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Is there an actual question or statement in there outside of keeping us apprised of your inventory levels?

also, to the op, womeone's journey down the induction annealing path the comments are useful, mistakes were made. http://www.youtube.c...e/videos?view=0 http://www.southernmarksman.com/induction-annealing/induction-annealing.shtml

Your linky all broken.

The coated ALG trigger is about a half pound to a pound lighter than the nicest LPK lottery trigger I have encountered. It gets even nicer with a set of JP springs, but I ahve to test that for reliability still. Mine pulled 5.5-6lbs out of the bag, and about 4.75-5 with the 3.5T springs from JP. IMO, there is no comparing any "brand" of LPK for their triggers. THe variability even within one brand is way too high to matter. The cleanest one I have encountered was a DPMS. The worst one I have encountered was an armalite. I've run into samples of armalite, DPMS, palmetto, RRA, etc. that all overlap in quality.

hodgden has some .223 loads in their data that use pistol powder for very light loads. It's for 55gr loads at about 1000fps. Trailboss, titegroup, and clays. I seriously doubt it will cycle the action either.

There are a bunch of buffers out there. Wilson's shock buffs would be my second to last choice. Any of the buffers that look like die cut reinforced white or gray nylon are worlds better. They will last thousands of rounds if you keep the aggressive solvents away from them.

Hate to disagree with you, but I have to on this one. I see the $14-16 number tossed about often. Zynga has about 1/20 of the market cap, represents 1/8 of their revenue, and everyone thinks they are doomed. The employee selloff at the end of the first lockout has exceeded expectations. They have yet to find a product they can push through their service that makes money for them that does not just become spam when you apply quarter on quarter growth to it. The teenagers are shifting to twitter, and the percentage of fake accounts is growing by about 1.7% per annum by facebooks metrics much less third parties. Their log in rate and click through rate is dropping, and they need to get about $38 of revenue per account to support a $15 price. On top of that, a year ago the majority of tv ads were, for some idiotic reason, 5-15 seconds of Facebook promotion per 30 second ad buy from hundreds of companies that were not Facebook. That gravy train if subsidized promotion is over. On top of that, they only generated about 10 billion in cash, they are carrying how much debt from the instagram acquisition? Plus just borrowed $3 billion more to cover employee taxes. That $10 billion will last the company through year two of being public? Year three at best? How much debt will they have by then? Their only product to date has a shelf life to boot and is getting funky around the edges and flaking off already. A year from now I expect $4.25 to $7.95 value, and that is without any unexpected bad news and sustaining revenue at about the same numbers by any means necessary. At best Facebook sells online entertainment. It has less than $4 billion in revenues and 4000 employees. In 1987 NBC had a bit over $4 billion in revenues and 4000 employees. By the standards of the day, ge seemed to think that needed the house cleaned by neutron jack.

Why? They don't issue actual certificates anymore, so it's not like you can even wipe your butt with it. Once the holding period is over for the employees in Nov, that stuff is toast.

The squeezy handle type don't break too quickly, but since you need 3 hands with most small equipment, they still spill tons of fuel. By the time I finish off a 5 gallon can, I wouldn't be surprised if a gallon wound up on the ground. That's so much better than the cup or so of gasoline that might evaporate from the old style cans.

Plenty acceptable for a run and gun setup IMO. I have one gun with a 2.5lb total weight 2stage. I've done 3gun with that. I like the sd3g better though, it has much more positive reset. I'd go sd3g or sd-e.

Rcbs trimmer with 3-way cutter. Goes pretty quick even spinning the handle by yourself.

http://geissele.com/...ummarySheet.pdfRead that. Sd-e is 2.3 + 1.2 = 3.5You are reading something wrong vlad.

You do know that an unlocked iPhone with no contract is already $850 for the 64gb version, right? Stupidest rumor ever.

The fed gov got caught with their hand in the cookie jar more than once. Do you really think it's implausible that NJ would possibly have the same lack of regard for the law and less oversight? I'm not talking about what is, but what nj has in place to be abused, and how discussion of such by the cranky and less than informed turned into a game of telephone could be blown out of proportion without being intentionally made up.

Yah sd-e is 3.5 total, sd-c is 4.5.

My take on it is go sd-e or sd3g. The sd-c is only about .5lb less than if you get a good sample of a mil spec trigger. Their chart is of a not so good sample. The sd-e shaves off a couple of pounds from the best permitted by the mil spec, but it's not hard to be safe fast because there's so much take up. The sd3g is just different. I like it, but I'd never assume someone else would. It's fast, but not hard to shoot pretty accurately with.

I have done both. This is correct. The Davidson's price from a Davidson's dealer should not incur an additional transfer fee beyond passing the cost of NICS along to the buyer.

A game of telephone perhaps. They effectively register every handgun you buy down to the serial, and ever long gun you buy in a more vague way via the nics intermediary. Then they require retailers to log every sale of handgun ammo someplace th government can request to look at it, and many places do it for handgun and long gun ammo. Take someone who kind of understands it, play telephone with two people who don't understand it, and you could get this story by the time you get to the end.

