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Pretty good, but not sure about that dirty ass weapon carried by that clean operator. I'll get dirty before my weapon will, even if it's designed to, like the AKs.

I agree, and for the M4 and sniper rifles they have, sort of. But the hollow point is tricky, the Hague convention of 1907 mandated that bullets (and other stuff)must not cause unnecessary suffering, so many soft tip and hollow points have been shunned. I don't get it personally, it's mandated for a clean kill in game animals but not in enemy combatants? I would think that a good quality bullet would be mandatory. http://www.thegunzone.com/hague.html

What a load of BS, next they will be using "Born to Kill" tattoos and t-shirts like the one below to argue the same thing. Don't get me wrong, I think it was a poor decision to put that on a service weapon, whether issued or not but to make that leap is BS. All this is, is a lawyer throwing everything up against the wall to see what will stick; with the body cam footage they should have enough to rule one way or another, there is no need to BS with all this anti-gun crap. We were first issued some Trijicon scopes with scriptures on it that we had to return due to the way it looked to the public, did that mean we were on a crusade? Nope, just PC gone wild. :sick: And those snafus went straight to the top, we started to build up for Afghanistan under "Operation Infinite Justice" but changed to "Operation Enduring Freedom" due to Muslim sensitivities. Where will this end?

We, DOD, have a few calibers in our inventory that may not be fully NATO compliant.  But there are few in numbers and it is understood that we bear the burden of providing ammo for them.  I don't know if there has been any instances where one NATO member has had to "borrow" from another NATO, but that is the reason there is a standard.  I guess if there were an all out war, some factories may be taken out so others would have to provide supplies to other NATO nations.

In the military there are many reasons they do what they do and how they do it.  First, as was stated, there is standardizing ammo within NATO units, the 9mm is not going away so any mention of .45, .40 or any other caliber is probably a moot point.  Second, logistics; it is much cheaper for DOD to purchase in bulk, so there will be very few models it keeps in inventory do to initial price and most importantly is the support package that gets negotiated when a contract is assigned.  A weapon must have x amount of parts in inventory before it is fielded, just in case something comes up such as the cracked slides in the M9 early on.  While I agree that the sidearm is not up there with your battle rifle, it should be a reliable piece of equipment; its not important until it is.

Unless done on purpose you would know right off as I doubt you could get a good crimp.  If done on purpose it would probably be a real light load due possibly to unburned powder, the shot would pattern horribly and may even cause some damage to the barrel as it bounced along it.   

I thought so at first, but they portrayed her as going a bit soft as soon as she heard Maggie was pregnant.  Then after they killed all those Negan groupies she continued to act squirrely, I hope they are not setting her up for PTSD.

I have a Jennings .22, not a POS per se but it is picky on what it shoots.  Besides that one I can't say I've run into any weapon that I couldn't get to work right.  I do have one that can use a little smith work, a 303 British which needs to have either a rear ramp sight reinstalled (crooked, and elevator missing) or somehow get a scope mounted on it.  It shoots well but it was sporterized by bubba, but it was given to me by my godfather so it stays in my possession and not in a great big hurry to do anything to it.

There are quite bit of them out there including some DIY display cases: https://reloadingunlimited.com/product/mtm-cartridge-display-board/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwwpm3BRDuh5awn4qJpLwBEiQAATTAQYo3hkmFRxJ9gtMUm_I5rdSYY6c_ek3QW4MShXEpcdIaAigJ8P8HAQ

M249?

I doubt it, but my project probably isn't as financially attractive as bigger ones.

I asked them for a quote on a deck, a few months ago...still waiting.

That's funny, I swept up a bunch of sawdust once and tossed it in a box I had thrown spent primers in.  I was burning yard debris so decided to toss it in there, even spent primers pop in a fire.  I had to walk away as every pop threw sparks 5 to 10 feet, with primer cups and anvils going everywhere.

Then what will I put in my pocket? I may just have to go out and get a 10mm too!

Very well stated; most laws are written to CYA the law enforcement people.  They do not want to make it out to seem that they want you to go shooting anyone on your property on sight.  Having said that, most know that criminals can and will escalate a simple burglary trying to keep from getting caught, and having homeowners trying to guess whether they can defend themselves is not a good thing.  As for me, I am not saying I am going to start shooting the second I see a thief, but as I am armed most of the time, I am not going to get into a physical confrontation with someone of whom I know absolutely nothing about.  They may be a trained martial artist, hopped up on meth, well armed or just plain pumped up with adrenaline which can make that 80lb 4 foot nothing female into a killing machine.  Underestimate your opponent and you die, simple as that.

That is the setup I had for the longest, but never ever used the iron sights.  The issue with having see through mounts is that it puts the scope pretty high off the bore of the rifle, which makes it so you have to move the crosshairs a lot just to get it sighted in and you lose some of the scopes adjustment.  The closer the scope is to the bore, usually about 1", the better, that way you have most of the scopes adjustments available to you.  For me at the time it made sense to be able to use both iron and optical, and with a .22s range it was possible.  But I even did it to my .270 and 30/06 and at over 100 yards it was darn near impossible for me to make out how many points if any a deer had so always used a scope set at a minimum of 4 power.  Now its all optical or red dot sights for me on my hunting rifles and my one handgun, on my plinkers I sometime use the irons to keep myself sharp but mostly its scope there too.  But as you said, to each their own.

Nope, just the rings.

Two different squibs, the one you seem to be talking about is what we call a round that is improperly loaded.  In special effects, they call the fake gunshots squibs; these guys seem to be advertising they work on TWD: http://squibfx.com. I've also heard them call the part that works the gun a squib instead of a blank but that may be incorrect.

Sounds like a good story emerging.   For years I always used see through rings on all my hunting rifles, though I KNEW closer to the bore is better.  I always thought, what if my scope messes up, what if it gets foggy etc etc.  But you know what, I never had to, so a few years ago I stopped doing that, not even BUIS on my last few builds.

Here is a good link on how they do it in movies: http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9196/are-real-guns-used-in-movies

Yea, my instructor was also a lawyer and I have spoken with many a LEO and lawyers, have yet to have one publicly support my point of view; but privately, quite another story.  In NC, while stationed there in the mid 80s I had a dog stolen.  While talking to the officer, SD came up in a conversation, at the time no castle doctrine existed.  You were expected to retreat before lethal force was allowed.  I straight up told him I would not retreat as my front door was between my bedroom and the kids.  He smiled and said, "we normally don't worry too much about perps, just be sure to drag him back in if he falls out".  I took the last part as a joke, but got the feeling that the first part was standard practice.

Never had any issues when I would buy the cheapest or available, currently it's CCI at Midsouth.

Probably didn't see them until it stopped.  I had a bobcat come up to a tree I was in, it froze just like that though not as long.  Probably deciding whether to kick some a, or run away.

Good question I guess it depends on what they use.  If standard blanks they are definitely loud, but if they use squibs, the sound may be added later.

Looked more like a lynx than a bobcat, but yes big rascal.