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So, PSA got DPMS, but Franklin Armory got Bushmaster. SOLD! The winners are, pending final court approval but I would be shocked if there were any take-backs: Vista Outdoor Inc. bought the Lonoke based ammunitions business and other IP assets Roundhill Group LLC bought everything firearms that is non-Marlin Sierra Bullets LLC bought Barnes ammunitions Sturm, Ruger, & Co. bought Marlin firearms JJE Capital Holdings LLC won DPMS, H&R, Stormlake, AAC and Parker brands Franklin Armory Holdings Inc. won Bushmaster brand and some related assets Sportsman’s Warehouse Inc. won the Tapco brands

It's not the older Bushmaster BAR-10 models, that later turned into RRA models. It's the DPMS-based stuff, almost identically. However, PSA bought DMPS (and I think Bushmaster went with that deal), so this is probably the new stuff that PSA is resurrecting. Doesn't means it's PSA PA-10-based, at all - but it also doesn't mean it's stlll identical to the DPMS and Bushmaster stuff that was being made when Remington went under. PSA bought it, so they could change anything in the world with it, if they wanted to. Who knows if they really left it alone...

SLOBODIAN: First you lose your guns, then your freedoms Armed citizens are a deterrent to politicians and bureaucrats hankering to subdue and control the masses, stripping them of basic freedoms. https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/09/slobodian-first-you-lose-your-guns-then-your-freedoms/ The day the Aussies gave up their guns triggered the beginning of the end of their liberty. Now the land Down Under is a full-blown police state. Proud, strong, free, productive Australia is gone. This harsh, bitter transformation should be a warning to nations still clinging to the God, guns, and freedoms the hard-core left deeply despises. Aussies protesting totalitarian COVID-19 restrictions, the harshest in the free world, are fighting a seemingly hopeless battle for basic rights and freedoms by pelting rocks, bottles, golf balls, and batteries against heavily armed riot police. It was a sad day in Melbourne Wednesday when police were ordered to fire rubber bullets into a crowd of 400 protesters, then arrested about 200 who face hefty $5,000 US fines. These are regular law-abiding citizens, including tradesmen protesting a two-week closure of building sites, mandatory vaccinations, stay-at-home orders, and a succession of lockdowns. They’re tired of being told they can’t go outside, can’t go to church, can’t travel far from home. Authorities claimed it wasn’t so much ordinary working people in the crowd police fired upon, but extremist and far-right groups infiltrating the protests. That’s often a tired lie, an excuse used to justify overstepping boundaries when annihilating freedom. The Australian government, with an insatiable hunger for control and compliance, is planning to soon implement an app using facial recognition software to track movements and location. Aussies will be randomly texted, having 15 minutes to take a photo in their location. If they don’t comply, police will show up. The riots are expected to continue. This is by no means an attempt to suggest people should arm themselves against police who are obliged to follow orders and face the violent consequences of bad political decisions while the decision-makers safely hide behind armed guards. Law-abiding gun owners aren’t the problem. Criminals with easy access to weapons are. Armed citizens are a deterrent to politicians and bureaucrats hankering to subdue and control the masses, stripping them of basic freedoms. Law-abiding gun ownership is a safeguard that must be protected at all costs. In Australia gun confiscation disguised as a buyback program was rushed through Parliament in 1996 after a nut job massacred 35 people with a semi-automatic rifle. Gun crimes have steadily escalated since. But still, only sportsmen, Roo Shooters, ranchers, and law enforcement officials are allowed to own guns. Owning a weapon for self-defense is a criminal offence in Australia. We don’t see the devastation and despair Australia is facing unfolding in places like Texas where gun laws are relaxed. Bad guys tend to behave better if they don’t know if someone is packing. In Texas, even grandma carries a handgun in a holder on her hip or shoulder or anywhere she likes, because the law says she can. In fact, as of September 1 this year Texas law requiring people to have a license to carry a handgun — open or concealed — was removed. Texans over the age of 21 with no criminal record or mental health issues may carry to protect themselves in most public places, excluding schools, hospitals, amusement parks, if the gun is holstered. Of course, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, an advocate of freedom and liberty, would never unleash law enforcement on law-abiding Texans. But politicians come and go. Laws are the constant safeguard unless citizens willingly forsake them to left-wing loons. Aussies bought the lie. And they are paying a horrific price. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is lying to Canadians. His ban on 1,500 types of so-called assault-style firearms in May 2020 didn’t satisfy him. He promised, if re-elected, to crack down on legal firearms owners in a number of ways including restricting high-capacity magazines to holding no more than five rounds, bribe provinces to implement a ban on handguns, and introduce Red Flag laws which would confiscate guns if someone thinks someone is a threat, or maybe just wants to be nasty. Trudeau wants to toughen laws on banned assault weapons and make it mandatory for owners to either sell the firearm to the government for destruction or have it rendered permanently inoperable. So, a buyback program. That sure did Australians a lot of good. Will Canadians relinquish this one guarantee of civil liberties and place our safety in the hands of untrustworthy politicians and bureaucrats? The choice is simple. What will it be Australia or Texas? Or is it the beginning of the end of liberty for Canada too? Slobodian is the Senior Manitoba Columnist for the Western Standard lslobodian@westernstandardonline.com

