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Check these links out: Alexander Arms: .50 Beowulf® 450Bushmaster.net • View topic - Things we need to know for a 450 Bushmaster Build Ballistic Advantage, LLC - Home Working on a custom 450 bushmaster. The only reason for it over the beowulf or the socom is that you can find ammo and reloading supplies; and that the guys at ballistic advantage will do the barrels. Just got the barrel and bolt from Ballistic Advantage. They did a great job on it. It is a 16 inch HBAR contour carbon steel barrel. Got the lower done and it's ready for the upper to be finished. Plan to do a plain flattop carbine with iron sights. In my view, all these cartridges do the same thing. The only quibble is the alleged effectiveness with i consider to be a genuine bit of minuta. They are all deadly as a drug store for as far as you can reasonably shoot. The fact is that the socom, the beowulf, and the bushmaster are pistol rounds on steroids and that is a great idea. They are deadly and accurate to the extreme. They allow the shooter to handle a bunch of power with much more compfort than you can have with a pistol. They amount to a carbine length 454 casull or a 50ae with about 300 to 400 fps added to their best handgun velocities. That means they are powerful, indeed. I like all these calibers. My advice. Pick out the one that you like and go with it. I dont believe you can go wrong. A big bore AR is a great thing for defense or hunting to 150 to 200 yds. Every home should have one sitting in the corner loaded and ready to repel boarders. Hope this helps. Kind regards, Leroy

Thanks DMark!! I appreciate it. I'll file that one away for future reference. By the way; talked with one of my AR gunsmith buddies and complained about this. He said: "Gimme the lower"; went back into the tool room, put in another GI trigger, handed it to me, and the problem was fixed. All i need to do is to stone the trigger a bit to smooth it up. I guess the moral of this story is that you can play with parts and fix lots of things on the AR (...if you got em laying around...). Again, many thanks and kind regards, Leroy

Amen brother!! The Dems have reinvented themselves with the heip of the media and academia. There is, in fact, a continuing conspiracy by many in powerful position in this country to remake it in the image of the great "worker's paradise" that marx envisioned. The core of them sit in the demorat party!! Keep up the good work! Kind regards, Leroy

Thanks Froggy!! When ya get old ya cant do nothin right!! Probably too much lead exposure. Keep up the good work! Kind regards, Leroy

I fully agree. No foul intended. The name Smith and Wesson sold tons of revolvers (...some of them to me...). Old time quality and name recognition sold the Smith; just as it did the Colt (...some of them to me, too...). It is the ultimate combination for the consumer. Quality and name recognition. Name recognition doesn’t mean as much today due to the CNC manufacturing thing. Not as much hand built stuff today. It was the norm years ago. The Nighthawk, Ed Brown, other custom builders are standing on the shoulders of what Colt and Smith originally did. They are using the technology of better parts manufacture along with hand fitting to produce their products. Takes less effort and gives a better product. That aint a bad thing for the consumer who is willing to pay for it. Kind regards, Leroy

It is interesting to think about!! Should have been fiscal conservative demorat. Another oxymoron!! as well as wrong word!!! Point is well taken- will edit it now!! Thanks, Leroy

I will grant that this is true. A comparison of a colt to kimber and springfield is a fair comparison. The comparison of a colt to a nighthawk, clark, ed brown is not an apples to apples comparison. Colt always looses that one; it is a comparison of a standard model with a custom gun. You should (...and do...) get more with the custom. Having said that, everyone should remember that colt defined (...and, in fact, was...) the 1911 from the time it was designed in 1911 up thru the eighties when kimber and springfield showed up. Lesser companies tried (...and failed...) to take some of the colt market, but couldn’t. There was a time when the Colt was the ultimate feed material for all customs. The essex, springfield, and other lesser parts were a far second. The old colt 1911 is a great pistol and will, in the vast majority of cases, outshoot its owner (...at least all mine have...). The moral of this little story, don’t bash the colt, it defined the 1911 for 70 years. It was, after all, the only fitting replacement for that greatest colt of them all, the Single Action Army. The first cartridge US military sidearm. By the way; the reason that all these "new" 1911's are so good is that machining technology is light years advanced from what it was when the colt was king. That's why a kimber, springfield, para, …you name it... can be compared to and thought superior to the originals. The same is true with the AR business. CNC machining has revolutionized the small parts business bringing tolerances that could only de dreamed about years ago. Kind regards, Leroy

