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I own a LnL AP, have for many years. I also bought a case feeder last year. Yes, it had tons of problems. Mostly related to the fact that they made some odd/poor design choices, and the fact that I load .40, and for some reason hornady decided to make the thing very .40 unfriendly. Pretty much every part is a bit too big or a bit too small for .40. I USED to say that the AP was as good a press as a 650. THe problem is Hornady has worked hard to prove me wrong. With the exception of the bad choice of sizing on drop tube parts on the case feeder, I think their engineering is fine. However, their packing, QC, and total willingness to not ship a part and expect you to figure it out later and get it via warranty, or to ship a bad batch of some part until they ahve shipped them all out and have you figure out it is wrong and wait for a replacement under warranty. I have powder measures with voids in the casting that went out the door. Lots of people are having problems currently with subplate assemblies that are just a bit too thick for the primer ram to work right. I've gotten powder measures with parts missing out of the box recently. I've talked ot people who have gotten presses and case feeders with parts missing. They shipped out a batch of presses with drive hubs that were cast badly and cracked in short order. They replaced them under warranty with the SAME batch of drive hubs until they either got a replacement lot, or simply used them up. That's just stupid. In many ways, I think the current iteration of the LnL AP goes toe to toe with the 650 but with a simpler implementation of many features (which I generally consider a good thing). The problem is I'm not sure you can get that machine from hornady without a giant headache these days.

I'm not a big fan of sayreville sportsman. I buy primers there, and some cleaning supplies, but thats about it. Those things have one price on them, and when I forgot to add something to a big order, or I want to keep my primer supply topped up without paying a hazmat fee, it's worthwhile. The ammo selection has become awful, and trying to buy a gun is just a PITA. You don't need to like your customers if they pay. Your customers do need to like you enough to come back. There's always someone to tell me that the place is great for them, but at best every time I walk in I get the vibe I'm interrupting someone's social hour. At worst, it's kind of hostile. Depends who is behind the counter.

Everyone I have seen transport on a bike had either saddlebags or panniers.

I have never been arrested much less convicted, I have no prior records. I don't drink or do drugs. So there has never been paraphernalia in plain sight. I've only been pulled over for more than 20 over once. I don't go fishing around for documentation, I put both hands on the wheel until the officer can see what I'm doing. I also try to be polite. I've had guns drawn on me in a traffic stop at least six times for no reason other than what I drive or how i was dressed. I've been asked to consent to a search at least five times. After the first time, I refused to consent. Sorry, there is no upside to consent. If the cop is the type to harass you because you said no, they aren't one of the good ones anyway. After a lot of thought and a bit of research, I came up with my simple canned reply to a request to search. It's "I don't know. What's your reasonably articulable suspiscion?" most traffic stops have audio recording, and I have yet to find one cop who wanted to go on record about that up front. It precludes them changing their story to cover their a**, and most consent searches are either total fishing, or to get nail the search 100% without the ability for their RAS to be questioned in court.

BTW, anyone who is willing to do scores reliably who will be at most matches, or is nearby enough to Sayreville to get the paper scores to them, we always accept volunteers.

Nope, the thread is about things you changed your mind about. You completely got the point.

Where you see those? Lowest price I could find is palmetto state armory, and even theirs is $49.99 unless you get the one without a FCG. It's definitely not the best kit either. Next cheapest I found was $60, but that was actually for a decent LPK. You still have to add like $7 shipping to both of those prices.

It requires less machine time, which I think is the main issue. Less machine time means cheaper, but more importantly it means they can get through their order backlog quicker without expanding production capacity of their facility. So the lower margin guns get the chain link. It is actually pretty darn effective without being abusive to your skin.

I recommend d-lead wipes over the babay wipes. BUt basically, there are no facilities other than pits, some shooting benches, porta potties and some storage for the club.

Landlords can have a no firearms clause. Perfectly legal. The only thing you have to worry about if you break it is being evicted and owing them money according to the terms of the contracts. HOWEVER, there is multiple precedents that if a landlord restricts your ability to own firearms, they assume a degree of liability for your safety. The examples I have seen of this have all been complexes rather than mom & pop type places. Obviously because complexes have more assets worth suing for, so those are the cases that got taken. Most large complexes in NJ don't have a firearms clause because they know there is liability associated with it.

This is the internet. Lots of folks love to miss the point and talk loudly about it. "the chart" is one of those things that attract those people.

I hope this is filed as an improvement patent, there's tons of prior art actually for sale for the general concept.

They have dropped the giant rollmarks on a number of their guns in more recent production. They are starting ot get the message a lot of folks don't like it, but not enough to advertise the change as a feature.

