How To: 4 Easy Glock Upgrades Anyone Can Do
While a box stock Glock will run like a champ right out of the box, these four upgrades will make yours even more accurate and shootable.
How To Upgrade Your Muzzleloader’s Open Sights
Using Brownells parts, we show you how to extend the range of your muzzleloader with open sights.
How To Care For And Upgrade AR Springs
One of the more overlooked components of the AR-15, properly functioning AR springs are vital to the platform’s performance.
How To: Customizing The AR So It’s Race Ready
Given the ease of modification, there's no reason you should be satisfied with a stock AR. Here’s a quick look at how to make your rifle race ready.
How-To: Installing A Free-Floated Handguard On Your AR-15
Upgrading from a standard to a free-floated handguard can increase your AR-15’s accuracy potential, and it isn’t difficult following this procedure.
How-To: Properly Mounting a Scope on a Rifle
Mounting a scope on a rifle is one of those things that can seem fairly straightforward on the surface, but once you actually start doing it, it can go sideways very quickly.
How Does Barrel Bedding Affect Accuracy?
Not all barrel bedding is equal. There is a lot with regard to bedding dynamics that can either increase or decrease a rifle's accuracy.
How-To: Customizing the Remington 870
The Remington 870 pump action has been used as a standard police model for decades. But as good as this gun is, it can always be improved by the application of aftermarket parts and the ingenuity of a custom gunsmith.
How To: Converting the AR-15 to Piston-Driven Operation
There are some solid benefits to converting the AR-15 to piston driven operation, but it can be a bit of an undertaking. Here's what you need to know.
How To: Creating a Custom Day/Night Ruger 10/22
In this custom build, a standard factory Ruger 10/22 is transformed into a suppressed predator and varmint slayer capable of daytime or nighttime operation.
How To: Pushing SKS Upgrades to the Limit
SKS Upgrades? It almost sound like an oxymoron. But here's what can be accomplished by a truly determined fan of the rugged cold war relic.
How To: Choosing A Flash Suppressor, Muzzle Brake And Compensator
Common muzzle devices — flash hiders, compensators, muzzle brakes — are often-overlooked features when shopping for an AR. But they shouldn't be, as each enhances the rifle in its own way.
Gun D.I.Y.: Improving AK Triggers
Stock AK Triggers are not known for their crisp, clean breaks. But there is something that can be done about this with some simple modifications or upgrades.
Q&A: Zeglin on the Impact of P.O. Ackley
We talk with gunsmith and author Fred Zeglin on P.O. Ackley's incredible influence on the modern firearms world.
The Ins and Outs of Fireforming Cases
A catch to choosing a rifle chambered for an Ackley Improved round is obtaining the brass to reload. Luckily, fireforming cases — shooting them in the Improved rifle — is a quick and easy way to procure plenty of brass.
Great Aluminum AK Handguards
Check out these great aluminum AK handguards to turn your Kalashnikov rifle into a more tactical firearm.
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