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I haven't fired mine yet but reviews I've seen and read say that the Red X barrels are tack drivers. And they sell a fluted one for $200. It's the one in my .308 build. I'll tell you what i think of it next Friday when I get my lower receiver and complete the rifle.

That pretty much covers all the bases. The only one I can think of not yet mentioned is the Red-X .308 BCG. I have never seen their BCGs in person but I have one of their .308 uppers and it seams to be economically well made. Their 308 BCGs are very affordable, $180 for standard, $220 for chrome but I rarely ever see them in stock. I got my BCG from Midway USA. After using a coupon code, I wound up with the chrome one for somewhere around $230 delivered. If you're going to get a .308 BCG, get a chrome one if you can. That's a brand I can really speak for. The BCG in my Addax ZK was made by young. Addax went through a long head ache of looking for a manufacturer who would make BCGs to their standards for the ZK. As far as I know, Young is the only company to live up to them. Between the DPMS BCG in my .308 build and the several 5.56 BCGs in my friends and their friends guns I've seen, the one in my ZK that Young made stands out like a sour thumb among them, both in aesthetics and quality. If I could afford them, I'd use Young BCGs in all my builds.

Oh, Sorry. I am use to people I know knowing that theme. Mish is the Russian word for mouse. It's just a cute term for Christmas. Yeah, that's true. I use to be a hard core model builder. Not much anymore. Working very slowly on a sail ship for a local consignment store. That's about it.

Unless I am missing something, it sounds like she's only suggesting people turn in their guns. Limiting it to suggestion is something I can respect her for, assuming it ends there. It's when they try to FORCE their opinions upon us that I have a problem with them.

WOW, It's not even Mish Squish yet and I already got an awesome gift from a very unexpected source that; in this case, is surprisingly touching. The givers asked me to open it on sight so I did. A radio controlled helicopter!! I know it may sound a little silly but I have wanted one since I was 7 years old, but back then they cost a fortune and were easy to crash and mess up and have had too many other priorities in my adult life, so I never got a chance. 27 years later I finally got my first. I guess it's a big deal because of how I got it (from friends who are not very well off and went out of their way to hunt it down) and the sentimental element. Sorry for the rant. I am just very psyched about it.

Thumbhole stocks have a negative stigma attached to them because of their role in the last ban, but they were not invented for it and have in fact played a valuable role in the history of firearms. An AR-15 with one? You can easily make one look good. Ever heard of the HK SL-8? I think it'd be pretty easy to get that look out of an AR-15. Mechanically speaking, I personally like thumbhole stocks for their added surface area, giving extra room for firmly gripping the gun in odd positions and; if made right, even extra "locking" of the gun during off-hand shooting (same principal as the sling wrapping trick. In other words, thumbhole stocks are ideal for riflemen and have their value in an Ar set up as a sniper rifle. That said, thumbhole stocks are perhaps my no1 specialty in stock making and I know as well as anyone how hard it is to make them useful in the above applications. I have strong doubts that many; if any manufacturers will be exploiting these values. My advice on thumbhole stocks. Treat them like a tactical version of a target rifle stock or grip. Don't just go buy some random toy because it looks cool and holds up well. Look for custom made stocks by people who know their trade. I know it's long and a little annoying but you should check out my tutorial on making an M-14 thumbhole stock. In the video, I covered allot of the things you should look for in a properly made thumbhole stock. 1 2 3 4

Ever heard of a broom stick with a nail on the end of it?

My configuration is for carbine. Let me know what you want for it though. I MAY end up building a custom fixed rifle butt. If I do, I may customize the set-up to be compatible with it.

I have no idea. This is what I am looking at. http://www.buffertech.com/AR-10-AR-Restor-Hydraulic-Recoil-Buffer-Carbine-P221.aspx

I pick my receiver up on the 28th. First thing I'm going to buy for it is a muzzle attachment (PWS FSC if I can afford it. After that, I've been thinking about that hydraulic recoil buffer. I am looking to minimize recoil for a couple reasons. 1, easier accuracy and quicker follow up shots. 2, my friend's kids shoot my guns sometimes, and I'd like to make it a "child friendly" gun to shoot. Muzzle attachment softens the original punch but does nothing for the recoiling of the BCG. That's where hydraulic recoil buffer comes in. The videos I've seen appear to be very promising as far as it's effectiveness goes. But I've read some sketchy reviews about it's effect on the gun's reliability, sighting it over shortening the cycling of the action. I would like your opinions on this.

