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They were pre-made, so we were playing Russian Roulette with 'em, and whatever prep they had...

Local Fry's supermarket... Fuqrs were hit-and-miss, too - light your head on fire hot, then the next one was mild... That was a fun night...

This is very unlike you. Who are you, and what have you done to shepp...

The old 5 1/4s or a 3 1/2"...

If the option is BLK or Ham'r, I'd go BLK all day long. Lot's more options for that - only one place to get Ham'r ammo.

This part is confusing = you have 2 buffers and 2 springs? What about a receiver extension? List it's internal depth.

I hit up your other one, man. Addressed the gas system stuff. You'll need some recoil system work, too. Weigh that buffer and post up the weight. Get the specs up on that spring, too - relaxed length, coil count, and wire diameter.

Paratroopers are tough - you can pull 4 or 5 jumps a day, but you're SMOKED afterwards...

One of these days, I must get to Normandy, and see all that. Thanks for that article, Rene.

This is why I have ARs in about 14 different calibers.

That gas tube is too short - better to run the Armalite AR-10 gas tube and have it a little long, than a little too short. You'll need a real Armalite AR-10 rifle gas tube, 15.5" long. Gas port diameter for 18" rifle gas should be 0.096" or damn close, in order to function properly.

Those triggers are still safe boys, with your names on 'em.

Good answer for the purpose of the rifle - usually catches people off guard when you ask them, then you get an answer back that they want it to do everything... You thought out the purpose for the gun. If you'll never go over 600 yards, I'd just run a 16" barrel with midlength gas. No need for any more barrel than that. If you'll go a little longer, like out to 850, maybe an 18" barrel. FOr whatever distance you'll shoot, there's no reason at all to go over an 18" barrel - not for what you'll use the gun for. My $0.02 on it.

I do, if they came with them. Sometiimes 2, sometimes 1. I leave in what it came with, unless I'm having specific extraction problems that I can tie directly to that.

You know my deal, brother - just tell me what I need to send you, and I'll get it out. EDIT - Did Mikey ever send anything, and do you have a pile for him still?

The plan was "draw attention to Hilltop" - because it MUST get violent to "draw attention to Hilltop" and make local Law Enforcement do something about it. Goal achieved. They excelled in their mission that night. Research "Tacoma Hilltop" now, and see what recent news stories are out there. It's cleaned up. Now.

Believe me, brother - if the goal was to kill those Crips - they'da been dead. As Fuk. The plan worked out perfectly, according to the Ranger Plan that night. Pure perfection, exactly as they intended it to be.

What is your goal for the gun - what do you want it to do for you? That's the most important question.

That was their main intention - don't KILL anyone. That's a rap sheet. Let them KNOW, that you WILL NOT FUK AROUND, 'ROUND HERE. Not Up in here...

Which may seem crazy to most people, but SSG Foulk was not "most people." He was an elite operative, who at a moments notice, could hit hard, and smash FUCKING EVERYTHING, you know, Ranger Shiit, but violence was the LAST THING that the Staff Seargant wanted, and he remained optimistic... fornicate around and find out... The Crips did.

Fuckin' HELL YEAH MOTHERFUCKIN YEAH!!!! "Over 300 rounds, and 10 minutes later, the Crips were fighting for their lives..." ALL those guys had "disciplinary action" taken against them. Which was nothing, after no charges were filed by PD over that - they might have "instigated" some poop - and they may not have been "in the right"... But they were NOT "in the wrong." No charges filed. The Big Army had to do something, though, and react. Most of the guys were just moved to a different installation - for a short-tour - and went right back to Battalion. I was blessed with SGT Megaloft (I don't know if that spelling is accurate) - but that's what I heard his name as, when it was being yelled at me... ) as one of my Pre-Ranger instructors at Fort Ord, in 1990, when I went through the 7th ID(L) "Combat Leaders Course" - that was the Pre-Ranger course that the Division had set up. That story, towards the end of the course - we'd ALL already heard about it - was MOTIVATIONAL AF. Rangers kicking some Crip A$s... Tell you what... I went to Ranger 1 week after graduating that course, and SMOKED Ranger School. The real course didn't have shiit on what the Pre-course punishment did to us. I'd go to Ranger again, twice over, before I'd to to that Pre course again. Fuk that. I came out of that Pre course with some serious awards, too. Because, nobody likes a quitter. Savages. It was punishment, just to get guys to quit. Nobody likes a quitter, though - 3rd Grade Playground Rules, right there...

