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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
was my uncle's... when he died, my aunt figured I was the obvious inheriter... it's a simple, reliable .22 auto... it's dispatched many a varmint... funny thing is, my uncle used tuh shoot it in his basement intuh a couple of phonebooks...
You using CCI stds in it?
no... Remington sub-sonics...
spent the past hour cleanin' theChallenger and theRossi... mmmmmmm... Hoppe's...
33 and scattered showers... s’posed tuh get snow tuhnite...
Osage, lookin’ forward tuh RadioActiveMOOT...
funklemeister...
Great. Just as I’m trying to fight off a chocolate attack.
Now that’s a yummy lookin wedding cake!!
Dang, that cake looks goooood. Fortunately LSA baked a Mississippi Mud Cake for the ‘EOY’ buffet at work. Well, not all of it made it to the office and we’ve got a choice of MMC or a Choclate Creme Pie that my sup. gave everyone in the section. Decisions, decisions.
Glow-in-the-Dark Moot is on the calendar of events. Looking forward to seeing you too, it’s been far too long since MoJAM.
See a couple posts down, unfortunately the weather has other plans or we could be setting down to it now. :-(
WooHoo! Hope it was a fun party!!
Let them eat cake.
Hope you gots milk, eggs, TP and cat food!
well, must have got directions mixed up, but I’ll bet you found it.
Right now he has zero dollars invested in his Glock, including a dozen extra mags, and a Blackhawk SERPA holster. He even has a free half-can of ammo, left over from the stuff his dad never had time to shoot.
But after seeing some of the neighborhoods around GT, he says he'll be shopping for a 12ga pump once he gets an apartment. A .22 would be nice, but these are workin' weapons, because he won't have much time for just plain plinking, as desirable as that is.
He has the right rig for all sorts of occasions, social and otherwise. Half a can of ammo is a right respectable ammo stash.
Shotguns are way of life south of the mason-dixon line, we use ‘em for darn near anything that runs or flies. Who knows, he may be invited to bird hunt down there, complete with pointers and retrievers.
First is a minor upgrade that AR15 owners (or at least the paranoid ones) might want to consider. It's a bolt upgrade kit that replaces all the little pieces of the extractor and ejector assemblies in the bolt.
The tricky part is working with the ejector, which is a spring-loaded pin inside the bolt face. But never fear, Brownell's has a tool that does just that, by compressing the ejector enough to take pressure off the roll pin. Then all that's needed is a Brownell's roll pin install/uninstall set to make the job simple. As a side note, considering how common roll pins are on firearms today, the roll pin punches were one of the wisest investments I ever made, and helped me keep what's left of my sanity. They've turned otherwise-dreaded jobs into fun projects.
The new extractor is the nickel-Teflon coated one. It has a rubber "button" inside the coils to prevent the spring from weakening over time. The old GI extractor had an aftermarket D-shaped rubber ring over the outside of the spring that should accomplish the same thing.
The bolt face tool not only compresses the ejector, it also acts as a vise, making it easier to drive out the roll pin that holds the ejector and spring inside the bolt. If you have a strong thumb, you can push down on the tail of the extractor, which will relieve enough spring pressure to allow you to push out the solid pin that holds the extractor in place.
I placed the firing pin inside the bolt as a reminder of why I switched from the standard steel firing pin to a TiN-coated titanium one. The steel pin was intended to work with hard military primers. With softer civilian primers, there's enough inertia in the steel firing pin to allow it to touch the primer as the bolt goes into battery. This is not unsafe (double negative, I know), but for me it leaves the vaguely-disturbing faint impact of the firing pin on the primer. The titanium firing pin has much less inertia than the steel one, and doesn't ding the primer. A side benefit is that it carries the same kinetic energy as the steel one, and because it's lighter, has a quicker lock time.
Here's the complete bolt carrier, in the AR15 bolt carrier, which is now the only legal kind that can be possessed, since BATFE rewrote the rules, and now considers a M16 bolt carrier, in and of itself, an automatic weapon.
And here's a handy tip: if you own a Steyr AUG, you can use the AR15/M16 extractor/ejector pins and springs, but not the extractor itself. Something to remember if you need parts, which are almost impossible to find for the AUG.
And finally, the wrap-up of the Mossberg saga. Brownell's to the rescue again, this time with a reasonably-priced set of fold-down front and rear backup sights.
I'm sure glad I didn't shorten that cantilever rail, because all that "excess" length came in handy.
The sights are totally invisible to the Eotech when they are folded down.
The intention is to remove the Eotech completely if there is any malfunction, and flip up the backup sights. Since this is a shotgun, only enough zeroing will be done to get the sights pointing at where the shot's going, rather than trying for bullseyes. That's not much of a sight radius to work with, but it will do in an emergency.
I tried the "co-witness" thing, and discovered the Eotech would need lowering to work properly.
Both the iron sights and the Eotech work fine, just not with each other. And I'm not sure my brain is quick enough to work with a target, two iron sights, and a reticle projected out to infinity. So, for me, it's "in Eotech we trust, iron sights are just backup." And my natural laziness worked to my advantage, because I did not whack off a large portion of that rail when I though I'd only need a small part of it. All of that real estate was put to good use.
Congratulations, and best wishes for long and happy lives together! Remember to learn to love each other not only for what you find attractive in each other, but for the things you are less appreciative of, because all of these together make up the person you love.
Awesome !
I make same mods on my AR’s.......also use a Mcfarland one piece gas ring.......give one a try . Reliability is always improved when one addresses such parts that are prone to failure for a 3 gun competition or working / duty gun.
I haven’t tried the titanium coated bolt carrier groups. A few of mine have the chromed bolt carriers.......any experience with the titanium coated carriers ?
I knew there was a one-piece gas ring out there somewhere, I just couldn't find it until you mentioned it. They're now in my Brownell's shopping cart. At this price, an extra is not a bad idea.
Springs seem to be the weak point of any weapon, from the first firelocks to today. I'm especially paranoid about M16 mags, and have been rebuilding mine as I come across them in nooks and crannies, and under piles of stuff, in the basement.
Some of the mags are over 30 years old, so all I keep are the bodies, as long as they look good. I'm wary of even the latest generation of GI "anti-tilt" follower (light green), so I've been rebuilding with Magpul follower and base plate, and Brownell's chrome silicon magazine spring. Then I cut the old magazine springs in half so I won't be tempted to keep them around as spares.
I also rebuilt a few magazines with CMMG's chromed steel follower and wound-wire magazine spring. Again, I'm using the Magpul low-profile rubberized base plate. I have one of each, and a H&K all-steel magazine, fully loaded. I hope to let them sit a year, and then try them out. I suppose I need a strictly stock mag as a control, too.
The H&K is really a top-of-the-line magazine, and is priced accordingly. Any price under $30 is a steal.
I've only had AR15s with stock bolt carriers. No chrome, no titanium, and no super-heavy match models.
However, because shorter barrels tap off the gas closer to the chamber, they cycle faster than usual, even in semiauto. So I bought a MGI bolt buffer/rate reducer. It's also supposed to reduce felt recoil by lengthening in operating cycle, but I haven't noticed that. Of course, my AR15 shorty has put on quite a bit of weight since the day I got it.
Morning Winmag - wow a ‘two-fer’ SNGP, AR-15 improvements and sights for the ultimate Mossy. Kudos, my friend. Fascinating as always.
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