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Arms

• AR-15 buffers, springs, and cyclic rates
• Classic Machine Guns
• Understanding Gun Precision
• Range Day
• Remington R51: My favorite new pocket gun
• Summit toggle action 10/22 now manufactured by Volquartsen
• Hit by my own bullet!
• The Time Cost of Reloading
• Buckmark .22LR Pistol Accuracy, continued
• Buckmark .22LR Pistol Accuracy
• How to hold a small pistol with large hands
• Chronos High Speed Video Camera for Shooter Diagnostics
• Chronos High Speed Video Camera for Shooting Analysis
• Hiperfire 24C Trigger – Because Hammer Force Matters
• Suppressed Subsonic Sound Levels
• Introduction to Shots, Pops, and Sound Pressure Levels
• National Gun Cleaning Day?
• Feddersen 10/22 Accuracy with Gemtech, CCI, Aguila, SK+
• 2017 Product watch
• Everyday Carry Knives: Kershaw SpeedSafe
• Subsonic .22 caliber
• 10/22 Precision Rematch
• XCR Short-barrel Precision
• Products I’m Looking For: 2015 Edition
• Barrett REC7 Precision
• Flash Rounds: Tracers Fired Backwards
• Savage .223 Precision
• Shooting Bullets Into Water – Part III: Underwater Ballistics
• Shooting Bullets Into Water – Part II: Ricochet
• Shooting Bullets Into Water – Part I
• Stuck Case Removal Trick
• Savage .308 Precision
• 10/22 Precision Rifles
• Gallery of Gun Photos
• Rimfire Suppressors: Lessons and Warnings
• AR-15 “Pistol” PDW
• NFA Rules on Pistols, PDWs, AOWs, and SBRs
• Hollywood Reality Check: Stun Guns and Tasers
• The Problem With Nickel-Boron
• Reloading Adventures: Rounds Stuck in Chambers
• Hand-discharging loaded rounds
• Products I’m looking for in 2014
• Barrett MRAD
• Precision Sniper Rifle (PSR)
• Military Rifle Cartridges
• Clarification on Ultralight Bullet Ballistics
• LaRue Tactical Optimized Battle Rifle (OBR)
• AR-15 Lower Build
• Rethinking Direct Impingement with the Noveske 300 BLK Upper
• Firearm Action Coatings
• The Obsolete .45 ACP
• 1911-style Pistols
• I Like Sig Pistols
• Physics of Gun Energy, Recoil, and Range
• Sig P239 Pistols
• CQB Rifle Optics
• Future Firearms: From Ballistic to Optical
• SCAR 17S
• Desert Tactical Arms Stealth Recon Scout Rifle
• Subsonic .22LR Terminal Ballistics and Lethality
• Primary Weapons Systems PWS T3 Summit Toggle Action .22LR Rifle
• RAT WORX Hybrid Trigger Mod: The Best AUG Trigger
• Shooting products I’m looking for in 2012
• Tactical Solutions TSG-22 Glock .22 Conversion
• 7.62 Thumper XCR Subsonic Semi-Automatic Rifle
• X-ring rubber pistol bullets
• Kel-Tec RFB .308 Bullpup
• AUG and MSAR Trigger Improvements
• Is 5.56mm “enough” bullet?
• Steal This Gun Design!
• Not the Best Place for a Laser Sight
• Heavy Metals for Bullets
• Sight in your Suppressor
• Shooting the Short-Barreled XCR
• Ammunition Prices
• Robinson Armament XCR Short-barreled Rifle
• Products I’m looking for in 2010
• MSAR STG-556 vs AUG
• The Missing Subsonic .22LR Market
• Steyr AUG NATO conversion
• Steyr AUG/A3 USA
• Tactical Rifle: Ruger SR-556
• M25 and M62 .30 caliber Tracer Bullets
• Primer Pocket Cleaners: Lee vs RCBS
• Recoil Reduction Products
• FrontSight Nevada Firearms Training
• CMC AR-15 Super Match Trigger Group
• Steel Penetration of .223 bullets
• Freebore Boost Effects
• AR-15 with Trijicon ACOG and Gemtech M4-02 Suppressor
• Concealment Pistol: Smith and Wesson 642 with Crimson Trace grips
• Sniper Rifle: Savage 10 FPXP-HS .308
• Shotgun: Mossberg M590-A1 12ga.
• Target Pistol: Browning Buck Mark .22 with Gemtech Outback-II Suppressor
• Semi-Auto Pistol: Glock 17

