Vlad G

Another vote for ditch the 1 point, their theoretical advantages never seem to overcome their downsides. If you insisit on a single point sling, I have Specter gear MOUT which you can attach to all sorts of things with a simple webbing loop that you can buy separately, like this: http://www.spectergear.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=582 You should be able to wrap that around anything, I have one of those slings with 2-3 attachment bits just so I can strap a sling to ANYTHING quickly, but the Procter sling does that better while being 2 point, so I suspect the Specter one will go into the spare webbing box.

You should probably not be advertising that you are in the business of building guns for others. You might be getting close to running against certain ATF rules.

I had my previous dog and my current one on obamacare for dogs. I mean insurance. I never felt like they were a ripoff and they've always payed promptly for the things they covered, I was one satified customer until I noticed that they stopped billing me for no reason. They admitted they screwed up and they would gladly start billing me again, after I payed them for the 6 months of payments they missed to automatically bill to my credit card AND suddenly anything that happened before the new policy would be considered a preexisting condition. I told them no thank you, please go away. I think if you get it early in the dog's life and you make sure they don't forget to bill you, they are a decent medical savings plan for your dog. You are always going to lose some money on it, because it is insurance not a casino, but it makes is so much easier to absorb the financial shock of a major bill for your dog.

The lady in question, who's name I can't recall for the life of me, was 1 of X (not sure it was 5 or 8) revolver shooters in the match. The match needed at least X shooters in the division to recognize winners and for the match to count towards national slots or some such. At the chrono stage her ammo measured just barely sub-minor so she could have shot the match for fun but would have not counted as one of revolver shooters thus removing the entire division from the match and kinda removing everyone else shooting revolver. Instead she calls up the range master (which I think was Amidon in the foreground with the back at the camera if I remember correctly) and Linda Chico (who was doing stats) and with both of them present she handles some ammo on the safe table to get DQ'ed before her chrono results made it back to the stats shack. By getting DQ'ed she still counted towards the division participation, so instead of finishing the match shooting for fun, she got herself DQ'ed on purpose so the rest of the revolver shooters could have match recognition. There is a reason everyone around is applauding her.

If you say so. I never enjoy DQ'ing people and I never enjoy seeing a new shooter do something really scary.

The one at 3:10 or so at Summer Blast was technically a DQ but it was an orchestrated DQ for a very specific reason and a great sportsmanship actually. none of them are particularly funny though

Well except for that part that for $52 plus shipping the original parts you could have probably bought a better kit.

Brownells just sent me an add for this one : http://www.brownells.com/firearms/rifles/semi-auto/anderson-rifle-am-15-5-56-nato-16--sku100019826-88101-181864.aspx with -$50 using code 3344 so $460 when you are done. I feel like lots of places overstocked pre-election and would now like to move a lot of inventory before the end of the year stockholder reports need to be mailed out.

Cute, but I suspect it will be $1000 and only available to 12 people on a secret list, like so many many Keltec products. Meanwhile, the market will be continue to sell countless $800 ARs

M&P barrels, well the entire gun design, is known for unlocking a bit too early, which can lead to poor accuracy. It is accurate enough, but anyone looking for competition grade accuracy notices that most M&P 9's, specially the older ones, really lag behind other designs. The Apex barrel is designed to remain in lock longer and Apex and a number of shooter report excellent results.

Recoil springs effect on timing is a bit odd. Lighter springs can actually take LONGER to cycle the gun, and heavier springs will cycle it faster. A weaker spring will compress and move the slide back quicker, but it will take longer to come back into battery, pick up the new round slower, and finish the entire cycle behind the stronger spring. Some of this will vary from gun to gun, and the felt recoil changes is also different from gun to gun. Usually if you muck with springs, expect the behavior to change as you change loads as well. There are really 3 phases to the operation, depending how you count. There is the unlock/eject portion, the feed phase, and the lock phase. The first part could work with NO spring except you might unlock early, and then entire force of the recoil will be felt at the end of the cycle as the slide smacks into the frame. With very heavy spring, just heavy enough to still cycle, the slide would only move as far back as needed to eject and pick up the next round and all that energy that got stored into the spring (instead of losing some to the slide smacking into the frame) is going to smack back forward and drive the gun forward, hard. Both cases can have a negative effect on the "felt recoil'. In the first case you end up with solid smack into your hand and the muzzle pointing to the sky, in the second case the slide coming back into battery with a LOT of speed is going to drive the muzzle down to hard. Obviously the right answer is somewhere in between, and it will depend on your ammo, on your preferred recoil impulse, etc. Edited to add: in the Apex barrel case, the going back into battery part requires quite a bit of energy to be left in the spring, which is why the recommend the factory spring.

Why would you not run the stock spring? I would suggest calling Apex and asking. I suspect what they actually want is for you run stock spring STRENGTH, to ensure that it has enough energy to return into battery given their tighter fit. My guess would be that if you run a 15lb spring on the aftermarket guide rod you would be fine, but call them and ask them

Shane is really onto something here. The 1-4 and 1-6x scopes available in the last few years have dramatically changed how I think about optics. For the money spend on a quality RDS you can now get some extremely capable low power scopes. Some of them come with illumination that can be reasonably compared with some of the brightest RDS's although often a a bit higher price. The flexibility of this new breed of scopes is worth it to my mind. Yes they can be a bit more expensive then a RDS for the same 1x performance. Yes they are heavier. Some may be more fragile, but many are built like tanks. For me, unless I'm looking at building a very light rifle, I'll spend a bit more on one of the more capable low power scopes as they fit both niches.

before you start cutting up things, longer screws are something you can find at most hardware stores.

How does aiming work with the rib being shinny?

You should google "young Hellen Mirren". Even perfection ages, even when it does so gracefully.

Dude, it is a glock. I has the collectible value of a Homer 5 gallon bucket, useful for many things and serviceable much longer then one would expect, but I'm not sure that desirable based on version enters in the conversation, except perhaps for some form of extreme 80's gun fetish aficionado.

How do they work?

That sucks but there is a lesson to be learned here. HE has been teaching it correctly.

Email address in the form line doesn't mean much when it comes to phishing. Anyone can fake that.

I dunno if it is the best sub 1000, there are a lot of optics in that price range and many are excellent. It is certainly a lot of optic for the money though.

They are not ignorant, don't make that mistake, they know exactly what they are doing.

Hmm .. 2 3/4 dram it seems. I prefer 3dram for inertia guns.

I'm not really sure he will get a position in the cabinet, he is a bit to tainted and I'm not sure Trump wants that heat.

State sovereignty does not apply to civil rights issues, which is why we had a civil war at some point, just to work that out. Seeing how 2A is in the bill of rights, the logical approach is to consider it a civil right and resolve the carry issue at the supreme court which already incorporated 2A against the states, just like they treated gay marriage. However, until the carry issue is resolved at the federal level, and the courts work it out, it can't really happen.