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O
ne of the most hilarious canards tossed about by
the anti-gunners is that the large gun manufactur-
ers somehow conspired to manipulate the well-
meaning, but dim, shooting public into desiring danger-
ous “assault weapons” to preserve a gun market that was
declining from reduced hunting.
Unsurprisingly, that tale is 180° from the facts. It’s hard
to imagine any group less enthusiastic about black guns
than the large firearms manufacturers were in the 1980s.
Most of the leading lights are dead now, as are several
of their companies, so it’s OK to recall that they wanted
no part of “assault rifles,” and for years barred them from
the SHOT Show, before eventually ghettoizing them as
“law enforcement” products in a separate area.
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If you’re looking to step up from that starter

AR, you should have a hard look at the
Savage MSR-15. It combines a lot of
desirable features into a
sub-$1,000 package.
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The MSR-15 is immedi-

ately distinguishable by
the grooved magazine
well. This looks great
and provides finger
rests if you shoot hang-
ing onto the well.

Like most commercial

ARs these days, the
MSR-15 has a solid
curved trigger guard in
place of the folding unit
typical of the original
AR-15 and variants.

gun industry. When I joined up in the mid-1970s, it was rifles” was both factually wrong and played into anti-gun rail. Slim fore-ends using the M-LOK or competing
perfectly common for people to say blackpowder arms propaganda. “Black guns” was popular in the industry, KeyMod systems have completely supplanted the fat old
and airguns would be all we’d have by the year 2000, or but also had a vaguely sinister twang. quad rail in today’s AR market, as they allow a much
even earlier. After a whole lot of round-table discussion, they came lighter and trimmer installation.
All the strategizing was defensive, with keeping a low up with “modern sporting rifle,” and even sponsored a Underneath the rail is a mid-length gas system. It
profile the most highly prized virtue. Black guns were “bad Sportsman Channel TV show called Modern Sporting was in the past common to use the gas system from the
publicity” and endangered the sporting arms these industry Rifle Adventures. 14½-inch barreled M4 carbine with 16 or 18-inch barrels.
honchos assumed would always be their bread and butter. That moniker drew a skeptical response from a lot of That yielded excessive gas pressure, with accompanying
If you had told most anyone in the gun industry, to in- people who found it clunky and a bit too apologetic. But wear and tear on the rifle. Any and all self-respecting ARs
clude the NRA where I worked, that by 2017 there would NSSF has stuck with it, and manufacturers, especially at that use 16- inch barrels now are fitted with the smoother-
be a serious effort to repeal restrictions on suppressors the top end of the totem pole, have adopted it. Whether it operating mid-length gas system.
or to enforce national concealed carry reciprocity, you’d makes its way into common idiom remains to be seen, but The barrel itself has a 1:8 twist to stabilize a wide variety
have been looked on with pity. Savage has named its new AR the MSR-15, going all-in of bullet weights. Purists clamor for the 1:7 military twist,
The notion of going on offense really started with Cin- with the designation. and I suppose it has its advantages with the very heaviest
cinnati revolt of May, 1977, and it took quite a while to get Several years ago, a Savage executive asked me if I bullets, but consumers shoot a lot more 55-grain ammo
real traction at the upper reaches of the gun industry. I can thought the company should make an AR. “Better hur- and expect to be able to shoot 50- or even 40-grain ammo
remember being subjected to a whiskey-fueled harangue ry” was my response. Savage didn’t, and so is coming into with acceptable accuracy. That argues for the 1:8 twist.
from one company president against NRA legislative poli- the market at a time when the recent elections have put The MSR-15 also boasts 5R rifling, a style that was
cy that continued to 2 a.m. And that was in the early 1990s. paid to the panic buying of the Obama years. exotic 25 years ago but is become more common these
days. As the name implies, it has five grooves, rather than
the usual four or six. This means that no two lands or
grooves face each other directly. It is thought that this
ARs are mainstream. The antis are smoking reduces bullet-deforming constriction.
something if they think they can be banned today. The lands also have tilted tops that reduce engraving
force on the bullet. This is also thought to improve ac-
curacy, as well as to make bore cleaning easier.
The chamber is in .223 Wylde configuration, which
When NRA President Marion Hammer started push- If people aren’t just buying any old AR before Hillary strikes a balance between the .223 and 5.56 chamber con-
ing concealed carry reform in the late 1980s, many in the Clinton can stop them, you are going to have to convince figurations. The 5.56 chamber has a longer leade for use
trade recoiled from the notion of their customers wan- them to buy with a good suite of features at a good price. with higher-pressure military ammo. The Wylde chamber
dering freely while packing. As this is written, conceal- Clearly, the manufacturer has understood that with the gives you some of this, while retaining the commercial
able handguns are about the only thing that’s selling. MSR-15. chamber’s accuracy potential with varmint bullets.
So if consumers moved from buying side-by-side dou- Savage has immediately distinguished its rifle by speci- The barrel is treated with Melonite QPQ, a hot salt
bles and lever guns to ARs and pocket pistols, it certainly fying a proprietary lower receiver design with angled bath nitrocarburizing process widely used in the gun
wasn’t at the behest of the titans of the gun industry. grooves on the magazine well. These are distinctive, and trade. When they say hot bath, they mean hot. I stood
It was left to a lot of small manufacturers, most of them if you are one of those who insist on grasping the mag next to the tank for it at Smith & Wesson, and it’ll singe
advertising in the pages of SHOTGUN NEWS, to build well while firing, they serve nicely as finger grooves. your hair off. You can Parkerize in your garage. Melonite
the market for black guns we know today. Some grew There are further dishes on either side at the front of is a process for a great big factory.
large and prospered, some have been absorbed into larger the trigger guard that make a perfect resting place for the
entities and some, like Olympic Arms, whose closure was trigger finger when holding the rifle in a ready position.
recently announced, passed into history. But they carried The old folding trigger guard of the original AR is long
the banner until the day arrived when consumer demand gone on today’s commercial rifles, as it is here. A solid
meant the larger makers had to come around. curved guard gives plenty of room for a gloved finger, and
We now have ARs from Colt, FN, Mossberg, Reming- makes the lower receiver more rigid in the bargain.
ton, Ruger, SIG, Smith & Wesson, Springfield Armory The flattop upper receiver is conventional, with the
and the subject of today’s story, Savage. I can promise standard forward assist, shell deflector and folding dust
you that if you had offered a bet on that list in 1985, you cover. The operating handle is GI: some might argue Sav-
could have won a paycheck from anyone on the SHOT age missed a bet not specifying one of the popular af-
Show floor, especially from executives of most of those termarket replacements: BLACKHAWK!’s, for example.
companies. The handguard is a Midwest Industries octagonal alu-
ARs are mainstream. The antis are smoking something minum unit that is suppressor-compatible. It uses the M-
if they think they can be banned today. In 1977, they LOK attachment system, with a row of seven slots on
probably could have done it. In 2017, no way. each surface except the top, which has a 1913 rail.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation decided a The M-LOK system allows you to attach compatible The barrel is Melonite treated. It’s a nitrocaburiz-
few years back that the product category that included accessories directly to the handguard. You can attach ing process that leaves a smooth, durable surface.
ARs and AKs really didn’t have a good name. “Assault non-compatible accessories with short sections of 1913 Savage specified a 1:8 rifling twist for the bore.

SAVAGE MSR-15 RECON

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SAVAGE MSR-15 RECON

Manufacturer: Savage Arms Co., 100
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Type: Semi-automatic rifle
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Tarr’s youngest son tests out the AR-15

that they built together from a collection
of parts. They found that building a gun
was nearly as much fun as shooting it.

THE
CHRISTMAS AR
What’s more American than an AR-15 under the Christmas tree? Tarr and
his youngest boy discover the fun of building a black rifle together.
By James Tarr

I
have two teenage sons whom regular readers of Fire- watched my 15-year-old assemble a 700-piece Lego set he poem “Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare
arms News will know I use to torture test new guns and got for his birthday. Seven hundred. Longam” (no, seriously, that’s the title of it) have been
occasionally appear in photos. In my gun room, I have several stripped AR lower re- borrowed by pop music artists and playwrights over the
This past year, my oldest son turned 18, and so I ceivers which I purchased at rock bottom prices this past years, and have a simple meaning:
bought him an AR-15. Well, honestly, I bought a new top year, as well as several LPKs. Good times always come to an end, so you better get
end that I put onto an existing complete lower I had sit- Light bulb! while the gettin’s good.
ting in the safe unused, but the end result was the same. Now, before anybody starts thinking to himself that In this context, I’m talking about the bargain basement
Recently, I was thinking about how my oldest son now any kid who is still playing with Legos is too young for prices of anything related to AR-15s, including the rifles
has an AR, but my youngest son, who just turned 15 and an AR-15, I still enjoy building with Legos. While my themselves. And I have done my best to buy ’em cheap
likes to shoot even more than his older brother, does not. emotional maturity level peaked sometime around junior and stack ’em deep as Dave Fortier likes to say.
Hmmm. high, chronologically I’m a bit older than that. It was in surveying the accumulated AR-related debris
When I was 18 or 19, I put together my first lower re- Also, my “young” son is now pushing 6 feet, 3 inches if in my gun room that I realized in 20 years, there will be a
ceiver. This was the pre-Internet caveman era and I had you count the hair, and has been shooting ARs for years. lot of people looking back on these days, and these pric-
no instructions, no educated guidance, I just borrowed a FYI his name is Barrett, but no he wasn’t named after the es, kicking themselves for not buying more of everything.
buddy’s completed lower for reference to try and figure rifle, although he is as loud. Stripped AR lowers do not have an “Assemble By” date,
out what went where. Other than confusing the discon- Quick aside—those lowers, and LPKs, are far from the and I can’t imagine that they will ever be cheaper than
nector spring with the bolt catch spring, it all went to- only AR parts purchases I made this year. Remember they are now. Hint, hint.
gether perfectly. these words: Anyway, back to my plan. It would have three parts—
How many pieces in an AR-15 lower parts kit (LPK)? “They are not long, the days of wine and roses.” 1. Making sure I have all the parts necessary to
Forty? Less? This was in the forefront of my mind as I These words by Ernest Dowson, in his snappily-titled assemble a complete firearm.
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Get everything
organized before
you start. Here
are most of the
tools required for
the assembly,
including a
plastic tub for
the pieces of the
Tarr bought several Anderson Manufacturing lowers for $40 apiece. Here one lower parts kit.
is just getting mounted on a Brownells mag well vise block for assembly.

2. Assembling the rifle with my son, and Aim Surplus, Palmetto State Armory, CDNN (www. upper” into the “why bother” category. Seriously. Let me
3. Have my son function-fire the rifle and sight cdnn.com) and Bravo Company (www.bravocompanyu explain:
it in. sa.com) are the four princes of internet AR sales and will First off, if there’s one sure way to put together an AR
Parts 2 and 3 would of course involve my son, but fill your email inbox with sale flyers on a weekly if not wrong, so that it doesn’t work, it involves improper instal-
checking what I had in various boxes scattered randomly daily basis. lation of the gas block and/or tube. Misalignment of the
about the basement was up to me. The king of the internet when it comes to all things parts and/or a loose gas block are the two most common
I’ve been accumulating AR parts since Reagan was in AR-15 is, of course, Brownells (www.brownells.com). If problems, often requiring numerous trips to the range to
office, but just because I have 20 GI trigger groups slowly they don’t have it, you don’t need it or want it. diagnose the problem.
rusting downstairs doesn’t mean, for example, that I have I found three complete stock kits in my basement, Pat Sweeney, both as a gunsmith and police trainer, has
a virgin Mil-Spec receiver extension. So I went digging. complete with Mil-Spec receiver extension (buffer tube), horror stories about this, and I’ve gone through it myself
The base of the gun, the actual “firearm” in an AR-15, spring, buffer, castle nut, rear receiver plate, and stock. with a Bushmaster I bought circa 1990.
is the lower receiver, as it is the serialized part. Over the
past year I have bought a few lowers when I saw sales
which were too good to pass up.
Again I will quote Fortier, “A lower is a lower is a
lower,” and that’s true when you’re talking about GI-
THE PURPOSE OF THIS EXERCISE WAS TO NOT JUST
style lowers (providing everything is in spec). Sure a lot SPEND SOME TIME WITH MY SON, BUT TO SHOW HIM (AND YOU)
of companies offer billet this and ambi-controls that, but
for a lot more money.
HOW EASY IT IS TO PUT TOGETHER AN AR LOWER.
If you don’t care what logo or company name is on
the magazine well, the price of AR lowers plummets, and
your choices expand exponentially.
I just bought several more lowers yesterday, actually, Two of them were from Palmetto State Armory and The purpose of this exercise was to not just spend some
when Aim Surplus (www.aimsurplus.com) had Anderson featured Magpul MOE stocks. The third was from Bravo time with my son, but to show him (and you) how easy
Manufacturing stripped AR lowers with integral curved Company and featured their Gunfighter stock. When the it is to put together an AR lower. At the end of the day,
trigger guards on sale for $39.95 apiece. BCM Gunfighter stock was first introduced, I thought it I wanted to have a rifle that he could shoot. A rifle that,
They’re probably already out of stock again (just was ugly, but after spending some serious time with the you know, call me crazy, would actually work.
checked, and yep, they are), but it’s easy to arrange for Springfield Armory Saint this past year, which sports that Plus, most importantly, there are those two magic
AIM to send you an email whenever something you want stock, I have grown to really like both its looks and its things in the lower parts kit called “receiver pins” that
is back in stock. performance. And its light weight. So I put that aside for allow anyone to install and replace the entire top end of
If you can’t find stripped lowers somewhere online for me as my son doesn’t really care much one way or the an AR-15 in seconds.
well under $100, your GoogleFu is week. And I would other.
highly recommend buying discounted “Blem” receivers if The AR-15 in many ways is the
you find them. adult version of Lego. It is completely
Most of you will be hard pressed to even spot the modular, and someone with little to
blemish in the finish, and all the dimensions are accurate. no hand/eye coordination, using hand
When buying a lower, as it is a “firearm”, the company tools, can replace every single part on
will need a copy of the FFL they’re going to ship to, but the firearm down to the receiver and
that and a credit card number are all they’ll need. Unless barrel. However, just because you
you live in CA, CT, MA, MD, NJ, or NY, in which case can do something doesn’t mean you
nobody will ship you an AR-15 lower. You should move should—what I’m talking about spe-
to America. cifically is barreling a top end.
As for lower parts kits, about six months back PSA Installing a barrel into an upper re-
(www.palmettostatearmory.com) had a sale on lower ceiver, torqueing the nut to the proper
parts kits minus the fire control group (trigger, hammer, spec, putting on the gas block and
disconnector) for something like $30. aligning the gas tube aren’t difficult
Considering I don’t like GI-type trigger groups, that tasks, but I put “assembling an AR
was a no-brainer and I bought several.
Digging through the bins I also found a CMMG LPK
With the forward receiver
(www.cmmg.inc) and one from Core 15 (www.core15. pin in place, Tarr’s son is seen
com). Plus also countless bits and pieces from previously here installing the magazine
cannibalized LPKs. Time to clean up the AR bins in the catch. He turned the screw
basement, apparently. backwards and had to start again.