Cars

• How to repair sagging car headliners
• How to Lease a Car
• Products I’m looking for in 2014
• What’s behind the American SUV fetish?
• A Missing Automotive Niche: Performance Minivans
• Should You Buy a Used Car?
• What a Difference an Alignment Makes!
• Why Don’t Cars Display Engine Performance Data?
• Buy a Car with CarBargains
• Sedan: Acura TL
• Car: 2007 Mazda 6 Sport Grand Touring Wagon

Finance

• How to Lease a Car
• Time to Refinance your Mortgage?
• Time to leverage real estate equity
• Top Investment Priority: Beating Inflation
• Investing for Inflation Protection
• Avoid “Hedge Fund Clones”
• Investment Advice: Swensen Update
• Life Insurance
• Tax-Exempt Investments: The Best Opportunity Now
• Where to Invest Now
• Taxable Investments: The Best Opportunities Now
• Before You Talk to a Real Estate Agent (or “Realtor”)

Services

• No Contract Phone Service
• Hey Verizon, What century is it?
• The Smart Way to Get Cellular Service on an iPad
• DirtFill.com
• Realtor Leeches
• Wireless Email: Peek!
• EasyClosets.com
• Life Insurance
• Online Hosting: 1and1.com
• Don’t Send Flowers, Send SpaFinder
• Before You Talk to a Real Estate Agent (or “Realtor”)
• Cell Phone Contract for Casual or Emergency Use

Software

• Open-Source Alternatives to popular commercial software
• FileZilla (open-source FTP client)
• 7-zip (open-source file compression and decompression for virtually all formats)
• NAPS2 (open-source document scanner)
• Chrome (the fastest web browser also has the best user interface)
• JDiskReport (free utility to graphically drill down disk space usage)
• SpaceSniffer (free utility to graphically drill down disk space usage … without Java)
• Baby Smash! (free software that protects your system while your baby mashes the keyboard)
• Musescore (open-source sheet music composition and editor)
• MusicBrainz Picard (open-source music file tagger)
• WinMerge (file diff for Windows)
• Windows SysInternals (Windows system utilities)
• RichCopy (free Windows bulk copy utility)
• Active Undelete (recover deleted files, including from some failing drives)
• UIF2ISO (convert UIF disk images to standard ISO images — avoiding the MagicISO scam)

Tech

• No Contract Phone Service
• LED lightbulbs can jam garage door opener RF signals
• Chronos High Speed Video Camera for Shooting Analysis
• 2017 Product watch
• Curious Prices in the PC RAM Markets
• Products I’m looking for in 2014
• Carbonite Update
• New Computer: and Upgrade to SSD
• Hey Verizon, What century is it?
• All plug-in clocks should have capacitor backups
• CLEAR internet — Best small-office internet access alternative
• Shooting products I’m looking for in 2012
• Fixing a Broken Laptop Screen
• The Smart Way to Get Cellular Service on an iPad
• Residential Power Factor Correction (Scam)
• Products I’m looking for in 2010
• Recommended Speakers: Aperion Audio
• Old CPUs retain value!
• True Printer Costs
• Wireless Email: Peek!
• Mysterious Vista Bootloader
• Online Hosting: 1and1.com
• Online Backup: Carbonite
• Cell Phone Contract for Casual or Emergency Use
• Online Backup: Mozy

Tools

• Everyday Carry Knives: Kershaw SpeedSafe
• Products I’m looking for in 2014
• Corner Protectors
• Kohler BubbleMassage Bathtub Review
• Grout I Can Live With
• Residential Power Factor Correction (Scam)
• Primer Pocket Cleaners: Lee vs RCBS
• Ryobi AIRgrip ProCross Laser Level
• Rotary Hammer: Hitachi DH24PF3
• Bump-Resistant Deadbolt Locks
• Watch Batteries
• Instant-Hot Water Filter: InSinkErator HC1100