JohnnyE
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Depends. Good old Tabasco for eggs and stuffed peppers. Frank's on chicken, Hell's Kitchen for other things.
There is no one-size-fits-all answer...kind of like it is with guns.
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I'll take 8 or 12 of them. I have 4 Saiga's to feed.
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Mike has got to monetize his investment in the double-stack design.
I find it hard to believe that there isn't a large enough customer base among existing Saiga 12 owners to make the mag profitable.
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Mike,
Thanks for the news, as difficult as it is.
This is my tag for creating a thoughtful response...thinking somewhere in there will be the thought you underestimated the market potential of the existing Saiga 12 base. Richard Lage continues pumping out great things for the MAC submachineguns, and the window for that platform closed in May 1986.
Best wishes for you success, and thanks for what you do provide for us.
JohnnyE
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It's closer to the bore axis than the quad rail, which I have on another Saiga 12 of mine.
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I just purchased one from you and installed it. Me like! Only challenge was driving out the pin that retains the recoil spring guide rod. I broke a punch in the process.
I think this rig gets my red dot down as close to the bore axis than anything out there, giving me a better cheek weld.
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I had great success reinstalling a tight gas block by first heating it up in a 350 degree oven. It expanded and dropped right over the room-temperature barrel. Once the block cooled, it was very snug. I used the same trick to install an AR-15 gas block.
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In the end, only the personal definition of hero matters.
Your personal definition of hero says far more about you than it does about your heros.
Was Sully a hero? Yes. Not the charge a machine gun nest with a bayonet kind of hero, but the "make the hard call when lives are on the line" kind of hero.
Is a little girl who is blown up by an fanatical demon worshiper a hero? Of course not. But the masses only think what they are told to think and it advances the leftist agenda to redefine every snowflake as a hero.
It appears my definition is more strict, perhaps in part due to the rampant overuse of extreme terms. It's similar to the bastardization of the word "unique." There really is no such thing as MOST unique, or MORE unique, simply because unique itself says it all, one-of-a-kind. Only a single item can carry that mantle, the item that has no peers. Mike is right, the media is debasing the very meaning of words.
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I don't in any way think that Chesley Sullenberger, the airline captain of "Miracle on the Hudson" fame, was a hero. Even though his actions saved all aboard the plane, he didn't have an "out" like a parachute (that would have increased his chances for personal safety), but abandoned everyone else in the plane. He had no choice, and the only chance he had to save himself would result in saving the others. What he did was absolutely terrific, skillful, and calm, cool and collected, but it was not heroic. He didn't choose to add to his personal risk in order to save others.
As a pilot I have to respectfully disagree with that statement. The controllers tried to vector him to attempt landing on dry land, and he chose to ditch it in the Hudson (where he could be sure not to land on anybody) instead. Maybe they could have made it back to an airport, maybe not, but if not then the population density in that area almost assured that there would have been a lot of people hurt and killed on the ground, even in a crash landing that would have been survivable for many or most of those on board. Given that up until that time, basically nobody had ever had a water ditching of an airliner go well, he did indeed assume a great deal of additional risk to save innocent lives. It just happened to turn out that his actions also saved the lives of those on board the airplane, which fell into the category of bonus.
Another hero:
http://offbeatoregon.com/1207sp-heroic-final-flight-of-jim-wright-howard-hughes-racer-plane.html
One of the craftsmen who helped build that plane is a friend of mine, and he spoke very highly of Mr. Wright.
Edit to add: I did some more digging and found that an Aeroflot Tu-124 ditched in a river with no fatalities, and there was a 737 that landed in water that was only knee deep with the loss of one flight attendant. But in general, modern airliners tend not to do well landing on the water.
You've provided a broader analysis of other variables, though on a more binary level,Sully did not have the option to flee the situation or, like a firefighter, voluntarily run into the situation. He and his passengers fates were identical and inseparable. I don't see that Sully had the option of, and rejected, a path to personal safety in order to serve others. Self preservation is not heroism, and if the path to self preservation unavoidably provides the collateral benefit of saving others as well, that's not heroism either.
The folks on the ground whom he would have overflown, and likely crashed onto, if attempting a return or Teeterboro landing may consider Sully a hero for not imperiling them, but I don't think that Sully thought he would be better off attempting to make either airport, and rejected those choices because of the risk it created to those on the ground. If he had been overflying a densely wooded forest rather than NYC, I think he would still have rejected the airports because coming up short represented certain loss of the aircraft and most if not all aboard. Coming up short over Manhattan is even worse.
I have gotten irritated over the debasing of the term hero. To my understanding, a hero is one who rejects a path leading to, or most likely to lead to, their own personal safety in order to aid others. I might also include those who, facing choices that all likely to lead to death, chooses the path of least collateral damage to innocents. This may pertain to Sully and the choice of the Hudson over the airports, but that choice was valid for many reasons, so now we're into weighting factors. He is, though, one hell of a pilot with ice water in his veins, and deserves all the accolades for pulling off the impossible.
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So many people lead such drab, meaningless lives that they need to somehow feel uplifted and validated, and they smile and feel proud by simply surviving something that was done to them.
The strict definition of a hero is someone who has two choices in front of them. The first choice leads to their personal safety, but does nothing to assist others in peril, and the other is the choice that puts their own personal safety at risk in the attempt to save others who are in peril.
I don't in any way think that Chesley Sullenberger, the airline captain of "Miracle on the Hudson" fame, was a hero. Even though his actions saved all aboard the plane, he didn't have an "out" like a parachute (that would have increased his chances for personal safety), but abandoned everyone else in the plane. He had no choice, and the only chance he had to save himself would result in saving the others. What he did was absolutely terrific, skillful, and calm, cool and collected, but it was not heroic. He didn't choose to add to his personal risk in order to save others.
