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This is one of my "what if" guns that I am nearly done with but it actually shoots fine as is right now. About a year or more ago I picked up this Iver model 67-S Viking 2.75" 38 S&W at a GS. It was cheap enough because it had a bad trigger recoil spring in it. My intension for it was to load snake shot loads for it for around the house. Then one day I saw that 3" I.J. Supershot barrel and frame parts for sale on Ebay. I thought what if I could put the older supershot 22 barrel set onto the 38 frame? I had to try it since there were a few pluses in the final franken gun. The old world Supershot sealed 8 top break guns were beautifully machined with tapered light weight barrels and an auto eject feature. But by 1947 Iver had to cheapen the guns to stay competitive with the H&R 999. Once the Supershot turned into the model 66, The barrel became a bulky casting and they ditched the auto eject feature for a finger ejection rod. The 66 did have some important improvements such as a fixed firing pin with transfer bar, a nice wide spur hammer and a much needed larger trigger & trigger guard. So basically, I love the old Supershot top end but the newer 66 had the far better lower frame. So I set about mating the 2 together. I ended up getting a nice 6" supershot barrel from Numrich but found the forcing cone was off center. So I made a cutter up to correct that and found I have to cut new cylinder notches in the Supershot cylinder since the frame lug of the 67 center fire frame didn't line up. But that was fine since I could now match each cylinder bore with barrel bore using a brass alignment pin I made up. Milling each of the 8 cylinder notches threw the frame lug hole assured me a more accurate gun in the end. The newer & nicer rear sight/frame latch fit perfectly on the old barrel frame and of course the center fire FP bushing was removed, welded shut and remachined for a spring loaded FP of my own design. The frame did need a bit of weld to get a tight lock up also. I intend to color case harden the frame once I make up a crucible for a kiln I have. That will toughen the lock up to where it should be. Below you see one of the weak areas of the IJ design. The trigger rebound spring is not a good one. I tried to install a new Numrich spring in the gun and flat out couldn't get it to work worth a s***. you see it inside the trigger guard here. So I revised the design with duel spring arms that are seated into holes drilled into the forward potion of the guard as pictured. The new springs have a longer arc of bend to them and with about a dozen careful thinnings, I have a nice reliable and lighter trigger pull over that stock joke of a spring they sent me. Also you can see I put the cylinder lock up lug spring mid body on the lug for a far more reliable and solid cylinder lock. All that remains to be done is build up the front sight with some weld to match the higher rear sight and kiln color the frame and bingo, I have that old world top break I always wanted yet with modern full cylinder safe carry AND auto eject. No one in their "sensible" mind would ever go about a job like this so don't ask what it would cost..... never said I was sane when it comes to old guns :?

I'm not a sports fan, but I am a Pam fan.

The nfl took a knee to our Flag. Now I'll take a knee to their game.

I've followed football my entire life until this year. I saw all those dipsticks sitting on their arses during the National Anthem and lost interest. It's their right but I'm not supporting it either. Haven't watched but a couple of minutes of football all season and find I survived just fine so I'll be doing something else when the Super Bowl comes on.

I recently picked this one up on a trade. A Beretta M9A1 Compact L Inox. Mods include full inox controls, Elite II hammer, oversized mag release, solid stainless guide rod, front sight was drilled & red fiber optic installed, Novak rear sight, X-grip adapter w/18+1 Mec-Gar mag, Elite II barrel crown, short reach trigger, & I had the barrel shortened to fit flush with the slide.

What an entrance by GaGa! Speaking as quasi-acrophobic, that was pretty durn impressive. - OS

So far, it looks like beer is the winner

Submitted May 13, received my stamp February 4. SilencerCo Omega. Man I am so happy right now!

This is a good time of year to get good prices on flashlights. I have had the Fenix PD for a year. Great light 2x123 and 1000 lumens. i added an OLight and Nitecore to the collection, both 1x123. The little OLight is rated at 500 lumens. I like these newer lights with buttons on the sides. These came from Battery Junction. The Fenix I think I got from Fenix Outfitters. I also picked up a Black Diamond headlamp 200l from Eastern Mountain Sports.

