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reliable economy is a very freeing feature. Most of my friends got 4wd suvs for the feeling of being down for adventure. I always had econo boxes. My first car was even a ford festiva which was a better car than you would think. 55/45 mpg in a car you could afford that lasts for 450k miles and isn't made of lithium. then a crappy saturn, and then a protege 5 speed which I still have and like. It is more like 30-32 MPG most of the time, but if I am going over mountian roads at about 60, even if the car is working hard, my mpg goes closer to 42. It's getting pretty shabby due to the interfaces w

have your i.d. Close to bore diameter. Slots or holes work, but it's a matter of surface area that is perpendicular or more aggresive to bore, which is exposed to high pressure gasses. Pressure drops off rapidly after the first port or two. So those ports need to be designed to do the most work. Sometimes I see brakes with a few holes and then big ol slots, which is backward. A few slots close together, with enough meat in the remaining material to take the thrust of the gasses they are turning will do more than a lot of holes. My preference is angled gills and enclosed bottom. Gills ne

I like them, but post dieselgate, VW has basically said that they can't afford to start making them again. My grampa had a 98 jetta that someone had worked over. It was fast, fun when it hit turbo, and I got 65mpg flogging it through twisty backwoods roads. Unfortunately, it had a VW transmission, which is the failure mode. I don't know what was done to it, but I am fairly sure that it had upgraded suspension and some engine mods, and probably upsized tires. I've driven gas jettas, and they felt way more understeer prone, even with what must be lighter engine blocks.

He never did stand up for conservative issues, because he wasn't. He was big on defense, and that was the one point of intersection. I never liked or trusted him, but I hope I'm wrong about his ultimate destination.

Think of it as cheap preventative-medicine lawyering, rather than the expensive cleaning up a cancerous mess after it is probably too late kind.

For him to protect his patentability, he would need (not want. Need) a written NDA. Prior disclosure can be an absolute bar to patent. Mike needs a standard NDA form based on the work he does. It's also a good tool to keep excited inventors thinking straight about what to do and not do while fundraising, etc.

I hope this picture doesn't constitute evidence of a breach of your agreement with mossberg, Mike. I'd hate to have you get burned on something like that. If you are worried about recoil, why not tack on a reinforcement plat in the critical areas? Did you have to cut a lot of meat out of the mag itself? Also, why

None taken. I don't like paying gunsmiths either. There's a few things which I would pay them to do for me, most of which involve tools I don't have, or trial and error I can't afford the error on. Some things I could do, but just aren't exciting enough to offset the time and tool expense vs having someone else do it. Skilled work is skilled work, and there are diminishing returns in trying to be master level skilled at everything for yourself.

He's a good guy. Not infallible, but I suppose that goes both ways. What are you saying caused the double feed? If you are saying his explanation is wrong, then it helps if you give your explanation in detail too.

If my phone wasn't out of order, I would take a picture of mine to show what I mean.

This feels like a comedy routine. At least one of us in this thread has a name like Zeppo or Groucho.... I'm sure of it. Turn the straight edge 90* about its axis so that it is edge on to the receiver. The way you are holding it, your hand can flex it, thus negating its purpose. It helps if the light source primarily is from underneath the straight edge so that you only see light where the contact is interrupted. Hold the gun up to the light with a straight edge as described and you will see what I mean. That will inform your picture taking. p.s. Don't get the idea that I am pi

I'm okay with that, so long as it is designed to be a simple shotgun with a compact action. i.e. not a long pump action with the usual clockwork pinball machine inside. There is no good reason for why a shotgun should have any more moving parts than a military carbine. Nor should it be more complex.

That's what he was asking for, but it would be even better if the picture showed holding a straight edge against the receiver flat surfaces. The amount of daylight showing through gaps is a lot easier to get a clear read on than a visual estimation of straight. Especially since some cameras have a fisheye effect (& maybe digital correction of same.)

He probably has run them. Kay Miculek used to run an S12 built by Jack Travers before he fell apart.

I don't think I know what "gun webs" means. Can you expound?

That's a nice goal, but it is almost useless if the search engines ignore or hide it.

That seems way excessive. Just spray in any powder solvent as often as you clean the gun and you should be fine.

Dunno, but I am pretty sure the screw is some standard thread pitch. These are all stuff I am sure you could get at any hardware store, but you might end up with a fat allen type set screw in there.

I think somewhere after about the first 1K rounds you may need to dial up the spring pressure a little, but after that it should be good indefinately. That's been my experience. I also put a bit of paint on the adjust screw to verify that it isn't vibrating loose. As for cleaning it- I just spray it off with CLP when I clean the gun & wipe it off. No further disassembly.

If the SS was button rifled or CHF, it would have the same internal stress issues that other barrel steels have. Thus it would not have any accuracy advantage as the barrel heats up. Savage SS barrels are button rifled. I forgot about that when I was writing the above. That pretty much means that they have a comparatively soft version of SS that is considered non-work hardening. If they anneal and temper, the barrel after doing the button rifling, which seems likely, then there is a good chance that they also put some work into stress relieving it in the same process though. Food for thou

It is a mixed bag of both. They are a corporation driven by profits, with decisions made by ideologically motivated management. Google/youtube is a bogeyman, because they can and do filter what information gets wide access, and what doesn't. They really do have the power to strangle businesses, and swing elections, and they have already done so. Google /YT is the first and second largest search engine, and between them have nearly 90% market share. They have a monopoly way bigger and more critical than any business that has ever been attacked on Sherman Anti Trust grounds. As for the clai

This is a bit dated. SS barrels tended to be better accuracy- sorta. Basically, SS doesn't like forging, swaging, etc. because even the "non work hardening" versions are work hardening. It tends to be softer than other steels, but - exceptions. Because of this, no one cold hammer forges, swages, or button rifles SS barrels. Cut rifling only from annealed blanks. This meant that SS barrels only got whatever stresses in them came from the tempering process. The metal is probably on the softer end of the steel spectrum, and may fail at lower temps. It will have a shorter life than tough

There's a bit of both, but it seems like if we want to stretch the analogy... In this case a good musician is the one who figures out what tunes his instrument likes to play, and practices a lot.

This is it. For the gun smiths who are more than just gun assemblers, it seems like most follow an arc. step 1. Enthusiastic amateur. #2 Pro offering a lot of work for not enough money. Stuff looks pretty good, but some weird decisions are made. #3 outa bizniss #3 alternate. Starts doing just the bolt on stuff, but always advertises elaborate custom work that he seldom gets, at prices that are high. #4 gets a stable base of customers for the custom work, usually specializing in some niche. These keep him busy enough that he eschews most other work. he

Also, some pistols need a bit of attention to the feed ramp if there are rough machine marks. I wouldn't say that many guns after the mid 90s need the angle addressed, so I would just stick to wrapping a drill shank with sand paper and smoothing the ramp out at exactly the same angle. All that stuff adds up to drag in the system. Inspecting brass is also telling. Some guns have a little burr on the extractor, or a really rough bolt face that can make chambering dodgy.