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Try it, then it will happen to you, even on a colt. If it doesn't there is something wrong with the rifle. EMPTY mag in and EMPTY gun, lock bolt back, whack butt on the ground with the muzzle up and butt down, everything should stay locked because of the magazine spring pushing up on the follower and the follower pushing on the bolt catch. NO magazine in an EMPTY gun, lock the bolt back, whack butt on the ground with the muzzle up and butt down, bolt should close because the BCG moved rearward and removed friction form the bolt catch and the spring in the bolt catch does what it does and moved it back to it's resting state which won't stop the BCG from moving. No, butterfly farts shouldn't make the bolt drop, but without the mag in, it is far from bomb proof.

I'll give my experiences: ALL of them: Nobody has a signal that magically penetrates structures better. At least not better enough to make a real difference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_frequencies notice that verizon and AT&T are basically the same or damn close despite using different technology to encode the signal. Short of a building having a particular company's tower really close, what you actually have are RF feeds to the inside of buildings via leaky co-ax cables, or via an actual microcell type setup. THat goes two ways, either the carrier pays for the right of way, or the folks who own the building pay to put it in. Unless it changed, the train tunnels into NY and subway are verizon turf as they pay to have exclusive access. At least they did. We live in the promised land of coverage here where you can actually have an argument about this stuff. Lots of places are dominated by a single provider that is usable. One of the biggest problems we do face because of this are underprovisioned legacy spectrum AND LTE spectrum. BAsically, you have 4-5 bars of signal, but you can'tuse data or sometimes make a call due to to many people on a single cell. They don't build out the 3G cell for capacity because they are moving to LTE, and LTE doesn't have enough capacity yet because they are not rolling it out fast enough. T-mobile: I was with them for a while from they were omnipoint. About 1997-2001, maybe 2002. Absolutely the NICEST CS I have dealt with for phone service of any kind. I got service in all sorts of weird places provided it was near an interstate highway. However, I had to leave because of lack of coverage. They billed for the month passed, which is how it should be. Verizon: The best coverage overall. There are still places where their coverage sucks. For example, my mom lives way down south in jersey near the border. Verizon coverage there is weak. Once they stopped selling handsets with extendable antennas and higher radiation levels, verizon stopped working in large areas. Also, I had them when I went to L:as vegas in 2006 and had all sorts of hard times making and receiving calls from them. They were also marginal at the CJ range, and useless at OB indoors. They bill for the month ahead an the usage for last month. so when you start a contract, you have to pay for amonth before you make a call, and when you cancel, somehow you don't have anything refundable despite having paid for a month you didn't use or fully use. CS is unfriendly, and on top of that their VOIP call system is so quiet as to be unusable. I suspect this is deliberate. I currently have verizon service on my work phone. They are more likely to pay for small building mounted antennas to support existing customer bases. AT&T: IMO second best coverage. There are VERY few places verizon works for me that AT&T doesn't. There are some places AT&T works for me that verizon doesn't that represent actual outdoor coverage. There are places that verizon works that ATT doesn't, but they are mostly tunnels where verizon has the contract, or buildings where indoor coverage is paid for by a company that has a verizon corporate contract. I find their CS to be OK in terms of attitude, but light years better in terms of being able ot actually fix a screwup. Granted, as a carrier, I've had them make more screw ups, especially provisioning new hardware, but they fix it, and usually in one call. I go with them mainly because service is acceptable, and I have coverage at the places I shoot, down at my mom's place, and in the machine room at work (becuase they put in leaky co-ax as part of a deal for hanging an antenna on the building). They are more likely to pay for small building mounted antennas for access to a new customers. Sprint: I only have a WiMax hotspot for this, but it is feeling very t-mobile in terms of coverage. From friends and family that have had it, very rarely does it shine, but it works a lot of places for having such a bad rep. When I had family in pamlico county, NC it was pretty much what you were stuck with for cell coverage. As fro the t-mobile ETF stuff, It's mostly a trap for people who can't do math and want their stuff now despite not having the money for it. For exmaple, lets take an att to verizon hop. Call monthly service $50 to make the math simple and assume that t-mobile is the same, so we will leave that cost out of the numbers. With a $300 ETF charge, and a $99 subsidized phone price. and a $40 activation fee, verizon has a $439 cost above monthly contract for the move, but it is all up front. For t mobile, for the same device, The monthly financing is $25/mo (I picked and HTC one since they both have it), and they have no activation fee. Cost to move is $600, but it is spread out over 2 years, even if they cover your entire ETF. That's IF you qualify for the 0% APR, which you may not. THEN lets say you want to leave after 6 months because of coverage (it sucks, you moved, whatever). You owe $180 ETF on your ocntract, and as far as I can tell you have to pay off the outstanding $450 on the phone too, although I suspect you still do it monthly. They have made it hard to find details on the terms of financing for this, so I'm guessing sane terms. They might be horrible. It is pretty safe to say that NOTHING any of the wireless carriers are doing at this point is financially beneficial to the customer. Period.

