BrianK

I must be going nuts! I responded to this thread twice. Could someone remove my response above this post? Thanks.

This has some dust on it but OK... No matter the use I'm a trigger snob and I admit it. I have far too many rounds fired with excellent triggers to suffer a less than really good trigger. If the trigger is less than superb it's the first thing I will change on a new firearm. Can a trigger be too light? Yes. I have a trigger in an Encore that is wayyyy too light. But I know to do as I always do and don't put my finger on it until I want to discharge it. I need to send it back to have it made a bit heavier. The weight that sets it off has to be measured in ounces but I just never checked it. I should. On my competition guns I must have a crisp light trigger with a short reset. I get to the point with them that I know exactly when they will break. Every once in awhile I'll put a laser on my PCC for USPSA and I had one gent come up to me and state, "The dot moves all over never settling down and I have no idea how you do it, but there's the proof.". He indicated my targets that had all fast A zone hits. The key is knowing when the gun will discharge and just being on target at that moment. I don't even see the movement that he saw, I'm moving too fast to see it. Like you 98Z I see parallels between competition and a home invasion and why would I have one set up for competition and another lesser trigger for when lives are in the balance? That having been written I do have a heavier trigger in my EDC handgun than in my comp' handgun. I don't know why, I think I succumbed to the thoughts of others about it. But it's still a really good trigger. I did put a trigger on my HD AR handgun that has a really superb trigger and gives a heavier than spec' hammer strike. I haven't had a light primer strike in decades. The last was on a S&W revolver that had tension removed from the hammer spring, but I want to make sure hence that trigger (Hiperfire Genesis).

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The DIs impressed upon me the importance of a clean M16. I'll probably never be able to have a filthy weapon ever again. Due to that training I always clean inside the BCG. FWIW, Blems of the CAT tool are available for a substantial price reduction. As one of the reviews stated, or what I got from it, it's to be used, not to be looked at.

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And another thing....! 😊 Just on a practical level. NJ enacted a ban on "high capacity" mags. They could be taken out of state or turned in to the state police. Last I heard the number turned in to the cops was really easy to remember... zero. NY enacted some sort of law against "assault rifles" or some such and they figure 5% got turned in. I figure if there was a ban nationwide the feds would get the middle finger salute, not by all, but by most. On top of that it would be tossed out by SCOTUS but even if it wasn't there is always the middle finger and Molon Labe. I suspect they'd find it unenforceable with lots of turn over of the enforcers, esp' when they and their families are living in the general population. That doesn't mean they won't try it just to make life miserable and give themselves pats on the back.

It's about power and the left will do anything, and I do mean anything to attain it. Throughout history it has always been the left that has mass murdered and destroyed. Of course they want us to believe it's us that do it but that's just another lie for the folks with mush for brains to believe. That's why they make the claim that the nazis were from the right. It's also why I capitalized "SOCIALISTS" in my post above when I mentioned them. They were from the left. Communism, socialism, totalitarians, they're all from the left. Schools don't teach what the lone right and left actually means. Left is an absence of freedom and to the right is 100% freedom. It's not the left and right aisle in Congress as some would have us believe though that delineation does also exist. So what will the left do? Don't believe your lying eyes, those were peaceful demonstrations when the left was burning Seattle and other cities 2 years ago. They will absolutely destroy the USA and take their chances on reshuffling the deck in the hope that they will get more power. They'll abandon civilians in Afghanistan and then claim they had no choice or ignore the complaints about the move. Life? Totally meaningless to them. They worship the creation and not the Creator as brandon is now proving by forcing the price of heating and other fuels to rise. That has the potential, along with inflation, to run away and destroy us all in the effort to protect the planet from the man made global warming myth. Again, they desire power and will do anything to attain it. Get in their way and you won't even hear a "Whoops!" as they roll over us. They do not care. Oh, and they'll destroy their own adherents just as fast as they will us; it makes no difference to them. Lying? All the time and right to your face even when they know that you know the truth. What goes on in their heads? One, they think that the folks who have tried what they want to try just weren't as smart as they are today. Of course that's incorrect. It's also satans main means of bringing about a fall. What else goes on in their heads? I ran across a statistic re: mental illness; conservatives vs the left and It was something like 6x more loonies come from the left. I mentioned that on another forum and someone, a psychiatrist or psychologist, responded and stated that near as he could guesstimate of his clients approx' 90+% were leftists and further stated that the % held true across the country. That's what we're fighting. I think there are other things going on as well on a spiritual level.

