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RTV is the best solution I have found, it is also the cheapest, BUT it isn't as tacticool as a new mega buck charging handle!!!
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Hmm.... Thermo, do you dry fire at your wife's head??? I have seen some real STUPID gun handling when "they know it's empty"....your call! I won't give up dry fire. but I make sure it is always in a safe direction....just in case! I still don't let the muzzle cover anything I don't wish to destroy....even after 80,000 "clicks" but your practice is up to you! Hope I don't see you in the papers!
Mark, who are we talking about? Mine was a general post, but you have to tell me if we are going to pick on someone!
!I am just tired of the poor gun handling exhibited by some and excused by rules as "it's just a stick". Once again, the question should be, would I point this at my kid/wife/anything that really means something to me, just because "it is a stick" if the answer is no...then maybe we shouldn't do that shit!
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We used to call this "climbing the sights". I does induce a bit of dispersion at very long range, but if you are used to it there is nothing wrong with it. it is taught that way in the military because it is an easy reference... not the best nor the worst, just easy to teach!
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I had a big old long repose to this but I couldn't get it posted. Readers Digest version. I have witnessed a few too many rounds shot after the unload and show clear command in IPSC and USPSA to ever feel good about the cursory examination of an "empty" rifle that has passed at the matches I have attended that require this sort of non-sense! " It's empty so it's really a stick"
Yes it is a skill you need!....not in a match! Oh but that get's into the Martial use of fire arms....which most new guys don't follow. For them it is "fluffy the pet gun"..."I got into this sport because it is fun, don't kill the fun because of some arcane safety rule!"
First rule IS STILL THE FIRST RULE!!!! Treat ALL guns as if they are loaded!!! AND WHO SAID THAT DAMN RIFLE WAS UNLOADED?????
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Having gone over there and having seen the dragoon. I see that Patrick suffers under the same miss-conception as pistol shooters in this country in the fact that ONLY open is the true test. I have won the Nordic Championships twice, and for the first ever Euro Rifle I was 4th. with Kelly Kneal second and Robbie Johnson third; in Iron sight division. The U.S. has held it's own in iron division!!!, at least since 2007 when I and a few others started going over.
With that said....Raine is THE BEST action shooter I have ever met!!! with any of the 3. I have been second to him a few times, but never bested him. I am also very proud to call him my friend! See you at world rifle my friend!!! Kurt
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Having shot quite a few Texas hogs, I can assure you that Texas doesn't care what you shoot them with! with that said the blackout is much less than stellar in sub-sonic loadings. I would use full on 300 Blackout ammo, Grendel or 6.8. All are about the same in effectiveness. I have seen quite a few pig downed with 55 gr. 223 ammo, but all the ones I've seen shot with sub-sonic 300 blkout, have all required multiple hit and even then most ran off never to be found.
I usually use an AR-10, but as of late I built up a 458 SCOM and it has become my favorite...no not because I am worried about getting charged or any of that nonsense, but Where I shoot them the brush is very thick and everything has big old thorns on it. I just don't want them running off.
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Jeff Cooper's "Art of the Rifle" book covers this nicely!.... it might even correlate to our little black carbines!
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Sorry, no pictures....BUT.... Tooth and Nail consistently make some of the finest 1919 shotguns out there. The few I have played with have been GREAT!!!....Sorry Tony Tiger.... I know that is your tag line I'm stealing! :0
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Both Tony and Steely have given the best answers to this that so far can be given. I really loves me the TTI spring in most my carbines....BUT.....they don't tend to work with the aluminum carrier J.P. gave me a while back. There isn't enough mass/inertia to consistently close the bolt. In that gun I run more gas and the J.P. spring.
With that said THE SOFTEST recoiling gun I own is a cheap P.O.S. Bushmaster 20" iron sight gun with a J,P. Stainless bolt and full on gas from a factory A2 gas block that had the sight tower cut off with a hack saw and what ever spring came in the Bushmaster lower (A2) and a Triangle Shooting Sports Rolling thunder comp!. It is the gun I take over seas as I would just hate to have My CTR-02 NOT sow up on the baggage carrousel!
BTW both win, but the recoil impulse is different in each....so like Steely said....Don't worry, be happy!
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Tac-Com or Nordic. I am really liking the new Nodic upper, and they are in stock. The lattest Nordic upper I have shoots around 1 M.O.A. and if you search around on the forums Jesse Tischausher has a discount code posted for them....just because he loves all you guys!
