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One thing most big brand guns lack is craftsmanship. Todays manufacturers obsess about profit margins. You will often find that many of the older guns are higher quality than the new guns. With the quality of materials used and the old world craftsmanship many manufacturers couldn't make a profit if they made guns the way they used to. A perfect example is the injection molded tactical tupperware. Rather than pay employees to run mills, presses, and forges they injection mold and pump em out as fast as they can, then mark up the price as they market it as "tactical." Glock actually subsidizes the price of firearms they sell to police forces, that's why you see so many LEO's carrying Glocks. Subtle marketing, if they cary it then it has to be good. Actually its pure genius. Dont write off the old stuff, it may be better than you think.

I would go for the m1a, i would never trust my life to an AR platform. Not just from a reliability standpoint but a caliber and knockdown standpoint. The .223 is too small of a caliber. Now in perfect circumstances an ar will run great, but when your life depends on it do you want to have to worry about keeping a rifle perfectly clean. I carried a M14 in the military because i trusted it and it never let me down, something i couldn't say about the 16.

I use kero frequently, but then again i am the nutjob that prefers to clean in the sink with joy soap and a scrub brush.

I anneal all the time and all i use is a propane torch, drill, and a deepset socket. Once you get a hang of it, it goes quickly. I anneal and my brass lasts forever. Some is on over its 20th reload and so used you could barely read the headstamp.

yeah watch out they all speak to you. If I ever get a day off I am planning another trip out to ohio. I'll keep you updated BlueLine. It doesn't look like my next day off will be until the end of November. UGH life sucks, only 2 weeks off in a little more than 6 months..... :wild: A CMP trip will be desperately needed.

The greatest battle implement ever devised is still kicking ass and taking names later. I would have no qualms at all carrying one onto a modern battlefield. If you havent shot one you dont know what you are missing. Love at first trigger pull

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I have a seperate insurance policy through a collectors specialty company( I cant remember the name right now) and they are awesome when it comes to insuring a collection. Only items valued at over $2000 I have to take pictures of and Items valued over $5000 I have to have inspected. The lower end stuff under $2000 they dont need an inventory of, only the high dollar stuff. When I get home I will look at my policy stuff and give details of it.

Ooh, ooh, ooh! I know someone who may want it!!!

Yup just convert 30-06 cases and brass is taken care of and i like 200gr HPBT with some 4064, accurate as heck

I got my MG-42 from Henderson defense which made it NJ legal by basically filling the flash hider with a piece of metal. It is a cone with a hole in it pretty much, just for looks. I am offshore right now so I cant get any pics of it but it was converted to be legal in NJ

With a progressive you arent going to be trickling a charge to be exact, or checking runout. Quantity or quality, your choice. There are lots of variables with loading, do you want to trust a machine or verify for yourself

Now to get rid of the `16 and we would be moving in the right direction

Progressive=quantity, single stage=quality. It all comes down to what kind of shooting you do. Are you happy if it goes bang? Or do you want to shoot the wings off of a fly at 100?

It is supposedly made to M2 ball specs, a 4895 equivilant powder and a 150gr flat based bullet. Range reports I heard on another forum are good so far. For now I will stick with reloads or HXP

I have been moose hunting several times. It is almost a 100% success rate and really not that fun of a hunt. You are almost guranteed a moose and dont have to try much. Sit in a corner of a clear cut and call "here moose, here moose" and the will come.

http://www.copykat.com/2009/05/18/crab-stuffed-chicken-breasts/

I did 3 of the bad boys last night. Also made a crab stuffed chicken breast with a white wine/swiss cheese hollandaise sauce. YUMMMMY

just a sampling of the Garands for now.

I learned last time I was offshore that fish fart. Yup, I watched it happen about 3000 ft down..... Now if i can only smuggle the video out of work. So incase you ever wondered.... FISH FART!

his ar jammed. Kinda a blessing in the outcome of this story

going back to a proven design with a hard hitting round........ now just need to do that with our primary rifle and things would be good..

Well I got back and the store was fairly picked. I got a 1944 Springfield with original 4-44 barrel that gauged good, original park, and mostly correct parts. I just need to slap some lockbars on it and put a Springfield bolt in it(it has a WRA bolt). The barreled receivers were really nice and some of them came home with me. Overall although the store only had Rack and Field grades there were a bunch of diamonds in the rough on the shelf. Now to get em all cleaned up so I can go play tomorrow.

a guy that I work with is apprenticing under his father who has the title of "Master Craftsman Knife Maker." He has made me a couple of things that are awesome. I just sent him an email about this and the link to this thread to see what he has to say. Hopefully we hear back from him. Maybe he knows a starter kit or something like that. Here is one he made me a while back.