Jump to content

Malice4you

Members
  • Content Count

    1,261
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1
  • Feedback

    0%

Malice4you last won the day on April 20 2018

Malice4you had the most liked content!

Community Reputation

627 Excellent

3 Followers

About Malice4you

  • Rank
    Smartass Extraordinaire!

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location:
    Morris County
  • Home Range
    EFGA

Recent Profile Visitors

6,241 profile views
  1. Malice4you

    gsg522

    My 522 seems to have wear (looks almost burr-like) on barrel side by extractor slot, but extracts fine. Mine prefers Federal AutoMatch (325rd) and CCI MiniMags for best functionality. I have had a broken part on my bolt, so check for cracks in the metal. And if you disassemble the bolt, the metal (or is it screws?) is easy to strip. I also suggest blue loctite. Bolt is easy enough to work on, but there are a few spring loaded parts. May wanna take pics first time. Mine does not like to run dry or dirty.
  2. Thanks for the tag. I expect to be in, likely + a few. Trying to organize a gathering of people should not be harder than herding cats, but that has yet to be the case for me.
  3. Yep, that was us. It got even worse later on. Somehow. I really would love to know why the right side was so much more attractive to them. When cleaning the rifles last night, I was surprised I didn't have multiple bugs trapped under the scope caps. Have had that in the past with stink bugs.
  4. What time were you there? Friend and i were on the right side, being mobbed by approximately ALL of them, plus stinkbugs and ladybugs too
  5. A lot of apps need to know specifics about your ammo, and especially with your long barrel, you may be getting significantly different fps than what boxed ammo or your handloads say you should be. You'll want at least a chrono if you want some more accurate info in an app. I know rimfire is a different beast, but at 200 yards, all the app(s) I use have been off by multiple mils between calculations and real world experience. Part is me using box FPS numbers, part is no one seems to know the correct BC for .22s, and part is probably that the places I've zeroed are not a true 50 or 100 yards (Clinton being 53yd for the 50 berm) I know a lot of (rimfire) people use a Kestrel, but I honestly am not sure what functions it has, if it is a chrono, wind speed guage, etc. I believe it links to an app, possibly their own. As for apps, you are unfortunately too late for easily getting Strelok (Pro), which is one of the best ones I know of. It is a Russian developer, so it isn't available in the play store unless you already had it, apparently. The free version had fewer options, but was still very useful. I have used Shooting Solution for years, which apparently is also delisted now. Not sure why. Lapua Ballistics is still available and I have used that. But with .22s, even their own app and shooting Lapua ammo does not show the expected results. That said, it gives you lots of options for data entry on your cartridge and is worth a download. I expect it is perfectly adequate for centerfire. Each app has a nice feature the others are missing, so youll probably want multiple apps anyway. I forget what scope model you have, but I think I saw a Vortex app in the list. May be worth looking into if that has anything useful in it
  6. Been using LEDs exclusively for years. Have had 2 go out prematurely, 1 was replaced under warranty, the other one of the 'panels' flickers for a few seconds when turned on, then works fine, so it was moved to the basement. Had CFLs before going LED. No comparison, I will take LED any day. No bullshit dim warmup, you can turn LED on and off quickly/often without severely reducing lifespan, far less fragile, usually way brighter in a more compact size, etc. Get high Color Rendering Index (CRI) bulbs if you want a bulb that reproduces colors accurately. Cheap bulbs may make things look duller or less vibrant. Unfortunately, most bulbs fail to list this value. I believe 100 would be a perfect score, so 90+ is optimal. Learn about color temperature (°K) 3000K +/- 400 should reproduce the warm colors of fillament bulbs. Most likely to match old bulbs if using a mix 4000K +/- 500 is IMO a good compromise of warmth without being too warm or too cool 5000K +/- 500 is a cool color and will be very blue if mixed with fillament bulbs. May match better if used with florescent bulbs The lower the K number, typically the more orange or yellow hue the light will have, the higher the number, the more blue. Many bigger stores have a display of the different colors side by side. My biggest complaint about LEDs: Some (not all) have a perceptable delay between being switched on and the light output. I do find it annoying, but I'll take that over a dim CFL startup that takes a while to get to full brightness. Many LEDs cannot be used on dimmer switches. None of my bulbs flicker (excluding the faulty one, which only temporarily, partially blinks for a few seconds). I've found good deals on Amazon of 10+ packs for replacing many lightbulbs all at once, so everything matches. That said, buy spares because some will inevitably die early and getting an exact match later may be hard. Power savings and less heat are significant. So is lifespan - some of my old LED bulbs (in fixtures where itd be annoying to replace em yearly) are still in use 8+ years in, and are used daily multiple hours a day. I can run 6-8 LED bulbs for same energy 1 old bulb used. As someone said, helps for the generator, too.
