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I've looked into making my own. The answer is that you really can't outdo the $350-$400 systems without getting outside of legoing together plug and play stuff. you'd get about the same performance and it'd be a more clunky PITA to drag around, or you'd spend even more to package it nicely and overshoot the lower end pre-fab But the simple way of doing it when I looked about a year ago. Downrange: a wired IP camera + wifi access point (preferably something dd-WRT capable so you can up the output power) + cantenna + lead acid battery with inverter setup to power it or make a DC PS for each that is voltage and amperage appropriate. Uprange: wifi router + power supply + cantenna, plus a laptop or phone you already own. Although there are starting to be wireless 1080p ip cameras with external screw on antennas, whcih you can try to can-tenna and see how much juice it has. If you can't looks at your pile of semi-obsolete gear and find half that stuff sitting around, you probably oare going to spend enough cash experimenting to not bother unless experimenting is fun for you.

Congrats. It is in equal parts great and awful.

You'd be surprised how few tools you can get away with you'll need a barrel nut wrench appropriate for the barrel nut you wind up with, which can depend on the forearm chosen. You will also need something to hold the upper while tightening said nut. That tool will likely require some sort of vice. Beyond that it becomes increasingly fungible. You can make do with surprisingly few "real" ar tools. This is currently my upper holding device of choice: http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/rifle-tools/barrel-tools/ar-15-m16-barrel-extension-torque-tool-sku080000637-27452-53686.aspx?sku=080000637 This is my current "gunsmithing" vice (I have a set of barrel vice "v-block" jaws to go with it) https://www.amazon.com/Shop-Fox-D3125-Parrot-Vise/dp/B0000DD4ZU Roll pin starter punches are nice this set are increadibly cheap and nicely made https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QO2XGRW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Roll pin punches are nice too (amazon has plenty) Amazon really has a solid collection of tools for this these days. If you go that route, set up amazon smile and pick the second amendment foundation or one of the other RKBA groups available for it and do your order via smile to get them a donation with no cost to you.

Wrong. It is also 100% at fault if the hit a legally parked car. Just got my deductible back form subrogation on that one. Like others said, call your insurance company and they'll take care of it.

at $200 a unit all in form teh rumors, I'm not sure who all wants to be in.

Nonsense. He should set about a quest to find an original cav-arms purple lower. Not common, but the existed. duracoat makes amtching color to paint your furniture. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/21genghis_purple_left_40-tfb.jpeg

+1000 this. I was that teenage kid family took to concerts. I have more tinnitus from that than from shooting by a huge margin. There are plenty of brands of high fidelity, low noise reduction plugs out there, decent ones were mentioned up thread. Worth the money.

I suspect the answer you get will be a nice "show up in court and show that to get it dismissed" at which point you will ahve coughed up fees and parking of some sort. If they were smart, they'd just process the bogo tickets and void them if there's any fight. It'd keep the revenue stream from attracting as much attention.

Next handguard will be mlok. Probably the most persuasive argument is it looks less stupid. Lots of people's buying decisions are made on looks. However I've read the stuff midwest PX does and it jibes with some of my suspicions after having handled both keymod and mlok accessories. Keymod looks like it was thought up by someone who knew a lot about something they wanted to fix/improve and a decent amount about engineering and machining. mlok looks like it was thought up by someone who knew a lot about something they wanted to improve/fix, a lot about engineering and machining, and a pretty good deal about a manufacturing pipeline, and what people find appealing visually.

Handgun barrels can wear out. Unless something visibly cracks, a round count under 75k before the bore has something wrong with it would be unusual. Lots make it to 100k.

Cities do this. Newark did it to me a few times. It was a premeditated plan. They just take DMV records and write thousands and thousands of citations against them. If you fought it they'd just tell you you lose and collect the court fees and parking fees for going to court. It's a criminal scam, not an honest mistake more than likely. Newark has done this pretty regularly and has only been punished for it twice that I know of, so it's a money making action. Hoboken and jersey city getting in on the action wouldn't surprise me.

IIRC my highest was 26k in one year. Before I got married, moved, bought a home, had a kid, etc. it was usually between 20-22k. Once I got married it dropped to about 15k. Once I moved a bit closer to work and had a kid it's about 9k a year. But my commute involves rt18, so in reality I should be logging hours of operation, not miles. things a frikin parking lot at rush hour.

.50 BMG single shot upper. Works with your lower right?

Well if going by government book keeping methods, if you are Hispanic, your race is Caucasian and your ethnicity is Hispanic. In this case, it's the media really wanting it to be a white person instead of islamic terrorism so they can scream racist redneck, so they lead with that, regardless of the nuance fitting the lead.

