Yet Another Gun Thread
#6201
Hallelujah! Finally got everything taken care of, ran 100 rounds with no problems. Top three targets in the picture were using bipod (first one on left was getting holo sight dialed in), left and middle target on next row were standing. Indoor range so was at 25 yds. Note that each target was subjected to 20 rounds. Ignore rest of the holes, I was shooting my new pistol for the first time and need to get myself dialed in (single correction shooting glasses would likely help with that).
#6202
After having a brain fart and forgetting both my front sight adjustment tool and gun lock key, I returned to the range a couple of days ago to adjust my iron sights. On the bipod, I do ok given my trying to focus through progressive lenses (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it). I really need to get some dedicated shooting glasses.
#6205
Make damned sure before you start that it's compatible with DPMS Hi-profile that all but the tard companies have switched to. If not sure, or find out it's not, then sell on local forum and buy: https://ar15discounts.com/products/s...1021_c25a108ed
Going to be tougher to find a lefty BCG though, methinks.
Highly suggest posting on ARFCOM in the AR10 sub-forum for help.
Going to be tougher to find a lefty BCG though, methinks.
Highly suggest posting on ARFCOM in the AR10 sub-forum for help.
#6206
Make damned sure before you start that it's compatible with DPMS Hi-profile that all but the tard companies have switched to. If not sure, or find out it's not, then sell on local forum and buy: https://ar15discounts.com/products/s...1021_c25a108ed
Going to be tougher to find a lefty BCG though, methinks.
Highly suggest posting on ARFCOM in the AR10 sub-forum for help.
Going to be tougher to find a lefty BCG though, methinks.
Highly suggest posting on ARFCOM in the AR10 sub-forum for help.
I lurk on ARFCOM but don't have an e-mail they will recognize to be able to register.
#6207
Can't help you with that one, I've started down the road to building an AR-10 myself (Armalite pattern since that's what the left hand upper I have is). Check out AR15.com, they have an AK-47 subforum which should have some info (I have seen a few discussions on the PSA line).
Unrelated, my P365XL continues to be amazing, but I couldn't hold back from buying the Walther PDP compact. That thing is a tack driver, and the trigger is the best I've felt on a striker fired gun. The ergonomics are great too, it just felt better in every way than the VP9 in a side by side, and was actually concealable with an athletic fit tee using a Vedder Light Tuck with the claw.
That said, I have not tried an optic on either gun yet. I'm wanting to try a dot sight, but the Romeo 5 on my AR looks like Haley's Comet on account of my astigmatism. Has anyone with astigmatism seen any improvement with the green dot or alternate reticle options? I'm not willing to deal with a fuzzy "egg" for sight picture on my carry guns.
#6211
I want to know how they hold the damn thing and pull the trigger. That grip angle looks atrocious.
#6212
That said, I have not tried an optic on either gun yet. I'm wanting to try a dot sight, but the Romeo 5 on my AR looks like Haley's Comet on account of my astigmatism. Has anyone with astigmatism seen any improvement with the green dot or alternate reticle options? I'm not willing to deal with a fuzzy "egg" for sight picture on my carry guns.
WRT to sights... point shooting works fine for experienced, skilled shooters at bad breath range. You still need sights, of some sort, if you want the capability of a precise shot, whether up close or out to 10-15 yards. There are a myriad of possibilities in a 'defensive' shooting scenario, but I would never recommend to a student that limiting their capability was a good idea.
#6213
Latest Form1 came in 32 days... this was over the December EFORMS upgrade, so I expected it to take a bit longer than the 21'ish days most people report.
6" titanium can (drill to .406) for 9mm PCC work... steel and aluminum cones. I debated a long time on the barrel and chose a 3"... my regular 115gr handloads will be subsonic at that length, and I've got about 5k of them loaded. I may be sacrificing some increased erosion on the first baffle due to still burning powder entering the can, but can live with that for the time. This setup will be primarily for my 12yr old to become proficient with the AR15 platform in a host she can confidently wield... hearing safe for sure.
