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It takes one HELL of a drumset - and a magical amount of drummer-skill - to pull that song off. As you can see. That is badass.

I figure this is appropriate here...

That's one of the greatest, right there...

Butterbean knocked people out of the RING with body shots...

That video was WAY back in the day, when it was OKAY to shoot the remote controlled target... before "budgets" were a concern... I'm talking about early '80s, when this shiit was going down, and I was there, in those "age-year terms..." It's okay - you fuckers will get "old" and you won't even know it happened... I'll point at you and laugh when you realize that shiit, too...

Don't ever underestimate a fat man. Especially when he has no neck - and his head is hooked directly onto his body. Butterbean is my hero.

Yep, I grew up with that. My Dad was in the Ohio National Guard for 39 years. When I was about junior high and high school aged, he was a Bn Cdr of one of the Air Defense Artillery BNs. We'd go up there and stay in a cottage while he was on annual training for two weeks. They had these things called R-CATs - remote controlled planes, and big fuckers. They'd have a target tied/tethered from the back of them, and fly across the firing line, and the ADA gunners were supposed to shoot at the towed target. One summer, some gunner shot the plane, and the damn thing came down pretty close to the cottage we were staying at... That gunner got praised for his skills, but got his a$s chewed for the amount of money that the plane cost them... Holy shiit - I found a video on this stuff. M42 Dusters was exactly what the guns were... This is wild.

Ironically, my day job now is high performance race engines for powersports products... Getting 230+ hp to the tires, through a CVT transmission, from a one liter engine is a rush... You measure everything, you tech everything, you check everything, and you clearance everything. The minute you don't do that, you blow up something that ends up costing you alot of money...

One thing Floydie said that I don't agree with... Nope. Not true. I've got a handful of these Big ARs now, and I've never broken one of the bolt stops. They certainly don't break bolt stops, quite often. He was given bad information from someone that didn't determine the cause of his own broken bolt stops, and fix it properly. Also, in reference to this comment from him: My $0.02 on that... A "world class gunsmith for the 1911 and other handguns" is not necessarily smart on AR gunsmithing. A world class 1911 gunsmith qualification does not automatically give you a "world class" qualification in everything, every platform...

Exactly, brother - I think you solved the issue. Floydie is thinking WAY too far into this, and he saw numbers, and thought someone was posting "specs," - when there aren't specs on this platform. There are work-arounds - because there are no specs. When I built my first 308AR, it was all DPMS genuine guts, with Fulton Armory BCG and barrel. I didn't measure anything, but headspace, and put it together. The second one I build was all mixed parts on Aero receivers - and I got a weird carbine receiver extension. And I had weird function issues that I couldn't trace to anything that I knew about these things. I ripped the whole gun apart, and started measuring everything out against that first DPMS rifle, and the damn receiver extension was 7.100" internal depth, and the spring didn't match anything for "proper references" on 308 carbine springs, and the 2.500" buffer was WAY too light to be correct. That first DPMS was a rifle recoil system, and I had to measure out my next 308AR carbine extension against real, true AR15 quality carbine extensions. I looked at everything I could think to look at. Initially, I was ready to think that the AP receivers sucked - and that's definitely not the case, no, not at all... The whole recoil system went in the trashcan, and I picked up the complete (pieced together) Armalite AR-10 Carbine recoil system. And the weird function issues went away, immediately. It was really at that point right there, that I got into the recoil systems on these things. I didn't know shiit about the differences until it happened to me. Since then, I've tried to learn as much as I possibly can on them.

That's my all-time favorite movie...

True, very true. You gotta run at least an H2 in a PCC, H3 being better. Heavier than that is even better. I've survived thus far with the H3 buffers in mine. I've kinda turned into the "recoil system jackass bastard" on this stuff...

Bolt over travel is what did it, and why the internal depth of the receiver extension is as important as I keep harping on. 7" internal depth on the DPMS-based carbine recoil system isn't a "minimum depth" or "starting depth," as XXL Fitness recently, incorrectly, stated... Lots of guys assemble pistol-caliber carbines with blowback operation. It all goes together with regular AR15 carbine recoil parts... BUT. The PCC bolt carriers don't have a collapsing, rotating bolt - it's fixed into the front of the carrier. It's shorter, by a decent amount. The choices are: longer PCC-specific buffer, usually marketed as "9mm buffers," or stack a buck seventy-five in quarters into the receiver extension. If one ignores those methods, broken bolt catches are the result, from bolt over travel. Few PCC setups have a last-round hold open, so you don't see it as often - but those with bolt hold open on the last round will certainly break the bolt catch, in short order, when the advice is ignored. Since I brought up PCCs - use some type of non-rotating pin system on blowback operated PCCs. If you don't, you will break hammer pins. It's not "if,", it's definitely a "when," and it won't take a high round count to do it. Blowback operation is hard on hammer pins. My $0.02. I think you fixed it.

Put that shoe on and lace that bitch up...

I've become a big fan of Dan Bongino. This is a good interview with him, on this subject. http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/04/20/dan-bongino-murder-deputies-florida-ms-13-threat-danger-law-enforcement

You know - if this was a truckload of MGD in this story, I would bet I'd know the highjacker... http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/04/20/man-stole-coors-beer-truck-led-cops-on-chase-police-say.html

Yeah, I get it. It's COMPLETELY undeserved,and you're being ganged up on. I'm sorry.

Wash is gonna be

Pure horseshiit. He was IN on it from the beginning. I think he URGED me to make that comment. I'm just sayin'...

I remember Anthony doing that, Thanksgiving 2004, before I showed up to camp and got there... I was invited into camp -BY Anthony, so HE was responsible for me... I didn't do too bad,and was invited back. 'Cause I got lucky and didn't kill myself...

That's not even fair... THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!

Yeah. You are. It's more like this, bro.

Ron would need a fucking ISU-90, palletized military shipping container... We'll need a forklift to get his shiit off the plane...

That means he flies guns. I don't think he can stomach the fees that it will take... I'm not saying "he's cheap." No, not at all. There's no way in hell I'd pay those kinda "excess baggage fees" to the thieves in the airline industry... On top of that, you've got all the Ramp Monkeys and Bag Smashers "talking care of your shiit..." Matt is brave enough, and he has the the Super Pelican for his stuff - the thing that makes other agents on flights jealous. I'm not quite sure they make ONE Pelican case that would fit Ron's stuff...