WATCH: Shotgun Training, Skills and Safety for First-Time Buyers

WATCH: Shotgun Training, Skills and Safety for First-Time Buyers

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The coronavirus pandemic, and the ensuing panic, has changed the gun narrative in America. Now more than ever in recent memory, Americans are turning to the Second Amendment to ensure the safety of their families. Gun and ammo sales continue to soar; that means many first-time buyers are heading to gun stores. We want to make sure new gun owners have the proper training. So we’ve put together a three-part introductory video series on handgun, rifle, and shotgun training, skills, and safety. Here’s the third video in our series, focusing on shotguns. Be sure to check out “Part I: Handgun Training” and “Part II: Rifle Training”  as well.

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Shotgun Training, Skills and Safety

First and foremost, all gun owners must follow the four basic gun safety rules: Treat every gun as if it were loaded. Never point a gun at anything you don’t want to destroy. Always keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to shoot. Know your target and what’s beyond it. Those four rules should define every choice you ever make in gun handling. Follow them religiously, and you’ll never have a problem, a negligent discharge or worse.

The shotgun remains one of the most effective tools for home defense. Users can load low-brass birdshot to ensure rounds don’t over-penetrate interior walls. For more firepower, buckshot also becomes a formidable stopper. And when you really have to take down something big or engage targets at range, slugs prove devastating.

But there is much to learn to effectively manipulate, run and fire a shotgun in a defensive setting. Watch our video, learn, and then invest in some quality, certified instruction. Then get on the range and practice, practice, practice. Shotgun loading takes time to master, and you can never be proficient enough running a defensive shotgun.

Welcome to the firearms community. Get trained, practiced hard, and have fun out there on the rang. And remember, share what you’ve learned with others.

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April 15, 2020 at 12:18PM

Everything You Need to Know About the GLOCK 19

Everything You Need to Know About the GLOCK 19

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Ah, the unfailing GLOCK 19. Have you ever wondered about the story behind one of the world’s most popular pistols? What it would be like to fire an excellently crafted handgun built to withstand any conditions for home defenders, servicemen and women alike?

How about some points on maintaining an efficiently built weapon like the GLOCK 19? We’ll take a shot at all of these topics and more below. Let’s dive right in.

GLOCK 19 History

There are five generations of this famous pistol, but we will begin with the story of the GLOCK company to really understand where our latest G19 comes from.

Gaston Glock, an Austrian engineer, began his humble career in the glamorous realm of curtain rod manufacturing in the 1960s. Weird, right? Not what I think of when I picture the deadly accurate pistols that bear his name!

Anyway, in the 70s, the Austrian military commissioned him to design knives, grenade casings and machine-gun belt links. Thus began his entry into the firearms business.

Gaston Glock designed his first handgun in 1981 at the request of the military, which needed an accurate gun that could be fired quickly in the field of battle.

Already an expert in polymer manufacturing, Glock took to his garage workshop and designed the first-generation G17.

It took about 18 months for him to fine-tune his renowned SAFE ACTION system that eliminates the need for an external safety by incorporating a tri-tiered safety system using the trigger, firing pin and drop safety.

The first G19 was designed in 1988, and was built with fewer parts to minimize the chance of malfunctions. He built his name and company on the word reliability.

As the GLOCK handguns became more popular, especially for police and military forces, more problems with his design became apparent.

Most famously, the “AD Heard Round the World” incident occurred in 1992 when a New York officer’s weapon discharged multiple times with his hand nowhere near the trigger.

After this incident, GLOCK changed their tooling methods and over the subsequent years honed the G19, with upgrades to every new generation, into one of the most reliable handguns on the market today.

GLOCK 19 and GLOCK 17 on Stack of Bullets
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GLOCK 19 Specs and Performance

I’ve used the word “reliable” several times already, but I want to break down exactly why I’m using that term so freely with the G19. With more than 60,000 9mm rounds through the action, this handgun has had ZERO malfunctions for me. Zero.

It is so efficiently designed that the G19 is capable of withstanding the most brutal conditions. It is not a classically pretty gun, but, boy, will it do its job.

