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get a CMP Garand, they rule....if it wasn't for the 8 round thing....i have had the jones for a M1A from this company called LRB. supposed to have forged recievers like the real thing. used to be about 2K, maybe more now....NM sights on the M1 platform are a beautiful thing.....Garands aren't a bad thing, you can actually load them pretty fast, and with that sight radius, it's pretty hard to miss. plus you get alot of style points.....
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yo mark....missed the last couple of matches, went to a couple of pistol matches, so...i'll be baaacckk!! that's what i was gettin' at, my saber barrel is a standard HBAR, 1-8, stainless, long gas system. i just think the gas hole is small. there's gotta be some design issues with that fact. i think they're designed with standard mil-spec 5.56 in mind, and i bet that stuff uses slower powders. paul the cop that always shoots w/us uses that XM198(i think that's the right #), and it ran mine great. he's got a naked muzzle 16"gun and in it the stuff is gawd-awful loud, huge flash. those gas holes were designed w/ammunition parameters in mind, i think. i'm sure the "army dogs" experimented with a few of these before they came up with 20" and 14.5". my 16" w/ the short gas system is nasty, bet it'd be better if you took 1.5" off the end to balance the gas a bit more.......just my .02, blah, blah.....see you soon.....
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great thread!! i said i just got a new 20" sabre HBAR, and one of the things that mike curlett(sp?) at sabre told me is that they don't gas them real hard, so no need for that variable gas block gizmo. i had some 40gr, fast powder loads that were cool in my old 20" dpms barrel, real soft, fast recoil impulse, blip, blip! wouldn't run at all in the sabre. 55's w/3031 turned the thing into a jam-a-matic. ran 69's and 77's w/varget great, so the lesson is....there's alot of voodoo in powder speed/gas port size-location. i'm thinking about a long barrel, long range one, saw that krieger makes a 26". anybody ever try it?
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i just put a 20" HBAR regular length gas system sabre barrel on my gun, so i dunno about the mid-length thing.....i really don't think the mid-length thing would be the ticket, though....
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oh, yeah....this one just hit a nerve, so here goes.....been riding road bikes alot longer than i been shooting. all the shooter/gamers i know in all the shooting diciplines, love to be riding with them 50 miles into a hard, fast century. it's always calming for me to think of that.....won't ever happen, but i can dream...if it did, they wouldn't be shooter/gamers!! talk about the zen, physical one-ness thing....it resides everywhere, not just in the shooting thing. don't do the road anymore, since this lovely lady saw fit to launch me at 30mph from behind just as i pulled out of a parking lot in the N. Georgia mountains, Helen specifically. never really saw the lovely woman as the paramedics were loading me on the body board for the 45 minute ride to the hospital. the cop was such a great help, coming to the hospital ER to inform me he wasn't gonna charge me, and didn't charge the lady cause' she really didn't mean it!!! did i mention i'm not from Ga., so you do the math. how she didn't see my 6'1" 190lb frame when the other drivers saw me was really never answered. do i seem bitter??? imagine one of your GM friends having their strong hand badly injured by a careless bicyclist, never able to regain form because of physical problems.....there are definitely inconsiderate cyclists on the road, no argument there. some of them are too dumb to even know any better. but after just driving 1100+ miles back and forth to a match, i saw some serious idiots a 80+mph for 3 days. road rage is everywhere, and it's pretty cheesy to get agressive w/ a person on a 20lb. bicycle when you're in your 3000lb. car. i ride alot still, have a great ex-rail trail a mile from my house, but no more roads for me. i still get cut off at crossroads alot....
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i don't do open pistols, but i always put on the comps on my ar's with JB Weld. comes off w/ just a little bit of propane. don't know if the heat on a pistol would be too much, but i think it's tougher than red loctite, so.... i also thought that if you have enough room under the setscrew, you can use a piece of lead shot, preferably 9 if you can find it, maybe 8 if it'll fit. put it in, then the setscrew, and drive it in the threads. i do this on reloading dies sometimes. doesn't bugger up the threads, and it ain't goin' anywhere....
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that's my question......if i can just get by the peanut gallery, and i know around here that ain't easy. how do you take that ledge out???? i guess you'd have to grind a custom endmill w/ the angle you want. i think i can do that, but what angle??
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i really like shooting he-man with a garand. seriously accurate gun, even better w/nat. match sights, .059 aperture(sp?). now if i could just see the targets......the gas system is really cool, nothng comes back to the reciever, and because it's got so much gas, it only needs a half an inch to work. it was designed in a different day, where engineering was human, no computers.....the effort went into the product, not the software. if you made that gun in the same way today, i bet it would cost alot more than an AR....prohibitively more...... the metal on the new springfield recievers is nothing like the forged old ones. i read somewhere how many steps it took to just machine the reciever, i think it was 200 or something. get the Kuhnhausen M-1/M-1A book. great book.......
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yeah, it's swaged lead, real soft. i got cliff some hard-cast 230's that he used in his gap/clay's loads, and he didn't have any problem, so maybe that's it. those soft bullets shoot great though.....the problem is that i just tricked up my new 625, and every once in a while i get a light hit.....i know that might be alot of things, but i think the leading builds up just enough that the moonclip goes in kinda soft, and the misfire is usually on the first round, that seats the thing, and the rest go off. i gotta long firing pin coming, so i think that will cure the problem. it still leads alot, and if i can figure it out, i'm gonna cut that shoulder the fk out! and lemme tell ya', after watching "No Time for Old Men", or whatever it's called, the 625 is not the first thing i'm gonna go to when the excrement hits the ventilator, you dig? gotta figure out how to get that silencer on my 1100......
