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Throw in a volquartsen exact edge extractor (cheap), disassemble the mags and clean up the flashing and tension the spring properly (free), and depending on your gun, applying a little tlc to where the mags lock up (also free), and you will have one of the most reliable .22s on the market. The factory stamped extractor can vary greatly form sample to sample. Same with the setup of the mags.

Read the article. This is NOT near field RFID. I'm not really concerned about that. This is specifically a technology to be able to track them from vehicles in a crowd our outside a structure. Unless they are misrepresenting their technology.

Good luck on both. Everyone seems to be out of everything but some 50 bmg powders, titewad, and a couple places have VV powder for poofy cowboy loads.

Not really. In general, the magnifiers run a bit more than the dot form the same manufacturer. Keep in mind that is MSRP, and their sparc MSRPs for $289 and the strikefire for $229. DO find the ratio and hit up retail prices for those and you will ahve an idea of real cost to buy it.

OK, here's the deal. The ar-15 is designed to eat proof loads without catastrophic failure. .223 rifles are engineered to eat .223 proof loads without catastrophic failure. Because of the way the government specs the proof loads for 5.56, the pressures for both the .223 proof load and the 5.56 proof load are essentially the same despite the max pressure for in spec ammo being different. You are not talking blow your gun up kinds of pressure differences unless their are radical defects in the design or materials of barrel, bolt, and/or lockup of those two. What you will see if you have a bad match are things like hard to extract brass, primers popping out and getting in your fire control group, and brass so stuck that you rip the case head off trying to extract it. You will also get more stress on your bolt lugs, which means premature wear, and if it is a softer bolt, possibly significnatly less time before you crack and sheer one of the lugs. You won't sheer all of them at once, and they will crack first, so you will have warning. You will also bump up the pressure, which will erode the throat of the chamber faster, and probably can even cause gas port erosion to speed up (at least relative to a diet of .223). Heck, you'll probably get warning signs even earlier than that of excessive gas being blown back in yoru face as if you were using a suppressor. Why shouldn't you lose sleep over this? Because you have ZERO idea what the actual dimensions of your chamber are unless you know what reamer was used, and how worn it was. Between all the variations in each of .223, .223 wylde, 5.56, 5.56 sam-r, noveske match mod0, etc. Look at the specs for them and they overlap all over the place. You'll find .223 reamers that are more generous than some 5.56 reamers. You'll find reamers that trade off freebbore length for freebore diameter, and leade length fro leade angle, etc. There is just not much you can do about it, and you'll get plenty of warning signs. So check your gear, and don't continue to run ammo your gun has problems digesting. This is not like double charging a pistol cartridge, or even worse, filling a rifle cartridge with pistol powder. You are talking a 10% or less increase in pressure in a situation where stuff is engineered to survive at least 125% of specified pressure. The brass will fail first. Here's an article with some chamber cutter specs and some pressure graphs of various ammo in various chambers. http://www.luckygunner.com/labs/5-56-vs-223/

Perhaps I'm not going to every meeting put on by NJ2AS because I'll spend my time at the rallies, counter protests, etc. Perhaps they are getting around to spread the word and there isn't much point if you already know. Not every informational meeting is going to be mobbed. If you know people being apathetic, work on them. It's not new news to a lot of us, and there are much more efficient means of keeping up to date than going to physical meetings all over the state.

God I wish people would stop repeating that. NASA paid NOTHING for the space pen fisher developed it on his own dime because he thought it would be cool (and profitable) to have his company associated with the space program.

It would seem that way.

Same for sphinx, or anything else their group of companies imports or sells here. Very big brother of them, and it should be tons of fun when the gun grabbers get this stuff on their radar. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/03/25/krisssphinx-sister-company-nano-id-develops-gun-tracking-technology/

They'll come down. Maybe not to the $50 lower type of slae prices, but they will come down a lot. It's not like gasoline, you don't necessarily NEED more. In previous panics, 5.56 was $400-$700 a case. It took a bit, but in between this and the last, it wasn't hard to come by at $249 for a while. Adjust for inflation and commodities prices from the time I could buy the same case of ammo for only $190, and that $249 was dirt cheap. I suspect the razors will have a precipitous drop. The razor blades will take a while longer even if just because at some point, people will start shooting more than hoarding as the price drops, and it'll hold at that threshold for a bit.

You don't have to go back that far for that price.

Feeding and whatnot, I'd call them a draw in .45. However I've seen a few of the welded on nubs that prevent over insertion on the Wilsons break the weld and come off at a bad moment. They cost enough even if it isn't a bad moment, it shouldn't happen. Cmc and Tripp don't do that.

There's nothing wrong with rich people getting rich by creating actual value. We do have a severe problem with a whole class of rich people who get rich skimming off the top, being deceptive, pushing out the leverage to the nth power, setting it up to fail, and then shorting the whole mess they made. Then when that doesn't work out quite right, they kick in with the money creation and you, me, and the rich guy who creates actual value get kicked in the teeth by inflation.

Here ya go. http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.php/psa-ar15-lower.html

NO!!!! they are crafty.. no internet presence means no bad internet publicity, right? Isn't that how it works? Regardless, if they have ammo, I suspect people are still coming in and buying it.

The absolute lowest price I found for a case of 1000 of 55gr fmj with copper jackets and brass cases since 2008 was some overrun centurion for $199.99 per thousand (wish I had bought more, it was like federal xm193 quality components with pmc bronze velocities, and pretty damn accurate). For federal xm193, Since I started stocking up in late 2010, it was $216 per thousand. Within 2012, it was $249.99. Summer 2012, with some patience you could get $289.99. heading into october $349.99 was a decent price, $399.99 was more normal.

If you are insuring it, and want ANY hope of ever getting a settlement if something happens, you need to declare the contents.

