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I'm ALWAYS down for that - let me know when we start.

I've already defined it, explained it - you must have missed that. Keep looking. I've explained Dwell Time.

Point out those gaps, then. Let it rip. Plenty of room for "theory" here - and again, let that rip. Post your info. I'm always willing to learn, and do so every single day. I'm not afraid of learning something new.

That makes sense, brother - and I get that. Right now, I'd HATE to move all the shiit I have. If I was pushed, I'd find a way, but I wouldn't like doing it. I get it.

You just defined "Dwell Time." Congrats.

You just stated the point I made - thank you. PRESSURE. Runs this gun. RECOIL SYSTEM... cycles this gun. Thank you. The Speed Limit of all the pressure that you're all wrapped up around is constricted by the size of the tube that delivers the pressure - the gas tube. The internal diamater of the gas tube is 0.125" ID, max. Never gets any bigger. Go run the math on that one.

I love what you do, if that matters. Very, very impressive, and I mean that.

You're WAY OVERTHINKING gas guns. Stop doing research, and start shooting gas guns. Post your studies, that you've been watching and learning from. I'll wait for your posts on this...

Speed of sound vs. temperature doesn't have a single thing to do with how an AR operates. Gas Pressure of the charge in the round has everything to do with how the AR operates. Speed of sound doesn't matter, temp doesn't matter. I can get WAY INTO how temp (and specifically, Density Altitude) affects where your bullet goes, at long range... But that doesn't have a single thing to do with how the gun actually operates. Gas pressure is what makes this gun RUN. The RECOIL SYSTEM, that's what makes this gun CYCLE... If it doesn't RUN - you have a gas problem. If it doesn't CYCLE, you have a recoil problem. If it doesn't FEED - you have a magazine problem. It doesn't get any more simple, than that.

Yes it does. And it takes committment. It takes the realization of "I'm not going to take this ANYMORE!" That's what it comes to. being fed up with the bullshiit. Same with residents - and we see residents leaving that state IN DROVES. Just because of the policies/taxes/bullshiit. People are fed up with it. They're leaving, and they've been elaving for years now. When the time comes to move, brother - I have a temporary bunk for you, out here in AZ. Let's see how "purple" AZ plays out this election, before any decisions to "jump off the bridge" comes. If AZ goes to shiit - I'm not scared. I'll leave this fucker right away. My skills are portable - means I own my skills, and I can apply them anywhere. I've moved so many times, militarily, that moving somewhere knew doesn't phase me in the least. If this place turns into a shiitbucket, I'll drop it right now, pack my shiit, and go somewhere else more "friendly" to what I like. Too many people are hung up about "I could never leave this place..." Sure you can. You can leave right now, and live a better life, some other place. We all can. We're just too scared to uproot, and do it. I'm not. I've uprooted for more than 20 years, moving (sometimes) every single year. Most I ever staying somewhere at once, was 5 years total. 10 years when you count that I went right back to that same place, after a tour in Korea. Don't be afraid to move. The grass CAN be greener on the other side. If you get there, and it's not - minor mistake, but it was better than what you left... Right? Get out, then, and go to where it IS greener. For real. One thing to REMEMBER, when you go somewhere else - DO NOT TAKE YOUR POLITICS WITH YOU. Do not. Example - Durango CO, Boulder, CO, Boseman, MT... Austin, TX, too... Mass exodus from California, by Californians, to those areas - wrecked those areas. Why? Those that left Cali took their "politics" with them, applied those politics to where they moved to - and wrecked those areas. Starting in the mid-80s, that happened, too, as exodus Cali's moved up the Left Coast, to Oregon, and Washington - those two states are now a Liberal Wasteland, these days. I lived it - I was in it, and watched it go down. Right during those times, military. Wasn't my choice, I went where I was sent. Loved Cali in the mid-80s to early '90s. Loved Washington in the early '90s until I left in 2004... Then, WA went to shiit, shortly there after... Lib policies wrecked it. Sold my house there in 2007, because I knew I could never, ever live there again - no matter how much I loved the terrain, areas, and the things that you can do there. Dive the Puget Sound on Saturday, go skiiing on Crystal Mountain in Sunday... 4-Wheel Evans Creek ORV Area this weekend, go scuba diving and skiing the following weekend... Nope. Can't go back. Amazing there. Too many Liberals in charge, and Seattle has proven that. This is not a bash in Cali people, WA people - this is a bash in Cali Liberals, Washington Liberals, and the spread. That spread wiped out a great portion of our country, and it's still ongoing right now. Cali's that were "tired of Cali" started it, and it was started in the mid-'80s. Gang-Bangin' had a large part to do with it, and so did the drug-trade, out of SoCal, into Middle-Cal, and then right up the Left Coast, infecting OR, then WA... I could go on about this for hours, with personal experience to back it all up. Already lived it. If AZ turns to shiit - I'm OUT. No personal feelings, no hesitation, not scared. I'll move towards a free-er state, and won't think twice about it. Never thought I'd have to make that decision, in AZ - but if I have to, it won't bother me in the least. I'll be OUT.

