Maksim

Next to your AK? Great topic and a ton of valuable information here. I am surprised so many (hobbyists at least) carry spare parts to the range. Just take it home and deal with it then. Use a back up gun. In my range bag I generally keep tools, cleaning kits, and small parts, typically replacements for magazines... but have never had the urge or need to carry a spare BCG for an AR.

I never knew you could be so Savage

What kind of ammo? Possible the gas block got loose and now not enough gas going through? Fouled up gas tube? If the new BCG is lower mass, it can see it "solving" the issue for now.

So it may have been a 5.11 special, but I don't believe it was an official, i.e. NSSF Shot Show sponsored/approved/endorsed shirt.

Thanks for that info. Pretty crazy that no more ranges in NYC. Nuts if you think about it... but I suppose that is what happens in a liberal bastion. I think I am thinking of another case?

@GRIZ So I get that someone can be made an accessory... BUT... are we also saying LEO are not held responsible? Sorry, but a copy who kills a friendly should at least be held on trial for manslaughter, especially if it was due to training.

Got to admit, some of the japanese work is just crazy... I am blown away how he melts the knife back at the end.

True, the question is where is that point? I also do find it to figure out where a product is. For instance, testing the Sightmarks, I was blown away at how they fared based on their price point. And at the same time we have number of reports of Aimpoint clones and others for just a bit less that just die from looking at them wrong. But there are some things we can look at, i.e. material that they are made out of... Steel vs Aluminum 7075, vs 6061, etc. IP67 vs IP68, if any and the warranty behind them. The big thing for me though was realizing, despite playing gun games... the most ever, that I abused an optic was not babying it onto a padded blanket when shooting at the range. lol. Dropping a gun/optic or drowning it in water... never. I sure got plenty of looks at the range when I was emptying the bottle of water on the optics and then dropping the gun.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing and glad to have you actively back here!

Not really surprising about NYPD... I have friends on NYPD and a couple of them are openly ANTI GUN and hate the idea of carrying a gun. They shoot just the quals. They want to be cops (for the money and authority) but don't actually want anything to do with guns or training beyond what is minimally required. Remember the guy who went up to kill boss or coworkers? Was already leaving and outside... NYPD confronted... perp did not fire a shot yet lots of innocent standbys were shot... by NYPD cops. Realistically, I don't understand... when you are required to carry a gun... you should be required to have weekly training/range time to keep on improving.

By what company? I have yet to see a shot Show t-shirt... hats... yes... but not t-shirts.

Surprisingly, those Glock pens are REALLY good. Well, like the Glocks... they are reliable and generally pleasant to use. Is it a Mont Blanc? No... but good enough and better than 95% of the promo/junk bank or drug branded pens.

Since learning to shoot about 15 years ago, and more particularly in the last 10 years since starting New Jersey Gun Forums, I have been blessed with the ability to shoot a wide variety of firearms and accessories, everything from entry level handguns to rifles and shotguns which can purchase a decent house somewhere in the Mid-West. One constant in the gun world is that much like in every other hobby, there is, within a certain segment an equipment race, to have the latest and greatest gear that you would find going into war zones. While I am generally not opposed to spending more money to get a well crafted and reliable gun like a Knights Armament AR, optics in particular is an area where I feel 95% of gun owners would be spending money on features they will never use. Trijicon ACOGs, NightForce, Elcan SpecterDR, Aimpoint, you get the idea. Yes, they are brilliant optics with great quality glass and ruggedness to withstand a war zone. The question is, for the non-military buyer, do you need to pay for the ruggedness when 90% of the time the gun will be in the safe and 9% of the time the gun will be at the range? Do you need to spend thousands of dollars for the slight chance that you will drop the gun in the middle of the lake in the 1% of the time you are out boating with it? (boat, gun, lake joke). What got me thinking about this question is doing some testing with the Sightmark Wolfhound 6x Prismatic sight. I subjected the scope to the advertised specs and it passed with flying colors. I drenched the optics with a bottle of water and even dropped the rifle (on purpose) to see whether it holds zero or still works. I then escalated the test and dunked the optic in a contain of water and left it there, running, for over an hour. This would surely kill it, right? And the optic continued to function. Sightmark compares this to the ACOG 6x optic and at no time do they ever state that it is a better optic. They do however point out that you are getting comparable features for a whole lot less. Yes, the ACOG does not use any batteries and instead lights the reticle either via the fiber optic strip or tritium. The Wolfhound uses a battery. In either case, if the battery dies, you still have the reticle, it just won't light up red or green. The ACOG is also made out of 7075 aluminum versus the 6061 aluminum used in the Wolfhound. The ACOG is also submersible to 328 ft of water versus just 10 ft on the Wolfhound. The question is then the following, rather than spend thousands more on buying ruggedness that you will never likely use, is the gun owner better off buying a "good enough" optic and investing the difference in ammo and training instead? Here is the video review of the Sightmark Wolfhound 6x44 Prismatic and Mini Shot M-Spec Reflex Sights

this is their older lanyard, the one I like a bit better. =)

well dang... 8"... the snow just melted here two days ago. I suppose snow blow the drive way then go shoot.

that moat needs... alligators. Did alligators survive? Or they turn zombie too? Do Gators get fat if they eat a ton of zombies?

hah, No, not the Punisher. Was most recently on that show "Zoo" or "The Zoo" on Netflix. They were in Brazil, the guy had a 1911 pointed at a gang leader... hammer was down on a 1911.

