There may come a time when government restrictions severely limit not only access to firearms but the tools and means to repair and maintain them, or you may someday find yourself in the boondocks with a busted weapon. That’s where the guerrilla gunsmith comes in. Ragnar Benson has had experience as a guerrilla gunsmith repairing […]
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The Handgun (Home Workshop Guns for Defense & Resistance, Vol. 2)
Home Workshop Guns for Defense & Resistance Volume II is a clear and simple guide to building a semi- or full-auto pistol or a single-shot, falling-block handgun from common materials in the privacy of your home workshop. In addition to offering many alternative workshop gunsmithing tips, the author explains how each part and section of […]
How to Remove Cosmoline
There are several ways and opinions about how to remove cosmoline, and many curses heaped on the head of this product over the years. Cosmoline is not evil, if it was not for its preservative effects, we would not be able to enjoy shooting old military surplus guns as they would not have survived over […]
How to Replace A Glock Trigger to Make it Smooth
I do not believe in modifying carry guns outside of factory specifications. A small part of this is because of liability, but mostly it is because of the unknown consequences to reliability. A firearm is a machine, and the weight of the parts of the gun are factored in with drag, inertia, spring weight, […]
How to Replace the Recoil Spring in a Walther P22
This post is about why I had to do some work on my Walther P22 Recoil Spring. It also shows how to replace the recoil spring in a Walther P22 I am a huge believer in repetition for any physical skill. If you want to be good at something you have to put in […]