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Grey Templar wrote: So I just bought a Springfield PX9105MLCA 1911. Really exited, been wanting a 1911 for a long time
You should be excited, because the 1911 is an amazing pistol.
I stopped using it as a carry gun because it's too bulky (I switched to a subcompact 9 instead), but it's still easily my favorite handgun in terms of looks and shooting.
I'm big enough to where the 1911 is comfortable for me to carry.
Sadly it might be a while till I could ever carry it because California is stupid, and getting a CCL in my area is perhaps the toughest in the country. You can count on one hand the number of active CCL licenses in a 30 mile radius on my house
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Anyone own an m-14? I think I'd really like one. It's just "looked like a rifle should look" to me. It also gets a lot of praise by anyone who's ever used it. I've never shot one though. I have a Sig AR-10 so I'm not really sure it will be worth the money.
I have a Springfield M1A (semi-auto civilian version). Mine is a more 'modern' version, the M1A SOCOM CQB version.
Top gun in the picture below:
16 inch barrel, boy is it LOUD. Surprisingly almost no felt recoup due to the muzzle brake. Came with a Vortex Venom red dot. VERY fun gun to shoot.
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Grey Templar wrote: So I just bought a Springfield PX9105MLCA 1911. Really exited, been wanting a 1911 for a long time
You should be excited, because the 1911 is an amazing pistol.
I stopped using it as a carry gun because it's too bulky (I switched to a subcompact 9 instead), but it's still easily my favorite handgun in terms of looks and shooting.
I'm big enough to where the 1911 is comfortable for me to carry.
Sadly it might be a while till I could ever carry it because California is stupid, and getting a CCL in my area is perhaps the toughest in the country. You can count on one hand the number of active CCL licenses in a 30 mile radius on my house
I was about to say.. How tiny are ya'all that an 1911 is big?
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Grey Templar wrote: So I just bought a Springfield PX9105MLCA 1911. Really exited, been wanting a 1911 for a long time
You should be excited, because the 1911 is an amazing pistol.
I stopped using it as a carry gun because it's too bulky (I switched to a subcompact 9 instead), but it's still easily my favorite handgun in terms of looks and shooting.
I'm big enough to where the 1911 is comfortable for me to carry.
Sadly it might be a while till I could ever carry it because California is stupid, and getting a CCL in my area is perhaps the toughest in the country. You can count on one hand the number of active CCL licenses in a 30 mile radius on my house
I was about to say.. How tiny are ya'all that an 1911 is big?
I think its more a weight issue than a size issue for people. 1911s are fairly slim, but they are heavy. Thats good and bad depending on what is important.
They're definitely not your typical CCW type weapon where you'd usually go for something a bit smaller. Its probably 90% a perception thing where people are just used to a weapon for every day carrying is something small like a Ruger .38 special or a Glock 26, without actually realizing you can comfortably carry something much bigger depending on the specifics.
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I saw the Wolf A1 upper and was intrigued. A piston AR upper with a cold hammer forged barrel for $499 shipped sounded..interesting. Basically it's a Taiwanese T91, the upper receiver itself and charging handle are US made standard parts, the barrel is started as a blank in Taiwan and finished here, and everything else, the handguards, gas system, gas block, BCG, etc all comes out of the Taiwanese military factory. Military import stuff like this tend to show up for a short time at dirt cheap prices, eventually stop coming in or otherwise dry up, and skyrocket in value, so I figured I'd check one out. The gas system and bolt carrier adaptation is nearly identical to that used in Colt's SCAR submission and later the 6940P, but from the late 70's and available at a quarter of the cost of Colt's offering (which I believe is discontinued).
Haven't had a chance to shoot it just yet, the front post is a proprietary one to the ROC design, so it doesn't line up with the MBUS I put on there, but I have a Taiwanese rear sight coming. The pushpins required some tapping with the plastic mallet to go in, but that may just be my lower. The muzzle device is interesting, in that when properly timed, it's actually offset in the same way as an AK slant brake. The barrel itself has a really thick profile, and the gas block is built like a tank, but it doesn't feel terribly front heavy, though they do mill off the bayonet lug. We'll see what happens with it, it may be a hunk of junk, it may be awesome, but it was cheap enough that it looked fun.
Anyone own an m-14? I think I'd really like one. It's just "looked like a rifle should look" to me. It also gets a lot of praise by anyone who's ever used it. I've never shot one though. I have a Sig AR-10 so I'm not really sure it will be worth the money.
I have a Springfield M1A (semi-auto civilian version). Mine is a more 'modern' version, the M1A SOCOM CQB version.
Top gun in the picture below:
16 inch barrel, boy is it LOUD. Surprisingly almost no felt recoup due to the muzzle brake. Came with a Vortex Venom red dot. VERY fun gun to shoot.
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So....Something VERY interesting coming out of the SHOT show. Apparently some company has found a little loophole in ATF regulations.
They are marketing an AR-15, with a stock, still semi-auto, and only an 11 inch barrel. But somehow it is NOT considered a short-barrels rifle. No extra paperwork needed.
Yeah, I saw that clownshoes POS. They announced it 2 weeks or so ago.
It's functionally a SBR, but since it's unrifled, it's a firearm. And what A firearm it is! 4MOA out of the box makes you a lethal threat for tens of yards, or you can choose their proprietary Nerf Football inspired ammo instead:
Spoiler:
which will get you to about the range and lethality of a $400 Anderson Arms AR15 at, I assume, 2 bucks a round.
At a mere $2,000, sign me the feth up.
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cuda1179 wrote: So....Something VERY interesting coming out of the SHOT show. Apparently some company has found a little loophole in ATF regulations.
