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I was shooting shitty Tula that day, that's all I had on hand.
I bet that's your culprit... that shiz has very low QA tolerances... primers could be way out of spec or seated too deep or some other shiz. Their batch-to-batch tolerances can be pretty bad.
I have a lower receiver with an RRA LPK sporting an ALG QMS trigger... would not light Russian steel ammo with JP low-power springs, and failed to fire every 10th or so with the factory springs. All my brass factory ammo and my reloads were fail-free. Try that box of Tula in another gun and see what happens.
"military ammo" will have harder primers to prevent guns with floating firing pins from accidentally lighting off the round in the chamber when dropped just wrong or dropped from a slingshot on a round without a mag in or any other silly scenarios. Tula and the other russian arsenal ammos are made like military ammo.
The hard primer is to prevent the momentum of the firing pin from setting off the round when the bolt goes forward. Unchamber a round from an AR-15 and you'll often be able to see an indentation in the primer from the firing pin continuing forward after the bolt has stopped moving.
Incidentally, I finally decided to stop acting like a poor and bought this: I was sold when I saw an installation video on youtube. I think it's a really clever system. It's a Troy Alpha 13" btw. To be honest, it wasn't even that expensive. Dunno why I waited so long.
Just sold my basic bitch AR for $500. It was a PSA blemish special with a magpul stock. Less than 12 hours from posting it to cash in my hand...do some folks not have the internet?
It's a little silly right now. PSA has been selling a Freedom rifle kit (minus lower) for the past few months for $350 on their Daily Deals. Today's ad has 6.8spc full-auto BCG's for $60. And their non-blem Magpul lower is $150. I think the prices across the board at PSA have come down 10%-15% since the election, which is good, because they'd gone up at least that much in the preceding year feeding off the Hillary threat.
I keep saying the the prices on things must have bottomed out, and then I see 16" Anderson barrels for $65 and Ruger AR15's for under $500.
I also keep forgetting about Ebay for things... can you believe people still list things for actual auction? I'd been looking for an enhanced PSA stock for a couple months to finish off one of my Aero lowers, and I bid on one for $4 and won... +$6shipping, but still, $10 shipped and PSA wants $30. PSA Classic Enhanced M4 Stock - Black - 77932641
Still, there are those people who don't want to "build" their own, and don't mind buying used... and don't mind that they don't have to go through a background check. I require a DL and CCW permit for all my face-to-face sales, and I only sell to guys with strong history/feedback on whatever local forum I'm advertising. I recently sold a gun that I'd had for three months back to the guy I bought it from.
So I installed the free float tube and I highly recommend the Troy Alpha. A million times less of a hassle than Yankee Hill. Once the stock barrel nut is aligned with the gas tube, you just slide on the foreend and tighten three screws. It has a little tab to align everything. It was the easiest thing in the world. The only miserable part was tapping out the two pins retaining the front sight on the barrel. Shot the gun today and it turns out the gun is way more accurate free floated, go figure. When cold it shoots nice tiny groups, which is pretty impressive for PMC x-tac (a decent bulk mil spec round but nothing match quality).
I'm pretty happy with this gun now. Besides my suppressed guns, it's pretty much all I shoot anymore.
Just for yucks I decided to shoot the gun standing up with no bench rest or support of any kind for a while. I realized that it's been years since I shot a gun this way and my arm muscles aren't up to the task anymore. Just holding the gun steady takes a lot of effort and although it appears steady without magnification, at 4x, the reticle is just bobbing and swaying all over the place. Just keeping it on paper takes effort, let alone drilling a bullseye.
Or... Aero Precision Lower with "Free" LPK and Buffer Tube for $165. Shopping
That's not even cool, man... customers don't forget **** like this. Besides, here locally, there area quite a few places selling Aero's for $60 cash... and I haven't seen an Aero online for more than $80 since the election. PA wants $90 plus shipping, and then fees... ****, I can get a complete lower locally for that much.
EDIT: Disregard my **** talking... this is for an AMBI lower, which they do have listed for $165... which Aero Precision also has for $165 on their website.
Is it actually reliable, that's the question. There's nothing worse in 3 gun than a gun that fails. For the $600 of that gun you could get a used 1100 and put an extended bolt release/feed assist, extra big safety, and a feed tube on it. And the 1100 is basically guaranteed to shoot without being cleaned for 1k rounds without a failure of any kind.
shot this 338 Lapua this weekend.
My buddy (pictured) got it as pictured with about 1000 rounds of ammo for a crazy deal from an auction. Not really practical for anything where we live but it's pretty badass
I'll assume .308 in a 16" or 18" barrel... in that case, you're really beyond ethical kill range for hogs or deer. A 150grSP is down to 1000ftlbs or less and 50" of drop at 500yds. Of course there are plenty of guys out there who swear .243 is a great moose round.
The prices on everything are way down right now... PSA is selling their PA10's for like $700. I sold my AERO M5 last summer since my 6.8spc is solid up to 300yds, which is plenty for any white-tail hunting that I do.
I also saw that Classic has Sub2k's for $419 right now... VERY tempted, except a couple of my pharmaceuticals haven't panned out lately and all my play money is tied up! Stupid reverse split penny stocks... should have known better.
That .338 is a Savage BA110?
My next short-action semi-auto is going to be a .338 Federal. I think the caliber is primed to finally take off and all it will take is a couple more manufacturers to start selling it to see a revival. The NRA really needs to unfuck itself with National Reciprocity and get the HPA passed instead. A .338Fed in a 10" barrel with a 6" pinned suppressor would be the short-action version of the .300blk.
That's the deal I picked up, $712 shipped. I'm sure they'll get a little cheaper on black Friday, but **** hunting in the cold.
I'd steer clear of the Sub2k. I picked up a stupid cheap 2nd gen last year, the one with the "improved" ergonomics...that thing needs another $200 thrown into it just to be useable. $650 gets you a really decent AR pistol, if you're going for the truck gun thing
Each time we talk of distance, I remember I still haven't sighted in my inherited 30.06 mauser action... it was a MAIL order rifle (was bought by my grandfather when you could still mail order firearms... ).
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As a shooter of muzzleloaders, my brain is full of ****. No ******* way I would want to clean this thing.
if its like a lot of fixed suppressors the front endcap and baffle stack is removable.which will make it fairly easy. How much worse could it be to clean than a 22 suppressor, I swear some 22 is loaded with sand.
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