Cain Arms is a small American company who builds innovative products that shooters can afford. My favorite is their Glock 9/40 Magazine (Plus Five in 9mm or plus four in .40) Extensions. They work and you don't have to sell a gun to afford them. If you don't have a trust fund, use a mag well, shoot competition or just want to color code your magazines (I use orange for 9mm, … [Read more...]
Elite Tactical Systems, aka ETS, makes translucent polymer magazines. Most notable for their Glock magazines. They also make a line of AR15 magazines with molded in couple-ers. Well recently they have collaborated with Advanced Combat Solutions to offer a blue AR15 magazine follower with a tritium insert at the back. It is used in ETS's transparent AR15 magazines. Tritium is … [Read more...]
One of the biggest challenges gun owners face with our various firearms is managing supporting equipment. Due to the wide variety of designs there is no universal shape or size to firearms, this makes the supporting equipment firearm specific in most cases. What this equates is a pile of magazine pouches and holsters purchased for every firearm specifically or poorly fitted … [Read more...]
TorkMag has AR magazines in 35 and 50-round capacity! By using dual springs and a rolling follower TorkMag manages to cram extra rounds into magazines only slightly larger than a normal mag. The 35-rounder will still fit in most magazine pouches and those extra five rounds can make a difference. If you needed more ammo would you rather squeeze the trigger once more or … [Read more...]
Mec Gar produces more than 200 different models of pistol magazines, covering many of the worlds top brands and models. The privately owned and operated company has made more than 100 million magazines since 1965 in it's two Italian factories nestled in the foot hills of the Italian Alps. They obviously are doing something right, you don't last that long and put out that amount … [Read more...]
When you spend years familiarizing yourself with the mechanics of shooting, it's easy to believe that the techniques you've become accustomed to are the only way to travel. In my case, the notion of ignoring a pistol's slide stop/release in favor of "power-stroking" the slide—gripping the slide and pulling it rearward to disengage it from the release—seemed completely … [Read more...]