As far as accuracy goes, the G19 will hit its mark whether you are using it for competition, as a duty gun or for concealed carry defense. At 25 yards, it was averaging 3-inch 5-shot patterns.

The Marksman barrel has hardline rifling that stabilizes shots, while the balance and dual recoil spring assembly create minimal kick so you are able to lock back on target quickly with precision.

Ergonomically, the G19 feels good to shoot. The Gen5 has removed the annoying finger grooves found in Gen3 and Gen4, and the customizable backstraps give you the grip size you want.

One thing that I personally would modify, however, is the awkward, angular trigger guard and uncomfortable cutout in the front of the magazine well.

These are minor annoyances, however, and are totally based off of personal preference.

Overall, the G19 is comfortable, soft-shooting and well-balanced. Here are some specs:

  • Caliber: 9x19mm
  • Capacity: 15 + 1
  • Trigger: 5.5 lb. pull
  • Dimensions:
    • OAL: 7.28”
    • Height: 4.99”
    • Width: 1.18”
    • Weight: 23.65 oz

The GLOCK 19 is reasonably priced, retailing around $600 (or $699.99 if you upgrade the standard polymer U-dot sights to AmeriGlo Night Sights).

The popularity of this pistol makes it easy to find in most outdoor stores, but can also be found online and at specialty shops.

GLOCK Maintenance

Before you get started cleaning your new G19, you’ll want to disassemble it properly according to the owner’s manual.

Here’s a brief summary of what that looks like…

Disassembly

As with any weapon, before you do anything, be sure to remove the magazine and check that the chamber is empty, both by looking and feeling inside the chamber. Remember to always have the weapon pointed in a safe direction.

Once you’ve done that, here are some steps for disassembly:

  • Remove slide. With the slide pulled back about a quarter of an inch, remove the slide by pulling the disassembly tabs down and moving the slide forward.
  • Take out the recoil spring assembly and then the barrel.
  • Disassemble the slide assembly. With the GLOCK armorer’s tool, push the firing pin spacer sleeve down and take the slide cover plate off with your thumb.
  • Remove the firing pin assembly and extractor depressor plunger. Push down on firing pin safety to remove the extractor last.
  • Disassemble the receiver. First take out the locking block pin from either direction. Move the slide stop lever back and forth while using the armorer’s tool to push on the trigger pin until the trigger pin is released.
  • Remove the trigger pin. Then, lift out the slide stop lever and pry the locking block out. Push on the trigger housing pin on the backstrap and pull out the trigger mechanism.

After disassembling and cleaning your weapon, reassembly is just these steps in the reverse order (with the exception that the locking block pin should always be the first pin to go back into the receiver).

Cleaning

When cleaning your GLOCK, make sure you use good-quality gun lubricant and the tools supplied with your weapon.

You’ll need cloth patches, a brass bore brush, the GLOCK cleaning rod that came with your weapon, gun lubricant of your choice, a dual-end cleaning toothbrush, Q-tips, clean rags, cleaning solvent and a clean, flat area to work in.

Got it? Good. Here are some steps for cleaning:

  • Clean your barrel. With a solvent-dampened patch attached to your cleaning rod, sweep out the chamber several times in a clockwise rotation starting with the breech end.
    • Then, do the same thing with a brass bore brush until the chamber looks shiny and clean. Scrub carbon deposits off of the exterior portions of the barrel using a cleaning toothbrush and solvent.
    • Wipe off with a rag and make sure the bore is dry by using a dry patch.
  • Clean your slide assembly. Use the cleaning brush to clean the breech face and in and around the extractor. DO NOT get solvent in the firing pin channel.
    • Take a clean Q-tip and sweep out the slide rail cuts as well as the inside of the slide. A wet patch can be used to clean the underside and inside of the slide. Use a dry patch to wipe everything clean.
  • Clean your receiver. Remove carbon deposits from the contact points and locking block using the toothbrush. Brush debris from inside of the receiver.
    • With a clean rag, wipe clean the ejector, cruciform, trigger bar, connector and locking block.
  • Lubricate your weapon. Apply one drop to the outside front barrel and one to the rear barrel lug. Holding the frame left side down, apply one drop to the connector.
    • For the slide, face the rail cuts upward and drag one drop-down each cut. Then, add one drop to the top of the slide where it rubs the upper barrel and you’ve got a clean weapon.
GLOCK 19 with Knife
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Conclusion

For many law enforcement agencies and home defenders alike, the GLOCK 19 is the favored choice because of its reliability, ease of care, competitive price and well-balanced shootability.

