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My take on it is that the ar-15 is actually pretty reliable. Get sand in a DI gun and it might stop working. Get sand in the works of an op-rod gun, you cna bend the op rod. Look at the garand and m-14's history with talcum powder like sand. I'd basically go for an evolutionary approach. Ditch the bayonet lug, the thick front half of the barrel and the weird cuts in the barrel, and go for a lighter barrel that's easier to manufacture without affecting accuracy. If you want to mount an m203, use an adapter that clamps on like the m-16 does. Then design in a reciprocating ejection port cover rather than the trap door. Then perhaps move to 6mm-45 as the cartridge, maybe at about 74gr. You could probably combine the design of m855a1 and SOST to get something with a nice bc that has more range and more knock down power that wounds effectively across a broader range of velocities without adding much weight to the ammo. Perhaps come up with a better rail sytem that cuts down on weight as well, but give everyone a rail. Ditching the bayonet would also allow for a dissy style (or at least dissy like) rail with the front sight pushed forward for a better sight radius and more real estate for mounting gear. Other than nato interoperability, I think that would sort out most shortcomings of the platform. You could keep your mags, old guns could work with a simple rebarrel. The rifle you could probably get done while remaining weight neutral, and the ammo would add 1.72lbs per thousand rounds.

OK, please sign up if you are on the fence. The earlier that closes out, the more time I have to beat the pre-registrations into submission and the less likely I will have to punch out for paper scoring. Given eveyrone is at the FN 3gun match, I'm stuck doing all the match prep heavy lifting. If you are a no-show, it jsut makes dealing with the inevitable walk ons easier for me, and it won't go on your permanent record or anything.

855 with the penetrator core is going to be less accurate because of how the bullet is manufactured. The 55gr FMJ is a lead core jammed into a jacket. Most of the mass is at the center, and the worst case is you have some lack of concentricity at the edges due to voids or imperfect shape of the core and or jacket, which impacts balance. 855 has a steel cone up top, a lead core jammed into the bottom, and somehow get it all in a jacket around both. This effectively moves the majority of the mass away form the center, which magnifies the impact of any imbalance. You also have three components to make concentric and balanced, which is less likely to happen. Moving mass rearward thends to negate some of it. Generally, it is less accurate ammo, your results are not atypical.

Get something in 9mm. It's cheap and available everywhere. The five seven is pretty crappy for what the gun costs you. Same goes for the ammo.

Yeah turnout is high enough that it isn't going to be just winter months.

At least as well as android can.

Even if you take it literally as required despite the law, it doesn't say that your magazines have to be unloaded. It just says the gun must be unloaded, and separate form the ammo, and that the ammo should be inaccessible form the passenger compartment. loaded mags in one bag, gun in another bag, both in trunk.. everything should be fine even by that interpretation.

That no workie with an A2 stock like the OP asked about.

Extractor is easy provided you have reasonable pinch strength, which some folks don't. The ejector is a bit more of a PITA from a *SPROING* wtf did it go perspective on reassembly.

Doesn't sound like lack of gas to me. At least not a serious lack of gas. with a full on short stroke situation, you tend to not get a second round feeding. If anything it sounds overgassed. THe bolt is coming back fast enough that the round hasn't fully risen up in the magazine, and it's contacting the case wall rather than getting behind the case rim. Usually that means either a) your follower is dragging on something in the mag, your feed lips aren't right, or your mag springs aren't right. or b) that you are overgassed, slamming the BCG back real fast and having it ram forward real fast and outrunning the operation of a perfectly functional magazine. To glivdub03 and Nickjc, I'd recommend getting it together with both a known functional carbine length lower and a known working rifle length lower. You also might try swapping the bolt carrier (not bolts though) between a known working upper and the problem child. It could just be the carrier binding up due to dimensional issues with the upper (never even heard of that, but anything is possible), or interfering with the buffer retainer pin. Could also jsut be that everything is fine except the gas port is oversized.

