Garand Thumb went start-to-finish on what actually belongs on a defensive rifle build — optics, stocks, weapon lights, M-LOK real estate, slings, grips, safeties, magazines, charging handles, buffers, bolts and BCGs — and the framing is the right one: it’s a complete system, not a pile of accessories bolted on because they looked good in […]
TFBTV pushed back on one of the more common upgrade instincts out there: dropping the lightest, shortest trigger you can find into a gun you actually carry or keep for defense. Their point is a fair one — a trigger tuned for a 2-second par-time drill on a square range is a very different tool […]
Brandon Herrera got range time with a Ruger AC-556 — the transferable, select-fire sibling of the rifle most people know as the Mini-14 — and made the case for it as, in his words, the only machine gun that actually makes sense for self-defense. It’s a fun watch mostly because of what it says about […]
Hickok45 spent this one behind an actual 1880s original rolling-block rifle in .45-70 — not a reproduction, the real period piece — and put the question to viewers straight: would you have trusted this for buffalo hunting? It’s less a review than a genuine appreciation piece for how much rifle a single-shot, 140-year-old action really […]
Roller-delayed blowback has a cult following for a reason, and the platform that keeps pulling new shooters into that cult is the HK MP5 lineage — or, more realistically for most budgets, one of its clones. MrGunsNGear’s latest look at the Century-imported, Turkish MKE-built AP5 SD digs into exactly that question: is this the clone […]