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For just an upper? You'd need to have a brake or thread guard replace the flash supressor, and have it permanently attached.

Cut down a non youth stock. Get a slip on butt pad for a smaller gun. Viola. You can also get a grind to fit pad meant for a smaller gun.

It reacts with the plastic. At least it did on my lnl. Discolored it and made it get all rubbery/vinyl tubing feeling.

Their .308 guns are much nicer than ther .233 guns. As for their mags, they are nicer than the tons of armalite/m14 frankenmags. They are also the same format as knights armament. The same format armalite started with. The same format as armalite is switching back to. The same format magpul makes mags in. More than just dpms makes rifles that use those mags and uses the dpms upper receiver mating profile. You don't have to get dpms to get those, but you'll have the broadest compatibility and parts selection if you need work done.

Lots of people out. If we don't get some stage submissions by Friday and some commitment for builders who can show up, we will probably be canceling.

Hmm.. A match open to the public? Valid destination and lots of non-felon witnesses with guns. You probably can't test fire anything unless youa re letting the buyer shoot the match with it, but you can't do that at home either.

Yeah, but are you winning production? Are you above B? DA first shot is a skill you WILL need to progress and to win. If there are situations where the DA pull is that bad, then you probably need to reconsider your gun of choice. Just because it may not be the easiest skill to get down is no excuse for trying to skip an essential skill. Manually cocking the hammer Fs with your grip. F with your grip and you F with EVERYTHING.

ditched my AR-10. I will give a couple pieces of advice. 1) think about what you want. Then think about it some more. Then don't cheap out and buy what you want. Tools for them cost more, parts cost more, and theres a LOT more parts incompatibility than an ar-15. You want a cool rail? Odds are a manufacturer's bulk disocunt beats your shopping skills, even if you don't buy the wrong thing. 2) Go with DPMS magazine compatibility, even armalite has given up and realized embracing the aftermarket worked better than isolating yourself from it.

Ok, for shotguns, this mostly means a certain configuration. "From the factory" with ARs these days means pretty much nothing. As for the OP, I'm a fan of simple, but magazine extensions being gimmicks? Come on. It's capacity. What is it going to snag on that the barrel won't if it doesn't extend past the barrel? Barrel clamps are there to prevent things form slipping between the two and to prevent the extension from being knocked out of alignment and causing feeding issues. I have a +2, and it doesn't poke past the end of my 18.25" barrel. I could get away with a +3 in the same form factor if not in NJ. As for ammo on the gun. I don't like it there, but I do have a side saddle. In an HD situation, I just don't have time for messing with more than the gun and what is attached. For competition, I just don't have enough real estate for all the shotgun ammo I might need. My compromise is a side saddle.

CR123 batteries are about the only thing I WOULDN'T worry about ordering form botach. They used to be the only source of 123s that weren't near pharmacy prices, and had to hold my nose after being screwed on other stuff with them. (my oldest 6p is 16 this year huzzah!). Things that they move by the pallet full and don't come in sizes are usually pretty safe as long as that is the only thing in the order. Still.. no point.. plenty of decent places to order batteries form these days.

Battery junction, titanium brand. Best bang for the buck. Best ones regardless of price I have found lately are four sevens flashlight food.

The reason that is is required is that OB is a competition heavy club, you should be aware what is going to be going on for a good chunk of the time, and it isn't a bunch of people milling about plinking. Even if you don't like it, it is a heck of a lot better to dislike it and know than to be thinking you bought into something you didn't after the fact.

I'll be collecting stages, but I won't be there. Vlad will need all the builder help he can get I suspect.

Come on. It turns a single point sling from a utilitarian accessory into a daring adventure.

Since a lot of what you are complaining about are liked by a lot of people, you might want to be more specific about why you don't like them.

Well, 1) make sure you got the real, paid version form one of the reputable android app stores (google's marketplace, or amazon are what I would recommend at the moment). There are tons of fakes out there loaded up with malware and viruses for android. People refer to iOS as a walled garden. They call it that because while you may be trapped in it, it's got it's advantages, otherwise they'd just call it prison.

There's gotta be some sort of way around that. A sporting purposes waiver or something. Cause there's the 700 nitro express and 4 bore out there unless every one is under a DD stamp.

Russia has already preemptively struck treaty nations to disrupt the missile shield. What do you think the whole thing with Georgia was? I'm pretty sure we aren't the ones being directly threatened.

Yeah, read up on people's experience with it. It really is a waste of money. Hard to reuse, opaque, not equivalent to gel, no adjustment available, preserves temporary wound cavity. It's junk.