There's only what.. roughly 25,000 towns/whatever in the US, and all of 1 shooting at a city council?

Launching light lines to pull up heavy lines. Target practice. Collecting. What situations you could claim those in are limited, but they would make legitimate arguments for purchase in theory.

Yeah, my case feeder was missing the lock rings used to adjust the drop tube. Never got my replacements either.

You still actually have missing parts. Unless they started telling you ahead if time the feeder isn't for older presses, those bits are SUPPOSED to be in there. Hornady has gotten pretty bad with missing parts. The last three things I have purchased from them (other than spare parts) have been missing parts.

Also allows you to brace on a port/prop/whatever without burying the whole gun in the port or leaning on the barrel. It also allows you to have good form with your grip and still have some stuff mounted out front if you aren't squat and short.

Seriously, that crap again? Look the guys who make the fancy barrels say "what machining marks" and the chrome lined or melonited barrels are so hard what irregularities is copper covered lead going to smooth out? If it abraded the irregularities, you would destroy the chrome lining.

Superior barrels touts the awesomeness of their melonite qpq barrels. They also say don't shoot bimetallic bullets. Otoh, you are shortening the life of a $400-700 barrel from them. The plating is REALLY thin. It also matters how you shoot. If you are doing mag dumps, I suspect the bi metal will be more abusive than if you are shooting one round every two minutes as you would be adding a lot of heat to the equation. If its a $150 on sale special and you can score a replacement for $210, the savings might be worth it. A pricey barrel? Probably not.

Steel cases? No problem. Steel jacketed bullets with a thin copper plating? How much did you pay for your barrel, and how much will replacing it cost?

That's not it. What every poll like this leaves out is that most of the people being polled have no idea what the current level of gun control is. IF anyone ever gets me in an argument around here, thats one of the first things I ask them. Basically.. wait.. first, what do you think the process is to buy a gun. I don't explain it to them.. I let them explain it to me. Then every time they are wrong I interrupt them to tell them how many years they are doing in prison now. From my experience, yes the average new jersyian is in favor of gun control. When presented with reality, the vast majority think the current state of affairs is sufficient or a bit messed up. Think about how many people don't know how to fix their car themselves, people who describe themselves as religious and have never made it through the bible or whatever their tome of choice is, don't know what's in their processed food, etc.

http://bugasalt.com/ real product. Or intended to be real. It's a indigogo launch. They wanted to raise $15k to get it to market, they raised $580k. So no reason it shouldn't happen. Of course they could be in so far over their heads they could still screw it up. Updates would be here http://www3.indiegogo.com/projects/161050?c=activity

If someone wants to lend me something to try.. sure. I just haven't found anything I want to spend my own money on that makes me want to compete with it. I might build a dedicated .22 off a 2011 frame next year, but did the math on the $$$ and it isn't happening until q2 2013 at the earliest. Mostly, I get so little practice time these days, I don't want to spend time goofing around with something in a manner that is going to affect my USPSA performance. Rifle I still have to get a lot of basic movement and technique down, and my gear with a couple of exceptions is nearly identical with what I would be shooting center-fire.

Sure I have one. Doesn't mean I like shooting it all that much or have the magazines for a match.

Lock Tite makes a thread locker that's good to nearly 700 degrees. It aint cheap though.

Same question applied to 10rd .40 mags during the federal awb. They would hold 12 rounds of 9mm. They however did not function to the same degree if reliability. This was due to the feed lips not being set up for 9mm. Although .50 Beowulf mags have a different follower, if the feed lips are not modified, I wouldn't count on feeding getting reliable in time for round 16. I wouldn't want to have to mount an affirmative defense on it.

No problem. I was never playing the politics, but was in a position to debug and trouble shoot ideas. I'm not any longer. Just didn't want anyone thinking anyone outside the uspsa/scsa adminosphere is in charge this go round. None of the logistical problems have changed though.