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I caught it before failure, but I did have a poorly machined carrier begin cutting the cam pin. I agree with HE, staked gas key (with good staking, sometimes the staking doesn't even touch the screws), proper steel, and phosphate is fine. That being said I have a chrome carrier because I hate having to scrub. I missed this forum, haven't been online in a long time.

Wouldn't surprise me if they are defunct, definitely a budget company. I'm sure there's people trying to offload their crappy parts that they bought. Mine is going in the scrap heap.

Pretty old news, but Ice Arms sucks. My Ice bolt carrier I picked up a while ago (after over a month of emails and shipping hassles) looked fine. Proper staking, good chrome lining, no tool marks. Been to the range a couple times and my cam pin is getting cut up by the inside edge of the carrier, which I never thought to check. Stay away from Ice.

My RRA trigger was great until it wore out and became an almost one stage mush. If you want a budget trigger and don't care whether it's one or two stage, you could get an ALG trigger and a set of lighter springs. Otherwise, my go to is Geissle. Not too sure on calibers, my experience in distance ahooting is only with 5.56 out to 600 yds. The biggest thing you need is to practice how to compensate for wind, light conditions, etc.

At no point was there an intention, documented or otherwise, for a pistol build. So the transfer should be pretty straightforward.

Huh, I thought stripped lowers were subject to funky laws since they can be buit into pistols. Nice to be proven wrong.

If a stripped lower is treated as a handgun, do you need a handgun permit in addition to the eligibility form to transfer a built ar?

That's why I went with the VCAS, didn't like the idea of a tail hanging off of me

Thanks for the input guys. I'll probably get around to putting it on next week, pics to come.

It'll probably be mostly a two point, I just like having options. Do you find that the rifle falls away from you when both are mounted on the left side?

How does the rifle sit with that on? Seems like it'd be a little floppy from attaching so low.

Picked up a qd VCAS sling with the triglide one point converter from IWC. What side do yall (who actually do work with your rifles) mount your slings on? As a righty shooter I've seen the front mounted on the left as well as the rear, the front on the left and the rear in the middle on an endplate, and all kinds of crazy stuff. I don't have an endplate, but my stock has qd points on it already. Purely as a two point I feel like the rear mounted on the right of the stock and the front mounted on the left of the rail would be most stable and hold the rifle upright. But when switching from two to one point the rifle would lay the wrong way. Am I just completely overthinking or is there an actual proper way to this?

Yeah my walk from the bus to work was about a mile. Not bad until it's below ten degrees and the wonderful New England drivers are out on the ice. Thanks for the best wishes, nice to see JWU alumni into shooting.

A bit of both actually, one year of class Harborside while living downtown, then one year of both down town, then this year l lived at harborside with classes on both sides. My schedule was all sorts of crazy this year.

Was food service management, recently accepted into nutrition program.

Johnson & Wales, you? RI has some weird laws, they're not written that restrictively, but the culture isn't here and they're interpreted in that light. For example shall issue permits if you demonstrate a reasonable need so in effect may issue. And thanks. No NFA items, but at least there's no mag restrictions. Depends if you go through the AG or local police chief, laws here are almost as weird as NJ

That's pretty much what I was thinking as well.

So I just got my first apartment (been living a mixture of on campus and home for the summers) in Rhode Island (not much better than the people's republic, but a little) and I don't plan on coming back. I'll be there a year or so until I graduate and then free state here I come. So I guess here's to future adventures somewhere in America. On that note, which would you do first: ccw, sbr, something else?

I think you need to define on a budget first and what role the rifle will be playing. The ALG trigger is a great choice at a low price. If you're not planning on it being a defensive rifle, I'd invest more money in quality mags and ammo over other miscellaneous parts. An enlarged trigger guard would be nice if you plan on shooting with gloves.

Thanks! That was pretty helpful.

Thanks Jack. Trying to get more info on this shotgun. it has an "RL" in an oval and "AN" in a rectangle. Was told it was bought from Sears.

Does anyone know what logo this is? There are Italian proof marks on the receiver of this side by side shotgun.

Pretty much all receivers are the same. There's only a few forgers and most companys don't make their own in house. I happen to like Spikes because I like their roll marks and logo. As for lpk, I prefer Geissele triggers in all my builds so I buy lpk minus the fire control group (trigger).

I have a 15" hand guard on my 16" barrel. No functionality issues, it's really a matter of preference for aesthetics unless you're worried about balance or an extra ounce or so on the nose of your rifle.

The Mr.GunsnGear vid on the page you linked to pretty much summed up how I found it. Just cruisng eBay, actually was looking for the Kaw Valley comp, and this one caught my eye.