THE CHRISTMAS AR
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somewhat resembles the A2 flash hider but offers a bit of

recoil reduction as well.
The barrel has a government profile, mid-length gas
system, M4 feed ramps, phosphate finish, and is chrome-
lined. It comes with a forward sling swivel and a bayonet
lug if you’re feeling somewhat stabby.
The PKMR handguard has KeyMod mounting slots
at 2, 6, and 10 o’clock, and has an aluminum heat shield
inside.
Both the barrel and the bolt had been high pressure
The BCM
top end came tested and magnetic particle inspected. Instead of the
complete with standard GI-pattern charging handle, Bravo Company
the well regarded included one of the excellent BCM Gunfighter oversize
BCM Gunfighter charging handles—the Mod 4 (Medium). This is the af-
Charging Handle termarket charging handle against which all others are
Mod 4 (l.), but
judged.
Tarr wanted a non-cassette trigger sys- Tarr’s son prefers
tem so his son could see how all the the Geissele When I put together my first lower circa 1986, I didn’t
trigger components fit together. So they Super Charging have any of the proper tools. I had a vise, standard ham-
settled on the MBT from LaRue Tactical. Handle. mer, pliers, a punch and assorted screwdrivers—and that
was it.
While that was enough to get the job done, I did mar
the finish on the receiver a bit with the hammer, and my
castle nut had teeth marks from the pliers…and still it
ANY TIME SPENT WITH YOUR KIDS IS WELL SPENT, BUT kept working itself loose, because I didn’t know to stake
it in place.
IF YOU CAN DO IT BUILDING A RIFLE OR SHOOTING IT’S EVEN BETTER. And even if I had known, I didn’t have the tools to do
it. One thing I discovered is that flat black spray paint is a
pretty good match for Parkerized aluminum if you need
to touch up scrapes.
With age (occasionally) comes wisdom, and this time
Seconds! “Completely modular”, remember? “Sec- and liked the looks of the top end of that rifle. The first around I had all the appropriate tools for my son prop-
onds” is a lot quicker than however long it will take time he ever zeroed a rifle using iron sights was with the erly to assemble this lower, courtesy of Brownells.
to install a barrel/gas block/gas tube/handguard on an Saint. In addition to properly sized punches, I had (among
upper. And there are literally thousands of already as- That rifle sported a 16-inch government profile bar- other things) a mag well vise block, brass/polymer gun-
sembled AR top ends in every variation of handguard rel, fixed front sight, and the brand new Bravo Company smith’s “no mar” hammer, and a strap wrench for the
type/handguard length/barrel length/barrel profile you PKMR polymer KeyMod handguard. castle nut. As these are simple hand tools; buying a full
can imagine. Springfield just introduced the rifle, and I already knew complement will not bust your wallet.
Some of the complete top ends are selling for less than they wouldn’t be offering top ends for quite some time. Even if you don’t plan on building lower after AR
what it would cost you to piece it together and assemble So I checked the Bravo Company/BCM website and lower, I’d recommend the proper punches and the mag
it yourself, something that can’t be said about AR lowers. discovered that top half and/or the PKMR handguard well vise block, as they come in handy when swapping
I thought building a complete lower receiver with my wasn’t yet available. However, further investigation re- out trigger groups and pistol grips, something many AR
son would be fun and interesting, and before we ever got vealed that they would soon be offering top ends with owners do regularly.
started I had him look over the ARs I had at home to that handguard in that configuration and I arranged to When it came time, I sat my son down and had him
decide what features he wanted on his top end. get one. empty the lower parts kit into a clear plastic tub just so
Then my plan was to find a complete upper on the in- My plan was not to start on the project until I had ev- he could see all the pieces and they wouldn’t roll around
ternet that had those features and buy it. Thus the upper ery piece on hand. The upper receiver assembly arrived and get lost.
would arrive complete and already test-fired. from Bravo Company in the middle of December, and I We put the stripped lower onto the mag well vise block,
On hand I had rifles which featured Magpul MOE had Barrett open the box in that narrow time window be- which was already in the vise. I just have a small table-
handguards, Geissele handguards, Bravo Company tween when he arrives home from school and starts play- top vise, but that’s all you need. I also brought along a
KMR rails, and even had a few Mil-Spec handguards to ing video games.
show him. It features a 16-inch bar-
How’s this for irony—turns out what my son wanted rel with a 1:7 twist and a 5.56
wasn’t available. At least, not publicly available, not then, NATO chamber. The barrel
but it will be by the time you read this. Barrett had spent is tipped with BCM’s Gun-
some serious time behind the Springfield Armory Saint, fighter compensator, which

The finish of the

Anderson lower
receiver doesn’t
quite match the
BCM upper, but
there are plenty of
finishes out there
that can easily
rectify that
discrepancy.

The Bravo Company top end has a

fixed front sight and a barrel tipped with
the BCM Gunfighter Compensator. It also
wears the BCM PKMR polymer handguard.

THE CHRISTMAS AR
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Not only does putting together an AR-15

require only hand tools, it doesn’t take very
long at all once you’ve assembled all the
parts and mastered the technique.

was most of the way through. He used a punch

against the tip of the roll pin to finish the job.
As all of the remaining receiver parts in some
way affect each other (if only during installation),
I decided it was time to install the trigger group.
Unlike his father, who prefers crisp single-stage
triggers in his ARs, Barrett likes two-stage trig-
gers. I doubt this means he was secretly adopted,
but you never know.
I had a number of two-stage triggers on hand,
but as I wanted him to see exactly how the parts
work together, I decided against using a cassette
trigger system. Ultimately I chose an MBT (Me-
ticulously Built Trigger) from LaRue Tactical.
The MBT is a two-stage trigger group adver-
tised as providing a 4.5-pound trigger pull. The
trigger group is GI style in that all the pieces are
separate and need to be installed one at a time, as
opposed to a drop-in cassette trigger.
We dropped the trigger in, then slid the selec-
tor into place. Barrett had zero issues pinning
the trigger into place in the lower receiver, but
had some problems with the hammer. His fingers
weren’t quite strong enough to force the hammer
(against the spring legs) into place, so I did that
and he pushed the receiver pin through.
Up next was screwing in the receiver extension
(buffer tube), castle nut and receiver end plate,
and installing the buffer retaining pin/spring.
As the spring/detent pin for the rear receiver pin Tarr’s son immediately after assembling the AR, jazzed
needs to be kept in place by the rear receiver plate, that he has his own rifle and that he built it himself.
remembering which order these pieces all go to- Check out the instinctive trigger finger discipline.
gether has sometimes caused me to curse and
undo some work.
complete lower receiver assembly from one of my other When everything was together properly I showed him He gets to play with all the cool new toys, and because
ARs, so Barrett could see how the finished product was how to shove the buffer/spring into place, then staked the of that, he has found he prefers the new Geissele Super
supposed to look. castle nut for him. Charging Handle. It just so happened I had one of those
Assembling an AR-15 lower receiver is simple, but it For a pistol grip I laid out a selection for him to pick on hand, so I laid it on the table next to his newly as-
does get more complicated as you get to the rear, so we from—a standard A2 grip, Magpul MOE, BCM Gun- sembled rifle and said, “Okay, you swap it out.”
started at the front. fighter, and Ergo Grip. Barrett had never seen an A2 grip After about three minutes of watching my increasingly
Getting the spring and detent pin for the front receiver before and liked not just the way it looked but the way it frustrated son try to figure out how to get the charging
pin to stay in place (as opposed to shooting across the felt in his hand, so we went with that. handle out of the gun I told him to pop out the rear re-
room) can be problematic, and Brownells sells a specific Personally I loathe, hate, and despise the A2 grip, but ceiver pin. He got the bolt carrier group out of the up-
tool to help with just that issue, but Barrett and I didn’t this is his rifle and I believe in letting your kids make their per receiver quickly, but couldn’t quite figure out how the
have any issues. own mistakes so they can learn from them. charging handle came out. Once I showed him the tabs,
That’s probably because I had several spare LPKs on Once the pistol grip was in-
hand—if this was the only parts kit I had I’m sure the stalled, I had Barrett function test
detent pin would have shot across the house never to be the trigger group, making sure
Tarr had a Daniel Defense fixed
seen again, causing an immediate halt to the proceedings. both the safety and disconnector rear sight tower to mount on his
Murphy’s Law is in full effect when assembling ARs. worked. Then we slapped the BCM son’s rifle, and chose a Trijicon
Next we moved on to the magazine catch. Installing upper receiver onto the newly as- MRO for an optic. These two sight
this requires no tools other than fingers. The only prob- sembled lower and reverified that systems work well together.
lem we had was that after my son got the parts attached to everything worked as it was sup-
each other, when he went to screw the catch in the rest of posed to.
the way he accidentally went backwards and unscrewed The finish on the Anderson
it, forcing him to start back at the beginning. lower doesn’t match the BCM up-
I showed him how every part of the bolt catch was sup- per—the BCM is closer to glossy
posed to fit in the gun. Then came the hard part—getting black, the Anderson more flat gray
the roll pin that retains the bolt catch started into the (de- Parkerized—but the Anderson
liberately smaller) receiver hole. lower cost me $39.95. Just sayin’.
The first time I ever tried to do this, I was using a Remember how I wrote that
standard hammer and not only scraped the receiver but the BCM upper receiver assem-
banged my fingertips as I tried to hold the pin in place. bly came complete with the great
Barrett didn’t want me to help him, and having smaller BCM Gunfighter charging handle?
kid-sized fingers apparently helps to keep them out of That handle (the Mod 4 Medium)
the way and unbattered. Using my Brownells gunsmith is the aftermarket charging handle
hammer (polymer striking face on one side, brass on the against which all others are judged,
other), he got the pin started, then held the bolt catch but Barrett is the spoiled son of a
in place over the spring and hammered the pin until it gunwriter.