To recap, the GLOCK 19 is:

  • Durable
  • Easy to maintain
  • Practical for many situations
  • Highly accurate (3-inch patterns)

Overall, GLOCK has really delivered with their latest generation of G19s. There’s a reason the GLOCK 19 is one of the most popular weapons on the market, and now you have everything you need to know to check it out for yourself.

What are your thoughts on the GLOCK 19? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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April 15, 2020 at 08:38AM

Ooni’s Koda 16 pizza oven is the rare kitchen gadget that delivers on its promise

Ooni’s Koda 16 pizza oven is the rare kitchen gadget that delivers on its promise

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Ooni (nee Uuni), has been around for a few years now, but its latest oven, the Koda 16, launched in March. Just like everyone else, I’ve been cooped up at home for weeks with nothing but all of the projects I would get around to one day.

At the top of my list was learning how to make decent pizza at home (we don’t have many decent pizzaiolo’s in my town). I’d been hearing about the Ooni oven for a while — mostly via Neven Mrgan’s great Instagram feed — so I spring for the Koda 13” and started firing some pies.

I was immediately enamored with the eye popping results. Chewy, crispy, well cooked Neopolitain-style pizza within 30 minutes of taking it out of the box. And I’m not exaggerating. After a couple of pizza launching disasters (this is not as easy as it looks, people), I was eating the product of my own hands and the Ooni’s 800+ degree baking surface. While not even an advanced amateur chef, I have always had somewhat of an aversion to single-use gadgets. Technique always wins, right?

The problem with that thinking is that it is really impossible to cook true Neopolitain pizza at home in the US because our ovens just don’t get hot enough. A ton of experimental dough situations have resulted in a few workable New York style pizza recipes for 500 degree ovens. But for thinner crusts there is zero substitute for that true 800-1000 degree cooking environment.

The Ooni delivers that in under 20 minutes attached to a bog standard propane tank. It’s brilliant.

Ooni co-founder Kristian Tapaninaho started messing around with building a decent pizza oven in 2010. He got into making home pies and realized that there was pretty much no way to do it other than building a large, expensive oven in his back yard. He began prototyping what became the company’s original oven in 2012, and he says that the original oven’s design stemmed from a super simple yet super obvious (in hindsight) design constraint: what could they ship affordably?

Due to shipping restrictions, it had to be under 10kg and had to fit in a certain footprint. Everything piece of design work on the first oven stemmed from those constraints. Why, for instance, does the Ooni oven have 3 legs? Because the 4th one would have put them over weight.

Within those constraints, the original oven took shape — delivering that super high-heat surface with a simple wood-fired unit that more than doubled its original funding goal on Kickstarter. Kristian and co-founder Darina Garland defined this high-heat, high results at-home outdoor pizza oven market at scale, along with other later entrants like Roccbox.

I had a bit of a chat with Kristian about how Ooni was doing lately, with the specter of coronavirus and the new business realities that have resulted.

“This COVID-19 situation began for us in mid January as our suppliers started informing us that they were delaying return to work from Chinese New Year,” Kristian said. “At the time the worry was if we’d have enough supply for the summer which is of course peak season for us. As our supply chain was restarting, it was clear that we’d have similar lockdowns in our main markets as well. Overall, however, we started the year at a strong inventory position which helped buffer any interruptions.”

He says that Ooni was lucky given that the initial production run of the Ooni 16 was already in warehouses by the time things got really hairy in Edinburgh and the surrounding areas. And the team was fairly ready for the new challenge of stay-at-home work.

