Scott Kenny

Methyl Ethyl Ketone. It's not aircraft stripper, but it will dissolve even 2-part epoxy paints (we used it to clean the spray guns at Tramco). You can find it in gallon cans at Home Depot, a gallon is far more than you will need. READ THE FUCKING PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS!!!!! (pardon the profanity, but it's life or death important!) No joke, that shit is nasty. I know several people that have developed life-threatening allergies to things (like latex) because of MEK (I'm one of them). You will need NITRILE gloves and a VOC-rated paint respirator. MEK dissolves latex gl

You could certainly rig up a strap of metal that goes between the pistol grip and the receiver, using the PG nut and that bottom screw to hold the tab in place. Not sure it's worth it, though, if the top 2 screws are strong enough.

Yeah, if the muzzle flash doesn't blind them, the blast will deafen them and give them a concussion. Shot one, great way to turn dollars into noise. Can't hit shit with it, because I'm ducking from the blast! Gimme a 10mm or a .44 mag for horsepower.

Stormi, you might want to watch that Tac Star shell holder, my shooting buddy had the threads strip out of one of the mounting holes, there's not enough material there. He ended up putting a shoulder bolt through the entire gun and sidesaddle, and stuck a locknut on top. But very nice work!

I think you'd lose a lot of oomph with the cylinder gap, though. At least with rifle calibers. What was it, New England Firearms 'pardner' that was the break-action single-shot? Time to go poke around and see what's up. I live in Boise, so there are a couple (small) firearms manufacturers in the area, and CCI is up in Lewiston.

Indy, one of these days I am going to have to meet up with you real-world and we can figure out WTFH is up with my PSL. The guys used to shooting Moisins said that it kicked harder than their rifles (and they're right). DEZ Arms adjustable gas block... interesting. 1mile50, that's some nice shooting you had going there, especially with that wind. Sony DCR-SX85 Handicam 60x Optical Zoom, huh? May need to get one of those myself, so that I don't need to borrow my shooting buddy's armored camera installation to take target pictures...

Ever since I blew the firing pin out the back of the bolt(!) in my PSL, I've been watching my primers (as long as I'm not on a range). Seen some pierced primers, a lot that my reloading friend says are indicative of high pressures (flowing around the firing pin). I have this nasty suspicion that I have a .308 bore, not a .311! PSL does not like those S&B Matchking loads (what I was shooting when the firing pin blew out). Doesn't like Winchester Metric 150gr (pierced primers). Tolerates PPU 150gr softpoints (haven't had a pierced primer, but seen a lot of flowing primers). Really l

Wonder if the European equivalent was involved in that discussion as well? If both the major engineering groups involved with weapons manufacturing walk out of the process, that's usually a good way to get something killed. Oh, and I don't want the US out of the UN. We retain absolute veto rights as long as we stay in the UN. Security Council seats are good for that.

Well, steel doesn't seal against the chamber as tight, so it's already more prone to getting gunked up. The AR's design itself does get more gunk in the works, too. And I'd bet that the steelcase ammo has some nasty powder that leaves behind a lot of gunk, too. I know the PRVI ammo that my PSL doesn't hate is nasty, leaving carbon all over the place. The early M16s gunked up in Vietnam when the ammo manufacturer went to a different powder to get that last 50fps out of the case. But if you got a different lot of ammo (Federal or Winchester instead of LC), it ran fine and didn't gunk

What we're saying is that a 15lb rifle is a right heavy bitch to carry all day. My PSL tips the scales at ~13lbs with the big scope mounted, and I hate carrying her around. You're not going to *want* to hunt with a rifle that heavy, it's just going to be a safe/bench queen. The current US Military rig is a Remington 700 in .300 Winchester Magnum, with a McMillan (IIRC) stock and a big suppressor. And about $2000 worth of scope sitting on top. Roughly $5000 all told, and the rifle itself is the cheapest part of the system. $800 for the rifle, probably $1200 for the stock, $1000 or so f

My, that is pretty. GOB, you were not kidding! A modern-day version would look a little different, since it'd have to have a top-strap for lockup... Wonder if you could have the swingout around the pistol-caliber barrel? I guess I need to mess around with some pieces of pipe, see if I can lay out a modern version mechanically. I mean, Taurus is selling "Circuit Judge" carbines, and the Lemat-style lets you use a bigger shotgun shell...

Gives a whole new spin to the 'buntline special' idea, doesn't it? And it might be more than a 9-shot cylinder, since the cylinder would rotate around the shotgun barrel! hrm... that'd make for a roughly 16" barrel for the pistol cartridges... Might be able to chamber the beast for .454 Casull, since you'd be talking about a cylinder at least 2.5" in diameter anyway. I'm just wondering if a break-top design could survive the force of a 20gauge. Yes, 12gauge would be more impressive, but last thing I want to have is a gun prone to kabooms because of poor design. Besides, I think a

For those that don't know, a LeMat is a black-powder revolver with a 20gauge shotgun bore as the axle of the cylinder. I'd like to make a modern version that I don't have to front-load. Now, I get that a Taurus Judge avoids the AOW/SBS definition by having a rifled barrel. The LeMat has two separate barrels, and I'd like to avoid the Judge's problem with rifling opening a hole in the center of the pattern. But that means a smoothbore barrel. Are all smoothbore barrels under 18" SBS, even if the receiver never had a buttstock? What is the Mossberg "Just in Case" considered? An A

Glad to hear the 'baby' is working well!

Party on, man!

Family history of heart trouble. (And not the kind caused by acute heavy metal poisoning)

I think we've hit all the big ones... You might be a mall ninja if you read the thread on glocktalk where the term started!

Yeah, but it's in Forbes. That's ... unusual, to say the least!

The funny thing is, it's stupidly-easy to run afoul of the FCPA. (Hey, I'm an international business major, I *have* to keep up with this stuff) Buying the customs clerk lunch to get your cargo inspected sooner is illegal under the FCPA. But the charges are blatant examples of the things expressly prohibited by the FCPA... how the hell did the prosecutors screw this up? Everyone doing business internationally knows or should know about the FCPA, violations will cost the company millions (ask Siemens, $395mil fine just to the US government, more to Germany, total of half a billion dollar

Daaaaaaaaaayum! I believe that would be a 'well-loved' firearm!

Stormi ground that flat with a freaking *angle-grinder*?!? Stormi, my man, if you aren't a machinist, maybe you should be!

And that is why I restocked Petra, my PSL, with tiger maple. Pretty, pretty firearms. Even got a bolt-action Mauser snob to say "that's what a semi-auto should look like." 'Course, I'm a bit of a Mauser snob, myself, but solid, quality hardware is always better than plastic mattel guns.

That's purdy... color me jealous!

WTH??? coulda sworn that the .221 fireball had different case head dimensions than the .223. That's about what I get for failing to confirm before opening my mouth.

Interestingly enough, after decriminalizing all drugs, Portugal has seen a massive drop in crime... Legalize it and tax that shit, just like alcohol and tobacco!