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February 13, 2015

Heads Up: Free Kindle Book

While this may have little to do with the AR-180, I feel many of you will appreciate what a fantastic read this book truly is.

House of Apache Fires is a historical fiction set in the waning days of World War II. It weaves documented facts with fact based conjecture to fill in the gaps and is simply a joy to read. Set in my home state of Arizona, I often said to myself, this could have actually happened and they just kept it all from us.

I can’t wait for the movie version to come out. What a ride that will be.

Anyway it’s free for the next 3 days so do like I did and get the kindle version and if you love it as much as me, support the author and buy a print version.

House of Apache Fires

February 8, 2015

GunLab Visits the Old Pueblo and AR180S.Com gets Blog of the Month

I got a call yesterday that Chuck from GunLab would be traveling through Tucson and he wanted to stop by and meet.

We chatted for quite a while and I got to do a little show and tell so he cold take some pictures for the AR-180 section of his site.

He was passing through on a super secret gun buying mission the details of which I am not at liberty to discuss. But let me just say that his mission was a success and I got to fondle his new acquisition. I’m pretty sure I had a dream about shooting it last night. I hope that becomes a reality someday.

I had a blast talking guns last night and he and his wife are some of the nicest people I have ever met. It was a true pleasure to have them at my home. I also have an open invitation to visit the Lab and I will be heading up there soon.

Chuck also informed me that i received the honor of Blog of the Month at The Firearm Blog

I was shocked that Nathaniel had even found my little ol’ blog but could not be prouder.

Make sure to check out all the articles he has over there, I visit it often and I am always finding something interesting. It is a great site.

Please subscribe and comment with any suggestions on how I can improve my site. They should be up and running but just require approval beforehand to keep the spammers at bay.

Speaking of spam,since my email notices from this site have my personal email as a return many spam filters will immediately drop them in the spam folder. Please white list my site and they should start showing up in the inbox, where they belong.

January 18, 2015

AR180S.Com Logo

A good retro friend has helped me come up with a couple logos for the web site.

I hope to turn these into stencils, patches, and T-Shirts soon.

I’ll keep you posted and if you need any graphics work let me know and I can put you in touch with him.

January 12, 2015

Comments

It looks like the spamers found my site and I had to lock down comments.

You may still leave a comment if you are registered and logged in.

Hopefully I have things set up properly so you can register if you wish.

If things are not working for you you can send me an email through the contact form and I’ll see if I can get you fixed up.

Guns are way easier to work on than wordpress 🙂

January 12, 2015April 20, 2015

Subscriber Pictures #1

Subscriber Tommy was kind enough to send me some pictures from the latest Armalite scope he recently picked up.

You can see it is is an early inverted post scope marked with the serial number 670221.

He also showed us the scope mount that was on his early Costa Mesa when he got it from his dad. It is unmarked just like the one I own. I don’t believe these had serials or any other markings.

I also must apologize to subscriber Jeff as he sent me some pictures some time back and I never posted them.

He has a Costa Mesa gun with a very interesting feature, a bolt hold open that you can actuate from the outside of the gun with the magazine still in the gun.

It is unclear if this was done at the factory or after the fact by a gunsmith. It is a very professional job nonetheless.

If these guns were not so collectable I think it would be a very cool modification to perform as the only way to activate the bolt hold open is to reach in through the magazine well.

Here are a centerfold shot of Jeff’s Costa Mesa.

Thanks to Tommy and Jeff for their pictures and please contact me if you have any you would like to contribute.