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raz-0

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  1. A second or two. But that's because it impacts something. LEt your impeller or compressor wheel hit something and see if you get a second or two out of it.
  2. To an extent you are paying to prevent the production of total savages that steal your shit. That's the polticians job after all.
  3. actual packaged water, go more with survival numbers than with numbers to maintain some semblance of function. 1 liter per day is usually considered basic replacement for sitting still and breathing. Some mystery doctor says 8 cups a day (advice is everywhere , nobody knows where it came from), so that's 2 liters. You want to wash and prep food you'll need more. Plan to be hoofing it on foot, you'll need more.
  4. I don't know that I'd call that a rumor. Someone asked in an interview, and got the answer that was more or less summed up as "there's no reason he couldn't if we wanted him to." I'm pretty sure the answer will be.. you'll get more Daryl as he has been, because the best way to keep viewers interested is to flirt with giving the viewers what they want as long as possible. Straight, gay, lots of viewers want Daryl to hook up, and it has nothing to do with the main story premise, so it won't happen. Just like lots of people want bad things to happen to Carl, because he just doesn't frikin listen. I give better odds that Carl gets some degree of karma smacking him in the face before Daryl gets laid.
  5. I'd pick either the best or the worst performer. Pull one and mic it and visually inspect it. Tumbling is most likely caused by one of two things: undersized bullet or asymmetric damage to the bullet. With plated, the latter can lead to the rifling trying to pull the plating in the damaged area off the bullet. Undersized from the factory can bite you, but you can undersize during crimp for all or part of the bearing surface with a crimp set up that works dandy for jacketed. The case mouth won't show it because it springs back. Jacketed doesn't care because the jacket springs back and covers up most of the problem. Plated and coated can have severe degradation of performance with a setup that loads jacketed happily all day. One thing I forgot, less pita than pulling is take a qtip and swab your seating die. If you have copper flakes, your odds of finding damage when pulling is higher. But pulling a plated bullet is less of a pita than slugging a barrel, so I'd still pull and mic. I'd mic out of the box bullets first of course. As for oal, in 9mm most factory isn't saami max oal. It's something like 1.120 iirc I got my best combo of reliability and accuracy in 9mm with 1.125.
  6. Never bought a gun, mostly reloading components and such. They are a decent company to deal with, but no idea if they have a order it yourself mechanism for guns like buds does, or if your FFL has to call it in.
  7. My opinon. Don't buy the polymer frames. I have seen them crack in .40, and they don't ahve the level of beefyness that CZ used when they made their polymer version. I jsut don't think polymer is well suited to the frame rails being outside the slide. I have an older baby eagle from back when the slide release was the long dog leg design. You can worry about the slide mounted decocker/safeyt all you want. Competing with it it was never dislodged form the position it was supposed to be in without me doing so deliberately. I cannot say the same about the dog leg slide catch/release, which due to having large hands and long fingers, I would accidentally engage fairly often It was definitely accurate and soft shooting. Less picky about mags than the CZ, and had a smoother trigger out of the box. As for the witness pistols being better, tanfoglio makes the baby eagle components for IWI, at least the metal framed version. IMO if you don't want the all metal version, you don't really want this gun and would be better served by other more popular designs.
  8. It depends a lot on the match and what you do and how you do it. For me it ranges from about 3 miles for a very sedentary match where I don't really work to about 17-18 miles for the mid atlantic sectional match we did at CJ. That was my record as I got to do all my usual MD stuff and wrangling for that match but got stuck without a cart, and that was without shooting, and being an RO and/or scorekeeper for a lot more people. On average doing stage building, trouble shooting, shooting the match, stage resetting, ROing and scoring as needed, clean up and go home is good for about 8-12 miles at OB and good for 5-7 miles at CJ with a cart. Just shooting a match and doing your part resetting at OB is more walking than at CJ. I would guess that if you are lazy about resetting, it's about 2.5 miles at OB, and about a mile and a half at CJ.
