BarryinIN

Possession of MGs not registered to the company. Owner fined, barred from the business, manufacturing license pulled. Reminiscent of Sabre Defense. http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-stag-arms-guilty-plea-federal-court-1223-20151222-story.html

That makes it a little easier to take.

Looking forward to the update, Pablo.

Yep. Noted for arriving well before the centerfire version made it to dealer shelves.

OK, I suppose it doesn't exactly fit in the semiaiuto rifle category of the forum. Its more a Semiauto Plus! http://www.janes.com/article/54437/dsei-2015-beretta-unveils-arx-200-battle-rifle It seems to be a 7.62x51 version of the ARX160.

Mine just got its first significant mod. I swapped out the factory stock for a VLTOR stock. Black Friday sales lured me in. It's not really an entire new stock; just the sliding portion. This gives it: -A flat buttplate instead of the curved one that digs in at the points sometimes, -More storage space, and, -Enough surface on the bottom to allow it to sit on a bag when shooting prone. It also fits tighter, which keeps it from making any noise, but makes it harder to slide. it also adds yet another shade of FDE to my rifle. Yay.

Re-welcome!

I enjoy the Tiborasaurus Rex videos also. I've seen maybe half. That's a winter thing for me. He actually offers some new (to me anyway) info now and then, like the copper equilibrium thing. At least his explanation of it is different.

Oh, come on. Don't be so picky. Just use Automatenfelt. :) (No, I don't know where to find either one, but I do know what you mean. I'd like some of either for my K31 and Sig P210.)

Towards the end of my Highpower (rifle) competition days, moly coating was the thing. Almost everyone either bought moly'd bullets or coated them theirselves. After talking to some active Highpower shooters over the past couple of years, it seems to have fallen from favor. Almost nobody does it anymore. Along about the same time, my subscription to "Precision Shooting" ran out and I bought issues sporadically. That was the best rifle accuracy magazine I've ever even heard of. When I started taking it again, I noticed moly had gone from "The Thing To Do" to an historical footnote. From what I heard and read- The problem, such as it is, comes from moisture creeping under the moly coating in the bore and staying there, causing corrosion. This gets missed in a standard cleaning and look over. We were left to understand the moly coating was to stay there to avoid having to build it up again, so we did that The apparent solution is to clean the moly out after shooting. The solvent of choice for that seems to be Kroil. But then you lose the whole part about keeping a moly coating in the bore. You then have to "shoot it in" to get a coating back in order to regain the consistently. It also means a must-cleaning for those guys after each session. At at least those are the claims. I only used it with two rifles. One I no longer own. The other was my Match Rifle, which I haven't shot in several years. I did give it a good Kroil cleaning after hearing these stories. I haven't shot it since then, so I can't say if any harm was done. I should borrow a bore scope and take a look. Maybe I'm afraid to know. Maybe I got lucky. Maybe it's all blown out of proportion.

From the press release: Figure 3, FN M249S™ SKU / Product Number 56400 Caliber 5.56x45MM NATO Barrel 20.5″ Cold hammer-forged, chrome-lined, alloy-steel Twist Rate 1:7″ RH Color Matte black non-reflective finish on all surfaces Operation Semi-automatic, closed bolt Sights Primary sights graduated to 1000 m., MIL-STD 1913 rail system Stock Fixed, ergonomically-shaped polymer butt stock with pistol grip Weight (with empty magazine) 17 lbs. (empty) Length 40.75” Height 9.5” Magazine (one each) Belt-fed or standard AR magazine Trigger Pull 4.5-6.5 lbs. MSRP $7,999

Introducing the FN Military Collector's Series http://www.fnhusa.com/products/collector-series/m249s/

Mine has been gone for a couple of weeks now. I never could get it to shoot well enough to please me. I was probably asking too much there, but nevertheless, I wanted more. I must say it was pretty reliable for its size. It went for a Ruger MKIII 22/45 5.5" with replaceable grip panels. Thats my fourth Ruger MK, but the first new one in several years. I like the current 22/45 frame much more than the old. Yes, its an entirely different category gun than the Walter, but I've been wanting something to leave optics on permanent, and that seemed about right. The Lite (less gaudy silver with holes rather than blue with gills) was tempting. Maybe that will come home, too.

DGR did/does top notch Garand restorations. He was known as one of the few who could make a functional T26 "Tanker" version. er 28, 2015 at 06:04:13 PDT>> To: Michelle <[email protected]>>> Subject: Dean-DGR>> I come with a very heavy heart to let everyone know that Dean Dillabaugh of Dean?s Gun Restorations passed away. His dream was for me to continue the business and he did everything he had to do to prepare for this day. As you know, I have been with DGR for 12+ years and will continue to move the business forward per his wishes.>> >> Dean has been preparing the business for the last couple years for this situation. Amanda Richardson has been training with Dean for the last four years. Dean had 100% trust and confidence in Amanda. Dean was very particular about his work as most of you know and instilled his high standards of workmanship and attention to detail in Amanda, who has been doing the majority of our gunsmith activities for the last 6 months.>> >> If you have any work or orders with us right now, rest assured that we are getting them done. We are continuing the business of restoring/rebuilding rifles and we are operating at 100% as we move on in the foreseeable future. I look forward to continuing to work with you.>> >> Please free feel to reach out to me if you have any questions about our services, orders and needs.>> >> Michelle Bowling- DGR>> >> Dean's Gun Restorations >> >> Telephone: 423.562.2010>> >> www.dgrguns.com>> >> ?Life?s Too Short To Shoot An Ugly Gun!?>>

I thought that might help. The more I tried to describe it, the more I made a simple thing confusing. I shot some today. It was OK. No record groups, but it didn't throw the occasional mystery flyer like I see with a lot of .22 ammo from the past few years.

