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Space is, as usual limited to 30 shooters. First people who are both OB and USPSA members get a crack at sign up. After that I believe it is USPSA members who have attended a match at OB previously, then it's anyone with a USPSA card for round three if there are any slots left.

A number of mass shooters have killed themselves without being confronted. As for the odd reporting, I'm hoping it's a new trend. Making someone famous for this crap is exactly the opposite of what should happen. They should die anonymously with the only coverage about them being how big a POS the nameless scumbag was rather than turning them into some anti hero to be copycatted.

You can be sure of a lot of wrong stuff. Doesn't make it true. There are plenty of dangerous game bullets that are solid brass there are solid gilding metal (i.e. brass) bullets form several major manufacturers at least for riffle bullets. That's on top of your sentence composition not making sense. JAcketed bullets go through vests easier? (no) Brass jacketed does? (no) I can't even tell what you are claiming. The law as it stands is this : "(B) The term `armor piercing ammunition' means- (i) a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium; or (ii) a full jacketed projectile larger than .22 caliber designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the projectile. © The term `armor piercing ammunition' does not include shotgun shot required by Federal or State environmental or game regulations for hunting purposes, a frangible projectile designed for target shooting, a projectile which the Secretary finds is primarily intended to be used for sporting purposes, or any other projectile or projectile core which the Secretary finds is intended to be used for industrial purposes, including a charge used in an oil and gas well perforating device." [secretary means Secretary of the Treasury, in reality determinations are delegated to the Technology Branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)]

The use of airsoft for dryfiring is questionable, however once you ad in transitions, movement, draw to frist shot while doing those, they are a useful training tool. Getting a decent one is the key though, they need to have similar weight and a trigger in the right ballpark. If I had more free time to train, I'd have one. Instead I have a toddler, design stages, and run a match. Since that kills most of my free time, I don't bother with the initial investment.

There have been more updates, mostly revolving around discovery of evidence and publishing of pictures. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/03/newly-released-photo-shows-bloodied-george-zimmerman-from-night-trayvon-martin/ My guess is Adam is largely right. Every time something comes up, it gets more and more likely they can win a case without stand your ground being involved, and certainly can't get a 2nd degree murder case. I see two major possibilities. First, either they are in cahoots with zimmerman's lawyers and waiting until the protests are gone, then leaking more and more evidence that shows self defense, and waiting until the media response to that is nothing, or at least not trying to railroad zimmerman. This mainly because they know they were forced by media pressure ot take a loser case they wouldn't have and want to let it go. Second would be that they are stuck with a loser case due to an internal crusader with influence, and they are draggin it out as long as possible to try and force a deal to be cut.

While I agree with you that since I can't have an effective flash suppressor, I'd rather have an effective comp rather than a compromise that might or might not get me in trouble. Sometimes the substitution jsut doesn't work. The FSC556, I believe, is long enough to make a 14.5 meet the 16inch length if you permanently attach, the TTO doesn't.

http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/NY0PAT7W.pdf The decision is a nice read. Some serious common sense and rationality in there regardless of subject.

AImpoint micro dot 2moa. Well under $1k, works at 100 yards, easy to use, and if he decides he doesn't like it, he can get most of his money back totry something else. The ACOGs are nice pieces of gear, but if the binden aiming thing doesn't work awesome for you, you wind up with an odd powered single magnification scope that isn't light and often has a weird or severely minimal reticle. They are very well made though and also hold their resale value.

Hmm found some more pictures. The cone has a beefy wall. I'm going to guess that it doesn't reduce muzzle flash more than something like the FC556, but I'd wait for someone to post low light video before committing.

Ah the idiots. Materials technology is going to rest for no politician. We are already at the point where three guys with smarts, and a couple hundred grand can get you making high quality biological weapons. It isn't going to stop there.

Probably the most infamous for being soft was a very large supply of indian surplus ammo back around 2000 or so. 20" rifle length systems would chew up that brass. Some carbines would rip the whole case head off. There's been issues with batches of winchester white box when that was the affordable and available brass cased ammo. I've had mine chew up XM193 pretty badly. My carbine length leaves ejector tattoos on the brass and rounds the lip where the extractor grabbed pretty reliably. My mid length and rifle length systems do not. I've had lots of wolf where it cracks the rim, but doesn't go as far as ripping it off. Most of what we buy in bulk is pretty cheap, and especially the cheaper bulk commercial ammo tends to have varying quality and/or composition of raw materials, especially during high demand periods where everyone is scrambling for components. Lets put it this way. Company A sells two boxes of ammo, one that is $0.35 a round, and one that is $1.00 a round. The projectiles are obviously different, but full MSRP for the projectile is $0.50 for the projectile vs. $0.09 for the cheaper round. That's $0.40 per round they still have to make up somewhere. Packaging accounts for some, Advertising doesn't unless it is the one model line they advertise for that fiscal quarter. You pay some for QC, and the expensive stuff makes more profit, but in the end, a lot of the cheaper price is covered by being less picky.