They are marketing an AR-15, with a stock, still semi-auto, and only an 11 inch barrel. But somehow it is NOT considered a short-barrels rifle. No extra paperwork needed.
Yea...no. I wouldn't risk that...
(kinda think the concept is stupid to begin with).
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cuda1179 wrote: So....Something VERY interesting coming out of the SHOT show. Apparently some company has found a little loophole in ATF regulations.
They are marketing an AR-15, with a stock, still semi-auto, and only an 11 inch barrel. But somehow it is NOT considered a short-barrels rifle. No extra paperwork needed.
Yea...no. I wouldn't risk that...
(kinda think the concept is stupid to begin with).
Apparently the ATF has all ready signed off on this and given it their seal of approval.
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Ouze wrote: Yeah, I saw that clownshoes POS. They announced it 2 weeks or so ago.
It's functionally a SBR, but since it's unrifled, it's a firearm. And what A firearm it is! 4MOA out of the box makes you a lethal threat for tens of yards, or you can choose their proprietary Nerf Football inspired ammo instead:
Spoiler:
which will get you to about the range and lethality of a $400 Anderson Arms AR15 at, I assume, 2 bucks a round.
At a mere $2,000, sign me the feth up.
Oh, WTF? That's how they're getting around the rules. I thought of all the loopholes, and proprietary ammo was at the bottom of the list. I thought they'd make a "rifled" barrel that had a zero twist rate. In other words, grooves that run the length of the barrel without rotating around it. That way a bullet would be somewhat stabilized but not technically "rifling" according to regulations. A totally smooth barrel is silly.
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I believe the barrel has untwisted grooves or something like that, its not a smoothbore from what I understand, but will not properly stabilize a projectile.
For shooting across a room, through a house, over a driveway, its probably fine, that sounds like its intended use, but for $2k, thats a spicey meatball.
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Well, as much as I like thumbing my nose at the ATF, this is fairly silly.
I'll have to dig it out, but I mailed in my own question to the AFT a couple years back. I purchased a MechTech rifle conversion kit for a Glock 23. It had a collapsible stock, that when collapsed, made the gun only 24 inches long. However, all lengths are measured with stocks unfolded, so it's legal.
My question was: If I were to install a simple bull-pup style secondary trigger on that gun (where the support hand usually rests) and I was able to shoulder the gun with the stock in the retracted position, would it be considered a short barreled rifle? The answer I got was, "no, that's still legal if the stock can still extend to make it over 26 inches long."
I'm truly surprised no one has ever tried to abuse that for a marketable gun before.
So, I have an AR pistol - 7.5" barrel, sig brace, etc. It's a nice little gun. I have a shotgun in the bedroom for home defense, but this is handy too; and it's been pointed out that the AR is much easier to get around corners, better capacity, less recoil, and so on, so I like it for that role, too.
It's a little heavy, though. I decided at some point that the handguard, a quad rail, was the villain here. So I decided to replace the handguard with a nice new Aero Precison Atlas.
The Atlas is a terrific handguard, and it's keymod instead of a quad rail. However installing it meant I needed to not only take off the handguard, but also the barrel nut. Removing the barrrel nut also meant removing the gas tube, and the gas block. Doing that meant I had to remove the muzzle device. At that point I essentially had a stripped upper.
I could have reassembled and had 3oz of weight savings, but then it dawned on me, since the upper was now stripped.... I have a 10.5" 300BLK barrel I had been saving for when my tax stamp comes in for a full-sized AR (which was stored with the pistol so not to constitute constructive possession). If I am going to go short barrel, why not swap to that one?
So I swapped to the 300BLK, and re-assembled. Behold:
Spoiler:
So like a champ, to lighten the gun I managed to make it 3oz heavier than I started out with and now it's in a caliber I only have about 60 rounds on hand for. I have about 150 subsonics, but I'm saving those for when the suppressor transfer goes through.
Now I have about 800 rounds of 5.56 that I have no rifle chambered in.
Looks cool though! Also pretty sure supersonic 300BLK in a 10.5" barrel beats 5.56 in a 7.5" barrel, so probably a wise choice overall.
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New Heavy Gear Log! Also...Grey Knights! The correct pronunciation is Imperial Guard and Stormtroopers, "Astra Militarum" and "Tempestus Scions" are something you'll find at Hogwarts.
I'm thinking about paying for another tax stamp so I can put a PDW stock on it. That, or maybe a stamp-free tailhook or something like that. Haven't 100% decided.
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Uggg... Sig Sauer finally discontinued my favorite pistol, the P239. I have been wondering when its time would finally come and I feel like its too soon. Although the new 365 is better in almost every way over the old 239 it still has a special place in my heart as a reliable, compact, classic carry gun. Guess its time for me to buy another one and stock up on parts lol.
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Ladies pay attention. This is the Valentines Day gift your man really wants, forget the sexy lingerie. Seriously though, I wish it could be filled with "proper" flame thrower liquids.
Yeah, that's what makes me so much less excited about it. It's basically just a tiki torch with a trigger and a bit of propellant to get a couple feet of flame.
That said, given that a proper US M2 runs about $26k and needs to be cared for like Scuba equipment, it does have the advantage of being 50X cheaper...
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Vaktathi wrote: Yeah, that's what makes me so much less excited about it. It's basically just a tiki torch with a trigger and a bit of propellant to get a couple feet of flame.
I also have one of these an XM-42. It shoots gasoline....
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GamesWorkshop wrote: And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
the band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light,and somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout but there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out.
I have to ask, having visited the site, why anyone would want a nickle plated flame thrower? Matt black, camo I could understand, but a nickle finish?
Idk, maybe so you can see when it's dirty?
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