“Much of our team comms already happened over Slack so the team’s been really quite well setup for working from home,” he told me. “We have great relationships with our 3rd party logistics providers and while they’ve been incredibly busy, they’ve been able to maintain a good level of service, at least in the grand scheme of things.”

Yeah, but how does it work?

Once Kristian saw that I was playing with my Ooni 13 he offered to send the newly launched 16″ model over to play with. I jumped at the chance to make a bigger pie.

My experiences with the Ooni ovens so far have been nothing short of revelatory. Though I’ve pondered indoor options like the Breville Smart Oven, I knew in my heart that I wanted that brilliant taste that comes from live fire and the high heat that would let me enjoy super thin crust pizzas. I’ve now fired over three dozen pizzas in the Ooni and am coming to know it a bit better. Its recovery time, rotation needs and cooking characteristics. I have never used a more enjoyable cooking utensil.

I’ve tried a few dough recipes, because I know I’ll get questions about it, but I’ve used two to good effect. Ooni’s own recommended dough (though I hydrate a bit more) and this Peter Reinhart recipe, recommended to me by Richie Nakano.

The pizzas that result are bursting with umami. The oven enables that potent combination of cheese, sauce and randomly distributed carbonization that combines into the perfect bite. Your pie goes in somewhat pedestrian — whitish dough, red sauce, hunks of fresh mozzarella — and you see it come to life right in front of your eyes.  Within 60-90 seconds, you’ve transmogrified the simple ingredients into a hot endocrine rush of savory, chewy flavor.

As I mentioned before, the setup is insanely simple. Flip out the legs, put it on an outdoor surface with some support and attach a propane tank. An instant of lighting knob work and you’re free to step away. Fifteen minutes later and you’ve got a cooking environment to die for. The flip down legs make the 13” model super great for taking camping or anywhere you want to go to create your own pizza party. Ooni even sells a carrying case.

The design of the oven’s upper shell means that all of the heat is redirected inwards, letting the baking surface reach 850 degrees easily in the center, up to 1000 degrees near the back. The Koda 16 has such an incredibly roomy cooking surface that it is easy to see to the sides and around your pizza a bit to tell how the crust is rising and how the leoparding is coming along. Spinning your pie mid-cook is such an important part of this kind of oven and the bigger mouth is smashing for this.

Heck I even cooked steak in it, to mouth watering results.

“Our core message has always been ‘great restaurant quality pizza at home’ and while the situation is what it is, more people spending more time at home looking for great home cooking options has been strong for our online sales,” Kristian said when I asked him about whether more people were discovering Ooni now. “Pizza making is a great way to have fun family time together. It’s about those shared experiences that bring people together.”

This mirrors my experiences so far. I’m not precisely ‘good’ at this yet, but I’m plugging away and the Ooni makes even my misses delicious. This weekend I was even confident enough to hold a socially distanced pizza pick-up party. Friends and family put in their orders and I fired a dozen pies of all kinds. Though I couldn’t hug them, I could safely hand them a freshly fired pizza and to most Italians like me, that’s probably better.

In my mind, the Ooni Koda pulls off a rare trifecta of kitchen gadgets: It retains the joy and energy of live flame, delivers completely on its core premise and still remains incredibly easy to use. Highly recommend.

 

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April 14, 2020 at 09:30PM

Select Nintendo Labo kits are $20 today at Best Buy

Select Nintendo Labo kits are $20 today at Best Buy

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If you’re a parent and want to give your kids something creative to do the next time they play with their Switch, Best Buy is holding a well-timed sale on Nintendo Labo kits. The retailer has discounted all four Labo kits it stocks to $20. At the moment, the Variety and Vehicle kits are the best value since they’re usually $70 and they allow you to build a good selection of projects. With the Variety kit, for instance, you can make a house, piano, motorbike, fishing rod and two RC cars.

Nintendo Labo Variety Kit $20 Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit $20

Just note that the kits are on sale for today only. Best Buy has also marked each of the products for clearance, so supplies may be limited.

