planeflyer21

Has anyone looked at the other kids' votes?

Guess we don't need another safe…yet: http://www.storemoreguns.com/rifle-rods-info

Plenty of US servicemen saved by his weapon too, when their issued junk didn't work. When he was asked if he couldn't sleep because of all the people his weapon had killed, he said something like "I sleep. It's the politicians who fail and take people to war." That's where I lay the blame too.

Beans and snoring.

If they didn't have it on film, they'd all be dam liars!

That's the same reaction I had with Santa a couple of years older than that.

Dude did a great service to his nation, even when the government didn't treat him so well at times. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mikhail-kalashnikov-inventor-of-ak-47-dies-at-94/2013/12/23/624e40be-6bf5-11e3-b405-7e360f7e9fd2_story.html?wprss=rss_world

Sweet!

Heck yeah! It was unique…even among BMs. In my experience they were either single shot or spray-n-pray.

Ha!

Who knows what the Spaniards were thinking. The A and B models were 1st and 2nd basic variations. When they added a magazine disconnect safety…it became the BS. The lightweight aluminum frame the BK and the compacts were BKM and BM. I had a BM…once. Shot really well.

What?! They gave you something other than crayons?!?

Cool! That really isn't that bad a price, as the Rossi 62s are going for half that. Congrats!

This was an interesting read…lesson the penalty for treason because you expect to be put on trial? http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/60018?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=0ac1500821-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d8f503f036-0ac1500821-297700729

A major resource that is green(er) and is often overlooked is solar thermal (steam power), overshadowed by photovoltaic solar…which is far more inefficient but it has the blessing of the dunderheads that take lobbyist monies. Many places are starting to shun the PV solar for the solar steam power due to that. A place like this mill could be converted over pretty easily. As could a regular electric shop, just have the steam powering a generator on a closed system.

Someone else said he was probably in charge of interrogating spies…a couple of hours of that and you'd tell anything.

There was an article a couple of decades ago (wow…I can say that now) on muzzle brakes, which went to the nth degree on breaking down how they work. What took them a long time to explain in the article, was how the comp/brake was working before the bullet exited, utilizing the air in the barrel. When fired, the bullet compresses all the ambient air in the barrel in front of it, and this compressed air is what first exits the muzzle, hence the brake/comp. It was very in depth but yes you are right, by the time the harmonics really kick in the bullet is on its way.

Yup. Enjoy this one folks!

This is a good one. Especially helpful for insomnia.

Remember…free floating goes back to wood-and-steel days, when changes in humidity would apply unpredictable pressures against your rifle barrel changing the point of impact (POI). Someone got the great idea to bed the action (for a solid, immobile base) and free float the barrel, to avoid such interference. A second answer was to install bedding material in the whole stock, action seat and barrel channel, to prevent a warping stock from changing the contact points. Another less expensive and time consuming option was making laminated wood stocks. Then synthetics came along…but people are already entrenched in bedding actions with free floated barrels. "My paw did it, and his paw did it, so I'm going to do it too!" Going the other direction with barrel harmonics, the solution was to add rigidity. The old dudes knew this. Off the top of my head, the Winchester model 88 was designed to have the barrel contact the stock with a spot about 1" square, 12" back from the muzzle to effectively interrupt the start of the wave or "barrel whip". Another way to "rigidize" the barrel is to add a type of double clamp, like the people that put Har-Bars on their Mini-14s…many claim to take their Mini from a 4 or 5 MOA gun down to 1 MOA or less with such an addition (cutting the spaghetti strand barrel back in length is another thing the Mini crowd does). With the new Mini-14s, Ruger addressed the barrel whip by making a more rigid, thicker barrel, with a flange that butts up against the gas block that then tapers down to the older contour. This barrel-whip has been addressed a variety of other ways too. Tuneable muzzle devices, like the Browning BOSS, the QUE AMB, or the Ruger Mini-14 Target's "harmonic balancer" work great…if you use the same load every time and actually take the time to tune it in the first place. There is a plethora of other gadgets designed to tune out barrel vibrations, ranging from a hunk of rubber than slides over the barrel to complicated barrel weighting systems. Cool stuff. On the video above, they mention that they also think that the excessive moving of the barrel may not be the barrel on an AR but flex in the aluminum action…something to consider.

Oooo-kay…but we're talking about measuing tools here. <laughs>

<lmao> <laughs> Hey…I censored myself. I was going to suggest the compact model Star BM.

Are motorcycles allowed?

Maybe with one of these…not too good for the bend though.

Interesting dittie on barrel flex.