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Well if it were me and I was looking at a 308 vepr I would go battle rifle meaning 16" barrel and integrated sights to end up with something like this:

Do you happen to have another working PC with a cd/dvd burner?  If so you can burn lots of other boot disc utilities that can emulate a command prompt, etc.  Or you can probably take the hard drive out and connect it to a simple usb adapter from Staples/Office Max/ETC and plug it into another machine and rename the file that way as well.  Depending on what suites you.

Nice, maybe mine will follow in 4-5 more days then.       *edit* Just got the email and it said ETA for shipping was 60-90 days  :stunned:  :rock:

  Well - I've seen their target stands on lots of different occasions and believe me - the smaller targets don't seem to do anything for preventing a shooter hitting the frames.  Bad aim/control is bad no matter the size of the target and the evidence is out there in the form of chewed up frames all the time.  Sure you want to minimize the impacts they take but I would think that most people don't aim for the wrist or shoulder section of a silhouette target.  I'm sorry I just simply don't believe in the second argument here about young shooters and parents having to provide parental guidance to their children.   On the second point about the armory and shotguns.  I don't believe that is the case at all.  I know they are on the board here so maybe they can chime in to clarify but I'm only going off the discussion I had with their staff on one of my visits there and they did not say anything that would have lead me to believe that a patron would be in danger of racking up a big fee for shooting a shotgun with buck shot on their shotgun range.  

My first AR I bought as a complete rifle and while I still like it there's a few things I would change.  The second AR in our collection(my wife's), I shopped around a picked up a prebuilt upper and lower and mated them together.  Better but still some things I would do differently.  So this one will be just another standard AR in 5.56/.223 but I am going to pick and choose every part and build an AR that I absolutely love.  That's the plan for now at least.  If it changes it would be for something in .458 or maybe 9mm.

Should be fixable - I'm in the Nashville/Middle TN area and can take a look at it if you want.  PM me if interested.

This is the range my wife and I go to almost every time we go to shoot except in the really cold winter months.  We have been going there for about 4 years now at random intervals.  To me the only two issues that really have ever stuck out to me was the cash/check only method of payment and the refusal to let patrons use their own targets that they already own.  That being said I get the reason about taking cash/check only and its a minor inconvenience at most.  The target thing, even though the ones they allow(and sell) are very cheap, still bugs me a little.  Its just one of those things that I don't understand why they care if someone wants to shoot at a sight in target of their choice or a zombie clown or a silhouette. I just don't see why that makes a difference at all.  If it can be pinned easily to the backer boards on the target stands it ought to be good to go.   Other than that we have always thought the facility was very nice; and it looked like they are building an expansion the last time we were there.  The RSO's have always been fair and nice to us.  The last time we went out was my wife's return to the range after about a year of not having practiced with her carry gun while she was pregnant.  To say the least she was very rusty.  The female RSO who is almost always at the pistol range noticed that she was having some trouble hitting the target and working the cobwebs out and came over and spent probably about 30 minutes with her giving 1 on 1 instruction.  By the end of the session she was hitting bullseyes again and feeling very confident overall.  The first couple of times we went to this range the way the RSO's would enforce the rules felt a bit harsh to me.  I mean I've been around firearms almost my whole life and feel like am pretty safe with them; the whole common sense thing.  But then I realized its just the way it HAS to be delivered so that people that have NO business handling a gun get it and don't do something stupid.  After those first couple of trips I realized it was my ego that was making me feel like they were being overbearing.  Since then I have taken trips there where the point of the trip is all about someone else learning to shoot or practicing and I'm just there to assist, load magazines, give any advice I can, sweep up their brass, and just in general offer any support I can.  I also try to help them navigate the rules and policies of the range so that they don't do something that get's them scolded unexpectedly.  During those trips I also happen to observe what all is going on around me and I have seen what I would assume are veteran shooters make very bad safety mistakes.  The RSO's jump on them the same as anyone else but you can definitely tell their pride is hurt pretty bad when it happens.  I've also seen the RSO's ask some novice shooters to leave when they broke the rules too many times.   I guess I've only really had two instances of an RSO being an issue.  Once, on the rifle range, one of the older volunteers was assigned the duty of handling the intercom and the poor guy just didn't have any volume to his voice at all.  The other RSO's keep hounding him to SPEAK UP because no one could hear the range commands.  I kept thinking to myself why don't you give him something else to do instead of making him feel like crap over and over?  The other time, again on the rifle range, I had an RSO get very annoyed that my AR was ejecting spent casings a good distance as they had assigned me to the center bench on the left side so there wasn't a net to really contain the ejected casings.  I simply said "sorry" and "don't worry I'll clean it up" instead of opting for the "well no shit" response that was just urging to be uttered.  Maybe that RSO had had a long day or something.  I tried not to let it bother me but that one instance does still stand out to me.   The only other thing about the facility as a whole that I don't like is the inability to shoot shotguns with anything other than slugs.  I have had tons of friends of my wife(other women) end up getting a shotgun at some point for home defense and want somewhere safe where they can take it and practice a few times with it.  Sadly I've never been able to suggest this range to them.  Now that Nashville Armory is open and allows shotguns I've been suggesting they go there.  I'm not sure what all would be involved for this range to allow buck/bird shot to be fired from shotguns at targets but I really wish they would look into it.  Many people, myself included, have a shotgun somewhere in their home defense plan and usually they get very little practice with it if they don't own or have access to private county land.   I love the fact that you guys do rent things like spotting scopes and lead sleds, etc now.  One day I hope I can help pitch in and start volunteering there when I have more time to give you on the weekends.

