gnatshooter

"Gravity doesn't exist. The world just sucks." -- University bar mens' room

Which JP brake was that? If it was the Cooley, they have it in two sizes. The large size is not 'legal' for most shooting competitions (the 1x3 rule), but does an excellent job at handling recoil and rise.

Robocop is right about the JP Enterprise "Cooley" brake--you'd want the large one--but be prepared, it will knock your hat off your head when you fire. The JP Enterprise "Tank" brake (JP Recoil Eliminator) could be better in that regard but one of their reps told me the shooter concussion is basically the same for both brakes.

LOL $3.49 for 100 plastic pennies. That's inflation!

Yeah I remember that one. 800 lbs is still pretty big for a hog.

Regular hogs will get that big. Don't know about wild ones though.

Amazing video. Some strange things -- are those shotgun pellets hittting bullets sideways? Also, was that a lug wrench they blew up with one round? A lot of those rounds seemed to be armor-piercing types.

Considering how (un)reliable my internet connection is, why would I want to trust the internet to allow me to fire my weapon? How'd you like to pull the trigger and get a "no route to server" error message instead? It's just one more thing to go wrong at the wrong moment. And seriously, what makes them think the military wants this tech? Should rifles really be vulnerable to enemy hackers? Do the US armed forces have a gun theft etc. kind of problem? Check out the officers and directors of the company at http://www.gdsi.co/page10.html An insurance salesman, some software people... my hoaxmeter was dinging against the peg, but with the crude & clunky website and wacky personnel, these people are just plain nutters with grandiose illusions. I'm not gonna worry.

Don't be a nugget!

I live out in the woods and have a gun/rifle for every need. I also have grandkids, and their parents have encouraged the kid's interest in firearms, but done nothing for respect. These kiddos are always going through my stuff for what looks like fun, and they play with it, it doesn't matter who it belongs to, and if it might go Bang! makes it of course a better toy. Kids are 6 and 8. So everything I have is condition 4? In other words, the kids can grab a gun, but finding the ammo for it is above your security clearance. Chambering a round is above top security clearance -- but still, I can spend time behind bars if kids get access to loaded weapons here -- chambered or not. I have a sister in law who has an incurable case of rabies and liberalism -- do I repeat myself -- and she totally has it in for me. She would be glad to see me locked up over guns. She already tried to lock me up once, over guns, thankfully it didn't work, but for sure she'll try again. After all, she comes to our house for family events like Easter and Thanksgiving, etc. and can see what guns I have for "armed insurrection" or whatever she wants to make up for the cops when she calls them the next time. So I keep only one sidearm in a hidden place that's loaded, nothing in the chamber, easy for me to get to, nobody else would think to go there. Kids naturally like guns anyway. Raising them with guns -- well, the best way wouldn't start with hard words or a spanking over grabbing something loaded without first checking it, or even, just grabbing someone else's gun. That's just plain wrong and massively impolite. For now, the kids understand how guns work, and they've found out that the guns I have are way too effing heavy to carry around to be any sort of fun. They could hold, handle and fire my go-to piece no problem. So it is conveniently hidden. If they find and fire it, well, my guess is, I can't reach http://forum.308ar.com from prison to tell my tale and it would be too late anyhow. They're not my kids. If they were, they'd be shooters and have some respect. But for now, guns are fun and mostly for solving problems with space aliens. Put all that together, and you get one picture: I am compromising the security of my house, my wife, and my grandchildren, because of what the law says about kids' access to loaded guns. Out of the collection, I have only one limited-access sidearm in case things go south. If I suggested firearm training for the kids, I could arrange that, because by son in law (the second one now) is pro-gun. Then maybe I could judge the value of keeping guns loaded. But my effing sister in law, if she encountered loaded guns, would have the County Sheriff and the NAAPC (her kids are black) and probably everything and everyone after me. She's my wife's sister, though, so that is not a fixable problem. A partial solution would be to merely carry that one pistol in a holster, at all times, in the house, especially during Easter and Christmas. Crawling up and down over presents and giant roast turkeys means I will of course 'print' and enflame the Evil Sister and so forth. But being pissed is her default attitude so maybe carrying at home during the holidays, with everythine else unloaded, is the safest all aroud.

Is there still room for your wallet somewhere?

I have to wonder if there are any State firearm laws on the books regarding carrying chambered. Seems like a topic the regulationists would want to legislate about.

