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Something BP, to make clouds of smoke?

d-usa wrote:There is always room for a fancy cowboy style revolver.

Colt Single-Action Army?

Slinky wrote:Something BP, to make clouds of smoke?

We were just talking about those! I'd go for it, but then again, I'm biased.

Sadly, guns are banned over here so there really isn't much of a choice. I've always liked the idea of owning an AR-15 though.

Pah, real men own Nagant rifles and have a strange desire to March on Berlin!

I really like Ouze's latest. I like how the suppressor sits inside the ... "shroud"? ... the perforated thing sleeve thingy ... with just a bit of the actual suppressor protruding.

But I also (perhaps even more so) like his coyote-coloured rig from a few pages back ... I guess the aesthetics are just pleasing to me.
Can never own one because/UK, but I do admit to finding something pleasing about the look of modern gun hardware ... always have done, even in the army (/except for the Sterling ... )

There's plenty of shooting to be had in the UK, War Drone, but it requires committing to going through probationary membership of a club and getting a firearms certificate from the local plod.

I got a Reflex sight for my AK. works great. I've got 8" groups at 50 yards and 10" groups at 100.

Also been trying to get a compensator, but its tough to find a compensator that isnt also a flash suppressor(which is illegal in CA) and at the same time find a store that is willing to ship anything to CA. Most online stores won't ship any muzzle devices at all to CA, even if the device is legal.

Grey Templar wrote:Also been trying to get a compensator, but its tough to find a compensator that isnt also a flash suppressor(which is illegal in CA) and at the same time find a store that is willing to ship anything to CA. Most online stores won't ship any muzzle devices at all to CA, even if the device is legal.

I'm using a slotted, tommy-gun style brake on my AK. It's not very authentic to the platform but it makes it louder and adds a lot of flash and I'm into that. Really works best while bump-firing and screaming "your dirty rat!"

War Drone wrote:I really like Ouze's latest. I like how the suppressor sits inside the ... "shroud"? ... the perforated thing sleeve thingy ... with just a bit of the actual suppressor protruding.

Well, good news bad new about that...

I built it that way because I liked the way the suppressor was stealthed inside the handguard, which is very cool looking. One problem I didn't realize until I had ordered everything is that is that the suppressor is very maintenance intensive. Some suppressors thread directly to the barrel and need tools to come off, which gives them a very reliable point of aim. Mine uses a quick-disconnect taper lock mount, which means that essentially it's a threaded muzzle brake. The suppressor hand tightens onto it, and can be swapped among different firearms if they have one of those brakes installed onto it.

Well, that thread interface needs to be cleaned after ever shooting according to the manufacturer. You use a wire wheel on the brake threads, and a 1" brush (in a power drill is the fastest) inside the suppressor to clean it. The carbon buildup is so extreme that without such cleaning it can get stuck pretty quickly, "glued" into place. Those threads are now not readily accessible to be cleaned because, well, the handguard is now in the way. The handguard isn't difficult to remove - 8x torx screws, hand tight - but it does add an annoying, tedious element to the process.

I might have done that differently, but eh. I might not have.

I found a place in Texas that will ship stuff to CA. I got a PWS J-TAC47 compensator for about $65. We'll see how it does next week once I have a day off on a day the range is open.

So got my Compensator on. Won't be able to shoot it for a while unfortunately. No days off when the range is open

Anyway, here is a picture.

That really is lovely furniture.

Also, I know you said CA but I guess I didn't realize that would create some problems with the pistol grip.

Yeah, that’s why there is that fugly plastic thing behind it. It’s kinda flimsy too, I could break it off with just my thumb. Or 2 minutes with a screwdriver. But I need it if I don’t want a fixed mag OR register as an “assault weapon”

I take it you couldn't have that furniture with a Dragonuv/ PSL style stock? Where the pistol grip's part of the stock. That'd look more uniform than that dumb compliance bit of plastic. :/

...Though guys have bolt action AR-15s here, so I've seen worse when it comes to the methods people use to conform to gun laws.

 Grey Templar wrote:
So got my Compensator on. Won't be able to shoot it for a while unfortunately. No days off when the range is open

Anyway, here is a picture.

Nice wood!

That Dragunov stock would need to be registered. Cause you can get your thumb around it.