Thanks for the update. I didn't think you'd get it to work without trying magic. When I was loading subsonic .308 it was in a bolt gun. When I was loading subsonic .223 in an AR (Sierra 80s) I had the same issue you did with .308. I accepted that I was going to have a single shot AR with that ammo. There's just no way to keep port pressure high enough if it has rifle gas. Then I got a barrel in .223 and started to load 33gr subs that are hellyweird silent with a can. Subsonic in a semi takes something special. Re: 300BLK. Mine has pistol gas and even with that not all factory subs will function. OK, that might be too strong a wording. The 1st ones I tried, S&B 220s, wouldn't function. So I just wrote all of them off and decided to cast my own heavy bullets and reload for my gun. Now subs and supers work fine with no adjustment of anything on the gun. Of course the adjustments are all happening at the loading bench. FWIW, I was discussing 300BLK with a gent at the LGS just hours ago. I decided years ago that I REALLY(!) liked the cartridge. The gent mentioned how much he likes it without me even asking. On paper it's a dog compared to other cartridges but for what it does it's really good at it. It's the handgun I wished I had for years when I was able to hunt.

It's not about crime and never has been; those words are just camouflage. It's about politicians who are corrupt and screwing the country for their evil power grab trying to remove the peasants pitchforks so that they can't storm the castle. Todays pitchforks are MSRs and they know that and fear them. That's why the left has such nightmares about Jan 6 and call it an insurrection. They've been fearing that day for decades and caught a glimpse of it. The "insurrectionists" are being made an example of to scare anymore of that sort of behavior and thinking out of the rest of us. But it's multifaceted. The founding of the USA also gave the planet something other than exclusively peasants and rulers and the rulers have never liked having anyone with enough income to actually do more than merely scrape together their next meal. The middle economic class needs to be destroyed. That'll come next. The liberty teeth of the peasants (in their eyes that's us) need to be taken from us so that there is no push back when the self styled ruling class makes their move. The carousel is going around and they have their finger out to grab the brass ring, except we're waking up. It's exactly what they have feared all along.

Thanks. I never thought of checking on Amazon. LCG needs to update their site, or maybe I misunderstood what they have listed on it.

300BLK cases I have plenty of. I was thinking about trimming them. At least the cartridge isn't listed on their site. Is that an oversight on their part?

What!!??? No 300BLK? The tool looks very interesting and as easy as my Lee Univ' Trimmer is, that tool chucked up in a drill press could be faster. Esp' with the holder below in use. As a case holder I'd make a plier tong tool. Maybe it would work, maybe it'd fail. But I'd try it. Make it right and it could be used for many size cases.

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Welcome from central Maine!

I often wondered about them, but never enough to actually drop any $ on one. JW. if you try one please let us know how you like it after wearing it for a time. I can foresee a bunch of problems, but I've been wrong before.

Welcome from central Maine! How'd this get by me?

Welcome to the forum from central Maine!

Welcome to the forum from central Maine!

Everyone have a happy Thanksgiving everyone! Vic... about Vic... I remember those Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving get togethers. This morning I watched a mess of queers go past Macys in a parade, just so they could drag the day down into their hell while mentally ill MCs acted like it was completely normal to see other mentally ill people. But Vic, obviously from the NYC area. Every Thanksgiving day there was at least one station that would show it and it's part of the traditional day. There were other traditional movies as well. Was the March of the the Wooded Soldiers part of your day as well? Rant mode off. Back to having a normal and happy Thanksgiving. The dog show is being watched now since it became part of our traditional Thanksgiving day as adults. Later March of the Wooden Soldiers will be seen from DVD.

Welcome to the forum from central Maine!

Welcome to the forum from central Maine!

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The problem I have with much of contemporary music is that I just can't understand what they're saying. Music shouldn't need subtitles if it's done correctly and want us to know what's being sung. Of course that's my opinion.

That's what I do. I use one app to download the MP3s, but if I wanted it to it would also play it. But I use Musio to organize my playlists and to play the music. Musio also allows me to move the music from my phones built in RAM to free that up to the huge storage card. Maybe a more expensive phone has a better way to move it, but mine is an inexpensive phone. I did notice a positive with using bluetooth to send the music to my cars audio. In the past my music was on a thumbdrive and plugged into the car. It would skip and gave all sorts of problems. Using the phone there is none of that. Heck, I just waited for the mail to be delivered and spent the time ( just a few minutes) listening to the music that was already playing. There are much less pleasant ways to spend time waiting than in a warm car listening to my music. The audio quality is pretty good too. I really never wanted a smart phone when I was told 3G was going away, but it has been a good thing. I use the phone rather than allowing the phone to use me. To drive that home to friends, I tell them not to call me on it, I won't pick up and it won't be a leash for me. I also don't do texts; I'm not on that leash either. I do have ear buds, but unlike many people I see wearing them I only use them to watch a movie to keep the volume down so that the wife can sleep, or for my music to put me in a cocoon of music when I'm enduring the pain of rehab. Oh, one other use... In the shop I do have a radio that I keep tuned to talk radio since the various music stations play crap and I'm not going to take the time to test each and every one for decent music. Plus, reloading is on the 2nd floor and the radio is on the first. I bought a bluetooth speaker and with my phone near me I have full control and again, it's my music and not crap.

it would have been so easy to settle without any of that "nonsense" if what occurred can be called that. Just allow a 3rd party to pay them and have them sign over their checks that the 3rd party would collect on later. Of course the troops would have lost some $ but they needed the $ right then, not promises.