I'm going to ignore the majority of the thread and say the moral of the story is don't reload .223 8-10 times while loading to near max book pressure of 50,000 CUP (the load according to hodgdon is 49,500 CUP). Lets see. .223 brass is under $0.09 a piece once fired. Shoot it 5 times and it is less than $0.02 each use. Do you really need to get it down to $0.01 or less? The brass got fatigued, load it less times, no blow up. You can make it fit the case gauge all you want, but if you have repeatedly lengthened it and keep cutting off the top to reach that number, something is getting thin and going to give out. This seems to be a salient point yet to be made in this thread.

Except 1) The temps on the casio pro-trek trype watches are always WRONG. They reflect, kind of, body surface temps. I have one. My office is kind of chilly. It is not 81.4F as my watch claims. So useless for air temp. 2) Because the temp is wrong, the altimeter/barometer is wrong except with relation to itself. So like going hiking under tree cover you can likely use the barometer as the tmep it registers will mostly be consistent due to your body warming the watch. 3) Altimiter is useless. Why? Because the barometer changes. They are mostly novelty. The compass works, and if if you aren't wandering in and out of doors a lot, you can use the barometer to tell if it is rising or falling compared to earlier in the day.

"As I was trying to figure it out, all the mags sitting next to me started popping free." What exactly does that mean? Just started spewing out rounds while sitting there? They all had the follower stuck partway down form your test and all started freeing up and returning to a normal position? Curious what that actually means.

The 1-4/1-6 scopes are incredibly versatile. Red dots are fast and (mostly) forgiving. One of the things left out is that you can set up a rifle with a dot that can be used more or less the same by anyone who picks it up aside from astigmatism. With magnified optics, the fit of the rifle to shooter and position of optics has to be much more similar. Then you bring in diopter, so unless everyone is corrected to 20-20 and fit's the rifle the same, sharing is more problematic. Then there's the issue of practice. Will you have to shoot from odd positions. The red dot is much more forgiving for that. When it punishes you, it's for up close targets and tto a smaller degree than a magnified optic. The only place I feel a magnified optic has an advantage besides the magnification, is with a reticle that can help make canting more visible. Also reticle related, people like the reticles with holdover indicators on the low powered optics. They are definitely useful for arbitrary sized featureless targets when the magnification is maxed out, but IMO aren't that big a help in dealing with people shaped targets. inside of the 100-300 yard envelope the dot (and most of the ammo) will be effective in, you can take holdover off of the target's features. Ok I take it back. There's one more area magnified rules (as well as 1x prismatics). And that is contrast. red dot AR coatings are greensih or greenish blue in color when looking through them. While you may not lose any more light than a reasonably priced magnified optic, in a number of common settings, you DO lose contrast. With a killflash you lose even more contrast, and more light. Also, under the right circumstances like rain in winter, you will find that ARs REALLY like to vent moist gas out the side of the BCG that seems to want to condense on things in that area. Like dots. The protrusion of magnified optics to the front, and the fact most of them have the front element recessed into the tube a good bit, gets you more time in use before everything is covered in condensation. Others covered other issues. My $0.02, if this is SHTF insurance, and you may have to share with family, etc., and practice time and ammo will be at a premium, a good 2moa red dot is a solid choice. With a reasonable budget and time investment, one can get to off hand accuracy where, offhand, CNS hits at 50, head shots at 100, golden triangle area hits at 200 and minute of bad guy at 300 are within reach provided your vision is naturally or corrected reasonably close to 20-20 and you don't have an astigmatism. That being said, for my gaming gun and 3gun match shooting, I'm probably going to have to switch back to a 1-something low power optic as much as I ahve been liking my dot.

Made a short list and let the family pick. They went with café aldo lamberti. It was very nice. Thanks for the suggestions.

Thanks guys. That at least gives me something to work with.

So, some family wants to meet up for dinner in the area the Sunday after thanksgiving. They want to meet part way from where I live and where they'll be. The problem is neither of us has any idea what's even halfway decent in the area that meets that criteria. Generally, I'm looking for someplace decent for a party of 6 or so more or less not too far off 95 or 295 between the Cherry Hill area Trenton area. Preferably open fo a late lunch seating on a Sunday after a holiday.

Thanks for the heads up, I needed to buy a couple cases.

HR department if your workplace has it. The person wearing the HR hat is legally the only one allowed to comment on your employment at a company.

Any idea on round count?

Well, keep in mind that the DNC decided that EVERYONE mut toe the line on gun control and just got their ass handed to them across the board. They might be readjusting their stance on that particular plank.