The Abode of McThag

I've tried all the rifle length handguards on Dissipator Dottie! First is the round A2 style that came with the upper: Then a set of USG...

Top to bottom: Glock 17 Gen 2, Glock 21 Gen 2, Glock P80 (Gen 3 guts). All the unmarked "5.5 lb." connector. The 17.2 has a 6 lb. ...

Marv took to polishing the parts on his new Glock and got the trigger pull from 7.5 lb. to 8 lb.! But it's BETTER. No more creepy, gritt...

Got my retainer washers in. First, there don't seem to be SAE retainer washers.  All I could find was metric for the Ø0.180" tube.....

Palmetto State Armory used a screw they epoxy'd into the gas tube hole of the front sight base to hold the handguard cap. Because it int...

Dun dun dun! Legally, that's a machine gun and if you didn't spend $200 and get one made, and registered, before May 19, 1986; you...

You find yourself in Poland, near Kalisz, in the year 2000 and your commander has just said, "Good luck, you're on your own," ...

I worried that the Savage 110E's trigger was too light . So I dug it out, dusted it off and rapped the buttstock against the ground. The...

I was going to take some pictures comparing the guts of several Glock 17 magazines. After struggling with the floorplates for a bit... I won...

Now that I've found that I am not suffering from Temporal Inertia, more commonly known as the Mandela Effect, and I know that Gen 1 Gloc...

A long, LONG, time ago... Willard asked me about installing a bayonet lug on an M1 carbine. When we found out that the front sight needed pr...

I remember talking with New Jovian Thunderbolt when he took a 1911 armorer's class and his talking about fitting parts to a gun. I was r...

Changing from A2 handguards and an aluminum USGI magazine to the M5 RAS and a gen 3 PMAG adds 13.2 ounces to an M16A4. That's a bit of a...

I moved the M5 RAS over to Dottie because it looks cool and Valentine will be rocking the Brownell's A2 handguards that came with the ba...

I decided to see how the M5 RAS would look on Dottie. Pretty good! If Valentine wasn't my M16A4 clone that required it, I mi...

  Idle hands and all. Looking at the pics I decided I liked the original configuration better so I put the A1 upper back on Linda. It was th...

Took the PSA supplied handguards out of the storage bin I tossed them in when I grumbled at the quality. I just can't give up on some th...

Ten years ago, Willard made himself a Dissipator too!   His upper came from Spike's Tactical.  My lower did! I noticed they do things a ...

I watched this so you don't have to. He shows you the "reverse Hi-Power" method of taking a 1911 apart, but never once explain...

Gotta take 'em apart and give 'em some love every once and a while. Doing Willard's Model 69 .44 Combat Magnum because I have th...