jaredr

saw it with my son over the weekend. no idea what the heck we just watched, but it was way cool. 15' tall samurai with a chain gun vs. a teenage girl named babydoll armed with a 1911 and a samurai sword? I'll get it on blu-ray just for that and the steampunk trench warfare set piece. I loved the fact that one of them had a breaching shotgun in a backpack scabbard

thanks for the link. if you pick one up, pls let us know what you think of it.

"pistols are practical but revolvers are cool" i can't take credit for that one - came from a long time friend who's an obsessive S&W collector - but i always thought it sounded great.

you mentioned you use redding competition shellholders, so I gather you're loading on a single-stage press? if you're getting into AR's for competition or even just casual plinking, you may get really tired of doing all of your brass prep and loading on a single stage press. folks who reload .223 in volume generally use a progressive press and keep two separate toolheads - one for depriming, resizing, trimming, and another for priming, powder drop, bullet seating and crimping. goes without saying that one of the benefits of processing your own brass is you get to control your resizing specs

man, that's prime .sig line material right there

truly a waste of money even if it were free:wacko:

gourgeous! grips look great - techwear's website doesn't do them justice.

just reading this thread, i mourn the tragic loss of bacon

holster & mag carrier (for single stack guns, I'd want at least four mag pouches, five wouldn't hurt). Bladetech makes good gear, but Uncle mikes might suffice on a budget bunch of extra mags huge shedload of ammo (for .45 acp, reloading will pay for itself very quickly)

i think you are referring to the AC556, which was a class 3 (select fire) version of the mini-14. my understanding is that ruger sold this model only to law enforcement agencies, even though they could have (prior to 1986) sold them to private citizens if they so chose.

I have a 5" AET in 9mm, and a non-AET (whatever they call those) 3.5" in .45 (fitted to para P-12). Both work fine with lead, i see 1-1.5" groups from my 9mm when I last put it in a ransom rest, cannot recall how the P12 did ( have not shot it for quite some time) but don't remember ever being unhappy with its accuracy. edited to add: in 9mm, shooting 125 gr LRN, in .45 it was all 200 gr LSWC.

Ain't that the truth Although, before I sold my HK91 I had www.trosusa.com make me a threaded adapter that went from the HK thread(m15 whatever) to 5/8x24 and I put a SJC Titan .308 comp on. It made a huge difference with recoil reduction just like it did on my friends AR-10. I had a PSG-1 trigger group, 1200meter sight and would have kept it for Heavy Metal division except for the damn thing ruins the brass. It ended up being something you didn't mind shooting extensively at all. /thread drift/ sounds like a good way to make that a more usable firearm (or at least more tolerable to shoot). I found my 91 clone to be just downright unpleasant to fire, had significantly more felt recoil (at least felt that way to me) than my 3 lb lighter bolt gun. My understanding is that this is because the HK's roller-locking mechanism required such high bolt veolcity for reliable extraction, so it really thumped you when the bolt carrier came to the end of it's travel. other downside is it simply mauled the brass and cast it to the four winds. literally, I'd find my brass dispersed within a 20-25 yard area to my right with no seeming rhyme or reason, and even if you could find it, it was often not reloadable because the case mouth had been so heavily deformed on ejection. by the time i got rid of it, i was only using cheap steel-case surplus because I didn't want to destroy any more good reloadable brass... doing it all over again, I'd just pick up a DPMS .308 and be done with it. /resume original thread :rolleyes:/

alliant's website lists power pro data for heavy bullet loads in the .454 casull and .500 S&W. not only does alliant not publish any data for 9mm with this powder, but if power pro is suitable for full power (i.e. highest velocity) 300 gr .454 casull loads, then I would not think it is suitable for anything in 9mm.

i just ordered one. i purchase unsorted bulk brass from a local indoor range and can't believe the amount of @*&*(# .380 and 9mm makarov i've been finding recently. can no longer rely on picking it out by hand, will just perform an addtl sort operation to weed out the .380 from the 9mm. aargh.

when you say decrimp, do you mean de-prime (i.e. punching out the old primer)?

fyi - i believe kyle lamb and his instructor dan brokos are using an IPSC C size steel target @ 100 yards

I picked mine up from Ace Hardware, was around $15 or so when i got it a few years back

i'm pdf'ing this for future reference - good list.

paint pen for plastic mags (AR Pmags and glock/M&P mags), engraving tool for 1911 mags.

plain old winchester large rifle worked fine for the HK91 clone I used to own. would also suggest a recoil pad and some ibuprophin for that one...

actually, bullseye and unique are stil some of my "go to" powders for revolver cartridges. My standard .45 colt load is 8.0 gr Unique & 255gr LSWC, and my target ,38 special load is 3 gr bullseye and 148gr bevel base wadcutter. both loads were very accurate in my firearms and don't seem "smokier" or more dirty than say, using 231 for .45 ACP. Maybe i'm missing out on something better with solo 1000, but I'm happy enough with those loads that I never felt the need to try a different powder.

thanks, did not realize the SS 1-4 was FFP, that does explain the price a bit (or at least educate me about who they're competing with). i'm still not sure why I need a FFP 1-4 optic (was scratching my head about this comparing the vortex razor and viper), but that's a different thread...

i've found practicing with a .22 rimfire to be helpful with any of the drills that I'm working on - allows me to focus on sight picture & trigger control first, then when I've got the cadence and accuracy I'm looking for I can move up to centerfire ammo and add in recoil management challenge. also easier on the wallet - I can burn through 1/2 a brick of cheap .22 for $10, still cheaper than reloading (measured in $ and time), As to specific drills, woudl reccomend bill drills (as you've noted above) or any other course of fire where you've got at least 2-3 following shots after your initial round on target (so you can work on breaking the initial shot and then developing a cadence).

13 replies and no one's said "hey, don't throw it out - just drop it off at my house"? man, the crowd is dead tonight. thanks very much folks, enjoy the show - remember to tip your waiter and try the veal!

didn't know that SWFA was coming out with their 1-4x but have to say I'm disappointed at the $800 price tag. Vortex's viper 1-4 is almost half the price and has gotten reviews as a great value from others on this site. i'd be hard pressed to spend another $350 over that ona product called "super sniper"