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That was unpleasantly hostile and presumptive. Anderson lowers are OK. If we lived in a free state, I'd probably have a stack of them in a corner never being used. But there are no budget lowers when you add in shipping, transfer fees, NICs, tax, etc. As others have said, you are paying for a lower produced with modern production methods and limited QC. All my favorite lowers are stuff sourced form aero precision essentially. I'd rather wait for an aero precision on sale than go with anderson, but in the current market, I wouldn't be that picky. Anderson is one of the many brands you are playing the QC lottery with and you can pay a whole lot more than anderson charges to do so. Right now it's about what you cna get, and if osmeone4 has a $50 anderson in stock and the $75 aero is out, then yeah buy the anderson.

That's a great article. But it's also, sadly, optimistic. We have had crypto exchanges get "robbed". I put that in quotes because the only proof that it wasn't the owners of the exchange walking off with the contents of the exchange is them saying it wasn't them. At least when you get down to it. This article ignores the possibility that the crooks at tether aren't playing chicken with a bunch of crooks at the offshore exchanges trying to drive bitcoin into their exchange in high enough volume that getting "robbed" becomes incredibly profitable. And they can either just walk off with the coin by emptying the exchange's wallet into their wallet. Or they can walk off with it by just cashing out all the bitcoin into dollars via kraken and leave their exchange full of nothing but tethers and a promise.

Disclosure: I've transferred a lower through Ira once, and have no ongoing relationship with him or his business. Most places buying used guns will give you between 40-60% of their resale price. If he put it up for 25% over what he paid for the gun, he wasn't making it up that it was going to sell low. If the 25% more is 25% more than the gun plus ammo, that might be more in line with standard pricing practices and bumped up his margin, but seldom is selling a gun to a retail outlet an exercise in getting anything close to market value out of it.

There are literary threads on here documenting Nj nics taking a shit long before all of this. The fact that it has achieved new levels of suck is not surprising.

Not that I justify the shit tier performance of nj’s nics wrapper, but your statement isn’t accurate. That line marked covid restrictions begin. I’d did a purchase a month and a bit before that and one literally a day before lockdown. Well reality is it was two days before lockdown. Because that’s how long it took to actually get approved. The one back in February took about 40 minutes. But that chart isn’t nics. It’s applications. And I did mine way back in October 2019 to get them and but in February and March of 2020. And you can just dig around this board and read the nice delays thread. It hasn’t been the old typical 15 minute nice check for a long time. I applied amid typical Nj volume and waited between one hour and two days. We have increased that volume and we are now at 4-5x that. Even assuming a linear response, which it likely isn’t, the wait is going to suck.

DOh, sorry, was sorting by new and it looked like a what to buy question.

As to the thread title "It's only NJ" this graphic might explain why. The NJ was not prepared in any way for that hit, and is not staffed for the ongoing load.

Well vortex and holosun are essentially the same tier of stuff, if not made in the same factory. They should also be notably cheaper than an eotech or MRO. for your list, you should also consider an aimpoint PRO which is only about $40 more than the MRO. Eotechs had issues, and I've seen nothing ton indicate they really fixed their ways. That aside, the holgraphic reticle in them is cool on paper but can have issues depending on how you mount it, especially if you have astigmatism. With a normal dot, worst case is you are aiming with a mildy blurry little jesus fish shape, which if small enough you can do. With the eotech, it can result in the circle dot reticle being blurry all over, and in such a way that the led light is very distracting and rough on the eyes. I have a mild astigmatism that has varied over time, and I had no problem using a dot, but the eotech was fairly unpleasant to use. I haven't met an MRO, but aimpoints have the best dot and coatings of all the red dots I have handled.

Well I have no 2nd gen hexmags, but mine have been slowly splitting at the seam in back with use. About 20% of them so far Also all olive drab, but I think that they are the oldest matters more than they are olive drab. They are nice in that they fit everything without modification, but I prefer the PMAG construction overall even if I do have to mode them to fit into everything.

Then you wind up wondering why your proctologist has a Ferrari for each day of the week and all your Bitcoin is missing.

DANG! That's a huge increase.

Why just 08 out of all the c6 years?

1) There's a TON of inventory moving. It's just instantly moving through the system due to demand. 2) What are you expecting ammo manufacturers to actually do that they aren't doing? Keep in mind they aren't making these huge margins you are seeing and are coming off tight times where you had a case of m193 equivalent going for $230. Even so, they are operating balls out at 100% capacity to the point metals prices are rising, and they are also expanding capacity. They just can't expand fast enough, and it would be unwise to actually target this level of demand as the new normal. Typically demand after one of these panics never goes all the way back down, but it goes back down. Hornady has done 3 years of sales in 9 months. Grind Hard Ammo, which is basically a nobody was able to put up sales numbers foreseeing a panic coming that has enabled them to expand to the tune of $20 million dollars by their claim. The guy who owns grind hard says one of his up stream suppliers who also makes ammo is cranking out 800,000 rounds of 5.56 a day in is backordered to at least June of 2021. vista outdoors saw sales increase 30% and it's limited to that because they hit their capacity and have been busy spending on buying other companies. I know the place I purchase my bullets from for reloading has seen demand double and has expanded capacity twice the most recent added 30% of production capacity of the whole company just for 9mm. To make another capacity jump they would have to buy or rent more land and build from scratch. They are back ordered at least to April. WE normally consumed about 11 billion rounds of ammo a year. About 9 of that is domestic and another couple billion are imported. They say we blew past that back around July/August and we really didn't start buying it in volume until mid-February.

To anyone getting access denied, clear your web cache. Worked for me today, but I'm also on a different computer than hen I checked the previous time, so no cached data or cookies, etc.