What's your rationale with that. I started with the hornady reamer, and changed to the RBCS bench swager. The bench swager is WAY faster and much more consistent. In bulk loading, faster wins usually.

It's more than that at this point. It's 3 or 4 places doing the 0% forgings. (unless one of the old 2 stopped, a 3rd was coming online a while ago) LOTS more doing the machining to spec these days, it used to be effectively 3 with a small intermittent supply form a 4th. These days a lot of brands are doing at least a portion of the 100% finishing in house. Practically there isn't a lot of difference between most of them. Cosmetically there is more differentiation. Spikes are actually pretty nice overall on both counts.

It depends. I have a 16" midlength and an 18" rifle length upper. The mid length and rifle length on an 18" barrel are both wrong IMO. the noveske intermediate length gas system is right IMO. So with 18, you have a choice of slightly undergrassed with potential reliability issues in the cold, slightly overgassed with harshness on par with a 16" with carbine length gas system, or just right, but with limited access to spare gas tubes. 16" mid length barrels are all over the place, so are gas tubes, and they work nicely. Go with a .223 wylde chamber and you should get muzzle velocities near that of an 18" with a 5.56 chamber. At least I do.

I've had a couple of conversations with Frank via email. I was polite, and so was he. The answers might not have been what I would have preferred, but they were the answers good or bad, and for practical reasons. I avoid Facebook like the plague, it's a place for drama to be created by people with nothing better to do in a format that you can wear everywhere like a hair shirt. So far all I have heard are people whining in a manner that boils down to "I gave you $XXX, why haven't we won already," "without something concrete to show for it, we must not be making progress because of misuse of funds, obviously we could be spending every penny better and you are a crook," and "In my continued badgering of Frank, he cursed at me on the phone." All with no evidence to date, although in theory evidence was going to be posted imminently every day for the last week at least. My interpretation of the above gripes is basically (in order), You are a moron, shut up. Sometimes there is no time to spend money the most efficient way possible if you don't want to miss the bus, and sometimes it comes down to a learning process, but at the very least, if you aren't showing up with numbers on how to do it better next time and you KNOW they are right, shut up and stop volunteering other people's limited time. And to the last one, were you being a dick first? Because sometimes that'll get you cursed out and rightfully so. Even with this, STILL the least dysfunctional 2a rights group I've dealt with in NJ.

I have an act. Pretty smooth, still has mil spec creep before the break, but slick and not gritty. Stock it pulled 5.5-5.8lbs on my manual trigger pull gauge. Put some Jp springs on it and it pulls 5.0 cleanly and lights off wolf and federal xm193 just fine. It's still crap compared to a really good trigger, but it is about as good as you can make the mil-spec trigger without compromising reliability. My wife finds the 2.5-3lb triggers scary. It's what is in her gun.

Notice no mention of being arrested or charged. This could just be overzealous PR work or headline clickbait. Given that the dead guy got stabbed, it is entirely possible that after disarming the guy he went after him. Which is a no-no if that was the only source of a threat of lethal force. Just because the initial circumstances seem justified doesn't mean they didn't change somewhere along the way. Someone comes smashing through your front door armed and threatening you, shooting them is fine, even if it kills them. However, if they are running away with a gunshot wound and appear to no longer be armed, plugging them on the front lawn and killing them while they flee isn't kosher. No matter how jacked up on adrenalin you may be, it won't sit well with the law pretty much anywhere. The difference between someplace like NJ and NM is that he wasn't arrested and charged immediately. He's been given the benefit of the doubt to the extent that he is free and able to leave the state. It doesn't mean you don't interview everyone and ask if things went down in a manner that is justified by law.

