Inspired by video game character from a popular zombie game

I'm sure everyone is quite familiar by now with the phenomena of video game developers seeking more and more realistic depictions of firearms, so I feel drawing on digital art for inspiration is a pretty smart idea!

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Cool Guy Pistol, Passport

Em takes aim on the M40A3

GA Precision's rifles are some of the most highly regarded precision rifles in existence, with this shop known for supplying some of the most elite snipers in the world.  The deadliest sniper in American military history, Chris Kyle, even gives a shout out to GA Precision in his book, American Sniper.

As luck would have it, a mutual friend of ours and GA Precision is on our neck of the woods, and was kind enough to lend us a GA Precision M40A3 sniper rifle, as well as a custom built Knight's Armament SR-15 rifle.

Each M40A3 by GA Precision is built to the same exacting specification as the US Marine Corps M40 was at Quantico, Virginia, and this particular rifle was actually built and owned by the owner of GA Precision, George Gardner before it found its way into my grubby little hands.  Mr. Gardner himself has visited the USMC's Precision Weapons Section, as well as the Naval Surface Warfare Center, and the Army Marksmanship Unit to gain valuable insight and experience with what goes into the rifles carried into battle by Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers.  It is with this background, that GA Precision is able to offer "MIL-SPEC Replica" rifles. The particular rifle we were able to borrow was also outfitted with an authentic Schmidt & Bender 3-12X, Mil-dot scope (as is issued on the USMC's M40 rifles).

Em was available for a day trip, so we headed to our local outdoor rifle range.  Em's been an amazing student, and her unusually good upper body strength and grounded personality have made her an excellent pistol and carbine shooter.  I figured the zen aspect of precision rifle shooting would appeal to her... and I was quite right!  Given that we were shooting only at 100 yards, we could skip over windage, elevation, spin drift, angles and anything else that was beyond pure marksmanship.  About 30 minutes of instruction and dry fire practice later, we were off!

Em makes good use of the rear sandbag

M40A3 Sniper rifle with 3-12X S&B Scope

Originally, I had intended only to take photos of Em shooting and just gloss over the actual targets:  I did not bring any match grade ammunition!  As a testament to both Em's skill and GA Precision's capabilities though, Em was able to shoot this grouping using just a rear sandbag!  This is target is truly flattering to two other crucial parts of the accuracy equation: the rifle and the shooter!

To be honest, I was quite surprised!  Didn't expect this kind of performance from a novice shooter with inexpensive ammunition.

Be sure to check out GA precision's webstore if you are interested in getting a M40A3 for yourself!
http://www.gaprecision.net/mil-spec-rifles/m40a3.html

While a rifle isn't as "cool" as a pair of handguns for comic book use, it's a far more utilitarian weapon.

A classic Marvel character, the Black Widow is one of the oldest and most recognizable Marvel characters.  Originally a Soviet spy, she of course, defects to the good guys, dates the Daredevil, and becomes a member of the Avengers.  At least, that's what Wikipedia tells me.  The fact that most of her strength comes from her training and skills instead of mutation, magic, or technology is what makes her such an interesting character for me!

As luck would have it, our friend Em had also seen the movie, and on a free afternoon we tried to capture the essence of the character with empty space in the warehouse and a rifle we had just finished putting together for a local customer.  Em's crimson red hair (she's naturally a strawberry blonde) alluded well to the Black Widow, and her upper body strength and familiarity with weapons made this character connection an easy match.

We imagined this as a quiet moment in a safe house somewhere.  Makes sense that a comic book character would be fond of comics right?  Em's got a copy of the awesome Marvel Max series "FURY" in her hands.

Botecelli anyone?

Changing the angles and poses slightly, we also made allusions to the masterpiece by Renaissance artist Alessandro Botecelli.  Even if you're not an art nerd, you probably know which piece we're alluding to!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed our fun little photoshoot, we'll definitely have more to come!

Easy!

1.  It's challenging.  Girls with guns was played out and boring before the 90s.  To take on this well worn trope that is already cheese-tastic in most people's minds is hard.

2.   Badass dudes who wear Multicam and OD green BDUs for work and get in gun fights with bad guys on a regular basis... are camera shy.  And while I think I would be doing them a disservice by revealing their IDs, I'd be disrespecting them if I used actors or wannabes instead.  Given how close I am to JBLM (1st, 2nd CCT etc) and major corporations... there are some badass clients in my neck of the woods I would hope to avoid offending :)

3.  It's fantasy.  Most of the ladies who model for me are married or have boyfriends, but it's not an uncommon wish for guys to want to date or marry a beautiful woman who could also lend a helping hand in the zombie apocalypse.  Of the ladies who model for me, Nikki Lane and Shelley Rae are the only two who shoot regularly though!  Skill at arms is rare enough in men, it is even rarer in women.

Recently, the US Army decided to solicit contractors to produce the SOPMOD stock, and B5 Systems stepped up to the plate and began producing SOPMOD stocks for the Army.   The Army provided the wrong specifications for the very first batch, and this batch ended up getting surplused... why some earlier versions of the B5 SOPMOD stock did not fit mil-spec receiver extensions without some fitting.