Add 0.600" to that, and that's the length of gas tube that you'd need. Right on the money.

So, what's Mack whining about then?...

DOes that include adding 0.600" to the cam-pin center-to-gas port center? What number are you posting? Just center to center?

That Banshee line of delayed-rotating bolt guns doesn't. They take modified AR mags. This 10mm that he has isn't a Banshee model.

Owners of those guns couldn't have anyone dream up anything that would work, because those guns are inferior. The superior shotgun wins, in this case...

Easy way to figure it, because all gas tubes are made the same exact way, dimensionally... Center of cam pin cutout to center of gas port (mounted barrel), then add 0.600" to that length that you get. Every gas tube goes another 0.600" to it's end - past the gas port in it.

All the SIG 12.5" barrels that I helped figure out numbers on came out one of 2 ways, only. It was an 11.000" gas tube, or it was a 11.250" gas tube. No other gas tube lengths showed up in those discussions. So, if this is that SIG barrel... But, you re-drilled, so it's different.

^^^ That's a good bolt gun - I have that 300BLK that you have, and like it.

Looks good.

Kinda hard to do, with a bipod that doesn't move - -at all? Asking for a friend...

'Bout time you got back to the basics...

There are two internal depths for carbine extensions. 7.75" isn't one of them.

I'm just wondering if the original quoted article is blown out of proportion... "News heard something, so it must BE..." RFID tags can be peeled off easily. I'm just sayin'. We do it all the time when we buy something, and that annoying fatass sticker is on what we just bought. And we didn't "beep" when we left the store... I save them - to stick on something else.

Yeah, for sure. I'd never hunt that bipod that you listed above. It's locked, both ways, and pretty useless besides bench. If you hunted that bipod on groundhogs at 700~800 yards, you are superhuman. I blast 700~800 yards all the time, mostly on the same terrain - but it's never the same in the dirt, it always changes. My scope level tells me that, every time I line it up. At those kinds of distances, it matters. I think luck has been on your side - or we're not hearing about the misses... Just the kills... Harris does tilt (cant), but no pan. This is the ONLY company that makes a pan device for a Harris. I have one. I like it. https://www.harrisbipods.com/product/rba-1-adapter/ Harris doesn't make it - they just sell it. It's a cure to a problem, and Harris like it. Rota-Pod makes it for them. Now, I like what I have, with the Harris and Rota-Pod, but I bought that (years) before the MagPul bipod came out, too. Never again. MagPul bipod all the way.

Here's where the MagPul bipod really shines...

There are times out in the dirt, where that just won't work. And your scope (and gun) just can't get level. That = Impossible Shot. Works for bench shooting, though.

^^^ Will that swivel AND pan? How's it do when you're not on a perfectly level shooting platform? The Harris will swivel, but won't pan, unless you buy a specific aftermarket adapter. More $$$. The MagPul swivels (tilts) 50*, and nothing else in the industry does that. It also pans 40*. No matter which one (version) you buy. MSRP is $110, but that's not street price. No other bipod on the market does what the MagPul does, for the price - and for the level of ass-whippin' you can put to a bipod. But again, that's just what I think, after beating the fuk out of a bunch of them for a few years now. Example of "barricading" this bipod, even with the legs up... You just cannot beat this thing for the money that they want for it...

Internal depth is what matters. OAL doesn't mean a thing.

Just so it's out there, the Army has been doing something "similar" for years - before I got out. Just scan tags on the guns, and purely for inventory purposes. Make weapons inventory faster, instead of TWO SOLDIERS visually confirming every single serial number on every weapon. Just barcode scan tags, with a scanner, like in a grocery store.

Micro-stamping failed. States that approved micro-stamping (the only one I know of is Cali), now have gun manufacturers that won't comply with that law, and no longer sell their firearms in that state. The only people affected by that are the law-abiding citizens of Cali.

I knew it... You'll never stop, brother. It's in your blood. Get a good one for us.

That's a keeper - that's a damn good shooting, brand new gun, right there. Well done.