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lets see. ghost used to make a pushbutton holster (not from their race holster side of the house).. now they don't, it's a thumb push design. Fobus used to make a push button holster.. now they don't, it's a thumb push design. Safariland's retention holster uses a thumb push design. The only ones still doing it are iTac and blackhawk as far as I can tell. I suspect there is a reason.

I rank watching nascar right up there with watching golf and professional fishing. As far as racing goes, I can NHRA because it's short and tightly edited, and WRC because it's so long they are forced to stick to the good parts version.

Well, I won't talk specific prices for the whole gun, but I will talk about two key items. The barrel and the BCG. Disregarding the odd sale of mystery barrels for $100 form someplace I know form experience not to trust the quality of their mystery shoes, much less gun parts, About the cheapest you can get that is a known quantity are about $150 fro chrome moly(most of those are sourced from mossberg at the moment), or about $200 for chrome lined (not sure of the source of those). They shoot ok. Put m193 in them, and you can hold about 2.5-3.5 MOA depending on luck of the draw. For $256 I can get a decent name brand cold hammer forged chrome lined HPT and MPI tested barrel that will hold 1-2 MOA depending on luck of the draw. The difference between a DPMS mystery bolt metal BCG and a BCM BCG with an MPI/HPT tested bolt is all of $10. Heck, I can get a BCG form the same source as BCM from a lesser known vendor for $5 LESS than the DPMS one. For a premium of $110 I get quality components what will likely nearly double the service life of those parts and be more accurate. If it's a choice between something and nothing, going cheap has it's place. If it means having the patience to wait a month ort or having it now, I 'd suggest waiting a month or two to save up for the good stuff.

If you want to see how you finished overall compared to everyone who shot, you want "pistol finals all divisions" If you want to see how you finished on a given stage compared to everyone who shot, you want "pistol all divisions" becuase it will list the scores/order for each individual stage. If you want to see how you did in your division overall (lets say you competed in produciton), you'd look in "pistol finals production" If you want to see how you did in your division on a given stage, you look in (same assumption) "pistol production"

Behind or in front of you, not to the side. That is why, like I said, you should face the berm, not be turned nearly 90 degrees while holstering. His muzzle was past the 180 a good bit while not facing the backstop, AND he swept my feet with it. 10.5.6 While facing downrange, allowing the muzzle of a loaded handgun to point uprange beyond a radius of 3 feet from a competitor’s feet while drawing or re-holstering. Notice the facing downrange bit? He WASN'T. That's why everyone got lectured about just facing the rear berm when it is load and make ready or hammer down holster. It saves lots of stupid and makes it a lot easier to avoid a DQ. BTW, I don't appreciate armchair quarterbacking by folks who aren't ROs. The RULES are NOT personal opinions. If you want to inject your personal opinions into the RULES, campaign for area director where you get a frikin vote on them. Otherwise it's your job to simply ABIDE by them. I also do not appreciate you implying that the rules are applied at my whim. You think I'm doing a crap job? Attend a damn RO class.

Most powders are temperature sensitive to some extent. Most of them increase pressure in warm weather, and decrease in cold. Some are inverse sensitive and increase pressure in cold weather and decrease in hot weather.

guns and ammo needs better servers if they want to post stuff like this as a slideshow.

Shooting on a marked range at known distances? Don't need it. Shooting with a ranging reticle at something you have a reasonable idea of how big it is? Don't need it. Shooting without a ranging reticle at something you have a reasonable idea of how big it is? Can get around it with some know how, but the laser rangefinder is probably of benefit in general. Shooting without a ranging reticle at something you don't know the size of? Yeah, it's useful. The cheaper the rnage finder, the less accurate is likely to be and the less well it holds up against the alternatives.

No, not really. Because it usually gets there in a timely fashion. If they can't leave it it goes straight to the customer counter where I can get it without having to deal with a maze of voice menus and someone in India on the end of a bad VOIP phone system. It'll also be at that counter the next morning when they open, and doesn't depend on when they brought the last truck in and the way the wind was blowing. Overall, I LIKE when stuff comes priority mail flat rate. Things like media mail are another matter. Their tracking system is lacking compared to UPS and Fedex, but in general it hasn't been an issue.

He needs to adjust the diopter. There should be instructions with the scope, and if it is not adjustable... well wrong scope. With serious prescriptions, the diopter might not have enough adjsutment, and you ahve to start messing with eye relief with some negative compromises. Also, 65.. does he have bifocals, progressives, etc? There are a lot of things that can make it suck. If he can't make a page in a book held about a foot away form the face clear with whaterver eyes+glasses combo, he isn't going to have much lufck with a scope without seeing the eye doctor first.