If you are building a heavy tack driver, the PRS adjustable stock is really nice, and there's no buffer weight dilemma unless you are going for a low mass operating system.

It's also advertised as supressing flash. You tell me which one it is, their ad copy talks out of both sides of their mouth, there has been no BATFE ruling, and NJ has no guidelines. If someone doesn't like it, what's your affirmative defense? AD copy says it's a comp? Prosecutor says it also says it supresses flash. All I have seen is the one BCM ad video where you can see them running one in some parts. Given the horizontal jetting, I'd say it keeps flash out of the shooters eyes, but it sure isn't going to minimize it. It also doesn't jibe with their ad copy of keeping lateral pressure to a minimum. When it is more available, I'm sure there will be plenty of youtube videos of it's flash, and then one can make an informed decision about how much it supresses flash. To me, the opening in the velocity stack looks like it might be larger than the bullet diameter, which would make the grooves in the front act very much like an A2 FH for the gasses that do get through. Or it could just be thicker material to wear well, the hole is the same diameter, and the grooves are just a torx socket to screw the two pieces together before welding. You decide your risks, I think you would be foolish to make a call on a product with so little info in the hands of the general public at the moment.

I think TheSMokingGun has a point. Someone's got to be the sheeple. The answer is it is most of us. It's the weed smoking guy who goes out and votes for "compassionate" big government that also wants to manage everything you ingest, and specifically wants them to legalize it, despite the fact that the very same government says no weed, including the candidate they just voted for. The same goes for gun owners who in theory believe in freedom and the constitution, but continue voting for people who back invasive stuff like this under the guise of national security, the militarization of our police under the guise of the war on some drugs, and all sorts of other fun stuff that is used to justify the erosion of both freedom and the constitution consistently and regularly. As long as you can make ends meet and it doesn't get too uncomfortable, you will make noises as you are herded along, but you get herded none the less and walk yourself where they tell you to go. The dude in the mountains living off the grid, growing a cash crop of weed that he protects with an illegally converted machine gun, but otherwise conducts his business honestly and is willing to leave you alone if you leave him alone, REALLY isn't a sheep. However both the right and left will consider him a pernicious influence on society who needs to be gotten rid of for various reasons. There is not a hell of a lot of difference between the average lefty who is disillusioned with government and the average righty in the same boat. They are probably about as different as the two two parties running the show actually are, and the only gap between groups that is actually as wide as the politicians scare campaigning would have you believe is the gap between those citizens and the politicians.

The only difference I have seen is that the closer the jacket alloy is to cartridge brass, the lower the velocity you get for the similarly shaped bullets in similarly loaded cartridges. Closer to pure copper is faster (probably higher pressure too). Thinner jackets mitigate this to some extent. THe only bullets I have loaded where this has been significant enough to matter have been Montana Gold. For the same charge and seating depth in the case, they run slower by a noticeable margin. As for pure copper, it fouls more because copper is softer, more ductile, and less springy. In rifle cartriges, you will find bullets with a thick pure (or darn near to it) copper jacket like the Scirocco II have a reputation for copper fouling the bore rapidly. As for accuracy, I don't think it would matter more than quality construction and consistency. The only thing it affects that directly impacts accuracy is velocity, and with hand loads you can compensate for that.

