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G-FLEX: A GLOCK BINARY TRIGGER
Double down. Bang it twice…every single time! Tactical Sh!t is taking pre-orders now for the G-Flex; the first binary trigger for your Glock pistol.
St. Peters, MO | 17 MAR 23
For the first time ever, enhanced pull and release firing capability is here for Gen 3, Gen 4, and Gen 5 Glock firearms. Introducing the G-Flex Binary Trigger for Glock pistols!
The G-Flex is engineered with Reflex Trigger Technology. It fires one round when the trigger is pulled rearward, then a second “reflex” round when the trigger is released forward. This provides the potential for lightning-fast split times and unmatched performance in your Glock handgun.
The G-Flex is manufactured from professional-grade materials and designed for easy drop-in installation. The G-Flex is manufactured with aerospace-grade stainless steel and is built to perform under pressure and hard use. You’ll harness elevated speed and effectiveness with unmatched strength and reliability.
The G-Flex has been engineered with what the ATF wanted; a patented secondary DISCONNECTOR makes it physically impossible for the G-Flex to achieve automatic firing.
Components:
· Trigger Bar
· Enhanced Bar Guide
· Trigger Return Spring
· Trigger Housing
· Trigger Shoe
Specifications:
· Style: Reflex
· Model: G-Flex
· Platform: GLOCK 17, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27, 19X, 45, 47, 31, 32, and 33
· Fit is generation specific
· Weight: 5 ounces
· Material: Aluminum/Steel
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Two Ways to Boresight a Pistol Red Dot Before Heading to the Range
Disclaimer: As always, any firearm no matter if it is boresighted or not should be verified at distance with the preferred ammunition. Boresighting is not enough to trust the zero on your firearm.
Boresighting/Borelighting is a great way to save ammo by first getting your dot as close to your proper zero without expending live ammo. Doing this before heading to the range will also ensure that you are on paper. Sighting a red dot on a pistol is a pretty simple task and can be done both with a cheap borelight or without any tools at all in the comfort of your home.
Ensure that the pistol is clear and free of ammunition.
With a Borelight
This method is using an EZshoot Boresight in 9mm that was bought off of amazon for 17 bucks. While it comes in 9mm, there are other calibers available. The proper caliber of borelight is important because to use this tool it will need to be set into the bore of your pistol. Due to this laser acting as the center of your bore, it does need to sit in the chamber without movement.
To Use
- Find something to aim at at the preferred distance that you want your zero. Let’s say 15 yds.
- Insert the borelight into the chamber of the gun and lightly push the slide forward onto the laser.
- Find something to steady your pistol as you are aimed at the 15 yd mark you chose
- Point the laser at that mark
- Adjust your actual red dot to the point where the laser is. You may need to bring your head off the gun to ensure that the dot you are seeing is the laser and not the red dot and visa versa.
This can be easier with two people so that one person can steady the gun and the other can adjust the optic. One person is totally capable of completing this though.
Now that the dot and the bore are lined up at 15 yds you can go to the range and verify and perfect the zero. It should get you very close to where you want to impact though.
Without a Borelight
If you don’t have a laser there is still an option for getting your dot close by using your iron sights. I absolutely hate the term “cherry popping” because it is so improperly used and the method is often done incorrectly however, this is kind of what we are going to do here..
This works with any height of iron sights meaning you can do this even if you still have too short of iron sights after adding a dot to the pistol. It happens, we are lazy and don’t plan ahead, trust me I get it..
Note: This only works if your iron sights are zero’d to the gun.
How to w/ Short Iron Sights
- Hold your pistol out and again, aim at something at your preferred zero distance with your iron sights.
- Line up your iron sights, don’t worry about the dot yet
- Now, as you are lining up your iron sights look at the dot, does it look to be landing in the same spot your irons are aimed at? Adjust it if not
- Line up the iron sights again, adjust again. You want the dot to be in the same place that you are aimed at with your irons
If you have iron sights that you can’t see when properly lined up do your best to line them up as you are tipping the gun down. Seems weird but it will get you close and on paper for when you head to the range.
There you have it, two easy ways to save ammo and time at the range when zeroing your pistol. Happy shooting!
Best of the Worst L85 or INSAS Rifle
When you sit back and think about the worst weapons ever issued to a military force, you have plenty of options. The Chauchat was pretty terrible. The M14 might be America’s worst military rifle. There are just too many. However, let’s narrow it down to the more modern assault rifle market, and things get a little easier. When I narrowed it down to just two weapons, I couldn’t figure out if the British L85 or the Indian INSAS took the cake as best of the worst.
