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That makes total sense and I have changed my vote to a G34. Yes, the G17, G17L, G22, G24, G34, & G45 all use the the exact same frame - with minor differences to the internals. On a side note, I would carry 9mm exclusively if I wasn't issued a .40.

Dude, you know where I stand. Glock 35 with a 9mm conversion barrel - best of both worlds. I wish we had that conversation before the end of the class, you could have shot mine. ETA: I have Glocks in 4 sizes. I am not home right now, but when I get back I will put up photos comparing the subcompact G27, compact G23, full size G22, and tactical G35. I also shoot the G35 the best out of all of them and have zero issues carrying that pistol concealed. I don't have a long slide G24 (yet) but the G22, G35, and G24 all have the same size frame/grip. The difference in those model being in the length of the slide.

Cool. Thanks for the gouge.

Working on it

BCM is a great company and Paul is a standup guy. I can understand the stance of not offering what amounts to "Legal Advice" via email/phone/ etc... when there are so manny different States currently enacting "Assault Weapon Laws". It is just too easy to offer someone in the wrong state info that while technically may be correct may be practically incorrect where they live. Then you have a company getting its customers in trouble and customers pointing their fingers back at a company blaming them for the error. Too messy for my likes. And, while I really like their products and would love to use their comp, but I just don't think it is worth it right now. You are 100% right, with other options out there that work well and are definitely NJ Legal it ain't worth the possible headaches. Look at the two options I mentioned above. I am very happy with both of them. I bet you will be as well.

http://www.burrisoptics.com/ar536.html 5x Mag Jeebus!!! That MRDS has like a 5" offset!

According to info I received from the NJSP Ballistics unit, they do not use the federal guidelines of the definition of a flash suppressor with regards to the percentage of flash reduction measurements meeting any threshold. They follow the "pinky test" and what the device is called by the manufacturer and form their "opinion" based on that. Unfortunately, the "A" answer right now concerning this device is - no one knows. I know that is not the answer you want to hear because I know it isnt the answer I want to hear myself, but it is what it is... Personally, looking at the device and reading the description I would assume it was NJ legal, but when it comes down to it, it may end up coming down to your "expert" vs the NJSP "expert" arguing their "opinion" in a courtroom. There are other excellent options that will fit your needs that are known to be NJ legal. The BattleComp and PWS FSC556 being 2 viable options that I know work very well.

I got hands on these for a day about two years ago. Did not do any live fire, only dry fire. I was initially very intrigued by this concept and really wanted them to work, but once I got hands on I realized the flaws. This sight only works as advertised when you are in a perfect shooting position. The instant you need to move your head, your arms or the gun, you lose the sight picture. It may be great for bullseye shooting or range work, but trying to use these in prone, kneeling, rollover, or asymmetrical shooting positions is impossible makimg these a no-go for gunfighting or any defensive handgun use. I can not speak on accuracy as I fired no live rounds through the pistol.

Perfecto! Checko beat me to it. That .pdf is a great resource.

I actually take a sharpie and black out the rear tritium vials to make the dimmer. If it is too bright it is distracting and makes picking up the front sight more difficult than it has to be. Looking past a light source to see another light source is difficult in low light situation. The Spartan and Pro-Operator sights I have are yellow rear, green front. I do like that option. I also prefer to not have the white outline on the rear tritium vials. They are a distraction if you are using your sights properly. The "dots" on your sights are not supposed to be lined up when acquiring sight alignment or a sight picture. The dots, tritium or not, are there to provide a rough sight alignment in low light/no light conditions prior to settling on your final sight picture as you press the trigger. Proper sight alignment/sight picture should be based on the sharp outline of the front sight centered and level in the rear sight notch. You should not be shooting at anything in true darkness or in lighting conditions where you can not positively ID your target as a threat. If you have enough light to ID, then you have enough light to acquire a proper sight picture without using the dots. I had standard Trijicon night sights on my issued duty gun. On a timer, the Spartan and Pro-Operators are significantly faster and more accurate in my experience. They were also priced lower than the Trijicons. They got swapped out with a quickness. I am no wanna-be SWAT/Delta. I actually use the guns I have the Ameriglo sight on to do work and look for badguys. I have been using them (starting with set of orignal Operator Night Sights) since 2005. I chose them based on the recommendations of some really hard shooters who I had become friends with and whose guidance I trusted greatly, not because of any forum or because "it was what the cool kids had". Bottom line, the Spartans and Operator series sights flat work and are an excellent value to boot.