Its on the opposite side of town from you guys but Woodbury still has one too.

Pretty sure they only do billet receivers.  If they do a forged one they don't advertise it on the site at least.

I would like one upper and one lower.

Hit up youtube - tons of excellent conversion videos there that show how easy it is to convert one.  Usually the front end can be a little more difficult to convert to true AK fashion.   Here's some good parts and information - http://www.dinzagarms.com/saiga_308/saiga_308.html

Just my guess but I'm wondering if Hank and Gomez get killed and Jesse and Walt get taken by the meth guys.  Walt does a few cooks and gets away or bargains Jesse's captivity for his freedom only so that he can get the m60 and ricin for some sort of plan to get Jesse out and be rid of the business forever.  Also, if Walt is hidden away for a little while, most likely w/o his chemo treatment, that would explain the hair regrowth we see in the flash forwards.

I believe there were $999 w/ 2 mags.  Extra mags (the ones they took out of the original purchase from century) were $50/ea.   Same dealer had a ton of beat up Mosins and a couple of Suomi's too.

Was nice to see some more surplus stuff getting back into the mix on the tables.  Lots of slings, bayonets, stocks, and mags.  Saw a stack of very new looking russian 30 round ak mags for $25/ea and russian 40 rounders for $30/ea.  Not pre panic pricing I know but not romanian or chinese either.  Picked up a mosin accessory kit for $20 otd.  Found a table selling .223 Wolf 55gr for .28/rd - jumped on two cases.  Most surplus ammo cans were at $10 this time around - picked up another good looking one.   The dealer with the Century PSL's still had two left from the last show.  He's still stealing two of the mags from the deal but the PSL's look nice and they do have the non-pinned breaks if anyone was looking for a PSL.   No beef jerky though  :cry:

Lol - you win the internets for the day!

    Just sent in my order last Friday as well - first timer here as well.  Been roaming the web every day reading and watching anything I can find on Garand maintenance, etc.  

  Will do - love the one called "Pappaw's Jerky" or something close to that.  That stuff is addictive!

Sent my last two big bags of beef jerky to my brother over in Afghanistan so I need to restock - hope to make it out on Saturday.

Just curious but do you remember their price on the case of 556?

Most of my recent clothing buys have been either Walmart, Sams Club, or Amazon.com.  Wally and sams for the lower end more casual stuff and Amazon for the nicer things.

The staff said earlier in the thread that CMT might be putting together some upper options based on this group buy of lowers but nothing has been promised or set up as of yet. If we do not show interest in it then I'm sure they won't bother. But if we do then it really could open the door to several things depending on what CMT wants to do. I'm not saying that anyone is expecting anything on an upper but we should have the ability to show interest without being chastised by the membership here. Based on what has been said so far in this thread by the staff is that the only things are are for sure out of the question are customized serial numbers and calibers other than .223/5.56. I don't see anything wrong with showing what our interests are and letting CMT be the one that limits what is possible and not possible. Sorry for the rant but this bothered me.

  I don't see what's so hard to do about a matched upper?  I mean it would seem like all they need to do is pull one off the shelf, do a quick Q/A check for fit/etc, serial both of them, then put the logo on both right?  So the logo on the upper might be reaching but the rest isn't so tough right?  Has anyone asked them about a small logo on the uppers?  Like maybe at the top rear of the optics rail where the charging handle clicks in?

  Well, there were several folks selling mosins at $200 but only one older gent had some that were numbers matching, excellent condition, excellent bores.  I ended up picking one up from him.  I believe when they are in stock online currently that they are currently pressing the $160 mark and that's for come as they are random condition.  So figure in $15-20 hand select, shipping costs, and transfer fees and you are in the ball park of a very good condition, non-numbers matching 91/30.  He had also cleaned the cosmo off of these rifles so the only real cleanup I've got left to do is on the bayonet.  Plus he threw in a pack of 15 rounds on original strippers; those are $2 a piece.  Very nice guy from Mt. Juliet who makes some bad ass looking custom knives as well.  Also picked up a gently used ammo can for $10 and a over the shoulder tactical-ish bag for my trip to Knob Creek in the fall.   Overall the show was exactly as described above with many more vendors than patrons so it was very easy to walk around and look at everything.  If you were wanting a PSL but missed the boat one of the vendors there apparently got in on the recent batch from Century and had three for sale at $999 but he did steal two of the mags from the 4 mag deal and was only giving two with the rifle; charging $50 each if you wanted extra.  Saw a couple of nice Makarovs for $350.  Prices overall were coming down but several vendors were still hanging on for those who didn't know better and had money to burn; $800-900 wasr's etc.  Oh, did see a Saiga 12 for $700 too - was tempting but couldn't justify it.  

  Way ahead of the curve on that one.  Been stashing stuff away for him since before he was born  :pleased:   Might have to pick up something from the toy vendors though if any show up there today.

Plan on going tomorrow and taking my little guy to his first gun show  :woohoo: