{"id":20747,"date":"2017-07-30T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/30\/book-review-vickers-guide-ar15-volume-ii\/"},"modified":"2017-07-30T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T12:00:01","slug":"book-review-vickers-guide-ar15-volume-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/30\/book-review-vickers-guide-ar15-volume-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Vickers Guide AR15 Volume II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9me9lBeNmYo?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Get your copy here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vickersguide.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vickersguide.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Larry Vickers and James Rupley have followed their first volume of AR-15s with a second one &#8211; as we should have expected when the first one was title &#8220;Volume I&#8221;. Where the first volume covered the early development of the AR by Armalite and Colt, this second volume looks at more modern iterations of the AR platform, including a variety of foreign made types (Diemaco, Norinco, HK, etc). <\/p>\n<p>The book also includes an interesting look at the development of piston-driven AR models from the early Colt experimental model to the Taiwanese T65 to the current HK 416 and 417 (which Vickers has a particularly authoritative inside perspective on). And, of course, the series of modern 7.62mm NATO AR10 type rifles mike the American M110, British L129A1, and others.<\/p>\n<p>I had been expecting a lot of commercial or competition type rifles to be in this volume, and was quite happily surprised to be wrong. Just because they are modern rifles doesn&#8217;t mean they are boring &#8211; the different iterations of models and accessories used by various military forces in the recent past make for some pretty interesting comparison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your copy here: https:\/\/www.vickersguide.com Larry Vickers and James Rupley have followed their first volume of AR-15s with a second one &#8211; as we should have expected when the first one was title &#8220;Volume I&#8221;. Where the first volume covered the early development of the AR by Armalite and Colt, this second volume looks at&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/30\/book-review-vickers-guide-ar15-volume-ii\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: Vickers Guide AR15 Volume II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}