Rsquared

Timing is everything ain't it?

Sounds great. But unfortunately, no more AR's (new one's sold that is) in my socialist state of MD when October hits.

Just checked my current inventory. I've got one Rob. PM me an address and I'll send it out to you.

I think I've got a 51T brakeout comp in 5.56. Is that what Rob needs?

Wise move.

The smile does say it all. Looks like a great time.

12.5" Noveske Leonidas on an Armalite AR-10 platform. What's not to like? Though.............I'm a little Biased. :)) You guys have seen these before.

Shocker! All the XL's are sold out. Hmmmmmmmm.......2+2=? <laughs>

Another ten AR-10 20-round mags (they're back...at the Armalite website). And a couple AR-10 port-door kits. On another note. Finally got my single point slings (3 of them) from BDS Tactical that I ordered back in late March (or April....I forget).

Now that's funny...........and the truth too.

He ain't kidding around when it comes to the "check your bank account often" part krobi. Oh, and welcome to the board. Glad to see that you have taste and started with an Armalite. (just taking jabs at the other guys here). I......obviously approve. Dig around my man. You'll find all sorts of Shi.........stuff on all sorts of topics around here. Throw out questions as they come to you. Somebody around here will have the answer.

What was Stain doing on the subway?

Call me old-fashioned.....but I'm perfectly content with my Hogue's. They just feel right in my hands. (ok....ok....let the jokes fly)

Now that's funny!

No reason to try and show off dude. We all do. <laughs>

What kind of trigger are you running on that Rob? It looks beefier than my factory 220 trigger.

Point taken J. Didn't think of that.

Amen to that!

OK ladies...........update time. I recently received my tax stamps back from the top-cops at DOJ (BATFE) for my SBR build. I started piecing together the upper yesterday . I mean, c'mon.....is it any better to assemble rifles on memorial day? Anyway.....comedy of errors. From little things like the port door rod being the long AR-10T type (instead of the standard length). Didn't find that out (because I'm stupid......and on my 10th beer.....I think) until I was torqueing down the barrel nut. Yep....and bending the rod. No worry though....just threw that one to the side. I'll straighten it later. Other than that, the only thing that tried to fight me was the barrel pin for the Noveske gas block. Once again......probably cause of that 10th beer thing. But HEY! It's Memorial day for cryin out loud. Between that....and screwing the AAC comp on and off about 50 times (it seemed) to time it right......things came out pretty good. I'll have pictures to follow soon. I just sent the lowers out to be engraved today. So I should get them back in a couple of weeks. Orion Arms is showing a 2 to 3 week turn around time. And then this baby can be officially assembled (all legal and everything). Once that's done.....I'll do some range time with it and report back to you all. We're getting close to the 1 year mark since I started gathering parts and processing the paperwork for this little bad-ass machine. Needless to say.........I'm kinda excited about it. All I need parts-wise, is a heavy buffer from our beloved sponsor at heavybuffers.com and I'll be complete. That will be ordered shortly. More to follow................................................

A couple of AR-10 receiver extension tubes from Armalite, and also 3 of their Tac-2 stage triggers. HEY!!....................I like their 2 stage triggers alright? Besides.......how else can I be the Armalite pusher if I don't buy their parts, huh? Oh.....also have a couple of their M-15 LPK's (w/single stage trigger) coming on a separate order.

Not an assault weapon. Hmmmmm Tell that to the Germans who tried to defend against the Normandy invasion. They might have a slightly different opinion. Yep.......definitely not an assault weapon.

I'm a fan of those Raptors. I've got four of them already. Between them and the PRI gas-busters.....that's pretty much what I'm usuing these days.