RIA MS Tactical 2011 It has a lot of features for reasonably priced firearm. Now I just need to get out and shoot it.

Well, the South did pretty good the first half of the War of Northern Aggression too. - OS

I thought after the minimum wage, fair market determined pay? If a business can't get or keep workers at a particular wage, they have to raise the wage to fill it or they go out of business. I am the only one in my family of 5 that is not in business for myself. Minimum wage is just that, minimum. My family will pay what they have to to get a job filled. I don't understand why the Gooberment should have to get involved in the pay, they manage to F up everything they regulate.

Awesome suggestion. Thanks.

Yeah, I think I took a few years off my life with that period of time and the schedule but it needed to be done. Needed more money, wanted some more guns too. Went to work.

Why not check out Discord instead of TeamSpeak? It looks like it is free and hosted on their servers. https://discordapp.com/

I think on-line petitions are useless. But I signed this one anyway.

I sold my PLR-16 and wished I hadn’t. Prices are crashing; they should drop back down into the $450~$500 range new. $375 would be a heck of a deal. I have been looking around for a long range trunk gun; I already have a handgun. But I would like something with more range capability and a larger caliber; maybe a low cost carbine of some sort.

"What if I try to put a ball somewhere and you try to stop me" --- the guy who invented sports.

PSA. Wait for the sales and buy a complete lower and upper separately. I did a pistol that way for about $375.

If people want to try Team Speak I can set that up really easily. Matter of fact I have a few friends who already run a TS server that we could try out first.

I am still looking into options so that others don't have to try to fork out cash for an alternative.

I am considering hosting a Team Speak server. For as many people as we generally have in chat I can get one for a few bucks a month that will cover everyone. It would require a download but after that it really is a simple program and it gives you voice as well if you want to talk instead of type. Definitely need to find something else before too much longer.

I'm probably going to miss the game or only catch part of it because I'm taking a beginners blacksmithing course. Besides I agree with GT all of the players who've done the sitting or kneeling during the National Anthem soured my opinion of professional football.

Translation, Nicky broke the chat again ...

I'll ask it again....when one of you sets the bar that we can all debate then we can talk. Whats the freaking bar. What's the limit of to much? Those workers don't put any skin in the game but showing up. They don't invest in it, put risk capitol out there but always got the hand out there demanding more. I'm sorry, and although I am "the man" management, I don't make a hell of a lot more than what they can with OT. Where is making a profit obscene and no longer "fair"? If it were the sweat of your brow on a company you ran or managed, I bet your idealism would change a bunch. I wish I could charge every employee at my place that damages product, equipment or heck hits a freaking girder beam with their forklift. Even if it were 5% they would feel the pinch of the budget finally on them, but no, they just show up when they want, will refuse overtime because it will push them out of EBT range. I take care of my employees even though they could care less about how my reviews are judged by their actions. And BTQ, it will never be capitalist if govt is involved in the process. I'm getting tired of being told we don't make enough. If I actually paid some of these folks what they did in actual value some days, they would be writing the company a check instead of the other way around. There it's out in the open. Discuss

Picked up a Correct hand 12ga BP shotty. Thompson Center out of Rochester NH I have not fired it yet.

Some are just less dogmatic than others. No need to poke a stick in anyone's eye.

I always boycott the super bowl, lol. I'm just not much of a sports fan I guess I'd rather spend the time doing something else and read about it. What's going on at 1/2 time?

There is a huge boycott for the super bowl due to the halftime show. I encourage you all to boycott the SB due to the political views being presented at halftime Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I guess this is more or less to let you know about a great place to get them. I needed some small jigs (1/80 oz) without a collar and didn't want to pay Basspro $5.50 for ten of them. Started looking on e-bay and found some, $12.99 per 100 + 2 free ones with free shipping. What blew my mind was I ordered them Thursday and got them today. The seller on e-bay is killerjigs and they're in Huxley, Iowa. They sell a lot of other fishing stuff too.

