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We'll I know glock's current posted policy for blue label sales is that individual officers can also get the pricing straight from them if they have letterhead. If your department makes you byog, it should in theory fit the parameters to skip excise. An ffl who knew current policy would have to pipe in to be sure.

Age wise they tend to fail with a frame crack by the front block somewhere between the takedown doohickey and the pin that retains the block. They can still function with a crack, but if it migrates to the pin hole you can wind up with non repairable frame damage that affects function. Given historical performance, I'd guess a 9mm flavor has at least 18years or 50,000 rounds to its lifespan, assuming glock hasn't made positive revisions to their polymer formula. Given that there are many examples past both numbers, I suspect environment has a lot to do with it. Uv exposure, solvents and lubes, etc. There's also the random chance factor of where that crack migrates and if the user considers it failed when it appears or when it stops running right. I suspect a 10mm will not make the round count of a 9mm, etc.

Their gas ports are sized right. So it is either the ammo, or the length of the gas system you have issue with. Making a judgement on one single incident seems a bit much.

Interesting. Glad I haven't updated the nooks not ezwinscore yet.

That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people air gunning stages and trying to come up with their stage plans while we are still building them, or trying to fix problems found while checking the stages.

Supposed to or do is the question. I know there was some serious inter-retailer fighting that got pretty public with regards to using them to undercut normal retail pricing and making it impossible for some stores to compete. Form the descriptions it seemed that 1) the excise collection doesn't work as a rebate, and they arrive at the FFL with no excise tax collected and 2) most of the people involved in the discussion seemed to imply they were not collecting it form the individual officers. Might have been with letterhead though. The general gist seemed to be it was honor system though. This was years ago, so dunno if the manufacturers cracked down on it and adjust their programs.

No Idea. email ocntacts on the obcats web page. Specifically jim.

satern for .223 There is absolutely no better. Yes, $13 for a funnel seems sutpid until you use one. ETA http://www.midwayusa.com/product/480995/satern-powder-funnel-22-caliber-aluminum-and-brass look it's only $11.99 right now. I got mine for $10, but I would honestly replace it in a heartbeat at twice that price. Especially fro fine ball powders like TAC or BLC2,no more static cling and the stuff flows through like water. Varget tells yo nothing. It's the powder that meters and flows like poop with everything, so everything looks good/bad. The big chunks make it less sensitive to static though.

AS the stage designer, I can tell you why. The rear set of walls were supposed to be flush with the bridge. Since the wobbly bridge was shorter than I remembered, trying to force two positions on there seemed a bit dodgy for the inexperienced, less dexterous, and old dudes who don't move so hot, so I pushed hte walls out allowing them to engage the two targets between the walls from off the bridge. Since it was early, I simply didn't think of adding fault line to the left side, and nobody checking the stage mentioned it. Since it looked wrapped up, we moved on to stages that were causing problems for us that needed obvious fixing or the match was going to be screwed. I wanted to shoot from a wobbly bridge, and I did. It was annoying that some people gamed it, but in the end I don't really care. I screwed up, but I dragged it out there so I could have fun and that was my primary motivation. I will however comment on what pissed a number of people off greatly that involves all the stuff above. We have sort of tolerated people walking through the courses of fire if they are done and we haven't gotten the match going yet. What we have never tolerated well is people interfering with construction of the match. On Sunday, at least three groups of people were walking through pits 1-3 while we were still working them, and delaying and already delayed match even further. To top it off all three groups took their time to clear the stages, and two of them ignored the MD's initial instruction to leave the stage. One even then preceded to repeat this behavior on the adjacent stage. This is 100% against the rules per 8.7.3 not to mention generally dickish to the people who put in the work so you have a match to shoot, AND further delayed the match for everyone who was waiting patiently for the match to actually start and squads to be called. By the rules, there's only really one penalty we can actually assess, and that is 10.6.2, which is a match DQ for unsportsmanlike conduct for disregarding MD or RM instructions. How does the wobbly bridge thing fit into it? Well, if you know the rules well enough to game a stage, you know the rules well enough to ask if something odd was intentional or not. Like say dragging a 100lb prop out that serves no purpose if you can just avoid it. Extra sets of eyes are largely why that behavior has been tolerated. We've cracked down on walking the stages before. Expect that to make a comeback, especially in light of the DST change and really short match days. Given the attitude of the folks aggravating the issue this weekend, do not be surprised if the result of ignoring it is something other than simply getting a talking to about being a jerk.