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Barrett is adjusting the windage on the rear sight with An indoor range is loud if you’re shooting an AR,
the nose of a cartridge. Tarr thinks it’s important to but it’s a lot warmer than outdoors in a Michigan
teach iron sight skills, even with a red dot mounted. winter. The rifle worked perfectly from the get-go.

and how it had to be pulled downward at a certain point as you can find elsewhere. That allowed me to give him
“Dollars?” he said in shock. Which shut him up. For a
in its travel, he understood immediately. while. He is, after all, the teenage son of a smartass.tips on how to steady himself and support the rear of
The BCM upper receiver assembly has a fixed front the rifle.
We actually assembled the rifle the day before Christ-
sight but no rear sight. In one of my basement bins I mas, and Barrett was so jazzed not only to have his own I had him start by zeroing the iron sights at 25 yards,
found a Daniel Defense rear sight tower and had Bar- and showed Barrett how to adjust the front and rear
AR but one he’d assembled himself that he put it beneath
rett install that. My Trijicon MRO red dot is currently the Christmas tree with the other presents. What says sights using the nose of a cartridge. It didn’t take us long,
in-between rifles, and I decided it would do for an optic America more than an AR-15 beneath a Christmas tree? as the combo of the BCM front sight post and DD rear
for my son. sight were dead nuts on for elevation and only two clicks
As this rifle was put together over Christmas vacation
It was on a tall base so that the iron sight picture is in off for windage.
and we live in Michigan, which actually has winter, nei-
the lower 1/3 of the optic. Barrett liked the field of view ther of us were interested in shooting outside. Luckily myOnce the irons were zeroed, I mounted the Trijicon
of the Trijicon but was a bit disparaging of its appear- FFL, Double Action Indoor Shooting Center and Gun MRO and showed Barrett how to get a quick near zero
ance, saying it looked like a flashlight. Shop, has a 50-yard indoor rifle range, and we headed by looking through the irons and adjusting the windage
“Feel free to buy something else to replace it,” I told there after the New Year to sight in the rifle. and elevation of the red dot until it was sitting just above
him. “The Aimpoint PRO is a really good deal, and it’s Barrett set up some sandbags to help support the front
the front sight. When he started putting rounds on paper
not much more than four hundred.” of the rifle, but the indoor bench setup isn’t as sturdy
he was only a few inches off at 25 yards.
Unsurprisingly, Barrett was able to do better groups at
50 yards using the dot than he was at 25 yards with the
iron sights. Red dots are popular for a lot of reasons, one
of which is that putting the dot on the target and pulling
the trigger is easier than lining the front sight up with the
rear and aiming them at the target, then keeping them
steady as you pull the trigger.
After we returned home, I had Barrett remove the
bolt carrier group (BCG) and showed him how to take it
apart. I explained that it had to be assembled in the op-
posite order. I guess assembling all those Lego kits made
up of hundreds of pieces has helped with his puzzle solv-
ing skills, because he reassembled the BCG without any
further guidance on my part. But then came the part he
didn’t like so much.
“You see that black stuff on your hands? You know
what that means?” I asked him.
“No, what?”
“It means you need to clean your rifle.”
Since then we’ve taken to the great outdoors to send
some rounds downrange, but that wasn’t as enjoyable
since the ambient temperature outside was low enough
to freeze water.
It’s hard to shoot a rifle up to your ability when you
can’t feel your fingers, but my boys enjoy trips to the
range not just because of the shooting but because of the
gas station food (soda, beef jerky and salty and/or sweet
Barrett studies the parts of the AR-15 bolt carrier snacks) they get for lunch.
group, and if he looks a bit depressed that’s because Any time spent with your kids is well spent, but if you
he’s just been told he now has to clean his rifle. can do it building a rifle or shooting it’s even better.

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Looking for a scope to shoot both near and far? March

Optics has the answer in a compact variable power
riflescope that zooms from 1X all the way to 10X.

FROM 1X TO 10X
CAN THIS MARCH OPTICS SCOPE
Not many years ago, you’d have
thought a tenfold power increase
was a pipe dream. Well, it’s here.
By David M. Fortier
DO IT ALL?
T
he revolution began in 2005; I remember it well. I The fire an obscure Romanian optics house sparked introduced in 2004, but is best known in Australia. They
was there when IOR Valdada took to the streets clearly burns in the 1-10x24mm March Optics riflescope actually have a very impressive reputation in serious com-
with an attention grabbing six-fold magnification seen on these pages. While currently relatively unknown petition and are well-respected among serious competi-
increase scope. Before this, mainstream shooters knew in the USA, their creativity and expertise is sure to even- tive riflemen around the world.
only three- and four-times magnification increase vari- tually grab the attention of serious American riflemen. March earned its reputation in one of the most de-
able power scopes. It certainly took me by surprise. With a magnification manding shooting sports, bench-rest competition. If you
Sure, there had been some in the industry touting a range running from 1X all the way up to 10X, March Op- investigate a bit, you’ll find March scopes have won nu-
five-times magnification increase, but in those days, a tic’s 1-10x24mm is an impressive feat of optical engineer- merous national and even world championships and set
six-times zoom was unheard of. It was the talk of radi- ing. What makes this particular scope stand out, though, dozens of records.
cals in the optics industry looking to upset the accepted is the execution of the design. Here in the USA, for example, two of the four shooters
standard. Like a match touched to tinder, the flames of Built on a compact 30mm tube, rather than a bulky on the four-man team that set and hold the current 800-,
change could not be extinguished once they were lit. 34, 35 or 36mm pipe and measuring just 10.3 inches in 900- and 1000-yard National Record used March scopes.
In 2007 IOR Valdada fanned the flames further when length, it can easily be mistaken for a run-of-the-mill What about the scopes themselves? I was wondering
it unveiled a new design with a seven-times magnification 1-4X. Weighing in at just 18.7 ounces, it is also very light the same thing. Digging about I learned March scopes
increase. With this, the fires of progress could not be ig- considering its capabilities. are built by Deon Optical Design of Japan. This is a well-
nored and they quickly spread across the industry. The So just who is this new face on the block, March Op- respected small custom scope manufacturing company.
end result was a drastic change in thinking by both optics tics, and are they to be trusted? Good question. The truth Not only are they designed and built in Japan, but they
manufacturers and riflemen. is March is not a “new” face. The March brand was first are manufactured using all Japanese components and
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The March Optics 1-10x24mm has a

whole lot going on between the objective
and ocular. Its 10 times magnification
increase is the widest in the industry.

The March brand was first introduced in 2004 and has

since earned a reputation for quality and precision,
especially in the demanding world of bench-rest shooting.

glass. I like the fact that all the components are sourced
from Japan rather than China or some other low bidder.
This Japanese optical house is capable of building superb
optics and well capable of challenging Europe’s finest.
This includes glass quality and lens design.
Each of the founding engineers of Deon Optical
Design has over three decades of experience in the high
precision optics industry. The scopes themselves are care-
fully built by hand in the traditional manner. Plus, each
scope is individually tested and inspected more than 20
times before being shipped.
I also found it noteworthy that all March scopes
are built using high-end low dispersion ED lenses. This
maximizes their performance potential.
March Optics has a diverse line of competition, hunt-
ing and tactical scopes. These range from a 2.5-25x42mm
to monsters like their 8-80x56mm.
The one that grabbed my attention was their
1-10X24mm. It’s not a new model; it has been in their
line for a number of years. But it combines impressive This model is fitted with a rear focal plane reticle Good-looking low-profile turrets provide distinct au-
performance with head-turning good looks. rather than a front. On 10X the reticle is delineat- dible and tactile .25 moa adjustments. Note the side
Not only are the lines of the scope pleasing to the eye, ed in 2 moa hash marks and 4 moa when set to 5X. focus knob, which adjusts from 10 yards to infinity.
but the workmanship and small details are befitting a
high-end optic. Taking it from its box, I was impressed:
this scope exudes quality from the execution of its mark- correct head placement becomes very important at the On the left side of the mechanism block is a parallax
ings to the feel of its turrets. high end of the magnification range. In addition, the eye- adjustment knob. This adjusts parallax from just 10 yards
At first glance, its relatively small size and light weight box is fairly unforgiving. to infinity. This knob also acts as a battery box for the
belies its true nature. The scope arrived well packed and This model is fitted with low profile and uncapped illuminated reticle.
inside the box I found flip-up lens covers, lens cloth, adjustment turrets. These feature .25 moa adjustments Power and reticle intensity are controlled by a protect-
batteries and a well written instruction manual. with precise clicks that are both audible and tactile. ed button on the side of the knob. Simply depress it once
Most manufacturers today are building their 1-8X The multi-rotation elevation turret provides 25 moa of to turn the power to the lowest setting.
models on fat 34 to 36mm tubes. The end result is a adjustment per full turret rotation and a whopping 200 There are four intensity settings for use in low light condi-
rotund, bulky and heavy optic which adds a lot of pork to moa of total adjustment. What is interesting is you can tions. Unfortunately, intensity is not bright enough for day-
a semi-auto rifle. That’s opposite of the approach March use March’s Zero-Set feature to add in a zero stop. This time conditions. Power is provided by a common CR2032
took. The designers realized while more magnification is is easily accomplished and ensures you never lose your lithium button battery. In use I noted the battery cover to
good, added bulk and weight are not. starting point. be easily removed/installed without the need of any tools.
With all the mission essential equipment added to a
rifle today, ounces add up quickly. Back-up iron sights,
a white light, rail covers, sling, IR laser/illuminator can
all add a significant amount of weight to a light carbine.
So keeping the weight of an optical sight and mounting
system down is very important in my mind.
Two pounds of optic and mount will quickly turn a
nimble 8.5-pound carbine into a 10.5-pound club. So I
am impressed that March’s 1-10x24mm weighs in at just
18.7 ounces. That’s almost 6 ounces less than Burris’s
1-8x24mm XTR II I reviewed a few issues back.
Without a doubt, this particular model is a bit of a
compromise in design in order to pack as much punch as
possible into a compact package. This is most obvious in
the use of a relatively small 24mm objective lens.
This has its pluses and minuses. On the positive side,
the 24mm objective is compact, lightweight and performs
extremely well from 1X to 4X. As you push past 6X,
though, performance in low light scenarios drops off as
the exit pupil is reduced in size. March Optics’ 1-10x24mm was mounted using one of
By 8X, the exit pupil is only 3mm in diameter and Geissele’s new Super Precision High-Power Rifle “Na-
it’s only 2.4mm at 10X. As is the nature of the beast, tional Match” scope mounts. It’s expensive, but worth it.

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At just 10.3 inches in length and weighing only 18.7

ounces, the March scope is fairly compact and light.
Note how low the Geissele mount places the scope.
GEISSELE
AUTOMATICS
B ill Geissele exploded onto the AR scene in 2004
when he started building National Match triggers.
It wasn’t long before certain units in the U.S. military
took notice of his talent, and today, Geissele is syn-
onymous with reliability.
Few small companies garner the respect Geissele
Automatics has earned with its line of bombproof
triggers.
Today, though, Geissele Automatics does much
March offers a few different glass-etched reticles, both onto a Midwest Industries AR that features a 16-inch more than just triggers. A rock star to AR aficiona-
illuminated and non-illuminated. All are located in the pencil weight barrel, M-LOK handguard and Magpul dos, Bill Geissele has slowly but steadily expanded his
rear focal plane. furniture. The end result was a striking looking package. operation. Today he offers an array of triggers, hand-
The one I chose is the MTR-4, which is an moa-based When the March 1-10x24mm first arrived, I was guards, gas blocks, armorers tools, buffers and more.
design. It features a horizontal stadia as well as a vertical knee deep in work, but I just had to examine it. So The “more” now includes an entire line of very high
stadia line in the lower half of the field of view. I paused from what I was doing and unboxed it. This quality optics mounts. The genesis for this new line
At the center of the reticle is a .5 moa dot surrounded was a mistake, as once I had it in hand I felt the urge to originated with a request from a DoD customer. What
by a 4 moa circle. Hash marks spaced every 2 moa delin- mount it. began with one model dubbed the Super Precision
eate 20 moa for lead/holdovers to the left/right and below I decided to take just a “short” break from working Optics Mount has exploded into a variety of models
center when the magnification is set on 10X. on our sister title Impact: The Journal of Tactical Ammu- for scopes and red dot sights.
When you select 5X, the hash marks delineate 4 moa. nition and found a scope mount. Of course, once it was
Both 5X and 10X are marked in red on the zoom ring, sitting in the Geissele mount, I had to level it and set the
while the other numbers are marked in silver. eye relief on the rifle. As soon as I shouldered it I knew
While March Optics offers very high quality rings, I I had to shoot it. Finish my current project or shoot the
decided to mount this scope using one of Geissele’s new March 1-10X24mm? I was quickly stuffing rounds into
Super Precision High-Power Rifle “National Match” magazines and headed out the door.
scope mounts. Walking onto my range, I fired a Hail Mary at 100
I specifically chose this mount due to its very high yards without so much as bore sighting. I struck steel.
quality and its low 1.3-inch mounting height. This is Dropping to prone I fired at a freshly painted plate and
noticeably lower than the standard 1.5+ inches of most found my impact 3 inches low and 2½ inches to the left.
AR scope mounts. Why is this a big deal? Traditional AR Dialing in the correction, I dropped the next three
mounts place the optic too high to obtain a really good rounds into the center of the plate. It was just one of
cheek weld, especially shooting from position. those days. I then proceeded to zap all my 100-yard steel In 2016 Geissele Automatics introduced its first
Most shooters just accept this as the norm. Bill Geis- in quick order and ran my plate rack two or three times as scope mount; today it has an ever-growing line,
sele is an old high power competitor and designed this fast as I could shooting prone off the magazine. offered in a useful variety of heights and finishes.
mount based on his real-world shooting experience. As soon as boredom set in, I popped to my feet and
He offers two National Match models in this height, climbed my shooting tower. Shooting offhand, I smacked
a short and a long eye relief model. I chose the long eye my 200-yard LaRue “Chain Banger” and 300-yard Geissele offers mounts in 30 and 34mm, with 0
relief model that places the scope further forward. Action Target Silhouette. and 20 moa models available. Plus, dedicated mounts
Geissele’s mount is machined from a single piece of 7075- Shooting prone off the magazine, it was easy to make are offered for Aimpoint’s T1/T2 and Trijicon’s MRO.
T6 aluminum and features a mounting surface that spans the LaRue dance. After smacking the 200- and 300-yard Examining one of Geissele’s Super Precision
seven 1913 rail sections and incorporates four shear lugs. targets for a bit I switched to my 800-yard target. mounts, you’ll notice the entire mount is machined
Attachment is by Geissele’s bombproof nut and bolt At this distance the March’s ability to crank to 10X from a 4.6-pound block of billet 7075-T651 aluminum.
method. This is caveman rugged. I mounted the optic became a real asset. I could easily spot my first round, The rings are “line bored” one to the other (no sep-
arate caps), exactly true to the bottom interface.
The caps are then finely cut from the bottom ring
with a .015" jeweler’s saw and each cap serialized to
its corresponding ring base (each mount has its own
unique serial number).
Lightening pockets are generously used so that the
structure of the mount is much stiffer than a mount
with thin sections.
A full length rib is used between the rings and also
one coming off the back ring. No spindly flexible flyer
extensions. Plus, the crossbolts are spread out, not
close together.
Both clamp screws are machined with flats to act
Just how compact is March Optics’ 1-10X24mm? It’s
as shear lugs and with a low height to the slot. There
almost identical in length with a Hi-Lux 1-4x24mm.
This implies certain optical trade-offs, of course. are also two integral machined-in shear lugs that are
a close fit to the receiver.
The crossbolts clamp the mount to the upper with
more than 1,400 pounds of force for each bolt. High
clamp loads and ultra-tight tolerances give the Super
Precision excellent return to zero with no torqueing
values needed for the clamp nuts.
It is a handsome piece that is beautifully made.
Every detail is carefully thought out and well