Engadget Senior Editor Devindra Hardawar loved the concept of Labo when he reviewed the Variety and Robot kits in 2018. While he found some of the games you could play with your cardboard creations simplistic, he enjoyed the variety of the experiences each one offered. Building each of the projects was also a lot of fun. We were less fond of the VR kit that Nintendo released last year. While the headset itself was comfortable and studier than Nintendo’s past Labo releases, the lack of a head strap was annoying. We also didn’t find the VR updates to games like Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild compelling. At $20, however, all the kits are easier to recommend, especially at a time like this.

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April 14, 2020 at 10:54AM

Episode 910 Scott Adams: Have You Been Brainwashed by the Government? Find Out Today!

Episode 910 Scott Adams: Have You Been Brainwashed by the Government? Find Out Today!

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April 13, 2020 at 12:09PM

Polymer80 GLOCK Build Project: Make Your Own 9mm Ghost Gun

Polymer80 GLOCK Build Project: Make Your Own 9mm Ghost Gun

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Welcome to part one of a three-part series, a joint collaboration between The Truth About Guns, Ammoland, and USA Carry. We’ve started a new project that will include three articles going over the process of building your own Polymer80 GLOCK compatible 9mm pistol and getting it running.

The Polymer80 kit for this project was provided by 80-Lower.com. They sent me one of their complete GLOCK compatible pistol kits. This kit includes the Polymer80 80% frame as well as the lower parts kit, the slide and slide kit, and a small travel safe.

What is an 80% Frame?

Polymer 80 GLOCK compatible build project

The beginnings of a spooky “ghost gun” (Travis Pike for TTAG).

If a gun’s frame or receiver is built, but remains unfinished, it’s not considered a gun…legally speaking. These unfinished frames and receivers are known as “80%” frames or lower receivers (in the case of an AR-15). The idea is that the buyer will do the last 20% of the finish work to make it operate, in effect building his own gun.

That’s something that’s been legal in the U.S. since forever, though now a few states prohibit home builds or require a home-built firearm to be registered and serialized. Be sure you know your state’s laws.

There’s a wide variety of 80% frame and receivers available today, including kits available for AR-15s, AKs, Ruger 10/22s, Sten guns, GLOCKs, and many, many more.

Again, since these are unfinished frames in the eyes of the ATF, the are not considered firearms. That means they can be shipped directly to your home. You don’t have to pay a transfer fee or fill out a 4473 background check form.

Federally it’s perfectly legal to build a gun for your own personal use. As mentioned above, however, that freedom varies among the states, with the demonization of home-builds as “ghost guns.”

A few states have regulated 80% builds, so be sure to check your state’s laws. The only other caveat is that our glorious Federal government says I can’t make these and sell them to anyone else. That requires a manufacturer’s license, but that’s another argument for another day.

The Polymer80 GLOCK frames are known by their official nomenclature as the PF940 series. They come in full-sized, compact, and subcompact models, as well as a G43 variant.

I went with the PF940C, the GLOCK 19/23-sized variant of these frames for this project. They also come in a rather wide variety of colors including black, FDE, OD Green, Cobalt, Titanium, and Gray.

Why Build Your Own?

Because to hell with gun control. Honestly, if you order a lower or a kit over the internet with a credit card, shipped to your home address, keeping it off the books isn’t guaranteed if someone starts looking hard enough. But building your own firearm this way makes it a bit more difficult to track you than a 4473 form would.

My reason for building one, though, is that I like guns, and I like having projects to work on. I’ve built one of these before and I find it to be fun and interesting. It gives you a very excellent view of how GLOCK pistols work and just how simple they are.

Best of all, at the end of the project, you have yourself a very good 9mm handgun.

The PF940 frames also feature better ergonomics than factory GLOCKs as far as I’m concerned. Especially the models prior to the Gen5 guns. They lack finger grooves, have a more 1911-ish grip angle, and feature a more aggressive undercut in the trigger guard.

There is also a more pronounced beavertail to the rear of the grip. I’ve a frequent victim of GLOCK slide bite, but not with this particular pistol.