What’s somewhat funny is that the Brits and Indians were both wielding the FN FAL in the form of the L1A1 prior to adopting their respective god-awful weapons. The Brits adopted the L85 and SA80 family in 1985. The INSAS rifle was adopted a bit later, in 1998, officially. The adoption of the ISNAS was delayed because the Indians lacked enough 5.56 ammo to issue it.
Breaking Down the INSAS and L85
The L85 and INSAS were similar in their purpose. Both military forces wanted a domestically produced modern assault rifle. The age of the battle rifle was over, and the modern 5.56 rifle was and remained the current hotness. Both military forces wanted to get into the modern arms market and also wanted to domestically produce their new rifle. The INSAS and L85 are also parts of weapons’ families’ that include carbine and LMG variants.
The Brits have had a thing for bullpups for basically ever. They really wanted one after World War 2, and it took until the 1980s to make their dreams come true. The L85 took a lot of inspiration from the AR-18 series rifle. It’s not exactly fair to say it’s a bullpup AR-18, but it’s close. (Side note, the Brits did experiment with a bullpup AR-18, and somehow it was worse than the L85. The L85 is a selective-fire assault rifle that chambers the 5.56 NATO cartridge and feeds from a box magazine.
The INSAS came to be at a time when the Indian Army and police forces were using mostly FALs but also British .303 rifles and AK series rifles. The Indians wanted a modern weapon to be universal for their armed forces. They designed something that took inspiration from the AK, the FAL, and even the HK rifles. It used a standard layout, fed from a box magazine, and offered variants with wood or polymer furniture as well as folding and fixed stocks.
What Makes Them So Bad?
Ooh boy, where to start? Both weapons have major reliability issues. The L85 sucked in dusty and artic environments and ran into tons of malfunctions. The polymer furniture reportedly melted from bug repellant. The internals were not robust enough for a military rifle. In the Gulf War, the weapon broke often, and the L85 proved more reliable in full auto than semi, and the L85A1 proved more reliable in semi than auto. The gas mechanism would pop open randomly.
The INSAS problems began in 1999 in its first trial by combat. The rifle was being used for a conflict in the Himalayas, and the temperatures shut the rifle down. It had huge reliability issues. Sometimes, regardless of where the rifle’s selector was set, it would just fire in full auto mode. The gas regulator often broke, rendering the rifle useless.
The L85’s first batch of magazines was so bad you could allegedly deform them by grasping them tightly. The INSAS magazines were polymer and reportedly cracked often. Both guns featured furniture that was poorly made and wobbly, often easily broken.
Both weapons reportedly overheated quickly. The L85, especially the squad auto version, would overheat in 120 to 150 rounds. The INSAS rifles were adopted by the Nepalese forces and seized up in a firefight against Maoist terrorists. The Nepalese were overrun, and this led to 43 deaths. While we don’t have specific examples, a LANDSET report by the Ministry of Defence stated that platoon commanders expected casualties caused by the weapon in CQB.
Which is Worse?
The Brits have attempted to fix the L85, and HK, then owned by British investors, upgraded the weapon. This became the L85A2. This seemed to largely fix the predecessor’s mistakes. The A2 variants are reportedly much better and much more reliable. The squad support version was pulled and replaced by the belt-fed FN Minimi. It’s worth noting that British special ops tend to prefer AR variants over the L85.
The Indians attempted to fix the INSAS problems but ultimately chose to do away with it. After several high-profile problems, it was found to be too much of a problem to fix. The Indian Army is instead resigning the weapon and purchasing the AK 203 rifles and some SIG 716i rifles alongside the Israeli Negev machine guns.
It would seem the INSAS was worse as it couldn’t even be fixed. However, at least the Indians corrected the problem fairly quickly rather than continue to issue a craptastic rifle. With that in mind, I’m giving the INSAS the best of the worst win.
.223 Deadly, Unlike 00 Buck?
Nobody will dispute that .223 or 5.56 is a dangerous thing to be shot with. 5.56 is a common round in global militaries, so it’s not as though it’s underpowered or anything. What is amusing though is the torturous way the anti-gun lobby will devote hours to discussing the lethality of this particular assault rifle round, while simultaneously ignoring reality or contradicting themselves –sometimes both!–.
That’s not to say that there isn’t a lot of hyperbole around the capabilities of the standard AR-15 chambering. The “.223 deadly!” side would have you believe that the 55 grain (3.5 grams) projectile .223 throws would rip a human being in half, despite the fact that many states limit the cartridge to varmint-sized animals for hunting purposes –because the round isn’t powerful enough to be considered humane for deer or larger.–
Perhaps the best example of this collision of ideology and reality is the Highland Park, IL assault weapons ban that is currently struggling through a lawsuit to stop it. Of the innumerable post-Bruen decision cases, this one has produced an amusing dichotomy: The “.223 deadly, and no good for self-defense!” argument is being stood up alongside the concept that the unbanned .300WinMag rifles, and 12ga shotguns are perfectly fine to shoot people with. This despite both of those rounds being significantly more powerful, and much more capable of removing entire portions of a human being than the comparatively underpowered .223 or 5.56.