Are we happy with them? Mostly, there are issues though and they could be better. With 39 shooters shooting for 4 hours, they all finished with about 90% of battery remaining. So that is good. The wifi pop up, I believe was due to moisture contacting the wifi reception indicator on the screen, as the pop up results form poking that. At least the ones I saw. Practiscore won't try to access wi-fi from anywhere other than the sync screen to try and conserve battery use. The unresponsive screens were also due to moisture. They count as a touch. The interface is smart enough to ignore most of them, but it can process only so many touches. Too many droplets, you use up that budget and additional ones get annoyed. That's the simplified version anyway. That wasn't unexpected. For those two, we just have to find a way to go about bagging them. Worst case so far is gallon ziplock freezer bags allow you to reach in and operate them without any functional issues. The problem with that is they blur the screen a bit whihc may be problematic. I'm going to see how they deal with mylar comic bags which are clearer. As for the cold fingers, I ordered a bunch of mini styluses for that We'll see if they make it here for January. The biggest problem with it right now is that the software and the documentation have started to diverge significantly in terms of how to handle your data. Most of the issues have workarounds, the problem is they have more than one, and there's the easiest way, and then everything else. Some examples of broken stuff: I put in everyone's class when signing them up. They are all there. It imports into ezwinscore as everyone having a class of U. The fix isn't horrible, you just have to update classifications for the match inside ezwinscore. This, however isn't documented anywhere. If you try to export per the instructions, you find that it fails at trying to create an archive of the text files EZ needs for import. They built a PC desktop app to just grab stuff over wi-fi like it was jsut another device running practiscore. It works smooth, but the only reference to this thing is the download link in the middle of a paragraph on their front page, when it is something that really should also be referenced in the support area of the web page in a large font, perhaps even justifying use of the blink tag as it is the difference between workable and 0% functional. Another one is that the docs say that everyone should get a default squad of 1. Instead what actually happens is that you get a default of 0. 0 is not a recognized squad number for EZ, and the app refuses to export people because of that until you go fix it all by hand. I had fixed it before using the desktop exporter though. If the desktop exporter works, fixing it in one flat text file would be much, much faster. Autocomplete for adding new shooters also has some issues. An example of a misfeature: You can punch out of scoring someone without completing it, and you get no warning. Granted, I wouldn't want it to stop you form leaving someone unfinished for whatever reason, but it would be nice to get a warning that you were not done to prevent mistakes.

The reality is that how worn the tooling was when they machined yours probably has more impact than carbine vs. mid-length. However, like I said, carbine length can rip the case rims off of soft brass (the cheap stuff when supplies are scarce), beat up brass (reloads, when supplies are scarce), brittle steel cases (a lot of russian steel cased stuff). It can leave you with a mess that needs tools to get running again. Mid-length can leave you high and dry in the cold if your port isn't sized correctly for your ammo that is really temp sensitive. Carbine gas ports are going to erode faster than mid-length gas ports due to the higher pressure and longer duration of high pressures. That means shorter barrel life before reliability issues. There's all sorts of trade offs. I find you can get a mid-length 16" set up running reliably in all weather, that shoots softer, and in theory runs longer if you can afford to shoot so much that quantity comes into play with any meaningful frequency.

OK, scores have been sent off to Vlad to publish. To the 7 or so people who showed up bright and early to help set up, HUGE thanks to all of you for stepping up and helping. We have you to thank for a soggy day of shooting.

You'll see a shorter service interval on the bolt with a carbine. The locking lugs are just exposed to significantly more force due to the much higher psi at the gas port and the shorter dwell time. How much will it matter? That depends on the bolt. Carpenter 158 is heated up twice to remove impurities. It's good stuff, but not perfect. That and the machining will determine life span. If you don't shoot a lot, it probably doesn't matter. Some get 3-4k before cracks start showing, some get 4-5 times that. The worst I have seen reported for a middy is more than 4k and the highest round count is higher than the highest carbine. There is a lot of overlap though. More practically, if you can't be picky about ammo, carbine gas systems can rip off case rims. I've had this happen. There are a bunch of other pluses and minuses on both sides. It's not an absolute. For myself, I like mid length 16" barrels for overall performance.

I was there at about 7:45am.

Also poorly informed on the ar gas system. There is a difference. If it saved me a decent amount, or it was the difference between getting a rifle or not, I wouldn't say no to the carbine length. Mid length will shoot nicer and wear better.

Perhaps yours aren't. Mine are.

No pre-reg this month, that part of the plan didn't survive contact with reality because of issues getting access to the form service in a timely manner. I'm not too concerned as long as we don't get too many people who haven't shot there before arriving late. Heck, pre-reg may not be necessary without the horrific palm process and a need to cap attendance, as it looks to me like it will just duplicate work unnecessarily. We'll see after trying it for real.

1) All rail segments do not fit all handguards, not even most rail segments fit most handguards. It's a matter of the radius, the hole spacing, and the contour. 2) The AFG can be made to work with a 2" rail segment. It's borderline IMO, but it can work. A 3" will get you the cross bar locked in and a decent chunk of the angled flange interlocked with the rail segment, but if you want to move it you will likely have to move the whole rail. A 4" lets you move it back and forth a bit. a 5" would let you move it around quite a bit.

For a test, just run through some ammo and make sure you follow through an keep the trigger pinned back. Don't worry about shooting well, just keeping it pinned.