In general, I err on that side of things too, but that really isn't that expensive anymore unless you want to do it with some oddball platform. For example, I think 18" barreled FALs are really cool. But I really don't want to pay for one that can hold MOA out to 300 yards compared to say building up and ar-10 style rifle. The reality is I'd rather get good at say hitting a 6 inch plate at 100 yards quickly with my ar-15 unsupported. Since my change of heart, I realized there's a whole pile of things that, from the shooter side of the equation, are matters of accuracy but still pretty achievable with a 2 moa rifle. I wouldn't consider a 2moa rifle all that accurate, but that may just be a matter of cultural bias induced by folks who think only accurate guns are interesting. Would I like to have a 1000 yard rifle? Sure, in a perfect world. Would I like to learn to shoot 1000 yard shots? Hell yeah, I love learning new things. But without a range a short drive away to accommodate practicing such, I doubt I'll get the chance to do that. But I'll say it again, since nobody has really added much to it. What have you changed your mind about since starting shooting. I'll add one more. I used to think heavy guns were preferable. Now I think lighter guns are better. There's definitely such a thing as too light, but you want to keep it as light as you can without it being detrimental. Not saying any of these things are facts, just changed opinions.

It reinforces what I decided a while agor reading between the lines of various studies. PAck waht you like .380 and up. Make sure it is good ammo. If you need to stop a person you are going to have to shoot them twice and odds are you'll only hit about 50% of the time under stress. So 4 bullets per individual you want to pose a credible risk to.

So, what have you changed your mind about the more experience you get under your belt shooting? I used to be a big believer in the old adage that "only accurate guns are interesting". Especially in this area, it doesn't take a lot of money, time, or effort to be accurate enough that you have run out of range before running out of gun. My most accurate rifle and pistol rarely make it out of the safe, mainly because they are boring rather than interesting. Not to mention that other than working your brain a bit working up a good load, most of it is about learning to pull the trigger like a machine, and learning to read the wind. Learning to read the wind well is useful, but not very easy to do without more than 300 yards of range available to you. Even then, the whole thing was one-dimensional and pretty boring. Accurate guns aren't interesting, versatile, well rounded guns are interesting and fun, and becoming a versatile and well rounded shooter is interesting and fun. Fun guns get shot, and being good with a gun makes it more fun. Another thing I used to believe was that a cool looking gun justifies its place in the safe just by looking cool. These days I believe that cool looking guns can be looked at on the internet for free. Heck, I'll still pay extra for a cool looking gun over something I find less appealing all else being equal, but to part me from my money, it has to bring much more than looks to the table. I also used to believe that a picky, specialized gun was OK. These days, I can't abide a gun that doesn't run well and reliably. If it doesn't do both, you are either asking too much of the platform, tried to be cheap where it wasn't worth it, or made a bad decision about something you did to your gun.

No preregistration. Compared to normal outdoor matches, they don't usually draw as large a crowd, so there shouldn't be an issue with regards to capacity. I'm counting on the usual nasty heat of august plus the fact it is a classifier match to keep attendance to a reasonable number. Of course this could be the time that proves that wrong. We'll find out. The only thing to remember is that if you don't have a USPSA number, you will be paying a premium to shoot a lower round count match for fun. So...

Yeah except placing a protected right on the other side of an onerous fee designed to place it outside the reach of most people has been shot down in many places before. It's a well trod path form the civil rights era. Also, if it steps outside of the state law, it will time number 182372174518736534765896314650183640126734 that SF has had to be smacked upside the head to try to make it understand they can't preempt state law.

PLEASE tell me there was no steel involved. IDPA keeps damaging, destroying, and generally being irresponsible with the USPSA gear they borrow for that match. The steel can't take that kind of abuse and is expensive. Maks' stage was very nice, it definitely had decent flow. The texas star was really a texas star light. The MGM star sucks in many ways. From a shooting challenge standpoint, the worst part is that you get to shoot two plates before it starts spinning, so as long as you pick up the third ok, you wind up with two wobbling slowly at the bottom. Which isn't much of a challenge at all. I'm glad to see everyone was hitting the water. The water coolers we put out usually aren't that tapped by the end of a match, even when they should be.

Unless turnout is very heavy, we'll be allowing people to run a second gun. What we won't be allowing is running the same gun twice. That gets to be a PITA to keep people from abusing it to sandbag/grandbag. Second gun will cost more obviously.

I'll let you know about two divisions after this months match.

Just degrease it very well.

Sorry, 8-11 as in august 2011 on the usual cj date. So 8-14 -11

Ok, I got the go ahead to make the August USPSA matcha special classifier match. 6 classifiers in one day. If you want to shoot it, you should have your USPSA number before then. WE do not do the $40 deal for special classifier matches. The entry fee will be more than usual to cover the extra submission fees. I'll add more specifics as we get closer, but I wanted to give a heads up so interested people could get all their stuff sorted out ahead of time and plan for it.

