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He probably posted it, just for the very reason that this has already been decided, with a 54-page decision that outlined all of it... then it got political now, and the higher-than-Superior Court Judge, CT Supreme Court, made a NEW ruling that countered it. But they don't have the backup. They made it up. Uncle Ted was right posting that - it's already been decided,with details. Now, we have a bullshiit ruling that counters that. This will get squashed. I don't know if the liberals realize that, obviously celebrating right now, thinking "they've won!..." - but they've just handed the perfect case to the US Supreme Court...

It keeps getting better all the time, brother, no kidding. Long Distance, High Angle, short-course pistol, medium distance, rifle/pistol combo. Shotgun whatever you want. We've developed the dream, man, big time. Talks this past weekend were around going in as a group, and buying that property - and building a bigass cabin on it.

Hell yeah!...

In the Desert Southwest. I do this out on open land, 12 miles from my house, whenever I want to. No kidding. It's a freedom that can't be imagined, but it's pretty cool. Make sure you check out the illum on the new scope first - try to find a local place that's got one in stock, and just check it out. If it's hard to see on 1 or 2 in a shop, it should do the trick at night, and not be too bright. If you can't even see setting 1, in a shop, it'll certainly get it done.

Yep, that was the 2016 ruling, from a CT Superior Court Judge. Now, there's this new ruling from the CT Supreme Court, over-ruling that one, allowing them to be sued. That came down just a few days ago. It won't stand up, it'll get tossed by the next higher court. Which will push it to the US Supreme Court...

^^^ That's the proper test, right there.

I have a CMMG bolt setup, phosphated. It was cheap at a gun show in Dulles, VA, and the mags were cheap, so I bought it. It works wonderfully, now, but it took alot of breaking-in. I eventually rubbed all the contact rails with a scotch-brite pad to smooth it out even more. I should have done that in the beginning, and saved ammo, but I didn't know, then. That was either 2009 or 2010. The stainless ones don't have that break-in issue, and they are ALOT more smooth-running, right out of the gate. I'd buy it again, honestly, even the phosphated one - and I'd short-cut that break-in on it, right away, now that I know.

Thank ya, brother, I mean that. Anyone can do this stuff - it's just a little bit of math and about 70% Nerd Magic. I'm just a knuckle-dragging geek running the math, with a little bit of practice. Once you understand the mechanics in all of it, estimate range, read wind accurately (enough), understand your scope internals, apply proper shooting fundamentals - it's easy to out to 800 on these calibers. With the right loads, it's easy to do with 5.56. I pulled it of with 25/45 the first time I tried it, but that was 17 mils of drop... Fuk me, that was rough... After that 800 yards, you need to make sure you're right on all that stuff, to connect. I'm gonna Google-Earth some coordinates tonight - I'm pretty sure I've got 1300 yards available, with great visibility. That'll be coming up before it gets hot here - so, SOON... We had some wicked-fucked-up wind out there that day, with gusts to 20. It kinda sucked.

Yep, I understand that. I'm talking about the other rifles from the same manufacturer, in the 18" versions - that everyone thinks are overgassed...

Adjustable gas has two purposes - regulate between suppressed and unsuppressed, so you're not beating up gun parts when you add your can. Next, race guns, where the follow-up shots have to be super-fast, and the gun has to be fast/flat shooting. They tailor a load based on competition numbers (power factor), then they cut that gas down so that load barely even functions the rifle. Crazy lightweight buffers and BCGs, super springs, adjustable gas... Everything in both systems (recoil and gas) gets cut in weight and pressure (gas pressure and spring pressure). Rack-grade rifles from manufacturers are not race guns. They need to function with great ammo and crap ammo, in all weather conditions, even if the shooter isn't shouldering it properly and doesn't have the stock planted in the pocket of the shoulder (effectively "limp-wristing" it by not giving it a foundation to recoil off of). I have no suppressors - yet. I don't own a single adjustable gas block, either. My rifles need to function on any ammo, but they need to function, number one. I only had to change one up completely, because I bought a bunch of quality factory parts - that weren't right. Took me quite some time to determine what the issues were, too. After that, I learned my lesson, and carefully selected allmy recoil system and gas system parts, and I really payed attention to gas port diameter. I was bound and determined not to repeat the mistakes I made trusting a big-name manufacturer to get it right in the Big ARs. I could benefit from adjustable gas blocks on all my rifles, because I reload - I tailor a load to each gun, so I could cut gas down. Then, as soon as I need some ammo from wal-mart for something, the gun doesn't work... Since everything else, hardware-wise, is correct, I don't need an adjustable block, because it's not recoiling like a fiend on me, and it'll run anything I throw in it...