The Polumer80 frams also feature a normal Picatinny accessory rail as opposed to GLOCK’s weird proprietary rail. The subcompact models have rails, including the G43 variant (GLOCK doesn’t offer that).

If you don’t go the kit route, there’s also the attraction of buying your parts one piece at a time and getting the exact components you want. I can certainly see why it’s easier to do get the parts you want up front and have it done rather than swapping out parts.

What You’ll Need to Finish the Kit

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You don’t need any fancy tools to complete the build (Travis Pike for TTAG)

The Polymer80 kits come with a simple clamp-on jig, as well as the two bits and the endmill you’ll need to finish the pistol. In terms of tools, you can finish the frames a variety of ways.

A guy on Reddit did one with no power tools at all. I used a Dremel, a hand drill, a mallet, and a few punches, tools most people will have or can pick up very affordably. I also used a vise, but in my last build, I didn’t need one. A vise does make things much simpler, though, so if you have one, I recommend you use it.

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Polymer80 jig with pistol frame inside (Travis Pike for TTAG)

The vise makes the process nearly idiot-proof, although, as we’ll see in this series, I’m a bit of an idiot. Once the jig is snapped over the frame, everything you need to do is aligned and ready to mill. There are no adjustments needed, and it’s all Dremel and drill work after that.

What’s in My Kit?

My complete pistol kit is pretty simple. I used a PF940C frame with a 9mm slide kit produced by 80-Lower. It’s a simple slide with forward and rear serrations and is all black.

I like that, for the most part, the kit is all GLOCK OEM parts. Nothing against the aftermarket, but the Polymer80 PF940C kit was built for GLOCK parts, so that’s the route I wanted to take. It may not be fancy or “custom,” but it will be reliable.

The barrel and trigger assembly that’s included with the 80-lower.com kit (Travis Pike for TTAG)

So that’s the lowdown on 80% frames, why you’d want one and what a kit gun like mine includes in the next sections, we’ll go through building the gun and then making it reliable.

 

 

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April 12, 2020 at 04:00PM

How Peeps Are Made

How Peeps Are Made

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Easter just isn’t Easter without some Peeps. Take a 360º video tour of the Just Born candy factory with Food Network to see how these colorful marshmallow treats are born, including a part of the assembly line called the “Sugar Shower.” Did she really use the word “peepsinality” or were we just hearing things?

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April 12, 2020 at 01:01PM

These Hilarious Star Trek Videos Turn Bloopers Into Canon

These Hilarious Star Trek Videos Turn Bloopers Into Canon

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Boy, there sure was a lot more high-fiving on the Enterprise than I remember.

Star Trek: The Next Generation was, for all its goofiness, played relatively straight. It was a serious sort of show, even if absurd things sometimes happened. It did not, as a rule, have a lot of gags. Star Trek INtakes by YouTuber Ryan’s Edits changes that, and in the process renders Star Trek’s vibe absolutely absurd. The idea, so far as I can tell, is a simple one: edit outtakes together with the actual episode footage.

This simple idea has incredible results, as normal Star Trek moments turn absurd, surreal, and incredibly funny. I laughed harder at these videos than I have at just about anything lately. There are a handful in a playlist on the Ryan’s Edits channel. The most recent one, featuring Worf and Riker, is one of the best.

The video is titled “Something’s Wrong With Worf”, but, really, it’s Riker I’m most concerned about here. Where’s he going? Is somebody going to stop him? All the videos have this quality, creating a sort of silly alternate universe, entirely chaotic version of the show. I don’t really think CBS should do an absurd art-house comedy version of Star Trek, but, based on this, I’m pretty confident that if they did I would watch it.


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April 11, 2020 at 06:12PM

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact: 15,000 Rounds Later

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact: 15,000 Rounds Later

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Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact: 15,000 Rounds Later

Five years ago I decided to purchase what would be my first true silencer host.  I decided to take a friend’s advice and start small with a dedicated rimfire silencer, ultimately choosing the budget-friendly SilencerCo Warlock II.  While the Warlock was in NFA jail, I was scouring the internet for a 22 pistol that could reliably run any standard velocity ammo I could find.  After a lot of searching, I finally settled on the Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact.