  7. And here I thought the personalized handgun commission was about customized handguns. Engraving, optic cut slides and different optics, custom colors and coatings, different grips, etc. I mean, I guess it is. Just instead of being cosmetic upgrades to guns that will fire every time you want it to, these upgrades are to ensure that 50 percent of the time, it works every time, as long as your hand isnt sweaty and the battery is good and you remembered your special bracelet and there aren't too many wifi devices around and the bullets are compatible with 9mm-115G-v1.0.4.A firmware. That said, it would be interesting to see how easy these things will be to hack. Would be hilarious if ATF had to ban them because a magnet turns em into full auto or something.
  8. I got Serpas initially for airsoft, and eventually for a few other real guns. Despite plenty of bumps into trees/doorframes/rocks, rolling on the ground, etc, I never had em lock up or break, nor have I had a finger end up anywhere inside the trigger guard. As I have transitioned to IWB, they are most commonly used to hold the guns inside my cabinets. If I ever airsoft again, I'd still use em. Eventually they'll be replaced, but the fullsize guns are a low priority to get IWB holsters for. Apparently I will be like all of you with a box of old unused holsters that will continue to get filled with more and more holsters.
  9. Perhaps not the most modern system, but an overclocked i7-4790K, 32GB RAM, overclocked RTX 2070 Super, 2x PCIe cards, 3x SSD, 3x HDDs, 2x DVD drives, and a ton of fans, on an 850W 80+ Titanium, with two LCDs, connected to an APC 1500VA UPS is showing 164-190 watts at idle via APC's software. Turning the older, less efficient 2nd monitor off drops load to as low as 103W. Granted, it'll jump significantly if doing anything serious, but even then, during blackouts, I've had time to exit from a graphics-heavy game and safely shut down with plenty of battery life left.
  10. Had a discussion with someone today at the range about a target I had designed, and he thought would be useful. Coulda sworn I'd uploaded some here before, but I can't find some of my more recent targets on here. This is a mix of 31 targets that I've made up for myself and friends. These were mostly designed for precision rimfire rifles at 25, 50, or 100 yards (though I had 50 yards in mind for most of them, and you may use them at whatever range challenges you). Some targets were designed for plinking, while others were designed to be a challenge for guns and shooters capable of sub-MOA shooting. A number of targets are "Know Your Limits" type - where the scoring severely penalizes misses. If competing among friends with these targets, make sure all shooters are using the same target version (the version name is usually between the practice area and scored shooting area, i.e. KYL33 R3 scoring is different from KYL33 R4, despite looking very similar). The first page has instructions for printing, but I will repeat here: DO NOT scale the page to fit, even if your print dialog says the page is larger than the printable area. Nothing particularly critical is within 1/4" of the edge and most printers will not cut anything off, so be sure to print actual size, 100%. Failure to do so will likely make any measurements listed incorrect, and will make the targets more challenging. I use a laser printer and heavier paper - 28-32lb paper is much more expensive, but tends to be less prone to tearing and is usually easier to score. Hope you enjoy these targets_mix_31.pdf
  11. Having never eaten one, I have only ever seen pictures of one. But whenever I imagine one, all I can think of are either: Those "fancy" erasers that were popular in the early 90s (I think) that were in various extruded colors and made to look like slices of fruit or foods or whatever, but were utterly useless as an eraser Those kinds of dog treats with three colors nested inside each other to represent...I dunno. Bone, meat, skin? Having never tasted the latter two either, I feel they are about as appealing as vaguely rib-shaped processed meat around fake bones
  12. No idea how to fix it, but unless you disabled it, you likely have either/both a google account or samsung account tied to it, which if signed into on a new device should have things like contacts saved and automatically restored. It might be possible that other things were also saved and could be restored. If you are getting by with an S10 (i.e. don't want/need a flagship), you may wanna look at the Samsung A5_ series of phones, which seem to have pretty respectable specs - similar to a generation or two old flagship - with pricetags that are not absolutely insane. Furthermore, the S23 will be out quite soon, so there may be deals on that or new old stock S22s/21s to clear them out of stock
  13. Seeing how they want you to provide proof your gun is yours for a NJ carry permit, there's one. And I just read about one of the other dumbass states, I believe Illinois or Cali, recently tried to pass some BS requiring proof of ownership (prior to enactment of said BS) within 4 days, or they could sieze and/or destroy the gun(s). I don't recall specifics, but found the link somewhere on this forum.
×
×
  • Create New...