High Exposure

Nice! I can’t get over how light this carbine is. And that paint job is awesome! Nicely done!

@Bully

P320 X5

Vice Dremel with cut off wheels Cold Blue pen Black High Temp BBQ paint

I have shaved the front sight off of a standard gas block on about 6 rifles now without removing the block from the barrel. No issues whatsoever. As for a handguard thatbworks with the standards barrel nut - look at Troy. I really like the Troy SOCC hand guard.

No. There is a statute that prohibits driving with a video screen visible to the driver. 39:3A-1

DUI - 39:4-50 - is enforceable on private property. Yes, you can be arrested in your own driveway for driving impaired. Being in your driveway is not proof that you aren’t going to start the car up and drive off in your Intoxicated state. You need to prove three things to be found guilty of 39:4-50: 1) Intent to operate - yes, sitting in a car with the keys is enough for intent 2) Impairment 3) The impairment is due to intoxicating liquor or drugs Here are some cheat sheets we use. Anything in light blue is enforceable on private property:

My gut is telling me you need new mag springs. Go to Wolff Gunsprings and order the +10% mag springs. You can get a 10 pack for $50. When is the last time you conducted preventative maintenance on the gun? New recoil spring assembly? New Mag springs? What aftermarket parts do you have on the gun? I have had bad luck with ETS mags and will no longer use them.

Fuck Facebook in it’s dirty whore mouth. That is all.

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack. It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace. The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu. Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island. And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island. Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation. As Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph -- so help us God. I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.

I solved that problem for you bro. Easy day.

Doesn’t that just make them a Mennonite?

I use a Dremel for bayo lugs and for cutting down FSB has blocks to fit under a tube. I found the Dremel is perfectly adequate and let’s me be much more precise than the grinder.

The main reasons SERPAs suck is because they are just a shitty holster. They break, fail, and lock up at a rate higher than any other brand. It isn’t just the poorly thought out release mechanism. That being said, just because you haven’t had a problem yet doesn’t mean you won’t have a problem with your trigger finger landing on the trigger in the future - “If there is a doubt, than there is no doubt”. I mean come on, put on your critical thinking hat for a second - look at what is required to release the pistol from the holster and tell me that it is foolproof and there isn’t a better way. What is the continued attraction to these holsters? Their cost? A contrarian attitude or the desire to buck the trend? Doesn’t make sense to me, but what do I know..... If you rarely carry a gun, and hardly use it you will probably never see an issue. If you carry one very day, you will learn to hate them. Addditionally, if you have never used anything else, you don’t know how’s he better a holster can be. As for the paddle release - meh. I had a P2000 that had it. It worked. As for an AD while working the paddle under stress - the gun is empty if you are reloading under “Extreme Circumstances”.

I would say that there is even one step further removed between a person that carries a gun for Self Defense and one that applies their skills to actively pursuing armed individuals when looked at from the context of competition.

It’s more than just shoot/no shoot. If I approached a shooting port in a barricade during a comp the same way I would approach an aperture on the real world - say on the hunt for a bad guy where someone on the other side of that aperture may try to kill me - it would take me 5 minutes to complete a stage. In the real world you don’t get to walk the stages and memorize where any targets or shooting positions are in the real world. There is a completely different OODA loop going on when you know where each target is and you can choose from what position you engage them in an order to maximize efficiency and speed as your switch from target to target and position to position. It may be faster to shoot an array of targets from right to left from the left side of cover in a comp because of how you gamed the stage. In reality, I’m never going to expose myself to an exposed shootable threat on my left a pass so I can engage a second shootable threat to my right and work my way back to the first one. Keeping things like this in mind, I can see how a self-defense minded shooter that is training to fight with a gun - not just shoot - can come in at the bottom of the standings. Don’t get me wrong - I think everyone that carries a gun for self defense should shoot comps. You experience a little stress. You get to work on lining up the sights and working the trigger while performing draws and reloads. This is all good practice. But you have to put it in context for what you are doing. I am not saying “Shooting a comp will get you killed in the streets”. Far from it. Competition and gun games will absolutely enhance your abilities. I’m saying you have to be disciplined to pick the right abilities to work on and know there is a difference between what you do on the range and what happens in the real world.