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SPECIFICATIONS
MARCH OPTICS 1-10X24MM
Magnification Range 1X to 10X
Objective Lens Diameter 24mm
Tube Diameter 30mm
Field of View, Real (degrees) 20 to 2
Eye Relief, Inches 3.39 to 3.78
Exit Pupil, mm 24 to 2.4
Geissele supplies low and high mounts that let you se- Focal Plane Rear
lect height for proper cheek weld. Dedicated mounts
are offered for Aimpoint’s T1/T2 and Trijicon’s MRO. Power Source CR3032
Overall Length, Inches 10.39
Weight, Ounces 18.7
Adjustments .25 moa
Adjustment Range 200 moa
Fortier’s review scope came fitted with March Optics Price $2,338
MTR-4 reticle, which is moa based and easy to use,
he says. He’d have liked a heavier center ring.
SOURCES
March Optics USA, Inc.
Where March excels is in the accurate and repeatable
360-733-5351 / www.marchoptics.com
Geissele mounts are expensive, but not so much if adjustments, well designed side-focus parallax adjust-
you consider the price of today’s top-drawer scopes. ment and impressive optical design. This optic is right at Geissele Automatics
Your scope is no better than your mounting system. home shooting groups at 600 yards or steel at 800 yards. 610-272-2060 / www.geissele.com
Color rendition is neither warm nor cool but absolute-
ly spot on. Resolution, even with the small 24mm objec-
executed. The finish and markings were both flawless tive, is impressive from the center of the image out to the plane reticle will be a deal breaker, I thought it would be
and added to the character of this piece. edges. for me, but I didn’t mind it.
Is it expensive? Very, but Geissele’s mounts are Set the magnification on 1X and you get a true 1X im- There is much to like about this scope. Unfortunately,
worth a look if you must have the best. For more age that is fairly flat and mostly distortion free. This al- high performance comes with a high price. Normally this
information, visit www.geissele.com. lows you to dial the magnification down and rapidly en- model retails for $2,750, but it currently is on sale for
gage close and/or moving targets. So this optic has some $2,338.
real strong points. That’s a good chunk of change, and well beyond the
At the same time, it has some weaknesses. At the top reach of most blue-collar workers. If you can afford the
which impacted short and two silhouettes to the right, of the list is its illumination system. The intensity is not price of admission, though, March’s 1-10x24mm brings
and correct using the reticle. bright enough to see in daylight. In low-light situations, a lot to the table.
Despite a typical Kansas wind, I could soon see black on the other hand, the four available settings border on Geissele’s Super Precision National Match scope
dots from 77 grain Tipped MatchKing impacts appearing being too bright. mount is not inexpensive either, at $350, but I love both
on the silhouette. When my bolt locked back at 800 yards I I’d really like to see this optic with a daylight visible the height and build quality. March Optics has a number
regretfully returned to work. illumination system. Plus, the eyebox is on the unforgiv- of very interesting riflescopes including a very compact
In the days that followed I spent as much time as pos- ing side. The rear focal plane reticle will be a deal killer 1-8x24mm we’ll be examining in the future.
sible behind the March 1-10X24mm. for some. I also think the center circle should be thicker.
I checked its adjustments and repeatability, examined If it were bolder, it would stand out better and be faster
its image quality, shot it in bright light and low-light con- to acquire when engaging at speed.
ditions, did countless “up drills” and moving drills both While I initially didn’t think I’d like the rear focal plane
dry and live. Doing so provided a pretty good survey of reticle, I really had no issues with it. For the most part I
its strengths and weaknesses. I found it to be an impres- found myself running the optic on 1X, 5X and 10X.
sive optical instrument, but not perfect. On 1X I was shooting up close and the placement of
In my opinion March’s 1-10x24mm would be a great the reticle didn’t matter. On 5X, the reticle hash marks
choice to mount onto a rifle which will see much of its are 4 moa apart and on 10X, they are 2 moa apart.
use at the mid-ranges, but which still needs to be able to This is easy to remember and apply when shoot-
perform up close. ing at distance. For some the rear focal
But you need to understand some compromises have
been made to achieve the reduced size and weight, name-
ly the small 24mm objective lens.
While the 24mm objective works great in good lighting,
you need to dial the magnification back towards 4X in
low light. It’s just the nature of the beast.

Performance of the March 1-10x24mm was very good

with perfect adjustments, spot on color rendition and
impressive resolution, but the eyebox is unforgiving.

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A French tank crew armed with holstered Modèle 1935A

pistols pose beside their Char B1 tank. The Char B1 was
one of the better French tanks, but slow and thirsty.

MODÈLE
THE
SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS
1935A
&1935S
These 1930s autoloaders were two of the best-looking French small arms, but
chambered a peculiar, and to the modern mind underpowered, cartridge.
By Paul Scarlata Photos by: Paul Budde & Becky Scarlata

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t is no secret among students of military small arms always managed to find themselves short of small arms duced in sufficient quantities to meet demand, so while
that ever since the late 19th century, the French soldier whenever they have become involved in a major alterca- many older 11mm Revolvers d’Ordonnance Modèle 1873
has been burdened with some of the oddest-looking, tion. In every war they have fought since the 1871 donny- were taken from storage and reissued, it was only a stop-
most convoluted weapons ever to come off a deranged brook with the Prussians, they have had to look outside gap measure.
designer’s drawing board. of France for additional supplies. The unique conditions of the Great War, with its close-
From the Modèle 1892 revolver with a cylinder that This was most evident in the early days of the Great range trench fighting, made it a “handgun war” and most
swung out to the right (wrong?) side, to the ungainly War when a rapidly expanding army and battlefield loss- combatant armies issued sidearms to their troops in
looking MAS 1936 rifle, through the most recent contri- es quickly ate up their strategic reserves of small arms. greater numbers than ever before or since.
bution, the FA MAS assault rifle (nicknamed “le Clari- All government facilities and domestic firms worked Officers, artillery and machine gun crews, signalers,
on”—the bugle—by French soldiers because of its odd overtime to supply needed weapons, and contracts were messengers, transport drivers, military police, medics and
appearance) it would seem that French weapon designers placed with foreign manufacturers in the USA, Italy, and every infantryman who could beg, borrow or steal one
were having a good laugh at the expense of their military. Spain. wanted a handgun, and in many cases actually needed it.
Despite their having one of the largest government- France’s standard issue sidearm, the 8mm Revolver In an attempt to maintain some level of standardiza-
run arms industries in western Europe, the French have d’Ordonnance Modèle 1892 revolver, could not be pro- tion, the French first ordered copies of Smith & Wes-
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French soldiers in Algeria were armed

with holstered Modèle 1935 pistols as
well as MAS-49 rifles. The camo
berets combined
fashionable and
utilitarian in one.

In this left view of the

Pistolet Automatique
Modèle 1935A, you can
see the positioning of the
magazine release and slide
stop. The hammer is cocked.

French handgun cartridges 1873

to the present: 11mm Cartouche
d’Ordonnance Mle. 1873, 8mm Cartouche
d’Ordonnance Mle. 1893, Cartouche de The loaded chamber indicator is located on the top
7.65 pour P.A. (.32 ACP), Cartouche de of the slide at the rear of the ejection port. It gives
9mm Espagnol pour Pistolet Astra visual and tactile indication the chamber is loaded.
(9mm Largo), Cartouche de 7.65L pour
pistolet-mitrailleur Modèle 1938 and the
Cartouche 9mm N. (Lou Behling photo)
SPECIFICATIONS
PISTOLET AUTOMATIQUE MODÈLE 1935A
Caliber: Cartouche de
7.65L pour pistolet
Overall Length: 7.6 inches
Barrel Length: 4.3 inches
Weight: 26 ounces
Magazine Capacity: 8
Sights: Front—Blade adjustable
Two very informantive boxes for windage
of French issue 7.65L ammunition. They Rear—U-notch
designate case material, primer, powder
Grips: Checkered Bakelite or plastic
charge and bullet, all with appropriate dates.

son and Colt revolvers from the Basque gunmakers of purchased more than 700,000 “Ruby” pistols between Pedersen ammunition from the Remington Arms Com-
Spain chambered for their standard 8mm Cartouche 1915 and 1918. pany for test purposes.
d’Ordonnance Modèle 1892. But more weapons were In the early 1920s, the French army began trials to de- The final design, the Cartouche de 7.65L pour pisto-
needed, and quickly. velop a new family of small arms to replace the worn and let (the “L” stood for Longue—Long—to differentiate it
In response to this demand, Basque gunmakers devel- aging weapons left over from the Great War. Priority was from the shorter 7.65mm Browning) utilized a straight-
oped a very simple semiautomatic pistol known generi- given to the development of a new rimless cartridge and walled, rimless case 20mm in length topped with an
cally as the “Ruby” type pistol which combined features light machine gun, and after that, a new infantry rifle. 85-grain round-nosed FMJ bullet moving at a velocity of
of the FN Model 1910 and Colt Model 1908 pistols—but Handgun development was put on the slow track, 1175 fps. Production began at the government arsenals
greatly simplified. especially with the financial restraints caused by the in Bourges, Puteaux, Rennes, Tarbes, and Toulouse and,
They were produced upon a rough pattern, but the Great Depression. In the meantime, production of eventually, by the private firms of la Societe Industrielle
dozens of different firms and subcontractors involved, the old Modèle 1892 revolver continued and stocks of Meridionale and Gevelot.
and the cottage industry system used to supply parts Ruby-type pistols were sifted through, reconditioned Prewar French ammunition used brass cases, but dur-
and assemble them, assured a level of parts interchange- and reissued. ing the occupation years, the Germans had manufac-
ability near zero while quality varied from acceptable to In 1927, the French announced that any new service turers switch to steel cases. Most postwar French-made
abysmal. pistol must be chambered for a new 7.65mm cartridge ammunition continued to use steel cases.
The basic pattern was a single-action pistol, chambered developed by l’Etablissement d’Experience Technique de The French Army’s decision to adopt the 7.65L car-
for the 7.65mm Browning (.32 ACP) cartridge. And while Versailles. It was basically a copy of the experimental .30 tridge as a replacement for both the 7.65 Browning pis-
their service record left much to be desired because of Pedersen cartridge the U.S. Army developed in 1918 for tols and 8mm revolvers already in service was made in
both the weak cartridge and poor reliability, the desper- use in the semi-secret Pedersen device. Records show that 1924. Comparative tests with a prototype submachine
ate French army was in no position to complain and they in 1926 the French army purchased 50,000 rounds of .30 gun (STA Modèle 1892/ 1921) in both 7.65L and the 9mm

THE MODÈLE 1935A & 1935S SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS

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Note the captive

recoil spring on a full-
length guide rod, the
dual barrel links and
the removable trigger
mechanism. This is a
relatively modern pistol.

The holster for

the Modèle 1935A was
a leather full flap design
with pockets for two
spare magazines. The
French were looking for a
compact, lightweight pistol.