No, what's on the scores is the percent of the top shooter of the match. For national classification, there is a high hit factor for every classifier for every division. Your national percentage is based off this high hit factor. Once you have one score that has been done nationally, you can calculate the HHF regardless of what that score was. The new classifiers went out to new clubs that got the printed packet of materials back in May. The website got digital versions between the CJ match and the OB match in October. The 4.11 version of EZWINSCORE that got them went up about the same time, os unless you wanted to do the whole vintage paper process form start to finish (i.e. skip ezwinscore), you couldn't submit them until about 10-14 days ago. Which means that the first results should hit the USPSA web site mid November. I know multiple clubs have run 13-04, which is what we did, so that should be one of the earlier ones in. BUt the calculators will work round about when you can jsut go look up your percentage on the USPSA site.

The last thing I am worrying about is keeping my AR spotless. However carbon build up in the carrier can affect function, and I've gotten in the habit of giving it a cleaning come winter time when the cold weather reduces gas pressures. I can go at it with solvents, burshes and patches, and the cat tool was more or less useless other than to let me ignore it unless it gave issues in the field and I could see if knocking the big chunks off helped. The Bone actually let me finish the winterizing maintenance on all my AR uppers in the time it'd take me to do one with chemicals. I also care more now because I built a gamey 3-gun upper with a really aggressive break. That combined with hand loads has lead to some SERIOUS increase int he rate of gunkification of the the upper. anything that creates more back pressure will put more carbon nastiness into the upper.

With firearms and ammo, this IS different than an LEO discount as most of the time, the reduced LEO price excludes the excise tax n the firearm.

Well, I finally got a some spare time to do some gun maintenance, and got to play with the cat m-4 and the Otis bone. The cat cleans the tail more effectively over the whole surface. They do about the same to the surface right behind the gas rings. The bone cleans the inside of the carrier MUCH better where the gas rings seat. The cat reaches all the way back, which the bone does not, but you are basically wiggling it around while twisting it to knock off the big chunks. I didn't have any firing pins that were excessively dirty, the cat got it a little cleaner, but I'd consider the difference negligible. The bone can be used as a t handle for threaded cleaning rods. The cat has a hex hole you can in theory put tool bits in. I think that is heavily theoretical. The cat does have corners and a flat bit at the end you can scrape at other bits of the bolt with. The bone is heavier and shorter. The cat is lighter and flatter.

The graphic is just wrong. I can buy any car without any permit, registration, or license if I dont want to use it on the road. I can buy the fastest car I can afford. There is no mandatory training to operate it, just to operate it in public. There is no mandatory inspection if not operated on public roads. Ditto insurance. Ditto health limitations. So, pretty stupid graphic.

I know this sounds way too involved, but the reality is for most guns and loads plated is not a PITA once you get the right crimp as long as you don't push it too fast, which is usally REALLY fast. 9mm major power factor ammo with plated is not something I would try with any reasonably priced plated ammo. I'd also avoid .357 sig and magnum loads. Most of the above I learned through dealing with polymer coated lead as well since the same rules apply. That being said, I will also answer the OPs question about acceptable group I tried making major PF using 165gr .40 plated bullets out of a fullsize M&P, so a 4.25" barrel IIRC? Anyway, offhand group size was about 10 inches at 30 yards. Pretty suck. Lighten up the crimp, shrinks to about 8"... still pretty suck. Cut back velocity to about 137pf, and group shrinks to about 6". at 7 yards they were all indistinguishable after backing off the crimp. I try a 180gr, and I get about 6" groups and tell myself I need to practice. I don';t like how either load really feels in that gun, so I stick to minor PF and forget about it until I switch to moly coat later. Then it all comes back, but at minor PF. The plated I was using were double struck, so pretty firm. The coated are SOFT so I start miking things. Go back and check and I'm undersizing everything .40 that isn't jakceted. Swap out the lee FCD (which I had used just fine for plated 230gr .45) for a dillon taper crimp. Make up some left over plated I still have on hand and the coated. Plated groups tighten up to about 5", and coated are about 8". WTF. So I start retrieving bullets. Turns out my M&P factory barrel had one sharp land that was cutting through the coating at any velocity, and cutting through the plated when I pushed them over about 1000fps as far as I could estimate. (180 major didn't do it, and 165 major did) The barrel went into the parts bin. Had I been a bit smarter, I would have taken the hint form having to clean harsh leading out of only one land/groove juncture. So, problem fixed, I got about 6" groups out of jacketed at 30 yards, about 5" groups out of plated set up right, and about 4" out of coated. Basically, the more they deformed rapidly to seal the bore, and the more completely they did it, the better the group. This was with a full size and a storm lake match barrel though. 21'/7 yards they were essentially the same, and accuracy was limited by the amount of target left to aim at and the size of the front sight blade. I will add one more thing, which is that for me, shooting a polymer framed gun from a rest does not help me be more accurate at all, it in fact makes it worse. I'm assuming it is frame flex bothering me. At 35', I can tell you absolutely that a plated round should be able to hold greater than 2.5" accuracy from a rest because I have done that at farther from a rest with a gun with a metal frame. Off hand with a compact M&P at about 30' I have done about 3" groups off hand trying out someone else's new toy. But it wasn't a super serious effort for accuracy, was pretty much one mag and done, and IIRC it was blazer ammo. From a practical standpoint, whatever distance I stop being able to cover group size with a closed fist is about where I consider that gun/ammo/shooter combo to cease being useful to me. Which basically means a 3.5-4" group. I'd expect to be able to hold near that at 20 yards, and that is where I increasingly become the limiting factor in that equation (i.e. have I been practicing enough).

