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Yep. Pull up a seat and grab the popcorn. This is going to be a good show. Hopefully a few folks get slapped into their proper places.

As long as it works for what you want it to do. Thats what matters.

Ports to the side and top make sense. Direct the major muzzle blast to the sides while smaller ports on top eject gas upward reducing muzzle flip . Ports out the bottom make no sense at all.

Is it my imagination, or how the picture was taken, but the muzzle brake on the M5 looks as if the ports are up and down (vertical). They should be and are designed to be side to side (horizontal). If they are vertical the muzzle blast is directed up and down causing one heII of a blast into the sky and down into the bench or dirt if your prone. No such issue if ported side to side, other than foks next to you at the range may not like it as much.

Thats inconvenient!

Any Ace hardware store has them too.

Another good development. https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/01/30/rep-andrew-clyde-to-use-congressional-review-act-to-override-atf-stabilizer-brace-rule/

Sarcasm and snark are strong in this one!

Interesting read. https://gatdaily.com/goa-raises-alarms-that-atf-pistol-brace-amnesty-may-be-dangerous/?utm_source=GATdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1_28

By definition all chaps are assless.

A quick suggestion. A meatloaf pan works great as a bcg oil soaking tray.

If you have a numbered drill bit set (not fractions of inches), you have all you need to measure the gas port. Find the largest numbered bit that fits inside the gas port and the smallest that does not fit. Report those sizes back here.

This is too funny.

OMG!!! LOL

By my count the 1st four shots were more than likely justified. As you say he could still be going for his weapon as he was running away. The 5th through 9th not so much. With those the robber was either going down or with the 9th laying face down on the ground. He will definitely be looked at.

Yup, even after he was stabbed! The incident took place about 30 miles from my home town.

TOWN OF ELDERON, Wis. (WAOW) — A 22-year-old man is dead after it is believed he followed a 79-year-old man home from a local establishment in an armed robbery and home invasion attempt early Tuesday morning in Elderon, according to the Marathon County Sheriff's Office. Deputies from the Marathon County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched at approximately 2:37 am to a residence in the Town of Elderon for a report of a man who was assaulted and stabbed in the face as he exited his vehicle in his garage, the Sheriff's Office said. The release also stated: The (elderly) man was in possession of a firearm and fired one round that struck the (22-year-old) suspect prior to the firearm being wrestled away from him. The suspect suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and died while fleeing the scene. The suspect’s identity is being withheld pending family notification. The 79-year-old man sustained non-life-threatening injuries and is recovering at a local hospital. Based on the findings of the investigation, it is believed the suspect followed a 79-year-old man home from a local establishment and there is no threat to the community. Deputies from the Marathon County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched at approximately 2:37 am to a residence on Pike Lake Road in the Town of Elderon for a report of a man who was assaulted and stabbed as he exited his vehicle in his garage. The man was in possession of a firearm and fired one round that struck his assailant prior to the firearm being wrestled away from him. The assailant received a gunshot wound to the chest and died while fleeing the scene. The 79-year-old homeowner sustained non-life threatening injuries and is recovering at a local hospital. No additional information is expected in this case. As a result, this will be the final update on this incident pending no additional significant developments. ______________________________________________________________ Gets himself dead and out of the genepool. to the 79 year old! Get well soon!

It is. https://www.classicfirearms.com/hi-point-45acp-rifle-model-4595ts-black-semi-auto-plus-p-rated/ Yes its a High Point, and yes its not good looking, but I've spoken to a few people that own them and they all have said the one they have eats anything they put in it.

If that is a nickel boron BCG you'll like it, especially running supressed. The soot from supressed practically wipes right off.

@ARTrooper If you haven't already, take a look at this thread I started when I built my 5" barrel BLK. I did a velocity comparison in there of the 4 different length barrels I have access to.