Parabellum showed the two rounds had similar ballistics be removed from the pistol as a unit when field stripped. tain before being wounded, some say in the Great War,
and penetration up to 500 meters, with a slight advantage The state arsenal Manufacture d’armes de Saint while others insist it was in the 1920s during the Rif Wars
in penetration for the 7.65L at close ranges. Étienne (MAS) offered a pistol, the SE MAS 1932 Type in North Africa.
The decision to go with the 7.65L was based on practi- A No. 4, which would serve as the basis for the later After being discharged from the Legion, he remained
cal, economic and tactical arguments, for the same “re- Modèle 1935S (see below); Fabrique Nationale of Her- in France and in the early 1930s went to work for SACM,
sults,” the 7.65L used less raw material for production, stal, Belgium provided two pistols that were prototypes a firm specializing in steam turbines and other heavy
was lighter, allowing soldiers to carry 30% more for the of the soon to be famous Model 1935 Hi-Power; a pistol equipment. None of my sources indicate whether he had
same weight), had less recoil, thus allowing the weapons was entered by the Spanish firm Star; and finally, the pri- a penchant for firearms design or if it was just another
designed around it to be lighter and made training of re- vate French firm of Societe Alsacienne de Constructions job assignment while at SACM.
cruits easier. Mecaniques (SACM) entered a pistol developed by one In 1934, he was granted several patents covering semi-
In 1934, the French government announced a competi- of their engineers, Charles Gabriel Petter (1880–1953). automatic pistols, and it was his design that was entered
tion to find a new semiautomatic service pistol, and in- Petter was of Swiss origin, and it seems apparent he in the French army trials by SACM.
vited both government facilities and private firms to enter was a skilled engineer. Before the Great War, he worked In 1938, Petter returned to Switzerland, where he was
designs for consideration. From the beginning, the testing for the Krupp armaments firm in Germany but like many employed by Schweizerische Industriegesellschaft (SIG),
commission stated as a precondition that all designs sub- of his fellow Switzers, when the war erupted, he enlisted but in 1940 returned to France and served with General
mitted must have a en-bloc firing mechanism that could in the French Foreign Legion. He rose to the rank of cap- De Gaulle’s Free French forces. After the war, he returned
to Switzerland.
The SACM/Petter pistol was based to a large degree
on the Browning short recoil, locked breech system in
which the slide and barrel are locked together by lugs on
top of the barrel mating with mortises on the inside of

SPECIFICATIONS
PISTOLET AUTOMATIQUE MODÈLE 1935S
Caliber: Cartouche de
7.65L pour pistolet
Overall Length: 7.3 inches
Barrel Length: 4.7 inches
The Pistolet Automa- Weight: 27.2 ounces
tique Modèle 1935S
lacks the fine lines Magazine Capacity: 8
and ergonomics of the
Modèle 1935A. Note Sights: Front—Blade
the safety in the up The Modèle 1935S also has a loaded chamber indicator Rear—U-notch
(“safe”) position and on top of the slide. The rim of the 7.65mm L cartridge Grips: Checkered Bakelite or plastic
large lanyard ring. pressed it upward when the chamber was loaded.

THE MODÈLE 1935A & 1935S SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS

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The Pistolet Automatique

Modèle 1935S disassembled.
You can see the captive
recoil spring and the replace-
ment of barrel locking lugs
with a chamber block.

A Pistolet Automatique Modèle

1935S holster only had one spare
magazine. Note the name of the
Vietnamese solider who carried this
pistol on the inside of the flap.

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The Pistolet Mitrailleur de 7.65mm

MAS Modèle 38 was the only other
Push the captive firing pin spring and rod forward
weapon chambered for the 7.65 L slightly and lift it out of the slide followed by the barrel.
cartridge. Here a wounded The firing mechanism can be removed from the frame as
Frenchman gets a drink. with the “A” pistol. Reassemble in reverse order.
For this article I test fired a Modèle 1935A and 1935S
M1 pistols supplied by my good friends Tim Hawkins
the French, with some still turning up in and Bill Grist. The former was in very nice condition
the early fighting against the Americans with a clean bore and baked-on enamel finish and
in Viet Nam. Others were supplied as lacked a lanyard ring indicating it was an early produc-
military aid to former French colonies tion pistol.
in Africa. France’s Gendarmerie Natio- The 1935 M1’s bore showed some corrosion but had a
nale, and some local police forces, con- much crisper trigger. Unfortunately, it had been chrome-
tinued to use Modèle 1935 pistols well plated before being brought back from Vietnam, which
into the 1970s. I have been told was a common practice with captured
souvenir weapons.
DISASSEMBLY Checking their serial numbers against the lists in Med-
Modèle 1935A lin and Doane’s book showed that the Modèle 1935A
First remove the magazine and retract was produced in December 1941 while its “S” cousin was
the slide to verify the chamber is emp- made at MAC in 1950.
ty. Cock the hammer and pull the slide For test firing, fellow Outdoor Sportsman Group con-
back about 3/16" and hold it with your tributor—and reloading meister—Bob Shell assembled a
right hand. With the forefinger of your supply of custom made ammunition made from short-
left hand, push the slide stop lever’s shaft ened and reformed .32 S&W Long cases backed by 3.8
from right to left and remove the stop, grains of 231 powder behind a 71-grain .32 ACP bullet
which allows you to remove the slide off swaged down to .308".
the front of the frame. I set up a pair of targets at 15 yards and fired the
Push the recoil spring/guide rod unit Modèle 1935s across my MTM K-Zone pistol rest. The
forward slightly and lift out, and then sights on the 1935A were quite small and required a quite
printed by the military academy at St. Cyr, the French lift the barrel out of the slide. a bit of concentration, while those of the 1935S were
equivalent of West Point, that states officers were to be is- Grasp the firing mechanism with one hand while push- large and easy to acquire.
sued “A” pistols while enlisted personnel received the less ing up on the back of the unit, which is fitted into the While both triggers had mushy takeups, their letoffs
elegant “S” models. backstrap. The mechanism could be a tight fit, so be care- were surprisingly light.
Both handguns were replaced in French service by an ful not to mar it. Reassemble in reverse order. I fired three 5-shot groups with each pistol: the smallest
improved MAS design, the Pistolet Automatique de 9mm with the 1935A measured 2.25 inches, a bit high and to
Modèle 1950, which, as its model designation indicates, Modèle 1935S the left, while the 1935S printed dead on to point of aim
was chambered for the 9x19 Parabellum. But France’s First remove the magazine and retract the slide to ver- and produced a very impressive 1.375-inch pattern.
continuing conflicts with native pro-independence forces ify the chamber is empty. Cock the hammer, and while Then I paced off 7 yards and set up a pair of combat
in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa ensured that holding the pistol flat with the muzzle pointing left, re- targets. As the full flap holsters I received with each pis-
both Modèle 1935 pistols remained in front-line service tract the slide and engage the slide stop lever holding it tol were not conducive to quick draw exercises, I began
until the late 1960s. open. Use the forefinger of your left hand push the slide with each pistol in the “low ready” position, lifted it and
Many Modèle 1935s were captured by Algerian and stop lever’s shaft from right to left and remove it which fired eight rounds free style (two-handed), reloaded, fired
Viet Minh forces and used in their guerilla wars against allows you to remove the slide off the front of the frame. a second magazine full with a one-handed stance, a style
which I’m sure would have met with the approval of un
instructeur de tir français des annèes 1930.
I experienced a few failures to extract and smokestack
jams with the 1935A, but the 1935S gobbled up every-
thing I put it its magazine and spat out the empty cases
with boring regularity.
I then ran the pair through offhand drills on combat
targets at 7 yards. Both pistols’ elegantly curved grips
provided excellent pointing characteristics which, com-
bined with the very mild recoil of the 7.65L cartridge,
made shooting them a pleasure. The 1935A put all its
rounds—except for one “mysterious” flyer—in the 9 and
10 rings but the 1935S bested it again with 14 out of 16
rounds in the 10-ring.
Over the years I have test fired a number of, what I
diplomatically refer to as “unique,” French military rifles
and handguns. I found the Modèle 1935A the most “nor-
mal” looking and operating of all of these. It was a well-
made, fine handling, accurate elegant looking handgun.
The Modèle 1935S proved just as reliable and, despite its
squared off profile, pointed very naturally and its sights
were far superior.
But in my opinion their most glaring shortcoming—the
anemic 7.65L cartridge—outweighed any positive quali-
ties they might have possessed. If push came to shove, I’d
rather have my Springfield XDm any day!
I would like to thank the following for providing in-
formation and materials used to prepare this report: Tim
The Pistolet Automatique de 9mm Modèle 1950 was an Hawkins, Bill Grist, Lisa Warren Jean Huon, Eugene
improved Modèle 1935S chambered for the 9mm Parabellum Medlin, Colin Doane, Bob Shell, Peter Kokalis, James D.
cartridge. It has been replaced by Beretta and HK pistols. Julia Auctioneers and all my friends on the French Fire-
arms Forum at GunBoards.com.

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75 Round 7.62x39mm 1-1928 . . . . . . . Please call or check website for best price!
Romanian Wind-Up Drum New production,
Chinese pattern, loads from back.
$99.95
Each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-712 Century Arms
Century Arms
YUGO PAP PISTOLS MagPul Zhukov Edition
New 100% Made in the U.S.A. 7.62x39mm semi-auto AK style, MagPul Zhukov Edition
RAS47 C39V2
7.62x39mm with stamped receiver and 16 inch barrel, with black Nitride finish, New 100% Made in the U.S.A. 7.62x39mm semi-auto AK style,
Semi-Auto side rail scope mount, removable slant cut muzzle brake, Magpul updated version of the C39 rifle, with milled receiver and 16
Zhukov-S collapsible side folding stock, Magpul Zhukov extended inch barrel, black Nitride finish, removable V-shaped chevron
Yugo PAP M92PV length black synthetic handguard, black synthetic Magpul MOE pistol compensator, Magpul Zhukov-S collapsible side folding stock,
Magpul Zhukov extended length black synthetic handguard,
New 7.62x39mm semi-auto grip, one 30 round Magpul MOE magazine and owners manual.
Krinkov style, with 10.25 inch 1-2173 . . . . . . . Please call or check website for best price! and black synthetic Magpul MOE pistol grip, one 30 round
barrel, 19.75 inch overall length, Magpul MOE magazine and owners manual.
hinged top receiver cover with ROMANIAN DRACO PISTOL 1-2171. . . . . . . . Please call or check website for best price!
Krinkov rear sight, standard front sight with auxiliary flip up white dot
front sight, black polymer Yugo pistol grip, wood handguards, per- 7.62x39mm 7.62x39mm AMMUNITION
manently attached circular muzzle protector, with one 30 round
magazine. Made in Serbia by Zastava. Semi-Auto 7.62x39mm
J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2042 $479.95
Romanian AK Draco
New 7.62x39mm semi-auto matte
Russian Tulammo
black finish, 21 inch overall length, Bimetal FMJ and HP
hardwood stock, synthetic pistol grip. Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
5.56mm/.223 Semi-Auto Barrel has integral front sight and gas block, and muzzle-nut. Comes
In Stock! Please call or check website for best price!
with one 30 round mag. May or may not include cleaning rod.
Yugo PAP M85NP J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-1676 $479.95
7.62x39 Russian Brown Bear
New .223/5.56x45mm semi-auto
with magwell that accepts AR-15 mags, 10.25 inch barrel, 21.5 inch over-
CENTURION 39 PISTOL Bimetal FMJ, SP and HP Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
all length, hinged top cover with Krinkov pattern flip up white dot rear New 100% In Stock! Please call or check website for best price!
sight, standard front sight with auxiliary flip up white dot front sight,
Made in
black polymer Yugo pistol grip, wood handguards, removable Krinkov
muzzle brake, with one high capacity mag. Made in Serbia by Zastava. the U.S.A.
7.62x39 Russian Silver Bear
Bimetal FMJ, SP, HP Zinc Plated Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2300 $479.95

SB47 Pistol Stabilizing Brace

Centurion 39 In Stock! Please call or check website for best price!

For PAP, Draco and Centurion 39 Pistols Sporter Pistol 7.62x39 Red Army Standard
Bimetal FMJ and HP Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
Secures AK style pistols to 7.62x39mm semi-auto AK style, with milled receiver,
shooters forearm, assists in fir- adjustable post front sight integral to gas block, birdcage flash In Stock! Please call or check website for best price!
ing. Not a stock, no NFA tax
hider, black finger groove pistol grip, black synthetic upper and
stamp required. Includes stabi-
lizer brace, manual, BATFE letter,
lower quad rail handguards and one high capacity magazine. 7.62x39mm Red Army Elite
two stabilizing velcro straps. J&G Price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2478 $649.95 123 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer
J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2679 $129.95 All prices subject to change without notice • Orders must comply with all Federal, State and Local laws In Stock! Please call or check website for best price!
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Mega Arms SL-4000 MATEN

MEGA ARMS MEGA ARMS Ambi .308 Charging Handle
AR-15 Components Maten Components
Mega Arms Billet Lower Receivers Mega Arms Cutting edge new design, does not require
latch to be pulled to release. Compatible with any .308 large
Stripped AR-15 lowers
made of 7075-T6
Billet Maten frame semi auto upper, manufactured from 7075-T651 billet
aluminum with black nitride coated corrosion resistant cap-
aluminum, black hard
coat anodized, with
Receiver Sets ture latch and Type III hard coat anodized body.
Mega Arms SL-4000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2973 $64.95
integrated trigger guard. Mega Arms billet MATEN
lower and upper receiver matched set made of 7075-T6
GTR-3H contoured exclusively
to match Mega Billet Upper Receivers. . . . . . 1-1727 $195.95 aluminum, black hard anodized, with ambidextrous bolt
release, charging handle, threaded bolt catch pin, take
Mega Arms Maten .308 Cal Barrels
GTR-3H with AmbI Bolt Catch . . . . . 1-1990 $224.95 Mega Arms Match grade 416 stainless steel barrels fea-
down pins, tension screw, and dust cover door.
GTR-3S contoured to match standard turing black nitride finish, 1:10 twist, 5/8”-24tpi muzzle
mil-spec upper receivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2104 $195.95 Black Hard Anodized Finish . . . . . . . . 1-1767 $576.95 thread and .308 chamber. Utilizes LR-308 barrel exten-
GTR-3S with AmbI Bolt Catch. . . . . . 1-1991 $224.95 Nickel Boron Finish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1837 $627.95 sion, requires matching bolt carrier group.