With 0.070" gas ports on 18" mid-gas barrels, they weren't overgassed. That gasport is about 0.010~0.015" too small for that configuration, on a 0.750" gasblock diameter. They didn't have enough buffer weight, nor recoil spring strength... Take the weights out of one of your AR15 carbine buffers, and get it to about 1.5oz. Shoot it like that - it'll feel overgassed, too... That's the easiest way to explain it.

That all depends on the nature of the issue with the rifle. The most common complaint about them is that they are overgassed, and everyone tells them to get an adjustable gasblock to cure that. Pretty hard to be overgassed when the gas port diameter is smaller than it should be.

I was hoping you were going to say that - that is great news, and you have nothing to worry about, then. I can tell you that Sierra Game Kings are accurate, and Hornady SSTs are accurate. I haven't loaded any GMXs or ELD-Xs yet, myself, but they're supposed to be good. The ELD-X is supposed to be just as good as the ELD-M, and I load the crap out of the ELD-Ms, and they DO perform.

Thanks, guys! Pat, that cracks me up, brother!...

Here's an example - tough to do this at night without an illum reticle, but the amountof illum it can dial is important. Not much to look at, but much to hear. There a longer vid like this somewhere here, with us ripping up the 450 target just like this. This was the 200 yard steel, before we broke it.

That sounds good - I'd do that no problem. I'll send you a PM.

Thank you, my brother... You were the central part of the awesomeness this weekend, and we got ALOT of guys out for a Spring Shoot this time. It was one hell of a great weekend, in parts, and a whole. I'm glad we picked the weekend between our birthdays for this one - so Happy Belated Birthday to you, too!... The .50 was fuckin' SICK...

The baddest 22LR ARs being made right now are from Tippmann. Yeah, no joke, the paintball gun guys. I shiit you not.

Just went through this over the weekend, with the night shoots to 450 yards. Not "low-light" shoots - night shoots, when it's DARK. Not only is an illum reticle almost mandatory (unless you're shooting in a full moon, no cloud cover, and the moon is behind you), the amount of illum on the lowest setting is very, very important for night shooting. If your "Number 1" is bright as hell, and you can't turn it down from there, then it's worthless for shooting at night. I had a scope that I had to turn to (between) 2 and 3 for shooting that distance, at midnight. I tried both... It worked wonderfully for that.

