BrianK

Looks like a fun gun! Big poop eatin' smile on my face the second I saw the upper. For sure you'll have plenty of gas to run it. Please keep us in the loop. Yeah, I'd do the can thing. I think you'll want it with that short barrel. I don't think that short birdcage will do squat. Have you considered a folding buffer tube adapter? It will slightly lengthen the buffer and make for a very small handgun when folded. IMO that gun just cries out for one. A folding firearm that short when folded would be absolutely wild! Just curious, do you have a chrono' to check velocity? Inquiring minds want to know the data.

Too funny! Who is Wendy Williams? Never mind. I just did a 'net search. She's gotta be mentally ill if she believes that.

Welcome to the forum!

I've been thinking about it... When it was on the top of the handguards sighting it in was easy, up was up and left and right the same, but it took away some of the sight picture, hence the move. I intend to make it shoot within it's usable range with the offset as measured at the muzzle. If the SHTF that offset will be meaningless as there will be other issues adding to the offset. So if I turn the rifle at 45° so that the laser has "normal" adjustments it should make it easier for my old brain to adjust to sighting it in. At any appreciable distance I don't plan on using the laser anyway as a first option, the light maybe. The laser will be adjusted for my supersonic load, or that's the plan. It should be sub minute of dirtbag for HD. For in the house use now it's already close enough. For any distance (I hope it never comes to that) I have the red dot zeroed for point blank range. But one is none and 2 is one, so I'd like to get more out of the laser if possible. Hence not collimating it to coincide with the sight. The way I plan on it'll always be off and if needed I'll compensate, but how critical is an inch? I compensate all the time anyway in competition, so it's no big deal. I just "aim off" a bit to get my A zone hits. The heart is a fairly large target at close range, so is the brain.

Welcome to the forum from central Maine! Nice build, glad to hear you're happy with it.

Changed the configuration a bit... I don't move rapidly. I make small moves, test them and either keep them or reject them. My original intent was to have my hand out on the fore-end and the arm brace tucked under my arm. The use of a laser/light would be used for sighting for HD and hopefully never needed for clearing my own home. But rear switch on the laser/light moved my hand from the end and back onto the fore-end. I never want to take the chance of anyone getting leverage on me however remote the possibility is. But my hand had to be positioned there to operate the switch. Today I fiddled with the pressure pad switch to see if I could rig it suitably. I also moved the laser/light onto a 45° side mount to get it out of the sight picture entirely. All of those changes make it soooo much better IMO. I was concerned that the cable would annoy me by being in the way but where it is is completely out of the way. What a PITA to sight in the laser mounted on the 45° offset mount! It's close enough for inside the home distances. But clearly I don't think in anything but vertical and horizontal directions.

Welcome to the forum, from central Maine!

Welcome from central Maine!

Interesting post, thanks! We are planning on having an outlaw match every year, NFA items welcome, and I plan to use my 300BLK arm braced handgun at some point. It should be fun. But I also need to develop a load and figure out my hold overs. I'll probably use 147gr bullet pulls at first and load them supersonic . It might not be ready for this years spring match. I might also get a mold and cast light bullets that I can drive supersonic. Nothing is settled yet. Last match saw close range USPSA stages with reduced targets and also shooting out to 230 yards. I like the 300BLK. I think the problem folks have with it is that they either have no use for it or don't understand what it does (what it's for). But for those who do it's a really nice cartridge.

Thanks gents. I think that's what I'll do.

The instructions state to check the o rings regularly. No o ring specs stated. I contacted the manufacturer, no response. I'd like to have o rings on hand. Do you know the specs? It sux to have a manufacturer not support their product. That's the pits. Maybe thety went belly up? IDK. But why else would a manufacturer not tell a customer what the spec is for a part that they state needs to be checked?

Good luck! I don't shoot my Garand often enough but I love the rifle. I'm cheap is why. The bigger the cartridge the more it costs, simple economics. It's an M1D, the real deal from the DCM (or is it the CMP now?). It was arsenal reconditioned on the '60s, so it was essentially new when I got it. In fact I removed it from the arsenal wrap (bag). It came with all the GI items, but they're in storage. I had a mount made that uses the side plate on the barrel, but the 1-6x scout scope mounts forward of the chamber over the barrel and right above and in line with the barrel. That to allow for loading clips (obviously). I did try the Alaskan scope and leather cheek rest and it was interesting for the historical significance, but I like my present arrangement more. The range I'm a member of has long distance shooting, 600 yards, I might shoot it some more.

