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  1. Trigger Monkey

    Marksmanship Cheat Sheet

    I put this together a while back to keep in my range bag as a cheat sheet but I made a couple of changes to it so I thought I'd share it with you all, some may find it useful. The theory is that it can help a shooter with a basic carbine make accurate sight corrections, set up a fairly...
  2. Trigger Monkey

    Scope dope

    I've been making a couple revisions to my SPR and SPRecce, one of which is keeping some dope on the inside of the ocular covers again as a fall back option. In the past, I'd use some masking tape but this time I thought I'd make something "fancy". I know there are commercial options available...
  3. Trigger Monkey

    Appleseed Sucking

    I went out to the range today and at the end of the session I shot an AQT target for funsies and wow, I'm rusty. I still got an "expert" score but compared to the last time I shot this target I was down over 20 points and I was exhibiting bad habits, so it'll just have to be something I work...
  4. Trigger Monkey

    AR Take Down Tool

    Over the weekend I realized that it'd be handy to have a single tool to help pop the take down pins since they're pretty tight on my lowers and remove the hammer/trigger pins if/when I want to swap parts. I know there are already tools available that do this but one I found was $25 and I...
  5. Trigger Monkey

    Armalite Tech Notes

    Receiving that Armalite barrel last week reminded of when Armalite had a good website they had a ton of technical notes that covered a variety of topics related to rifle maintenance and marksmanship. I had saved a bunch of them that I found relevant and I thought I'd share them. Some of the...
  6. Trigger Monkey

    Something fun

    I didn't know where this would fit in so I felt like the Armory was as good a place as any. Rewind to the summer and I get it in my head to make a sling shot and although I've never made a sling shot, how complicated could it be? Turns out I didn't know what I didn't know and neither bungee...
  7. Trigger Monkey

    Sidearms & Scatterguns Ruger New Model Blackhawk

    For Christmas I inherited a 1977 Ruger New Model Blackhawk in .357 Mag from my Uncle. I’m a novice when it comes to wheelguns but I’ve always wanted a revolver in .357 so I was proud to be bequeathed his pistola. He had big mits and the grips reflect that so I’m going to get some stock Ruger...
  8. Trigger Monkey

    Rifle Zero Target

    The other day I realized that I have a target for this and a target for that so I came up with one in an effort to whittle my zero targets down to just one for all my rifles, be in magnified optic, red dot, or iron sights and share it with you all. The torso is mainly used to zero the piggyback...
  9. Trigger Monkey

    To paint or not to paint?

    What say ye?
  10. Trigger Monkey

    Piggy-back RDS Zero Range

    When I mounted an RDS at 12 o'clock on my SPRecce my first instinct was to zero it at 50 yards the same as my other red dots but I ran the math and realized that probably wasn't ideal for what I wanted. 0-50 yards things looked fine but after that the increased height over bore meant I'd be...
  11. Trigger Monkey

    Piggyback Red Dot Mount

    The T-Rex Arms offset Aimpoint mount I had wasn't really working for me on my SPRecce with the NF 4-16 ATACR. So I started looking at some different solutions, an Arisaka offset mount was one of them but I also wanted to give a piggy back mount another go. The trouble was that the two 34mm...
  12. Trigger Monkey

    Does it make sense...

    To take my SPR and Recce apart and mash them up into a SPRecce? I was thinking about this over the weekend. Both shoot well but they're set up so similar and kinda do the same thing. The only difference is that one is 2" shorter and runs a 2.5-10 vs. a 4-16 and for me 16" is plenty of...
  13. Trigger Monkey

    The Ass Kicking Will Continue Until Marksmanship Improves

    I spent another day at the range today working my iron sighted 10/22 and Ruger Mk II pistol. I started out with the pistol shooting a dot torture drill and then transitioned to an Appleseed pistol qualification target at 7 yards. The PQT has some mandatory reloads, which are made a little...
  14. Trigger Monkey

    Liberty Training Rifle

    I got it in my head to put togther a "Liberty Training Rifle" because I wanted a semi-auto mag fed .22LR to have fun with. Since I had a complete 10/22 bolt, charging handle, trigger assembly, and some other small parts laying around it seemed like the logical path. I picked up a blem 10/22...
  15. Trigger Monkey

    Magpul MOE PR Stock

  16. Trigger Monkey

    Kicking my own ass

    So today started because at my local range I don't always get one of the bays where I can get 50 yards to use my normal rimfire practice targets and I wanted something I could put up at 25 yards that I could shoot with irons or an optic. Today's trip was really just fleshing out some ideas with...
  17. Trigger Monkey

    Thin forend sling swivel install

    I got a wild hair yesterday and decided to install a set of sling swivels on my Marlin Model 60 so I dug in my parts boxes and found a couple wood screw versions and a couple machine screw versions. The rear swivel was no problem but the forend one made me think a little because on a Model 60...
  18. Trigger Monkey

    Stripping paint

    Recently I stripped an AR upper and lower back down to the black anodized finish after I got tired of the beat up Duracoat finish I'd sprayed on years ago. I know Duracoat isn't as popular as it once was but I thought I'd talk about the product I used to strip the receivers down, Klean Strip...
  19. Trigger Monkey

    Gunsmithing Remington 700 maintenance block

    Originally I posted one of these in the M24 thread based loosely on a diagram of a "maintenance block" in the back of the M24 TM but I added some features and this is the Mod 1 version . Except for the piece of brass, everything came from the hardware store, a piece of 2x4, nylon spacer...
  20. Trigger Monkey

    Gunsmithing "Mil-Spec" Armorer Tools

    Just finished up a couple projects making some of the tools found in the back of a couple TM's. From the M16/M4 Technical Manual I made a front sight adjustment tool, pivot pin installation tool, and pivot pin removal tool. I made mine to the roughly 4" overall length as the TM, not sure...
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