Mega Arms MKM Mega Arms

Billet AR-15 Billet 16” Mid-Length, Government Profile . . . . 7-2644 $309.95
18” Mid-Length, Government Profile . . . . 7-2645 $309.95
Upper Receiver Maten 20” Rifle Length, Government Profile . . . 7-2646 $309.95
with Fitted Single Rail
KeyMod Handguard Upper Receiver MEGA ARMS / KILLER INNOVATIONS
Mega Arms MKM AR-15 Mega Arms billet Maten upper receiver, 7075-T6 alu-
billet upper receiver with minum black hard anodized, with laser engraved “T”
single rail KeyMod handguard. 7075-T6 aluminum, black numbers, and ejection port door cover.
hard anodized finish, with barrel nut, barrel socket, dust Maten Upper Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2368 $329.95
cover door, and one accessory rail.
7” Carbine KeyMod Handguard . . . . . . . . . . 7-2636 $379.95 Mega Arms ORIAS Chassis System
9” Mid-Length KeyMod Handguard . . . . . . 7-2635 $394.95 for Rem 700 Short Action Rifles
12” Rifle KeyMod Handguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2634 $439.95 Billet The most technologically advanced chassis system on the
14” Extended Rifle KeyMod Handguard . . 7-2633 $469.95 market with self-adjusting recoil lug locking system which
Maten requires no bedding. Machined of 7075-T6 billet aluminum,

Upper Receiver hard anodized matte black, compatible with Accuracy

International style box magazines, with type 2 removable
with Fitted Single Rail KeyMod Handguard rear trunnion - compatible with CAR style buffer tubes and
Mega Arms MTS AR-15 Megalithic Upper Mega Arms Maten billet upper receiver with single rail buttstocks. With Magpul M-LOK attachment points, black
MTS (Megalithic Tactical System) upper has been KeyMod handguard. 7075-T6 aluminum, black hard nitride coated steel QD inserts, ambidextrous mag release,
designed for a truly unique look. Machined from a single anodized finish, with barrel nut, barrel socket, dust cover and rubber overmolded pistol grip. Mfg ML-700-SA-T2.
piece of 7075 aluminum and black hard anodized, fea- door, and one accessory rail. Mega Arms ORIAS Chassis System . . 7-2995 $649.95
tures a rifle length KeyMod handguard and QD sling
points on each side, shell deflector with 60.0° lug angle,
Mega Arms Billet Maten Upper Receivers BRAVO COMPANY
and integrated leveling system (patent pending), placed 12” Rifle KeyMod Handguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2620 $529.95
between the upper receiver and hand-guard rails. Includes 14” Extended Rifle KeyMod Handguard . . 7-2681 $532.95
upper receiver, dust cover door, forward assist, one
KeyMod rail, barrel nut & barrel nut wrench.
MTS AR-15 Upper Receiver . . . . . . . . 7-2748 $635.95

Mega Arms AR-15 5.56mm Barrels Mega Arms MTS MATEN Megalithic Upper
MTS (Megalithic Tactical System) upper has been BCMGUNFGHTER Charging Handles
Mega Arms Match grade 416 stainless steel barrels fea- designed for a truly unique look. Machined from a single With medium latch. Features internal redesigns to direct the
turing black nitride finish, 1:8 twist, 1/2”-28tpi muzzle piece of 7075 aluminum and black hard anodized, fea- force off the roll pin and into the body of the charging handle
thread and 5.56mm chamber. tures a rifle length KeyMod handguard and QD sling during support hand only manipulations. Made by Vltor.
points on each side, shell deflector with 60.0° lug angle,
and integrated leveling system (patent pending), placed
BCMGUNFIGHTER AR-15 Charging Handles
Mod 4 with Medium Latch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2528 $44.95
16” Mid-Length, Government Profile . . . . . . 7-2749 $259.95 between the upper receiver and hand-guard rails. Includes
Ambidextrous Mod 4 with Medium Latch . 7-2743 $69.95
upper receiver, dust cover door, forward assist, one
KeyMod rail, barrel nut & barrel nut wrench. BCMGUNFIGHTER 7.62mm Charging Handle
18” Rifle Length, SPR Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2750 $259.95 MTS MATEN Upper Receiver . . . . . . . 7-2747 $693.95 Mod 4 with Medium Latch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2643 $54.95
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JW2000 SIDE by SIDE SHOTGUN BULGARIAN MAKAROV POLISH P64 9x18 CALIBER

12 Gauge Side by Side 9x18

Century Arms JW2000
Semi-Auto
New 12 Gauge side by side coach gun with 3 inch chamber, 20 Bulgarian 9x18 Semi-Auto
Polish P64
inch barrels, blue finish, exposed hammers, double triggers, check-
ered wood stock and forend, recoil pad and sling swivels. Makarov
J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-317 $269.95 9x18 caliber semi-auto blued finish, decock- CURIO & RELIC
ing safety, fixed sights, 8 round magazine, black 9x18 caliber semi-auto ELIGIBLE
Century Arms JW2000 20 Gauge composite thumbrest grips, and original red double/single action Walther
New 20 Gauge side by side coach gun with 3 inch chamber, 20 bakelite "Star" grips, leather holster and lan- PPK style with 3 3/8 inch barrel, blue finish
inch barrels, blue finish, exposed hammers, double triggers, check- yard. Bulgarian manufacture military surplus in and one 6 round magazine. In very good
condition, add $20.00 for Hand Select.
$229.95
very nice condition.
$299.95
ered wood stock and forend, recoil pad and sling swivels.
J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-316 $269.95 J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-273 J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-3196
Polish P64 9x18 6 Round Magazines
SPM410 SIDE by SIDE SHOTGUN Makarov 9x18 8 Round Magazines Blue
$19.95
steel with plastic finger rest floorplate, used.
Available with purchase of Makarov pistol . . . . . . 4-93 $19.95
Limit one, with purchase of P64 pistol . . . . . 4-348
NEW CANIK 55 PISTOLS
410 Gauge Side by Side POLISH P83 9x18 CALIBER
Century Arms SPM410 New 9mm
New 410 Gauge side by side coach gun with 3 inch chamber, 20 Semi-Auto
inch barrels, blue finish, exposed hammers, double triggers, check-
ered wood stock and forend, recoil pad and sling swivels.
J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-319 $319.95
Canik 55 TP-9 V2 9x18 Semi-Auto
New V2 Model 9mm semi-auto, with improved
PW87 LEVER ACTION SHOTGUN front accessory rail, ergonomic grip, interchange-
able backstraps, double action and single action
trigger, adjustable white dot sights, cocked indica-
Polish P83
9x18 caliber semi-auto, adopted in the early
tor, reversible magazine release, ambidextrous
1980's to replace the P64 in Polish military and
12 Gauge Lever Action decocker, steel slide and polymer frame.
police service. The P83 "WANAD" is manufac-
Includes polymer holster, mag loader, backstraps, cleaning rod,
Century Arms PW87 brush, and two 18 round magazines in plastic hard case. tured at Radom (Factory 11) by Z.M. Lucznic
from stamping and weldments. Features a chrome bore, double
New 12 Gauge Lever Action with 20 inch barrel, 2.75 inch J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2504 $329.95
action trigger, slide mounted decocker, slide lock and external ham-
chamber, 4 shot tube magazine, pistol grip hardwood stock and
forend. Replica of the famous Winchester model 1887.
New 9mm mer. Comes with one 8 round single stack magazine and holster.
SA Model In Good to Very Good Condition
J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-457 $319.95
Semi-Auto Add $20 for Hand Select . . . . . . 25-2406 $219.95
12 GAUGE SELLIER & BELLOT Polish P83 9x18 8 Round Magazines
Sellier & Bellot 12 Gauge Buck Canik 55 TP-9SA Used, limit one, with purchase of P83 pistol . . . 4-728 $19.95

12 Gauge 00 Buck • 12 Pellets • 2.75” Shell New SA Model 9mm semi-auto, 4.5 inch
barrel, single action trigger, drift adjustable white
FEG AP 7.65 BROWNING
Box of 10 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-259 $5.75 dot sights, black polymer frame with front acces-
Case of 250 rounds . . . . per box of 10 $5.20 sory rail, ambidextrous decocker, loaded cham-
12 Gauge 00 Buck • 15 Pellets • 3” Shell ber indicator, and interchangeable backstraps.
Box of 10 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1141 $8.50 Comes in hard case with two 18 round magazines, adjustable
Case of 250 rounds . . . . per box of 10 $8.00 polymer holster, speed loader, cleaning rod, lock, and brush. .32 ACP
12 Gauge 1 Buck • 12 Pellets • 2.75” Shell J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2385 $339.95 Semi-Auto
Box of 10 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1727 $5.25 Two or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . each $329.95
Case of 250 rounds . . . . per box of 10 $4.80
12 Gauge 4 Buck • 21 Pellets • 2.75” Shell
Box of 10 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1726 $5.95
New Canik 55 TP-9SA Desert Tan
New SA Model 9mm semi-auto, Desert Tan slide and frame.
Each . . . 2-2400 $339.95 / Two or more . . each $329.95 .32 ACP (7.65 Browning) semi-auto,
FEG AP 7.65
Case of 250 rounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . per box of 10 $5.60 3.9 inch barrel, blued finish on slide, black