Following up on my last post, another thing to consider is that Amazon could close its doors today and Brezos would still be filthy rich. He probably has more money than he could ever spend so even a successful boycott would not be likely to hurt him. It would, however, hurt all of the employees who could and likely would lose their jobs if Amazon's business declined or if Amazon closed its doors. If we want jobs for Americans then boycotting a company that hires lots of Americans might not be the best approach. Again, people are, of course, free to spend their money anywhere they wish. Heck, I generally avoid Target but to be honest I didn't really shop there very much to begin with. I just wanted to toss it out there that the intended consequences of a boycott and the real consequences can be very different.

Found time for a quick shoot of my 320 full size today, nothing fancy just quick session of 85 rounds at tin cans, 10-25 yards. As expected, flawless, more accurate than me (can say the same for about every heater made ), but seriously, with the long sight radius I looked good enough. Only shot FMJ range stuff, but plenty enough folks have put these through the paces to know it'll eat essentially anything. Trigger quite okay, short takeup, tiny bit of creep to a decent break, and short reset bout same as Glock. Came with default medium grip frame, which is just fine for me. Great purchase on the grip, a custom "stippling" straight from SIG. Cleaning lower is pretty nifty what with the removable gut, just pull it out, spritz with brake cleaner, touch of CLP on the moving surfaces, pop it back in. Might eventually get a subcompact kit for it, just because. All in all, I'm sure it'll be fine as armed services issue. Striker fired just makes sense over double/single action. So much simpler, same trigger pull each time, no decocker to engage (or forget to), all that. Pull the trigger it go boom until it's empty. Sorry they're even putting a manual safety on them for the military, but whatever, still simpler than a combo decocker/safety with double/single action pulls. Also bout 5.5 oz. lighter than the Beretta, both weighed with empty mags inserted. - OS

Not to sound defeatist but I think there is also an economy of scale thing involved. Amazon, for instance, might piss off some of us with the opinions of the CEO, etc. We are free to boycott if we wish but we must realize that, with a huge company like Amazon, we probably aren't really going to make a dent and the company probably won't even notice. People who use Amazon regularly or even semi-regularly and who decide to boycott, however, will notice when they have to go out of their way to find a product that isn't available locally, pay more for the product than it might cost on Amazon, end up paying more total shipping because they can't order everything they want from one place with one shipping fee or get the product, find it is defective, damaged or just the wrong thing and don't have Amazon to back them up when trying t make it right with the vendor. Not every person who boycotts Amazon would face those things but some will. Meanwhile, as I said, Amazon probably wouldn't even notice that there was a boycott so those folks would only be hurting themselves. As there is no, real alternative to Amazon that does exactly what Amazon does the phrase, "Cutting your nose off to spite your face," comes to mind. Still, for some people the positive feeling they get from knowing that they, at least, are not supporting Amazon may well be worth it. Also, while I don't agree with Bezos and hope that the lawsuit he is supporting fails miserably, I have to commend Amazon on certain things, as well. My former sister-in-law works for their Athens site as an order picker and based on discussions with her I think that, on the whole, the company treats its employees exceedingly well. Now, I am sure that they work hard but Amazon at least acts like they appreciate the hard work. In fact, I think a lot of companies could learn from the way Amazon treats its employees. Obviously, by their example, companies don't have to treat employees like crap in order to make a buck or be successful. For that reason I am kind of torn about boycotting them, anyway, even if I thought such a boycott would be effective. While I don't agree with the political stance at the same time another big issue that is always at the forefront of my mind is the way companies treat their employees.

