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It’s old-school tactics… Have you ever hit somebody with a semi automatic? Gets your point across a lot better, when you’re swinging 2 pounds solid steel revolver. That dates all the way back to the Buntline Special. My father started in 1972, and he repeatedly says that his magnum was his best “impact weapon“.

That’s a Matrix lower. I’ll have to look it up (maybe @98Z5V has the answer) but I remember there being a few issues with LPK comparability. Edit: looks like your good to go. I can’t find anything that says it uses special pins. The pins are about $25. I have similar on my rifle.

Found more old pics.

Some guns cost an arm and a leg… This pistol almost cost our friend his eye.

I have the TRP Operator with the full rail. Mine was the version with the crappy sandpaper grips. The previous owner tossed those and put on Hogue grips with lame finger grooves. I threw that crap in the garbage and put on VZ Operator II grips. This gun is the best shooting 1911 I’ve ever shot. For being an off the shelf pistol, I’m shocked by its relatively low price tag. My only gripe is the adjustable rear sight. When I get the time and $$$ set aside, I’ll have the slide cut for a Trijicon RMR adapter. Only pic I can find... This is the mount that I want to install. It comes with the rear sight (and I can mill off the entire Bomar sight that is already there.)

Here’s the skinny on my latest side project (shut up @DNP and @Robert@FULL30!!) Some of you know I’m a police officer in Northern California. What you might not know, on January 10th Natalie was murdered in the same city I started my career in. I used to ride motors with her department, long before she was old enough to be a cop. Unfortunately our timelines never crossed paths, and I never had the pleasure to meet her in person. My wife wasn’t so fortunate. My wife (also a cop) was on duty in the same city during the shooting. The stress of not being able to be there for my wife and my friends was beyond describing. As fate would have it, I missed her service because I was scheduled for SHOT Show that same day. I was wrought with guilt for not being at the side of my friends during this loss. Last night I got the green light from the City of Davis Police Department to start my own fundraiser! No one hosts a better party than I do!! Here’s the start... Natalie’s badge number was 224!!! It’s only appropriate that I make the worlds baddest .224 Valkyrie in her honor! This theme build will be built 100% to represent her sacrifice and our loss. (take that @Matt.Cross!!) I will be donating the rifle to the Police Department to raffle/auction off and 100% of the proceeds will go to Natalie’s memorial fund. I will be bringing more info as parts start to happen.

I carry an Olight M2 Warrior on duty. They are very rugged for a VERY reasonable price. Im thinking a Surefire Stiletto is on the shopping list for an EDC light. The Streamlight will go in my bag and the Surefire will clip to my pocket.

Hahahaha

Oh boy, oh boy, I am going to make you feel like a jerk when I reveal my plan. only then will you see why it absolutely HAS to be a.224 Valk @Robert@FULL30 keep watching this thread. You and I are going to get a lot of recognition for this plan.

Don't judge me.... I have a project plan, but I need some input from y'all How long should I make it? 20"?? 22"??? 24"???? This is 100% for showing off... I'm thinking "go big or go home".

