• Norinco Type 81 SR Review

    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

    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

    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

    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 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 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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