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This week, we’re going to answer the top three customer service questions we’ve received so far about the MR918. The first is Assembly and Disassembly: 1. People seem to have a tendency to pull the slide back a bit too far when they are disassembling the MR918. It may be that some folks aren’t used […]

Ok, so you bought your first gun…now what? This week’s Technical Tuesday is for the new shooters out there with some recommendations of what you should do and what to focus on to get started in shooting sports with your new pistol. Start out by reading our manual–we know, this sounds like a given, but […]

 This week’s Technical Tuesday takes a deeper look into the materials we select for our Firing Pins. The Shadow Systems Firing Pins are different from others you’ll see in the market, because they are machined from solid 17-4 stainless steel. 17-4 stainless steel is considered to be the premium stainless steel in the gun […]

This week, we’re taking a look at some common issues that can happen during reassembly. Assembling a Glock-pattern pistol is usually very easy, but sometimes there can be simple little issues that can cause reassembly to be a pain. When your slide is hanging up, the first trick to try is to pull down on […]

   Today’s Technical Tuesday is focused on something that may sound boring and mundane but is very practical! Let’s talk about how to load magazines. Today, we will be sharing firearm basics for making it easier to load mags, how to load magazines for maximum reliability, and how to maintain your magazines for longterm […]

   This week, we are talking about the MR918 interchangeable backstrap system and the optional magazine well. When we designed the frame, we included an interchangeable backstrap system that we call the NPOA system for Natural Point of Aim. The reason we designed it this way is that we feel some of the other […]

  Technical Tuesday: This week, we are talking about some common handgun malfunctions that we hear from our customers. One that we see often, especially with P80 builds, is a “nose up” malfunction, in which the round doesn’t feed properly and ends up jammed in a nose up position. It can be tricky to troubleshoot […]

 Slide Disassembly for Glock & Gun Slide Replacement This week, Technical Tuesday is building on our post discussing slide disassembly and replacement for Glock-pattern pistols. In the video above, we walk you through one of the most common modifications for Glock handguns; the disassembly and replacement of a slide. We show you how to […]