Author: Adriel
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Olight Sigurd Review
The Olight Sigurd is an angled foregrip that’s got a flashlight built in. It uses a built-in battery pack and Olight’s magnetic charging cable. Features/Specs: The Sigurd is installed by sliding it onto your pic rail and then running a bolt through one of the slots. They give you 2 bolts & lock washers in…
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Ternion T870 & T870-1 Review
The Ternion International T870 and T870-1 are Chinese made, Remington 870 clones. At $400-500, they’re more affordable than the Remington 870 Express shotguns that they compete with and they come with more features. These shotguns were sent to me by Ternion International for review. Above: T870 with mag extension added Below: T870-1 without mag extension…
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Cabela’s Covenant AR 1-8 Scope Review
The Cabela’s Covenant AR 1-8×24 scope is an inexpensive LPVO. It comes with a cantilever mount that should let you mount it a bit further forward on a receiver, like you need to do on most AR’s or other flat top sporting rifles. The Good: The Bad: What can you use it for? As a…
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Norinco Type 81 SR Review
The Norinco Type 81 SR is a Chinese made, 7.62×39, semi automatic rifle. A buddy of mine let me review this one. It’s a Type 81 variant (review here) with: That’s about it. I won’t write a long review because it’s largely the same as the regular Type 81. (see my other article on the…
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CZ Bren 2 MS Review
The CZ Bren 2 MS is a semi automatic rifle from the Czech Republic but also made in the US. We were supposed to get some factory-made, long barrel versions in Canada but then this whole Ukrainian/Russian war happened and CZ has been too busy selling rifles to the Ukrainians to bother with making special…
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BCL SRV2 Siberian 556 Review
The BCL SRV2 Siberian is a Canadian-made, semi automatic, AR180B style rifle. This rifle is on loan from the Canadian Firearms Endurance Testing (CFET) group, of which I’m a part and it had 3600 rounds through it by the time it got in my hands. If you wanted to buy one of these, you’re looking…
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Propane vs Butane for Camp Stove
Some trailers and RV’s have an external propane hookup for an outside propane stove. Mine did not but I had a cheapo $20 butane stove and I wondered if butane could do the trick for me? Long ago, we used to use white gas stoves. Those were eventually ditched in favour of the iconic green…
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Savage Rifle Letter Codes Explained
Savage runs a letter code to kind of indicate trim level for different rifles. I’ve got these listed in order of how often I run into them: Note, sometimes they choose to include some codes and omit others. ie: your rifle might have a mag, but not have “C” in the model name. Examples of…
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CFET WK181 10,000 Round Report
CFET is a group of guys (I’m one of them) who endurance test rifles. This is the 10,000 round report on the WK181 (reviewed here). Link to the full 10,000 round PDF report Follow further reviews on Instagram here.
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Kodiak Defence WK181 Review
The WK181 is a Canadian-made, 180-variant that takes AK mags and fires the 7.62×39 cartridge. It uses a new, stronger gas piston setup and a non reciprocating side-charging handle that is MUCH better than the original Gen 1 charging handles. I fired 700 rounds through this rifle as part of a larger 10,000 round test.…