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My son took his 8 point with one shot using a 168 grain Hornady AMax and dropped the animal in it's tracks. We couldn't eat the heart because it was blown to pieces at 240 yards. I had my doubts about using the AMax but no more.

Just the opposite with me as I went from the Kimber Ultra Carry II that I carried for many years to the Delta Elite 10mm. I'm sticking with it.

I never thought my little hijack of the thread about my Swartz device failure would start so many replies but it's brought a lot of information that I really enjoyed reading and learning from. My thanks and hats off to all who posted. I sure love the Delta Elite 10mm my best friend built on a Caspian/Foster lower as my daily carry gun. I carry it in remembrance of Randy who died 1 year 9 months ago and it functions perfectly.

Whoops, I've been away for a while. The slide is a Colt Delta Elite on a Foster/Caspian lower. Randy built this gun several years ago and it still functions perfectly. It's my every day carry gun and whenever I've felt the need to put it and shoot it's functioned without a hitch. (shooting skunks, gophers and rattle snakes)

Bingo, Why are there mil. spec AR-15s by hundreds of companies but I can't take the upper off my Windham AR.308 and put it on my Armalite AR-10T nor do the magazines from the Windham work in the Armalite or vice versa. Also dosen't Armalite have a different pattern AR-10 that won't fit the older guns like my 1998 AR-10T?

Dittos I'm with you. They really blew it with the PBR and mixing shooting. I noticed that they were not proud enough of their add to allow comments.

I went to college in Gunnison Colorado at Western State College. I learned to have a very healthy respect for the Crested Butte Hotshot just north of Gunnison. This was back in 1974 and they had a fire caused by Elk hunters south of Gunnison. A bunch of us college kids volunteered to help fight the fire when it got our of hand. Not to mention they said they were going to fly us in by chopper. It was an amazing experience and even though my father was a fireman at the Air Force Academy I learned a bunch and received a very healthy respect for the power of a topping out forest fire. The heat and roar of trees bursting into flames was shocking. I never worked so hard in my life to stay alive. You folks are in my prayers and please stay safe. Don't take chances with it. .

My Delta Elite has a series 70 Forster lower therefore no Swarz safety.

The wood laminate is mounted with a delta ring just like the original AR-10 or 15. But pardon I don't savy what you mean my Delta rail or engrave with logo? Pardon my ignorance.

On that first link I noticed that there was a link to the Swartz firing pin safety Swartz firing pin safety mechanism (used in Kimber's pistols)and I wanted to bring up a story about my Kimber Ultra Carry II. I won my Kimber at a Friends of the NRA Banquet about 5 years ago and after shooting about 400 rounds through it, it became my everyday carry gun. About 2 years later I had the occasion to shoot a coon that was causing trouble at my house. I was heading out the front door about 10 PM and there was the problem coon that had been stealing dog food by taking the lid off the container we were storing it in on the front porch. I had Crimson Trace grips on it and a flash light in my pocket so I took up chase and he climbed a tree just on the south side of my house. I quickly spotted him with the flash light, put the red laser on him and pulled the trigger. I then heard the loudest click I've ever heard. The hammer fell on a factory round without setting it off. Upon taking the kimber apart when I had made sure it was not an ammo problem I discovered the Swartz firing pin safety was broken. I felt like a real dumb ass mainly because I had no idea how long I'd been carrying a disarmed pistol. I figure it must have broken at some point while I was putting the gun together and accidentally depressed the grip safety while reinstalling the slide. I called Kimber the next day and they promptly sent me a replacement part. I received it within two days and was pretty happy with their customer service. However upon further reflection I started wondering if that stamped out part could break again on me. So I took the replacement one set it on a industrial power hacksaw blade made out of tough high carbon steel and traced it out with a very small hardened steel awl. I then used my Foredom tool and several types of cutting wheels and diamond grinders to carve out an exact matching part. It took a while but after several tries I was able to get it fitted and working great. Now I know I've got a very hard tough part that is not going to brake at the first time I screw up putting the Kimber back together. Since then I've switched to a Colt Delta Elite 10mm that used to belong to my best friend that passed away 1.5 years ago and traded the Kimber off to a friend along with a couple of other guns for a Honda VTX1300C so I could spend time training my 14 year old son with his Motorcycle learners permit by riding along with him while he was driving his Yamaha V-Star 250. Here in Oklahoma 14 year olds can drive a 250 CC and under motorcycle on public roads if they have the proper license. We've put over 1500 miles on both bikes just before he got his license on the 10th of August and then started school on the 11th of August. .

While I carry a Delta Elite 10mm my wife loves her Walther PPS in .40 S&W. It's a dandy concealable gun that suits her perfectly.