Is it necessary? No. Is it permitted? It can probably be considered as part of the background investigation since it doesn't involve a form.

AT oldbridge, there's OBRAMS. It's like USPSA/pro-am/IDPA but with rimfire.

Mine took 6 weeks. Mostly because I ahd to wait 2 weeks to get a fingerprinting appointment with whatstheirname.

It has SA's crappy bar stock extractor, which has a short lifespan. If you want to shoot 175pf and under loads, expect a lifespan around 2-3k before you start getting a lot of FTEs (you might get more, but that is the range I ahve seen most failures). If you shoot hotter factory ammo, and keep the heavy mainspring and recoil spring, you'll likely see closer to 5-7k. A proper spring steel extractor will go MUCH longer than that, as will an aftec. Cost to fix is between $30-80 depending on what you choose.

You are right, but it has gotten worse than that. The big investment banks like goldman sachs have gotten into the commodities warehousing business. Including oil. THe regulations only require them to release purchased goods within a certain amount of time. They abuse that lag to their benefit when trading. Somehow this is legal. I suspect in addition ot honest speculation, we have inventory manipulation going on as well. We had a really warm winter, and people aren't driving all that much, inventory is high, and the euro isn't doing anything amazing compared to the dollar, and we've seen the price points before on everything, If it goes like last year, they'll decide we really mean it about not drivng so much by may, and prices will taper off. The pattern for the last few years has been a runup like there was going to be no tomorrow at the end of winter, then the realization that the consumer does not ahve unlimited funds beginning in may with the obsesive gamblers giving up if there are poor memorial day weekend travel numbers.

The ffl is supposed to enter it in there assault weapon registry, and only transfer to allowed persons. Might be legal, might be a whoops.

Metalform, cmc, Tripp, Wilson combat.

+1 to this suggestion.

thanks for the pics. The metal tabs poke into the front of the stock barrel nut, and the angled shape makes the flange on the barrel nut wedge against the slot around the circumference of the tube? So anti rotation is just friction and the tab on one side? (Not that that wasn't the case before, but there was a lot more clamping surface in the old design).

What ammo were you using?

We are not actually in much disagreement. I just typed 0.030 instead of 0.003 and kept typing the same thing. I hate it when I do that, sucks to look like a dumbass because you weren't proof reading properly. Yes going from 1.135 to 1.105 would be severe variation. I wouldn't worry about 1.000 vs 1.010 unless you are really pushing the envelope, and I wouldn't try chasing down the discrepancy of 0.003" by fiddling more with the machine. Editing my posts to reflect that. Been doing way too much of the touch typing substitution type typos lately. My brain thought 30 thousandths for some reason at the start, and my hands kept typing 030 and 040. Probably would have been better off giving examples of the actual numbers. I'm still not seeing as consistent OALs as you are in random mixed brass though, although I am seeing less than 0.010 spread on random brass with reasonable press setup and care. Usually I'm seeing variations like 1.130-1.137 on my .40 with random range brass and a casual setup. If I sample, set up for the middle of variation or at one end of variation doing it one cartridge at a time, then fine tune on random 4 round selections a few times over the first 100 rounds, I can usually get it/keep it to ~0.004 for variation and either limit it at the high end, low end, or aim for the middle of the variation, which I found to be a PITA until I got a micrometer seating die. .40 due to bullet profile and the fact some vendors have pretty "tall" brass and others pretty "short" brass, if I want to go below that, I at the very least have to cull certain headstamps. 9mm and .45 aren't so bad, and I can usually keep it to 0.003 with them and a little effort put into setup. moving away form the lee FCD in .40 and to a dillion taper crimp has helped with measured OAL, but I think half of it is because it helped with concentricity. The other half is because without the sizing ring, it doesn't pull on the bullet nearly as much when the cartridge is pulled out.

I found it more interesting regarding just how bad some of the products are. The second one he demonstrates is just an unforgivable design, and is literally opened with a bent paperclip. Mostly I think it is full of useful info for judging if something you are lookign at in the store might be a total POS. If you watch the whole video, the guy adds a $40 lock to the first candidate and is quite happy with what it is.

An interesting video if you are curious about how secure your lockbox is or if you are interested in the whole lockpicking/circumvention thing. Warning, the guy tosses about a lot of four letter words if that isn't cool where you are watching.

Out of curiosity, was any enlightnement on the subject forthcoming when you got there, or was it more like "we don't ahve time for that, you should have learned it already?"

I'm in.