Scorpio64

You can thank BO and every other dem with a hardon for AWBs for the crowded ranges. I started shooting again just last year because BO helped me see the light. Black really IS beautiful I've never owned anything but wood stocked firearms in my life until last year. I bet those dem bastards bought stock in Magpul and Colt before they tried to ban the black guns.

GITS is Tits. One of my top 5 shows.

If you are not planning on mounting a magnified optic then a fixed front sight is your best bet. The fewer moving parts the better. You can still use a magnified optic with a fixed front sight, you may not even notice it. But still, there's just something funky about it. Red dot or reflex with a fixed front sight is a winning combination for short to intermediate range targets. EDIT: As a matter of personal preference, I like the Troy Battlesight. It has that classic WW2 Garand look that I love.

Last time I was there the RSO guy you speak of was giving a war vet some shit over not having a chamber flag during a cease fire. It was the guy's first time there and he had his teen aged grand kids with him. I gave him a chamber flag and peace was restored. But what a dick move by the RSO.

I'd be more concerned with what the heat would do to a barrel, especially a high dollar match grade barrel. That much heat will have to change the metal one way or another. Even if it doesn't screw up the barrel during installation, what about removing the device? The amount of heat required to melt the solder would soften the barrel metal and in the small window you have to remove the device the barrel would become more like twisted wrought iron instead of a precision machined gun barrel.

In Everetts instructions, he gave me the e-mail for the shipping dep't. I'll send a separate e-mail to them asking the simple question. Message sent..... This is getting interesting. Keep in mind, I was just messing with them to begin with to see how they would handle a delay inquiry. Now that they are asking for my FID, it's on!

The second response I rec'd was from Everett. My original post about the reply was deleted because (just guessing here) html coded contact info was in it so I excluded all contact details. I have since found the names of two top dogs at PSA and intend to write them a strong letter with some advice on customer retention. The Better Business Bureau has PSA rated on a scale from A+ to F as a C. How can a company with such a bad rep be doing so well? I kinda screwed up in my response though. What I should have asked is exactly why they needed my FID instead of leading the CS rep.

I received another reply, this time from a specific person instead of a generic CS account. The reply simply instructed me to send a copy of my FID. WOOT!!! Since when is an FID required for rifle ammo, including 22LR??? My response. So if this order was hung up because I ordered .22lr I'll be a little pissed because they could have contacted me if it was an issue. Tersely demanding a copy of my FID with no explanation as to why is not good form. Since this was the first time I've ordered .22LR from PSA I can only extrapolate from their FID demand that, because 22LR can be used in handguns, That is the only thing I can think of that may have flagged the order. However, afaik you don't have to provide a FID in NJ to purchase 22LR at any of our sporting goods stores. I can't wait to see how they respond.

PSA responded to the e-mail I sent at 11:30ish yesterday morning . Their response time was uncharacteristically quick. However, I call BS on the reply, maybe. If the CS rep actually read my invoice they'd know there are five items on the order and they did not address me by name. KInda gives me the impresion of a canned response.. That might have been an oversight but a red flag none the less. However, the respondent appears to have acknowledged my questioning the in-stock issue and expectation of it being shipped immediately.

I thought they didn't open until 1:00 on Sun. Are the hours for trap different than the gun shop hours?

If there is only one piece of advice I can give you, it's this. Build your rifle around the barrel. First figure out what kind of rifle you want, more to the point, what is the rifles purpose in life. Is it home defense, competition, hunting, just a few fun weekends each year at the range breaking shit or some other purpose? A short light barrel (14.5" with muzzle device to bring it to 16+ inches) will get you out of most bad situations in tight spaces. A heavier 16" barrel will do the same as the aforementioned with more endurance. If you want better accuracy look into Wylde chambered barrels, If you want to shoot longer ranges without having a big long honking barrel an 18" heavy bbl can help you reach out and touch something. If you tend to neglect your firearms get a stainless steel bbl. If you want to shoot rodents at 400 yards a 20" or longer heavy or bull bbl is the ticket. If you are going to overspend on anything, it should be the barrel. The best trigger, laser, scope or stock wont help much if the barrel is shit. EDIT: Also, twist rate is important. If you will be shooting cheap 55gr or 62gr milsurp range fodder then a 1:9 will be fine. If you plan on shooting longer ranges with heavier bullets (67gr or heavier) then a 1:8 or 1:7 should be considered. In many regards, rifles are like golf clubs. Sure you can play the entire course with a sand wedge, but having the right club (rifle) for a particular shot will make the game a lot easier. In any case, the bbl is the club head and the rest is just a matter of accessories.

Who here has experience dealing with or shooting skeet at Saloman's? Thee is so little info on the web about his shop and range. I'm thinking about doing some skeet shooting and wondering what the situation is there. Is it open to the public or is it a club? What's the availability and price of target ammo there like?

The parts came in...... I should have gone one ring height higher. I rec'd the riser and rings yesterday, mounted the scope last night. The scope clears the mount, but just barely, but not really. The ocular tube ever so slightly touches the mount but I can still turn the magnification and focus rings. Also, I had to position the scope more forward on the mount than I'd like. This means I had to mount the riser farther back so now I'm not sure I'll be able to fit a folding rear sight when I get around to doing that. I'll try it out the way it is but will have to order a set of taller rings so I can mount a BUIS when I get around to that. FYI. The Leupold riser looks really good and seems very solid. It's also very light. Makes my rifle look all hoytie toytie. The Weaver Skeleton rings are okay but not nearly as "quick" as one would expect. They have a tendency to fall apart at the clamp when mounting or removing and require some fiddling to get them to go on right.. But once they are on they are pretty solid.

