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Editor’s Note: This piece was crafting as a special retro-style “mini-magazine” within the Winter 2026 print issue of The Armory Life. We styled it to look as though it had been published back when the author was a young teenager poring over his collection of Springfield Armory catalogs. You can see this mini-magazine itself, which starts on page 89, within Winter 2026 issue by clicking here.I’ve been a “gun nut” as long as I can remember. As a young teenager in the 1980’s, I subscribed to all the gun magazines and would voraciously read them from cover to cover. While…
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A fast and smooth revolver reload isn’t easy to perform, but with enough practice and the right gear, you can keep your wheelgun fed.Revolvers are routinely overlooked as defensive handguns. This is somewhat understandable, because pistols are easier to shoot than double-action revolvers, mostly because of their triggers, and they also come with higher capacity. But the revolvers today are not the same as back before the auto-pistol became the dominant defensive gun.The New Model 386 Night Guard revolver from Lipsey’s is a seven-shot, weighing only 24 ounces, and it can handle .357 Magnum ammo, which is a more powerful…
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Open the box and what have you got? What at first appears to be a Gucci AK. It’s got the same curved magazine, same broad lines, and overall profile. It even eats the same kind of ammo. But the longer you look, the more you see. Joe Stenzel was first struck with inspiration while serving in Afghanistan as a young man in 2nd Ranger Battalion, inspecting an AK far older than himself. He marveled at the simplicity, respected the ruggedness, and allowed himself to wonder. There are many white whales in the world of guns, and the idea of successfully…
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