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 CptJake wrote:
Anyone have experience with civilian thermal rifle sights or other civilian night vision sights? I have a need to ID and hit at night.

Most of the "civilian" night vision and thermals have pretty limited range. The Leupold LTO is probably your best bet for thermal although they are not the most clear and weather seems to effect them. I have not tried the Sig thermal yet although I would like to.

If you are serious about night vision, pony up the money and go to TVNC and look at a Gen 3 PVS-14. We use these at work and they are pretty darn good and they work even better if you have a good quality illuminator to go with it. Something to keep in mind is that most night vision and thermals are designed to be head mounted, attaching a PVS-14 on your rifle will cause it to wear faster internally because of the recoil.

 Luciferian wrote:
The shockwave and similar firearms get away with it because they were never manufactured as shotguns according to NFA definitions. It's all about how the weapon is entered in the manufacturer's books when they make it, similar to an AR15 pistol vs an SBR.

In the case of the shockwave, overall length plays an important part. If it was shorter it would be classified as an AOW and need a tax stamp.

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I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing, now I know how to get rid of the ice buildup on my sidewalk this year

Its a side effect of Flamethrowers being legally considered engineering tools and not weapons. Though I was under the impression that if the range was over 10 feet it was considered a destructive device, which would require you to purchase a Tax Stamp.

Flamethrowers fortunately need no tax stamp, and AFAIK only Maryland has banned them. In CA, if it shoots more than 10ft you need to get a "may issue" license from the state fire marshall (given CA's issues with fires). Aside from that, there is no regulation in the US. That said, there are "flamethrowers" and then there are Flamethrowers.

Most such devices we see are basically propane torches. They're cheap and simple and are easily controlled, and dont shoot much more than 10ft. Basically they are just repackaged slightly beefier version of a common backyard grill mechanism. These can be had for a couple hundred bucks. Cheap, fun, relatively safe (like the .


A proper actual military flamethrower is more akin to scuba gear (and must be treated and routinely professionally tested in the same manner), and is throwing pressurized jellied fuel a couple dozen meters and is ignited by flare catridges in the wand and are incredibly dangerous, not only because they throw a lot more fire burning much hotter that sticks to stuff and burns in place, but they actually primarily kill through carbon monoxide poisoning (if you are in a bunker for instance, you can be missed by the flame entirely, but inhale a lung full of the combustion byproduct, not realize it, pass out 10 seconds later and be dead a minute later). These are generally old, require regular maintenance, usually cost north of $20k and there's only one guy in the country who does training and maintenance, and he's in his 70's.

The throwflame.com models look somewhere in between these two types, might be fun

Someone watched Forgotten Weapons

I've had an amazon wishlist forever for parts to build a proper flamethrower (using pressurized diesel), but every time I start to add it to my cart, I start thinking that I don't really have enough property to properly enjoy it. Still, would be awesome for clearly snow and ice in winter.

Also, I don't want to have a horrible but hilarious accident.

Told my wife I wanted some ammo (9mm and 7.62 NATO) and magazines (for the M1A) for Christmas, and gave her some links to good places to order from. Picked up a 54 pound box UPS dropped off at the front gate yesterday.

Either she ordered a big ol box of the anthracite I deserve, or Santa is bringing ammo!

Bobthehero wrote:Someone watched Forgotten Weapons

Once or twice.

Ouze wrote:I've had an amazon wishlist forever for parts to build a proper flamethrower (using pressurized diesel), but every time I start to add it to my cart, I start thinking that I don't really have enough property to properly enjoy it. Still, would be awesome for clearly snow and ice in winter.

Also, I don't want to have a horrible but hilarious accident.

If you do this, please film it. I want to watch.

CptJake wrote:Told my wife I wanted some ammo (9mm and 7.62 NATO) and magazines (for the M1A) for Christmas, and gave her some links to good places to order from. Picked up a 54 pound box UPS dropped off at the front gate yesterday.

Either she ordered a big ol box of the anthracite I deserve, or Santa is bringing ammo!

So I've begun building the new AK. It is a Romanian underfolder kit, however the underfolder is missing a couple of the pieces for the underfolder, so I bought I regular rear trunnion for it instead to do a regular stock on it. it also counts as a part for 922r compliance so that is a benefit.

The kit also had the barrel already populated, which presented an issue in that the holes already in the trunnion were not tapped and I could not tap them myself without removing the barrel from the trunnion(which I ain't gonna do). So where I would have done the 4 front screws in the front trunnion, I decided to Silver Solder the trunnion and receiver together. It should be plenty strong.