ZASTAVA CZ99 .22LR New 9mm anodizing on alloy frame, double action
SF Model trigger, decocking safety, and one 8 round magazine. Walther
PP style Century Arms import, made in Hungary, with visible
Semi-Auto wear, missing finish and discolored anodizing, grips will have
.22LR Bolt Action
Zastava CZ99 Canik 55 TP-9SF worn areas and may or may not have a thumbrest.
In Good to Very Good Condition
New SF Model 9mm semi-auto, no decocker, Add $20 for Hand Select . . . . . . 25-3738 $219.95
With 22 inch barrel, 3/8 inch tip-off dove tail for scope mounting,
4.5 inch barrel, single action trigger, drift
adjustable rear sight, ramp front sight with hood, polished blue
metal and checkered walnut finished hardwood stock, sling swivel
adjustable white dot sights, black polymer frame
with front accessory rail, with loaded chamber
FEG AP-MBP 7.65
studs, with two 5 round detachable box magazines. Imported by indicator, and interchangeable backstraps. .32 ACP (7.65 Browning) semi-auto, 3.9 inch barrel, blued
Century Arms, mfg in Serbia in the famous Zastava factory. Comes in hard case with two 18 round magazines, adjustable finish on slide, black anodizing on alloy frame, double action
J&G Price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1779 $189.95 polymer holster, speed loader, cleaning rod, lock, and brush. trigger, decocking safety, and one 8 round magazine. Walther
PP style CAI import, made in Hungary, with visible wear and
Two or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . each $179.95 J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2746 $339.95
missing finish and discolored anodizing, grips will have worn
CZ99 .22LR 10 Round Magazines New Canik 55 TP-9SF Desert Tan areas and may or may not have a thumbrest.
Blued steel, new Serbian manufacture . . . . . . . 4-1105 $24.95 In Good to Very Good Condition
$219.95
New SF Model 9mm semi-auto, Desert Tan slide and frame.
All prices subject to change without notice • Orders must comply with all Federal, State and Local laws J&G Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2723 $339.95 Add $20 for Hand Select . . . . . . 25-3739
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DOUBLE CARBINE CASE DISCREET DOUBLE RIFLE CASE AR-15 TACTICAL CHEST RIG
VISM Tactical
Chest Rig for AR-15
Chest Rig for AR-15 mags with sus-
pender style shoulder straps, six
double AR magazine pouches with
bungee retaining straps, hydration
bladder compatible in rear panel,
VISM Tactical PALS webbing front and back, 4
Double Carbine Case VISM Discreet heavy duty D rings. Adjustable for
a great fit with fast-detach buckles
42 inch case constructed of heavy duty PVC material, primary com- Double Rifle Case on suspenders and front for rapid
partment will accommodate two rifles 35 inches in overall length Constructed from heavy duty PVC material with heavy duty zip- equipment release.
with thick padded center divider and 4 hook and loop straps. pers, the main compartment holds two rifles with a divider in AR-15 Tactical Chest Rig - Black . . . . 7-2405 $29.95
Secondary compartment loaded with pockets to store extras such the center. It has padded panels to protect your rifles, and the
as handguns, optics, etc. Three exterior pockets are perfect for AR-15 Tactical Chest Rig - Tan . . . . . . 7-2406 $29.95
center divider is removable. No external pouches or straps so
keeping mags and ammo organized. Two adjustable shoulder
straps and an adjustable sternum strap allow you to carry the case
that is does not look "tactical”. AK-47 TACTICAL CHEST RIG
Discreet Double Rifle Case - Black . . . 7-2663 $49.95
like a backpack. All pockets feature Heavy Duty zippers.
Double Carbine Case - Black. . . . . . . . . 7-2660 $44.95
Discreet Double Rifle Case - Tan . . . . . 7-2664 $49.95 VISM Tactical
Double Carbine Case - Urban Gray . . 7-2661 $44.95 SHOTGUN SCABBARD Chest Rig for AK-47
Double Carbine Case - Digital Camo . 7-2662 $44.95 Chest Rig for AK-47 mags with
criss-cross style shoulder straps,
RIFLE CASE DRAG BAG three double AK magazine pouch-
es with bungee retaining straps,
holds up to 6 AK magazines, with
two gear pouches on the sides for
any extra gear you might need,
VISM Tactical Shotgun Scabbard one center pouch for extra equip-
Comfortable and secure way of carrying a shotgun over the shoul- ment and gear, with comfortable,
der or for modular mounting onto MOLLE compatible gear. completely adjustable fit.
VISM Heavy Duty Rifle Case Drag Bag Features MOLLE webbing on both sides with four detachable PAL AK-47 Tactical Chest Rig - Black . . . . . 7-2407 $19.95
Constructed from heavy duty PVC material with heavy duty zip- straps, six metal D-Ring locations, adjustable padded shoulder AK-47 Tactical Chest Rig - Tan. . . . . . . 7-2408 $19.95
pers. Main compartment holds two rifles, has snap buttons to sling and adjustable retention strap with quick-release buckle.
secure compartment, padded panels and removable center
Shotgun Scabbard - Black . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2857 $19.95
TACTICAL VEST WITH HOLSTER
divider. Shoulder straps and sternum strap allow you to carry like
a back pack. Main compartment 45” long, 10” high and 4” deep. Shotgun Scabbard - OD Green . . . . . . 7-2462 $19.95 VISM Tactical Vest
Shotgun Scabbard - Tan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2858 $19.95
Rifle Case Drag Bag - Black . . . . . . . . . . 7-249 $49.95 with Holster
Rifle Case Drag Bag - Tan . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2501 $49.95 OPERATOR’S RANGE BAG Features four pistol mag pouches,
Rifle Case Drag Bag - Green. . . . . . . . . . 7-617 $49.95 three rifle mag pouches, one utility
Rifle Case Drag Bag - Digital Camo . . 7-275 $49.95 VISM Operator’s pouch, and one fully-adjustable
Field/Range Bag cross-draw handgun holster. With
PALS compatible straps, front zip-
With spacious main com-
per, adjustable shoulders, and
partment, concealed pis-
three adjustment straps on each
tol compartment with
side. Hydration system compatible
strap, two exterior rifle
in the rear panel. Includes heavy
mag pouches, one double pistol
duty handgun belt below vest.
pouch, two water bottle pouches, utility pouch.
VISM Tactical Vest with Holster - Black
VISM Shooting Mat/Rifle Case Combo Operator’s Field/Range Bag - Black . . . 7-2465 $24.95
Regular for Small to Standard Frame. . . . . . . . 7-2403 $39.95
48 inch case constructed of heavy duty PVC material, unfolds Operator’s Field/Range Bag - Green . . 7-2466 $24.95 2XL for Large Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2410 $39.95
into a padded 66 inch by 35 inch shooting mat. With padded Operator’s Field/Range Bag - Tan . . . . . 7-2467 $24.95
VISM Tactical Vest with Holster - Tan
panels, two zippered interal compartments, and heavy duty Regular for Small to Standard Frame. . . . . . . . 7-2404 $39.95
zippers. Two adjustable shoulder straps and an adjustable ster-
num strap allow you to carry the case like a backpack.
VISM First 2XL for Large Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2411 $39.95
Shooting Mat/Rifle Case - Tan . . . .7-2665 $49.95 Responder/EDC SHOULDER HOLSTER WITH POUCH
TACTICAL BACKPACK Carry Bag VISM Shoulder
VISM First Responder or EDC Holster with
VISM Tactical Backpack (Everyday Carry) Bag with Double
New compact size backpack features 330 cu. large internal pockets, several
in. middle zippered compartment with three removable pouches for ammu- Mag Pouch
internal pockets, top front pocket with loop nition mags or accessories, one Fits most pistols, ambidextrous,
fastener strip, bottom front pocket and sides quick access handgun pouch, fully adjustable for right or left
have MOLLE compatible webbing. Also has and one hidden handgun handed. With four shoulder
large padded hydration bladder compart- pouch and adjustable sling style shoulder strap with padding. straps fully adjustable for
ment, adjustable padded shoulder, waist, and length, include elastic band sections to expand and contract with
First Responder/EDC Bag - Black 7-2468 $22.95
sternum straps with quick connect buckles, your body movement. Holster and double magazine pouch feature
adjustable compression strap, and a top heavy duty carrying handle. First Responder/EDC Bag - Tan . . .7-2463 $22.95
adjustable belt strap and hook and loop fasteners to secure in place,
First Responder/EDC Bag - Green 7-2464 $22.95
Tactical Backpack - Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2869 $34.95 with adjustable hook and loop fastener flaps over each magazine.
Tactical Backpack - Tan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2870 $34.95 All prices subject to change without notice • Orders must comply with all Federal, State and Local laws Shoulder Holster with Mag Pouch . . 7-2856 $12.95
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AR MAGS AK MAGS
7.62x39mm
1911 MAGS
NEW .45 ACP Mags
.223 Caliber AK-47 20 Round New Korean, black steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-1103 $9.95
1911 .45 ACP 7 Round New ASC, Officers, black steel 4-1075 $12.95
AR-15 20 Round New Magpul Gen M3, black polymer . .4-956 $16.95 1911 .45 ACP 7 Round New ASC, Officers, stainless . . 4-1074 $12.95
AR-15 20 Round New Magpul Gen M3, sand polymer . .4-1097 $16.95 AK-47 30 Round New Tapco, polymer ribbed, Bakelite . . . .4-1015 $9.95
1911 .45 ACP 8 Round New ASC, Officers, black steel 4-1077 $12.95
AK-47 30 Round New Tapco, polymer smooth, orange . . . .4-1013 $9.95
AR-15 30 Round New Magpul Gen M3, black polymer . .4-1089 $17.95 1911 .45 ACP 7 Rnd Kimber, for Custom and Pro, blued . . 4-286 $23.95
AK-47 30 Round New Magpul PMAG, black polymer . . . . .4-1037 $13.95
AR-15 30 Round New ETS, polymer clear/smoke . . . . . .4-1060 $12.95 1911 .45 ACP 7 Rnd Kimber, for Compact and Ultra, stainless 4-87 $25.95
AK-47 30 Round East European, steel, excellent . . . . . . . . . .4-643 $19.95
AR-15 30 Round New ETS, integrated mag coupler . . . .4-1090 $19.95

GLOCK MAGS
AK-47 30 Round East European, steel, good to very good . .4-252 $17.95
Price per mag in quantities of: 1 to 4 Five +
Price per mag in quantities of: 1 to 4 5 to 9 10+
AR-15 30 Round New Magpul M3, sand, window 4-1084 $19.95 $17.95 AK-47 30 Round New Tapco Intrafuse . . . 4-677 $9.95 $8.95 $7.95
AR-15 30 Round New Magpul M3, black, window . 4-953 $19.95 $17.95 AK-47 30 Round New Tapco, FDE . . . . . . 4-1014 $9.95 $8.95 $7.95 NEW Factory Gen4 Drop Free Mags
Price per mag in quantities of: 1 to 4 5 to 9 10+ AK-47 30 Round New Korean, steel . . . . . 4-890 $9.95 $9.95 $8.95Glock 17/34 9mm 17 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . 4-661 $29.95
AR-15 5 Round New ASC, grey aluminum . 4-849 $10.95 $10.50 $9.95 AK-47 40 Rnd New Bulgarian, clear/smoke . 4-575 $19.95 $18.95 $17.95
Glock 17 9mm 10 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . . . . 4-169 $29.95
AR-15 5 Round New ASC, black stainless . . 4-850 $10.95 $10.50 $9.95
AR-15 10 Round New ASC, black aluminum 4-848 $10.95 $10.50 $9.95 AK-47 Steel Drum Glock
Glock
19 9mm 10 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . . . . 4-170
19 9mm 15 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . . . . 4-250
$29.95
$29.95
AR-15 20 Round New ASC, black stainless . 4-851 $12.95 $11.95 $10.95 75 Round 7.62x39mm Glock 20 10mm 10 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . . . 4-177 $29.95
AR-15 30 Round New ASC, black stainless . 4-852 $12.95 $11.95 $10.95 Romanian Wind-Up Drum New production, Glock 20 10mm 15 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . . . 4-693 $29.95
AR-15 30 Round New ASC, FDE stainless . . 4-897 $12.95 $12.50 $11.95
AR-15 40 Round New ASC, black stainless . 4-853 $15.95 $15.50 $14.95
Chinese pattern, loads from back.
$99.95
Each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-712
Glock
Glock
21 .45 ACP 10 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . 4-1012
22 .40 S&W 10 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . 4-171
$29.95
$29.95
Glock 22 .40 S&W 15 Round New factory Gen4. . . . . 4-665 $29.95

AR PLATFORM MAGS SKS MAGAZINE Glock

Glock
Glock
23 .40 S&W 10 Round New factory Gen4. . . . . . 4-26
23 .40 S&W 13 Round New factory Gen4. . . . . 45-07
26 9mm 10 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . . . . 4-160
$29.95
$29.95
$29.95
9mm, 5.45x39, 6.5/.264, 6.8 SPC, 7.62x39, .308 7.62x39mm Glock 27 .40 S&W 9 Round New factory Gen4. . . . . . 4-682 $29.95
.308 Cal AR-10 10 Round New Magpul M3, sand, SR25 . .4-1100 $18.95 New Tapco 20 Round SKS Mag Glock 42 .380 ACP 6 Round New factory Gen4 . . . . . 4-992 $29.95
.308 Cal AR-10 20 Round New Magpul M3, sand, SR25 . .4-1101 $19.95 Ribbed black polymer . 4-534 $19.95 Used Glock Magazines
Price per mag in quantities of: 1 to 4 5 to 9 10+ Glock 22 .40 S&W 15 Round Factory Gen4, very good . 4-1004 $24.95
9mm AR 20 Rnd New ASC, black stainless . . . 4-861 $14.95 $14.50 $13.95
5.45x39 AR 30 Rnd New ASC, black stainless 4-860 $13.95 $12.95 $11.95
6.5/.264 AR 5 Rnd New ASC, black stainless . 4-854 $12.95 $11.95 $10.95
SCAR 17 MAGS Glock 23 .40 S&W 13 Round Gen3, LE marked, good . . . 4-723 $19.95
Glock 23 .40 S&W 13 Round Factory Gen3, very good . . 4-556 $19.95

6.5/.264 AR 25 Rnd New ASC, black stainless 4-855 $14.95 $13.95 $12.95 .308 Caliber NEW Korean Glock Magazines
6.8 SPC AR 5 Rnd New ASC, black stainless . . 4-856 $12.95 $11.95 $10.95 SCAR 17 25 Round New ASC, black stainless steel . . . . . 4-875 $27.95 Glock 17 9mm 17 Round New Korean . . . . . . . . . . . .4-784 $12.95
6.8 SPC AR 25 Rnd New ASC, black stainless . 4-857 $12.95 $11.95 $10.95 Glock 17/18 9mm 33 Round New Korean . . . . . . . . 4-686 $24.95
7.62x39 AR 5 Rnd New ASC, black stainless . . 4-858 $14.95 $14.50 $13.95
7.62x39 AR 30 Rnd New ASC, black stainless . 4-859 $16.95 $16.50 $15.95
.308 AR-10 5 Rnd New ASC, black stainless. . . 4-863 $17.95 $16.95 $15.95
C308 & CETME NEW ETS Glock Magazines
Glock 17 9mm 17 Round New ETS, drop free, smoke . . .4-1091 $16.95
Glock 17 &18 9mm 22 Rnd New ETS, drop free, smoke .4-1094 $21.95
.22LR Smith & Wesson M&P15-22 35 Round Magazine .308 Caliber
Price per mag in quantities of: 1 to 9 10 to 49 50+
Glock 17 &18 9mm 31 Rnd New ETS, drop free, smoke .4-1093 $21.95
Glock 19 9mm 15 Round New ETS, drop free, smoke . . .4-1092 $16.95
Price per mag in quantities of: 1 to 4 5 to 9 10+
C308/CETME 20 Round Steel, very good . 4-247 $4.95 $3.95 $2.95

Ammo Cans
New .22LR Plinkster, olive drab . . . . . . . . . 4-939 $34.95 $32.95 $29.95