Once the original problem was discovered and fixed, B5 refined their development on their SOPMOD stocks, and now we have a good valued, full featured SOPMOD stock available

I compared the B5 systems stock to one of my own LMT stocks and found that aside from some very minute difference, the B5 Systems and LMT SOPMOD stocks are functionally the same with a number of minute differences.  LMT, having produced these stocks for many years, wins the fit and finish contest hands down... but the B5 does come very close, and with a more attractive price.

LMT and B5 Systems SOPMOD Stocks. Outwardly, very similar.

There are slight material differences in plastics chosen for the stock body, and rubber butt pad

Both stocks feature rubber gasket protected storage compartments.

LMT logo stamped onto the LMT SOPMOD stock latch

B5 Systems Stamp

The latches are the easiest way to tell the difference between the B5 and LMT. The LMT's latch edges are rounded. The B5s are not.

When the SR-15 E3 was designed, KAC paid particular attention to look at the system as a whole.  KAC relooked the entire weapon system's operation to identify weaknesses to be addressed, as well as strengths that could be further improved.

Durability and Reliablity

AR-15/M-16 bolts all break eventually, especially under harsh military firing scheduled.  US SOCOM's special operations soldiers are advised to replaced their bolts every 5,000 rounds, given their specialized and harsh firing schedules.  SOCOM has been very interested in integrated electronic round counters to go from a reactive maintenance program, to a pro-active one, as AR15/M16 bolt failure is inevitable, and unpredictable.

The SR-15 E3 addressed the durability concerns of standard AR-15/M-16 rifles in a number of ways.  The first, and most important upgrade is the proprietary E3 bolt used on SR-15 rifles.  These bolts feature thicker bolt lugs with nearly 50% more material.  The beefed up and rounded lugs increase service life significantly.

The proprietary E3 bolt requires a proprietary barrel extension, meaning that this upgrade is not backwards compatible.  Only KAC SR-15 rifles can utilize the E3 bolt system.

The SR-15 bolt also uses two extractor springs (twice as many as standard bolts), a deep extractor channel, and optimized geometry to ensure extraction reliability under harsh conditions.  The extractor pin has also been beefed up, and is not held in place by a spring on the extractor instead of just tension.

Lastly, the SR-15 firing pin is designed to be lighter to provide faster ignition, lowered chance of slam fire, and reduces the size of the cam pin's cavity and most obvious structural weakness.

Controllability

The SR-15 is one of the lightest tactical rifles on the market, and because of Netownian phsyics (mass and force etc) one would assume felt recoil would be greater on SR-15 rifles.  As it turns out, the SR-15 manages to have its cake and it eat it too, as the barrel features two subtle improvements which are responsible for the SR-15's light recoil.

SR-15 rifles use a proprietary gas system length, along with a tuned gas port size to optimized the amount of gas delivered to the operating system.  With an optimized amount of gas, there is no excess stress placed on operating components as is common with rack grade rifles that are usually "over gassed".

The barrel itself is cold hammer forged, and on a lightweight profile, meaning that with a good butt stock pairing (Complete SR-15s use LMT SOPMOD stocks), the rifle is not at all front heavy, and very balanced and easy to point and control.

Practical Ergonomics

The SR-15 was engineered as a complete weapon system, and as such, it features some of the best ergonomics every utilized on a rifle.  Unrestrained by bureacracy or institutional inertia. KAC made a number of significant improvement to the practical ergonomics of the rifle.

Long before it became a popular trend, the SR-15 featured a cold hammer forged, lightweight profile barrel which makes the rifle superbly durable, pointable, and accurate.

There are a number of small, but nice touches on the rifle.  There are 4 QD sling swivel socket locations on the URX-II rail, affording users a lot of options.

The integrated sight features a match grade "skinny" front sight post, and is easily adjustable by hand with not tools.

The rear sight is match grade, and allows users to easily dial in for engagement up to 600 yards

In conclusion, the SR-15 upper receiver has a lot of improvements and upgrades.  While you can find similar upgrades from other companies, finding all these upgrades on one cohesive, professional designed and assembled package, all for $1299, is quite a treat.

This is a premium AR-15 style upper receiver, but there is just ONE weakness in the current configuration in my opinion.  The exposed gas block utilizes two set screws, and while i've never seen a SR-15 gas block come loose in the many SR-15 rifles and uppers i've sold, I would prefer if this gas glock was pinned in place.  Luckily, Weapon Outfitter's gun smith offers this service for $30 for users who need absolute peace of mind.

This rifle is the one you see on Samantha here is a LMT 14.5" upper I purchased in 2008, and it's been with me through two Magpul classes, a LAV class, and countless monthly tactical rifle matches, weekly Friday night rifle leagues, etc.  In fact this rifle is the one you see in many of my earliest marketing photos:

A  trustworthy weapon for the modern warrior

My LMT 14.5" upper has seen a decent amount of hard use.  I've used it to shoot skeet (with a 300 foot vertical rock cliff as a backstop), I've shot it completely suppressed at a 3 day Magpul carbine course, and it's seen it fair share of automatic fire.  Despite all this, I recently used a throat erosion gauge on it, and found no significant wear on the throat, despite 10K or more rounds of relatively hard use!  While it hasn't encountered a military firing schedule, it's certainly not been a safe queen either.