Not sure how quickly am going to file next Form1, but very interested in reports for new Form4 wait times. Has been a lot of speculation about changes to the industry depending on how the wait times fall out. Personally, I have zero problems with the $200 stamp... keeps suppressors from showing up at every gang shooting across the country like they would if not on the NFA followed quickly by being banned. We were so ******* close to the HPA getting passed until the Vegas shooting and Clinton opening her suck hole... almost glad it got squashed. Its the wait times that keep people from buying suppressors. End rant.
6" titanium can (drill to .406) for 9mm PCC work... steel and aluminum cones. I debated a long time on the barrel and chose a 3"... my regular 115gr handloads will be subsonic at that length, and I've got about 5k of them loaded. I may be sacrificing some increased erosion on the first baffle due to still burning powder entering the can, but can live with that for the time. This setup will be primarily for my 12yr old to become proficient with the AR15 platform in a host she can confidently wield... hearing safe for sure.
Not sure how quickly am going to file next Form1, but very interested in reports for new Form4 wait times. Has been a lot of speculation about changes to the industry depending on how the wait times fall out. Personally, I have zero problems with the $200 stamp... keeps suppressors from showing up at every gang shooting across the country like they would if not on the NFA followed quickly by being banned. We were so ******* close to the HPA getting passed until the Vegas shooting and Clinton opening her suck hole... almost glad it got squashed. Its the wait times that keep people from buying suppressors. End rant.
#6214
Originally Posted by samnavy
Latest Form1 came in 32 days... this was over the December EFORMS upgrade, so I expected it to take a bit longer than the 21'ish days most people report.
6" titanium can (drill to .406) for 9mm PCC work... steel and aluminum cones. I debated a long time on the barrel and chose a 3"... my regular 115gr handloads will be subsonic at that length, and I've got about 5k of them loaded. I may be sacrificing some increased erosion on the first baffle due to still burning powder entering the can, but can live with that for the time. This setup will be primarily for my 12yr old to become proficient with the AR15 platform in a host she can confidently wield... hearing safe for sure.
Not sure how quickly am going to file next Form1, but very interested in reports for new Form4 wait times. Has been a lot of speculation about changes to the industry depending on how the wait times fall out. Personally, I have zero problems with the $200 stamp... keeps suppressors from showing up at every gang shooting across the country like they would if not on the NFA followed quickly by being banned. We were so ******* close to the HPA getting passed until the Vegas shooting and Clinton opening her suck hole... almost glad it got squashed. Its the wait times that keep people from buying suppressors. End rant.
6" titanium can (drill to .406) for 9mm PCC work... steel and aluminum cones. I debated a long time on the barrel and chose a 3"... my regular 115gr handloads will be subsonic at that length, and I've got about 5k of them loaded. I may be sacrificing some increased erosion on the first baffle due to still burning powder entering the can, but can live with that for the time. This setup will be primarily for my 12yr old to become proficient with the AR15 platform in a host she can confidently wield... hearing safe for sure.
Not sure how quickly am going to file next Form1, but very interested in reports for new Form4 wait times. Has been a lot of speculation about changes to the industry depending on how the wait times fall out. Personally, I have zero problems with the $200 stamp... keeps suppressors from showing up at every gang shooting across the country like they would if not on the NFA followed quickly by being banned. We were so ******* close to the HPA getting passed until the Vegas shooting and Clinton opening her suck hole... almost glad it got squashed. Its the wait times that keep people from buying suppressors. End rant.
#6215
I'm on mobile so I have to keep those brief, but just to be clear: you acknowledge that you can buy a kit over the internet that ships to your door, that can be converted to a functional suppressor with nothing more than a drill press, and you think the reason gangbangers aren't using cans in gang shootouts is because they would need to spend $200 and get the ATF's permission first?
#6216
I'm on mobile so I have to keep those brief, but just to be clear: you acknowledge that you can buy a kit over the internet that ships to your door, that can be converted to a functional suppressor with nothing more than a drill press, and you think the reason gangbangers aren't using cans in gang shootouts is because they would need to spend $200 and get the ATF's permission first?