BTW you can configure both for any fore end you wish....all it takes is $$$$, they are stock type uppers anything will fit
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The answers to this question are a bit miss leading. It will really depend on your barrel and your barrel alone. Try a bunch of different bullets and use the ones that works best in your rifle. As for what works in an Armalite, J.P. or Stag, all depends on what rifle god was smiling, or not smiling the moment you barrel was made. High end rifles in general shoot a more diverse variety of ammunition well due to a better quality of barrel used, but I have had some absolute cheap junk barrels that shot GREAT!!
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Triangle has become THE shop for the Versa Max, and the one of the original M1/M2 shops in the U.S. That is where I would go for Versa work!
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Under 200 yards = Federal American Eagle 55 grain 5.56X45mm
Over 200 yards = Federal American Eagle 55 grain 5.56X45mm
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I heard that shortening the stock leads to the last shell in the mag tube not feeding.
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Sorry about that Jesse! Your right my mistake! I miss-stated, Gen one was sold by Nordic themselves, and a couple other names.
The Gen 2 was only sold under other names.
Gen 3 is being sold by Nordic once again, and other names.
The original DPMS 22 upper wasn't made by Nordic. It was a copy of an old military trainer unit that had been reconfigured with a dedicated .22 LR barrel and yes it had a propensity to fire slightly out of battery, but in no way was it made by Nordic.
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As started in a few of my posts...ANYTHING WITH A SQUARE BOLT is a first gen upper
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And that right there is why I don't call myself a "Shotgunner", a dirty rotten "fracing geologist", but never a shotgunner!
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Well yes, the 2nd gen is almost identical to the 3rd gen.
The pictures Jesse shows are really a 1st generation and a 3rd generation bolt. The only change made from the original 1st gen bolt to the one Jesse is showing was the extractor we moved up .030" to aide extraction of an unfired round when made for commercial sale. So kind of a 1st gen -1A type of thing. If it is a square bolt it is a first gen Upper.
2nd gen was on a standard mil spec receiver. Both 2 and 3 gens were round bolts so a specially designed receiver isn't necessary. The firing pin and back of the bolt where the hammer hits the firing pin are a bit different from gen 2 to gen 3. Gen 2 and 3 bolts will interchange and work in either upper.
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If you build it, they will come!
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I'm sure we are talking about the new one, which is inertia driven like a Benelli, but with a hump in it so it looks like the old one. Interesting aside the original A5 is also an inertia system, but instead of the bolt carrier compressing the "inertia spring" the barrel recoiled back to actuate the gun, that is why you can't run a barrel clam on the old A5. They lightened the heck out of it so it wouldn't feel like a dog and that is why the receiver is a bit on the weak side if you take the old Dremel to it.
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It isn't just a 3-gun thing. At the IPSC World Shotgun Championships, I didn't see a single shotgun with a "pistol grip" (outside of mag fed open guns). Now of course I didn't see EVERY shotgun, but I did see a great many of them and not one. It must be because the recoil addles the brain of shotgun shooters. I recommend everyone use one but me.
I would think that in most cases a pistol grip is an add on not designed with the system in mind. It makes a nice pivot point WAY below the line of the barrel and they have WAY too much drop just so it feels comfortable and allow the shooter to get his head down far enough. Both these fine attributes cause much more muzzle rise upon firing. On top of that, due to heavier recoil, there is an natural tendency to over grip the pistol grip causing erratic trigger control and there is a tendency to push forward on the pistol grip to help mitigate recoil causing shots to slowly go higher and higher in a rapid fire string like a plate rack. Now before you say well....Saiga, Molot, Veper, Acdal....etc. LOOK carefully at the design. You will fined that these guns are DESIGNED to have that system....more like an AR with a more straight line of recoil.......instead of the great big old down cast pivot point of the add on P.G. stocks........But what do I know, I'm a geologist, not a shotgunner!
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I'll throw in my version of QFT for my amigo Mark as well ( Quite f#$king true)!
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You do realize it is in the real old Real Tree brown camo pattern. Its actually in great shape with just a little of the finish worn away.
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Ummmm......it might be well used but it surely isn't dirty nor beat down!
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223 ammo: steel case vs brass case
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llandaff, it is also loaded with different powder, which might explain less sticking with the Hornady version. The case and primer are from Russia though.