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Murphy's law in action. The dog's first chomp was probably right on the stamp. He couldn't have started on the opposite corner of the form...of course not...that's not how it works.
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^^^ I like the way you think!
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Speaking of support, I decided to order another case of the 8M3 today. It's a tough time for vendors right now and I figured SGA could use the cash flow. Plus, you never know if this will be the last time we get 8M3, so another case put away for insurance.
This is a great idea. There are some things I don't "need" right now, but I'll shoot them eventually, and now would be a good time to buy.
I feel pretty confident thinking that SGAmmo, like so many others, stocked up late last year because they expected a different election result and panic buying on a grand scale. I give props to SGAmmo because during the last panic, they did a really good job controlling prices, which was more than fair of them and a lot better than many retailers treated us, so I don't want them to be left holding the bag because the stocked up.
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You spelled "quickie" wrong.
Real men LOVE these!
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I just don't understand not voting. We bitch endlessly about losing Constitutional rights, but it's not a Chinese menu, where you pick one but another. Our fathers, grandfathers and other ancestors fought and died to secure this right for us. Honor them! Take an hour, get off your ass, put down the computer, and VOTE! Don't try to calculate where your vote will make a difference. Just by showing up you show you are interested. If everyone waits for everyone else to do it, it will never happen. I've voted every time, primaries and generals, for 40 years.
I applaud your enthusiasm but you really dont know what your talking about...I live in Oregon and my republican vote is nullified....that the way she goes
in oregon republicans vote for the down ballots
I live in Maryland, so I know exactly what it's like to have my vote nullified, and I've been in politics for 30 years, so I know exactly how important it is, win or lose, to be counted and to be seen as someone who will show up. The thing you don't want to do is broadcast that you're a eunuch. Is it more important to have an extra beer once every two years, or go and do something?
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I just don't understand not voting. We bitch endlessly about losing Constitutional rights, but it's not a Chinese menu, where you pick one but another. Our fathers, grandfathers and other ancestors fought and died to secure this right for us. Honor them! Take an hour, get off your ass, put down the computer, and VOTE! Don't try to calculate where your vote will make a difference. Just by showing up you show you are interested. If everyone waits for everyone else to do it, it will never happen. I've voted every time, primaries and generals, for 40 years.
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That directed at me? One up the center of the pipe, and the second at 6 O'clock, with the "barrel" splitting the round, half in, half out. A lopsided snowman. No big deal.
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Wow. Hope the deputy fully recovers.
A few months ago at the range I had one .40 round go right up the paper target's "pipe," and another nick it. Yeah, don't jump me everyone, I know the paper was hanging there completely still, it wasn't shooting at me, and I wasn't hit. At the moment I thought it was kinda neat (never happened in decades of shooting experience), and here we see it happened in real life.
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The Greatest Generation is leaving us.
We're on our own...
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20mm cans get a whole lotta love from me for deep storage. Heavy as an SOB when stuffed with center fire pistol ammo, but when got a single lot number of each of my favorite defense rounds in each carry caliber, it'll take decades to burn through it all as I rotate out the carry rounds. Toss in rechargeable silica gel pack, and keep recharging and swapping them out 'til everything inside is completely dehydrated, and you're good for the looooong term.
Fat 50's work great for 500 round bricks of .22 LR, and 150 round boxes of M855. There is very little wasted space in these applications.
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The one point that escapes too many on our side is that you either believe in liberty or you support tyranny. The majority of people support controlling other people's lives at some level in the name of safety or fairness.
But life isnt fair and life isnt safe.
Ben Franklin had it exactly right.
If you want to be free then you must want everyone to be free.
Because if you have the right to tell others that they can't do something just because you don't like it then they damn sure have the right to tell you what you can't do.
Thank you for saying some of the most important words spoken...not on this forum, but by a citizen who is a leader who has a voice in his own nation.
Everyone (including me) should think about the things that annoy them, that disgust them, and that enrage them. Everyone (me too) should take a long hard look at the things they do that annoy others, disgust others, and enrage others. If YOU cannot make a clear, convincing argument why ALL those things should be illegal, using words and a rationale that everyone can at least understand, then you better think about whether your are a champion of liberty or tyranny.
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A surprise for me at this point, would be lagniappe. An extra drum for the time and trouble and lack of communication.
I can lend you a drum if you really need it. What did you order?
"lagniappe" is a gift. JMHO, he's looking for an extra drum to be tossed into his order as a meaningful way of saying he's sorry for the delay and lack of contact
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I think he needs better business communications with his customer base. I get that he doesn't want waste his time being pen pals, or dealing with flame wars, but some sort of regular communications will give us confidence, which is waning.
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I tried it out today, and it worked pretty much as I'd hoped. I ran every high brass load from cheap 2.75" Estate buckshot and Winchester and Remington #1 buck to 3" Federal magnums and ejection was between 5 and 12 feet, without changing any settings on the gun. Opening up the exit ports flattens the regulator pressure curve above the set point so that 3" magnums are closer to standard 2.75" shells in cycling/ejection energy.
My modified regulator has 8 .165" holes now, 2 in each slot.
Pictures please. I am looking at Gun Fun's work and it would be great to see this. I'd love it if I could use an autoplug reliably for everything you can feed a Saiga 12.
MD Arms Double Stack Mag Patent
in Saiga-12
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Thanks SD. I have the four tuned so well, they eat everything I feed them...3 dram skeet loads up through Brenneke magnums. If I put on a paradox rifled choke, I can hit a cafeteria tray sized target with Brenneke and DDupleks slugs out to 200 yards. Lots of drop, sure, but accurate. It took years of work, and more than a few parts swaps, but I got them where I like them