This install is easy. Goes on like a regular handguards then bolts the upper and lower half together. Blksheep, I just like the standard front sight. It is solid with a good gas block, it is attached directly to the barrel so I don't have to worry about the rail geting knocked out of whack, it is always up - one less thing to do in the event the dot dies, I can use it with the optic's tube as a rough ghost ring, and I honestly don't even "see" it anymore when looking through my optics. I really see no reason to not have it. I do have the parts for my next build to be slick up top - so we will see how that goes.

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Hammer pair

Pat has a very persuasive personality doesn't he? Fit 31 in an ARC Mag (stupid reversed follower) and dropped a mag on the deck out of my rifle 30 seconds into TD1 on my 5th EAG class. Pat was directly behind me calling the line. Pat said that was the fastest Moosecock ever awarded... FML...

Wow... You are painting with a pretty broad brush there bub.

Shoot, you know what? They must very well be for Glocks only... Having only Glocks I never looked for them for any other guns. Never crossed my mind that they wouldn't make them for other guns... Not knowing what the OP is shooting, but guessing a Beretta , my recommendation may be worthless. ETA: yup, just checked. Can't find any Ameriglo sights for any Beretta pistols. Mea Culpa.

Sight preferences are very subjective based on use, experience and dogma. I like Ameriglo Pro-Operator and Spartan sights. They use Trijicon tritium vials in their sights. I have found them to be very high quality, decently priced, and an all around good company to deal with. The Pro-Operator series has a wider than normal rear notch and a norrower than normal front sight. This makes them a little less precise but faster to get a "good enough" sight picture. They also use an "outlined" front tritium vial and "bare" rear tritium vials. This makes the front "dot" appear larger and a little faster to pick up. The Spartan sights use a Pro-Operator rear sight with the wider notch and small vials and the front sight is a little wider than the Pro-Operator giving a little more precision over speed, BUT the froth sight vial is surrounded by a big neon orange or green circle that your eye picks up much faster (subjectively) than a plain vial/dot. I recently bought 2 sets of these and am really liking them. With a little looking you can find this set for under $100.00 Keep in mind "night sights" are not for shooting in the dark per-se. If it is too dark to see your sights it is too dark to positively ID your target as a threat. The glow of the sights are useful for a rough sight alignment in periods of "twilight" type darkness or front-lit encounters where there is enough light to see you target well enough to ID but there is not enough light to really get a good sight picture. They really are of limited use, but when you need them you need them. Depending on your intended use for this pistol/sight combo you may be better off taking the money set aside for the sights and buying a quality white light (hand held or WML) and attending low-light training.

So "Capricorn 1" waaaas a documentary got it I believe we did it. I believe is was a national pride thing after losing the race to the "first man in space" to Russia primarily. I believe it was also a distraction for the people. I don't believe we went there initially for any other reason than to get ther first. We were in the middle of an unpopular war which for all intents and purposes it appeared that we were losing to the Communists. The race to the moon was just another way to achieve victory over the Reds and was a convinet political distraction to all the bad things going on in our country at the time. As for why we didn't stay or colonize, or keep going back? Well while I believe the journey was feasible, the amount of resources it would have taken to actually colonize the moon, build permanent structures, or do any kind of work to mine it for resources and ship back to Earth was just not possible at the time with the tech available and it was not profitable enough, politically or monetarily. The juice wasn't worth the squeeze, as they say. The landing were "enough" and provided the victory we needed and the distraction we wanted and served the purposes required. National pride soared, the Russians knew we did it first, and people forgot about some of the worse stuff going on. The mission, as it was intended was accomplished. As tech gets better it will become a reality that we will land there again, and we will likely set up permanent structures with an enclosed atmosphere. I believe this will primarily be done as a test run for a mission to Mars.... And I for one can't wait!!

