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Thanks! I ordered the 7 round mag. Even with shipping is cheaper than the same one at midwayusa (31.99) Ever notice the odd groves on the slide? Was told by S&W that they are there to slow down the slide... then they said another time it's to help slow down feeding the bullet into battery. Not on any of my SIG Sauer pistols, that's for sure.

Nice looking rig MIneralman55 !! I tried a Kydex only holster for my Sig P320 in .45 but it was putting too much pressure on my hip (close to 64 ) and Vedder took it back and exchanged it for a Comfort Tuck for me and that bit of leather helps out a lot. I have carried this Shield .45 in a CrossBreed Holster that I have for my Taurus Millennium GII 9mm and fits pretty darn nice. Malig8r, I used an emery board and lightly sanded down some of the stippling on my Shield 45. It still have plenty of grip, but I like it a lot better that way. Really nice pistol and decent accuracy for such a light weight short barrel 45.

I've already got some 9mm SIGs, and one .45 P320, but that SIG is quite a bit to pack around a while... so... I bought a S&W Shield from Cabela's last Wed. Shoots pretty well, but had to tap the front sight left as the group kept hitting left. Trigger felt a bit "gritty" at first, but managed to work that out. That trigger transfer bar, the stamped one that pushes also the striker block out of the way... funny looking thing, and looks like simple stamped metal. Little bird special... cheap cheap cheap. but serves what it is supposed to do. I really like the weight of the pistol for carry though. Loaded up with SIG Sauer V-Crown 200 gr. I am wondering how well my Winchester Ranger T 230 gr will do in such a short barrel? I got in on the rebate MM and also had a $50 gift card from Christmas... 2015! and used that, along with a local price match that got the initial price down to $380.10. :)

I called 2 gunsmiths this afternoon and asked them about the barrel nut and the size of the barrel nut as it seemed smaller than I had figured. The guy at Holland (Graaschaff Hardware) told me it was ok, just put blue locktite on it. Called the gun guy at On Target, Don Seguine, right after that and asked him that as well, about the odd size nut and being loose. He told me put blue locktite on it. I've never put locktite on a barrel nut before since I thought it was not needed if you torque it down to specs. Kind of news to me as well. As I now understand from you all that the barrel nut should never have locktite on it. Duly noted, and thanks! The gas block had some locktite on the barrel that was put on by DPMS, so not sure that is a great idea. Doesn't look like it would do much good there as it is a flat surface against a flat surface.

Congratulations to you and your family! He is luck to live in a home well protected. <thumbsup>

Welcome from Michigan!

FWIW, I concur that is a good start. I bought a used DPMS LR308 and was getting good, bad and indifferent targets. I bought another barrel from Brownell's and when I took off the gas block and gas tube I thought I'd see how this new PRI barrel Nut Wrench (for DPMS/KAC) would work. Well, imagine my surprise when not only doesn't it work on this particular nut, but the barrel nut was not even remotely tight. I unscrewed it with my fingers. No locktite on it either. It would probalby explain why my groups seemed to tighten up when I had shot a few groups. The barrel was probably getting hot, and getting just a bit tighter on that barrel nut. Odd thing is that this new DPMS/KAC Barrel Nut Wrench I got from MidwayUSA would not work at all. I was at the winery using their vise to hold the upper to install a new barrel and had to drive home and get my old "multi-tool" that had a AR15 style wrench on the one end. As Matt had said, I've also heard about this happening on a DPMS, and it can change the groups considerably.

Welcome from Michigan!

In high school, and after I wrote some poetry, and my favorite poet was Robert Frost. I had the nickname on amazon.com as Frost quite some time before my wife got me interested in the NCIS TV program that had Leroy Jethro Gibbs as the main character. It was just a name to use and remember at the time. I have a few avatars I have used and the one I have now is called the "Deathly Hallows" emblem from the movie series (and book) of Harry Potter. The triangle represent the "cloak of invisibilithy" the round circle in the triangle represents the "resurrection stone", and the vertical line up the center represents the "elder wand". It was a symbol that came out in the last 2 movies and was one I found intriguing. Harry had, at one time, both the cloak of invisibility and the resurrection stone, but Voldemort, the leader of the Death Eaters had the Elder Wand. It was quite an intriquing series of movies, starting out pretty innocent with the first movie and each successive movie seemed to get a bit darker, until the last of the series which was very dark.

