MidwestPX

I've handlapped a few uppers for locally commissioned work. Generally speaking, billet uppers required less material to be removed to be trued. That being said, I'm not completely convinced it matters for most shooters. I say that because none of my precision AR uppers had that work done yet I'm the weak link when shooting them. Why don't I do it to my guns? Because I'm not getting paid.

Nope, not the AlMg alloy issue. It was 7075 Al.

MLOK. Magpul did some pretty extensive testing of the KeyMod system and it has some serious shortcomings namely durability and strength. MLOK in polymer supposedly has greater pullout strength than KeyMod in aluminum. Additionally, with enough weight, you will eventually egg out the KM slot. I had a three cell Fury in an Arisaka mount completely egg out a KM slot in under 1,000 rounds of .308. Searching around, I found other users experiencing the same. Some tried Loctiting everything down and that bought them a little more useful life but was only a stop-gap. Being a retailer, I should probably stock both KM and MLOK but if you notice the newest handguard additions to the catalog, they're only in MLOK and that is deliberate.

http://midwestpx.com/magazines/limited-capacity-pmags/15-round/15-20-midwest-px-m3-magpul-pmag-black.html Don't forget "NJGF" for 5% off the entire order!

Nope. Follower and lockplate are different.

21st Century Shooting

1080p isn't even worth buying, IMO. 3MP or greater resolution is what's needed to provide useful information at any reasonable distance.

I run walnut on the first pass prior to sizing/processing and corn after. With a capful of rough cut car polish, I haven't had to deburr anything in 50K+ rounds. All on the same carbide cutter.

1. Purchase separately 2. I don't however my brass has a TiN coated expander mandrel run through the necks after trimming then they get tumbled in media before loading. 3. The RT1200 is DCed and the RT1500 replaced it. I wouldn't mess with the 1200 even if it was available simply because the 1500 is that much beefier.

We make a 15/17 Glock PMAG: https://midwestpx.com/magazines/limited-capacity-pmags/15-round-glock-17.html Full size body but 15 round capacity.

I can't say as I've never used N140. For anything smaller than .30 caliber where H4895 is being recommended, I can't imagine not using 8208 instead. The shorter cut powder has far less chance of bridging the casemouth and making a mess which is priceless for progressive presses.

This explains some things...

I've been running a Strike Eagle on a 12.5" gun for the past few months. Part of the testing included leaving it unsecured in the back of my car as I drove around for two weeks. I drive a fair bit of gravel and I let it bounce around to abuse it a bit. I shot it to confirm that it held zero (it did) then I tested tracking of adjustments at 250 yards and they were all still true. I'll keep playing with it but thus far, it's held up to two carbine courses and nearly daily use.

Check your primer pockets. If they loosened up, dial it down. You've got good velocity and good performance at 24.4 so wrecking the brass is really the only reason I can come up with to dial it down. While I was doing my load development, I found that if I kept to Lake City or TAA brass, my primer pockets were fine but if I used commercial brass such as PMC, I'd lose 20%ish due to loosened primer pockets.

Thank you! USPS is closed today and while we're normally closed on Saturday, the post office is just a few blocks from my house so I'll be taking all of the USPS outbounds home with me tonight and dropping them off in the morning so there should be minimal delay!

