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Hello All - I’m honored to be able to share and absorb the wisdom and expert information on these forums. I spent some time in Ft Campbell while Active Duty and my relatives live in Nashville. I’m currently an avid collector of mostly M1 Garands and SKS’s. I’ve been lurking the troubleshooting section for awhile and I really appreciate the kindness and good fellas here. Lots of respect to you all

Because I can only recognize a knife 2 out of 3 times, I thought I would ask you guys about this knife. I bought this knife from a friend getting to old to enjoy his stuff and wanted to liquidate so his wife might not have to. This is what he had me write down; "6 bar composite weld of 344 layers of steel hand forged. Fire blued steel. Handle is stabilized Madrone wood. Pommel and front guard are fossilized Amber" What I know; the knife has a stamp of L.W. Thomsen on it. Any help (value, rarity and etc) would be appreciated. My pictures suck, I know.

Howdy guys! I'm Garrett, in the Chattanooga area of Tennessee. I've set my sights on entering the Gunsmithing industry as I've become more familiar with handling firearms and working with them, to the point where I typically have a fair understanding of them; even ones I've never personally encountered before! I'm a HUGE CZ buff when it comes to brand association, which my lineup of firearms will usually show. Currently, I own a CZ P-09 and a CZ-75B Ω, with many more CZ firearms in my past and prospective future! I generally enjoy Commie-bloc firearms or anything intuitive that comes from the European countries, and my AMD-65 kit build shows that! With time, I hope to not only expand my personal firearms portfolio and knowledge, but to someday develop something new to bring to the table and create a business around it!

Life member of both the NRA and SAF. The NRA won’t get another dime from me for a long long time. They primarily communicate with me asking for money, selling me fear, and spamming me with junk. SAF is a totally different deal. Just this week I got a mailer from them and I thought “Oh no, better not be similar to the crap the NRA sends”. I was pleasantly surprised when it was useful information about what they are doing to help me, a gun owner. I should look into the GOA or that TN group.

For those days when you think your job sucks.

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MTSA will host a Multi-Gun match on October 31st. Check in at 8:30. match start at 9:30. 6 stages that have a total of 62 paper targets, 51 steel plates, 6 long range steel (100 yards) and 6 clays. Paper requires 2 hits or 1A, plates must fall or ring and clays break. Their are 9 divisions to choose from. Anything from PCR only, 2 gun 2x4 gun and the regular open, tactical and heavy classes. No slugs allowed for this match. No steel core rifle ammo. $25 match fee. https://practiscore.com/mtsa-multi-gun-match-1/register

Show is better than the old shows years ago, which were useless as tits on a boat hog. Much better mix of the sexes & ages. Still have some of the usual non-gun junk. Some place to go when you've got nothing better to do.