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Mini-14® 5 Round New Ruger® factory, black . . . . . . . . .4-140 $24.95
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Price per mag in quantities of: 1 to 4 5+
Mini-14® 30 Round New Ruger® factory, steel 4-390 $44.95 $42.95 Colt, CZ, FNH,
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10/22® 25 Round New Ruger® factory, polymer. . . 4-816 $29.95
10/22® 50 Round New Ruger® factory, polymer . . . 4-942 $39.95 Ruger, S&W,
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EXTRA BRIGHT 4x30mm SCOPE NEW NCSTAR 3-9x42 MKIII NEW NCSTAR REFLEX SIGHTS
with Top Mount Red Dot Sight "Heads-Up" style reflex sight, 3
MOA red dot, 4 selectable illumi-
NcStar Ultimate
nated reticule patterns: dot, bulls-
Sighting System
eye, cross, and starburst. With
Generation II Mark
unlimited eye relief, 7 brightness
III 3-9x42 Tactical
settings, picatinny rail mount and
Scope with top
black anodized aluminum con-
mounted red
4x30mm scope, perfect for SKS and AK rifles, 22's, even high struction. Includes adjustment
micro dot sight.
power’s, featuring an extra bright lens and wide field of view. tool and rubber lens cap.
Waterproof, fogproof, and shockproof with blue or green Mil Dot
SKS rifle will still accept stripper clips. 1 inch tube, black. reticle illumination, and improved locking quick release mount. New NcStar D4B Reflex Sight. . . . . . . 6-433 $34.95
Extra Bright 4x30mm Scope . . . . . . 6-12 $19.95 New NcStar 3-9x42mm MKIII . . . . . . 6-532 $99.95 Compact tactical "Head-Up" style
SKS or AK Top Mount with Rings . . . $22.95 reflex sight, with 2 MOA red dot,
NEW NCSTAR 4x32 XRS unlimited eye relief, 23.5x16.8 objec-
tive lens, picatinny rail mount and
SKS & AK Scope, with Illuminated P4 Reticle black anodized aluminum construc-
Scope Mount Adjustable locking quick release mount tion. Includes an extra CR2032 bat-
attaches to Weaver/ Picatinny tery, lens covers, and mounting and
and Rings type rail, base mount is adjustment tools.
Combo Sets convertible to AR-15
New NcStar DDAB Reflex Sight . . . . . 6-385 $49.95
carry handle mount
New NcStar 4x30mm scope,
with see through "Heads-Up" style sight with 4 dif-
with Tri-Rail scope mount
channel for iron sights. ferent, selectable illuminated retic-
(replaces topcover) and rings.
Includes four separate modular ule patterns: Dot, bullseye, cross,
SKS Scope, Mount and Rings Combo 6-847 $39.95 upper scope rings, thumb nut and bolt hardware. and starburst. With unlimited eye
AK Scope, Mount and Rings Combo . 6-530 $39.95 New NcStar 4x32 XRS Scope . . . . . . . 6-545 $69.95 relief, 7 brightness settings and
black anodized aluminum con-
NEW 4x30mm RUBBER ARMORED NEW NCSTAR 3-9x42 MKIII struction. Includes tools to adjust
Compact 4x30 scope, with selectable the optics and rubber lens cap.
illuminated red or green mil-dot reticle, with Side Red Laser New NcStar D4BLQ Blue Reflex Sight. . . 6-588 $46.95
rubber armored, Rubber armored, with adjustable red New NcStar D4BLQ Green Reflex Sight . 6-589 $46.95
matte black finish laser, blue illuminated mil dot
with Weaver style retical, green lens, Compact tactical micro green dot
scope rings. quick release mount sight, with integrated mounting base
Perfect for SKS, for mil-std rail, open fits weaver or picatinny rail. Features
AK and 22’s, target turrets, fully unlimited eye relief, 23.5x16.8mm
even high Illuminated multi coated lenses, objective lens, and black anodized
Reticle! see through flip up lens covers, Built in sunshade, Quick focus eye- aluminum body. With spare battery,
powers rifles.
cleaning cloth, hard shell lens cover
piece, Bullet drop compensator calibrated for the .223 55 grain.
NcStar 4x30RE Compact . . . . . . . . . 6-434 $59.95 New NcStar 3-9x42 MKIII Scope . . 6-836 $139.95 and mounting/adjustment tools.
New NcStar DGAB Reflex Sight . . . . . 6-837 $79.95
NEW NCSTAR 3-9x40mm NEW VISM 4x34 DUO
HOLOSUN RED DOT SIGHTS
Dual Urban Optic The Paralow HS403A 2 MOA Red Dot
Designed for AR15 platform use, scope has the battery hidden in the
with offset reflex green dot base and features 50,000 hour battery
New NcStar Shooter series adjustable rifle scope, with duplex sight with same bore life, parallax free, durable PEO/MAO
reticle, 1 inch tube aluminum body, and quick focus ocular bell height as scope finish, auto wake feature automatically
reticle, scope and turns on the scope when it is moved
housing with lock ring. Includes lens covers and rings.
reflex optic have
New NcStar 3-9x40mm Scope . . . . . 6-551 $34.95 independent zeroing
and an adjustable 8 hour auto-shutoff.
With low profile and AR height lower 1/3 mounts.
adjustments, and five
NEW NCSTAR GREEN LASER brightness settings for New Holosun Paralow HS403A . . . 6-892 $169.95
the blue reticle and green dot. The Paralow HS403C 2 MOA Red Dot
with Quick Release Rail Mount scope features battery compartment on
Scope has glass etched Urban Tactical Reticle for quick target acqui-
Ultra bright and powerful com- sition with blue illumination. Integrated mount fits MIL-STD 1913 the side of the scope for easy access, bat-
pact green laser system for pistols rails. With Rubber Bikini Lens covers, batteries, and mounting tools. tery life of 50,00 hours, T1 style foot print,
and rifles with quick release rail
New VISM 4x34 Dual Urban Optic . . 6-562 $129.95 push button brightness adjustments with
mount, precise windage and ele- both day and night settings, parallax free,
vation adjustments, manufac-
tured from aircraft quality
NEW VISM 4x34 ECO with unlimited eye relief and unlimited
field of view. Aluminum bodied with plas-
anodized aluminum. with Green Laser & Nav LED ma electrolytic oxidation blackened finish.
New NcStar Compact Green Laser. . 6-840 $49.95 This rugged scope features Includes both high rise and low mounts..
a forward mounted green New Holosun Paralow HS403C . . . 6-893 $199.95
NcStar Light & Laser Sighting System laser pod and Red/White
LED Navigation light pod, The Holosun HS515C 2 MOA Red
with Integrated Rail Mount top mounted backup iron Dot features a selectable 2 MOA
3 watt 120 lumens flashlight with rear peep sight with red dot or 65 MOA circle with 2
integrated, fully adjustable red fiber optic front sight MOA dot reticle, 50,000/20,000
laser. Illuminate the flashlight post, integrated hour battery life depending on
and laser separately, or NcStar Micro Dot which reticle is used, integrated
both at the same time. reflex dot sight base, picatinny rail for mounting optics or acces- solar power cell for battery-free
Featuring a quick release sories. With the new glass etched Urban Tactical Reticle for quick tar- daylight operation. Includes quick
weaver/picatinny rail mount. get acquisition and electronic control panel. In Black or Tan. release picatinny rail mount at the
Hard anodized aluminum and reinforced nylon construction. New VISM 4x34 ECO - Tan . . . . . . . . 6-549 $159.95 perfect height for mounting to an AR-type rifle.
New NcStar Light & Laser System .6-838 $59.95 New VISM 4x34 ECO - Black . . . . . . 6-550 $159.95 New Holosun Paralow HS515C . . . 6-902 $259.95
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.380 ACP CALIBER 9x18 MAKAROV .40 S&W CALIBER

.380 ACP 9x18 Russian Tulammo .40 S&W
Russian Box92of 50Grain FMJ Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
rounds $10.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1749 Russian
Tulammo 500 rounds $104.95 / 1,000 rounds $199.90
.... ...
Tulammo
Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
91 Grain FMJ 9x18 Russian Brown Bear 180 Grain FMJ
94 Grain FMJ Steel Case • Non-Corrosive Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1750 $11.95 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1751 $12.50
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1088 $11.50
500 rounds . . . . $114.95 / 1,000 rounds. . . . $219.90
500 rounds . . . . $104.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $199.90 500 rounds . . . . $119.95 / 1,000 rounds. . . . $219.90
.380 ACP Russian Silver Bear 9x18 Russian Silver Bear .40 S&W MAXXTech
94 Grain FMJ Zinc Plated Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
Zinc Plated Steel Case • Non-Corrosive 180 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
Box of 50 rounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1854 $13.95 94 Grain FMJ
500 rounds . . . . $124.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $219.90 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1369 $14.50 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2083 $15.95
500 rounds . . . . $139.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $269.90 500 rounds . . . . $149.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $279.90
.380 ACP Sellier & Bellot 9x18 Sellier & Bellot .40 S&W Sellier & Bellot
92 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-28 $15.95 95 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed 180 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
500 rounds . . . . $149.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $289.90 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-513 $15.95 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-800 $13.95
500 rounds . . . . $154.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $299.90 500 rounds . . . . $129.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $249.90
.38 SPECIAL
9mm CALIBER .40 S&W Federal American Eagle
.38 Special Russian Tulammo
130 Grain FMJ Steel Case • Non-Corrosive 9mm Russian Tulammo 155 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-1096 $18.95
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2102 $11.50 115 Grain FMJ Steel Case • Non-Corrosive 500 rounds . .$179.95 / 1,000 rounds . . .$339.90
500 rounds . . . . $109.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $199.90 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1747 $8.95
500 rounds . . . . $84.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . . $159.90 165 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
.38 Special Sellier & Bellot Sealed Tin of 900 rounds . . . . . . . . 5-1748 $159.93
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-277 $19.95
158 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed 500 rounds . .$184.95 / 1,000 rounds . . .$349.90
Box of 50 rounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-541 $16.95 9mm Russian Brown Bear 180 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
500 rounds . . . . $159.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $299.90 115 Grain FMJ Steel Case • Non-Corrosive Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-126 $18.95
158 Grain LRN Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1083 $11.95 500 rounds . .$179.95 / 1,000 rounds . . .$339.90
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-540 $19.95 500 rounds . . . . $109.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $189.90
500 rounds . . . . $179.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $349.90 .45 ACP CALIBER
148 Grain LWC Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
9mm Russian Silver Bear
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-24 $20.95 115 Grain FMJ Zinc Plated Steel Case • Non-Corrosive .45 ACP Russian Tulammo
500 rounds . . . . $199.95 / 1,200 rounds . . . $449.76 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1406 $12.50 230 Grain FMJ Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
500 rounds . . . . $109.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $209.90 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1752 $13.95
158 Grain SP Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1511 $22.95 145 Grain JHP Subsonic 500 rounds . . . . $129.90 / 1,000 rounds . . . $249.90
Zinc Plated Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
500 rounds . . . . $209.95 / 1,000 rounds. . . $399.90
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1053 $14.95 .45 ACP Russian Silver Bear
500 rounds . . . . $144.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $279.90 230 Grain FMJ Zinc Plated Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
.38 Special Federal American Eagle Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1909 $16.95
158 Grain LRN Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed 9mm Sellier & Bellot 500 rounds . . . . $159.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $299.90
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-274 $22.50 115 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
500 rounds . .$209.95 / 1,000 rounds . .$399.90 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35 $12.95 .45 ACP Sellier & Bellot
500 rounds . . . . $119.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $229.90 230 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
.357 MAGNUM 115 Grain JHP Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-571 $16.95
.357 Mag Russian Tulammo Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1475 $19.95 500 rounds . . . . $159.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $309.90
500 rounds . . . . $189.90 / 1,000 rounds . . . $349.90
158 Grain FMJ Steel Case • Non-Corrosive
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2103 $13.95 124 Grain SP Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed .45 ACP Federal American Eagle
500 rounds . . . . $129.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $249.90 Box of 50 rounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1528 $19.95 230 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
500 rounds . . . . $184.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $349.90 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-127 $24.95
.357 Mag Sellier & Bellot 140 Grain FMJ Subsonic 500 rounds . .$234.95 / 1,000 rounds . .$449.90
158 Grain FMJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed 230 Grain FMJ Suppressor
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-881 $23.95 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1510 $16.95 Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed
500 rounds . . . . $224.95 / 1,000 rounds. . . $429.90 500 rounds . . . . $159.95 / 1,000 rounds . . . $299.90 Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-1944 $26.95
158 Grain JSP Brass Case • Non-Corrosive • Boxer Primed 500 rounds . .$249.95 / 1,000 rounds . . .$479.90
Box of 50 rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-882 $24.50 7.62x25mm
500 rounds . . . . $229.95 / 1,000 rounds. . . $439.90
Tokarev FMJ 7.62 NAGANT
7.62x25mm TOKAREV Original Bulgarian
7.62 Nagant Prvi Partizan
Military Surplus
7.62x25 Tokarev Sellier & Bellot With brass case and FMJ bi-metal bullet. Corrosive ammo. 7.62x38R - 98 Grain FPJ Brass Case • Non-Corrosive
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