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Read the book, or just keep asking questions. It's all up to you at this point. Risk it. Show me how brave you are. If you only shoot 100 yards, then what is your goal?

Now, you guys are talking about Density Altitude... But you didn't know that before now - unless you're just asking questions to cause issues. Density Altitude will affect the speed of sound, speed of your projectiles, and small airplanes in flight - at altitude. Density Altitude is what they have to calculate, to make sure they have enough gas to fly where they're going to - and not crash beforehand. Read the book. Ask questions to the author, and not me. You'll understand alot more after you read it. Or, not.

Read this. I've read it over and over, and every time I finish, I start it again. When you have questions about any information in here, make sure you contact Brian Litz, and not me. He wrote it, and he's probably better at answering your questions than I would be - about his work.

Tell me why you think that about me - you formed that opinion somehow? That's not the case about me at all, and if you knew me, you're DEFINITELY know better. I like shooting long distance, more than anything else, and I do it often, and I don't do it poorly. If you're here to "ask why about why" - then you need to put in your own research to satisfy your own goals in that. We don't have any guess about your "why is why" - and only you can figure that out. Be sure to post up your results, though.

In that reference, speed of sound doesn't have anything to do with it, not in the least. Speed of sound is 330m/sec. Projectiles travel alot faster than that, once fired. "Flame front velocity" all depends on the weight of the projectile, and the powder used, as to how fast that powder reacts to it's ignition, and begins pushing that projectile out of the case...

Then put in the research, discover what you're really looking for, and post back your results.

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