USMCGrunt

Well, yeah, it's a bit complicated but when you combine a 50 round drum (when it worked) with one of the BMF activators and a nest of young gophers outside their hole, there were a lot of smiles and lots of giggling when we were kids. LOL

That's a Mitchell 50 round teardrop drum. I had one when I was a kid and it worked fine for a while but later on became problematic and totally unreliable. I relegated it to my pile of junk mags to include old RamLine 30 round single stack magazines (that were reliable when new but with use over the years, became problems as well) and both the Ramline 30 and 50 round double stack magazines. But reading this post, I got nostalgic for the days of my youth back in the 80's, dug that old Mitchell drum out and decided to see if better ammo would work. When I was a kid, we used Thunderbolts and whatever cheap ammo we could get for blasting gophers and I began to think that this may have been what caused the thing to be unreliable so I loaded it with 50 rounds of CCI Stingers and went outside to see if it would work. Nope, You MIGHT get off 2 rounds but generally it was a one-shot wonder. Might be that the belt took a set over the years as I don't remember it being "that" unreliable but yeah, back to the box of crappy magazines of my youth it shall return! I will be sticking with Ruger BX25 mags and if I want a 50 round magazine, I'll get the BX25-2 magazines. But thanks for the trip down mempry lane. :)

No point to let this thread die off too soon. LOL Here's mine:

Well, here's mine. :) I really never got into the suppressor line of things due to paperwork and ATF hoops to jump through but I went with an SASS in the event I ever do decide to get into them. So far I've been getting my best performance with Sierra 168 grain BTHP match bullets over 43.0 grains of IMR 4895, a CCI BR-2 match primer and a USGI case. It's been about 1 MOA but still not outshooting her main rival, an M1A National Match built into a USMC DMR clone. That rifle using the same components but with a 43.0 grain charge of BLC-2 (I need to color the tips on each round to ensure I don't mix them up) will go 3/4" groups any day and on a good day when I bring my A-game, I've gotten 1/2" groups at 100 meters. In any case, both rifles do an excellent job. The buck I took with my DMR in 2011 was 423 meters away and the buck I took just this last fall with my AR-10 SASS was a measly 375 meters. Yeah, I know but you got to take the shots you are presented with. In both cases though, it was a one-shot-dead-right-there shot so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

My "Hebrew Hammer" put this guy down this afternoon. I love my Tavor.....but I don't think the yotes do. LOL http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q236/USMCGruntUSAFCATM/Firearms/misc/F7B36A5C-CB9B-495C-A4E4-CFA3A8E03D85_zpsrdkn28w9.jpg[/IMG]

Now I'm going to play devils advocate here with this article and suggest that those signs (vest, beard, walking billboard shirt and hat) might be a benefit rather than opening you up to be the first target. Criminals I would think don't want to risk being shot any more than anyone else. If they are going to carry out say an armed robbery or mugging, would it be worth the risk to take on a target that looks like he can take care of himself and is likely carrying or would it be a better choice to wait until he leaves before robbing the 7-11 or maybe mug the hipster wearing a "Feel the Bern" shirt that is likely not carrying or even owns a gun? I base this theory along the same lines we do in the military with threatcons. When the threatcon goes up to say Bravo or Charlie, this is where you see M4s being carried out there on the gates and maybe an M-240 providing overwatch. It's an overt sign that yes, we know the threat is out there and we're possibly being targeted but it's also painfully obvious that we are prepared for an attack. I agree that the more discrete dress styles does provide a far better level of surprise in that the bad guy has no idea you're armed until it's too late for them as you are drawing. However, does a more provocative appearance provide a deterrence and a preference for attacking another target that does not appear to be carrying? I suppose it could be argued either way but you never know which way it will go, provocative styles can be avoided or targeted first or a more discrete style that has the element of surprise but could be seen as a softer target ripe for the picking.