I think it is useful information, but I think that people declaring it the benchmark for a good AR are idiots who don't know why what works works and what breaks breaks. Some of the stuff on it is universally key to a good rifle. Some of it is good to have to feel better about reliability, but not a guarantee. Some of it just doesn't apply to anything except full auto. Some of it has perfectly good alternatives. Some of it doesn't measure what they think they measure. Then there are things that matter to a gun running well and accurately that aren't even on the list. For example, the bolt. There are perfectly good bolts that are not carpenter 158. There are steels out there that are metallurgically identical to carpenter 158 that are not called carpenter 158 (at least if it is like every other steel on the planet). That being said, there is so little variance in how a gun handles based on the bolt that a MPI, HPT bolt is something that is easy to find ofr a good price, and can save you a lot of experimenting and headache over trying to do it differently. So the stuff they list about peening and testing is useful to know. But in reality, you need to know if they test every unit, or batch test. If they batch test what is the ratio, etc. Only if EVERY piece is tested does testing mean you are guaranteed to catch parts that have been built badly. Then there's the extractor buffer setup. There are at least 4 legitimate fixes to this that work well that I am aware of. 1) increase spring rate by using a spring with a higher spring rate. 2) increase spring rate by using a longer spring and pre-compressing it. 3) increase the spring rate by preventing the compression of parts of it (o-ring) 4) increase the spring rate by adding a second spring. They count coils as far as I can tell, which means absolutely nothing. Then there's the carrier profile. Sure, they are right that a fully shrouded carrier ensures the carrier cocks the hammer, and you don't impact the firing pin. However, the increased lock time comes form mass. Mass is a function of material jsut as much as profile. so is it M-16 profile, or military spec on all materials etc? There are also benefits toa lightened carrier group, and if you aren't running a carbine length gas system, they might be worth more than increased lock time. Carrier key staking. A firmly attached gas key is 100% critical to a reliable AR. Period. This tells you it is staked form the top or side. It doesn't tell you if it is staked WELL. In general, it is harder to screw up side staking, but it most definitely can and has been done by many manufacturers. Barrel steel. There are a mess of good acceptable answers. I don't think there is any one goal for a gun that has only one right answer. So while the info is useful, it doesn't really matter in terms of reliability. barrel testing. Same as above comment about testing. It's nice to know, and personally, I'd prefer that any barrel I put on my gun has been individually HTP and MPI tested. I'd accept one that has been just individually MPI tested if that's all I could get.But beggears can't be choosers. You want a gun and cna get neither, you can either forgo that or forgo a gun. Chamber. I used to believe this was good information. These days, I believe that there are really only two answers to chamber size. .223-ish and Something .223 is but with a longer leade of indeteminite dimensions. Why? because in attempting to figure out what the hell the noveske match mod0 chamber was, I got a hold of the actual dimensions of a bunch of chamber reamers. There were at least 3 labeled as 5.56, two labeled as 5.56 sam-r, two labeled .223 wylde, and one other proprietary .223/5.56 reamer. Not a single one had the same dimensions as others claiming to be the same thing. One of the .223 reamers actually was dimensioned more generously than one of the generous .223/ tight 5.56 modified chambers. So really who the hell knows. It's one of those very messy things where the answer to the question asked means very little and nobody will give the answer to the right question. Rifling twist. Nice to know, but not a guarantee of anything. It lets you make a guess about what will probably run well and have problems in terms of bullets. M4 feedramps. Are you going to be using this upper on a full auto gun? No? Then the only thing that really matters is that you don't put an m4 cut upper reciever together with a non-M4 cut barrel extension. Especially if going mid-length or longer on the gas system with a heavy carrier and heavy buffer. That all slows the action down enough you don't really have to worry about outrunning the magazine springs, which is the point of M4 cuts in the first place. M4 cuts done before or after anodizing. I've seen both. As far as I can tell this really doesn't matter. What it leaves out about m4 feed cuts, that CAN matter if you need them is how aggressive they are. I ahve seen m4 cut uppers that are nearly an afterthought, and some that go so far that I question if they ahve removed too much material. The type of front sightand how it is attached. My take on this? Who cares? Seriously, I've listened to people who said the world was going to end if you used anything but a taper pin attached gas block. History has proven them wrong as there are plenty of examples of set screw blocks, straight pin blocks, clamp on blocks, etc surviving tons of use and abuse. Once again, you care about done right, not which method was chosen. Heat shields. Double is more heat resistant. A good free floated forearm however actually provides improved performance and functionality to either of the options in their list. Extension diameter. Means nothing in terms of reliability. Means a lot if you plan on buying a replacement stock. Extension material. There are plenty of ways to get to strong. but it can't hurt knowing what material they use. Staked or unstaked castle nut. Staked is less likely to come undone. However, since the list first came out, manufacturers have gone nuts with this. I've seen staking so aggressive, I'd consider it damaging and detrimental to the firearm rather than something reassuring. You cna also have something that is staked, but insufficiently to be useful. Once again, this is something you care about being done right, and there is not only one right answer. Buffer weight. You need to know if you need to fix gas system balance issues, but just because you know what they chose doesn't mean they chose right. You want to know, but it guarantees nothing. So yeah, in the end the list doesn't really tell you much of what you need to know. Namely if it was done RIGHT. Just because a business has a history of doing it right doesn't mean they will tomorrow.