I drilled two holes through the receiver lined up with the holes in the trunnion and put the flux and silver into the holes and in the gap between the receiver and the trunnion itself.

Here is the results after doing the left side. The solder has left some nice little silver buttons so it should look good once I've cleaned it up. I was worried it was going to be pretty ugly. I will do the other side once its cool.

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So I got both sides done and cleaned up. Turned out nicely. It did burn off the coating the receiver came with, but I was planning on painting it anyway.

Oooh very cool, I look forward to seeing her completed!

Also, good call on the rear trunnion and stock.

The Silver Soldering was an interesting process. The crazy part is how it bubbled up into a perfect button.

edit: so far the only real issue with the assembly has been that the safety selector is VERY VERY stiff. The gap between the outside of the selector and the inner... flange, I guess, is quite small and it really pinches the receiver wall. I can still manipulate it with one hand but it requires a lot more effort than my current AK. Its like one push, it then locks into the full auto divot that is on the outside of the receiver, then I have to push it again to get into the semi-auto one.*

*ReCreator blanks makes their receivers exactly match original AK receivers so it came with that divot. I'm not making a machine gun

With the selector, can you try bending the lever outward? My Vepr12 selector was almost impossible to manipulate when I got it, but I just hand-bent it outward a tiny bit and it now moves perfectly.

I tried bending the lever, but its quite thick hardened steel. Its much stronger then the selector on my other AK. I think it might break before it bent. It works ok so I don't think I'll push my luck.

Do these count? Because these make Nerf look wussy

They also actually hurt.

I think I have a few of those laying around from when I was a kid. probably in an old toy box somewhere in the attic.

But do they count?

I’m also somehow impressed an American even knows what they are. Because America has proper guns!

I mean, if you have a cool one to share, by all means

We have stuff like that in the US, though at least for where I grew up, "spud gun" was a term for a PVC pipe construct that used hairspray propellant to shoot an entire potato.

 Grey Templar wrote:
I tried bending the lever, but its quite thick hardened steel. Its much stronger then the selector on my other AK. I think it might break before it bent. It works ok so I don't think I'll push my luck.

Do you have access to the "bump" on the other side? If so, perhaps you can use a sanding stick to sand it down a bit so it doesn't stick so badly.

My AK had the opposite problem; the divots were machined/stamped really shallow so the selector would slide past semi and keep going as far as it could travel. I wound up using a ball-shaped carving bit in a dremel to deepen the semi dimple a tiny bit, and now it stops fine. Obviously give it a few passes, check, and repeat, since once the material is gone, it's gone.

 Ouze wrote:

Do you have access to the "bump" on the other side? If so, perhaps you can use a sanding stick to sand it down a bit so it doesn't stick so badly.

Thats probably what I'll do next week when I put the serial number on. I'll grind it down with the dremel.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
But do they count?

I’m also somehow impressed an American even knows what they are. Because America has proper guns!

If by "do they count" you mean "are they firearms," then no. We do have spud guns here, like the type in the link. I would not consider them a firearm and I don't think there is anywhere in the US where they would be considered a firearm. If you're talking about what we would call a potato gun (or potato cannon) that starts to blur the line a little bit more as some of them actually use flammable propellant, but I still wouldn't really consider those a firearm in the traditional sense (they don't use gunpowder). In most cases they should be treated like one though, because they can be dangerous.

They also don’t count as fire arms here in the uk either. You can find them in toys shops for a few pounds, as spud guns are just toys but nerf seems to be more popular these days with kids.

My 6 yr old has a few but he spends more time eyeing up daddy’s airsoft/ Rifs. I swear that lad will be in some cadet force when he’s old enough.

Wife finally got around to zeroing the sight on her Ruger 10/22 stainless steel rifle.

Will be used to plink occasionally but will also ride in a case attached to our Polaris Ranger and be an anti-varmint tool.

Nice, 10/22's are always handy little rifles

Son2 and his wife visited yesterday. He put 4 magazines through my MPX.

Fraaaaaaaaaaazz! Was this you?

So finally finished my AK build. Everything cycles nicely. All thats left is to actually test fire it. Hopefully the rain will let up on a day I have off work so I can do that. I'll be painting the receiver, dust cover, and the buttstock black as soon as I can too so that it matches. Still waiting on the bipod I ordered to come in for it, but other than that its done.

Looking good!

Are you taking it to be cerakoted somewhere, or just hitting it with a rattlecan?