If you are considering upgrading your old rifle, consider sending in your barrel/upper for a complete gauging by our gun smith and qualified staff.  Using precision equipment (the gauge set is $700, eek!) we measure all critical components to ensure serviceability.  Bolts should be pre-emptively replaced after 5,000 rounds anyway, as there is no economical way to detect cracks and wear on the bolt lugs.  In my case, we put in a brand new Mil Spec HPT/MPI tested bolt from Lewis Machine and Tool into my upper which has about 10K rounds.  We also checked for barrel straightness, throat erosion, firing pin protrusion, head space and bolt face specs on the new bolt, and cleared it for service!

My original configuration featured the Daniel Defense LITE rail, and a permanently attached Advanced Armament 51T flash hider. The Advanced Armament flash hider is the absolute best flash hider i've ever used.  It even over takes the M4-2000 sound suppressor I attached to it in terms of visual flash suppressor in the dark of night, given secondary flash (sparks) are inherent with sound suppressors.  This flash hider has the tendency to act as a pinging tuning fork when new... but after just 500 or so rounds of carbon build up with suppressor use, the pinging noise goes away.  iCommandos frequently complain about the noise... but what they don't realize is that all it indicates to the educated public is that said complainers don't have suppressors ;)

This build was put together before I met my current superbly qualified gun smith, I permanently attached the flash hider using a MIG welder and a lot of dremelling after a sobering experience: I had actually managed to break a pin/weld job, as well as the Rocksett with my bare hands!  After my M4-2000 got stuck after about a thousand rounds in one day at a carbine class, a friend pinned the rifle onto a bench, and I gripped on for dear life and used my body weight as leverage.  Imagine my shock and surprise when the flash hider's pin gave up before the carbon and copper fouling on the suppressor did! "Good faith" doesn't seem to apply to ATF rulings in regards to gunsmithing:  make sure your pin/weld job will destroy the barrel before it gives out on you!!!  I tried pinning/welding using the methods I found online: they simply didn't have enough power to "permanently" hold the suppressor in place (coat hanger wire?!  LOL!).  Our current gun smith laughs whenever I tell him this story...

Thankfully, my gun smith was able to repair all the superficial damage to the barrel with his $30K in machine tools, and reattach the muzzle device with awesome TIG welding skills. We swapped out the Daniel Defense LITE rail for a Centurion Arms 12" FSP rail which offers a lot more real estate without much of a weight penalty

Before:

Redneck engineering:  it works, but it's ugly

After:

LMT 14.5", refurbished by Weapon Outfitters' gun smith

In its current configuration, this rifle is a lot more ergonomic for my 6'2" body, allowing me to effortlessly apply a constant, stabilizing pressure with my support hand when shooting, and increasingly overall pointability and practical accuracy.  While a FSP cut rail may take some getting used to aesthetically, its practical merits are undeniable!

LMT 14.5" upper with new life

With a new rail and a little professional refurbishing, my LMT has gone from my has been rifle, back to my favorite, haha.  It's funny how just one component can complete change the nature of the entire weapon!

We've recently helped a number of police officers upgrade their rifles as well!  We've turned down heavy HBAR barrels, added lightweight rail systems to old uppers, and also put together grip/stock packages for old patrol rifles that needed some loving.  We'll of course, be sharing those build with y'all in the near future. Be sure to give us a ring or e-mail if you have a rifle that you want to upgrade!

This site is powerful, secure, and sleek.  Hopefully, you will find shopping here to be a very pleasant experience!  We've been working hard on this site for 11 months, and to have it finally up is a huge sigh of relief!  Everything is well tested, secured, and ready to go... but like the Death Star in "Return of the Jedi", we're still wrapping up the secondary stuff...

Our laser cannon, ie, cart and inventory system is live and ready to go!

Our product catalog's pictures, copy, and organization still needs a little polishing!

Please bear with us as we bring everything up to full speed!

It was with this memory in mind I picked up an intern to help with art and marketing, and to assist with the soon to be launched new website's aesthetics.  Everyone falls somewhere on the line of artistic to practical, and I like to think i'm somewhere in the middle, towards "practical", but Chanel is waaaaaaaaay in the art side of the spectrum.

I've been trying to help Chanel cross the vast chasm between the art student world, and the "real" world where the rubber hits the road, so I asked her to wear something business like for her second day interning for me...

The Intern, rocking a G36KE1

What she lacks in the understanding of "business casual" she makes up for in her raw artistic capability.  So far, working for the parent company, her stuff has mostly been "too artsy", so we're working on dialing her into just the right amount of artsiness with the right amount of commercial viability.

Doesn't she look like a character from "Harry Potter"?