This is the answer... vvv

The men over at sofrep made a good post today... https://sofrep.com/news/memorial-day-the-sacrifice-of-so-many-tomorrows-gave-us-our-today/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=GIibZaVqTUPDGw2TCJN2dMnfcKe1RL_-0Zca51LUK8I%3D.HVS3Ca Memorial Day: The Sacrifice of So Many Tomorrows Gave us our Today by Sean Spoonts 8 hours ago The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Arlington National Cemetery. On this Memorial Day, America is at peace. At least outside its borders. While we maintain a military presence still in the Middle East and Africa,(and now Ukraine to some extent) there are no large-scale offensive actions being conducted by US conventional forces for the first time in more than 20 years. Memorial Day is a national holiday that most people spend at the beach or at cookouts with family and friends, but for service members and their families, it tends to be a bit more solemn. Not depressing and sad, but it is the day when we tend to recall most keenly those we have served with and were killed either in combat or in the training and operational “mishaps” that happen just because you can’t make serving in the military perfectly safe no matter what you do and still have it be a military. As we see in Ukraine presently, war is about smashing things to pieces and killing people and the practice of how to do that sort of thing can be dangerous all by itself. A report recently found that between 2006 and 2020, more than 5600 service members have perished in training accidents. Any civilian occupation killing this many people would have OSHA and the government all over them to make it safer. As it happens though, the military is exempt from the legal requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, it just couldn’t function while subject to it. Since the beginning of our country, this experiment in self-government, more than 1 million Americans have perished in defending it in places all over the world, in the skies, on the seas, and even beneath the waves. Somehow, our country has been able to produce citizen-soldiers equal to anything ever produced by the British Empire or the Romans. Soldiers are made, not born. The raw materials are important. In Ukraine, we see the difference between an army of conscripts driven like cattle into a fight versus a civil population taking up arms to fight for its very existence. The Ukrainians think they have something worth defending in their country and Americans in uniform tend to think the same thing about this country. In spite of all its problems and internal strife, we have to build walls and fences to keep people from coming in, and not from escaping to someplace more free with more opportunity. We make good soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen because America as an ideal is the last, best hope of mankind on the planet. Much is made of what is called “The Greatest Generation” or those Americans who came through the Great Depression and went directly into a World War in 1941 to defeat the Nationalist Socialism of Nazi Germany only to find it had to then hold the line against the Internationalist Socialism of the Soviet Union, North Korea, and China for some 50 years. This generation knew what it was fighting for and what the cost of losing would mean to this country, but I would submit that there may have been a generation even greater. Those men and even women who fought in the American Revolution. They grew up under the rule of an absolute monarchy, in which the king or queen held all the human rights under Heaven for themselves and only doled out little pieces to their subjects who still only acted in furtherance of the ruler’s desires. If the Sovereign decided he needed more from you in taxes, you had no choice but to hand over your money. If they decided to lead the country into war, you were compelled to fight, no matter what your feelings were. And you were free to live, think, speak and worship God only as long as the ruler approved of what you were doing. His signature at the bottom of a piece of paper was enough to send you to the hangman. When these American Colonists decided to fight for independence they were not fighting for their country, but for the mere idea of what it might be. They died on battlefields like Saratoga, Cowpens, Yorktown, and Breed’s Hill for a kind of freedom they would never know themselves. They died for future Americans they hoped someday would be born in a free country of their own. Those soldiers of the Revolution gave up all their tomorrows so that we could have our today nearly 250 years later. Today is Memorial Day when we give solemn remembrance and gratitude to those Americans who lost their lives preserving our freedom and liberty for us and future generations. Enjoy your day, have fun and maybe marvel a bit that we still produce Americans willing to give up the luxury and soft living this rich country of ours can provide for the privation and sacrifice that goes with military service. Because it is worth defending with our lives.

Increases pressure on the extractor, so it doesn't drop the casing mid-way out of the chamber.