  9. raz-0 replied to MidwestPX's topic in Midwest PX
    This is jsut punishment for your optimisim on the timetable. If it didn't it in a suitcase, it probably wasn't going to go as smoothly as your schedule implied.
  10. Well, that's where understanding how comps and flash suppressors work. Comps usually concentrate and redirect gas. Falsh suppressors do one or more of three things: 1) act as a heat sink. 2) turn gas velocity into kinetic energy in the form of sound (i.e. act as a tuning fork). 3) diffuse gas. All of these things take energy, and velocity out of the gas. This reduces flash. The BCM diffuses the gas through slots, and has ribs into the opening that are very similar in positioning, if not in size, to the internal fins on an A2 flash hider. Do I think either of these will work very effectively? No. But there are a ton of comps on the market that don't do this. The PWS FHS mostly just redirects the flash out of the shooters eyes, but it also does a small bit of diffusion with the little "tongues" in the vents that vent the high pressure chamber. Then of course we have the set of guidelines NJSP have said they use, which are pretty sketchy IMO, but the BCM straddles the line of ambiguous. We've also seen NJSP rely on marketing material to make judgements, and BC DOES claim it reduces flash. If judged rationally, I would say 100% a comp that redirects the flash with negligible reduction of said flash. What the powers that be would say? I dunno. If stopped and examined what would the average officer think of it? I also don't know. Would I bother wading into that mess given it's performance and price? No. Does that mean you will get in trouble for it? No, of course not, just like with every ban and restriction before, there's a slew of people who opted to say FU to the law and are keeping their mouths shut. It's surprisingly effective. In general I like to provide the reasoning behind my opinion on why something is gtg or not. I didn't here because we've done that thread already, but the above is my reasoning. If I have to formulate an affirmative defense, the BCM comp doesn't leave me with a solid argument from the realm of physics, nor does it provide a clear defense in terms of the "metrics" (and boy do I use that term loosely) that the NJSP have admitted to using. That leaves the only real opportunity to formulate an affirmative defense to be a multi angle, extended exposure, night shot photo with a scaled grid and measuring flash volume. On this last one I think you could get resonably favorable results based on what I have seen in videos.
  11. I would say that largely depends on the market, and how your town dealt with the bubble. Back around 86-87 my family moved down this way, and at the time it was a sellers market. Prices were jumping. A couple years later, and it was not. The DIY reassessment worked fine, but the town mostly grew from new construction, and the run up wasn't nearly as big as the recent bubble and collapse, just the usual wave of market forces. I know the same town has been pretty resistant to appeals lately. Some towns, in the face of the bubble, kept appraisals low and upped the tax rate. Some places reassessed and dropped the tax rate. The latter have a LOT to lose form disputes. The former not so much. Then of course there were the towns that reassessed and didn't lower rates. Those kind of towns, you have to get them to pull out long enough so you can get up and call a lawyer, and they'll still fight you tooth and nail.
  12. That's kind of narrow thinking. What if they just have a bunch of willing martyrs who will be infected with something communicable that will jsut commute in the subways every day until they kick it. There's not much security theater, or CCWs can do about that. Heck there isn't much actual security could do about it unless the infection had some very specific and obvious symptoms.
  13. The market is off is Japan. Last year saw a record bid of abotu $1.4 million for a 489 pound fish. Same guy, same market, same time, spent only $70k for a bigger fish this year. So the bubble burst. Still it's about $138/lb. Thats even though the number of fish available declined 30% year over year. So...
  14. You can be positive all you want. Pull the bullets and mic them. Brass is springy, lead is not. There's a reason why I said PULL the bullets and check them. preferably both visual and mic them. Pulling them will more than likely be a PITA. You will need a hammer type puller, and quite possibly need a spare. I will also be specific, and if they are micing smaller than they are out of the box, and you are using a lee factory crimp die, change to something else like a dillon taper crimp. something without the sizing ring at the base. I've shot a LOT of plated. I get good performance out of them. I don't know why people having problems so often dismiss the specifics of what I say and insist I'm wrong.
