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It looks like, unless you have an MVP Patrol which is already threaded, you're going to be turning down the barrel to accommodate threading. So you might as well thread it while its still on the lathe, assuming lathe can feed for 1/2-28 Although on a side note (just spitballing here)...since this is a bolt gun and you don't have the "evil feature" problem, you could just get a Phantom flash hider instead, and not have to worry about alignment so much? A cocked flash hider will still affect tip-off though so I still say thread on a lathe.

Agree with the last few. Excellent documentary, could have used a different narrator. Huge props to DJ_ for making this all happen!

That article has a lot of hysteria generated from whats currently only rumors outside the R&D community. But the fact remains that it has been decreed by the politicians (who will never see the battlefield that they create) that "thou shall eliminate heavy metals" so something has to be done. The statement from his "source" about copper shattering and affecting performance is retarded...copper is quite ductile and the harder it hits something the stronger and stiffer it gets (look up Johnson Cook plasticity). Either the author is misquoting the guy or the guy has no idea what he's talking about.

The green rounds outperform the old ones in many aspects. They are not range use only, they are GP rounds. M855A1 has been in theater for a long time. Also I expect the M14 to disappear once there is enough SASS and C-SASS to go 'round

Because the public will pay the surgeons' bills when she smashes her face...?

I'm 99% sure that guy was misclassified and should have been under ESP. He was in our squad and I recognize his name from score keeping.

Huh. So it turns out when you try to start a stage without a mag in the gun you do crappy. Whaddaya know.

Yeah they have red and gray. I just don't have enough pockets frequently. I had a nylon pouch but it doubled the overall width. I originally copied http://www.kt-mech.com/models/KPB2.html but I didn't like it http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/02/ralph/louisville-leather-desert-eagle-project-pt-2/

Ahhh McMaster. Should have thought of that, duh. Thanks

I was bored so I'm going for some next level mall ninja sht I just need the sex bolts, anybody have a source?

Haha, my parents' Akita/Great Pyrenees mutt would lay down on the tile floor on top of the air conditioning register all summer. He wasn't a fan of the heat.

The 2022 has a pretty high bore axis, it's going to jump around quite a bit. That's why I sold mine. Got an M&P and never looked back. EDIT: my 2022 was a .40, it may be a non-issue in 9mm

The power cord can only handle 15 watts or less

Do you literally use shellac? I've been curious about that stuff but I've heard it's hard to work with. I usually just kill brain cells with lacquer.

What? Where did I mention the PPS? I only said the 9c and XD Subcompact were fat.

Compared to the Shield, the 9c (and the XD SC for that matter) is faaaaaat. I like the Shield and XDs because they are "single stack-ish" and since I'm a skinny guy I like the thinner guns because they're easier to hide without printing.

If the tenifer treatment is polished off you're exposing the slide to rust and you'd lose its scratch resistance. But according to http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/08/metal-treatments-ferritic.html the Tenifer penetrates into the slide beyond the matte black that you can see, so if you don't polish down 0.5mm (!!!) maybe it would still be protected. You'd see every single fingerprint and every speck of dust and burned powder though. Seems impractical for a shooter gun.

It does look like an unsupported chamber based on the brass but I thought the HK45 was fully supported, which is why it's able to shoot .45 Super right out of the box. You'd have to pull the barrel out and drop in the cartridge and look at the gap, the pics with the slide assembled don't help. (EDIT: Whoops, you said USP .45. So perhaps.) Is there any chance it was slightly out of battery? I had a very similar KB with my 1911 and I've never been able to fully explain what happened.

I use the Lee 3-die for .40 and the seating die will crimp if you adjust it to do so. I've been turning out quality ammo that way for a while now. You can't use it for lead and maybe not for plated either, though, and the 1-shot seating and crimping will shave soft bullets. EDIT: I don't really crimp tho, mostly just remove the bell

I like it... But the eagle and flags at the beginning don't fit with what follows. Maybe put them at the end instead, with the NJ2AS text? You never see a political ad go positive-negative-positive, only negative-positive or only one or the other. Need to keep it simple because people are dummies.

Regular M&P and $700 of ammo

When it hangs up is the barrel fully locked up already? I.e. when you push it home can you see the chamber area of the barrel move up at all? 1/8" sounds like it's already locked but I'm curious. If it works after the first shot at the range, it's probably a little tight fitting, that's all. If it fails to return to battery after one shot, stop (do not pass go) and call S&W. You don't want it to fire out of battery and the S&W customer support will take good care of you. My Shield will stop like that if I GENTLY ride the slide down but not any other time.

I'd echo the Crossfit but do it as a supplement, not a replacement to resistance training, Crossfit won't make you bigger unless you're gifted genetically. It worked for me because (A) it works legs much more than I did beforehand, and (B) there are suggested workouts so you can't typically say "meh, I've done enough I'm going home". Even scaling weights, if you keep the intensity up you'll be on the verge of puking every time if you push yourself. And if you track your progress with an app or whatever, you're always trying to improve. I do the Crossfit workouts at my own gym. They don't cost anything to get the workouts but if you don't have the crossfit coach you just have to make damn sure you're using strict form, especially on the olympic type lifts. I've been working out regularly for about 15 years and I never saw all of my stomach muscles until I started Crossfit. And that includes wrestling in high school.

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For modern cartridges (9mm, .40) there's not enough space to get enough powder in there to reliably get the bullet out the barrel (energy density of BP is a lot lower than smokeless). For a legacy cartridge like .38 spl and apparently .45 you could do it but why?