Prometheus

Someone with a boatload of overstock put out a rumor about a possible ATF ruling and made a trunkload of money. Is one coming? Is it a matter of time? Is 2012 TEOTWAWKI? Nobody knows. If it's an ATF ruling, it's possible. If it's an act of congress, I doubt it. Obama loses in 2012 if he signs a AWB, 100%. He still stands a chance at winning in 2012 since republicans are starting to line up the usual neocons. Gun control is still a toxic issue... right now anyway.

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98/100 is horrible. 20 failures out of 1,000? You may get 1 out of 1,000 rounds of wolf. Personally I'd have tried them again. I recently had a 5.45x39 round (70's production surplus) that didn't fire. Rechambered it and it went bang. 1 out of 2,000~ rounds. This specific 5.45 AR I just bought and I need to check and see if the previous owner put the heavier spring in it... I put about 300~ rounds thru it. In any event, was the ammo from the same lot? Same box? I've only fired 100~ rounds of that ammo over the years. I've shot a 1,000 federal bird shot shells, never ha

I've got over a decade in EMS and now Trauma services on the definitive care side. I can't believe the ignorance and sheer stupidity of those who advocate birdshot. Lack of logic and deductive reasoning perhaps? In any event, this has been covered by numerous other Medics, RNs and MDs... my thoughts aren't going to help those who are helplessly lacking in logic and reason. For all those new comers, I don't see any buckshot cases now that I'm in the OR. They never make it upstairs. Also, the craziness of loading half and half blows my mind. What sort of person can predi

After reading thru some more threads and not wanting to take my internals out again so soon, I turned up some info on the gas plugs being screwed in too deep. With my gasfixr (gunfixr) plug it bottoms out at 1. According to the instructions, it should be good to go by backing it out just the one click for setting 3. Anyway, I'd never thought much about it and when I did, I'd forget to experiment with it. So I took it back out today after doing nothing to it since last weekend. I backed the gasplug out past the three and until it came to three again. It still locks into place solidl

From what others have said, the speed rating on the boxes of the wally world bulk packs are... lies. Basically. I'm going to get some files tomorrow and see what working on the ejector port does for me, as well as touching up some of the rails and a bit more smoothing on the trigger.

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. All of my failures to extract appear to be shortstrokes and not due to the shell exiting. I really like the sidefolder. I'd say recoil is about the same as with the factory stock. Unlike the same stock I have on one of my AK's, the "push" of the shotgun is much easier on the shoulder thank the "sharpness" of the 7.62x39 round. At least that is my take on it. The Chaos break also does a very good job of lowering the felt recoil as well. The most I've fired thru with the sidefolder is a dozen buck's and 75~ #4 shot thru it in one setting. M

Ok I had a biomed guy at work put calipers on some paperclips for me and I tested them out in my S12, the one that came up .99 went into all three holes. A bit more crap came out of them when I pushed it thru. So I did a bit of polishing in my bolt and trigger/hammer and my reliability is improved. In fact, if you pull the gun in as tight as you can, it will cycle every single round of bird shot. Let it get loose in your shoulder pocket on a 3/4 or fuller mag and it just doesn't have the gas to fully cycle. It would seem I need to break down and modify the gas block. Also I need to

You are much better off than mine. I can only see a tiny bit of the second and none of the third. I'll do the polish and shoot it this weekend and see if I do the block mod after that. I'm still hoping I knocked some crap out of the ports and with the polish that clears it up. <fingers crossed>

I think my port size is fine. The paperclip goes in with some play. Like I said I haven't measured it, but it's got to be close to 1mm wide held up against a ruled, it appears nearly 1mm. I was thinking after I posted about modding the gas block, would it help? I can get the paperclip into all three holes, which would mean the block isn't covering the ports. Hmmm... I don't know if I mentioned it, but it is the 19" barrel.

I know you didn't want to use grill paint and I didn't either, but figured the area wouldn't matter. I am glad I used Krylon grill paint, flat black BTW. You cannot tell where I sprayed it. Theoretically you might be able to make it out using a Zenon tac light (yeah I tried), but how often will that happen?

Before this forum, all the help, encouragement and walkthrus, I wouldn't have never have tried it. Since restoring my S12, I think the gas block "D" fix will be pretty easy. I did just buy the winchester heavy game load #4 shells from cabelas. I have to pick them up instore, but after my coupon they were $48.30 for a 250rd case and i applied some old cabelas points dropping the price per case down to $43.97 per 250 rounds. I drive within 250 yards of the store a few days a week so no inconvenience there I'll give the estates a try eventually though. I just couldn't pass up that de

Thank you, how about the other winchester loads such as Super-X heavy game loads I was refering to above in the #4 shot. The reason why I ask is finding them inexpensively enough. Right now they are on sale at Cabelas.com for $54.99 (per 10 box case) and I live close enough to the store to pick them up so no shipping charges, add to that a loyalty coupon for $30 off a purchase of $150 or more and that makes them $45.99 per 250 rounds (prior to tax). I can't find estate smaller than 6 shot in any of bulk packs and even then it's 10$ more per case, both have the same discount right now. $15

From the pictures in that thread it appears my gas block needs the "D" modification. I can only see one hole and just a smidge of another. The third isn't visible. I stuck a bent paperclip into the three holes and it went thru all three with a slight bit of play. The paper clip is of a small size 1" by 1/4" wide before bending it. I don't have calipers but if I had to guess from my ruler, I'd say it's got a diameter of 1mm. I'm guessing from reading all of what you provided, by modifying the gas block into a "D" I will fix my problem... although, I seem to have poked some crap thru i