It actually has a lot of parallels. 1) you will never be able to build something cheaper than a large volume integrator can build when it comes to trying to build the cheapest setup. 2) you will save tons of money building a high end setup versus what anyone is willing to sell you the same will charge. 3) when you get particular, it is almost impossible to find somene to build exactly what you want, and when they will, they usually charge their markup on top of retail pricing for the parts. 4) your savings will never be huge as a percentage of total, but may be a meaningful dollar amount. If you want to build a bare bones plinker using your run of the mill lower parts and a cheapie M4 clone stock, you probably won't beat the $230-260 price tag of a pre-built lower, especially after shipping. If you want a lower with lots of whiz bang expensive bits, you may very well save a significant amount. For example I build a tricked out noveske lower. First, noveske won't sell you just a lower, and because supply is so erratic, nobody really builds custom on them that that advertise a price. However, a rogue hunter upper costs $1070, and a rogue hunter complete costs $1760. So the lower costs $690. I built mine for about $720, but if I bought a rogue hunter, I'd STILL need to put about $300-350 in parts in it to make it like my lower which was exactly what I wanted. Replicating their $690 lower would cost about $500.

Well except the propellant, which is the source of most of the grunge in the action. Well, unless you have a marginal weapon that you keep giving hte appearance of perfect functionality to by cleaning it constantly at short intervals. Take three guns I have. A .45 1911, my AR-15, and my desert eagle. If I follow cam's advice from day one, they all look equally functional and reliable. In reality the AR has a service interval of about 1000-1200 rounds. The 1911 is about 750 rounds, but only if the ammo being shot deposits carbon on the magazine feed lips at all (about 1500 rounds otherwise). The desert eagle is only good for about 300 rounds with most ammo, 350 or so ifyou cna find cleaner burrning .357. There is value to knowing the limitations of your gear. I didn't find that out by cleaning it every 200 rounds. Why not? First, the range is way different than the field. Because it's not just wandering out in the woods to someplace nearby nobody will hassle you for shooting, the guns mostly don't come home with anything wrong with them other than having powder residue. Additionally, the cost of living has increased, we work more hours, have to travel farther to get to someplace to shoot, have the same, or more stuff to get done without as much family closely located to spread the load over, all while the relative cost of the firearm has dropped. I didn't buy my guns to stare at them and clean them. Malfunctioning guns cost me scores and money. Reliability is important. They get the TLC they need, not the TLC that uncle sam beats into a bunch of people who could give two craps about the gear they don't pay for. He also doesn't shoot much. Him being anal about it costs him a few hours a year. ME being anal about it will cost me a hell of a lot more time. I have. With pistols.. absolutely nothing unless leading has built up. With rifles, it depends on the rifle and the bullet. With something jacketed in soft copper alloy, or all copper bullets, shot through something with relatively aggressive lands and grooves, yes it makes a noticeable difference. With harder jackets, or less aggressive rifling, not nearly as much. I will advocate what I think works, and what I do for myself: When you get a gun, clean it and lube it per the owners manual. Shoot it without cleaning until it experiences feeding, ejecting, or other failures while keeping track of the round count. Log what failed first and the interval and the characteristics of the ammo being used. Clean and service the weapon at intervals less than that. Sometimes I wimp out and declare the service interval to be "too nasty to handle" and call that the service interval. I will after that point experiment with just providing tlc to the parts that had issues first and see how far that gets me. Beyond that, whenever they get wet, they get dried as soon as I get home. If they get anything corrosive on them, They get it cleaned off. Corrosive ammo means a good cleaning. They got all sweated on while out shooting in the summertime, they get a wipedown and coating of oil. As for the right way to lube an AR, there are a BUNCH of effective ways. The only thing they have in common is that if metal rubs on metal, you WILL need some degree of lube there to reduce wear. IMO, running it sopping wet is the laziest and although effective in terms of preventing wear, is definitely NOT the most effective in terms of reliability. Case in point, dusty environments. Sopping wet goes from a solution to a problem to enhancing a problem. In a mildly dusty environment it might get you to that 300 round mark, but it might not get you to 400. If you clean it like you have OCD, you don't know this. Once again. Uncle sam deals with minions who don't know, don't want to know, but you can beat a minimal level of behavior into them long term by asking for way more than necessary unpleasantly int he short term. However, uncle sam pays people to figure out the stuff I have to figure out for myself as mentioned above.

Worst case, you pinch the case neck between the bullet and the side of the leede/freebore portion of the chamber cut, spike the pressure, and blow up you rifle and maybe part of your face with it.

Why do you think bobs discount furniture is so cheap. Prison labor working for chinese wages.

He was asking about uspsa though. We also have floppers that I forgot about. Which is a steel plate that tips up a target.

You ever shoot an m&p or xd? It's kind of like that. There's initial take up that is mostly working the trigger return spring, then you hit the sear and there's a second stage of stacked resistance. Pull on that and the trigger breaks and boom. Except in rifles it is all usually smoother and more refined and no extra stacking from firing pin blocks.

Swingers swing back and forth in an arc. Sliders as he describes them are actually one direction linear moving targets. Bobbers go up and down. Clam shells have targets that lift up in front of another target. Also called near traps. Drop turners rotate 180 degrees about its center axis. Drop outs lean out to the side and stop. Out and backs either linearly or in an arc lean out to the side and return to their original position. Our local matches have all of the above available except for the clam shells.