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Below you will find a selection of articles on various firearms-related topics. We hope that you will find the information useful, and we thank you for visiting PreciseShooter.com!

• Firearms basics

  • Safety
  • Fundamentals of Small Arms Weapons, US Army training videos
  • Your first handgun.
  • Your first AR-15.
  • Which calibers should I buy?
  • A note on self-defense
  • Storage
  • Maintenance
  • Seattle area ranges
  • How to price your gun for sale
  • Notes on rimfire ammunition
  • How to boresight a rifle
  • How to get a CPL in Seattle

• Introduction to shooting

  • Precise Shooter's Guide to Accurate Shooting
  • Rifle is NOT (always) fine.
  • What is an "accurate rifle"?
  • Statistics for shooters
  • A few interesting US Army firearms videos, around 1940s

• Gunsmithing

  • Mosin Nagant - how to make a sniper rifle
    1. Introduction
    2. Buying
    3. Cleaning
    4. Disassembly
    5. Accurizing
    6. Selecting a scope mount
    7. Mounting a side rail
    8. At the range
  • How to field-strip a Ruger MK pistol - really
  • Refinishing T53 and T56 rifles
  • Pistol scope mount redux - Rail mounts

• Reloading

  • Shopping list - what to buy when you are just starting
  • Powder Measure Redux
    1. The Big Scale
    2. Dillon Powder System And Pistol Powders
    3. Powder Measures and Varget
    4. Trickling in...
    5. RCBS Chargemaster
    6. Redding Competition 10X
    7. Frankford Arsenal Platinum
  • Powder Scales Redux
    1. The calibration set
    2. American Weigh GPR-20
    3. My Weigh GemPro 250
    4. Radwag AS/60/220/C2
  • Power case trimmers: Giraud vs Frankford Arsenal

• Range Reports

  • Glock 34 M.O.S.
  • Surplus Glock 23
  • Armscor (Rock Island) M200 revolver
  • EAA Zastava PAP
  • HiPoint JCP
  • Beretta PX4 Storm
  • M85 AK-74 pistol range review
  • Bore condition and accuracy in a milsurplus rifle
  • Taurus 82 surplus revolvers
  • Taurus 82 @ 25 yards
  • Smith & Wesson 67
  • Polish P64 pistol
  • Remington R51
  • Remington R51 - disassembly
  • 1911s
    • 1911 Redux
    • Rock Island 1911 Match
    • Remington 1911 R1 Enhanced
    • Les Baer Premier II
  • CZ 75 and clones
    • CZ 75 Tactical Sports
    • EAA Witness Match by Tanfoglio
    • Canik S-120 (CZ 75 clone)
    • Canik StingRay C
    • Trigger differences between CZ 75B and CZ 75BD
    • Differences between CZ 75B and CZ 75B SA
  • Walther PPK and clones
    • Walther PPK/S in 22LR
    • Bersa Thunder 380
    • Barrel machining problems in S&W Walthers
  • Small but powerful
    • Shield M&P 40 Performance Center
    • Sig P250 Subcompact
  • Savage rifles
    • Introduction to Savage 10 law enforcement series
    • Savage 10TR
    • Savage AXIS Heavy Barrel
    • Savage A17 Inside Out
    • Savage B.MAG disassembly
    • Savage B.MAG and A17 range reports
  • Black rifles
    • Alexandria Pro-FAB
    • DPMS G2 RECON
  • Rimfire galore - pistols
    • Ruger MK22/45 "Lite"
    • Ruger Mark III Target
    • Phoenix Arms HP22 pistol
    • Walther PPK/S in 22LR
  • Rimfire galore - rifles
    • CZ 452 Military Trainer
    • CZ 452 UltraLux
    • CZ 452 Scout
    • Kimber 82 Government Review
    • Savage 64
    • Savage MKII-FV
    • Savage MKII-FV in Boyd's Evolution stock
    • Savage MKII-FVT
    • Savage MKII FV-SR, suppressed and not
    • Savage Rascal
    • Zastava CZ99 Precision rifle
    • Anschutz 1416HB
  • Gadgetry
    • Digital counters from Rade
  • Fun with Air Guns -
    • Daisy @ the CMP
    • First shots
    • Getting serious
  • A day at the range...
    • 2012-09-30: Ruger 22/45 Lite, Ruger SR22, Browning Buck Mark
  • Miscellanea
    M1916 Spanish Mausers from SAMCO Auction

• Events

  • Shot Show 2012
  • Shot Show 2013

• Legal stuff

  • What is a firearm?
  • How to legally ship a firearm
  • Handgun ownership under 21

• Politics

  • Bloomberg is gone from the presidential race, but don't let the politicians he bough... got us off the hook!
  • Gun Control 2.0 and what we can do about it.
  • Going to debate guns? Here are a few bits of data that can help!
  • Gun Control Redux
  • The Great Australian Gun Ban
  • Homicides and inequality
  • The first anniversary of I-594
  • 2a Sanctuary Movement
  • Assault Weapons Ban
    • The best case against the assault weapons ban.
    • Stop the hoarding!
    • Assault Weapons Ban is nonsense
    • "AWB" "predictor" - what we think will really happen
  • Seattle Gun Tax
    • A bunch of reasons why Seattle Gun Tax is a miserable failure
    • Gun Tax proponents use Cook County, IL, as an example. But Cook County is NOT Seattle!
    • Seattle v. Math
    • Open Letter to Seattle City Council Education and Governance Committee
    • Open Letter to Seattle City Council
    • Seattle Education and Governance Council Meeting Report
    • Lawsuit update - motion for summary judgment
    • Gun Tax Update, 2017

Useful links

• Revolver checkout procedures: http://thefiringline.com/Misc/library/Revolver-check.html
• Brass vs Steel - shooting 10000 rounds of different ammunition types from AR-15: http://www.luckygunner.com/labs/brass-vs-steel-cased-ammo/