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I myself though it would be funny to do a rifle stock in hot pink about a decade ago. It was only meant to be a novelty but I was shocked to find it actually looked very good. Showed it to a few gun buddies (all men) and they thought the same. Back then I was a little surprised to find that women were the ones who weren't so crazy. I expected it to be the other way around. Anyway, been seeing allot of hot pink guns since. I'm not sure why pink is a designated feminine color. It kinda makes me think of strong chemicals, much like florescent for most people as it seams. Then again, I am an artiest with a serious moral problem with pride so any color has it's value and potential in my way of thinking. Get rid of the social/cultural stigma attached to pink and I think most people will find (if seen in person) that hot pink furniture looks pretty good on the AR-15.

I'm working on a .22 Magnum semi-auto rifle of my own design. I once tried making my own magazines and it was hard as heck. I ended up resorting to factory mags. That experience has given me good insight to why they don't mess with large capacity in rimfire ammo. That said, they DO make a large capacity magazine for .22LR 1911 pattern handguns if I'm not mistaken. I hove no idea how well they work. I think it was either Midway or Brownells I saw advertising them.

I've always wondered what kind of person it takes to be a BATF agent. Police officers make sense to me. A corrupt government can be allot better then anarchy, and even IF a police officer's job requires him to sometimes enforce laws he disagrees with and/or knows are wrong, it's still easy to rationalize that you are doing far more good then harm and that 98% of your job is making the world a safer place. BATF on the other hand exists for the soul purpose of violating our constitutional and even basic human rights. I wonder what kind of person accepts a job that requires him to put his life on the line for the soul purpose of bullying citizens, more then 90% of who are probably law abiding. In North Hollywood a bunch of cops put their lives on the line and some of them badly wounded and nearly killed in order to stop the murderous rampage of 2 bank robbers who shot and killed without remorse. You walk away from that knowing you did good and that your sacrifice saved innocent lives and made the world a better place. I wonder how the family and friends of the BATF agents killed in Waco, Texas are rationalizing their sacrifices.

I'm going to have my HK USP converted to .460 Rowland and that will require a ported barrel. I heard the porting is pretty effective.

Poor fellow.

10 years ago I would have sympathy for my fellow countrymen. Not anymore. The American people deserve this. A few innocents will suffer as usual, but the vast majority of American people deserve what's happening. Government corruption and abuse is just a repercussion of our own individual cruel behavior towards one and other.

I want that receiver. Gimme, gimme, gimme. ;D :P

NOOOO!!! Poor squishy squirrels!! DANG. What a stroke of bad luck! Glad to hear you're all still fully assembled.

First off, this thread IS NOT a sales offering. This thread is for the soul purpose of risk assessment. I got my hands on some old Vietnam surplus M-14 stocks and am looking in to making some thumbhole stocks out of them. Thing is, money is extremely tight right now and it's going to cost a pretty penny to make them. So I'd like to know if there's any market for them before I take any risks. If I build them, they'll basically be the same thing as in this video tutorial (4 parts) but with a slightly more modern grip and forend and more durable rubber gripping. Pictures of finished product: http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/2308/m1astock.jpg http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/3624/pcdv0005.jpg http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/5181/m14f3.jpg http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3075/m14f4.jpg http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/1691/m14f7.jpg http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6240/m14f5.jpg http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/423/m14f6.jpg http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/517/m14f8.jpg I don't have the upper hand-guards, butt-plates, butt-plate screws or rear sling attachments but any standard M-1A should already come with this. All the metal innards except for the butt components are there. If I make them, I will sell them for $150 each. I'm open to trading one of them, but I have to make at last $150 to at least get back what I put in and be at all worth the full week of work it's going to take to make em. If there's any interest in these, let me know.