I don't know why, but I had the feeling you were making fun of them. Maybe our past conversations. As much as I hate to admit it, you're right about that. Some times I wish I didn't have as much integrity as I do. Then I'd be a millionaire.

We really need to get some non-profit schools going, where kids are given a real and proper education, and where security isn't a joke.

Same here. But I think he is striking even more gold then he thinks. When you have a good communal support network and community efforts to look after one and other, the conditions that seam to create these school shooters in the first place disappear. I'd put money on the LACK of these things being one of the main ingredients in creating these school shooters. Think about it. There was a time when we had that AND extremely loose gun laws compared to now. And what we didn't have in those days were these school shootings. The commonality of school shootings has run parallel with the disappearance of that.

I've seen allot of people break down and loose control. Not in the way he did, but less severe cases. Hot heads are always spare of the moment but people who are obviously making a dire effort not to tend to loose control for more lengthy periods of time. If you have a "revenge' fantasy already played out in your mind, I can see that person playing it out for real in the event of a total break down, which may explain the weird themes some of them use. And given the cases I've seen, I can imagine people being completely out of control for up to a couple hours in the most extreme cases. The ones I've seen had to run out of energy and break down before regaining control. 7 or 8 years ago I listened to an audio interview with one of these school shooters who managed to survive that was made shortly after the shooting and he sounded exactly like the people in the above cases. I am pretty sure that was Kip Kinkel. Google search the name and you'll find that audio interview. Listening to it again, I am seeing ALLOT of parallels with the guy I went to school with.

Anyone with psychological deficiencies or differentiations are generally pushed harder towards the brink then "normal" people simply due to the fact that they're different and their differences generate social and overall tension. It's a brutal fact of our society that everyone seams to be ignoring. You have to figure that; however hard someone with psychological deficiencies is to deal with, you and everyone else are probably equally hard for them. So; basically, whatever burden they place on your shoulders, that burden is placed on theirs dozens of times over. The vast majority can and do cope and most I've met have developed remarkable self-control skills (the likes of which few "normal" people seam to have) through their struggles, but even that is the result of added weight that normal people don't experience. If; in extreme circumstances; these people's problems are unattended and become overwhelming, that weight can become too much and they can snap. It's been known for centuries that emotional self-control has to be exorcised like the muscles. The Chinese and Japanese both actually have similar meditation techniques for exorcising emotional self-control, and they work like a charm for anyone willing to actually follow them. However, no matter how strong you are, just like with your muscles, there is always a breaking point. It seams as though people with good endurance training tend to hold up better then normal, but once broken, tend to stay broken for a little longer then normal. I am unaware of any psychological studies that prove this hypothesis, but the pattern suggests that the same is true in the mind. Perhaps Jack Nicholson best described it in the movie, "Anger Management" when he said (and I'll put it in fewer words), "There are two kinds of angry people. Explosive is the kind of person that you see screaming at the cashier for not taking his coupons. Implosive is the cashier who remains quiet day after day and finally shoots everyone in the store." Everyone, whether you realize it or not, has the potential to go over the edge. But anyone put in a position of unusually high stress on a daily basis carries a greater risk. Even so, I have seen with my own eyes how much people like that can really endure. Luckily, I have never seen anyone completely flip but I have seen how hard they can be pushed without flipping and it's remarkable to say the least. The sad thing is; people tend to react with more pushing. The worst case I know was some kid in my high school. I didn't notice any mental defecate (maybe PTSD at the most) but he WAS a little odd and to himself. Got pushed around allot and his family was a bunch of religious radicals. He got reserved, started practicing Satanism, drawing demented pictures, fantasizing about murder etc. His intensively hostile social life and judgmental family seamed to be the fuel for it. It's easy to judge him, given the path he was taking, but pretty much everyone judging him would have (and on many cases did) flip out and go bonkers over a moment of the treatment he received all day, every day of his life. Myself and 3 other people seamed to be his only sources for relieving the pressure. He got no help or sympathy from anyone else, not family (I seam to recall something about them trying to have him exorcised), not the school and sure as heck not from his peers (this was during the gang wars of the 90s) and to make matters worse, when he started slipping, people saw it, became afraid and in their fear, pushed him much harder. In other words, as soon as everyone became afraid, they reacted by doing everything they could to validate their fears, which is actually a very standard pattern people follow. I really got a very strong sense that we were the only people keeping him hanging on and there was an obvious sense that giving him the finger would have sent him over the edge. It wasn't exactly hard either. The medicine of choice was listening to him vent no matter how constant and aggravating, inviting him to partake in craft or study projects and telling jokes. In other words, withholding judgement and treating him like a human being which; ironically, no one else was willing to do. He was still struggling last I saw him and I have no idea whatever became of him, but I have no doubt that without the few of us, he would have gone over the edge and I myself probably would have been killed in a school shooting. He actually talked about it in 2 instances that I can recall and in one case told me in a vent that if he did, he wouldn't be able to distinguish us 4 from anyone else. Basically, shooting at anything that moves. TBH, this is what's made me very critical of our nation's attitude towards this problem from the beginning. Having seen it's build up first hand and done what it takes to prevent it, it's hard for me to imagine a school system, common teen age attitudes and the legal system doing anything but making it worse. People can pretend all they want but bottom line is, it's all geared towards setting these people off, not prevention. At least when I was in school, all 3 groups (family, friends and authorities) did pretty much everything they could to make it worse and I'd be surprised if it isn't far worse now. That guy had a very unique support to get him through it and still barely made it. I doubt very many others have that luxury. Even then, everyone was pretty firm about doing everything in their power to egg him on. I doubt anyone today is going to do anything effective to prevent these tragedies. FWIW, I am probably alone here but I tend to see the killers in many of these shootings as every bit as much a victim as the people they kill. These tend to happen when the killer has snapped and completely lost control. In most of the cases I've studied, the crisis leading up to the killings is the end of a long road of psychological cruelty that sends them over the edge. These killers are often nemesis created by the world around them that explode indiscriminately. Kinda like being attacked by a violent dog. It's not the dog you're mad at but he/she who made them that way. And I am not the only one who sees it that way. Our good friend Susan Hupp, who survived a mass shooting mentioned sharing a similar perspective. Anyway, as far as Aspergers goes, I have a good friend with that condition. Apart from the fact that he's an Obama supporter, I have no problem with him and I really don't see what all they hype is about. Sure, he's not very empathetically spoken, but he sure shows it in his actions. And as far as I'm concerned, talk is cheap.

