Recoil

KILLING THEM SOFTLY

his build stemmed from the most primal of gun-owner temptations: “I don’t have one of those. I should probably get one.” In this case, one of those was a 7.62x51mm AR. While the author has a standard stable of 5.56mm ARs in varying configurations, a heavy hitter with some extended-range capability was missing from the safe. But we didn’t want just any AR-10 type. The idea was to

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