Whatever their response is, it'll be interesting to see - please post it. The bottom line is this - the gas tube ends at the center of the cam pin cutout in the upper receiver - look at ANY AR15, and that's what you'll find, because there's apublished pattern for that, and it's the Colt Technical Data Package (TDP) from military contracts. It goes way deeper than that, though, back to the development of the system, back to Armalite There are some larger-frame manufacturers that think this doesn't matter. Large Frame has two gas systems - DPMS-based, which uses AR15 gas tubes, and gas tube lengths (and gas port locations). Armalite AR-10-based, which use gas tubes developed and made for the larger height-over-bore of a .308, over the AR15 - and the gas tubes are longer, with a gas port in a different location. That comes from the inventor of the rifle, Eugene Stoner. He developed that, and it was first, before the AR15. On average,AR-10 gas tubes are 3/16" longer than AR15 gas tubes, as well as having different bends in them, for the height-over-bore differences. These days, there are barrel manufacturers that think they'll just make a gas port that's half way in between AR15 specs, and the Armalite AR-10 dimensions - then, you as the user, can buy whatever gas tube that hits your door, and it'll work for most of the people, with most of the ammo, most of the time. It's easy to NOT stick with a spec, either AR15 or AR-10, and it works most of the time. Gas TIMING is what's affected most with this "issue of port location." But, it's no big deal, according to the "halfway people." You should have gas pressure to the bolt carrier gas key until that gas key clears the mid-point of that cam pin cutout. At that point, the excess gas vents, when the gas key separates from the end of the gas tube. You run a short gas tube, and you stop that gas pressure before it was intended to be stopped, by the designer of the platform. Now, combine a buffer that's too light, a spring that everybody makes to NO SPEC, and manufacturer off the street that thought they'd jump in this Large Frame Game, you get a receiver extension that's 0.100" too long in internal depth... and let's top that off with a gas port that's to small... You have a gun that doesn't run - due to all that stuff combined. It will suck, on any ammo. I've geeked out on recoil systems for these things for a long time. Done the same with gas system specs (or lack of specs), and this "halfway" gas port location, which is bullshiit. We measure hammer lock-time in milliseconds. It matters, for accuracy. And there are manufacturers out there that are ignoring proper gas system length - which affects the entire bolt-unlocking and extraction process BY MILLISECONDS... and it's no big deal... they say... It makes a difference.

@painterman do you reload any ammo? If you do, give the Hornady GMX, SST, or ELD-X projectiles a try. They are all hunting projectiles, and all very good. You load up something in the 165~175 range, and they'll all perform great for you, in hunting. Sierra 165gr Game Kings are also very accurate, and specific hunting projectiles. 90gr Sierra Game Kings are by far the most accurate projectiles that I've found, so far, for my 25/45 Sharps. 90gr Hornady GMX is the next test on loads for that gun.

^^^ What happened to that gun, the issue, is a Failure to Eject from the rifle, because of a Failure to Extract. The extraction is the primary problem, because the extractor let go of the casing too early - because of a weak extractor spring. The secondary issue of the extractor letting go (due to the weak spring) was that the casing wouldn't get out of the gun- Failure to Eject.

I'm no genius, but I watch the stuff going on with all these rifles, regardless of brand. For your FTE issues, are the casings coming out of the chamber? Are they getting out of the rifle? FTE can be "Failure to Extract" and also "Failure to Eject." This right here is REALLY INTERESTING, and it just happened recently - I've never seen this one before, but the correction for it is in here - It's definitely worth looking into:

The Long Distance side was excellent, and sucked at the same time. It was a very good day, overall, but we had hellish wind. The only thing I took over there was the .260 Rem. The brake on this gun is the VG6 6.5 Gamma. That brake just plain works, and I could watch every impact (or miss) on all the shots, right through the scope. It works very, very well. I was the only one to poke the 500 yard target. First round hit at 2 3/4 mil holdover (no dialing), saw what I got, and moved on. I'll take this all day long. There were several people shooting at the 842 this time - that's just where it ended up in the dirt, distance-wise, when we planted it on this one. I crushed that thing right out of the gate, with 6.5 mils of drop. Shocked the hell out of me. There weren't alot of guys hitting the 1010 yard target, but I was getting that thing with 9.0 mils of dialing. The hits were very impressive. This was mostly .260 Rem and 6.5 Creedmoor contact, here, and there's not a bad shot on this target - and not every shot did hit the target, either. It was a tough day on it. There was anywhere between 1.5~2.5 mils of wind hold to hit this guy - it was changing all the time. That's a 10mph wind minimum, right there, at 1.7 mils, for this load.

I'll buy that mount from you - I used one of them on the 12.5" Grendel, and I like it. Just lemme know what you had to pay for it, and I'll pay for shipping from you to me, too.