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Brother, I think we've talked about this briefly before... There's an easy future in who you are, what you've done, and what you can do in this industry. Smart fuckers know who you are, by name and recognition. There's a market you can crush, that no one else can touch. No matter who they are - they'll never be YOU. You might not have ever come to grips with this - but you are a legendary motherfucker. You NEED to attend the Fall Shoot this year, so we can discuss this over a beer. Or 58-ish beers. That night(s)...

Real men would'a made a 10mm by now... I'm just sayin'... Serious shiit, though, no jokes - fuk are you using for a recoil system?... I'm WAY curious on that part, and how this thing does in function...

Use it all you want, brother - I'll flip those slings and send them to you. You pay shipping difference in "real" Molson Golden even trade, or whatever you have that's better... and we're GOOD!... Send me these... 😘

No shiit... Until you find what kills us...

Nope, I've been military most of my life, and I've been in the powersports industry since military retirement. It was powersports (smaller engines, easier to work on) or the auto industry - my choice. I'd rather pick up a 1000cc engine out of the frame, than lug a TH350 across a shop. I've been a mechanic my whole fuckin' life, brother. Big parts or smaller parts was MY choice. I've lugged enough transmissions and engines from trucks to realize that the smaller stuff is WAY easier on ME. I can tell you THIS, though - someone brings me some muddy, fucked up machine for an oil change - I tell them - and HAVE TOLD THEM - I'm not working on that machine, until you take it to some car wash and CLEAN IT. I'm not working on that. You BRING IT TO ME IN A MANNER TO WORK ON IT, for the work you're requesting, and I'll do that work - But I'm NOT working on it like that. They either clean it and come back - or they don't. I'm not working on their neglected shiit. I'm not at a lack for work. You don't bring in your machine for "routine maintenance" in order for me to clean that neglected piece of shiit for you - YOU clean YOUR machine. Not my job. My job is to fix your fucked up shiit - which is usually from a lack of maintenance, and you broke it. You dust your engine? I'll clean the insides, of the debris you made, during the engine rebuild. So, that's worked out for me, and I'm not starving. Were you starving?... Don't tell me how to run a business - I've been successful at it, with what I do. I'm still doing it, and I haven't changed my ways. Tell me this, @survivalshop - you're in that world of engines. You ever take your Harley out on a long ride, that went nasty? Bike all grimey and shiit? You EVER think about taking your bike into the local Harley dealer that you love, and pull into the Service Department, and tell the Service Writer "Detail my bike, it's all fucked up and dirty..." Yeah. No, you've never done that - 'cause you'd get your ass laughed out of there. Clean your OWN bike. Clean your OWN gun, man. I'm not that hard up for work, that I'm gonna clean someone's dirtyass, neglected gun. Doesn't matter what I'd charge that fuckhead for it. Take my $0.02 for what it's worth - but don't try to talk down to me and tell me I need to clean someone's fucked up guns for money, because "that's the way it is." That will only be the way it is, because YOU, as the FFL and Gunsmith, decided that was the way you were gonna do it, to make money.

MaDuce would be proud. Kid you not.

As a woman, and a smaller one at that, you have a tougher time, by far. If you were a Yeti like Moo-chelle Obama - nobody would wanna have anything to do with you. As a smaller, non-yeti woman... you definitely have a tougher time, than a 7-foot tatted, stacked, 'roid-rage looking guy would. Your job ain't easy, and it's actually worse. That's a tough position to be in, I get it. Seen it. My baddest Ex was 5'2", blond, blue-eyed and about 125 pounds, and rock solid. She'd rather punch a fucker out than draw a gun - always looked like she was looking for a fight, once the "confrontation" might come out - she never had a problem, never needed her gun. Flip side to that coin, she always thought she was so tough, that she never "needed a man for anything, she could so it all on her own..." That's what ended that one... Attitude rules, always... Just don't let it rule you, overall, though...

I have been in a situation, here in AZ, in a small town - on my bike. Two drunk fuckheads in a truck saw me come out of a store, and get on the bike - they were sitting in the truck. The mouthy one said, "Hey, you need to give me your bike!" I told the asshead, "If you can take my bike from me, you can have it..." Silence... I sat on the bike and looked at them... Until they started their truck and drove off. Don't ever act like a victim, or prey. Yes, I was armed, they were too drunk to see the open-carry gun. Good for them, great decision on their part, before it went any further. They would NOT have left with my bike.

^^^ That wasn't directed at you @Peachey in some kind of a direct manner - it was just seeing the words presented. You are not a target, just because you open carry. You'll only be a target if you look weak, and some predator thinks they can take you. You'll never be the "first target" just because you have a gun. You might be the "first target" if you have a gun, and don't look like it belongs on you. In the WAY wrong neighborhood, wrong time, etc. In those cases, I conceal, but I don't ever let any fucker think that I'm "that weak target that they'll attack." Just don't be weak. Your persona is what matters the most, even in what this world is becoming today. Conduct yourself in a manner, at all times, that "you never look like easy prey..."