Well in retrospect, my collection would have been a lot smaller if I had just gotten my M&P .40, custom 2011 in .40, AR pattern rifle, and semi-auto shotgun early on. It covers 95% of the shooting I do. .22 upper for the AR covers another 4.5%. I'd like a .22 top end for my 2011.

google ballistic gelatin recipe. You can buy kits. it isn't that cheap, and you have to manage the temperature of the material, or you will not get consistent results. Alternatively, there's stuff called perma-gel. It's pricey, but a lot easier to transport and it is reusable. It isn't 100% apples to apples comparable with ballistic gelatin though. The manufacturer gives some correction factors, and it is quite usable for A/B comparisons of bullets. From the research I've done, the best approach to good results with minimal investment is to buy the pre-made blocks to avoid cloudiness, buy your own electric roasting pan for way cheaper than it winds up costing in the kit, and use and re-melt as needed. Midway carries perma-gel. It's about $230 per block, but it is reusable. A 3 block gelatin kit is about $125.

My issue with it is that the only benefits it theoretically has is that 1) it doesn't go twang (I can fix that for you with some grease) and 2) you can use them without the buffer retainer, which means no buffer retainer failures. The down side is that they are heavy compared ot a normal buffer setup, and are expensive. They are also spruing for a low mass operating system, which tells me they might make a full mass carrier feel a bit harsh. The JP low mass buffer and their centerless ground spring weigh 5.2oz total. The captured spring system with spacer for a rifle length stock weigh in at 10 oz, and the buffer alone is 9 oz.

Lets see. #1 normal. It's only making the news because we have better observation platforms in place, and because it has been marketed to get those platforms attention and make them seem sufficiently important in the public's eyes. #2 You can wring your hands over it all you want. Until someone actually decides to do something, it's not news. #3 Perhaps they are too busy covering the fact that the volcano in mexico city is getting all irritable. It is much closer to us after all. #4 As for the ring of fire activity, "half the planet is really very dangerous and could up and kill you any moment without warning" really pushes past news on to a metaphysical conversation about human existence. Note: one could argue that #3 and #4 are being discussed in the media with news about research regarding earthquakes and how they are seasonal. #5 The media covered that last bajillion rises in food prices. It's old news and expected at this point. #6 The US credit rating has been all over the news. maybe the article writer went on vacation. #7 The money for hiring IRS agents to enforce Obamacare fines has also been all over the news. #8 The arizona law infringing free speech has been on the news #9 The passport thing was the first thing on here that I hadn't heard about. #10 Seriously? What news outlet HASN'T covered escalating tensions in the persian gulf. I mean seriously the author of that article links a frikin BUSINESS magazine article, the only way to get more complete coverage is to have an article about it in people magzaine and the weekly world news. #11 The author is about a year late to the "mass deaths" meme. He's also way wrong about there not being sicentific explanations. For the most part the mass deaths are normal and the only thing odd is them being bundled together to imply they are related and somehow mysterious and scary. #12 monetizing the US debt.. It's been on the news. What hasn't been on the news is cogent discussion of it's implications. The news hasn't had cogent discussions of the implications of anything pretty much as long as I have been alive. #13 there has been no coverage of the great sinkhole conspiracy because there isn't one. The dude links to a story of a giant sinkhole from a mine collapse. I mean is that really a global mystery that if you dig lots of holes underground too big, they might collapse? Build roads over swampland, they might not be terribly durable? It's liek reporting water is wet. #14 as noted previously, there actually HAS been news coverage of it, and ongoing research regading earthquake "seasons". #15 If you think fraking hasn't been in the news cycle, you need to stop taking so many naps in a day. #16 I'll give him that the school evacuation practices haven't been news. The quesiton is if they should even be news. #17 Strange noises. Internet attention whoring shouldn't be global news. I'll point out that the only reason he knows about it is because news outlets jumped all over it, and then people started paying attention ad realizing there are noises in every town theat they just ignore as background noise. #18 the high number of tornadoes this year has been all over pretty much every news outlet. Once again, he needs to nap less or something. #19 Obama's executive order certainly did get lots of media attention. It might not have been the 6 o'clock news, but it got lots of attention.

I'm with you on the light weight and simple, but I've gotten way too much POI shift using braced positions on something without a free float tube. There are a bunch of good lightweight options out there. For the same length, the troy TRX extreme rails are almost the same weight as the MOE, and no delta ring. Lancer systems has light stuff. Carbon arms. Loki weapon systems. Sampson. Etc. It's not a short list these days. for example, Loki's carbon fiber one mounts to the stock barrel nut, is removable for maintenance, and is 5oz for the 12" rifle length at $159. Not a bad deal, although I don't know how rigid it is. In theory they ahve a non-shiny version in the works.

Dude, you do realize in free America, those thing stay I place just being screwed on. Maybe with a little lock tite.