Vlad G

Shane you are missing the more crucial point because you are caught up in brands. You are recommending expensive scopes for someone who likely doesn't have much experience. As I've been trying to say all along, match the scope to the shooter not to what you like. He is much better off buying the $400 scope which includes a burris mount that he linked to earlier and spending his money on ammunition to practice with then spending all his money on a scope that he will likely never use. Neither Slav nor I are saying the scopes you recommend are BAD scopes, they are just way to much of a scope for most ARs. Cold Shot, I'm actually curious if your rifle has the military hand guards or free floated hand guards, because that just makes the to much scope issue a bit worse.

Before like Slav I just give up let me try this again. You assume that because we prefer 3 gun that is all we shoot. I can go drag out targets like your from 5-6 years ago when I though shooting tiny groups from a bench was interesting. At some point it becomes an mechanical exercise about best possible handloads and I was spending more time uniforming case necks then actually shooting, it got boring. My point with that is not compare penile sizes but to make the point that you are assuming I am single side shooter. Hell you even assume I own k-dot, which I don't and never said I did. You also assume you that a group needs to be as big as the reticule and your are wrong. I've already explained how you can aim with parts of it, but because you never done you assume its impossible, thats fine. Slav explained how he uses his reticule as a BDC (and similar mechanism can be done for other reticules then the k-dot) but you dismiss it because you prefer a BDC tied to a single damn load which may or may not shoot from your gun the same or god forbid you load your own ammo at a different spec. In any case, I'm done arguing with you. You can assume whatever you want about what we own, shoot, or do, but instead of arguing with our opinions maybe you could focus on what the OP actually asked. I venture to say that recommending $2000 scopes to someone who doesn't know what the different reticules are may be inappropriate. Another bit for original poster, again with apologies about the mess that has nothing to do with you, do not forget the scope mounts. DO NOT spend big bucks on a scope and rifle and then connect the two with $35 rings, you will be disappointed, you will blame the rifle or the scope or yourself for not good reason. Make a sure buy good mounts, I love the Larue ones but depending on your budget they may be a bit to much. On the other hand, you will never regret getting them.

Dot size has nothing to do with group size. Ask people who know how to shoot red dots, They can shoot 2moa groups with a 4moa dot, because it turns out you don't aim with the whole dot. A 2moa reticule will let you out shoot your ammo. You can love the K dot all you want but if you had to make a 300 yard precision shot, its going to be more luck than anything else, its out of its element. Keep in mind that the premise I am working under is that the OP is on the precision side of the fence. Not for nothing but 10" steel targets are 300 yards are not uncommon (as Slav and I just shot at this weekend), and thats not from a bench or bipod but from improvised rests over barricades or while hidding under a golf cart out of breath. Slav cleaned them with his k-dot, I had a bit of trouble with a plain red dot but they were still achievable. You can do all that with a red dot, scopes matter more past 200. Sorry, but make up your mind. First you said the some of the listed ones are only ok for games because they lack external adjustments, I point out the TWO dominate non-game optics and you dismiss them because they don't need them. See I think you should match the optic to the shooter first and to the purpose second. Nightforce, Horus, etc are awesome scopes that cost more some people's cars and which most shooters can't and don't take advantage off. Hand a complex BDC like Horus to a someone who doesn't know what scope they want, and you likely to make things worse. Most AR shooters don' understand that a 200 yard zeroed rifle shoots 25 inches low at 400 or have any idea what 25 inches looks like at 400 or undestand first focal plane vs second focal plane reticules and they affect ranging. Sorry, but recommending some those scopes to people who don't know what scope they want for "generic medium range shooting" is wasting their money. You are hard pressed to shoot past 300yards in NJ. An old Tasco 4x Proghorn would work. A 1x-4x scope is damn near ideal. You can shoot just as accurately with lower magnification and for new shooter it is actually easier because they don't hunt the smallest vibration in the reticule and focus on the big things first before moving to shooting between heart beats. My apologies to the OP for the rest of us getting in a conversation that's probably confusing you more. I would recommend to you the best 1x-4x scope you are willing to spend money on. Failing that, buy yourself a 3-9x scope from any decent manufacturer (Leupold, Nikon, etc) because those type of scopes can always be re-purposed later. Do not worry about reticule because at the ranges we can shoot they don't matter.