Ok, the ARs I am following are still the same price. Feel free to PM and can discuss offline, but for the mainstream models I follow, have not see that bump. Off of the lows a little bit? Yes. Overall though, long gun sales are at decade lows... even with the parkland shooting. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4238787-nics-wrapping-2018-starting-2019 Confirmed by Excise tax data, and the mfrs execs and distributors with whom I have direct contact. No clue on Garands but glad to hear... need to pick up one. lol. AK is a whole different world, thanks to the import ban of ALL Russian AKs now.

Where do you see this? I still see a glut of dirt cheap ARs hitting the market with $500 or less for new Sports, etc. Maybe some higher end guns? Or simply seasonal effect. My best place to search is forums like NJGF and others... do a google search for "WTS" + Model such as "WTS P30L" and you will usually find some forum results. But the other one, is simply make relationships with our vendors who see LOTS of guns walk through the doors. Let them know what you are looking for used and you will get messages or phone calls when it comes in. Finally as someone else said... gun auctions that are live. Such as @sunriseantiques in Jackson, and a few others in PA. Typically every 2 months or so. Some of the prices may be totally nuts, OR a different option the prices may be stupid low. Really depends on the turn out and the bidding frenzy. To give you a for instance, last auction picked up an essentially unfired VEPR K 2 7.62x39 that was a Robinson Arms import for under $1k.... which is a $1,500 gun all day long. A friend picked up a Remingon 1911 enhanced with threaded barrel for a can for around $400. On the flip side, some real Russian bakelite mags went for insane money and so did some Garands.

All good with the rest but disagree on the bolded part. Hand test is fine... and better than nothing. Better yet is go find a range that has both available to rent or simply ask a member here and go shoot them. The guns feel very much different when shooting them. =) And as to Czech Made.... crystal and china. =) Czech stuff is quite good with that.

And if you really want a NICE CZ... https://czcustom.com/new-firearms/cz-pistols-custom/cz-shadow-2-custom-accu.html Once again, there is a reason why people go CZ and clone CZ in match circles. 50 yard, 10 yard groups of 2 3/8". https://czcustom.com/new-firearms/cz-pistols-custom/cz-75-sp01-accu-shadow-9mm-black.html

Bring it.... What is it you are a fan of nowadays? Was it Smith & Wesson? Glock? Beretta now, right? =P At least I am a consistent CZ and 1911 guy. But you are right, let's clarify. I would say a stock CZ 75 is more accurate than a stock 92fs. And the delta increases even more once we look at CZ guns from custom shop like Accushadow, etc. Has to do with with full frame rails. But here you go... TFB did some testing... 25 yard and 35 foot groups. CZ 75 TS came in 2nd... Beretta 92 came in last. https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/10/12/exclusive-testing-worlds-accurate-pistols-part/

THIS! Especially after they were just shooting and now racking the slide... AGAIN! If we are talking movies.... Was just watching one.... a guy holding a 1911 at someone... and the HAMMER IS DOWN! lol. Yes... that 1911 is now magically DA/SA. lol.

That is very true. The vast majority of gun owners are NOT going to do any kind of work to their guns. What you get at the factory is what it is going to be. So for me, even the Vertec grip was skinny enough. I know I loved learning to shoot on a Beretta 92FS, but there is just something about the grip size of a CZ 75, 1911 or even the Browning High Power (although stock triggers here are complete garbage.) Yes, there is a ton of Nostalgia Buying, and let's be honest, I am sure a ton of Beretta buyers are buying because it was military gun or THE Italian gun to have. i.e. If I did buy a Beretta 92 variant... it would not be a US Made one... same for Desert Eagle... Israel or no gun. I suppose it's like buying an American BMW or a Mexican VW? It is definitely a cool gun though and would be happy to own when I run across one, but for the money, IF I had to choose one or the other... CZ any day, twice on Sunday. (match day, duh!)

So that is what I tried... but the Vertec is still no where near what you can do with a CZ. They truly are two different guns, its like comparing a BMW 7 series to a Cadillac CTS or something like that. At the end of the day, it should not be about one or the other. In either case though... if we are talking about triggers, a 92 trigger of any kind, cannot come close to a worked CZ trigger. I truly believe the CZ is going to have the closet DA/SA trigger you can find to a 1911 trigger, and perhaps the nicest DA trigger period. Put it this way, there is a reason why the vast majority of competitive shooters shoot CZ and CZ clones and very few shoot Berettas... and it has nothing to do with sponsorships, etc. Top guns are: CZ, Glock, Tanforglios (CZ Clones), followed by Sig, Springfield and H&K.