  15. No, but they were stupid enough to slap promo photography with cartridges backwards in a mag on their catalog one year. It's infamous. They probably wouldn't have caught as much flack as they did if they weren't in the midst of telling you how H&Ks could operate under any conditions, even firing with an obstructed barrel. As for the OP, no I don't have one, but it's one of the feww oddball guns I would like form a collection point of view rather than a practical one. Price is a bit much for me at the moment though.
  16. #1 thing to try in this instance is a thorough cleaning including removal of the firing pin and ensuring that it is in good, undamaged condition, and that the firing pin channel is free of debris. When I picked up my baby eagle, the thing had misfires out the hoo-ha. On the verge of sending it back, I finally found the bit of chip from machining somehting on the gun that had gotten beaten into a corner of the firing pin channel by the firing pin. Once removed, it ran like a top.
  17. The answer is NO. Because the one shot stop data is from the 70s and 80s. IT got a whopping 74% one connecting shot to end of confrontation stat. Which means, just like everything else, you better plan on being able to shoot, and hit, the badguy twice. Which once you plan for that, pretty much everything in the data was in the same category.
  18. Is this like the last paper launch of the t-2, or will items be actually shipping. They should try selling some instead of repeatedly announcing it.
  19. Here's the basic gist of the argument. It isn't about what is best in terms of terminal ballistics and wound dynamics. What they have concluded is that at this point and time a wide variety of cartridges have been developed that make all of the human vitals vulnerable in a number of calibers. Since that is the case, 9mm wins in terms of cost and capacity for commercially available pistol cartridges. I'm not so sure they have a point about the 9mm being easier to shot things accurately and fast with. You can make .45 and .40 pretty tractable. Their point of wear and tear I think is bogus. Most of the really effective 9mm loads are +p or +p+, which isn't exactly gentle.
  20. .223 makes a small turbo charger seem slow, which is a feat.
  21. raz-0 replied to Barms's topic in NJ Prepared
    In terms of accessibility. Frs/gmrs radios. Then cb. Then ham. In terms if range and coverage, reverse the list.
  22. Yes, it is sold as a comp. Quoting bcm, it is sold as having: "Tuned slots and interior cone offer maximum in recoil mitigations, compensation of muzzle-rise, and flash reduction." So. You are trusting that, in the land of everything gun related is an affirmative defense, where they have banned a 22lr as an m-1 carbine because they mentioned m-1 carbine in an ad, that there is no way it could be construed as a flash suppressor? Gotcha. BCM going to be your expert witness?
  23. Except body count doesn't rule all. What do you think would be the financial impact of a couple of Boston bomber types at a couple of wal-mart Black Friday midnight openings? Im also talking about the number of people actually altering their behavior due to it. The number of people who walk through the doors of a wal mart are much greater, and unlike commuters who will have to deal or find new work, buying less is a pretty easy option as is switching retailers. Then of course you have the security theater backlash. Someone leaves some scorch marks in grand central, you can make pretend you have secured and hardened a target. Major retailers? You can't do jack or even convince people you hardened those targets even slightly. That being said, I'm arguing what could potentially do more long term harm to the nation, not what I consider to be more likely. It has little cachet, and requires grasping nuances of American culture and infrastructure. The big apple is shiny, and most of the planet doesn't grasp that LA isn't a convenient day trip from it, nor can they grasp that a big chunk of the US views it with no greater import than other countries while they imagine we all hang on every event there and couldn't live without it. The only reason it practically matters to the us is due to the financial industry.
  24. So like 67 million more and they'll catch up with walmart's week.
  25. It's not looks it's the assembly method vs. the highly scientific "can I poke my finger in the end" test njsp says they use. The bcm appears to be cast/machined for a torx bit that would allow your finger to poke in even though the bullet passes through an opening only slightly bigger than the bullet in conjunction with ad material that claims reduced flash. It's not about what it is, it's about guessing what njsp will say if push comes to shove on the issue.

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