Incorrect, kinda.... Yes a FA bolt carrier is slightly heavier, but I don't know for certain about it being any more robust for the purpose of handling FA fire - I can't find any documentation in any of my Armorer materials one way or the other. But, a FA bolt carrier is however different in appearance and design to a SA carrier. The FA carrier has a design feature that is a specific requirement for FA fire in guns that are so capable. Where the rear of a SA bolt carrier is open or "C" shaped, the rear of a FA bolt carrier is enclosed (more material = extra weight). The extra material enclosing the bottom of the rear of the carrier enables it to trip the Auto-Sear as the BCG goes into battery and releases the hammer without pressing the trigger again. Additionally, If you put a SA bolt carrier in a FA capable gun, it will not fire FA even with the selector on the "AUTO" setting. M16 = FA BCG AR15 = SA BCG

I have noticed the same thing. I chalked it up to low QC/QA ammo, WECSOG armorers trying to wring the most out of their peice with the low quality parts that were all that was available, and low quality firearms in general. All three reasons relating directly to the price increase in firearms related pursuits of late and shooters trying to save a buck. As well as the fact that for a while, you couldn't be too picky about what you bought as options for guns ammo parts and components were extremely limited. Sometimes you bought crap because crap was all there was. And now we are stuck shooting the ammo we loaded with sub-standard components or the low quality manufactured stuff we were able to buy out of the lower quality firearms we bought and tried to make "just as good as" with the slim pickings of parts available.

I don't typically go in for naming guns, especially girl's names, that just creeps me out.... These guns only got them joking around the team room. My work rifle is "Reason": Because everyone eventually listens to "Reason". It was so named by a teammate during a debrief following a job when I pleaded with a suspect while pointing this rifle at him to "Listen to reason and just show me your hands..." You say some dumb $hit when your heart rate is jacked.... FML Breaching gun is "Houdini" for obvious reasons: Other guns don't have names - although guys have started calling my blaster (G35 w/ SF X300U) "The Light". Because the SF light is BRIGHT and on the first job afer getting it I lit a suspect up brandishing a hammer and he fell backwards into a pap-san chair. It looked like he just sat down soon as the light hit him. Guys started saying that he "Saw the light".

Mega does make a nice lower... Voyager9, if you are looking to build a rifle that will see little use (under 1000 rounds a year) and the use it does see will be on manicured ranges where cottonball clouds float across an impossibly blue sky, with rivers of chocoate flowing next to trees that give beer, than a Spikes will probably serve you OK for quite a few years, assuming no defects from the get go. If you do have to skimp a little bit, the lower is the place to do it. As long as you are realistic about what you want the rifle to do, don't kid yourself about what you components are capable of and avoid the "Parts is Parts" mentality you should be good to go.

I am not getting what you are saying here by "manually push down". How are you loading if not manually? Are you using some kind of loader like a Lula or stripper clips? I oversee 100s of 30 round Pmags, ARC mags and GI mags loaded and used for training every year. I have seen something similar to that photo exactly one time. It happened when a shooter was using stripper clips to load and used a table I stead of his thumb to feed from the clip into the mag. That mag also looks like it has too many rounds in it... ETA: OK. That picture above is of a reported stored mag showing signs of feed lip spread. After reading this I went to my call out bag and grabbed three loaded mags out of my "Oh Sh!t" bag where I keep extra mags, batteries, snacks, etc... These 3 mags were issued to me after being fired to test function, maybe 90 rounds through each, then loaded and stored for a rainy day in 2008. They show no signs of spread. I am extremely curious to see what MWPX makes of it after getting hands on.

K45, thanks for the response. No worries bro. I thought you took offense to my post in the other thread - No offense was meant BTW - and just wanted to clear it up. I have lowers (4 Stag lowers) in my safe that aren't my first choice either. We bought what was available when it was available for the best price we could get it. We all did. Now the trick is to know the limitations and not kid ourselves. This site is very useful for the sharing of info. The info is only as good as the honesty we put into it. If we all stroke each other with BS nobody learns anything. I do like the Vltor..... I wish I had a MUR..... As far as pictures, host with photobucket. Upload from your computer of phone. Click the IMG link to copy and then paste it into the thread. Easy peasy! You can practice with PMs to get the hang of it.