I guess gun laws win out again. You can't have a certain type of gun unless it has a derpy looking attachment. In that case I'd just stick with an M14 or SVT (or those aren't banned too that is).

That law applies to any rifle. If you have an AR or AK pistol you can ignore it.

Speaking of compensator, my new combination flash comp / suppressor attacher thing arrived. The suppressor came with a single mount but is multi-cal so I can put the mounts on other guns and quick swap it.

Here it is on my AR pistol:



"pistol"


Here is the product pic:




I got this model specifically because it doesn't need to be timed. I find timing brakes to be exceedingly difficult because I don't really have a great work bench to attach my vise to, it's hard to get the vise blocks to stay in place at 50lbs, at that weight the design of the device actually causes the shims to split, and it's really, really hot in the room where all of this is happening. So, it's not lined up perfectly well and I don't care.

Ooooh nice

 Grey Templar wrote:
So got my Compensator on. Won't be able to shoot it for a while unfortunately. No days off when the range is open

Anyway, here is a picture.

Green with envy. My dream rifle is a nice AK. Wish they weren't banned in my state...

I converted all my AR platform rifles to .300BLK, which is cool, except I have like, 800 rounds of 5.56 here. So, that was poorly planned.

Rather than sell the ammo, I decided to build another gun, obviously.

So far I grabbed a lower, a LPK, and a handguard. I'm in no rush so I am waiting for good sales.

I'm going to send the lower off in the morning to get it engraved so I can convert it into an SBR. I started thinking, though... is there really any good reason to do an SBR anymore? There are now so many good "pistol" braces (snicker) that I'm not sure it's worth the hassle and cost to be able to run a Magpul STR instead of just getting one of these:



The brace runs about $250. So, kind of spendy. But a STR (my preferred stock) runs about $70. If you add in $200 for the tax stamp, then about $80 to ship the lower off and back to have it engraved, we're right at $350, anyway.

So what's the point? Ergonomically they're about the same. The only real difference as far as I know is the pistol can't have a VFG, but I don't use VFGs, anyway. Is there something i'm forgetting?

Um, there's some additional weird legal background, technically if you take possession as a gun or receiver and it transfers to you as a pistol or just as a "firearm", you can convert it to a rifle and then back to a pistol, but if it shows as a rifle on the 4473 when it transfers to you and you convert it to a pistol, that's a no-no according to the ATF apparently without SBR paperwork, so that's one more thing in favor of the pistol too.

Aside from that, when it comes to AR's, mostly just the VFG and quality of stock vs brace. I happen to like VFG's and have one on my Scorpion SBR, but they're not obviously everyone's thing.

Only other thing I think against the pistol is that you'd need to be 21 to buy it as a "pistol" or "firearm" I believe, but only 18 to buy as a "rifle".


EDIT: speaking of 300 blackout pistols, inspired long ago by the first Hera CQR images and by Ouze's journey, I have something on that front as well...



Not quite finished, the upper is not assembled at all yet really but I all the parts are now in hand. I decided to try putting a Binary trigger in it for giggles, but I'm likely to switch it out for a Geissele SD-C once I'm over it, I put one in my 16" DI AR and it's...a thing of true beauty. Going to be an SBR eventually.

I guess I'm probably going to SBR it just because honestly I can and it gives me options. It was transferred as a pistol FWIW.

So far as your build, it looks very, very Mass Effect-y. That front grip really does make it space age. Should go all the way and add some N7 iconography

The basic pistol grip looks a bit out of place, maybe something a bit fancier would look better?

Does look very cool, though, is 300BLK ammunition available widely there now?

Yeah, I was struggling trying to find some a while back, but now it's pretty easy to find. It's even gone down in price a bit - last bought 10x boxes of subsonic Sellier & Bellot 200gr for $100, that works out to about 50 cents a round. I think they were closer to 70 cents apiece when I first was buying them.

Side note, I was hesitant to buy S&B ammo since it was foreign and weird. I bought a few test boxes of that initially, and I also got a few boxes of American Eagle by Federal (which cost 20% more).

The S&B rounds were pristine, well packaged, and reasonably accurate for plinking quality ammo - 2" groupings. The American Eagle was filthy out of the box, shot about 5 MOA at 100 yards, and dirtied up my gun so much I'm not even planning on shooting the 2 boxes I have left.