I'm an inventor myself and have several firearm inventions on the table. I also associate with other inventors. I've found the exact opposite to be true. The real problem is that there's an ever lasting war over rights to different designs and attempts to make small changes to get around property rights, using the courts to get around them etc. Then; with very few exceptions, the only people able to come out with anything new are those with allot of money to fight with other companies but no creative skill. Something cool someone came up with to make a little extra $ has nothing on an invention a dreamer poured his blood, sweat and tears in to. I've seen some pretty wild new inventions that are just being sat on because of the above problems. In firearms for instance, I invented a pistol sight that allows your 9mm handgun to hit accurately at 10 meters and up to 150 yards without adjusting the sights as well as a non-electric stock that automatically seals up your gun (kinda like the bat mobile in the first batman movie) when you're not using it. I know people who have just as and even more wild inventions for different subjects that they, like myself, are just sitting on. There's reason to suggest that there's enough private innovation out there being kept secret due to the legal corruption to convert us in to a class 1 civilization in the next 10 years. Funny thing is, from a sheer moral point of view, rights to innovation is very debatable. Patent and copyright protection wasn't established to protect moral property rights. It was established to encourage innovation. When you abuse these legal protections, you discourage progress and hold society back. Corruption is holding civilization back.

oops. Missed the part about it being over. Well, I was close.

1. .300 Speer 2. .30-06 3. .223 Remington/5.56 NATO 4. .300 Win Mag

A video I made showing the 10mm Auto and .45ACP being compared to one and other in a bullet trap.

This is just a short skit, much like a funny movie scene in writing. Just a little something that popped in to my head today during a conversation. ............. John and Jenny were walking up the isle, getting married. John repeatedly looked over his shoulder to notice Jenny's father. He had a rough look on his face and a military style haircut and could easily be taken for a drill sergeant. He constantly stared at John, as to show he meant business. A few weeks later, Jenny's father, "Edward" was walking John through the woods. Edward carried a shotgun in his hands, which John regularly glanced over his shoulder at in terror. As Ed was guiding John through the woods, John, in a terrified tone, said, "you know, you can get in allot of trouble for this." Ed replied, "KEEP MOVING!" and John nervously turned and kept walking. A little later, they stopped at their destination and Ed started readying his shotgun when John said, "I don't see why this is really necessary. I'm in love with your daughter, I'm a good man, I work hard and am more then able to take care of her." Ed replied, "Do you really think I give a !@#$% about that right now?" Now in a state of extreme terror, John looked at the shotgun and said, "You're Sure this thing doesn't kick as hard as they say?" Ed replied, "Correct, and that job of yours counts for nothing if the world goes to hell in a hand basket, so you need to learn how to hunt if you're going to take care of my daughter."

A deal I couldn't refuse fell in to my lap, so I got my early 20s dream gun; totally unexpectedly. Kinda funny how you can spend a long time trying to save up for something and then all of a sudden, it just falls in to your hands. Anyway a friend of mine educated me about a handgun cartridge called .460 Rowland which basically gives a modern .45 the power of a .44 Magnum without loosing the more common and affordable .45ACP (just like .357 Magnum with .38 Special. I managed to reach Johnny Rowland, the man who invented the cartridge to see if I could get this gun converted. He told me that he use to do conversions on this gun but his barrel source went out of business and if I could find a good extended barrel, he'd be glad to. Mr. Robobot hooked me up with a source for extended barrels and I informed John. So now it's just a matter of $ which sounds like around $300 to have it converted to .460 Rowland. Unfortunately, I am not going to have that to spare until at least mid summer. Still, it's an exciting purchase. I fired it a couple times in my bullet trap. Shoots very smooth.

This topic is for posting pictures from your Easter egg hunt. Pics of mine from last year:

I know where you're coming from and how you feel Mr. Robobot. You research everything you can think of only to get screwed on the one thing you missed. Happens allot in my life. Well, I wouldn't toss that receiver right yet. You can always use it in your gun now and replace it later. Once you replace it, you'll have some trade stock. All is not lost.

I attempted to be clear by specifying that by "real" I mean it's a user, not a wall ornament. I can tell you with 100% certainty that it's NOT a historical blade. It seams to be made out of a good grade of metal but it had some mechanical flaws that no Japanese smith in his right mind would make. Some have already been fixed, the rest will be. But the real give away was the plastic handle and aluminum scabbard it came with. Bottom line, this is ideal for use as a machete, utility blade or martial arts weapon. It'll look very nice by the time I'm done with it but it's not a wall ornament nor is it at all an antique.

