Description
You’ll appreciate this AR-15 book if:
- You want to learn how to customize an AR-15
- You need help sorting through the nearly endless array of AR accessories
- You’re looking for inspiration for your own AR-15 customization
Whether you’re in the brainstorming phase of planning the future of your AR-15 and what it will become, or you’re already applying the finishing touches to your custom AR-15 creation, Gun Digest Guide to Customizing Your AR-15 by Kevin Muramatsu will help you wade through and understand the wide variety of available options for almost every imaginable variation. Though the array of AR accessories and customization options seems to constantly grow, turn to this book for an examination of the customization landscape and helpful recommendations for which options would work best for the growing population of AR owners.
Begin with an exploration of why the AR-15 is so widely customized, as well as a brief history of the firearms and its development. Establish essential safety guidelines for handling and working on your AR’s maintenance and customization. Explore the different parts of the AR-15 and how they work in order to more fully understand how to make changes to your firearm. Once you’ve established the basics, dive straight into a wide variety of customization, personalization, and accessorization options, covering pistol grips, barrels, lights and lasers, and much more.
In Gun Digest Guide to Customizing Your AR-15 you’ll find:
- Exhaustive insights into parts upgrades, including barrels, slings, optics, magazine, and much more
- Ammunition insights, like reloading suggestions, historical material, physics information, and more
- Practical application, and tricking out your gun for 3-gun, CMP service and high power, and self-defense
A word from the author:
“We’ll explore the entire range of things you can do, the installation of a selection of the popular choices, and the means to maintain the AR system of firearms so that it remains your happy little friend.” –Kevin Muramatsu
About the author:
Kevin Muramatsu is at the forefront of the next generation of firearms writers. With regular columns in the popular Gun Digest magazine, among others, Kevin is known for original gunsmithing ideas combined with tried and true elbow work, and a witty style of prose. Kevin lives in the Twin Cities area with his wife, three children, and not enough guns.
Contents:
Chapter 1: The AR and Why
Chapter 2: Safety Stuff and Tools for the AR Series of Firearms
Chapter 3: How it Works
Chapter 4: Pistol Grips
Chapter 5: Stocks
Chapter 6: Barrels: The Heart of the Gun
Chapter 7: Handguards and Forends
Chapter 8: The Operating System: Gas Blocks, Bolts and Bolt Carriers, Pistons
Chapter 9: Muzzle Devices: Comps, Flash Hiders and Suppressors
Chapter 10: Optics and Sights: Red Dots, Riflescopes, Mounts and Oh, yeah…Sights Too
Chapter 11: Lights and Lasers
Chapter 12: Fire Control: Triggers and Such
Chapter 13: Miscellaneous Accessories: Everything Else
Chapter 14: Cleaning and Maintenance
Chapter 15: Ammunition and Magazines
Chapter 16: Receivers
Chapter 17: AK Accessorization
Chapter 18: FAL Customization: The Free World’s Right Arm, Only Better
Appendices
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