ABOUT THE AUTHOR

About the Author: A combat veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Dave Merrill is a former urban warfare and foreign weapons instructor for Coalition fighting men. An occasional competitive shooter, he has a strange fascination with Kalashnikovs that might arguably be called a fetish. Merrill started with Breach-Bang-Clear as a writer, went on to become the managing editor, then moved up in the world and repeated that process at RECOIL Magazine. DFM ("Dave Fucking Merrill") loves tacos, is kind of a dick (that's a self-professed description) and a helluva good dad. He’s also one of the smartest gun nerds we know…like, improbably Rain Man level smart when it comes to guns, gear, and the mechanics thereof.

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"Parallax Free" isn’t.

"Parallax Free" isn’t.

Today we're bringing you through parallax and company claims of "parallax free" with explanations and actual testing. Scroll to the bottom for the video if you want to skip the boring stuff. As with many things we write about here, it all stemmed from a Facebook post....

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All the Lumens! Well, Maybe.

All the Lumens! Well, Maybe.

He's let his nerd out of the closet again, and today it's about flashlights. WMLs and lumens, specifically. We're just happy this new bout of nerdery isn't about metallurgy issues in the Kalashnikov.  In a previous...

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