Entries Tagged as ‘General Opinion’

September 5, 2010

600 Yards with the FN SCAR and Spike’s 5.45 Midlength

This morning I attended a 600 yard prone match. I took the FN SCAR-16S and the Spike’s 5.45 midlength. I was pretty pleased with how each rifle performed. More than a few people looked at me funny when I pulled the SCAR out of the rifle case and got on the line with shooters who [...]

September 3, 2010

Spike’s Tactical Publishes Certification Documents

After much drama, Spike’s Tactical has published a massive list of certification documents covering everything from the grease used on the fire control group and the torque wrenches used to the composition of the barrel steel and the testing procedures used on the barrels and bolts. Astute readers will notice that the many of the [...]

August 31, 2010

33,000 Hits…Almost

After barely topping 20,000 the past few months, in August, we hit 32,970, with about 5 minutes left in the month. All of that while seriously attempting to minimize the number of references I made to the blog on various forums for the whole month – I was actually expecting traffic to go down! A [...]

August 30, 2010

New T&E Rifle: FN SCAR

Thanks to a member of FNForum.net (and a member of both FNForum.net and M4Carbine.net who did some legwork), I’ve been loaned an FNH-USA SCAR-16S. I’ll be doing high speed video later today, with a review to follow.

August 21, 2010

GAO Objects to DOD Handgun Replacement Program

I know everyone hates bureaucracy standing in the way of the military getting new weapons, but in this case, the GAO has good points. Well, they did in March of 1982, that is. While reading about the SIG/ATF handgun trial debacle, I decided to check out other GAO cases involving firearms manufacturers. That’s when I [...]

August 19, 2010

Ammo.

Spike’s Tactical arranged for AIM Surplus to send me 1,830 rounds of 5.45×39 – a tin of surplus and 750 rounds of Silver Bear. I’ll be putting a good portion of that through my pre-production T&E Spike’s 5.45 tomorrow, and more over the weekend. I’ll be recording all of the shooting. I don’t expect any [...]

August 17, 2010

Preview of Tomorrow’s Video

Here’s a short clip from tomorrow’s video. Notice anything different about the rifle?

August 16, 2010

New YouTube Username & Battle Comp 1.0 Review

Rather than continue to use my old YouTube username of 97SVTVERT, I have switched to, naturally, “VuurwapenBlog.” I’ll also be stepping up the quality of my videos as much as possible. Here’s the new Battle Comp 1.0 review. Also, I have added a “Videos” page at the top of the screen that will give you [...]

August 10, 2010

AR-15 Minimal Recoil

What does it look like when the muzzle of an AR-15 stays on target throughout the entire recoil cycle? Well, it pretty much looks like this:

August 6, 2010

What Is Sig Smoking?

Sig Sauer has long been known for making some of the highest quality weapons in the world. Perhaps I should say “was known.” For a number of years, declining Sig handgun quality has been fairly evident; beyond that, when the Sig 556 came out several years ago, many Sig fans were disappointed. Rather than simply [...]