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i.e. trim off any sharp plastic flashing. Pop apart the mag, and deburr the edge of feedlips, and the follower. Do the same to the rails the slide runs on, and perhaps the grooves on the slide. Make everything smooth. Run the action slowly and feel for any gritty areas or spring stacking. IMO just about every gun is better if you take the 15 minutes when new to do this. Or go a step further and clean up the fire control surfaces too, but not everyone can do that safely within their skillset. Trued up & smoothed up > worn in.

I can say that a lot of my projects have more time in them than the cash value of the items would warrant. At the time it was more of a matter of limited cash, but of course now I tend to like those guns more than ones with more intrisic value. "I did it myself" is hard to quantify, but it has real value. It also does a lot for stripping down various emperor expert trades. I'm not denigrating gunsmiths (or lawyers, etc...) but there sure are a lot of them who talk as though assembling an AR upper, or mounting a scope should only be performed by someone who has been doing it for a job f

Agreed, and applies to two of our last 4 presidents.

It ain't just mossberg. People tend to switch between M500 and R870 based on family tradition, like alegiance to coke/pepsi , ford/chevy, Sportsball team X... Or red vs blue vs green tractors. "I'm used to brand X, and it was good enough for grampa, so I guess there ain't room for improvement..." The crowd ain't buying Saigas by the million, but I do think Rem and Moss just fed them the gateway drug. I also think they opened the door for something a lot better than the S12/V12, etc to be developed. Something built from ground up to be as compact and balanced as possible while reliabl

I've been involved in youtube for a while, and more importantly, I am very concerned about the power of very few companies to control access to business and ideas. I think googletube which is the second largest search engine, owned by the first is genuinely more powerful than many nations, and pretty much any political party you can name. I also think it is blind to it's hypocrisy and to it's own blind spots. Not that some of their management isn't knowingly exploiting their power... Anyway, if you want to turn of the outrage and get a level headed understanding of some recent trends

Sorta. He settled the case with a binding and public settlement. I think he had to win it if it ever made it to trial. The expectation of DOJ/ BATFE is that no one would be willing to put themselves in legal jeopardy, so that they can always punt on standing if the court or facts aren't stacked in their favor. The big takeaways are 1) the government admits that: a- information is not a good subject to export treaties. b- information as political speech, which this plainly was is at least protected by the 1st amendment, and maybe by the second if it relates to arms. 2) they've be

Or perhaps instruct martial arts in Idaho?

It won't pass, but I'm pretty much always in favor of smaller states. Less concentrated power, more meaningful votes. There is a similar movement here in WA, but I don't see anyone I would take seriously supporting it, with a partial pass for Matt Shea, who is on the whole pretty solid.

3) smooth out the corners on the trapezoidal face of the hammer, and 4) adjust the contact patch of the hammer such that it strikes square to the tail end of the bolt when the firing pin is pushed in. This requires only a very small adjustment of angle. Very little metal needs to go away. I've done all of the above with nothing more than a vice a bastard file and 15- 20 minutes.

I'd suggest asking him yourself, but if I remember the conversation accurately, he said all the internals were original. I don't know about how or whether he complied with 922r. He said he sold the gun.

I figured I would post this here: If you want to see how the new gun performs under stress, here's a first look. Russel Fagan who is a member here (had about the textbook case of all the bad things that can go wrong with a saiga and a smith messing it up by doing all the wrong things-iirc) If I had his experience with saigas, I would probably have as low an opinion of them as he seems to, but I wish I cou Per a few conversations with him, he chose to test out this gun for a change. His last few years were running a Vepr12, which he seemed to like, but he wore out nearly ever

Last I saw an AA12 for sale, the list price was $13K with a brag that they could get them down to 10k if they got enough orders. So...

I don't think the twists are actually what does the work anyway. It is the fact that the flutes end.

Pretty much my point, except the member aspect. If they return to being a no compromise organization and have different leadership, I would happily join. At this stage, I think there is about the same odds of returning Harvard to its original role as a seminary cranking out christian pastors as there is of getting the cash grabbers out of NRA leadership and getting it back on mission.

The krebs is a very well made part. The price has come down on it a lot. I would just go with the krebs. -- guy who has made several modified safety levers for S12, and other AK variants.

Except the way they are structured, their BOD don't have a lot of day to day authority, other than to hire the people who make the actual decisions. As to your question, I believe second amenment foundation and GOA have done at least as much good on a fraction of the budget. 2af gives you the Heller decision... NRA gives you compromises.

That's the one!

The time I was served bear, I liked it. At the time, my family didn't eat meat, and I was at a birthday party so I thought it was pretty amazing. DDupleks hexolit 32 would be my shotgun round of choice for bear. Or failing that some of the Brenneke or dixie shotgun slugs.

That quote is dead on. Every season or two my dad would pick up a couple of stalkers who don't know how to find their own fish, so they would just follow him everywhere and cork him, even when that is a bad set for themselves. So usually we would do something like fish somewhere very shallow, in a bowl as tide is running out. Then we would fast pick and run out and leave them stuck in the bowl. They miss a full tide of fishing, and sometimes going dry makes them unable to sell the fish they have to their market. It usually only takes once. If they don't get the hint, we'll just start l

All of that sounds normal. Even fairly low key. Those seiners are bigger and have a lot of mass for being fragile plastic egg shells... I gotta say the most normal part about that was skippers being aggressive jackasses while the crew are somewhere between excited and afraid their boss will do something stupid which gets people hurt or ruins a day of fishing. That's the real essence of line fishing. The way seine openings work is this: They give a narrow period of time to set your nets, on fairly short notice. Then you have a short period before closure. If you have a little lead

Ditch the quadrail first thing. If you need a light forend for compliance, the options are SGM and the tapco intrafuse for cheap plastic that is okay. There are various tube style forends. You can get a pignose adapter for AR style stocks which moves the bore into line with the stock. I forget who makes that. Then the AR stock of your preference. You are in open, so I would push out the factory rear sight and use the CSS adapter to pic rail and put a red dot where the rear sight is. That would be pretty much all you need other than a magwell. The magwell makes a huge differ

Dress the follower with a file or wrap it in sandpaper and push it through the mag body for a pass or few.

Laminated wood is basically high end plywood. The grain is all arranged to cancel out tendencies to warp in any direction, and the whole thing is stabilized by the forcefed glues and resins they used to make the laminate. For most purposes, it would be stiffer than fiberglass etc, and not subject to warping. Maybe a little more prone to swell with moisture though, depending on what process they used for the laminations. It will probably be heavier though, BTW, the posts above have really good info on the topic, and I can second the notion that watching youtube videos on the topic will give

I always liked this build. You need some CSSpecs magazines though, with extra copper cooling fins brazed on the magazines. I bet there are some neat bits you can get from souped up PC builds that are now obsolete.

I don't disagree. However, the shotgun buying crowd prefers "tried and true" over well thought out and efficiently designed.