Naturally, at the center of this massive conflation in service of unconstitutional legislation is Ryan Busse –former Kimber executive turned gun control lobby shill– who never misses a chance to get paid to say absurd things about guns in service of banning them. He is the oxford cloth, wingtip version of the former service member who claims to “support the 2A, but…” Wherever there is a Bruen challenge and the Shill Signal has lit up the sky, he rarely fails to answer the call, and the paycheck that comes with it.
The Mare’s Leg and The King of Cool
Our modern love of superheroes isn’t much different than the cowboys of the 1950s and 60s. They are everywhere you look. In the 1950s and 60s, the large and small screens were dominated by westerns, and the genre has remained somewhat popular over the years. In the late 1950s, everyone seemed to have a western show, and producers were looking for a way to distinguish one from the other. Have Gun Will Travel had a custom Colt Calvary, The Riflemen had a custom Winchester rifle, and Wyatt Earp carried a massive Buntline special. Josh Randall carried a Mare’s Leg.
The Mare’s Leg was a custom short rifle made from a Winchester Model 1892. The original models chambered the .44-40 round, although McQueen carried .45-70 rounds in his cartridge belt. The barrels were shortened to 9 inches, and the stock was nearly removed. This created the first Mare’s Leg.
To this day, you can buy your own Mare’s Leg in various calibers from various companies. The term has become a catch-all for these shortened lever guns.
The Mare’s Leg – Dead Or Alive
McQueen played Josh Randall, a bounty hunter who traveled the west seeking to collect the hides of criminals. Along the way, he often proved wanted men innocent, helped find missing people, and once even saved Santa Claus. The show was your typical heroic western. A stranger rides into town runs into a problem and solves it.
He rode a feisty horse named Ringo, and for many of my youthful years, I watched Randall across the west. My dad is a huge western fan, and a lot of my time in front of the TV involved TV land and old westerns. That likely influenced my taste in firearms. The episodes often featured his Mare’s Leg, holstered to his thigh.
His was cool as a cucumber. Although he rarely aimed, he often landed his shots where he needed to. In one of the first episodes, if not the first, he uses the Mare’s Leg as a baton to beat a man into submission before being sucker-punched himself. It was a fun show, and I have fond memories of it and the Mare’s Leg.
In Real Life
As mentioned, the Mare’s Leg was a shortened Winchester 1892 in .44-40. However, that wasn’t all. McQueen had his own input on the gun. He requested a duck-billed hammer and a larger lever loop. This required a redesign of the holster but likely made the weapon faster to cock. The weapon didn’t have sights, but McQueen didn’t need sights.
Three different guns were made for the show. Two of the three had octagonal barrels, and you can notice the change as you watch the show. Sometimes it changes from scene to scene.
The Mare’s Leg was built by Kenny Von Dutch Hwoard, an artist and gunsmith. If the name sounds familiar, it’s the same Von Dutch that inspired the clothing line and the famed trucker hats of the early 2000s. No one consulted with the ATF on this conversion, and the program was fined 1,100 dollars. In 2023 that’s a little over 11,000 dollars.
Beyond Dead or Alive
The Mare’s Leg has been an underrated part of pop culture guns. The gun has shown up in numerous films, tv shows, and even video games in the years following its creation. Most companies who make lever guns will typically make at least one Mare’s Leg. It’s a neat gun and one that has a special place in pop culture. Plus, all my homies annoy the ATF.
Pistol Brace Boost After Ruling
https://thereload.com/federal-judge-expands-block-on-biden-ghost-gun-ban/
Defense Distributed joins a short list of companies exempted from the Biden administration’s ATF rule banning the sale or transfer of homemade gun parts. Despite a move to block the rule on 2A grounds having previously been denied, Judge O’Connor agreed that the ATF overstepped its authority under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). With the upcoming fight over the new pistol brace ban, this and another defeat over the Trump administration’s bumpstock ban —also on APA grounds– on the same grounds paints a positive picture.
It’s true that these victories don’t directly impact the pistol brace ban, or the court cases moving forward against it. What they do, however, is establish precedent and bolster the case against all recent ATF rulings as damaging to both commercial and public interests. This is important as each favorable decision wrung out of State and Federal courts strengthens each case if/when they make it to SCOTUS.
With the now two favorable rulings both citing the APA, and the pistol brace lawsuit doing the same we are hopeful that the brace ban will face a similar conclusion in the near future. Anything is possible and there have been some less positive cases, but winning is winning, and it sets the stage for more.