Remember too, that LE has always been more about uniformity and public appearance. Putting a wheel gun in your fancy basket weave leather holster is significantly more presentable than a 1911 in a covered flap holster. Also think about the use and purpose of the firearm. Military trains to use the pistol when all else fails and that's your last option. If you're using your pistol, you either ran out of rifle ammo or one hand has been disabled. In LE, the pistol is your first reaction. We don't get the privilege of walking into a scene holding a long gun, unless the situation warranted that response beforehand. We show up, hoping for the best, and when "it" hit the fan we have to be able to draw a side arm from the easiest and most effective holster that we can utilize. The holster needs to be sturdy enough for daily wear/use, and provide a faster draw than the military flap holsters provided. Lastly, is the difference of being involved in a "shooting" vs being in a "shoot out". 99% of LE gun use happens within 7 yards and only lasted 1-3 rounds, and 1 or 2 seconds. That's what is defined as a "shooting"... Something happened, the officer responded with gunfire, somebody died... the end! This was identified by Jeff Cooper as a trigger having been switched, and lethal force being required. Condition Red was designed to identify a LE "shooting" as it can quickly deescalate back to Condition Orange or even Yellow. For Mil usage, Jeff went on to explain the less popular "Condition Black" which would describe an ongoing gun battle, or a scene where you are entering a preexisting gun battle. This is not a violent/lethal "incident". This is a violent/lethal "situation". This is the definition of a "shoot out" where there is a Force-on-Force, multiple rounds fired, multiple combatants, and an extended period of time. This is not a situation a cop finds himself in. In fact, over the last 100 years, there have probably only been 10 or 12 such incidents in LE that would qualify as a "Shoot out" or even be considered a Condition Black. The use of semiautomatic firearms in the home is a relatively novel idea. Many households didn't have a semi auto firearm till the 80's, and even then it wasn't "popular" till the mid to late 90's when the Gov started threatening to take them all away. LE has been, and always will be, a reactive industry. They will not upgrade their presence or ability until society forces them to take the next level. The North Hollywood Shootout is a prime example of reacting. Same with the Columbine HS Shooting. LE made considerable changes to their equipment and their responses based off those two incidents. It's not that the equipment and training weren't available. It's that society didn't feel LE needed that kind of resources... Until it was too late. A perfect modern example about being "Reactive" vs "Proactive": 2017 Las Vegas Shooting A shooter breaks out a window on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. He then proceeds to shoot at an assembled crowd, over 400 yards away. Officers on scene were armed with simple AR-15's, shotguns, and pistols. Not a single officer present was equipped/trained to make a shot in response to the threat. Not even a LE trained sniper would be trained or equipped for that kind of engagement. 99.9% of LE snipers use .308Win rifles and only train up to about 300 yards. Because of this, the shooter was allowed to continue for approximately 11 minutes before officers arrived on scene... This is partially my drive to bring the CROM CR-7 .338LM rifle to LE use. A LE Sniper, armed with a CR-7 rifle, equipped with a high-power/thermal optic, could have engaged that suspect from over 1.5 miles away. If that LE Sniper had been on an over-watch with a thermal scope, he would have immediately seen the window break, would have been able to immediately identify the threat, and would have been able to immediately interdict that threat, and neutralize the threat before a single innocent life was lost... Hell, with a suppressor, the people below probably would've never known they were ever in any danger till they read about it on the news. Adding a .338LM to a LE arsenal is now "Reactive". The gun/cartridge has existed for years, but LE never felt they needed it... until now. This is the same reason why they carried .38 revolvers for so long, and the reason why they felt they needed to upgrade. Death is an incredible incentive for evolution.

Even though I’m in the biz... both sides.... I have a strong feel for lots of confiscations that occur to decent people that end up in shitty situations. • A friend of mine, in California, was shooting his AR’s and a Forest Ranger decided his bullet button wasn’t good enough, and she arbitrarily took all his guns. A public defender suggested just relinquishing his firearms to have the charges dropped. He couldn’t afford a private attorney to fight the charges. He lost several thousands that day. Everything was later destroyed. • Another friend was out shooting in an area he thought was BLM. He’d been shooting in the same location his whole life. Rangers took his guns and states that he had to prove ownership to get them back. I assisted him in getting copies of receipts, only to have the sheriff office say the guns were lost. 90 days later he gets a letter saying that the guns were destroyed because of his failure to recover them. WTF! • I fight for “suspects” rights against anxious cops all the time. I’ve even told off my own family for making shitty arrests... my BIL made an arrest on the victim of a home invasion. The home owner showed off his 80% AR pistol as the weapon he used to chase the invaders away. My BIL arrests the victim for owning an unregistered firearm and having an SBR... he didn’t know the difference, and unfortunately most cops don’t. The laws are so complicated in Ca, many don’t bother to keep up and then make piss poor decisions. The situation for me is that because I don’t 100% agree with the reasons why guns are taken, I think LE agencies should be required to destroy the items at their own cost. There are a plethora of legitimate business that specialize in the destruction of items such as these. My own agency uses a special facility to do this. If an agency has to take on this expensive task, then they’ll think twice about taking shit that doesn’t belong to them. Benchmade taking the job to alleviate the cost to the dept is wrong... in my book. If they want to help out, they could find a 1000 different ways that wouldn’t be misconstrued as liberal backing. The fact remains, they have a history of financially backing the wrong guy. This is the cherry on top.... or more appropriately, the nail in the coffin. Benchmade is dead to me.