Okay, let's talk about principles which is going to result in me discussing more about what goes on behind the scenes than I'm generally willing to share publicly. I put about $100K into the principle of protecting my customers, both wholesale and retail, from supply disruptions. I literally could have paid off my house instead. Go back and look at the post Sandy Hook threads complaining about mag pricing where your LGS was charging (and getting) $40-60+ for a limited capacity PMAG. The only way we can impact that as the manufacturer is to increase supply. We updated all of our dealers of this about a week before the election because we wanted to put them at ease that they don't need to load up prematurely and worry about availability. We didn't want them to feel like they wouldn't be able to reorder in a timely or predictable matter which directly impacts the retail price. So I made the decision to invest in far more inventory in a limited number of SKUs to buffer against that. Meanwhile, on the handful of lowers that we have left that are now $30 more expensive, even if we sold every single one right this second, that extra $30/lower wouldn't even cover one month's rent for the shop. Obviously, the buffering isn't a completely altruistic move since we can't sell what we don't have so it was a sound business decision as well however supply stabilization benefits all of us. The alternative would have been for us to sit on our hands, not adjust inventory, wait for all Hell to break loose, then use pricing as a way to allocate mags among our dealers by jacking up the price at the wholesale level which obviously would impact the retail price. Sure, our margins would be better and we'd be in a more fluid financial position, but that's not what I wanted because it defeated the initial objective of maintaining a stable retail price. IMO, you're making a mountain out of a mole hill and I agree with maintenanceguy that you're taking this personally. Your previous posts suggest this with wording like, "shocked and pretty pissed about it" and "I figured he would come on here and call himself out with some kind of excuse and most guys would eat it right up." I'm not making excuses. I'm providing you with an explanation of what happened and even admitted that I screwed up with the timing. By the way, our cost on WMD BCGs is going up so when we restock, that price will be increasing too. Just a head's up.

So now selling something for MSRP is gouging? MSRP: Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Pricing. You're upset about increased prices, not gouging. Gouging is showing up to an area that was just hit by a natural disaster and selling bottled water for $50/bottle because you're the only game in town. In reality, the pricing on that lower specifically should have been adjusted to MSRP the second we found out that the machine shop that makes them is out of business and we can't get any more at a cost that would support that pricepoint (or any pricepoint now). You, specifically, louu, should know we aren't malicious in our pricing. Remember that BCG you bought that went on sale a couple days later and you received a prompt refund for the difference ($25 or so IIRC) without asking for it? You didn't complain about the price changing then because it was in your favor. But you'll begrudge us a $30 increase on an item that we can't replace once we sell out?

We raised prices today on some items to MSRP (from MAP, usually a 5% difference but varies by brand) and put hard quantity limits on mags. While we braced pretty heavily inventory-wise (we're carrying 10x as many PMAGs as normal), an overnight run on stuff could put us in a tough spot. The other consideration we have to take into account is our wholesale network and trying to keep them fed with product during shortages so using a price of MSRP rather than MAP to gently adjust the split in sales should have been relatively painless.

I saw over 100 boxes of 55gr Hornady FMJs (6k to a box) sell out in under 12 hours from a distributor. I couldn't believe it. I had purchased three boxes and figured they'd have more in a couple weeks when I was planning on buying more. I was wrong.

I shoot alot. Not just in training but also product testing/evaluation. I've got 30K+ rounds of completed .223 with another 120K pieces of once-fired brass that's either either ready to load or ready to be processed. I need more projectiles though.

Truthfully, your plan should have been in motion last year. I've been stockpiling components since the Pulse shooting. I've had to split my powder storage and move some to the shop because I'm over the 100lb residential limit. 105K primers with 60K being #41s for ARs. Enough projectiles that I had to rebuild my storage and use 2x8s rather than 2x6s because the 2x6s were bowing due to the weight. If I scale back, that stash as it stands can keep me shooting for five years. The problem is, one of my kids is getting to that age where she's going to start shooting so I need to account for increased consumption. Kids....

When I lived in Illinois, we had FOID cards which serve the same purpose. Every gun store asked to see it before being shown a firearm. Politely but firmly. I think that employee's presentation and demeanor need an adjustment but I wouldn't be upset about being asked for that card since the state requires it so you can purchase it.

Everyone and their mother is either building bcgs now or has the capability to. Six months ago, OEMs were beating down my inbox trying to get orders to keep their machines running.

ATF wouldn't know or care otherwise during our last compliance inspection, we would have had some explaining to do regarding the middleman work done to rifles that were sent to us then shipped on to CA FFLs.