TheDeacon

Anyone else notice the MKA 1923 bullpup? Looked interesting enough I picked one up to play with.

Eh, my judgement is apparently not good at all. Three up, three down. Inning is over and I'm gonna stay on the bench where it's quiet for quite a while.

Well, basic black does match everything.

On one hand, I dearly love the Tavor TAR21 I got two years ago and the X95 may become favored as well. The trigger on the X95 is better than the original TAR 21 by a fair amount and I am actively considering aftermarket triggers for both. As soon as I get fully acclimated to the X95 controls we are going to do the shoot house and see how it handles. If the NFA gets trimmed it's barrel will too. On the other hand, the ACR is okay, but not as devastatingly awesome as it was represented to me, at least not in .556. Maybe if I can get the 6.8 barrel kit I will warm up to it more. It seems abou

" Supposedly " there is going to be a .300 barrel for the X95. Some have turned up on the secondary market but they seem to be one of a kind custom units. The 6.8 and 300 barrels and bolts for the ACR has become a cottage industry, parts available with a lead time involved.

Okay, you have a good point. ACR and X95 will get their exercise this weekend. Since my budget is well and truly blown now I added an ACOG to the ACR ( it just works and it looks...right! ) and a red dot with a 5x magnifier to the X95. Mags ( and magpul drums, one came with the ACR ) are loaded and waiting, 4WD is fueled and serviced, weekend will be in the 80's with no wind. Desert, here I come!

And the final result..... Tavor is in the safe waiting for range day. (And the promise of a .300 blackout and 5.45 kits in the future). Enhanced ACR is being held on my marker for a couple more weeks until I can pick it up. Wonder if the 6.8 conversion is available yet? And just to add icing to the entire thing: A VEPR 23' barrel 30.06 will be ordered from KVAR on Monday... Bless me Father, for my will (on this particular subject) is weak. My smoking wallet will not forgive me anytime soon and there is a lot of ramen in my near future. And yet, I regret nothing. Tha

I still call it an investment. 30.06 is a good round and if I dress it up like a Dragunov SVD . Medium range ( 300 - 600 M ) accuracy is what I want to find out about. Worst case scenario I can still recover what it cost under almost any circumstance. OTOH, look at the Saiga prices these days.

A VEPR in 30.06 with 23" barrel has caught my interest. May take precedent over my other dilemma and have me eating ramen even longer now.

Okay, I need some help with this. Had an enhanced ACR and an X95 offered to me by a friend who is lightening his collection. About 100 rounds through both, they still look new. Have thought through the ins and outs of both and just can not decide. Since there are no new Saiga offerings at the moment and this is what is available. The kicker to the decision is they are both the same price, and it is below the cost of a new Tavor X95. Help?

I need to get a spare bolt carrier for a Saiga .308 so I can modify it and still keep the original bolt carrier unmolested. Yeah, that sounds bad... Sorry. Putting a left side gas tube charging handle ( Dublin AK ) on the bullpup I am building and taking the original charging handle off. What info I could find suggested the AK 74 carrier was a possible choice. Considering this forum is the fount of knowledge on Saiga I expect that this has been discussed and resolved before. Knowledge shared would be greatly appreciated or even a sharp kick in the tail in the right direction.

I do commercial system service and the final resting place of retired hard disks is the solar kiln in my back yard. Still haven't decided what to do with the metal after meltdown. A few drives that were particularly troublesome are used as rifle targets and then the remains tossed into the kiln.

old innokin itazte VTR mod with the dual coil subohm elements. Got a lot of spare Aspire tanks on closeout cheap. This is the only rig I have used that can stand up to getting knocked around and dropped. Rides in a 511 molle grenade pouch on my belt perfectly.

Been vaping since 2009 after a round of pneumonia. After I could breathe again and had started craving nicotine a friend got me an e cig. Worked out fine and I haven't looked back since or been tempted to go back to cigarettes. As a matter of fact they don't even smell good anymore. I only use the tobacco flavor at 24mg of nic. My doctor has read all the same studies I have found and has no objections to my use of it.

(musing to self) Hmmm. Since the "Bankruptcy", doesn't that stand for Government Motors Conspiracy? I think I'm safe from Darth's wrath. '82 VW diesel pickup.

Please keep us posted on how it works, I like the idea.

My Grandfather told me " Boy, there may not be anyone you want to vote for but there will be things and people you will want to vote against. " God bless him for his advice and God help us now that we have arrived here. We could have had a better Republican ticket but it does no good to fantasize now. My decision is made and it is time to follow through on it and vote what I believe will be the best choice for the country and it's future. Sod the media and the shills, unless someone can show genuine irrefutable facts I am done listening to the tripe being spewed out 24/7. A quote comes to mi

Have looked for a small and inexpensive 4WD so I can head out on the desert to shoot when I want to. Been looking for about five years with no luck. Picked up a '89 sidekick for only $800. Only needed new rubber and a tune up. Weekend shooting here I come!

If you walked through the parking lot of my high school (mid 70's) you would find a shotgun and/or rifle in the window rack of almost every pickup truck. Carried a buck folder in a belt pouch all through high school (as did just about all the males and an interesting number of the females as well) kept my brick of .22 ammo in my locker since I was afraid it was way too hot in my car trunk (far west Texas). During a locker inspection the assistant principal called me out for the pack of cigarettes he found but never said a word about the ammo. The ROTC rifle range (.22 only) was built under

Steve does good stuff but he is a bit late to the party on this. Ultimate outsider posted the GWX control panel that shuts down the M$ win 10 upgrade in January of this year. I have been installing it on all the client systems and recommending it very strongly. Program is now in it's third or fourth iteration and will monitor the system and alert you to any M$ attempt to install 10. Another good tool is Spybot Anti Beacon which allows you to stop the machine from sending telemetry to Micro$oft from win 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. And both programs are free.