I've been open-carrying mainly, where ever I go in AZ, since I moved here in 2004. There's a definite "fantasy" or "fallacy" that being an open-carry person "makes you a target." I've never been a "target" at all, just from carrying an open carry gun. Never, ever, have I been in a situation where someone else has tried to take my gun, because they've seen it on my hip, ever, here. Ain't the concern. I left WA state in 2004 to move here, and had a concealed license there. WEasn't my choice to move, but I didn't realize at the time that "I moved to freedom." In July 2010, AZ passed the "Constitutional Carry" law. If I'm legal, over 21, I can conceal without a permit. I don't conceal often - I open carry more than anything. That doesn't make me any kind of a "target" at all, I can tell you that with 15 years of it now. You'll never be a target just because you have a pistol presented, carrying open. You might be a target if you look weak, and some fuckbag thinks they can overpower you - criminals don't look for a serious fight, they look for an easy target. Most open carry people don't look like that. Predators only prey upon the weak. Don't be weak. Don't look weak. If you carry a gun, you have responsibilities, both personal and public. You all know what those are, and it's up to you to determine if that's something you can handle, in the ultimate test. That's no one's choice (or responsibility) but yours - and it only falls onto your OWN personal assessment. You can either ultimately do that, or you cannot. Nobody else can answer that riddle but you...

You have those skills brother, in spades. Machine what you have to - and I already know that you are. More power to you, do whatever you can, with the time that you have available. Save as many other owners as you can, mass produce what you can - you know what I mean. Don't ever give up, brother.

I had that box before the stickers - so now I have to find the damn pack of stickers Neil sent me, and fix that problem!...

Nah, they live longer so they can torture us until we die...

That's exactly what I did with the first 18" Grendel - told him the color, the color combos on the paint, etc... Told him what I wanted... He told me, "Do you trust me? Can I make up something that will work, and send it to you?" Uh, HELL YEAH, brother! It was flawless...

That's old-school BS right there, circa 2013. Florida has since corrected that, and made it very clear. Here's an excellent (lawyer opinion) recent example. Published 29 May 2019. https://www.uslawshield.com/concealed-weapon-panics-florida/

No, YOU brought them into it, on your own, and went on a diick-sucking parade about bikers. Once you had your IN to derail the thread, there you went. You can post your garbage anywhere else on this board, and it'll be dealt with everywhere else on the board, but keep your bullshiit out of this thread. Comprende? If you don't comprende, I'll break it down for you, quick-like.

I use the Bore Snakes routinely. They're great - for getting that buildup of high-round count shooting out of the gun. Awesome. They're also great for getting that oil-or-whatever-shiit out of a new barrel, so you can see what the barrel really looks like with a digital bore scope. I use them routinely, across multiple calibers - 5.56, .308, and 6.5mm. I have brushes, patches, rods, cables, and all that other shiit, too. Different games for different people, but Bore Snakes are far from being "a useless item."

That's adjustable on the RCBS dies you listed. You can set the decapping pin depth.

Pretty damned tempting...

Let me break this down for you in terms that should clearly be easy to understand. The bottom line of THIS FUCKING SUBJECT, RIGHT HERE THAT YOU'RE POSTING IN, IS ABOUT THE NEW ZEALAND GUN BAN. FUCKING PERIOD. DO YOU GET THAT NOW? Take your fucking off-topic bullshiit to another area of the board, I don't care where. Just don't toss your fucking garbage in here. I hope for you, that you get that through your head.

It was the pass-through hole to insert that pin, from the inside, then they peen it in place from the outer (opposite) side.

He has his own section here, brother. Best guy you'll every likely meet, too - just badass https://forum.308ar.com/forum/118-beachin-tactical/

Hey, SS - do me a favor. Call White Oak Armory or Fulton Armory and ask them how much it costs to send your gun to them for "cleaning..." I'm SURE you'll get an answer... but you might not like it. That's not what they do...

As a business owner, I'd try to tailor my business towards a "niche service" or 'niche set of performance goals." Cleaning guns, as a gunsmith, it's one of them. YOU clean YOUR gun. Your gun is broken? I can fix it. Your gun is DIRTY? I'll call you and tell you your gun is dirty, and it doesn't work, because you're too lazy/dumb/uneducated to CLEAN it. At that point, if the gun owner comes to the shop, I charge them to teach them how to break it down, to clean it.... HEFTY, too. I'm in a customer service, pleasure business, SS. I fix broken pleasure vehicles, not daily drivers. I tweak shiit, make it better, faster, whatever - you well know what I do. Tell my on the phone that you want me to dyno your Harley, and you bring me that thing muddy as fuk, Florida swamp grass hanging off it. I'm not putting that thing on MY dyno like that. At that very point, I'll tell you to take it home, CLEAN IT, and bring it back when you're ready to load it on the drum. Buh Bye, hope you come back clean... Personal BUSINESS is about what YOU are willing to do. I'm not cleaning guns, as a gunsmith. AS a gunsmith, "Cleaning YOUR guns" will not be on my "service menu options" either. As a Gun Shop Owner, as you state, I would not tailor my business into cleaning someone's neglected gun, because they're to lazy/dumb/uneducated to do it. I wouldn't open up a business that tailors to that. I'd be smarter than that. You don't HAVE to service EVERYONE, and you NEVER need to have EVERY customer. There ARE customers that you can look right in the eye, and tell them that you don't need their business. I've done it. Buy, whatever. You do you, and tell me how to do my own work... If I own the business, I'll tell you this much - you, the customer, are not gonna tell me how to run my own business...

That right there tells the whole story... Am I wrong here?...