If I were a 5 or 6 year old, I'd be very welcoming of police officers armed to the teeth in my school halls right now. I bet some of those kids whispered words they're not suppose to know yet when they watched you leave.

On top of that, targeting mentally ill beyond what we already do is opening up a whole new very dangerous can of worms which can potentially put everyone on this board in jeopardy. Only a very tiny speck of the mentally ill people who show the warning signs actually go out and kill people. It's like bombing an entire city to kill one terrorist. That's why we have laws that only restrict mentally ill who have proven to either be highly dysfunctional or have posed a genuine threat to peaceable citizens. When you start going after people based on doctor/psychologist opinion and symptoms alone (which is what they'll ultimately have to do), you'll quickly see a huge portion of the American population loose their gun rights. In fact, all you need is to go through some serious hard times (loose your job, home, loved one etc.) and seek a little counseling, and your gun rights could be out the window, and I imagine allot of people are vulnerable to that right now. If you want to reduce this problem, you have to change the culture in ways our culture is unwilling to change. So these school massacres are going to continue, regardless of what we do about gun laws. Bottom line, if you want to make a difference, start in the mirror. Changing the laws for better or worse will do nothing to improve the situation. For the most part, safety and quality of life are improved by culture, not government.

Very easy color to engage in a firefight. This whole zombie thing is really getting on my nerves. And with things as they are, I'll be surprised if the gun grabbers don't use it against us. Guns are fun and all, but I prefer to keep immature themes separate. I know it sounds odd coming from someone who has a gun that's officially called "Zombie Killer" (which I voiced my opinion about to the owner of the manufacturer) but it really is something that's become very annoying to me in particular, but also something that's bound to create problems for the gun industry down the line. I've been warning and warning and warning everyone but nobody listens. It's going to come back to haunt us.