Since the Beaver came up in that thread, I'll just spill the Beaver story. Right here and right now, dug up deeeeep from the archives here. The only thing I can say, is that "I'm gifted, with nature..." Every time you think you're going out "hunting" - you're not. You're going into Combat. I shiit you not. If you want to fuk with nature, you better be ready for it. Here's the Beaver Incident... It's really funny to laugh about this in a "funny jokes" thread. Until it happens TO YOU... One day, I'll break the Skunk Story, poor little kid on his paper-route, early in the morning. I fucked that skunk up, with a rolled up newspaper - but not before "I was GOT..." There are SO MANY more "nature stories" that I've got. Bottom line - it pays to be a combative person, in life. Otherwise, we'd have been eaten long ago. Fight HARD, men, and never, ever give up. Don't EVER give up. If you don't think, deep inside you, that you ARE the Apex Predator - something's gonna eat you. Thus endeth the sermon...

Wild how that makes it around. Blows my mind. Been a long time since this has haunted me.

When you piece those pieces altogether, it's more than that, brother. I can't even piece that stuff together for $1038 with a 10% mil discount. Mk12 Mod 0's are no joke to build. It's WAY cheaper to build a Mod 1. Skeery. You're $317 just in the sights. $332 for the rail. $178 for the PEQ top rail, that is the backbone that really makes a Mod 0. $89.95 for the GasBuster with Combat Latch. $190 for the Allen Engineering brake and collar. I'm at $1,106.95 for all that, and that's just looking up the parts in black - not FDE. The FDE raises the price a little. Maybe I could pull this a little cheaper than the $1038. Way too much going on right now to log in and look all that shiit up again... I bet I could pull it a little cheaper, though.

Works for me - his idiotic edict that returned elders with COVID directly to nursing homes had a very direct impact on how bad COVID really GOT in this country. New York blew up, and further infected the rest of this country. Hell yeah, Blame Cuomo. His dumbass decisions directly impacted how bad this virus GOT in the US. The stories are out there - if you can find them anymore, being that most of that shiit got scrubbed from the 'net.

4-year old thread, man. Just sayin'.

Has nothing to do with temperature - it's pressure. Gas PRESSURE it what operates this platform, and it doesn't matter if it's a DI system or a piston system.

To a certain degree, yes, it's trial and error, especially for the different calibers that we all love. For certain calibers, it's experience, but it can be calculated to a range, and it'll work within that range, for sure. Gas Systems and Recoil Systems are tied in together, and there's no way in the world that anyone can refute that fact. They're all able to work, because of gas port diameter in the barrel. It goes way deeper than that, per gas-tube-length, though. Your later question, in red, would have been better asked first. Then it would make more sense. Read your red question first, and my answer - then read your orange question next, then my answer... What you're talking about is a Can Of Worms that I opened up here a very long time ago. I've written about it, as best I can, in detail, here.

Specifically, TightGroup is such a small flake, it's even smaller than some very fine ball powders. Two that come to mind are Accurate 2520 and Accurate 2495. Very fine ball powders. TightGroup is smaller than those. Not that it means anything towards this conversation - just stating that TightGroup is not your common flake powder.

Precision Reflex, Inc carbon fiber free float tube. Same design as used on the Mk12 Mod 0. https://www.precisionreflex.com/ They just started doing some UNREAL cool stuff, and are offering "packages." https://www.precisionreflex.com/Detail.aspx?PROD=1424261&CAT=12357

Ronnie Barrett was one of the very first gun manufacturers to show enough balls to do this, and he did it decades ago, to California. Cali banned the Barrett M82 rifle, so Ronnie banned all firearms sales to Cali. Since then, we've seen more and more gun/magazine/components manufacturers "unfriending" gun-hostile states. One of two things will ultimately happen - those state residents, of those afected "banned states" will VOTE and fix the issue - or they won't fix the issue - and will be forced to move to another state, in order to enjoy their freedom. Citizens can fix these states with these stupid gun laws - by voting those shiitheads OUT. That'll take decades. // Break // People can move. ^^^ That's the dumbed-down version, but it's the only way to fix this. Ronnie Barrett proved that a business can literally "cut off some customers" and still survive, as a business. Others followed suit - even knowing that they might lose some money - but in the long run, they'll still survive. Sucks for the residents, but again - we're back at that Hard Question...