All fine and all good bro. No worries. I was shooting a stock Glock with an RDS (Shooting an RDS has its own learning curve that I am working on) and full power .40 ammo. That is a bit different than an open gun. That was the second comp I have shot in I think 3 years or so and I don’t think I did that poorly all things considered. But those are just reasons. All that being said, you probably would have beat me with straight irons too. Ultimately, there are quite a few reasons for the fact that your performance was better than mine, but the main one is that you and I shoot for two different realities. They are not equal. The work that goes into them is not the same. Gun fighting is not competition shooting. Yes there is some overlap and some skills translate directly from one to another, but not all - and for good reason. I use the comps as practice, not competition. I’m not trying to win - I’m trying to work on a particular skill. (Don’t get me wrong, the A type in me wants my name to be at the top, but that’s not the driving force to participate in the competition) I simply try to do better at this comp than I did at the last one. I try not to alter my fundamentals to fit the game I am playing. Instead I try to reinforce my fundamentals to enhance the skills I need for my reality. Louu, even if I had the time and money to shoot as much as you do, I wouldn’t choose to shoot the same kind of disciplines you do. Unfortunately as it stands now, if I make 8 comps a year, I consider that a win. And I try to squeeze every ounce of learning I can out of each comp. As for trainers - they are not all created equal. You have to vet your trainers. You have to tailor your practice and training to your end goal. You have to make sure your spending money and time on what gets you closer to your stated purpose. I wouldn’t pay Rob Leatham to teach me CQB. I also wouldn’t pay JD Potynski to train me to be a grand master class IDPA pistol shooter. You don’t take Flying Lessons to prepare for a Motorcycle Road Test.

As per the weight - Remember this isn’t a Glock. The serialized “Firearm” is only the trigger assembly. It weighs what, 3oz? The entire pistol doesn’t fit into the chassis like the Glock. You install the trigger assembly into the pistol grip that is integral to the chassis. - and I agree, it is good to go in N.J. and meets the definition of a pistol.

Under 50oz Pistol brace Magazine goes in the grip No barrel shroud You decide....

I don’t know about that, but I know Indiana Jones carries one and he’s a badass.

That’s pretty much what I did. Except, I do not remove the gas block from the barrel if and I did not need all those tools. I just locked the upper in a vice and used a regular Dremel with the cut off wheels I linked to above. The first one I did with an angle grinder. That took longer. Partly because it wa the first time I did it, and partly because the grinder was harder to be as precise as you can with the Dremel.

It’s called a bottle bush. My wife loves it. I used the Dremel Cut Off wheel: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dremel-1-4-in-Cut-Off-Wheels-for-Metal-Thin-Wood-and-Plastic-36-Pack-409/203362590 Probably something better out there, but I had them, and they worked. I’ve probably done 8 carbines like this so far between my own and those of friends. It is super easy.

If you are looking to install a tube on an already built rifle with a pinned muzzle device check out the Troy SOCC tubes. Slim, rock solid, lightweight, MLOK attachments, and inexpensive - Primary Arms has the best deal right now I think. Joe Bob outfitters usually has a good price as well. Most importantly, they use the mil-spec barrel nut, so there is no need to grind off your muzzle device to get the gas block off so you can replace the barrel nut. It’s a 15 minute job with a Dremel, a cold blue pen, and some high temp (BBQ) spray paint. If you are going to go free float on a 16” barrel, you want to maximize your real estate - get longer than 8” tube. 12-14” is nice I went from this 14.5” Midlength BCM EAG upper with 9” Magpul handguard: I cut off the delta ring and spring. Then ground down the FSB with the Dremel and hit it with some cold blue then black BBQ paint: Then slid the rail on to end up with this: The longest part was waiting for the paint to dry.