I've used JB only once, they were the first to have the Rainier barrel I wanted in stock, after a months long drought, at a "normal" price. Shipping was fast and they also upgraded me to a Sunday delivery without me even knowing. I was tickled pink when it showed up a couple days earlier than I expected. However, that alone was not enough to get me to switch to them as my primary on-line store. Their prices are okay, but not great. Just for kicks I sent PSA an e-mail about my order. Not that I'm in any particular hurry to get it but more as an experiment. The web site CS section indicates the lead time for shipping (getting it out the door) at 5 days. It's been well beyond that. I'm just curious to see how they respond. They did have some pretty good ammo deals, and some not so great, yet not too bad deals on .22lr but they had it in stock, so I expect they will blame it on their 4th of July sale and ask me to be patient. I'm sure they are swamped. I'll let ya know how they respond.

Maybe it's because I'm older but waiting four to six weeks for "mail order" does not seem like a big deal to me. I know, I know. We live in the internet age where everything happens yesterday, but considering that I grew up with catalogs and check books my perspective is different. Back in the day, when I ordered something from Northern Hydraulics I filled out an order form, wrote a check and licked a stamp. I deducted the amount from my check register as soon as I wrote the check because that money was as good as spent. These days, naturally I'd prefer to have my internet orders processed within 24hrs of placing it and have it on my doorstep within four days. But when things don't go that way I don't blow a gasket, especially when I order from a notoriously slow place like PSA that still thinks it's 1980. What is inexcusable is bad customer service. There is no excuse for being lied to but it is all too common these days. The internet has made retail sales a cutthroat low margin high volume business. The tradeoff for cheap prices is CS going out the window, CS is expensive and is pure overhead. Now this may seem a little messed up but when things go slow with my PSA orders I don't call because I don't want to set myself up for a disappointment. I know I'll be lied to, or at the very least the truth stretched to the breaking point. I also know that my order will eventually arrive and when I placed it I had no expectations of a speedy delivery. When I need something fast, and I'm willing to pay more for better service, I'll place my order elsewhere. PSA has only ONE shipping option, lol, UPS ground. They are so damned slow (and they know it) they don't even bother to offer next day or two day shipping. Right now PSA is buggering up my SPR project. I placed an order on June 28th for an A2 receiver extension and piggybacked an ammo purchase to it. It's been "processing" for nearly two weeks now. If I needed it fast I could have gone with Brownell's and paid $40 for a $15 item to be here next day. But I got some very good deals on ammo so I'm not sweating it. Now how about this for Irony. I placed an order for an ARFX Skeleton stock and some other items from MidWay last week. Midway shipped my order the next day but didn't charge my card for four days. For a time I thought I was going to get the order for free. Apparently MidWay has the opposite thing going on. They ship fast but charge very slow.

They are blocked 20 rd mags with the A1 profile as mentioned above. I like this better because of two reasons. 1) I like the classic look and 2) you dont have to wang the spring all the way down to get all 15 rds in, I like that there is some slack in the spring. The problem with welds were not on the 15 rd mags and it was addressed a while ago. I do not recall seeing any complaints about welds on the 10 or 5 rd mags recently. If you prefer pmags then you probably won't like these, but they do work just fine and they load in my rifle on a closed bolt no problem.

PSA has always been slow, that is their normal operating speed, everything about them is slow . When they get busy they get reallllly slow, that's just the way it is with them. When considering an order from PSA you have to decide if speed or value is more important.

In the immortal words of Francis... "All I know is I finally get to kill somebody".

Learn how to save money and how to be patient. I was in a heap of financial suck for almost five years and had to do without many many things until my situation changed. Now that my situation has changed I put cash aside, when I can, for my hobbies. Now when I see something I want, I can get it and pay for it in full with cash. I cut up my credit cards a long time ago.

I wouldn't say they are ugly. But I wouldn't say they are nice looking either.

I believe this will probably work out fine but I'm wondering if I will have created a mismatch. The barrel on my AR is a Rainier 18" 223 Wylde Match with a mid length gas system and a gas port diameter of .085" ( + or - .002"). I will be replacing my pinned Magpul MOE stock with an Ace Skeleton fixed rifle stock using a standard A2 buffer, A2 spring and A2 receiver extension. Like I said, I'm pretty sure this will be fine but as they say.... Measure twice, cut once.

If you are asking about the Stoner mags, the answer is yes. Even without the limiter, the mags are pinched so that a follower cant go lower than what will allow 15.

I've been using the stainless steel Stoner mags from Midway with no complaints. They are the classic 60's era 20rd mag with a 5rd limiter. They are going for $16 a pop.

Lemme see if I read that correct. The orders that came in after the veto equaled 70% of all last months sales just in one day? Holy cow!

I was holding off on ordering more mags until this bill got vetoed, yanno, just in case. But c'mon, we all pretty much knew it was going to happen. So I ordered three classic straight 20rd (pinned to 15) mags for my AR today. It would have been more but I also bought some other stuff. I'll probably pick up some more after I get paid next week. I wonder if there was a surge in orders for 15rd mags yesterday and today.