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Had one for a while when I was doing a lot of Alpine style mountain/ice climbing. Saved my ass once from going off route and spending a nasty night above the tree line in British Colombia. Other than that it was just an expensive watch that I couldn't wear with a suit... Nowadays I find a G-Shock and my iPhone more useful and practical.

I don't think he was serious, I think he was poking fun at me.

Ha! Well then SIGN ME UP!

Ok, so.... I was gonna add this request on the LW 9mm AR thread in the AR Sub-forum: http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php/topic/72207-buying-building-9mm-lightweight-complete-upper/#entry911839 but I thought it would detract from Tuk-Tuk's post so I decided a new thread was in order. I want to build a .40 S&W AR that takes Glock mags. I have to give my MP5 back to the Dept armory soon and I want something for steel matches. I know 9mm would be easier but .40 suits me for a number of reasons - primarily that's what the rest of my Glocks are, ergo my Glock mags as well, and it's the caliber I keep in abundance along with .223/5.56. It looks like unless I want a Rock River or Olympic Arms upper (hint: I do not) I will have to piece an upper together myself for this project - but I have little experience with pistol caliber ARs. What do I need to know? Lower will be a QC10 Small Frame Glock Lower: What action spring and buffer do I need? Does it use a standard receiver extension? Standard AR trigger or something special? Anything else I don't know? Upper Receiver make is still undecided: Do I need a particular upper receiver? Planning on getting a .40 BCG and barrel from QC10 when they become available, but just in case, who else makes quality 16" .40 AR Barrels and .40 AR BCGs? I know they are straight blowback, so is it simply install the barrel with no gas block/tube/system? Who makes a muzzle break/comp in .40? Anything else I don't know?

:ROFL:

Uh-Oh!! Get your HKs and spare parts now while you can! Buy a VP9 and do your part! Seriously, it is a troubling bit of news, but I doubt the German Government will let HK go under - especially as the HK416 and HK GPMG were just chosen as the service weapon for their militaries. But this is definitely a strike against agencies in the US choosing HK products as duty weapons. http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-16/lara-croft-gunmaker-primed-for-interest-distressed-debt.html

Just remember, there is no free lunch. You drop weight so the rifle is more comfortable to carry and arguable "drives" faster but you lose some ability to suck up recoil which increases your split times and the gun becomes more fatiguing to shoot as it takes more energy to control. There is a sweet-spot - but it is different for every shooter as recoil is such a subjective animal.

May you become a billionaire if you are able to accomplish this. Oh, and nice carbine.

Ok, I tracked down the temporary QC10 website. It looks like they have Small Frame (9mm/.40S&W/.357sig) Glock AR Lowers in stock with Large Frame (.45ACP/10mm) to follow soon. That are also announcing that they will have .40S&W barrels and bolts modified for Glock Mags in the next few weeks. Website: http://www.qcircle10.com Specs: http://www.qcircle10.com/glock-small-frame-lower.html Listed Price: $274.95 I am very interested in this especially if we can get a local vendor to stock them! ETA: Photo

I was 28 and in the Police Academy. It was a Glock 23.

I took the same mesage from this. Basically, they will follow the local laws. If you become disruptive to the customers they will ask you to leave, just like any disruptive customer will be asked to leave. I don't have a problem with this.

I have a lot of thoughts in this topic, but as of yet have not had time to compose my thoughts fully. Until then I will say this: Some anticipation is actually required when shooting fast - as you would in a close-in defensive engagement. The post-ignition "flinch" is actually helpful - arguably necessary - for controlling recoil. Instead if a ball and dummy drill I prefer to conduct a "wall drill" - which isolates and diagnoses the pre-ignition flinch (which is not helpful and not needed for recoil control) and reinforces trigger control. WALL DRILL • Keep the muzzle 1" from your target - a 1/2" circle • Aim in • Dry fire 15 times perfectly - controlling the trigger to reset each time. If your finger comes off the trigger or if there is any movement of the front sight seen - stop, take a breath, reset your grip/stance/sight alignment and start your 15 dry fires over. • Step back to the 1 yard line. Load and charge the pistol. • Fire 5 rounds for tightest group - rounds should be touching, if not in the same hole. • Repeat 2x. If it is easy move back yard by yard/foot by foot until it is not. If at any time at the range you feel your group is opening up, or you are getting sloppy on the trigger, stop what you are doing and shoot this drill 1x.

That's pretty funny

The reason I posted a link to the other thread is that you gave no indication what your intent for this post was. You posted a link. No description, no comment, no indication for the way you wanted the post that you began to continue. Where you asking for opinions on the results of the article? Where you simply sharing info? Where you trying to start a conversation on the merits and deficiencies of brass or steel? Was the link a "proof" of your stance in the steel v brass debate? Where you asking for more information on the topic? There was no way to know. I just figured that pointing you to a previous discussion with the same link would be most helpful. The link I posted also lets anyone who looks at your post know that there is more info, with an actual discussion on the topic, elsewhere on the forum and maybe any questions or comments they have would be better suited there.

I was not being a smartass. I was trying to be helpful. You posted a link with no opinion or comment. That link directed users to an article by LuckyGunner that was previously posted and discussed. I was pointing to you more information in a thread that has a link to the exact same article in its third post, and a place to discuss said article if you were so inclined. If you wanted a seperate thread to inquire about particular or specific information pertaining to the data that was in the LuckyGunner article, you could have typed a sentence or two stating that to start a discussion. Feel better.

Hear, hear!

Ha! You guys got jokes - Yeager and Piston ARs? Pushing all my buttons :rofl: I will duel a revolver guy, as long as the course of fire is more that 10 shots

I am plenty calm and not getting defensive at all. There. That better? I am just confused as to what you are missing here and why you are going on about what you think the problem is when we already know it's an ammo issue. They may have ramped carriers, I honestly couldn't tell you. They are currently "Range toys". As such they are fired infrequently but still maintained and inspected as per manufacturer's directions. I make plenty of mistakes. On a regular basis. This isn't one of them as these guns were added to our inventory years before I was hired and they are factory, again - no conversion. Yes, Colt makes some lemons - I am not disputing that. But I doubt all 6 guns would have these issues only when shooting flat nosed or hollow nosed rounds - but run like the proverbial sewing machine when shooting mil-spec round nose 147gr 9mm, if it was a gun issue. Again, the Uzi mags run just as well as the factory mags. As I stated in my first post on this topic - It is an ammo issue. :) :)

I have no more controls on my Glock than you have on your revolver.

The only way I can think of is if it is considered a "pistol grip" without the stock - but that doesn't really make sense. I will say that with an 18" barrel it will be pretty unwieldy, even on a 20" barreled AR.

Yeah, the six12 is pretty cool.

It was the Knights Armament Masterkey, but it's a SBR shotgun. The modern 870 MCS also has the attachments to mount under barrel.

It's the same trigger disciple you have when drawing any pistol from the holster. No different.

No one "missed the obvious" or "screwed up". These are factory Colt 9mm Subgun SBRs and most definitely not conversions. They were designed at the request of the USMC in the 80's and don't run well on anything but mil-spec 9mm ball - factory mag or modified Uzi mag. In any event, no one is modifying the carrier in a duty gun just to use a mag-hack and any gun that I have to disassemble and inspect for broken parts after every few range trips can stay in the armory. That's them. Like the MP5 they are fun range toys, but there are now much better options out there for their intended purpose.