The prices there are inflated as well. The price there for American eagle is in fact the price federal is charging if you buy direct from them. They are seeing the price increases from manufacturing capacity being overwhelmed. They are not seeing the price increases from the retail supply chain breaking down as is going on in the us.

What’s your point? Those prices are what we are seeing in the us. We just buy it all when it comes into stock. The rest of the world doesn’t have that demand, so when it comes into stock it’s... you know... available for a period of time. As I stated before we are seeing some insane retail prices because we have reached a perverse situation where some retailers are buying supply at retail prices and still have to mark them up to turn a profit.

The description page of Otis tool sucks. I didn’t see it the first time but the tool lets you use a metal scraper or the pads. They might have been using the scraper within us probably like the talon and I’d really only useful for knocking the big chunks off.

I've gotten to peep through a burris scout scope. It worked, but after meeting one, I'm not so sure of the whole scout scope thing.

Dude, even if people just shrugged and said fuck you en masse. What are they going to do. The numbers I have seen thrown around on braces sold is in the 4 million region. If you get sub 5% compliance, what will you do with 3.8 million felons required to serve 85% of their sentence on a federal beef? I genuinely think they believe their bullshit when they keep gaming polling questions to make claims that 72% of gun owners are just begging for tons of gun control.

Well they are legally required to turn over the records if they are leaving the FFL business.

I've tried a number of things, mostly because they were under $40 and could be put on my gift list for my extended family without anyone freaking out about being put on a list or some such. So, in no particular order of trying them: 1) some kit with a short dewey rod and some bolt lug shaped cleaning felts. Surprisingly worked pretty well. I was happy with it, but it went poof when I moved. Amazon has a much cheaper version here: https://smile.amazon.com/NIDAYE-Pack-Bronze-Brush-Chamber/dp/B079BTJD54/ref=pd_bxgy_img_3/133-7256738-5742256?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B079BTJD54&pd_rd_r=dbeb126b-4ca9-4512-b4a4-f30e8440b6c3&pd_rd_w=GOfPP&pd_rd_wg=J6bBZ&pf_rd_p=f325d01c-4658-4593-be83-3e12ca663f0e&pf_rd_r=Q47PMC8ZBHJTS0KV6RHX&psc=1&refRID=Q47PMC8ZBHJTS0KV6RHX This is essentially what that otis tool is as well as the real avid chamber boss. It works, but it requires consumables that are less cheap. 2) The CAT talon. This is likely a decent tool if you are going to be dealing with uncared for AR-15s as it is more of a lug scraper. It doesn't really keep it clean. It unfouls it when it is really fouled. In theory. I've never had an ar-15 in that state. It does take a threaded insert, so you can use it as a rod for using the below. 3) The good old otis chamber brush. or anyone's really. Combine it with a bore snake and a q-tip and you can keep your chamber and locking lugs nice and clean.

I’m not arguing to be right. I’m adding detail to my points with a bunch of prone telling me I’m wrong despite having seen many examples of poor self guided training with a .22 causing issues shooters wished to overcome later. If your goal is to engage in nra bullseye league style shooting where you have an indefinite period of time to work on your next shot, then yes, you can practice poorly and mask a lot of issues with the fact that what you are doing doesn’t really care much about what happens after the trigger breaks. Oddly, new shooters tend to not know what they don’t know.

You don't have to rapid fire to practice properly returning to your point of aim. And you SHOULD be practicing that as a new shooter as follow through. Or you will spend more time and ammo breaking bad habits that hinder bot progress and consistency. An example. Not practicing follow through back to your natural point of aim gives you a free pass on habits like rebuilding your grip after every shot. That will not only hurt you in rapid fire and run and gun stuff, but it will make it harder to develop accuracy as now you aren't just wrestling site picture but your grip habits with ever shot.

But you can have a really sloppy stance and 22 won't penalize you for it. Centerfire cartridges will behave better with a proper stance with support. Similarly you can have noodle arms and still get decent groups with a .22. Centerfire will penalize you for it. You can have a weak grip, and get good groups with a 22, especially if you are setting up individual shots each time and not working a series of consecutive shots. Then you add on from that that trigger control is related to grip, and grip is related to stance, etc. You can practice and reinforce the proper way to do things with a 22. You can also seriously reinforce sloppy habits. One I have run into repeatedly is common among female shooters. That leaning back shoulder blades behind your ass stance women seem to gravitate towards naturally. You can shoot a .22 just fine like that. It's going to work like shit for centerfire, especially if shooting more than one shot in a row. Exactly zero of it translates to shooting and moving. Generally with new and newer shooters, I try to not mess with success. If it is working well for them, I don't really harp on if it is "right" or not. However, I have seen plenty of bad habits from learning on .22. My general advice is if you are really budget constrained and must shoot .22 for livefire practice, shoot a bit of centerfire. Pick out things that aren't working well and how you aim to improve. Then practice THAT on the .22. It'll be less bad. Also, different people are different. Some people take to self guided practice, analysis, and improvement very well. Some people need instruction and will just pick random things to reinforce that may be good, bad, or nonsensical.

So you are saying you mitigate recoil with the exact same grip on a 9mm semi auto as a 357 revolver? Yes, you can practice accuracy on a 22. but everything you learn about shot to shot sight picture can be off. You CAN practice a good grip and good habits. But without the feedback of recoil you can get away with a lot of sloppiness. Not to mention you usually get a nicer single action trigger which can cover up a lot, but that isn't exclusivity to 22s. Now 22 with decent instruction, and you can steer them away from bad habits pretty well. Then there's the fact the sound isn't remotely the same. 22+earpro is pretty tame, and doesn't necessarily prepare you for centerfire noise.