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That's the exact thing I said to Roger about it - there are lots of DBM setups out there, but knowing this comes from BAD, I don't have to worry about any kind of quality, workmanship, functionality, or warranty issues. Can't wait to get it in my grubby paws... <thumbsup>

I hear ya, SS, I do. <thumbsup> I think that CMMG is chasing ejection issues and just replacing some parts on customer guns - and they're overlooking the very real possibility that it's an extraction issue that's causing this. <dontknow> Maybe it was just a bad batch of extractor springs in-house there, but I'd bet an o-ring around the extractor spring would cure this guy's problems. Gassing issues aside, which could be solved later, I think there's something going on with that extractor force. This is the same kinda thing you see with 10/22s and bad extractors.

The Battle Arms Development BAD-DBM, Detachable Box Magazine Bottom Metal setup, made for the Remington 700 Short Action bolt-action rifles. Besides changing the Rem 700 to a magazine-fed rifle instead of a top-loading rifle, one very, very nice feature on this system that distinguishes it from similar setups: the magazine release that's integrated into the trigger guard. I've got this setup on the way to me, and it should be installed and shooting by next weekend (hopefully). I'll be trying a few experiments with this, so stay tuned on the progress. As soon as it arrives, I'll have two of the experimental answers immediately, and the third following shortly thereafter. As soon as those tests are finished, it's going in this Remington 700 SPS Tactical, AAC-SD version: As always, Roger, it's great to talk to you on the phone - with everything in the shipping package that's on the way, I'm positive that Robocop is going to be slightly disappointed at the end of this summer... <lmao> <laughs> Thanks again, Roger. <thumbsup> :happydrunks:

23.7 gr Varget in Lake City brass, CCI 41 primers through the 20" 1:7 gun. <thumbsup> Haven't tried them through the 18" 1:8 gun yet, need to load more up. I've got some 69 SMKs that will probably perform better through that one.

Very nice. <thumbsup> I've been having good luck with their 75gr BTHPs in the 5.56 guns. Love 'em.

After reading all this, I don't recall anyone addressing the extractor. Sounds like it needs a stiffer spring. Not the ejector, the extractor. It's not hanging onto the rounds as they're pulled out of the chamber. Take the bolt apart, remove the extractor, and see what's under it. Stick an o-ring around that spring, then shoot it again. You might think I'm :cookoo: - but give that a shot.

Nice!!! Just picked up a Rem 700 SPS Tactical, the AAC-SD version, not long ago. Love the thing. <thumbsup>

A1 buffer tube. No A2 5/8" extension on the end of it. For the record, rifle length buffer tubes are all "A1s." They're all the same length. To fit an A2 stock, or any other stock that's "A2" length, then you use the 5/8" extension on the end of the tube, and the longer vented screw. If you order just the rifle buffer tube and the short screw, you'll be fine. If you order an A2 "kit," you'll receive a 5/8" spacer that you can't use, and a longer vented screw that you can't use. The PRS comes with the appropriate-length vented screw, so don't sweat that part. <thumbsup>

I no-poop wish I could be there, brother. Doing that would beat the poop out of roofing my buddy's house in 5 days, on a BIG house. Starting Thursday, when I found out, and finishing the next Thursday, when we were done. I lived in Northern VA, and he was in Cincinnatti... yeah, drive time included. The chimney flashing was the real ass-kicker, afterwards... <lmao> <laughs> His estimate for his roof was something like $15k, which led me to telling him not to do it. We did the job for around $5k. It cost him ALOT of money in beer, though, and I don't think that was included on the cost-offset... <dontknow> He still saved, and no one fell off that steep-ass pitched roof... somehow... :happydrunks: I have pics of this poop somewhere... Wish I was in your backyard, Greg... <thumbsup>

Groups like this... are good, but bad... I had my last CCW instructor stop me when he saw the group getting tight. They get called IN on things like this. Like, into court cases, or making statements in relation to court cases, about particular student performance during said course... I was told to "open it up a little bit, because the targets and performance had to be recorded." If I make 'em tight, then I'm trained in "terminating a threat," like is trained for military personnel. If I open that group up a little, then I've been "passed" in "protecting myself in the event of a life-threatening danger..." That's lawyer poop, but I believe in it. That's peripheral information, in the event of a life-saving situation, for most. Court case won or lost, means alot in a shoot-for-life situation. Don't try to be the baddest bastage, in your CCW class. Shoot to quailify, not to "win..." <dontknow>

Everything I have will be available at the range while you're here - I just might need a bigger truck to get it all out there... You will receive a full pat down coming off the range... <laughs> <lmao>

Too bad they don't understand the 1911 - this would look good on a motorcycle cop... <thumbsup>

My "Stack Of Kimbers"... <thumbsup>

Damn, that thing is cool. That's a great looking carry gun. Girl at work is gonna be upset - she just bought a new Colt .380 Mustang Pocketlite TODAY... <dontknow>

Good for the homeowner. <thumbsup> Good quick-action firearms handling, in a high intensity situation. <thumbsup> That's what .45 rounds do. I carry a .45... because they don't make a .46. ;D <thumbsup> Don't carry anything that doesn't start with ".4-something" The rules of Gunfighting: http://www.thegunzone.com/gunfighting.html

