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American Gunsmith Editors
248 indexed articles · 2003–2024
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Articles by American Gunsmith Editors
Civil War Sharphooting
At the outset of the American Civil War, the wealthy inventor and expert shot Hiram Berdan initiated the setting-up of sharpshooting units in the Union Army. These units would be tasked primarily with open-order skirmishing as well as long-range, accurate shooting. Initially,…
Stocks And Grips
Phase 5 began after Ken Montes built a firearm component in his garage workshop and showed it to a local shopkeeper who asked him to make more for his store. That first component wasn’t built to make money, just to solve a…
MTM Case-Gard
The High-Low Shooting Table is a portable, adjustable benchrest-style shooting table for left and right handed shooters capable of standing between 18" to 55" tall. Stabilized with three legs and footings that wedge into the ground, the High-Low Shooting Table was designed…
Clean Shot
Clean Shot is an automatic bore cleaning device for shotguns. Created by Huntego Limited (Huntegoltd.com, Clean Shot is a first of its kind shoot-through bore cleaning cartridge, being a fast, efficient, and convenient cleaning field cleaning method. A Clean Shot cartridge is…
Swab-its
AR-15s, progenitor of the longest serving service rifle in United States history as well as the so-called “Modern Sporting Rifle”, all share a common design feature. The barrel extension where the lugs of the bolt lock up, often called the “star chamber”,…
Vedder Light Tuck IWB
Self defense is an increasingly popular reason for gun ownership. With some legal provision for concealed carry in every State, having the effective means of carrying is an important part of the process. Vedder’s Light Tuck IWB is a kydex holster providing…
Smart Armor Cube
Smart Armor in partnership with Arrow Electronics has developed their Smart Cube, a Bluetooth-enabled smart lock monitored and controlled via i OS or Android app for securing and monitoring access. Easily installable, the 1.25" cube includes an app that tracks and monitors…
Special Ops
US Special Ops by Fred Pushies covers the history, weapons, and missions of elite military forces. It’s an broad overview of military special operations in the United States, from weapons, gear, missions, and the troops. It’s a topic that’s often of interest…
Osprey Rifle Books
The Industrial Revolution provided the technological means to mass produce sufficient quantities of reliable, rifled firearms to make formal, massed marksmanship a worthy pursuit for militaries. No longer considered a bayonet handle capable of a few volleys before the inevitable infantry charge,…
Competitive Pistol
Gun owners in general, and gunsmiths in particular, should embrace any form of formally-organized shooting activity, including those they don’t personally partake. All organized shooting events help showcase all the positive attributes of gun ownership. They are the embodiment of skillful, safe,…
Infringed
Alexandria Kincaid is a firearms law attorney and owns a full-service law firm (AlexKincaid.com, with offices in Boise, Idaho and Lake Oswego, Oregon emphasizing estate and business asset protection, constitutional and criminal law, and firearms law. The firm is affiliated with the…
The War On Guns
Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies Dr. John Lott is likely familiar to readers here. An economist having held research and teaching positions at UCLA, Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, Wharton, and Rice, Lott has long been known for his very dense,…
Classic Full Automatics
Osprey Publishing (OspreyPublishing.com) has an entire line of technical books covering firearms, military history, board and card games, models, and fiction from every era. Various fully-automatic weapons area popular topic. Despite sharing characteristics like self-loading mechanisms and cyclic rates of fire, full…
The Winchester
The maker of the iconic Winchester ’73—“The Gun That Won The West”—was a New Englandbased shirt maker with little firearms experience descended from modest immigrants from England. Oliver Fisher Winchester began his business career going from haberdasher to manufacturing shirts based on…
Navy SEAL Shooting
Chris Sajnog is a retired Navy SEAL, completing active duty in 2009. In addition to his normal duties, Sajnog was a Navy SEAL Master Firearms Instructor and developed curriculum for the SEAL’s sniper program. Since retiring, he has been training in the…
AR-15 Parts
The Bravo Company Manufacturing (BravoCompanyUSA.com) BCMGun- Fighter stock is a tough, collapsible, lightweight (seven ounces) polymer unit for mil-spec receivers. The patented design is modular, consisting of five total parts and one screw, and can be adapted in to a number of…
Osprey Publishing
The Flintlock Musket: Brown Bess & Charleville 1715-1865 by Stuart Reid analyzes the flintlock musket as one of the iconic weapons in history. Reid worked as a librarian, was a soldier, and had ancestors who fought at Culloden, Bunker Hill, and the…
These Are My Guns
How The Anti-Gun Crusaders Have Invented A Public Health Crisis To Sell Their Misguided Agenda
Breakthrough Clean
Breakthrough Clean Technologies (BreakThroughClean.com) offers a line of firearm cleaning products made from a distillation process that are environmentally friendly, non-toxic, and virtually odorless. Unlike many harshsmelling cleaners, solvents, and lubricants, Breakthrough’s line are clear, easier on the skin, and don’t smell…
American Hunter
How Legendary Hunters Shaped America
Firearms Guide Online
Impressum Media, publishers of the Firearms Guide DVD-based gun guide series, has made this resource a subscription-based online service. FirearmsGuide.com is a researchable, globally-accessible database of firearms, air guns, and ammunition for industry professionals and enthusiasts. The Guide offers complex search functionality…
Liberty Shooting Camp and Seminar
Hillsdale College is hosting their annual Ladies for Liberty seminar and shooting camp on June 5-9 2016. The camp teaches women of all experience levels shooting sports techniques and gun safety. Participants also attend lectures by Hillsdale College faculty members on topics related…
Q-Series Stealth
Gary Quesenberry is the CEO of Q-Series, LLC (qseriesllc.com,), a veteran owned company that makes a unique, minimalist holster. The company’s Stealth holster is a minimalist, ambidextrous, tuckable, extreme low profile, IWB (Inside The Waistband) concealment holster that can be worn with…
Skyhorse Shotgun Books
Skyhorse Publishing (skyhorsepublishing.com) specializes in outdoor sports, nature, country living, military history, and reference books. If you have regular shotgun work in your shop, or are an aficionado, they have two titles of interest. Fine Shotguns: The History, Science, and Art of the…