Seems to my inexpert opinion that a crush washer designed to crush, such as washers made from crushable aluminum and copper, will continue to crush after torquing when they're being slammed by shooting. Leading you to replace the crushing washers. The farm boy in me says, steel washers, no crush, tight fit, tighten to spec and be careful of anything that's a casting.

I don't know where to find them, but ask a Liberal/progressive. They know all about "guns that kill people".

Yeah bore sighting is so that you don't blow an extra $50 on gettin thngs right. One advantage I have is a bridge over a creek, instant feedback on sight errors. No matter what the game warden says, he was here back in 1998 for brats

A judge on Wednesday upheld a Bay Area city’s ban on gun magazines that can hold more than 10 bullets, the second similar ruling from a federal court in less than a month. U.S. District Judge Ron Whyte in San Jose said Wednesday that Sunnyvale’s ban on high-capacity magazines doesn’t violate Second Amendment rights to own guns for self-defense. Sunnyvale’s ban goes into effect Thursday after 66 percent of voters approved it in November. Another federal judge last month upheld San Francisco’s high-capacity magazine ban on similar grounds. "it is rare that anyone will need to fire more than 10 rounds in self-defense," U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte of San Jose said in his ruling

Okay, so you're saying, you don't do this in your living room unless you're Bill Gates and can run the Winter Olympics in your living room. If you're zeroing for 100 yards do you need to see 100 yards through the bore?

Then there's the DPMS GenII, get a basic and work from there. I'd like to see some more reviews on the Gen II, but it's lookin' pretty good right now. Almost making me wish I'd waited for it instead of getting the LR308T. The weight savings themselves are phenomemal even though the extractor/ejector setup seems a bit geeky.

I like to set and forget, too. But when you start out with optional adjustments on everything (including cant), you gotta figure on doing all of it right, once.

Either you're good friends with the guy across the street or he is totally frightened of what you are up to and thinks you have many friends with even bigger guns.

Friends, My DPMS LR-308T is getting better all the time. I don't do projects on the scale of you guys, but I still pay attention to details and like shooting. I got a Dave Lauck rear notch sight and found the notch was too huge to shoot with, but a buddy of mine has a friend who's a machinist and made a new rear notch that's 0.060" wide. Would have been wasted money without that modification. Trouble is, mounting that sight with a decent eye relief left me with about 8" sight radius with a front sight mounted on the gas block. Well, I found the fix for that: a "competition barrel band". Which I found completely by accident. Well, everything is now assembled, and the "barrel band" LOL has a Lyman globe sight on top with a Lee Shaver reticle, the way life should be. Now's the time to shoot the rifle, all over again. And that brings me to the topic in the headline. I want to "bore"-sight this rifle. There's laser things and magnetic things, and none of them seem all that effective. Things are even more complicated since my new "barrel band" LOL for the front sight has its own adjustment for elevation. So I got adjustments everywhere. Well, I came across a mention of putting the rifle in a bench rest, looking down through the bore, and matching what you see in the bore with how your sights line up. No gadgets involved, and that was appealing. Also appealing was how "common sense" it is to look down the bore. Now one thing we got with AR-'style' rifles is the sights sit way high above the bore. And that's only one of the issues that bother me. Does anyone have advice on "bore" sighting through the bore? Thanks!

One thing we have to pay attention to is new laws regarding children being near loaded firearms. I grew up with loaded guns around the house, it was basically like having hammers and saws around, I think those days are gone. Just another way to outlaw guns.

.45 is naturally cholesterol-free.

Finally got around to using my MagLula loader to load a DPMS mag's worth of .308. There's only one moving part, and the loader device is damnably clever. Once I figured out how to use it (and there is a slight break-in) the whole loading process was fast, and smooth as silk. No jamming thumbs, pushing rounds around, follower wanting to go sideways, etc. I don't shoot a lot like a lot of the big shooters around here, but I'm glad I got the loader and wouldn't want to load mags any other way. Going to a range or elsewhere, I wouldn't leave home without it.

My dad was a US Marine. Or 'is' a US Marine, maybe. My dad passed away a few years ago, but some say, Marines don't die, they just regroup. Anyway, I guess I could wear the hat that says 'USMC' and maybe even claim that means I'm rooting for the home team. Or wear it in memory of my dad. I have the hat. I can't wear the hat. I've not been in the armed forces and ferdamsher never hit the beach at Iwo like he did. I can't wear that hat like my dad did, so I don't.