More good news. I signed for my lower receiver today and got to actually see it for the first time. As Addax stated, it's a .308 copy of this: https://www.addaxtactical.com/store/pc/ADDAX-TACTICAL-BILLET-AR15-MULTI-CAL-STRIPPED-LOWER-RECEIVER-184p1976.htm On the other side, a conversation between Mr. Robobot and I suggested that the featureless grip is pointless. I'll take pictures of it for you guys as promised, but it's probably going to either go unfinished or maybe just finished and sold. Anyway, pick up day is the 28th.

I'm going to have to pick one up some time soon.

The gun control argument is picking up a little steam in the aftermath of this shooting. If you run in to anyone who thinks banning guns will prevent massacres like what just happened, you can share this video with them as proof that you don't need a gun to kill allot of people quickly, even when they have guns and you don't. That BTW is also a great example of why the police have the 21 foot rule.

Computer crashed this morning. corrupt boot thing. I am using relatives computer. If you want pics of the grip (still in the works) the only immediate option would be to text them to Mr. Robobot and he can share them if he wants to. My computer problem will be resolved in the next few days one way or another.

I don't recall ever getting a chance to try this before, but I recently found some of my .308 20 round mags. These were given to me a long time ago for a planned .308 custom build that never came to fruition. Not I or the person who gave them to me was sure if they were AR-10 or FAL mags and I have been making a deliberate effort to NOT find out for reasons that will soon be obvious. I tested the parts today against a .308 pmag rebuild kit and lone behold, there's a parts compatibility which means that there's a chance it's an AR-10 mag, thus legal for rebuilding in to a 20 round pmag. The reason I DON'T want to figure out for sure what these 20 rounders go to is because as long as it's possible they are AR-10 mags, I can say that I rebuilt my Pmags out of AR-10 mags and not be lying. In other words, I am assuming they are AR-10 mags. Anyway, this is great because I have a "featureless" grip I was working on about a year ago and dropped due to a legal uncertainty that has since been settled. This grip revolves around having a firm thumb rest, allowing the shooter to have a firm grasp on it as if it were a pistol grip but without being able to wrap the web of their palm around the back of the grip, this making it legally not a pistol grip. My muzzle attachment of choice is a muzzle break, not flash suppressor (that's the legal uncertainty that got settled) and the grip is designed to function as well as a pistol grip despite not being one, and did I mention it's a VERY attractive design? So the only thing I am really loosing is the adjustability of the stock (the thumb barrier locks the adjustable butt in place) and I would much rather have full detachability and 20 rounds then that. Anyway, I am signing for my receiver either tomorrow or Friday. It's a very rare, very limited Addax Tactical lower receiver. I'll try to get you folks a picture of the grip in the next day or 2 but the crucial features (butt lock and thumb rest) have to be fitted, so I won't be fully installing them until the rest of the package is here. Anyway, gun's almost together.

They're just banking on the trends. We see the same thing in the knife/sword world. There's always some new super steel imbedded with titanium, ceramic, kryptonite and all kinds of other weird stuff, yet; save for the rediscovery of wootz (Damascus) none of them seam to best the time tested standards, D-2, O-1 and S-7. It's all childish but it at least helps keep things afloat and gives some variety. BTW. A friend of mine, about a month ago bragged about how much tougher his titanium coated drill bits are then the S-7 steel I work with. I let him try drilling a hole in the handle of a heat treated S-7 blade I was working on. The S-7 blade won. LOL. And S-7 is a metal you can bend a sword made of to a "C" shape and it flop right back to it's original shape. His drill bits could probably be bent as much as a pencil before snapping.

Anyone ever kill themselves in a dream? Happened to me once a few years back. Some crack head broke in to a house my friends and I were restoring and tried to kill us for our tools. Not much to think about when the lives of people you care about are at stake. No trouble putting him down, but decided just afterwards that I wasn't willing to deal with all the legal garbage so I turned the gun on myself. Ended up in some purgatory-like underground place with a bunch of depressed people. I suffered there (for real) too. How a dream caused real suffering is a bit of a mystery, but one theory is pain remembrance. That is, your brain setting off pain signals, triggered by memory. Odd what your noggin can do to you without your consent. LOL Not really pain in this case though. More like being overwhelmed to the point it feels similar to being suffocated. That's the kind of dream you're relieved to wake up from.