@BrianK ARTrooper and I are both in Wisconsin. Thankfully it is still a free state compared to some. If you can legally possess a SBR or a supressor you can legally hunt with it. Only requirement is that the rifle be larger than .22 caliber. The deer I spoke of were taken with an 8" barrelled SBR with my form 1 can attached.

Back to bullets. All three of these came out of a Blackout. The two smaller ones were shot at 150 yards into gallon milk jugs of water. The third is the Maker I recovered from a deer, head on shot into chest and lodged in the stomach. L to R 130gr Speer Varmint 110 gr Barnes Tac-Tx 200 grain Maker

Comparing an archery broadhead to an expanding subsonic bullet is apples to oranges. An archery broadhead has 3 sometimes 4 razor sharp edges that follow a similarly razor sharp tip into an animal. The tip slices in then the blades continue the slicing as the entire arrow slowly rotates (arrow vanes produce a spin in flight). The resulting cut areas can be up to 2 inches across with an expandable head. The exit hole is also a gaping triangle with sharp clean edges An expanding sub even though its travelling roughly 3 times faster than the broadhead, plows into the deer (I've heard it, it sounds like someone slapping two leather mitts together). Once it hits, the petals open but unlike a broadhead there is no tip to lead the way and begin cutting and no mass of arrow pushing it from behind. It begins to tumble and the edges of the petals tear their way through. A clean cut from a razor blade will bleed a whole lot more than a slip of a hacksaw blade. One does more damage faster than the other. A blood trail is a matter of getting as much blood out of the body as possible in the shortest amount of time. Archery broadheads are razor sharp to do that as efficiently as possible at slow speeds. Expanding subs open in order to increase the bleeding potential over one that would pencil through. They still aren't as efficient a cutter compared to a broadhead and even though they may cut better than a supersonic bullet the collateral damage from hydrostatic shock isn't there to blow a giant exit hole open

I can't really speak to "eating all the way to the hole" because I haven't really looked too hard for the holes. But yes there is far less collateral damage to meat with the subs. Its also true that a non expanding bullet would be just as deadly in a CNS shot situation if placed perfectly. But most of the time perfect shots are hard to come by, you take what you can get. Plenty of people used 220gr Sierra Match Kings as sub hunting bullets before specialized expanding sub bullets were developed. If they hit bone the thought was that they would tumble on through for the kill. They did that, but if they didn't hit something to cause the tumble they would pencil right on through leaving just the 30 caliber hole in anything it touched. The deer would be dead if it was a vital hit, but it would be dead in the next township without leaving any trace of where it went. Put one of these Makers into a chest cavity and its going down a whole lot faster. The last deer I shot with one of these looked as if someone pushed a spinning 3/4" holesaw bit through the top of its heart. That was after it went through the spine and neck from the top down

@ARTrooperProbably the biggest factor in the lack of bloodtrail is the speed of the bullet. Your typical 30-06 bullet is 3/4 or slightly more in weight compared to a subsonic, but its going over twice as fast in the supersonic range. That mass plus the speed makes for a huge energy dump into the target. The energy dump is what makes the huge wound channel, turns the internals to mush and blows the huge exit hole out the other side. A subsonic bullet has the mass but not the speed. There is no comparable hydrostatic shock from a sub like you see when a normal rifle bullet hits ballistic gell. The huge wound cavity just isn't there. The Makers are designed to open at low speeds to increase wounding potential, but they shred through flesh and organs rather than slicing like a razor sharp broadhead, or blasting through like a super. The other factor I am sure is shot angle. With a tree stand shot you have a high entry and low exit. ( I sub hunt out of my bow stands and shots are 20-30 yards) That low exit makes a good drain hole for blood out of the chest, but the blood inside the chest has to get up to the level of the hole before it comes out. If a deer doesn't drop almost immediately it goes into overdrive and takes off. A double lung shot with a sub punches holes in them, but how far can a deer run barely breathing on pure adreniline before the blood in its chest gets to the exit hole? Damn far with no blood trail to show for it. (The one that went 100 yards)