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Yes, after several thousand rounds, the Spike’s 5.45 upper finally started malfunctioning: the weapon wouldn’t go into battery. This was pretty sudden and quite consistent. I had noticed that the weapon was operating in a sluggish manner for a short while, so it didn’t really come as a surprise. After experiencing several malfunctions in a [...]

I’ve been a fan of 5.45x39mm for quite some time. It’s a caliber that allows me to shoot “full recoil” ammunition for practice purposes, but at a fraction of the cost of 5.56mm ammunition. I like it so much that I suggested to Spike’s Tactical that they build a more corrosion resistant version than was [...]

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I just received this 5.45 upper tonight. I’ll be at the range tomorrow. Here are some photos, for now… Standard midlength fare from a distance…this will make an excellent training rifle companion to a 5.56 or 6.8 midlength. QC checklist tag, nitrided barrel and A2 muzzle device Nitrided FSB and stainless steel roll pin Receiver [...]

I used to think that all lowers were alike, and that the only real difference in lower parts kits was that some came with fancy triggers. I now know this to be false. After having to perform final – perhaps corrective is a better term – machine work on several “budget” lowers, I started to [...]

In the never-ending battle to remove weight from weapon components, several companies have turned to a pretty simple AR-15 handguard design: a tube with a rail along the top and several small removable sections of rail. The thinking is that the average shooter doesn’t really need all that rail space. It’s pretty sound thinking, in my opinion. [...]

Some people are in the market for a new AR or AR upper. Some people don’t think they’re in the market until something special catches their eye. This could be a part that has special features, or a good product at a good price. Or, for that matter, something that has special features and is [...]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been putting a fair amount of match ammunition through the BCM Mk12. Most of that has been Prvi 75gr Match, but I’ve also shot Hornady 75gr, Black Hills Blue Box 68 and 75gr, and my own handloads. Recently, a number of 10 shot groups were fired at 100 and [...]

Just a brief note… I don’t have a large number of groups shot through it yet, but from the bench using handloads, I was able to fire a number of 1.5-2MOA groups with the BCM 14.5″ Midlength. Those groups were 10 shots at 100 yards. The smallest was 1.46″ (that was actually 12 shots because [...]