Hard to see the bastards around here with all the trees and brush and such. Miss the openess of Nebr. What got the chickens mostly was either raccoons or possums and probably both. Last chicken killed was when we got home from town and noticed feathers inside the fenced chicken coop and found a small gap under the fence by the pine tree. Then, the trail led to a little hole that was under the quonset. Not much but a possum could have gotten under there, but the chicken's head was chewed mostly off.. and that ended the keeping of chickens. We didn't have a lot anyway as we gave away about 12 or so to a friend of mine at work, and kept 2 for ourselves. You can get overloaded with eggs pretty quick. Been around a lot in the sandhills of Nebraska. Thedford, Mullen, Hyannis. You can drive for miles on some of those rural roads and never see a house 1 near the road, just a mail box and a dirt trail that leads a few miles back to the homstead there. Killing the coyote was a lkucky shot as he was stopped to take a poop and I shot and he started spinning around. Must have hit him in the ass and he was trying to figure out what was burnin his ass. Second shot I just shot "at" him and he disappeared from the view of the scope. Second shot connected in the ribs and that was the end. We hear a lot of coyotes around here in the evening, and we have a neighbor that likes to hunt them with calls and uses a shotgun. I've never been able to call a coyote even once.

Yep, fuk 'em an the mule he rode in on.... Where's the key to that D9 cat??

At lunch I took a search on Google of Ken Rockwell Scam? My goodness!! Last time I was at his web site I was seeking information ont he Nikon D5200 camera, which I was interested in buying. It all seemed good and "genuine", so I kept his info "links" page in my favorites, thinking the least I could do is to link to amzon through him so he could get credit. What I read really surprised me. With something like that you don't know if it's real of just spoofing you and a joke. Problem is any misinformation is never corrected and that is worse than no information. Here, though, is a good link to Amazon's Assocate website program. https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ At least that one part of his website is truthful.

The reason I posted the link to his site was to show that he is getting money from those that find his information useful and if they buy from "those" links, Amazon.com one of them, then he gets paid. Point of what I was making is that if he can make money from just having a link on his web site to Amazon.com, they the owner, here at the 308AR Forum site should be able to do the same thing. Since imshure had started a thread about things shooting related you can get on amazon.com I thought he might benefit from members using a direct link from here to Amazon.com and get some benefit. How Ken Rockewell makes money is not the important part of the post, what is important, is that if he can make money with those links, then why could not this site do the same concept?

We've emailed back and forth a couple of times, but I always considered him a friend since he seemed sincere in his information. I have looked at his ideas and photography tips and they made sense to me, especially that about correcting perspective with Adobe Photoshop. His info appeared, at least to me, to be correct and accurate.

Building them is not hard at all, even the piston thing is a relative piece of cake. I think anyone that is not been shooting several years as a steady diet with an AR and tinkering with them, would be considered new. It was new to me about the crud under the flash hider. Since I put the flash hider on the 6.8 SPC I built I've never taken it off. Shot it, cleaned it, but never messed with the muzzle. I don't even have one of those little star things that one uses to clean the area where the lugs lock up. Yes, I've built it, shot it and reload for it, but obviously don't quite understand the rifle to it's fullest, or else why would I ask about carbon crud, or barrel harmonics? I've shot a lot of rifles and reloaded off and on for many years. All my rifles had blued barrels, no muzzle device and just followed friend suggestions and what was written in the book in the reloading manual for reloading. Shooting is not that hard, I try not to flinch and concentrate only on the target I see in the scope. Eyes are not as good as they used to be for iron sights. .308LIteHunter, if I were to send you the ingredient list for making a 5 gallon batch of wine and complete instructions you should be able to make a decent wine following those directions and ingredient list, right? I'm sure it would turn out a pretty decent wine, but when you got done that would not mean you were a wine expert or enologist, even though you made a very good wine. Knowing how to handle the wine in the process and why it does what it does, and how to understand a problem if one arose would be in the longer term experience and knowledge. I would think the same thing applies to the AR-15 and variants as well as the .308 AR rifles and all their variances and individuality. I read quite a bit in magazines, read online, looks at forums and that does not make me an expert, just interested. It shouldn't be a sin to be interested in this. Killing a coyote from a rifle I built is no great feat, as I'm sure there are thousands out there that have killed coyotes, hogs, deer and other critters with rifles they have built, customized and so on. I'm still learning. I find it fascinating that you can shoot a rifle with a hole in the barrel that lets gas out of the barrel and either work a piston as in some rifles like AK style, or AR styles with certain set ups, or direct that high pressure gas to a different area of the rifle and make it work to not only turn the bolt, but to send the bolt and carrier quickly to the rear and eject the spent cartridge. What I also find interesting is that even though you use (divert) some of the gas that the accuracy still holds as well as it does. A single shot rifle, or bolt action has the advantage of holding and using all the available gas pressure to shoot the bullet, so there is less chance for variances in the set of shots that make up the group on a target.