Most suicides let it be known to some extent that they are going to off themselves. To whom and for how long is variable. Going through the whole club membership thing is probably not impulsive enough to be within that range. The odds ofr a private club suicide are an existing member who is depressed enough to do so. If they are the kind of person who doesn't want to go an do it someplace where only strangers are inconvenienced, they'll probably just do it at home.

That's the other half of the problem with the test. The first way to step it up, if you have the components, is to take a regular 230gr or whatever, and seat it nose into the case so you wind up with a reinforced rim. The level of difficulty climbs rapidly. That'll test out your feed ramp. I agree, a heavy SWC or 250gr truncated cone loaded long are the best test of the three point jam potential.

Well seeing as last time they did this to him, they got a whole box of .40 and an antique cap and ball revolver, and he didn't do time form that, he probably won't from this. Of course they could do it a third time, claim it was evidence of arms trafficking and RICO him without conviction so....

The answer is it depends. I've got a thunderbolt form before the panic. It's essentially the same bolt. Their carriers were staked right and dimensionally correct and made out of the right stuff. Which basically means they are as good as matters. Since supply became and issue, since they are in the business of selling parts they have had some house brand mystery bolts made of 9130. Right now, all the NiB stuff is c158 bolts and MPI. I'm not seeing a lot of places offering HPT inventory right now. So it should be reaosnably safe. I snagged one of their NiB bolts during their colombus day sale. It's not total crap. I haven't had a chance to test it though. Rainier does try to maintain their standards of what they stock for inventory though.

A lighter spring helps a faster return to sight picture because a good grip supinates the forearms, which moves your musculature out of a neutral position and makes it act like a spring resisting muzzle rise. For a lot of people a good grip is not necessarily resistant to muzzle dip. A light spring slams the slide into battery with less force, thus decreasing the propensity for the muzzle to dip. The springy supination part is bio mechanical, and not really a conscious act. That makes it essentially instantaneous. Recovering from muzzle dip is conscious execution of fine motor skills and thus takes some time. Choosing a spring rate that returns the muzzle to a natural point of aim is faster even if the muzzle wants to rise more. There's a misconception that lighter springs cycle faster. They don't. They just make the reward motion the faster part of the cycling motion. The other one is that there's a universal optimal spring weight. For 2011s people usually claim it is 14 or 13 recoil, 17 main. I tried it on mine with a light slide, and it left me with muzzle climb (I.e. it'd be back in battery before my grip had snapped back to a natural point of aim) 15/17 works well though.

No they are running super light loads with super light bullets. And transitions are often as fast as splits for the really fast guys, eve in uspsa. They swiss cheese the guns and run light bullets, charges, and springs. And they don't chug. You also failed to comprehend what I wrote almost entirely.

Part of it is a number of people got attention recently because they disrupted commuter traffic. For young people, I think you have some novel contributing factors. One of them is zero tolerance. I had a friend in high school around 1990. She was bullied relentlessly by a specific group of girls who repeatedly escalated it to violence. The school was kind of useless, but one thing they did do successfully was establish who instigated incidents, who escalated them and why, and they didn't add the burden of being punished by the school whenever she got bullied. We've also been teaching kids to place responsibility on external entities. This is really ineffectual for a lot of interpersonal stuff. That ineffectiveness usually makes the life of the person misbehaving easier, and the life of those seeking help worse. Social media makes it all more public.

Do they ensure that NOBODY runs the place solo? No, then that there is a pile of crap as staffing the place with at least two sets of eyes and working surveillance cameras are the top two items on the list for convenience store safety.

Unburnt powder.

The extractor almsot doesn't come into it. What it is is a test of the geometry between barrel hood, feed ramp, and mag lips. Which test the fitting of the gun and the state of the magazine. However, I have found empty cases to be a poor test, ESPECIALLY if your 1911 is heavily sprung. It'll jsut deform the case mouth a bit and shove it in. IMO you really jsut want to load up dummy rounds with some different bullet profiles as you want to see if anything will get a three point lockup between ramp, mag lips, and hood, and different profiles abuse diferent parts of the balance differently.