The back ground for this project is off a deal I made with my son this past Christmas. In lue of any Christmas gifts, I would just do some basic gunsmith work on his guns threw the year. So, he buys this CBRPS bullpup stock for his SKS and the trigger system the thing has is a sliding trigger and rails system that just flat out would not work the action reliably no matter what I did to it. Pure crapola! In frustration, I decided to ditch the bulk of the SKS trigger system for a much simpler mil spec parts set that would run the SKS hammer. With this new set up I could modify the bull pup trigger into a pull forward connecting rod rather that the sliding trigger and rails that originally were supposed to work the stock SKS trigger. The new parts I used were a M1 Carbine trigger and a FAL trigger seer cut to fit the carbine trigger. With these fit and positioned just right, I achieved a perfect zero creep single stage pull on the nearly stock SKS hammer. The final product pull weight is running 10.5 pounds but with the super wide aluminum trigger, it feels much lighter and no creep is a pleasure in any thing that goes bang. Here you can see how it all hooks up with the main trigger now pivoting on its own axis pin rather than that of a sliding assembly. And I installed a HK grip over the plastic nub of a grip that was there. The original mag system for this stock was cut tapco mags. Once again, just crapola in the raw. One of the tapcos was cut a little off and basically made it an example of why you should not cut these mags without a true jig that replicates the correct angles consistently. Rock & lock on this tight a unit is very un-natural. So, the solution was to install one of Marcus's G-9 adapters that would let me run AR mags but in my case, I would only do it if I could modify the receiver and BHO to function off Stock, UN cut ASC AR mags. And that is what you see on this pup. For this to be reality, it takes no more than 1 hour of machine work on the receiver and some minor reconfiguration of the bolt hold open plate. And these mods will not hinder the rifles function in the least if one were to put the stock fixed 10 round box back on the receiver. Marcus has all the technical machine operations needed to run the G-9 adapter with factory stock AR mags. In addition to the receiver mods for this, the drop free bolt mod is slightly different since the bolt needs to be narrowed a tad more and the length of the cut needs to be lengthened slightly so as to effect a clean pick up of cartridges from the un cut AR mag. Also, the inherit design of the AR mag with its straight body on top of its curved portion, demands a pair of 5 & 7 O-clock feed ramps be cut into the chamber face. Otherwise, when the follower gets light pressure under the forward part of the cartridges, the bullet tip will stab the chamber face just below the chamber mouth. The AR chamber face configuration does not suffer from this problem since its ramped lugs pitch the bullet up into the chamber right from the git go. The other issue I had to resolve was what was to be used as a folding rear sight that would be rock solid yet able to move left & right for windage so I could pre align the base so my knob adjustment could maintain center of the protective wings. The pictures show the solution with 2 belly screws threw the ladder sight, once loosened allows the sight base to move left or right threw oblong cut screw holes in the aluminum base body. Personally, I'm not a fan of bull pups in general but this is something my son wanted to play with so this one is as practical a shooter as I could have made it. The barrel is just a tad over 16" and it does in fact shoot where you point it!

There was never a gun show loophole. They just call it that because it sounds better than calling it what it really is; a ban on private sales. Anyone that holds an FFL is required by federal law to do a background check, no matter where they are selling. If someone is moving a bunch of guns; its up to the BATF to do their job and charge them. It’s not rocket science and it would be pretty easy to do. We all know people that are doing that, and if they ever start enforcing it; those people will be subject to arrest. But like anything else the BATF touches, its screwed up. They don’t want to put a number on it. Not much happens until one of the guns is used in a crime; then they could have problems. Things like the BATF approval of bump stocks and braces do not have the weight of law. The BATF explains that on their web site. That has the danger of leading people to believe they can’t be charged. Nothing could be farther from the truth. IMO Trump is not anti gun; I think that’s obvious. I just don’t think he’s a gun guy. But his son is, and he has the Presidents ear. And if you want to call him anti-gun because of that; so be it. But anyone paying attention has to agree that he is no where near what we are getting ready to see if Biden/Harris is elected. I do believe Trump will support the 2nd amendment to the extent he can. Machine guns should be legal, but that won’t happen. As far as the bump stock thing goes. The BATF shouldn’t have the authority to approve a device that turns a semi-auto gun into a machine gun. You can argue the letter of the law vs. the intent of the law all you like; but that’s up to either congress, to change the law, or the courts to interpret the law. Stephen Paddock proved to the world that a bump stock turns a semi-auto rifle into a machine gun. 60 people died and 411 were injured. Trump didn’t sign an executive order banning bump stocks. He issued a memorandum to the Attorney General instructing the BATF to do their job. The BATF changed the ruling.

How do you like the .45?

It ain't the "golden years", it's the RUST years.

Great, another update and more mass confusion, endless grumbling for at least a week. . Hey that semi-colon thing works. LOL. JK on the upgrades, it's part of life. They don't have any upgrades available for body parts that don't hurt for us old farts do they??? LOL

I always thought there were way too many emojis anyway. The legacy ones were about all I ever used. The rest just got in the way and were annoying. I'd like to see you dump all of those. BTW: need a legacy version of the roll eyes emoji. I like that one and would use it pretty regular. The other versions offered just didn't work for me. :rolleyes

New here? Step up and tell us about yourself. A good format to follow would be your first name (if you care to share it), where you're from, what your interests are, what gun(s) you have, where you like to shoot, etc. It helps break the ice and you might just find new friends as a result.