I figured that I'd re-post this. It was sent to me by (believe it or not) one of the (handful) pro 2A congressmen in my state. This was from President Reagan's speech made at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in 1986. It's talks like these by President's, that really get across to you that they are extremely proud to be American. At they truly do, love this great country of ours. Mr. President........it's all yours....................................................... Today is the day we put aside to remember fallen heroes and to pray that no heroes will ever have to die for us again. It’s a day of thanks for the valor of others, a day to remember the splendor of America and those of her children who rest in this cemetery and others. It’s a day to be with the family and remember. I was thinking this morning that across the country children and their parents will be going to the town parade and the young ones will sit on the sidewalks and wave their flags as the band goes by. Later, maybe, they’ll have a cookout or a day at the beach. And that’s good, because today is a day to be with the family and to remember. Arlington, this place of so many memories, is a fitting place for some remembering. So many wonderful men and women rest here, men and women who led colorful, vivid, and passionate lives. There are the greats of the military: Bull Halsey and the Admirals Leahy, father and son; Black Jack Pershing; and the GI’s general, Omar Bradley. Great men all, military men. But there are others here known for other things. Here in Arlington rests a sharecropper’s son who became a hero to a lonely people. Joe Louis came from nowhere, but he knew how to fight. And he galvanized a nation in the days after Pearl Harbor when he put on the uniform of his country and said, “I know we’ll win because we’re on God’s side.” Audie Murphy is here, Audie Murphy of the wild, wild courage. For what else would you call it when a man bounds to the top of a disabled tank, stops an enemy advance, saves lives, and rallies his men, and all of it single-handedly. When he radioed for artillery support and was asked how close the enemy was to his position, he said, “Wait a minute and I’ll let you speak to them.” [Laughter] Michael Smith is here, and Dick Scobee, both of the space shuttle Challenger. Their courage wasn’t wild, but thoughtful, the mature and measured courage of career professionals who took prudent risks for great reward—in their case, to advance the sum total of knowledge in the world. They’re only the latest to rest here; they join other great explorers with names like Grissom and Chaffee. Oliver Wendell Holmes is here, the great jurist and fighter for the right. A poet searching for an image of true majesty could not rest until he seized on “Holmes dissenting in a sordid age.” Young Holmes served in the Civil War. He might have been thinking of the crosses and stars of Arlington when he wrote: “At the grave of a hero we end, not with sorrow at the inevitable loss, but with the contagion of his courage; and with a kind of desperate joy we go back to the fight.” All of these men were different, but they shared this in common: They loved America very much. There was nothing they wouldn’t do for her. And they loved with the sureness of the young. It’s hard not to think of the young in a place like this, for it’s the young who do the fighting and dying when a peace fails and a war begins. Not far from here is the statue of the three servicemen—the three fighting boys of Vietnam. It, too, has majesty and more. Perhaps you’ve seen it—three rough boys walking together, looking ahead with a steady gaze. There’s something wounded about them, a kind of resigned toughness. But there’s an unexpected tenderness, too. At first you don’t really notice, but then you see it. The three are touching each other, as if they’re supporting each other, helping each other on. I know that many veterans of Vietnam will gather today, some of them perhaps by the wall. And they’re still helping each other on. They were quite a group, the boys of Vietnam—boys who fought a terrible and vicious war without enough support from home, boys who were dodging bullets while we debated the efficacy of the battle. It was often our poor who fought in that war; it was the unpampered boys of the working class who picked up the rifles and went on the march. They learned not to rely on us; they learned to rely on each other. And they were special in another way: They chose to be faithful. They chose to reject the fashionable skepticism of their time. They chose to believe and answer the call of duty. They had the wild, wild courage of youth. They seized certainty from the heart of an ambivalent age; they stood for something. And we owe them something, those boys. We owe them first a promise: That just as they did not forget their missing comrades, neither, ever, will we. And there are other promises. We must always remember that peace is a fragile thing that needs constant vigilance. We owe them a promise to look at the world with a steady gaze and, perhaps, a resigned toughness, knowing that we have adversaries in the world and challenges and the only way to meet them and maintain the peace is by staying strong. That, of course, is the lesson of this century, a lesson learned in the Sudetenland, in Poland, in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia, in Cambodia. If we really care about peace, we must stay strong. If we really care about peace, we must, through our strength, demonstrate our unwillingness to accept an ending of the peace. We must be strong enough to create peace where it does not exist and strong enough to protect it where it does. That’s the lesson of this century and, I think, of this day. And that’s all I wanted to say. The rest of my contribution is to leave this great place to its peace, a peace it has earned. Thank all of you, and God bless you, and have a day full of memories.

Yep. They're closed Sunday and Monday (for the holiday) Mark Paxton 2 A Sales 240-456-0060