We did already - those 7 companies are listed above, brother, opening post. Let's see if the 7 new buyers bring those employees back, whichever of the 7 those may be. Remington hung them out to dry. Didn't bargain in any sell-off negotiations for them, to have them retained - just nothing. Here's your Pink Slip. Buh-Bye. Just like they did to other companies that THEY absorbed in the past, though...

Weird piece in that article, and I'll get into it later. I still have a Kimber .308 Win bolt action rifle, and it's a Clackamas, OR gun - before Yonkers, NY.

Kimber is out - tired of the bullshiit. https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2020/10/27/kimber-moving-headquarters/ Kimber Moving Headquarters To Troy, AL Posted at 7:00 pm on October 27, 2020 by Tom Knighton I’ve always been a little amazed at how many gun companies call themselves home in various anti-gun states. These are states where the powers that be want to destroy their entire business, and yet many have stayed there for some insane reason. However, that’s been changing in recent years. Several companies have bailed on their anti-gun states and sought refuge in friendlier climates. It seems we can now add Kimber to that group as well. Kimber Manufacturing, a company that makes a variety of firearms and ammunition, is transitioning its corporate headquarters from New York to its facility in Troy, Alabama. The decision to change the location of the company’s headquarters was first announced last week, and much of the work has already been completed. A release from the company notes that “leadership, R&D and manufacturing resources” are now in place at the 225,000 square-foot facility in Troy. Kimber is now “adding staff across all departments” to complete the transition. The gunmaker’s massive presence in the Wiregrass is still relatively new. Governor Kay Ivey first announced it in her state of the state address in 2018. At the time, it was described as a manufacturing capacity expansion, not a new headquarters, but the executives at Kimber appear to have grown fond of the Yellowhammer State. The gunmaker was founded in Yonkers, New York, in 1979 and remained headquartered there until its recent transition to Alabama. Of course, New York isn’t friendly to Kimber customers. While most, if not all, of Kimber’s offerings are still legal in the state, it’s still not a good place to be a gun owner. Not by any stretch of the imagination. As such, it makes sense to relocate to a state that won’t look at you like you’re 55 kinds of evil just for existing. Enter Alabama. Now, as a Georgian, I make a lot of jokes at Alabama’s expense, but the state is most definitely a pro-gun state where Kimber will find a great many supporters. It’s not likely to find oppressive governmental overreach hitting their bottom line, something I wouldn’t rule out in New York. Honestly, as more and more gun companies are relocating to pro-gun states, particularly in the Deep South, you’d think that if the gun industry was big enough to terrify congressmen as some have suggested, then the economic repercussions of angering the industry would keep states from passing gun control. It’s clearly not. Especially when you have a company laying off hundreds of employees on Monday with no severance package. At the end of the day, Kimber is finding a new home. As time rolls on, you’ll see more and more companies based in pro-gun states as anti-gunners run them and the millions of dollars they bring into local communities away. Frankly, many of the poorer states in the South could use the jobs, so we thank the anti-gunners for their hard work in boosting the economies of many of these communities. Oh, the didn’t mean to do it, but results matter in the grander scheme of things.

Remington did the exact same thing with Marlin Firearms, when they consumed that company. And we had fucked-up Lever Guns for quite awhile. Because they fired all the Marlin workers, the magicians that made those magic Lever Guns for decades and decades. The Rem-Lins and Mar-Lingtons that came out of that mess, shortly afterwards - were a disaster. Yep, fired all the dedicated Marlin workers. Hmmm... Anyone seeing a pattern here?...

Just got worse for workers of Remington. 585 layed off, no severance, nothing. https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Bankrupt-Remington-gun-company-lays-off-585-15675165.php On a historical note, when Remington bought out Bushmaster Firearms in Windham, Maine - Remington closed the factory and let all the workers go. Buh-bye. And they moved Bushmaster Firearms to another state. Those resilient Maine-ers wouldn't take that as an answer, bought back the abandoned factory, and started their OWN company - Windham Weaponry. But... didn't the current Remington workers see the writing on the wall, back then - when Remington fucked over Bushmasher employees?... History just repeated itself, right there.