Yup and right after that the sear puts pressure on the striker which is contained inside the slide which has a light replacement recoil spring, and it moves the whole slide back a bit right before it lets go of the striker. Welcome to the world of Out of Battery Discharge This happens when people replace the standard recoil spring with a lighter one and don't replace the the striker spring with a lighter one as well.

I will be the first to say that designing a gun around 9mm and then taking some metal out to fit a larger and higher pressure cartridge in it is a pretty terrible idea (Hi G22, how are you today?). Guns designed from the start around the cartridge (M&P, etc) and those designed around larger rounds and then converted (1911/2011) will of course perform better. Most of the failures I see on the internet (instead of in person) have been Glocks.

Yes I know. Let me show you what I mean: I find it amusing that iii and 3. contradict each other inside NJAC, thats all I'm saying.

Ok, show me the statistics please. Yes the 40S&W is a higher pressure cartridge, no doubt, but double charging ANY cartridge will results in a catastrophic failure. I think the reason you see so many more .40s blow up is because of its popularity in USPSA combined with the fact the USPSA shooters prefer to use very fast powders which are also often quite compact. For example with something like Titegroup I can fit 3 full chargers in .40 case and still sit the bullet without compressing the powder. In .45 it is closer to 5 full charges. This is means it is a lot easier to double charge a case and not realize you've done it. Fast powders don't give you a lot of room for error. I think there is a bit of overstatement of the rate of failure of the .40s&w per round fired, and yes a lot of those came from Glocks because of their famed "poorly supported chamber". I can smirk at glock shooters that tell me that their guns never break, but in all fairness they were the first to try a gun that size in that caliber with the G22 so they got it a bit wrong. Newer versions have better support. Thats a gun design issue, not a cartridge issue, but somehow people blame the cartridge not Glock.

Kyle Lamb recommended the TR series for serious rifles, if I recall correctly. From what I've read they were quite popular as combat scopes, until the latest models from a bunch of people have come out. Also exposed elevation adjustments seem like a rather bad idea, as they can get out of adjustment. Aimpoints and ACOGs don't have exposed adjustments and they are the predominant military optics. Use the BDC if you need to adjust for range, these aren't meant as long range sniper scopes but for the muzzle to the 300-400 meter range.

Enjoy your Honda Civic.

Personally I'm amused a bit by the semiauto shotgun section of the law and NJAC. The law says 6rd max, the NJAC says two evil features of which ONE is over 6rd. If you go by the law you can only have 6 rounds, if you go by NJAC you can have more then 6rd as long as doesn't have another evil feature like a pistol grip.

Have you ever handled or shot one? I get seriously annoyed when people poop on STI's or .40s because competition shooters break them. We break everything, we are the airport suitcase handling gorillas from those TV commercials. Leaving aside what seems to have been a bad factory round which would have likely broken anything, you basically talking about racing hardware under extreme use. It is like watching a car race, seeing a race car catch fire and calling it crap. Take any mechanical device and push it to its limits, feed it extreme fuels, and it will sometimes fail. Competition shooters are fully aware that they may destroy their $3000 guns fed hand loaded ammo with fast burn rate powders like TG, VV220, or Clays just like drag racers know they may blow out their hand built engines fed exotic fuel blends. It is a risk we take. Competition shooting is the experimental lab of firearm design, shooters and smiths tinker with things until the squeeze the last bit of performance, and the results of those experiments end up being production gun features 10 to 20 years later. What every one sells as the 1911 configuration now, was the realm of competition customs 20 years ago. The red dots we slapped on handguns for decades are now appearing as options on production guns aimed at the tactical markets with all sorts of big name trainers "experimenting" with something we've perfected. Same story with the use of red dots and low power variable scopes on rifles. We see a lot more factory guns **** the bed then we see race guns do the same, because just like in car racing you may be very proud of your Mustang or WRX or whatever but when you put it on the track it will eventually eat its own transmission. You can drive it to work and back and never see an issue but push it to the limits and it will fail. The latest Ferrari model has been catching fire lately, will you pass on one because it isn't as good as your Honda? The reason people shoot STI's is not because they the perfect daily driver, it is because they are the best race cars.

I know its reputation very well, I've seen a number explode at very close range. What no one tells you is they will ALL explode regardless of caliber. The problem reputation for the .40 comes from the fact that USPSA shooters love it, and shoot a lot of it. Which means reloading, and because of the volume of rounds we shoot, sometimes means careless reloading. The reason you see so many more reports of blownup .40s is because there are so many more .40s being used and reloaded for with very high round counts. I've seen 9's and .45s blow up too.