I don't know if I'll ever need to use it but is shortens the 300BLK AR from just 30 1/2" to just under 24". The 1st measurement is with the blade arm brace fully retracted. Note that the handgun can't be fired in the short configuration. It's for transport or storage only. So what is it? It's a Sylvan Arms folding stock adapter. I'd been looking at other adapters with another build a few years ago and they wanted crazy prices for them so I passed. But Botach had a one day sale on these for just over $100. It consists of the hollow tube adapter/hinge unit, and an extension that fits into the back of the BCG. The entire unit weighs 6 ounces so it adds something less than 6 ounces to the BCG. So far I've tried it with my supersonic 85gr Maker loads and it cycles fine. I haven't tried it with subsonic yet, but I load my own ammo and I'll just build ammo to work with it. I'll know more when the range opens up. It looks rugged enough but I don't intend to crawl through the puckerbrush or butt stroke with it. Folded the upper is more or less open where the castle nut would be and the BCG extension protrudes maybe 1/2". The BCG extension is held in place by the same parts that release the hinge and lock it in place. So unless the button is pushed it remains in place. To return the handgun to useable condition hinge the buffer tube back around, push the button and it locks in place. To diassemble, fold the buffer tube, depress the same button again and hold it. Then the BCG extension can be pulled out and normal disassembly follows. To remove the BCG the extension must be removed or the upper won't hinge open from the lower at the rear. I don't know if I'll ever need to use it to make the handgun smaller, but I've got the option. I wish I had ordered a few more now.

In the early 70s (70-73)we had flanged strange looking ear plugs. Probably made, as all stuff GI is, down to a price. I never got into a fire fight (West Germany) but I can't see how wearing ear pro would be a good survival tactic. Just when one needs his hearing, it gets reduced? Shooting on a range is an entirely different scene. In our armor vehicles we never wore ear pro but I also don't remember lots of noise in it. I was a combat engineer and even when we were lucky enough to use explosives I don't remember ear pro, just open the mouth wide and use fingers in the ears. I can't remember if we used ear pro when on the M79 range. The "cartridge" used was fairly quiet, and I don't remember the sound of the grenade. Heck, it's been >50 years.

Welcome to the forum from central Maine.

britx303, yeah, you are definitely behind enemy lines.

Welcome from central Maine!

I call them human pollution if they stay and vote to eff up the state. We had (have) a gent from S Portland but some land on the hill. Not a bad guy and knows alot about some things, but a dunce in others. Had a huge pile of brush that he wanted to burn. So he got a burning permit and assumed that since they gave it to him it was OK to torch it. That day had very high winds. No one in their right mind would start a huge fire in the middle of the autumn forest will all sorts of dry leaves on the ground, but he did it. We're surrounded by forest what was he thinking!??

Welcome to the forum! Approx' where in Maine? I'm in the Waterville area. I'm not writing a book or anything, I'm merely curious.

Yes, that's my understanding on their history too. I think they're back in Windham, ME.

Retirement was the best thing I ever did at 55, I've been retried for 14 years. But it only has one problem. How did I ever get things done when I was working? There's just not enough time in a day. enjoy your retirement gents!

I saw a letter to the editor years ago complaining about animals being killed for meat instead of people buying it in the packages at the market. Doncha know the meat grown in the packages is much more humane.

Will it save you $? Probably not unless you far different than most. You'll shoot more, and if you're like me you'll be ready for the next real insurrection though, and not that unguided tour of Congress that the dems call an insurrection. What it'll also allow you to do is make stuff that just isn't freely available and tailor it to your firearms. Case in point... My HD firearm is a 300BLK AR handgun. I wanted ammo for it that would deliver a good blow but not over penetrate. So I did some research and came up with the Maker 85 copper bullet. I could drive it faster, but at 2300fps it has 1k ft/lbs and should have 6-8" of penetration. Can't buy that load over the counter. But as a handloader you are able to do stuff like that.

That won't work in rural UK anymore than it will work in rural USA. People like that are so incredibly myopic . How did they survive long enough to rise to their positions of incompetence?

A very happy 2022to all the conservatives who read this, to all the liberal/progressives reading this I wish you nothing but misery and tears from our joy.