It's about bullet weight and velocity. I have some xm193 @ about 3300fps, 55gr JSP loads @ 3100 fps, 55gr fmj @3000-ish, 60gr ballistic tip @3016, 62 gr OTM, 60 grain bonded core (don't remember the muzzle velocities off hand for those, I'd have to look them up). ALl the hand loads are the same 24.3-24.5 grains of tac and loaded to mag length. POI between them all shifts less than 2" at 50 yards. It'd be less, but the otm and cheapie 55gr FMJ throw it off. The 193, 55gr jsp, and 60gr ballistic tip are actually REALLY close to the same poi at that distance because although the velocity for the jsp is lower, it's BC is higher, and it's a more accurate round. This means that although it's POI is probably lower, it's generally wholly contained within the area the 193 will impact. The 60gr ballistic tip is lower BC than both, and doesn't give up that much velocity. It's almost dead on with the xm193. Plugging it into my ballistic calculator has them within 0.1" out to about 250 yards. In reality, shooting with a red dot, they might as well shoot exactly the same out to 100. The cheapie bulk JSP hits about an inch lower, it might be less.

OK, you aren't going to find a stocked product that is NJ legal. Sorry. Now, what you MIGHT be able to do is get someone to make something for you. Not a brake or comp, but go with a 16" barrel that is threaded, and get someone to machine you a thread guard that goes over the barrel so that you basically have a crowned barrel with a cosmetic sleeve over it. Then pin and weld the sleeve. It's single piece construction a machinist would be able to produce on a lathe. No real engineering etc. Just an idea.

There are, but the casv looks cool. This is reason #246 why I don't want a piston upper.

SAF has testified, but they got listened to about as much as anyone else. The SAF's thing is taking laws to court, so there's not much to do about the bills yet. From more recent news, it also looks like they ate going after stats and studies by having reviewing bad methodology and conclusions.

No you aren't throwing your money away. Heck I even like some of their parts. It's more that they charge you like its a custom gun, and it isn't until you get into their really pricey guns. At that point, you can pay less and wait less and get someone who gives you their best labor every time. A wilson super grade is $6k their cqb elite is $3400. At that $3400 price I can now go talk to a whole mess of very good custom builders. I got a custom gun built, and even with fancy finishes, overnight shipping to multiple places, and had it needed $250 worth of ammo to break in, I would have blown past the price of the $3400 Wilson by about $25. It worked like a top out of the box. 10,000 rounds later, it still shoots like new. Now to put it in perspective, there's a $2600 difference between those two Wilsons. There's not $2600 worth of parts difference. So you are either being charged so you can say that you have the most expensive gun they make and it must be the best, or you are paying less because less care was taken on it. Compared to the gunsmith route, yeah there's a premium for convenience of having some of their guns be a stocked item that you can pay the got to have it now tax. There's also a formal warranty. You also don't have to do research. You can whip out your wallet, get in line, and you have a rough idea of the quality you will get. There's also a bunch of ad dollars spent so your buddies will know your gun is the awesomest by the brand name. But were I taking the lazy, pricey route, rather than the $6000 Wilson super grade, I'd probably get in line with sv. They do single stacks as well as 2011s, and you'll get the top of the line quality for around $4k. You will wait though. As for best of the best, there isn't one. There are smiths that will do a very good job on every gun, no price differences unless it is more parts, more labor, or more machine time. In general, once you pass $2000 mark you really have to consider the cost benefit of going custom. Cross the $1600 mark and you need to consider if getting the base model from a high volume manufacturer like Springfield and paying a smith to make it nicer is a good fit. From my perspective none of the high end stocked inventory guns are quite justifying their price. Wilson, Ed brown, and others got to be big names when someone was doing the work who isn't now. I prefer to spend that kind of money on the guy that built their reputation rather than the guys they hired later (or their hr person did). If you just charged me $2400 and the gun needs 500 rounds to break in, there's a problem. They could have told you it is good to go out of the box. They told you, effectively, don't bother us until you have 500 rounds through it. It'll probably work out of the box. If it doesn't, I expect you'll hear about that breaking in from customer support I'll bet their $6000 gun won't need it. But there are also a bunch of guys building guns whose product won't need it and you'll keep a lot of cash in your pocket.

I'll take a different tack than Dave. Wilson sells expensive 1911s that are shoved out the door efficiently rather than actually being the best of the best. High volume and top quality rarely go hand in hand. What you get is a compromise that is better than most, but leans towards the things people perceive as being good than what is actually good. THat means like most higher volume manufacturers, they ship the things out TIGHT. Which means it need to wear down the truly overly tight spots to function reliably, and they want that to happen as fast as possible, so they tell you to shoot it before you clean and lube. If it truly were as good as a custom gun built by a smith who knows what they are doing, it'd either be machined to fit perfect, or it would be hand lapped rather than telling you to do that by firing what is currently about $250 worth of .45 through it before you really complain about anything. Wilson is BAD, you are jsut paying for a name and a lot of overhead and the gun gets the amount of TLC that is optimal for their bottom line vs. their reputation.

They work, the trigger is... unrefined to say the least. When you could score one for $150-180, they were a deal. At $300+? not so much IMO.

You can put them both on the riser, but I'm not sure how well the rear will work for you if you push it forward. Try it and see. They'll work on the same plane with a carbine length tube, or a 15" tube. You wil jsut have to re-zero if the rear peep doesn't become unusable for you form pushing it forward. If it does, you need to get a metal front sight that won't melt that is designed for same plane applications. You can use that with the rear MBUS which is designed for same plane use, or you can replace both. If you put the rear sight on the flat top, but the fornt on the riser, you will not have enough sight travel to zero it on any front sight I have seen.