mineralman55

Yo mama is so fat, her blood type is Ragu.

No. Every one I've gotten was walnut-stocked. I've seen quite a few birch (beech?) stocks that were stained a pumpkin orange by the CMP. Functional but not very attractive.

Maybe there's a new avatar/nickname... "Baconslayer".

Our 3rd annual Kelly Kicking Cancer 5k is coming up on March 10. Our goal this year is 400 runners and beat last year's total of $27k. The research we fund is progressing well. I had a chance to meet with the president and CEO at Houston Methodist last fall. What a gracious man and all-around great guy! He gave me some insight into the research they're doing. A lot of it is "classified", but he did say they had cured some of the most aggressive cancers known to man in "hundreds of large mammals". He just couldn't be more specific. They are making progress. http://kellykickingcancer.org/events

Some places will, some won't. I've asked Aero repeatedly, but they won't check the headspace if you send them your bolt. They say they're too busy.

There are lots of great ideas here, but we will never find a solution to the problem of (thankfully infrequent) mass shootings until we as a society come to grips with reality and develop a backbone. When someone says "I'm gonna kill you" it isn't rhetoric. Believe it. But we don't. Raghead terrorist groups have stated time and again, "We will destroy you" but we don't believe it even when they stride into our midst and detonate a suicide vest, or plow a car into a crowd of people or plant a bomb at a concert. Criminals say "I'm going to become a school shooter" but we don't believe it at Columbine, Newtown or in Florida. These things don't happen in a vacuum, there are always signs. When people publicly say they're going to commit murder then GET THEM THE HELL OFF THE STREET! Ignoring the warning signs is only going to continue the problems. What could have happened, did.

You are now a Garand junkie! Congrats! I learned some gunsmithing tricks from a great M1/M14 smith. Don't take the gas cylinder off too often (maybe once a year if you shoot it a lot) but clean it thoroughly when you do. If it is loose, tap the splines as you mentioned to expand them. Before putting the gas cylinder back on, coat the splines with black magic marker. Then fit it. The wear marks should tell you where the high spots on the splines are.

I never filled mine with Quickrete, but not a bad idea. I have one sacrificial magazine I use just to hold a lower in a vice. Magazines are cheap.

Poor guy. Welcome from the swamps of LA.

This isn't the first time this issue has come up. The recoil system as the cause was already mentioned, but I suspect it is the extractor issue. There is something about these rifles that makes them especially sensitive to extractor design.

There's nothing like taking your children out to the range! Looks like a great day was had by all.

I have asked a couple of LGS that sell them for feedback, and it's all been favorable. Small sample of info, but looks good so far.

Why not? It was a good deal, and if your daughter asks for an AR15, you gonna turn her down? I thought I was done building these things, now I've got two more planned for the year. They just keep accumulating like magazines.

An AeroprecisionUSA AR15 arctic camo builder set. My daughter saw it, and said it was beautiful. Surprise Christmas present.

There are a lot of people who would disagree with Varget being too slow for the 308/7.62, myself included. Not my favorite for loading these, but it is still a good one. AA2520 and Match Rifle (possibly the same powder formulation) are considered the ball equivalent of Varget, and some of the best accuracy I've ever had came from these two.

/\ Does backing up over someone count as a doubletap?

Thanks Sketch. My two youngest girls asked for very specific pistols when in their teens. Both got them years apart at Christmas time, kinda of "Hey Ralphie, look behind the couch." scenario. Loved every second of it.

Those are some good men, even more so compared to the whiney NFL trash making headlines. Only the latest, Jet's Robbie Anderson arrested for DUI (100+MPH) then threatened the officer and threatened to rape the officer's wife. NFL could stop this in an instant, but it won't. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/jets-wr-robby-anderson-arrested-charges-florida-article-1.3766403

For the first time in ages, I not only got a chance to get out and shoot, I took my daughter with me. We took a Walther P22 and a Ruger P22. These were hours of fun. We went through 600 rounds, near and far targets. She's a very good shot, very disciplined, patient. The Ruger is solid, accurate with any ammo. The Walther is very picky and shows a marked preference for certain ammo. It didn't like Remington 40gr LRN standard velocity but really shined with CCI mini-mag 40gr copper plated. These are both DA, with incredibly long first pulls. In SA mode both are very light, clean trigger pulls. All my children love their pistols.

Good stuff? Not too Hollyweirded out?

You nailed it.

Welcome. Look, listen and learn. There's a lot of knowledge here.

In the 80s and 90s, the SF 49ers got every call. The refs just couldn't help themselves. It was sickening because you knew no matter what the 49ers were going to get a helping hand. Pats are that team now. Deliberate or not, they get the helping hand from the refs. Just another reason to hate the NFL.

Other than rifle-length gas systems do work. My first 308AR was with a rifle length gas system with an adjustable gas block. It worked fine. My second and third were both mid-length with adjustable gas blocks. They didn't function right at first, but it turned out to NOT be the gas system's fault. I screwed up (don't grease the BCG cam pin. it gums up the action . Lightly oil it.) After I fixed that, both mid lengths have run flawlessly with lots of reloads and commercial ammo. I'd take either mid-length rifle anytime I had to have something that absolutely had to work.

Who makes that?