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that's what we need here, is a good AR vs. AK thread! never seen one, but there's always hope..... i got both, started shooting 3-gun with a robinson arms VEPR. the main problem with the things are that the ammo available sux. if i could get a supply of boxer primed 7.62x39, i bet i could reload some good stuff. my buddy just got an arsenal in .223, and i bet i could make that thing sing. real light, easy recoil..... the problem is cheek weld w/ some of the stocks. i would really like to see what the russians shoot at the 3-gun world shoot. didn't a russian guy come in second to voigt?
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i'm getting alot of leading in the throat of my 625. shooting lead 230 zeros, seated pretty short, and clays. i realize the seating short thing is probably the cause, but you can make it kinda like the .45 gap thing, you dig? cliff and i been arguing(can you imagine????), and i always though that the cut of the chambers on the 625 is a problem. why the f&%k does S&W cut the thing like a 1911 chamber, with a ridge so the cartridge can headspace on the case mouth? why isn't it beveled like my Mod 19's? i haven't checked any other revolvers, but i suspect they have a beveled throat too. you wouldn't need it with auto rims, and acp's won't extract, so..... does anyone make a reamer to bevel that ridge? i would think that would work alot better. alright y'all, edify me........
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so now you're over there, makin' all that money, and nothing to spend it on.....thread drift, but....gotta 20" Sabre stainless ar barrel like the one you have(kinda)...it rocks, 77's hit 375yd plates in the wind all day.....was gonna email you, so here it is....hope all's well....dave
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yeah, i been trying this, but after 300 it gets tough! alot of voodoo in the bullet weight/ballistics/wind doping thing. 250 zero works fine for 200-300yd shots, but w/ 77's the drop past that is alot. just tried this yesterday.....thinking of trying to mark the turret and dial up for better than 300. not what i really wanna do in the middle of a long range stage, though...
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deepest sympathies and condolences!!!
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great thread!!! i have a 1.25-4 accupoint that i really like, but it's not doable for the long 300-400 yd. shots for the lack of holdover. inside of 250 it rules, but i want something with the eye relief that's fast and you still got the holdover capability/stadia lines, mil-rad, etc. i thought the specter DR was gonna be it, but you can't focus the thing, and with my eyes, it ain't happenin'. help me out.....
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just got back from a day at the local "long range" range, and i'm kinda jacked up!!!! my 20" 1-8 HBAR contour barrel hits 375yd. 6" plates w/ 77 grainers all day. 200/300 yds. is a gimme! done alot of load experimenting, so YMMV, but i think th 20" barrel rules, and i'm not alone in that assumption. AR's are supposed to be 20". and HBAR's ain't all that heavy.....maybe if you're built like a chinese woman, but that's personal..... it's gotta be free floated, thread the thing for a miculek comp, and get some type of 1-4 power variable. the new burris is supposed to be good, and cheap. something w/ some kinda stadia lines so you can figure out the holdovers. get some kinda mount that works, and you're good to go. and get a JP trigger too, they rule! then go get a bunch of ammo, and shoot, don't let the forum tell you what you need to have to hit, go out and realize it yourself, that's the fun part. and there's alot of voodoo in ammo, so check out alot of different stuff. i'm just kinda fired up, so here's my $.02.......
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gosh, thanx for all the kind thoughts.......have been terribly busy w/ the new addition, so been kinda out of touch...you all know how it is.....will keep up w/ some progress reports..... oh yeah, we will......
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i gotta 1100 w/ a 23" upland game vent rib, double bead barrel that runs anything pretty much. that barrel rocks, great patterns, never hardly use even a improved cylinder choke. it doesn't like full power slugs, and neither do I! and i've got alot of rounds thru it, and it's never broken anything(knock wood). bennelli's kick like a horse, and i can never figure out why those eyetalian guys thought they could make shotguns out of a bunch of leftover motor scooter parts........
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get the 4 stroke briggs & stratton. check it out.... crazy powerful. idling it cuts most anything i want. really well made.
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i've been running a winchester 1300 defender that i really like, but the stock is a problem for me. maybe one of y'all can help? the synthetic stock has about 1" less drop than my 1100, and it makes me shoot high. anybody know of an aftermarket, or winchester for that matter, stock w/ more drop. the 1100 points great for me, just need the same drop on the 1300. it works real slick, seems to have a shorter pump stroke, and is real light. the buttstock just sux for me......
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cliff's always talking about a floating hand, but the way he talked, it always had some kinda asian overtones, you know, "floating hand, crouching chick", or something. but i'm new to revolvers, so.........
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i'm thinking of starting to do this...gotta dillon trimmer, redding shell plates, etc. the headspace issue on different guns is what stops me. i have to tell you, i've seen brass from some different sources that do this, and it wasn't always pretty....it's really alot of work, that has to be done right.
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you shoulda seen me droppin' shotgun shells tonite, it wasn't pretty either....
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i know wat i think and......it's not the lead paint!
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you mean i gotta buy one of these for 3-gun?????????????