IMHO, everyone should take a CCW course - THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT... of any CCW course, no matter where it is taught... local and state laws, on the use of force. That's the most important thing they can provide you. You won't be an expert shot after one of the courses, but you'll know the basic functions of your weapon, or whatever weapons they have available for training (if forced to use class weapons). You'll know the basic safety rules, afterwards - target foreground, target background, safety on the weapon, trigger discipline. However, if two people live in different states, one can't advise the other on "what is legal" in a self defense shoot. At least not "defensibly," when it would come to a court case. THAT is the most important thing you'll learn in a CCW class. You need to know what's legal, defensible, and justifiable. All that varies, state to state. If your CCW class doesn't talk about reciprocity, from state to state, then ask about it during your class - the instructors don't necessarily have to have all that stuff memorized, but they should be able to pull up references to it all. That is important information. <thumbsup>

Justifiable prices. Machining, cutting, and welding (and generally just plain working with) titanium is a complete and total pain in the ass... :(

We now need to get some "local bolt gun frenzy" going, man! Marana or the SV range - either way is good with me. I think we need to include planeflyer in the mix, or he's gonna be mad at us... <dontknow> ;D

We have an iron-sight target thread?... Where the hell have I been?... :o I like my Spike's NiB trigger. I've had that thing since summer 2010, and it's a great combat-type trigger. It did get better with time, too. With all the trigger shuffling I've been doing, it finally made it's way into the AR 45, and it's staying there. Fits that carbine wonderfully, as far as purpose and intent. I think I'm at the following triggers now: * ATC SR Gold in the .308 AR * Geissele SSA-E in the 20" 5.56 Woody NM rifle (that trigger kicks major ass) * Armalite National Match 2-stage in the 18" 5.56 SPR (as light as it will go) * Jard 2lb in the 20" 5.56 precision gun * Jard 2.5lb in the 16" 5.56 precision gun * Geissele S3G in the 14.5" 5.56 ARFCOM billet gun (fastest trigger I've ever used) * Geissele SSA in Jake's 14.5" 5.56 BCM lightweight (barrel) gun * Spike's NiB trigger set in the .45 ACP 16"-barreled AR carbine * Polished/worked stainless trigger group in the 14.5" SOCOM-barreled tan gun * I'm forgetting a damn AR trigger somewhere... :o The three 10/22s are all wearing Power Custom Ti hammer & sear kits, with the wood 10/22 also using the PC Ti adjustable over-travel trigger (the actual trigger). Those things rock in a 10/22. The Savage FV-SR has the Accu-Trigger, and that is very cool. Kimber .308 bolt gun as Kimber's ridiculously light trigger. Rem 700 20" .308 bolt has the Rem X-Mark Pro trigger, maxed out on lightest pull - that's a sweet trigger. I need to find Mossberg shotgun triggers, just because. It's an affliction. :cookoo: Any of those AR triggers mentioned, I can describe to anyone that wants to know about them, with comparison against the others. Ask away, but please fire up a separate thread about it. <thumbsup>

He still wouldn't be able to do anything with the pre-ban lower - he had to have it, and further have it registered in Cali, before their state weapons ban went into effect. That's the reason I'm trying to get him to move to AZ... ;D <lmao> <munch>

Know the guys that have been trying to get this going, very personally. I'm not sure who exactly did the face-to-face coord, though, at the range. This has been something the A/S guys here have been trying to get off the ground for a LONG time. I'll be instructing at that shoot when it happens, so I'll definitely see you there. <thumbsup> There are a minimum of two A/S attendances that one must make, in order to start instructing, with the additioanl req of qualifying Rifleman, but you should get ahold of me on the details prior to. ;D Right now, it's slated for the 2nd week of Oct. I'll be arriving on Friday night and setting up the camper for the weekend. Shooting Saturday and Sunday.

That fucking phenomenal!!! <thumbsup> Crazy poop, I'll tall ya... <dontknow>

Somebody with some common sense "unfucked" the idiots that sent that original message out... That was truly the dumbest thing I've ever seen the Army issue/publish/enact, and when I first read it, the only thing I thought was.... I was right in my decision to GTFO. Eff the Military Politics. :o Something is restored, with this information. Thank you much, Pat. <thumbsup> Something is not right in the information that's available, too - politics were DEFINITELY involved initially, and in the "aftermath" of that announcement... "It’s still unclear why TACOM issued the message at this time, but sources say it might have something to do with the $10.7 million contract TACOM Rock Island awarded to Brownells Inc. in 2009 to produce 1.4 million improved magazines by January 2010." "By contrast, PMAGs have developed a word-of-mouth reputation for being extremely reliable as well as durable. Special operations units such as Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment issue PMAGs as do many infantry units before war-zone deployments." fornicate yeah. RLTW. <thumbsup>

MIL pricing, brother. <thumbsup> I did well on the upper parts, compared to normal. :-[

Initially built this one as a(nother) 5.56 gun. The identical 300BLK upper will follow, in the future - if we have an arms-ownership future. At any rate, the 5.56 gun came out exactly as I'd planned the original... ;D Noveske FFL lower and matching upper, Nordic Components 18" barrel (chambered 223 Wylde), PRI handguard, upper rail, rear sight and flip-up front sight, all of that. It turned out exactly as I wanted, and it shoots great. Shot it irons-only during an Appleseed shoot, and shot a 213 with it - not even broken in. Wonderful rifle - definitely one of the "favorites." <thumbsup>