10mm and an AR-10 style .308? Heck, I'm all over that as they are two of my favorite guns. I've got two stories that go with it. It's been over a year and a half since my best friend and shooting buddy (Randy) passed away from complications from his cancer treatment. I sure miss him but I've been helping his widow (Linda) with the selling of some of the guns she didn't feel the need to keep. I really miss our shooting the 50 BMGs together. I'm now carrying Randy's 10mm Delta Elite. Linda sold it to an acquaintance and customer of mine. When she listed it she was perfectly honest about it listing it as a Foster Lower with a Colt Delta Elite upper custom handgun. The guy that purchased it decided after about 3 weeks he wanted his money back for it. Since it was not both Colt upper and lower. I told him that wow it was not cool to pull that and Linda was not a dealer and she was straight up front about the gun from the start. I ended up telling him that I would purchase it from him rather than have her have to give his $1000 back. I kind of figured he would get the point that you just didn't do that to a widow. Well I ended up trading my 300 Blackout for it but don't regret it one bit. It's my daily carry gun now, that shoots perfectly from the day we swapped. It's also something I'm proud to carry that Randy was proud of and in remembrance of him. Of course I love my Armalite AR-10T and it's among the top 5 guns I own but there is a story to one of my other favorite guns and it's pretty new. A couple of years ago I purchased a FNAR .308 with the 20” heavy barrel. While It was okay the trigger was not something that made me very happy and I couldn’t find a way to make it like I wanted. I never seemed to be able to get it group consistently below 1” to 1.5”as opposed to my Armalite AR-10T that gives me consistent .5 MOA groups with 168 grain A-Max bullets. So Tuesday the 28th of April I walked into the Yellow Rose a local range and gun shop run by a friend of mine and he had a Windham .308 Hunter with the wooden laminate nutmeg stock in the rack. There was something about it that turned me on and Wednesday I dropped off my FNAR to see if I could get any nibbles on it so I could make room for the Windham rifle. Well 3 hours later I got a call and it sold for what I had asked. I expected it to set on his shelf for two or three weeks so I was pretty tickled. On Thursday I had some time so I wandered down to the shop to make the deal the rifle. I've been working most of the evening on it getting it like I want it. I tried to get the trigger down to a reasonable weight the way I usually do by running a ¼”X28 tap up in the grip mounting hole and putting a 1/4 “ allen set screw to reduce the length of pull on the trigger however by doing that and putting lighter springs I still couldn’t bring the trigger pull down below 6 lbs. So in the long run I ended up putting a 1.5 lb Jard trigger in it and mounted a Burris XTR 3-12X50 Extreme Tactical scope on it that I originally had on the FN. So far I've not had the time to work up any loads for it but my Armalite AR10T load of 168 gr Hornady A-Max in a Federal case, CCI Magnum primer and Varget powder has given me 5/8 center to center group so far. I'm pretty pleased for it to perform this well without me tweaking the load so far and it only having an 18" barrel. fired it some more this weekend with my son in law and son along with my wife, daughter and grandson I was very surprised at the 300 yard accuracy. My son in law has a 24" Browning .308 built with a Winchester action and a Hoag overmolded stock. The Windham out shot it and grouped at what looked like about a 2" group. I didn't have the Rhino as we were all in the son in laws truck. However I'm as pleased as I can be. I was not even shooting from a bench but shooting out of a deer hunting hut window. Even my 13 year old son put three bullets touching at the 300 yard gong then a couple of flyers opened up the group but he called them. He however is not getting my Windham for a long time. While I really like my Armalite AR-10 the guys a Windham are putting some real quality into their rifles. I do believe this rifle is going to be my new deer rifle and hog hammer.

It's been over a year and a half since my best friend and shooting buddy (Randy) passed away from complications from his cancer treatment. I sure miss him but I've been helping his widow (Linda) with the selling of some of the guns she didn't feel the need to keep. I really miss our shooting the 50 BMGs together. I'm now carrying Randy's 10mm Delta Elite. Linda sold it to an acquaintance and customer of mine. When she listed it she was perfectly honest about it listing it as a Foster Lower with a Colt Delta Elite upper custom handgun. The guy that purchased it decided after about 3 weeks he wanted his money back for it. Since it was not both Colt upper and lower. I told him that wow it was not cool to pull that and Linda was not a dealer and she was straight up front about the gun from the start. I ended up telling him that I would purchase it from him rather than have her have to give his $1000 back. I kind of figured he would get the point that you just didn't do that to a widow. Well I ended up trading my 300 Blackout for it but don't regret it one bit. It's my daily carry gun now, that shoots perfectly from the day we swapped. It's also something I'm proud to carry that Randy was proud of and in remembrance of him. Before I started carrying the Delta Elite I carried a Kimber Ultra Carry II .45 ACP in a Crossbreed holster. I loved it but the only problem I had was after 4 years of daily carry I had worn too much of the bluing off. Now with the stainless Delta Elite that is not a problem. Plus I just couldn't carry it in a hybrid plastic/leather holster and purchased a Milt Sparks VMII for it.

I sure hope this country wises up and we elect someone that is really good for America. The last several years have sure sucked.

I've been watching the up and down price on guns, reloading components and especially .22 ammo. I'm proud to be a small part of a forum that bans price gouging. These lowlife, mouth breathing neck beards that purchase .22 ammo at .04 to .06 cents a round and sell it at .16 cents a round frost my butt. When this all started with the crooked election of Obama I had just purchased one of those plastic ammo boxes of 1600 rounds of CCI round points and my son and his buddies got started dipping into it pretty quickly. I had to put the kibosh on that and slow them down right quick. I banned the use of semi auto for bolt action shooting at my front yard range and kid training area. Around that time one of my neighbors died and his English wife decided to move back to England and had an auction of all his guns and ammo. She thought he only had about 4 guns but when they started looking they found out he had 30 or 40 guns and over 30 bricks of .22 LR ammo. During the auction the price per brick got up to $84 a brick and when the auctioneer asked him how many he wanted at that price, he said all of them. Now he couldn't have been purchasing that much to gouge but it was a sad commentary on the conditions of ammo sales at the time. Two weeks later I was able to purchase 3, 525 bricks of .22 LR for .04 cents a round at $22 a box at Walmart. Of course I couldn't find any again at Walmart for for about a year. I've now worked up my supply enough to last me for quite a while or at least enough for my son and his buddies to keep the gongs dinging a bunch. I just wish I could find .22 short for a reasonable price.