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that does look like she's about to give someone "the shocker"

seems like it would pretty easily hold 16 ARs, maybe a couple more

purpose, purpose, purpose. What do you intend to use the rifle for? that will make a huge difference in what the optimal parts choices should be.

I bought a Winchester from Tractor Supply on sale for $650 http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/winchesterreg%3B-gun-safe-24-gun-capacity?cm_vc=-10005 cheap, a half hour of fire resistance, decent size + interior.

I haven't eaten black bear in forever. Had a co-worker when I lived in NJ who hunted them. With a nice sharp cheddar, they made the best damn cheeseburgers on earth :)

everyone who has touched both say the S version's trigger is the way it ought to be. I hate 8-9lb triggers on a pistol personally

That's the "inert" mag. The idea is that for all intents and purposes it acts in the gun as a loaded mag, without actually being loaded. partially since the gun has a mag safety and empty mag slide lock, to pull the trigger release spring tension you have to have something in it.

Seems nice. The trigger pull is smooth and light, around 5lbs. really crisp and clean. Just got it over the weekend, lightly used. The seller was in his 60s, had bought it for his wife and it had enough recoil that it bothered her shoulder shooting it. $350 for it all, can barely get the gun alone with 1 magazine for that.

I've been wanting the ducati diavel carbon edition since it came out. my savings account has been waiting to fill with enough money to buy one....

its more fun just to take the ring off and take bets to see how long it is before your wife notices, and starts beating on you

but what if I want to shoot 1200 yards with it, but it needs to be light enough and short enough for my 9 year old to hike 30 miles through the mountains with it and 500 rounds of ammo? Oh and it needs to be totally silent too. And I have a $400 budget including optics.

accuracy, not the slightest, functionality as was mentioned is based on the machining which can be good or bad on a forged or billet. so in general, not the slightest real difference between the 2 other than looks.

welcome from Tampa

even worse though, I got to hold it and check it out, which makes me want it more :D

I wish I had the budget :)

yeah, its just that the ATF can be dicks, so if they see a non-sbr lower with no upper, and you have short barreled uppers stored in the same place, they probably could do something, even if you have an SBR lower. But more what I was wondering about was whether the ATF cares or has any sort of legal jurisdiction on you changing the caliber of the upper to something that doesn't match what the SBR was originally registered as, and whether it matters if you keep the upper that was the original caliber. So say you register as 5.56, then decide you want it to be a 300 blackout instead and build another upper, then sell the 5.56 upper.

I can't imagine. my oldest daughter just turned 18

my wife was having a conversation with some of the security guards at work about guns, and someone walking past joined in the conversation. He started on with the blah blah about how "where he used to live" he went to a range with a 3000yd range, and was shooting plates there, and wanted to know where one like that was in florida.....

functional difference - 0 - virtually all parts can be swapped if you do it correctly. you can with some machining mount an armalite upper on a DPMS lower or vice versa. you can put an armalite BCG into a DPMS upper, etc. There are WAY important issues with anything like this that you have to address. price difference - depends on what you want. overall the armalite usualy is slightly more expensive, and slightly more limited in custom 3rd party parts availability but it really depends on what you're looking for.

I was talking to someone, and although he's a class 3 dealer, I think he was full of poop. The conversation was about filling in the caliber block on the form 1. What he said was that after you filled in a particular caliber, although you could change the upper on the SBR to another caliber legally, you had to retain the original upper or at least some upper in the original caliber that went on the form 1. I think he's full of poop. its the lower that is registered, and having more than 1 upper in an SBR config with only having one lower that is SBR'd seems like a BATF arrest waiting to happen (assuming you have any full size ARs)

well, I think my car decided for me today, no new gun soon. Ran up$540 in repairs and scheduled maintenance, killing any gun budget soon.

I had picked up a Taurus TCP a couple months ago and don't like it at all. The trigger is gritty and probably 8-9 lbs

Yeah, I can control a 9mm fine. I guess a striker fired 9 is probably my best choice in the end, whether all metal or polymer on the bottom. I think the striker fired is really the best answer for me, as I don't really like DAO guns, which is part of why i'm inaccurate with the revolver in stress. Tend to have too much jerk on the trigger as its both a heavier pull as well as no clear sign of when the break point is. Pity, the Kahr MK9 Elite sold over the weekend. Still a K9 available locally for $500 though.

Whats everyone's thoughts on using a .22lr as a concealed carry defense gun? I'm struggling over what to get for a new pistol, as I've kind of gotten tired of carrying the revolver around. its heavy, only has 5 shots, and honestly in a stress fire situation every shot after the first is questionable, sometimes the first is too :D I have a walther p22 (well my wife does) and I like the overall feel, and even in a stress situation i'm highly accurate. palmetto has the camo version on clearance for $239 and I could definitely see myself carrying it, and feeling confident, other than the caliber. http://palmettostatearmory.com/index.php/daily-deals/walther-p22-black-slide-camo-frame.html What do you think? A well placed .22 shot is better than a poorly placed 357 magnum in my book.

I have pondered that as well. I actually have one, never shot, that is one of the cobray kits I put together. that thing is way too scary to carry, but a regular production one with a real safety isn't a terrible idea. I was looking at the Kahrs, as I don't have the budget for the Boberg. But the beretta nano felt nice too and was cheaper.