First off, this is not a sale offering. I am looking for opinions in order to decide whether or not to go there. Some friends gave me a Japanese Wakizashi they inherited. They knew nothing about it but after examination, it turns out that it's a real sword (IE, not a wall hanger, but a user). What grade of metal it's made of, I don't know. It's very solid but doesn't like to flex much. If it were a Katana I would question the integrity but for a Wakizashi, it seams to be more then sufficient in shock resistance. The metal tells me it's a chrome moly. It feels both harder and more shock resistant then most of the real historical Japanese swords I've handled. Mind you, it's still probably a Hanwei blade. Anyway, It was all banged up when I got it and came with missing furniture. It so happens that I have some cocobolo wood, ray skin and leather handle wrapping made specifically for Japanese sword handles. I got all this stuff for an Uchigatana sword I wound up having to scratch due to insufficient blade width. Anyway, I am thinking about fixing some of the errors in the blade's construction and am already half way through hand polishing/resharpening the blade with a clam shell bevel (that used on real Samurai swords) and then using some of the above materials to restore this sword. But I have no use for a Wakizashi right now and it's expensive material. If I am going to offer it for sale or trade, it'll happen right here. We're looking at a sale or trade value set at around $150 $200 (It'd be allot more if I had to scratch build the blade and brass). If I put it up, it'll unquestionably be offered in exchange for AR parts, ammo, cash or a combination of the above. I am wondering if there's any demand for something like that here as I am hesitant to dump a good $80-$100 worth of materials and several hours in to a sword that no one wants. So, anyone got any use for something like this and willing to trade AR parts and ammo for it?

Here's an interesting thought experiment for you. It gives me utmost joy to see Mercedes and Mitsubishi selling us nice cars in stead of building the machines that kill us. It's nice to see France and Germany working together and it's great to see our cultures coming together and helping one and other. I am happy to say that another round of WW II with Japan, Germany and Italy is highly unlikely to ever happen in our lifetimes. But just for the sake of experiment, imagine for a moment that next year, some crazy mad man were to rise to power in Germany and Japan started secretly conspiring with him and building a nuclear Armada. Then in 5 years, Germany declared war on a bunch of European nations and Japan were to attack us and a duplicate of WW II ensued. The great question is, would Germany, Japan and Italy still be as potent against the rest of the world as they were in WW II. Also, with America's trade with these nations severed as well as any nations intimidated in to cutting ties with the US, would the USA still be as effective as we were in WW II. Of course, in answering, we should address the following questions, among others: * Which countries are likely to sever ties with which countries, should such a war break out. For instance, would China sever ties with the USA? Would they commit to the Axis? Would they do the opposite? *Who's side would Russia take? * Would Germany and Japan still have the resources to build and support their arsenal after severing trade with whoever they do? * Would Germany and Japan have the man power to be as effective. * What about training. This isn't the USA VS 3rd world thugs. We're talking about skilled professional soldiers slugging it out with one and other. How does the training and formitability of the different troops compare? * Weapons. Who has the most potent weapons in what ways? How well do the troops use them. Same with armor. * Which resources are most at risk and who has the best chance of destroying the other guys. For instance, bombing factories, who has the best chance (remember, today's missile and aviation technology makes us more vulnerable to over seas attack then in WW II) * Which nations are most likely to rise up against their government? Would Germany still be able to control it's people? Would WE still be as committed as we were in WW II? Would Italy do the same thing they did in WW II? My personal take, just from a general overview is that Germany has a greater chance of having it's dictator overthrown by the German people and that Japan would be every bit as potent at first but would be much quicker to surrender and get back to pre-war economic conditions then before. But beyond that, I think it would be pretty much a repeat. I think both Germany and Japan are every bit as capable of being as formidable as they were in WW II but I think that just like in WW II, the USA, once attacked, will surprise the world at how quick and furiously we'll respond and adapt to the war conditions. Now I'd like to hear your takes on this.