Studies have shown that criminals, regardless of level or organization, acquire firearms primarily through theft and straw purchase... and prefer pistols.
Legal suppressor ownership is becoming more mainstream, but really just in the last 10 years, and really-really just in the last 5 years. There just aren't that many of them out there, Form1 or Form4. The majority of suppressors sold are for rifles.
People who legally own suppressors tend to NOT leave them out where they can be stolen, and straw purchasing of suppressors isn't a thing.
The legit Form1 cottage industry, with a dozen or so major players can turn out excellent stuff, but it's not cheap, nor do they work in "bulk".
The Chinesium solvent trap industry can work in bulk, although people are getting caught, and products are generally trash for bigger than .22lr, although there are some steel and titanium options from AliExpress and the like.
Today, because they are so hard to legally acquire, because people protect their ownership and don't leave them in glove-boxes, and because there's virtually no way to straw-purchase one, there are maybe a dozen incidents a year where suppressors are used in crimes. HOWEVER... when suppressors are taken off the NFA, and you can get one OTC with a 4473... they will explode in popularity and everybody will suppress everything... I certainly will. They will be everywhere as fast as the market can turn them out. They will be stolen and straw-purchased by criminals, rapidly enter secondary markets, and start filling evidence lockers.
"But Sam, that's dumb. If criminals wanted suppressors, they'd just buy solvent traps from China and threaded barrels and Ryobi's and drill them out in alleyways (sounds hard)... or some ******* will make hundreds of them and distribute through more organized black markets (certainly already happening)"... not sure why they're so rare if it's that easy. Maybe criminals don't care about their hearing very much.
There wasn't exactly a spike in full auto ARs getting used in gang shootings when the autokey cards went on sale.
#6217
Latest Form1 came in 32 days... this was over the December EFORMS upgrade, so I expected it to take a bit longer than the 21'ish days most people report.
6" titanium can (drill to .406) for 9mm PCC work... steel and aluminum cones. I debated a long time on the barrel and chose a 3"... my regular 115gr handloads will be subsonic at that length, and I've got about 5k of them loaded. I may be sacrificing some increased erosion on the first baffle due to still burning powder entering the can, but can live with that for the time. This setup will be primarily for my 12yr old to become proficient with the AR15 platform in a host she can confidently wield... hearing safe for sure.
Not sure how quickly am going to file next Form1, but very interested in reports for new Form4 wait times. Has been a lot of speculation about changes to the industry depending on how the wait times fall out. Personally, I have zero problems with the $200 stamp... keeps suppressors from showing up at every gang shooting across the country like they would if not on the NFA followed quickly by being banned. We were so ******* close to the HPA getting passed until the Vegas shooting and Clinton opening her suck hole... almost glad it got squashed. Its the wait times that keep people from buying suppressors. End rant.
6" titanium can (drill to .406) for 9mm PCC work... steel and aluminum cones. I debated a long time on the barrel and chose a 3"... my regular 115gr handloads will be subsonic at that length, and I've got about 5k of them loaded. I may be sacrificing some increased erosion on the first baffle due to still burning powder entering the can, but can live with that for the time. This setup will be primarily for my 12yr old to become proficient with the AR15 platform in a host she can confidently wield... hearing safe for sure.
Not sure how quickly am going to file next Form1, but very interested in reports for new Form4 wait times. Has been a lot of speculation about changes to the industry depending on how the wait times fall out. Personally, I have zero problems with the $200 stamp... keeps suppressors from showing up at every gang shooting across the country like they would if not on the NFA followed quickly by being banned. We were so ******* close to the HPA getting passed until the Vegas shooting and Clinton opening her suck hole... almost glad it got squashed. Its the wait times that keep people from buying suppressors. End rant.
#6218
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Any one on the east coast interested in a Steyr Aug A3 M1 Nato edition in black. It uses AR-15 mags. I picked it up last year, never used it, and don't plan on it. Rather it go to someone on here before I take it down to the LGS.
#6220
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Right hand ejection only. That is the reason I am letting it go. Purchased it before I realized that, and I am left eye dominant. Have now purchased a standard one that I can convert to left hand.