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Friends, I am offering for sale a Trijicon sight that fits a Picatinny rail on your rifle of choice. It's model RX30A-51, 42mm Reflex, with a 6.5 MOA Amber Dot Reticle. It has a flattop mount, so you don't need any other hardware to run with it. I'd say its main feature is that it's SHTF-compatible. No batteries are involved. It gathers available light to produce it's 'sight dot' and it has a tritium-powered backup dot for low/no light. I've checked it out and it works. The optic has a pretty generous field of view. I personally have seven rounds through this, which was enough to zero the unit at 50 yards. It is easily the easiest sight to zero that I've ever zeroed. The clicks are sweet & neat. One click per inch at 100 meters, just as claimed in the little book, right on. Why am I selling this sight? Because after all my messing around with different things, I've discovered that only iron sights work for me, and basically, the Partridge standard. You'll see from the pix that you get the original box and foam cushioning, along with the original documentation, a warranty registration card, an Allen wrench for adjusting the sight, and a pen for cleaning the optic. This sight normally retails for between $569.50 and $579.70. I'll sell this unit for $450.00, and this offer is only for members of this forum. I'll cover postage from this end. I'll also set up parcel tracking so you can watch the parcel's progress. Monetary movement will be done via PayPal. Sorry, I won't ship this sight outside the United States, this is a regulated item and export is prohibited. Click on the thumbnails for a bigger picture.

Marine gets death threats after confronting Texas assault rifle activists on public street - Raw Story - June 2, 2014 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/02/marine-gets-death-threats-after-confronting-texas-assault-rifle-activists-on-public-street/ [excerpts] A Marine veteran in Texas was forced to change his phone number and is now carrying a gun with him at all times after a confrontation with members of a gun-rights group on a public street led to Internet death threats. James Henry told KDFW that he had decided to film members of Open Carry Tarrant County protesting with assault-style rifles for his production company over the Memorial Day weekend. Henry said that things got heated, and the men eventually followed him back to his vehicle.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) just recently issued a memo on the topic of open-carry long arms: Click on the link for the full article, that also discusses firearms with --Good Citizens and Good Neighbors: The Gun Owners' Role - National Rifle Association - May 30, 2014 http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2014/5/good-citizens-and-good-neighbors-the-gun-owners-role.aspx [excerpts] As gun owners, whether or not our decisions are dictated by the law, we are still accountable for them. And we owe it to each other to act as checks on bad behavior before the legal system steps in and does it for us. If we exercise poor judgment, our decisions will have consequences. ...just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done. In each case, gun owners would do well to consider the effect their behavior has on others, whether fellow gun owners or not. Yet while unlicensed open carry of long guns is also typically legal in most places, it is a rare sight to see someone sidle up next to you in line for lunch with a 7.62 rifle slung across his chest, much less a whole gaggle of folks descending on the same public venue with similar arms. Let's not mince words, not only is it rare, it's downright weird and certainly not a practical way to go normally about your business while being prepared to defend yourself. To those who are not acquainted with the dubious practice of using public displays of firearms as a means to draw attention to oneself or one's cause, it can be downright scary. It makes folks who might normally be perfectly open-minded about firearms feel uncomfortable and question the motives of pro-gun advocates.

Current street price through the Credit Union 'swap sheet' is $55 per brick for .22lr. That price has been solid for about a year now. I'd guess a lot of people hoping to make massive profits over hoarding .22lr are going to come up behind the game.

Gotta wonder if this solves a mystery. There's a GSG that sells amazing quantities of miscellaneous gun parts on Amazon.com.

Looks like the soldier's dad is part of this. And the thing is getting some pretty strong commentary: AWOL Traitor Traded for Taliban Terrorists: “In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful,’’ AWOL soldier’s dad said in Arabic - Pamela Geller (blog) - May 31, 2014 http://pamelageller.com/2014/05/name-god-gracious-merciful-bergdahl-said-arabic.html/

I am offering for sale one very lightly, slightly used stock/standard DPMS "rifle" buffer from a factory model LR-308T. Maybe 50 rounds through it. Here's a pic of the buffer, with a .308 Win cartridge next to it for scale. Click on the thumbnail pic for a full-size pic: You can get the standard .308 buffer from DPMS for $29.95. You can also buy one at Midway for a bit less. I'm asking $15. DPMS and Midway would charge you for shipping, I won't. And I'll make sure tracking via the US Post Office is enabled so you can watch the parcel's progress. This buffer is made for the standard, non-folding non-collapsing DPMS buttstock and its standard buffer tube. Why would you want this buffer, especially since everyone recommends the Slash Heavy Buffer? Well, one might be that you're comfortable with a standard buffer and want to save money on your build. There might be another reason, which someone here might know about.

Sold! To a member of this excellent forum.

Very cool, thanks! I've wondered about that for a long time. Is this the sort of thing people are talking about when they say "aircraft" aluminum? As 98Z5V was kind enough to point out, it will be awhile before I know everything.

I'm still learning, my very good friend.

These Are the 5 Guantanamo Detainees Being Released in Exchange for Sgt. Bergdahl - Time - May 31, 2014 http://time.com/2803988/guantanamo-detainees-bergdahl/

I'm not sure what you are saying. Is it bad that one of ours is worth five of them? On the battlefield, it might be that one of us is worth 12 of them.