300 yards at Central Jersey Well depends on what you want to do. People have shot and won 1000 yard matches with them, but it doesn't mean that's a good idea. I the official military doctrine says 500-600 yards? In practice, over 300 yards its trajectory gets to be very rainbow like, though a properly calibrated ammo/bdc-reticule combination will take you to 500.

That sounds like bizarre comment to me. Double charge any cartridge (factories make mistakes too) and you will get the same result regardless of caliber.

I believe that is about pistols not rifles.

Call a lawyer. I don't think there is an issue with the guns themselves because inheriting guns without any paper work is just fine. There might be probate law issues, and for that you need a lawyer.

Here is a hint: You can bargain. Think of it as buying a car. Sure, some idiots will pay full price because thats what the sticker says. Pretty much everyone else does not. Apply the same logic to buying guns. I do, and it works quite well for me. I go in knowing exactly how much the gun is worth, how much online prices are, and how much I'm willing to spend over that. I normally get to that price without much effort, because the shop owner also knows all this information.

Fair enough. You will probably destroy the tube sooner or later, but its your money Actually, I'd be concerned about the pressure wave cracking a CF tube, I'm not sure they are built to take internal pressure and CF can be unpredictable when it lets go unless it was designed with that in mind.

Who the hell knows, but the better question is why the hell would you want such a thing?

And when the S settles down and it is just fertilizer for the back yard garden, you are ok looking into the mirror knowing that you could have prepared and not taken someone else property? Let even leave that aside, and lets say that you put your family ahead because they are your primary responsibility. If you have to drive through a stores window you already failed them by not being prepared. If something happens to you as you drive through that window (or as the owners shoots you, or as the thug down the street thanks you for doing the hard work and shoots you) you have failed them again buy leaving them with one less defender, one less pair of eyes to keep lookout, one less pair of hands to keep the home standing or forage. Is it not easier, safer, and more moral to prepare ahead of time? If your primary survival plan is looting, your are not that far from putting a colander on your face and scream "Who rules Barter Town?"

Leaving aside the moral implications of not preparing ahead of time and raiding later, you live in New Jersey. You will be lucky if you can make it within 2 miles of a Costco or Shop Rite if it comes to such and event. Of course, if you are willing to abandon any moral stand, you could rob those leaving the stores. I'd suggest preparing ahead of time if you really think the scenario's leading to such events are likely.

And again you forget the the small store has to pay rent, taxes, and pay the employees and the owner enough to make a living in New Jersey where the cost of living is much higher then other places. Remember that when you put a small shop out of business new shooters have a much harder time buying their first gun or their accessories. Most of us may know we can order online or ship guns to a kitchen table dealer, and thats great, but then you never get new shooters and we wither and die. Think of the second order effects of your purchasing decisions. I'll pay a small premium at my local store to have them be in business, think of it as a donation to gun rights. Sure, I buy my reloading components in bulk online, but I'll buy primers locally. Sure, I'll order specialized parts, but I'll buy targets, oils, etc locally. I'll even buy a gun directly through a local shop if the it isn't more then $100 over Buds price plus ffl transfer fee for the convenience and keeping them in business. 10 years ago there were 5 gun stores within 10mile radius from where I live and 7 within 20 miles, not counting Big stores, of which there were 4 in the same range. Now there is ONE small store, and 2 Big stores in the same radius. That sound like a good plan to you?

Another use for it would be keeping the PRIMARY mag in that pouch if you have to unload the gun often (again going in and out of places that require it). That way it stays attached to the gun, doesn't get lost, and the rounds don't get beaten around, or the mag filled with crap. You keep you reloads on the other side as well.

I do see a reason for that arrangement. If you are the kind of person that needs to put on and take off your gun bits A LOT (say someone going in and out of prisons, federal buildings, or other such places) the paddle holster with ammo attached would make life easier. You just take the whole rig off, stow it in whatever container you stow it in, and when you leave you just put the whole rig back on. Not an ideal layout but I could see how someone might find it useful. Edited to add: If you don't have to conceal it (ie open carry, or you are a cop) you can even wear this at 1-2 o'clock (like so many competition shooters do) and the reach for the reload wouldn't be so bad. Sitting in a car would suck though. It might also make a really nice cross draw holster, as it rotates and places the mag on the correct side then.

Did I ever tell you about my plan to get a techwear shirt made with "Sponsored by people to lazy to pick up their own brass" embossed on the back?