I always cant my pistol when shooting one handed. Your arm is not inline with your face, unless you shoot sideways. When squared off in a combat stance, you dont have the support of your second hand to hold the pistol in front of you. Your strongest muscles are used when keeping your limbs inline with your frame. Pushing your pistol directly out in front of your shoulder, then canting the sights to your eye, is accurate "enough", faster, and less strenuous/taxing on your muscles. This allows me to control the pistol with large muscle groups and only use small muscle groups to actually manipulate the pistol. When the pistol is out of alignment with my body, the small muscle groups try to assist the larger muscles. When small muscles try to assist larger muscles, they spasm, and shake. On the flip, if a small muscle is being used out of alignment, the large muscles will try to assist. This will come in large bursts as they show up as shot anticipation, since large muscles can't make small adjustments. or something like that... LOL, not sure that made sense

What Tom said... gripping too tight... Get some more finger on the trigger too. Not saying it's "right" but it will counter the shooting to the right by pulling your muzzle back to the center.

Almost heaven! welcome to our clubhouse.

These guys all said it. Recoil is recoil… You can’t change that it is the reaction of an action. That’s the physics of it. The mass and velocity of the projectile is what determines the “recoil”. It has nothing to do with barrel length. Recoil can be mitigated by controlling the gas system and the cyclic rate of the action. This doesn’t actually “reduce recoil“ but it does absorb the recoil into the action of the rifle. A shooter actually feels to “recoil’s“ back to back, within a very short time. The first is the firing of the cartridge, and the second is the bolt carrier group and buffer slamming into the rear of the stock assembly. Controlling the gas and spring weight doesn’t reduce the recoil, but it does absorb a percentage of that recoil into the operating system of the rifle. The recoil still exist, just inside the rifle. Adding a brake assists in braking the direction of the recoil by using the expanding gassed against the rearward impulse. Just like most compensators use the gases to maintain muzzle alignment. The only other way to reduce “felt recoil“ if to add weight. Technically a 16 inch bull barrel would reduce more felt recoil than a 20 inch pencil white barrel. The heavier the rifle, the more energy will be absorbed by the weight before that energy will transfer to the shooter. Somebody correct me here if I’m wrong

So sorry brother. I meant to hit you back. I’m waiting on a shipment of 16” Big Gunners. They are all back ordered. They said sometime in February, but I haven’t heard anything since SHOT.

I got so lost in the electronics that I forgot... how did the rifle turn out???

Wow ?

We had some bad storms. Your tracking number says tomorrow.

Truth. I was strictly enforcing the DMZ and No Fly Zone. I even walked the perimeter for possible interlopers. I’ll get better results next time.

Did you see the price on those? $$$$ Before I started injection molding for my .338 mags, I was doing billet aluminum mags. Materials + machine time = about $250 each. Even for the price I am selling the rifles at, I could not afford to put more than one or two magazines in a rifle package. The individual price was so high, I never expected to sell one on the side. Now, with injection molding, I’m planning to sell them for under $50 each

The 300WM is 1/4 inch longer than a 30–06 cartridge. That is about 1/2 inch shorter than a 338LM cartridge. You can’t use a 30–06 In a 300WM double stack mag for the same reasons that you can’t use a 223 in a 308 double stack mag. As for using the AICS mags, they are way too expensive unless you’re using single stack mags. I would also have to completely change my magazine release to accommodate the magazine. if we get further invested into injection molding, maybe we’ll see something come out of our shop. I’d love to see a 30-06 or 270 option.

Find me a reasonably priced magazine to base it off of. Magazine technology costs as much as the rifle. Custom springs and custom mag bodies = $thousands in R&D