What we know is that we exchanged 5 terrorists for 1 US soldier. What we don't know is what else they traded as part of the deal . We could have given them all sorts of other things in addition to the five. Heck, the US government (Obama) will not disclose the list of countries currently considered to be at war with the US. The US has never understood how to deal with these Middle-Eastern people, and for that reason, has screwed up every time they've tried to intervene in the Middle East. The US government and its paper-shufflers and cheerleaders simply do not understand the fact that that these people really, truly, are not like us. They are not high-school dropouts who couldn't find a job with Burger Magnate. Poverty does not drive them to murder. Fact is, they really do not want to live to be old. They really want to kill all Jews and Christians and die in the process. And, with the two Moslem sects, each of them have the obligation to kill each other.

That's a good point, besides being a good point by itself. But you have to wonder, who did not get that BB gun, and then that pellet rifle, and then that .22... or at least, step into that progression somewhere as a child. Are there lots of guys that didn't start shooting BBs at the age of 5 and just, as adults, walked straight into shooting the big stuff?

Yeah, I can see that. They use copper for heat sinks on high-end computers where aluminum can't transfer heat fast enough. Even so, aluminum is known for being pretty soft, too. This makes me wonder if the aluminum gun parts out there aren't actually alloys. When they say "crafted from aircraft aluminum" that's probably not a claim that the gun is made from recycled airplanes. If an alloy is a permissible solution to the problem of ductile metals, then maybe brass or bronze forearms/handguards/floaters should be eligible for consideration. Although, weight for weight, even aluminum alloys might still come out ahead. Edit: As we've drifted on this topic into questions of heat management, it might be good to look at: JP Enterprises Thermal Dissipator™ - http://www.jprifles.com/1.4.5_hs.php There's also a discussion of the JP unit at http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=129410 P.S. If we stick to the free-float issue, here's the research paper that I've found to be best about the mechanics of barrel movement and harmonics: Barrel Tuner Analysis: Esten's 6PPC Rifle With and Without a Muzzle Tuner: FEA (Finite Element Analysis) compared to Test Data: Rifle Barrel Dynamic Pressure Analysis http://www.varmintal.com/aeste.htm Varmint Al has likely done more quantitative analysis of firearms, barrels and bullets than anyone else.

Copper is more effective than aluminum at moving heat -- so I gotta wonder if there are any copper handguards/float tubes out there. It may not conduct well enough to make up for the heavier weight with the copper, though.

It's now official, a fact established by agreement on both sides of the "War on Terror": one American soldier is worth five Taliban. At least.

Is that the stock hammer on that 1911-22? If so, they've changed things...

This is copy and paste from MS word. It works for me.

Word is nearly the same as a web page, depending on the formatting of the document you are pasting from. And it's really getting tiring hearing your personal accusations. Beat on someone else.

The rear sight is a bit far forward, but not as far as you might think. On standard "old-style" weapons of old configuration, the sight is 18 inches forward of the back of the buttstock -- where you'd measure the "length of pull" from. Moving the rear sight back does, indeed, increase sight radius. However, I've only heard that from people using peep sights. I've made a sincere attempt to use peepers, and I can't. I've used front blade/rear notch ever since I got my BB gun when I was 5 years old. I've gotten a few rifles and pistols since then, and they use the front blade/rear leaf, too. It's like for some reason the AR pattern has to use peep sights. Sorry, I gotta have what I like. I'm still in the process of sighting the rifle in, so it's a bit early to tell if I'm gaining or losing accuracy with the Competition Barrel Band. I may never know. According to standard doctrine, hanging a bit of weight on the muzzle, any weight of any sort for any purpose, improves barrel dynamics and 'tune'. My experiments with .22lr suggest this is true. I'm not sure that anything I've learned anything by my strange modifications to Ruger 10/22s can really apply to larger calibers etc., except in the most general terms. <deleted text>

I've had that problem before, and the problem is, rather unfortunately, what software companies call "intelligent" copy and paste. What that means is that, when you copy and paste, you are moving boatloads of HTML and other things that can totally trash your attempt at copy-paste. The software companies think you want to copy all the pretty and weird stuff from one place to another, even if it doesn't work. So what you want to do is copy & paste into a hard text editor, which refuses cute special-effects crapola, and then, copy and paste from that text editor to the web page you're working on. I recommend TextMorph for this use, which is freeware. There are other good hard text editors out there. I've relied on TextMorph for over a decade for reliably "cleaning" text movements, and tried some others. TextMorph hides nicely on a corner of the screen where all I do is cut & paste, which is nice, and that's where I go when I move text from anywhere to anywhere else.

The weird thing about these results is that the CNN watchers are leftist/liberal. I am not suddenly going to believe the leftists/liberals have grown some brain cells. It might well be, though, that CNN has a substantial audience among normal people.

Huh. And here, I was thinking that problems like this were solved by the firearm(s) becoming involved in a tragic boating incident which made it impossible to find them.

There's a few problems with this idea, which basically explains why the fence isn't being done. The Powers That Be want a number of things. Three of these are: abundant, cheap labor; a pool of consumers as big as possible, and hordes of people who vote Democrat but are not required to prove citizenship or even identity. A tight border would not serve these needs very well.