You know, I was going to post this once and never did because I know it makes me look stupid, but it's a nice segue so I am going to post it.

I pretty much always buy plinking quality ammo since my use case is screwing around at the range. PMC bronze is the order of the day. I can usually get, if I work hard, 1.5" groupings. I have a hard time doing this because I have poor fundamentals, and I've done various things to compensate for my poor fundamentals - gotten a geiselle trigger with a low pull weight, added a bipod, added a limbsaver, etc.

When I last bought ammo a few months ago I got a few boxes what google indicated was the best match 308 I could get, gold medal match with BTHP Sierra Matchkings. I was surprised to find out just how much more accurate it was - if I concentrated on my breathing hard, I could sometimes put it in the same hole, or at least cloverleaf. once I got all excited they opened up to about half an inch. Enormous difference in accuracy.

 Vaktathi wrote:
Um, there's some additional weird legal background, technically if you take possession as a gun or receiver and it transfers to you as a pistol or just as a "firearm", you can convert it to a rifle and then back to a pistol, but if it shows as a rifle on the 4473 when it transfers to you and you convert it to a pistol, that's a no-no according to the ATF apparently without SBR paperwork, so that's one more thing in favor of the pistol too.

Aside from that, when it comes to AR's, mostly just the VFG and quality of stock vs brace. I happen to like VFG's and have one on my Scorpion SBR, but they're not obviously everyone's thing.

Only other thing I think against the pistol is that you'd need to be 21 to buy it as a "pistol" or "firearm" I believe, but only 18 to buy as a "rifle".


EDIT: speaking of 300 blackout pistols, inspired long ago by the first Hera CQR images and by Ouze's journey, I have something on that front as well...



Not quite finished, the upper is not assembled at all yet really but I all the parts are now in hand. I decided to try putting a Binary trigger in it for giggles, but I'm likely to switch it out for a Geissele SD-C once I'm over it, I put one in my 16" DI AR and it's...a thing of true beauty. Going to be an SBR eventually.

How does that drum mag work with .300blk? I thought it wasn't recommended for 300 blackout

Is that foregrip considered a VFG? Or is that an SBR? Because it looks like a pistol with a VFG and unless you stamp it it’s a no-no...

Ouze wrote:I guess I'm probably going to SBR it just because honestly I can and it gives me options. It was transferred as a pistol FWIW.

So far as your build, it looks very, very Mass Effect-y. That front grip really does make it space age. Should go all the way and add some N7 iconography

Yeah that vibe really did it for me for the shorty AR concept, when it's finally SBR'd it'll look something like this

Slinky wrote:The basic pistol grip looks a bit out of place, maybe something a bit fancier would look better?

Does look very cool, though, is 300BLK ammunition available widely there now?

The basic A2 grip is a placeholder. I hate it with a passion, they're monstrously uncomfortable, I just happened to have an extra one lying around for now, it'll be gone as soon as I can get a replacement

Ouze wrote:Yeah, I was struggling trying to find some a while back, but now it's pretty easy to find. It's even gone down in price a bit - last bought 10x boxes of subsonic Sellier & Bellot 200gr for $100, that works out to about 50 cents a round. I think they were closer to 70 cents apiece when I first was buying them.

Side note, I was hesitant to buy S&B ammo since it was foreign and weird. I bought a few test boxes of that initially, and I also got a few boxes of American Eagle by Federal (which cost 20% more).

S&B makes great ammo, Czech's produce great stuff.

Insurgency Walker wrote:

How does that drum mag work with .300blk? I thought it wasn't recommended for 300 blackout

Depends on the ammo, some 300 blackout works, some does not, I just put it in there for the shot because it looked cool

Nostromodamus wrote:Is that foregrip considered a VFG? Or is that an SBR? Because it looks like a pistol with a VFG and unless you stamp it it’s a no-no...

Very definitely an angled foregrip not a verticle foregrip, the hand is definitely at an angle when gripping, but yes it's a silly distinction to have to make

Are angled foregrips ok on pistols without having to get a stamp?

Yes. Only vertical foregrips are a problem. If you can explain why, you would be the first.