The Right Tools

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact

M&P 22 Compact Silencer and Tools

Over the years I’ve found that it’s all about having the right tools to routinely disassemble the M&P 22 Compact.  Rather than highlight the pistol’s features I’ve put together a quick how-to guide for servicing the M&P like a pro.

SilencerCo Adapter Removal

M&P 22 Compact Adapter Wrench

To attach a silencer you’ll need to remove the factory barrel nut and purchase a thread adapter.  This particular adapter is a Delta series that I purchased from SilencerCo.  More importantly, you’re gonna need a wrench, and I mean like a REAL wrench.

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact

M&P 22 Compact Takedown Adapter Removal

EWK Arms makes a wrench out of bar stock specifically for the factory barrel nut on the M&P 22.  If you want to suppress this little pistol, it’s absolutely worth the $30.

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact

M&P 22 Compact Takedown Removing Slide

With the adapter removed, and takedown lever pushed down, you simply slide the slide rearward and up to remove it from the frame.

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact

M&P 22 Compact Disassembled

As you can see this little M&P is pretty filthy, and only gets cleaned roughly every 1,500 rounds.  Pretty impressive when you consider that the only stoppages it’s recently had were failures to lock the slide open on an empty mag.

The Silencer

SilencerCo Warlock II

SilencerCo Warlock II Front Cap Removal

Next up is the Warlock II, which is incredibly light and easy to take apart for service.  Using the takedown tool supplied, you simply insert it into the grooves on the front cap, and twist counter-clockwise.

SilencerCo Warlock II

SilencerCo Warlock II End Cap Removal

From there you flip the tube over and use the large end of the takedown tool to remove the mount.

SilencerCo Warlock II

SilencerCo Warlock II Takedown

The Warlock II uses a Click Together Assembly (CTA) to connect the baffle stack.  The CTA stack does a great job of keeping carbon trapped in the baffles so baffles fall freely out of the tube when disassembled.

Takeaways

Hindsight is always 20/20, and if I could go back in time I would’ve opted to spend the extra money and buy the heavier Stainless Steel SilencerCo Spectre.  I’m not discounting how awesome the 3oz Warlock II is, but for a heavy use its aluminum baffles are difficult to clean.

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact

M&P 22 Compact Slide Release Wear

As for the M&P, it just keeps on running.  To this day the only real wear I’ve noticed on the gun has been on the slide release.  Occasionally it’ll fail to hold the slide back on the last round, but this hasn’t been enough of an annoyance for me to want to fix it.  The gun just works and shows no signs of stopping.

The Verdict

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact

Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact and SilencerCo Warlock II

I can’t say enough nice things about the M&P 22 Compact.  Its short barrel means that standard velocity ammo is rendered subsonic, and the gun is just an all-around blast to shoot.  I started keeping track of how many rounds I shot through this gun just so I could remember to clean the silencer.  Undoubtedly if I hadn’t, the Warlock would surely be fused together by carbon and lead at this point.

If you’re in the market for a 22 pistol that isn’t picky about ammo, is easy to clean, and performs well suppressed, you absolutely need to look at the M&P 22 compact.

Would I buy it again?  Absolutely, and there isn’t another 22 pistol I’d rather own.

Note:  At the time of this article, the M&P 22 Compact has 15,220 rounds through it.



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April 10, 2020 at 02:05PM

Airplane Recycling Company Employee Has to Activate Detached Emergency Slide, to the Amusement of Co-Workers

Airplane Recycling Company Employee Has to Activate Detached Emergency Slide, to the Amusement of Co-Workers

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Whatever group of people engineered self-inflating airplane emergency slides deserve many awards. It’s absurd to see something that big emerge from something that small in such a short amount of time:

As for how and why this guy is tasked with doing this in a driveway: The video is from a Dutch company called Aircraft End-of-Life Solutions, who recorded it in December of a previous year. As the name suggests, AELS dismantles and recycles decommissioned airplanes, and blowing the slide was part of their "End of the year clean up."

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April 10, 2020 at 08:30AM