I see where you are going with that and your point makes sense - people like what they are used to and familiar with. I also think that 'peers' play a role in our acceptance or rejections of certain things, especially among those with limited experience. In other words, a person new to the military right after the adoption of the Beretta might form the opinion that the .45 was better because that is what many of the more experienced guys around him are saying. Once those 'old timers' rotate out and are replaced by folks who have always been issued the Beretta, however, then the Beretta might be thought of as 'better'. That said, I believe there are more factors involved than simply a resistance to change. I will use myself as an example. I guess I am a bit of an anachronism. I was born in 1971 and I am 45. I still don't like Glocks and fully intend to never own one (not saying they aren't good guns for those who do like them.) I also have pretty much no interest in owning an AR15 type rifle and would personally trust a good revolver any day over a semiauto of equal quality. Ammo capacity is about the only thing I see as being a check in the 'advantage' column for a semiauto and, for the lifestyle I currently lead, I don't see that as an overwhelming factor (stay with me - I am going somewhere relevant with this.) I am not, as you said, saying that one is better than the other just because that is what I like. What I am saying is that, along with the simple resistance to change that is often part of human nature as well as the nature of organizations of just about any type, I believe personal preferences and confidence levels in Firearm A vs. Firearm B that are based on an individual's experiences still play a role. In fact, those personal preferences and experiences may play a much greater role in the resistance to change, especially among those who carry firearms as part of their job, than we realize and it might not simply be a case of 'that is what we have always done'. Instead, it could be a case of some folks saying, "Firearm A is proven reliable and effective. This is my life we are talking about, here, so why would I want to experiment with an unknown factor such as Firearm B when I know, from experience, that Firearm A will play its role if I need to call upon it to defend my life?" Then there are people like myself who just like what we like. I mentioned that I plan never to own a Glock. I have fired Glocks. They worked fine and I hit what I was aiming at - and I still don't like them. There are other semiautos that I do like (although generally not better than revolvers) so it isn't just being 'set in my ways' or determined not to like them. I have also found that - although they can be 'dressed up' to be some of the coolest looking handguns ever - I am not that crazy about 1911s, either and prefer newer semiauto designs so it isn't just 'traditional' vs. 'more modern' for me. There is also another factor in resistance to change. One of the biggest mistakes many organizations make, whether talking about a large police force or a manufacturing company, is that they simply make decisions without getting stakeholder buy in. Another is that higher ups often either don't realize that organizations often have their own, somewhat unique culture or they don't really understand the culture among the rank and file of their, particular organization and that preference for one thing over another can often be due to aspects of that culture. The only way to find these things out is to actually ask the rank and file. If the bosses/brass of an organization - people who don't even use the equipment in question on any kind of regular basis, just say, "We are changing from Firearm A to Firearm B (or machine A to Machine B or process A to process B, even) because Firearm B is better," then there will often be a lot of resistance to change. For one thing, the people who never actually use the equipment really might not know what the hell they are talking about and Firearm B really might not be better as those in supervisory roles could well be making the decision based solely on the 'on paper' advantages rather than 'experienced' advantages. The change often goes more smoothly if focus groups comprised of the people who will actually be using the equipment and whose opinions are trusted by the impacted group as a whole are brought in - even before the decision to change is made - to find out what they and others do and don't like about the current equipment and what improvements they would like to see in the new equipment or even if new equipment is really needed, at all. That input can then be used not only to narrow down options but also to get most of the actual end users to agree that a change really would be a good idea. At that point, once the supervisors have chosen something that not only makes sense from an organizational and 'bottom line' standpoint but also makes sense to the people who will actually utilize the equipment then generally resistance to change is greatly reduced because the people using said equipment on a daily basis feel like they, themselves, helped to drive and implement the change. Am I making any sense? I guess I am saying that, while I do believe resistance to change, in some cases, boils down to it being human nature to not like change and the tendency for one era's 'new thing we are skeptical about' to become the next era's 'tried and true' I believe that it is a bit more complicated and there are more factors involved in the case of firearms, especially firearms that are carried for the purpose of defending one's life. There is also sometimes an opposite impulse, on the part of some, to change simply for the sake of change without really considering if the planned change is really an improvement or simply a case of 'trying something different.'

If I wanna burn a dimple in somebody's forehead, I use my PD 35.

I carry a Streamlight Stylus Pro that I really like. $20 on Amazon. It claims 90 lumens, but I would swear it is more. I carry it as edc, and never know it is there.

You might included a home warranty with the sale. You can get them for around 600 hundred dollars. They can cover seller and buyer. Get one and have the warranty repair before sale

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Just got my lower back from engraving. I present the CMT TGO-15 SBR. 9" AAC 300 Blackout barrel, AAC 51t flash hider. Need a 762-SDN-6 and an Aimpoint to complete this project. [url=http://imgur.com/OdlkMLX][/URL]

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One of mine.