Vlad G

Practice certainly helps, but it needs to be practice that matches what you are going to be doing. Pumping the gun while standing still is sufficiently different then doing it on the move, doing it while mounting or dismounting the gun, doing it while handling recoil, while your hands are sweaty, etc.

Err .. hold on. One, I've never seen this border police you are speaking of, but maybe it exists. Secondly, did you ask them what was the probable cause for searching your vehicle? I'm not sure they can do that unless they have a cause or you have granted them permission, so what was the cause they told you they had?

How so? Mine surely does, what doesn't fit?

It can indeed be a problem, barrels whip around a lot. The other issue is that if you put any pressure on the hand-guard it my deflect a bit and contact with it. Heat and expansion can make that worse.

I would say the most common one is Invictus Practical, that's what I use. You also see a lot of the Carbon Arms and more recently Safari land. Taccom's aren't bad, but I definitely prefer the Invictus myself, I can go prone in top of them and the shells will still be there when I get up.

Its always a long game, the other side always plays and we should too. It does however make it a lot more likely that SCOTUS will have to take the next case that comes to them. That doesn't guarantee a win btw.

It is friking genius, hey are playing a much smarter game then most people realize. They read the tea leafs, and know that congress wants to do "something". By doing what they are doing, they take the wind out of "evil NRA is pro bump-stock", they point out it was the Obama era ATF that approved them and they are urging the ATF to look at them. That means that if the ATF reclassifies them, it takes the wind out of legislative actions that could be broader and dumber and could later be undone again with just and administrative change Before people are ready to burn their NRA cards like 70's bra's, consider that they have some pretty smart people working there, they are not the most powerful lobby for nothing.

Most of the published manufacturers ammo velocities will based on 20" barrels, and sometimes as long as 24". Few publish velocities for shorter barrels. M193 is nominally 3,260 fps from a 20" barrel but you are using a 16" barrel you are going to see significantly lower velocities. Depending on individual barrel, powder, etc you may be as low as 3,000 fps which will make a significant difference as the range gets longer and will throw all the math into disarray, and a high sight over bore only makes those errors larger. If you really want to know your trajectory you must know how fast the bullets are leaving YOUR gun, not even one like it.

I dunno if Ballistic is available on Android, I use it on an iphone. Strelok should be available on both, and both work equally well with Strelok having more reticle information. I think that getting used to these sort of apps is really important specially if you want to make calculations on the range. I often do my maths on the range with chrono out to measure the velocity and paper targets to verify the results. Once you have it figured out once, you dont have to worry about unless you change ammo.

Use a ballistic calculator on your phone. Plug in your scope line over bore height, your bullet and bullet velocity, and start playing with different zero's in the app and look at the resulting trajectories. Keep in mind that different bullets at different velocities will behave very differently, so pick your bullet wisely. There are a few apps you can choose from, Strelok and Ballistic first come to mind. One you find a trajectory that matches your preference, look at its zero distance and use that or look at the offset at 100 and zero at 100 so you have the same offset. Then verify at different distances that the trajectory matches what was calculated.

I suggest a simple experiment you may want to conduct. Obtain a broom stick or something equivalent, about 4-5 long to exaggerate the physics a bit.Shoulder it, place your two hands on it in various locations, while trying to turn on and off a light switch with the far end (or a similarly small item, like a screw or something). You will quickly notice that the further forward your support hand is touching the stick the easier it is to touch the target. The closer to the muzzle end that you can hold a rifle the better control you are going to have, assuming you are not overextending your support arm or locking your elbow.

Thats what I do.

How much time are these guys spending behind those scopes vs how much time have you spend behind your RDS. In my experience, all training and skill being equal there is simply no comparison beyond 100-150 yards, and closer in the difference is not huge either with a quality scope. At close range the biggest issue with magnified optics is that people over aim, gun up head up keep your eyes open red on target press it. Too many people are trying to see perfect sight pictures for no good reason

Oh the trigger is DEFINITELY different then the previous gens, just from the pictures.

How was the trigger vs a gen4?

In the internals make it look like the trigger bars and striker plungers (and slides) are really different then previous versions. I'm curious, but not curious enough to spend money. edited to add: now that I've seen more pictures of the internals, it is a drastically new gun inside. It is more different then any of the previous 4 gens put together. I can't decide if that is good or bad.

Hmm that is interesting, I'd have to handle one and see if I like that layout. I did recently shoot a single pin Gen 2 G19 and the trigger is was decent, better then my 34 Gen4 when it come out of the box, but about the same as my Gen3 19. I too also don't get how the second pin would interfere with the trigger pull, because the location of the other pin is the same, so tge geometry of the trigger is also the same. Its not as if they changed the trigger bar and layout when they went to 2 pins, but I guess they could do that for the Gen5s. It may be a bad idea though, given the available aftermarket.

I don't get spending time and effort on going back to one pin. That means redesiging either the locking block or how it the frame holds it and it is not like there is anything wrong with the 2 pin layout, and you still need the extra strength somehow if you don't want the gen 2 .40 issues. I'm probably the only person on the planet who likes the finger grooves. I don't like them on other guns, but they work for me on Glocks. I recently handled a Gen 2 19 and I was like how do you hold onto this thing? everything else, have it, why not.

It depends. The more I shoot the more I realize that reset feel doesn't really matter. If I'm shooting at any speed my finger comes fully off the trigger, I don't ride the reset. That means that I do a full trigger press for every pull, which means the pre-travel happens every time. Lots of people would like that full travel length to be shorter and lighter so they try to take out the pretravel which is really a terrible idea from a safety perspective. Overtravel, sure leave only what you need, over travel should be left alone.

Thats correct, don't mess with pretravel and be weary of the triggers that claim to reduce pretravel.

HE, have you tried them on rifles ?

Good job ! I don't use a case gauge for I pistol but I case gauge all rifle ammo

Only you can decide if the ergonomics of a flat trigger are for you, but they are for me. When correctly build for the gun, they will tend to break when they are in the most vertical position, perpendicular to the line of sight. For a lot of shooters this helps with trigger control, as you are pulling straight back at when the gun fires so you have less likelihood to move the gun around with the trigger. I think this is happens to be part of the reason why the 1911 triggers are considered by many to be the gold standard. I don't think they are a must have for everyone, but they are for me, nearly every gun I care about shooting well has a flat trigger, pistols or rifles. I'm even curious now if someone makes them for shotguns.

This thread is like a test to spot people with poor decision making skills, and wouldn't you know it .. the usual suspects come out of the woodwork.

Its not so much that the AR is touchy, but that when reloading it is important to make ammo in spec.