Personally, I would have gone with 6.8 SPC but that's just me. Last I checked, price was about the same and at least in the Sacramento area, I've had better luck finding 6.8 ammo. If .300 Blackout becomes a truly mainstream cartridge, I may consider it. I like the idea, just not as much as other things. It IS nice to see you trying out gas pistons. My only experience with a gas piston AR is the Addax ZK which is a state-of-the-art piston system so I am not sure how it compares to other piston systems but I have to say that for all the negative things I've heard about piston systems in the AR platform and their alleged effect on accuracy and stability, I have yet to see a shred of evidence to back that up. On top of that, they really do run very clean. The Addax runs outstandingly clean even compared to other gas piston rifles. From what I understand, the Addax ZK differs from other gas piston systems in metal grade, finish, piston tolerances (where piston meets bolt), bolt carrier (uses it's own design) and a pocket on the piston housing that extends dwell time and delays the movement of the action, so I would imagine a regular piston system would run just as clean. My ZK has over 200 rounds through it and I have yet to clean the gun since I've owned it simply because there's nothing to clean. And I mean nothing. Pistons DO add quite a bit of weight to the gun but not as bad as one might expect. They're allot like an "out of the box" AK-47 with synthetic furniture in terms of weight. Anyway, good luck and I look forward to shooting with you this summer.

Although I am still waiting on the receiver; in terms of what still needs to be bought, my own build is now down to the FFL fee for the receiver transfer, BCG, buffer, buffer spring and bullet button (California) to get the gun working. Then there's also the FSC compensator though the gun will obviously work without it. So basically, it's very close. There's a chance I'll be able to have it up and running next month. This build is rather unique as it uses a number of parts that I haven't seen many, if any info on and thought it might be interesting to put together a thread on the matter of using these parts. The key rare parts are as follows: Red-X X-Treme upper It's their fluted SS barrel version which is not sold on their website. I had to call and talk with them to find out about it. Red-X is a small company who seams to be plagued by their location which seams to get them mistaken for Blackthorne. Compared to DPMS, the only negatives I can see in their products is their finishes seam week and some of the parts still have burrs on them. Other then that, they seam pretty standard. Addax Tactical lower receiver. These are a brand new product and my order is from the second batch which is expected later this month or the beginning of April. I have yet to even see a photo of one but Lale Haddadian (company owner's sister) tells me that it's a .308 copy of their AR-15 lower receiver which tells me it's going to be a nearly perfect cross between the POF and Mega Arms lower receivers. Addax Tactical is well known for their quality and tailor made uppers. They are seen as a step up from PWS and Daniel Defense. Robobot, the AR-15 you held at my house had an Addax ZK upper on it. I also have an AR-15 butt kit for it which still needs a .308 buffer and spring. I also have a DPMS LPK and a Vltor Gunfighter charging handle for it. Ever since I got my Addax ZK, I've been in love with Vltor charging handles and; since they only cost $10 more then the basic stuff, I concluded to built all my ARs with Gunfighters, even the cheap ones. Plans are to initially install a DPMS bolt carrier group and replace it with fancier stuff over time. The same plans are for the entire Red-X upper, though I DO plan to clean up and refinish the Red-X upper receiver and all before the initial build is finished. Anyway, $ is tight but I am also turning 34 next month and Midway USA gives a big discount shortly before your B-Day so I may be able to pull off enough from the savings to actually get the gun up and running. It'll be a close call either way. Anyway, I am open to any new ideas, suggestions, etc.

I like that idea. I'll probably go that rout as well. But for right now, I am going to stick with a DPMS BCG despite the relatively minor difference in price. This is because I have chosen to go with an initially OK quality build just to get the gun running and replace it piece by piece with higher-end parts until I nearly have enough replaced parts to make a whole new gun and then either sell or trade the new build. Since the bolt carrier group is one of the more expensive parts, I am giving myself the motive to replace that over time as well.

WOW. Allot of different things came to their conclusion today. The extractor was installed and an ejector as well. Actually, the ejector is built in to the top of the magazine feed lips but one magazine with a properly crafted ejector is now done. So the cartridges extract and eject now. I also got a reliable trigger installed but the dis-connector is not yet working. FYI, I put a temporary block on the link so the slide will not cycle while the finger is on the trigger in order to prevent "full-auto status. Anyway, we're very close. It's down to the dis-connector and automatic slide release. An automatic slide release takes 8 hours to make on any given gun, so that's just a 1 day project. We're going to get a week of rain now so I doubt any progress will be made in that time, but I'll at least try to get you guys a picture of the gun with the trigger and extractor installed during a break in the rain if we get one.

Interesting but beyond my financial means at the moment and pretty much the remainder of the year.