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HIGH TECH BOB DAVIS CUTTING EDGE WIDGETS — AND OTHER NEW STUFF. rc Light was one of the US military’s most aptly named operatio
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A NEW PARADIGM FOR AN DEADLY FORCE he first time I spoke with our esteemed editor he asked me a deceptively simple question: If
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TUSSEY PARA T 54 he gun was a train wreck. I was rooting around my safe and came across the Para Ordnance P-14*45 I used at the
Dave Douglas Photos: Ichiro Nagata but you’ll never recognize it when I get through with it.” He was right. Tussey Custom Terry
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TUSSEY PARA Continued from page 55 Terry installed a Safety Fast Shooting (SFS) kit to the P-14. Cylinder & Slide offers the SF
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DEADLY FORCE Continued from page 47 also know this is costly in a number of ways. Yet we don’t train for this and what to do wh
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