Yeah but they also have a whole different level of snow clearing equipment too.

Everyone says they are indestructible. Magpul ships them with a feed lip protector. There's gotta be a reason. Might be a stupid reason that's way out there, but there has to be one. Might be that it prolongs the lifespan before you get that crack in the back that seems to be how they die. Which, you know, makes the feed lips do their job less reliably. The lancer feed lips

Summer camp when I was 11 with some cmp bolt action 22 rifles that weighed like 16lbs. They didn't move when you shot them, but carrying them the three miles it took to get to the camp's range sucked. Made it easy to tell who really liked shooting by the end of the first week though.

Go to local convenience store, get pre-paid visa or whatever. Easy peasy.

Last I heard he is not profiling barrels anymore. He knows what he is doing, but from the sounds of it, there were just too many customers wanting what he wanted to sell as a service for his abilities as a businessman to keep up. He could either become a manufacturer, which he had neither the money or inclination to do, piss off his customers with supply chain issues and not enough time in the lathe, or he could just work on customer barrels and fit rid of inventory issues and get more hours per day on machining. He posted the notice publicly, could have sworn it was still on his website someplace.

That is interesting. Supreme courts usually look upon such acts and frown menacingly before handing you back your now detached nut sack.

I crunched the numbers as much as I could. The reality is that you can find higher and lower density areas that are ban areas and carry areas, and they are all over the place in terms of firearm homicides and injuries. Nj happens to be in the middle-ish area of the scatter plot. You can't do the real math without more data. For the state, county, and some times the city level you can get fatality, injury, and crime stats, but not stats on the per capita rate of permit holders.

Well magpul might be the source. It's why the include the covers with them. Keeps crud out but it also pushes the top round away from the lips a bit for extended storage. It's also one of the reasons lancer gave for the metal inserts.

This isn't the first time they have acted like this. They also made a rule about ammo only shipping to ffls in nj at some point too. They might have rescinded it, I'm too busy shopping elsewhere.

It's not been so long since deep snow. 2009 and 2010. I think part of it is that getting practice is a huge pita these days. When I was a teenager, if it snowed, I dragged my butt out to the local mall parking lot overnight to practice in the unplowed lots at the edges of the parking. They seem much more aggressive about clearing early and often than they used to be. As for chains, getting ones that work with alloy wheels of 17" and up is hard or impossible. At least it used to be, I haven't looked recently. That rules out chains for a LOT of cars. Then there's the less snow thing. They make a bigger deal out of smaller snowfalls so they can toot their own horns and stick to the ethos if spend out your budget or lose it.

Small base might be it. I've used one shot for .308 no problem. My .223 is small base and one shot got me stuck cases more than once. I just use royal sizing wax, it smells good.

Rcbs swaging tool that is similar to the Dillon is great. I have had one for a while. I got one super cheap when Psa had free shipping and a big discount on Rcbs stuff.

I like ryobi. It's built to a price point and is not the best, but they also don't spend any of the build budget trying to be what they are not.

It's a novelty item, end of story. If you have ammo manufacturers trying to make specialty rounds for it that aren't a total embarrassment, and you have to dream up ultra narrow niche purposes for it, there's a name for that. Creative marketing, failure of a product, novelty item, etc. pick the one you like. To date, nothing is producing good results in ballistic gel out of the things regardless of using specialty ammo or not.

Buy reputable barrels and don't worry about it unless you are installing the barrel nut

My concern would be the same as for np3 coated slides. Namely too slippery with sweaty hands or with anything remotely lubricious on your hands. Although I would expect it to not be quite as bad as np3.

That might be what you thought you were writing, but grammatically it was not. As demonstrated by everyone taking it as you actually stated it. But even taking your brake a is negligible in difference compared to brake b if you practice, it's still an untrue statement. There are a buttload of brakes that suck, and a much smaller but growing number of brakes that work well. Both pools run the entire price spectrum from $30 or so to about $200.