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blkgunlvr

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  1. I've never trucked with ANY mil-surp ammo other than M-33 ball. I have no desire to screw around with AP/incendiary/tracer or other than ball. I've shot some French surplus that was corrosive, but I've shot mostly CBC and American Eagle for plinking and Hunting Shack and handloads for precision.
  2. I've got a Bluegrass Viper single shot bolt action (it's actually a "clone" of the Barrett M-99 made by a former Barrett machinist). Living in Idaho, I have the ranges to shoot the beast, Local club has a 200/300/400/500 yard big-bore range that also has a 36" gong at 1100 yards. Accurate, fun to shoot, but many ranges will not allow the .50 and you should definitely consider that before going $5000+ into a gun and $5 a round to feed it. I've also built up a .510 whisper sub-sonic 50BMG and have an AAC Cyclops suppressor for the Whisper that I have yet to mount on the Viper. For more informati
  3. It's the Lee 3-die set. I've since purchased the Lee universal flaring die and have used it successfully loading other flat-base bullets, so it should be handy when I try to load 7.62x39 again.
  4. The local gunshop had most of a lot of virgin brass and 123 grain bullets show up last year and I bought it because I had just purchased a Remington mini-mauser in 7.62x39. I loaded a couple hundred rounds but the expander ball in my Lee dies didn't open the case mouth up enough for seating the flat base bullets and it was pita to get them seated without collapsing case shoulders. I finally realized it was more effort than it was worth with a shop full of mil-surp and finally shelved the components for future needs.
  5. M855/SS109 is not extremely accurate ammo by design. The steel penetrator is never aligned perfectly on the axis of the bullet and therefore the design specification is penetration of a steel helmet at 600 m but accuracy spec for SS109 is 4 moa. I have a bunch of it as "blasting ammo" and SHTF, but my Colt H-Bar Sportster (1:7) and I both prefer XM193 for accuracy work. It will shoot the SS109, well - just not very well.
  6. Tell me about it! I had my Gemtech Oasis Ruger .22 upper out this weekend. My Form 4 for that can was submitted on 10/03/2008 and stamp approved on 11/21/2008!!!
  7. Was it a personal Form 1, trust or e-file? E-files are supposedly turning around in 3 or 4 months. I only have experience with personal Form 4s. I submitted two on 2/3/2013, checks cashed on 2/6/2013. Stamps approved 11/21/2013 and received by my Class III on 12/12/2013. I just submitted two more personal Form 4s on 01/31/2014, checks cashed on 02/11/2014 and the current turn-around is 10 to 15 months. I would try to not get to excited if it was a personal submittal, Christmas is a long way away.
  8. Not to start a flame war, but the AK vs. AR field reliability issue kinda comes out pretty one-sided here: http://firearmusernetwork.com/2010/12/01/ar15-vs-ak47-reliability-under-harsh-conditions/
  9. Lone Survivor is a must-read and Marcus Luttrell is a God's honest hero. Nearly all the Hollyweird "stars" are hypocrites and jack-holes. I watch all my movies on Netflix and will be looking forward to giving this a view sometime next Spring.
  10. I got into a big nest in the woods on a dirt bike back in High School 25 or 30 stings. I HATE those little bastards! They bite and sting over and over since they don't have barbed stingers. You probably don't want to do this on your lawn, but my classic yellowjacket cure is a night-time visit with a road flare. You strike up the flare and burn as many of them as you like while they try to swarm out the single exit. When that gets old, just stuff the flare in the hole and the sulphur smoke kills the entire nest.
  11. I've kind of "grown out of" fireworks now that I'm over sixty- but I used to LOVE cherry bombs and really mourned their banishment. I discovered that a cherry bomb and my Wham-O plywood slingshot was the best damn combination ever! First attempt, I pulled the bomb all the way back and had my buddy light it. Of course, I let it go immediately, but didn't count on the long fuse burn time. It was mid-afternoon in my back yard, and we lived on a 2-lane 40 mph highway. The cherry bomb arced up and over the house, we ran to the side fence to see it come down and burst just over the hood of a passi
  12. Nice rifle! I've got two, a National Match and a tanker shorty. But I gotta say... a lead sled? Really? the weight and balance of the Garand makes it one of the easiest recoiling .30-06s ever!
  13. When the story first broke months ago and Beretta stated that they would have to pull up stakes, one of the Maryland liberal representatives called it a bluff. The response from Italy was "Berettas don't bluff." I guess that's true, and they will be abandoning a multi-million dollar factory that was just built within the last couple of years. Good for them for standing their ground against liberal lunacy!
  14. I've been using it on multiple guns for close to a month now and love it. I'm using the liquid more than the paste and running it on AR platforms "wet" with excellent results.
  15. It's all about momentum. Most of the rigs lose speed and momentum on the upgrade, and if the unit in front of you is climbing slower than you, if you back off even a little bit, you lose your ass and will be bogged down big time by the time you crest the hill. Kind of like getting caught out of the draft in NASCAR, you're going backwards and will burn a shitload of fuel getting back up to speed. PITA for the traffic behind you, but the trucker's paying taxes for his share of the road and just has to do what he has to do to keep on gettin' along.
  16. Safety Harbor in Florida was making .50 BMG uppers for AR-15 platforms. They were seriously backordered before the panic - I don't know what's up with them now.
  17. I've also sprung for some Frog Lube and so far have only appled to a newly acquired used Ruger SP-101 and a used Olypmic 40 S&W AR upper. Made the little Ruger slick as glass and I've run 70 rounds through the Olympic without a hitcn. It makes them all "minty fresh" and so far Frog Lube has proven to be all that it claims to be. I have a LOT more guns to get treated, but I'm pretty pleased so far.
  18. +1 for Mulletman. Good transaction - everything as promised and very accomodating in getting it done!
  19. And I'm sure you sold them about 30 seconds after the gates opened. Not 30 seconds, but they did go pretty quickly after we beat off the other dealers that were trying to buy them for immediate resale at $1000!
  20. I just finished working a gun show here in Idaho this weekend. We sold seven 1,000 round cases of PMC 55 gn 5.56 at $650/case (all that we had to offer) and were the cheapest one selling. Others were at $1,000 for 1,000 round cases and I heard but could not confirm that one seller was asking $2/round for M855/SS109!
  21. I've used all but Tula. All three that I've shot have performed equally, but the Wolf and Silver Bear are both non-corrosive, which is a big plus over the 7n6. Between the Wolf and Silver Bear, I prefer the Silver Bear's zinc plating to the steel Wolf. I voted Silver Bear.
  22. Both interesting and frightening at the same time.
  23. Big +1 for liberty-r-death. Just received the used A2 buttstock and couldn't be happier with the product, price, or turnaround.
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