It looks like this. I overlooked it at first, thinking it was one of those "holiday tins" with a small bottle of Hoppes No 9 and a $5 knife for $30. I'm getting a fair assortment of .22 ammo again. Now if I could find someone with a CZ 455 willing to trade, I'd be set.

In a couple of local shops this past week, I've seen special boxes from CCI called "Christmas Gift Packs" or something similar. It's a red box holding three 100-rd boxes of Standard Velocity .22 ammo. It looks a little different, so I looked right past them at least a couple of times when checking the .22 supply at my favorite place. Be on the lookout if you want some. They were $29.95 where I first saw them.

I didn't realize it until just now, but not only have I never shot one, I'm pretty sure I've never even seen a .500 S&W being shot. I always thought it would be neat in a levergun. I know there is a custom or two out there, but I'm not in a position to buy a $4-5000 lever action. I'm not sure I would buy a $5k levergun even if I could afford it...unless it had lots of gold inlays or a factory letter saying Theodore Roosevelt ordered it. You know, I've had this Remington Rolling Block action lying around for maybe 25 years. I wonder...

It's real. Not a mirage. Mine came this morning.

Our local gunshop has had some off and on over the past year, but aside from a little CCI, it's been foreign stuff like Aguila or Geco. That's all there or any of the others. The CCI that came in was the sleeve of 100-rd boxes that acts as the display stand. It holds maybe ten boxes at most. That's how much Mini-Mag I saw there. The other CCI was a few boxes of one of the odd stuff like quiet CB caps and maybe some shot. I bought one of the boxes of Mini-Mags and was happy to find it shot like it always had, which is to say pretty good. The quality hadn't dropped off like all others I've tried in the past few years. Thats why I pounced when I saw this for sale. I got mine coming...then I told you guys.

Wideners has some CCI .22s- Mini-Mag HP $9.45/100 Green Tag Competition $14/100 Not bad, considering.

Saturday was the 3-year mark. I don't think I used it in any 3-gun or carbine matches over the past year, and made very few range trips in cold weather this time. That cut my round count roughly in half, so I only put around a thousand rounds through it this year, putting the total count at a little over 5,000 rounds. Still happy. Still my favorite of any .308 semiauto I've owned or shot, and my favorite rifle overall.

Looking at the "Misc Junk I've Accumulated" pile, I have pretty much everything to swage half jacket or 3/4 jacket bullets. Except the half jackets. Everybody from Hornady to Herters made them...once. Not anymore. I have the tools to make .357/.38/9mm and .44 caliber. No cups/jackets. They show up now and then, but I haven't been in need until now. And now I don't see any around. So if you have a box or two of old reloading junk- do me a favor and take a look. Thanks.

"Winchester 231 certainly has been hard to get. The plant that makes Winchester powders does not want to make 231 as well as a few other powders. These older technology powders have different chemistry than the new powders and this older chemistry makes it much slower to make powder: basically, you can make about 2.5 times as many pounds of new chemistry powder in the time it takes to make 1 pound of old chemistry powder. During the process of making the old powders, the waste stream created is huge compared to the waste stream of the new chemistry powders. Chemical waste is very expensive to get rid of. So, the plant wants to phase out the old chemistry powders and replace them with new chemistry powders. While they are still making 231, the amount is being reduced and the amount of new powder such as Titegroup and Longshot is being increased.Now, we are kind of stuck in the middle. The market is demanding 231 but the maker is not wanting to produce the powder. The result is, over time, 231 is going to go away. Shooters should begin using other powders as they can. Mike Daly Hodgdon Family of Fine PropellantsHodgdon Smokeless PowderIMR Powder CompanyWinchester Smokeless PropellantsGOEX Blackpowder" OK, even if its my usual .45 ACP powder, I can see of its that unprofitable, and there are other similar powders available, that it might not be sensible to keep around. But it makes me wonder: What other powders are "old technology" and therefore doomed?

Since people have been having custom 5-shot .454 Casull and .475 Linebaugh conversions done on Ruger Bisleys for years and years, Ruger has finally made some. Lipsey's talked them into it. Stainless steel, new locking base pin, recessed rim cuts in the cylinder, and 6.5" barrels. Yours for only a pile of money. Enjoy! http://www.ammoland.com/2015/08/lipseys-ruger-super-blackhawk-bisley/#axzz3iRD49L2q http://www.realguns.com/articles/742.htm http://gunblast.com/Ruger-LipseysBisleys.htm