I'm old enough to remember when this was exactly as AR has posted. The main difference between Republicans and Democrats was their approach to solving fiscal problems and the issue of the "meddling" of government into the private sector. That was before 1960. Since the sixties, the Democrat Party has become increasingly "balkanized" by socialists, radical anti-capitalists, Stalinists, and all the other stripes of anarchist hippy political trash that flowered in the sixties. In the old days; these clowns would have never been elected to ANY political party (…except the Communist Party…). That, however, is not the case today. These people have finally took a bath, got a haircut, gone to school, and wound up in politics. These people were the outliers of society (… I think they still are today; for the most part…) and were, as the old Soviets would say “Enemies of the State”. The fact is that these people continue to be activists and are enemies of the principles that this country was founded on as outlined in the Constitution. They are seeking to forever change the “Immutable Principles” on which this country (...and, western society…) was founded. This activism has the goal of creating a “workers paradise”, (...or socialist utopia…) where government runs everything and the great phrase “... from each according to his abilities; to each according to his need...” is practiced (...and enforced with the point of a gun and bayonet...); with them (...of course…) at the head. After all, they are the “best and smartest”; and know what is good for us all. The words that this bunch are using now are the same words that were used in the Bolshevik Revolution that sold Russia in to a communist grip of slavery that took over 60 million lives. What you are seeing today within the Democrat Party is a re-hash of what was preached in the American attempts at Bolshelvism (...the one "Big Union" philosophy...) by the "Reds" in the labor movement from about 1910 thru 1930 (... when Roosevelt legitimized some of their activities...) and what you heard in the sixties. I am old enough to have stepped over some of this trash when I was going to school at UT in the sixties. In retrospect, I should have stepped on them. As the democrat party is currently constituted; I believe that it is impossible to be rescued by any well meaning ‘Blue Dog’ democrat movement. There are simply not enough of them. The battle is over, and the hippies have won. They will continue to win as long as the rustbelt states, the northeast, and the left coast remain as they are today. By the same token, it is foolish for the currently constituted republican party to try to be like the democrats as the ‘moderate republicans” tried to do in the last presidential election. That, too, is a recipe for disaster; as we have all learned. Both the democrat party and the “moderate republican” factions of the Republican Party need to be thrown out and moved to the scrapheap of history. If we don’t, we will continue to have what we have now, until we have no freedoms left and government is the source of everything (...sadly, in many peoples minds; it almost is now!!...). I say let the Democrats and the “moderate Republicans” die and another take their place. It is the only chance for both parties and us as citizens. Food for thought. Keep up the good work!! Kind regards Leroy

Remember this one thing. At this juncture in history, you can’t live with a "conservative democrat". The reason is that the physical makeup of congress is determined by a simple democrat or republican majority. That means that one democrat or one republican can shift the whole complexion of congress. That's why votes mean things. The reelection Lincoln Davis and other "conservative or blue dog democrats" has allowed Nancy Pelosi to become the Speaker of the House. The Speaker controls the political agenda for the House. That's why you have what you have now. Lots of people are repulsed by what they perceive as "bitterly partisan' politics. It’s a bad idea to adopt the "why don’t we all just get along" philosophy because of what I am opining about now. Politics, at its core, is a winner takes all proposition. The Demorats are demonstrating to the country and their political enemies (...and they do see us as the enemy...) just how this works. Modern Republicans have for the past few congressional sessions, been far too kind and reasonable for their own good. This kindness all culminated in the running of a weak RINO Republican -- John McCain (... who I happen to like on a personal basis; not a political one...) against a demorat unknown-- Barak Obama--; who whipped the Clintons with the help of the Kennedy dynasty (... now, thankfully laid in the grave...). That election has given us the most heinous bunch of socialist idiots at the helm of this country that we have seen to date in this country’s political history; and the most corrupt bunch of trash that has occupied congress and the white house since post civil war reconstruction. The moral of this little rant: A vote for a “conservative democrat†is a vote for what you have at the top now. Folks need to look way passed the qualifications, pronouncements, and personalities of the people who hold themselves up to be something that that at this point in history; a myth. That is: a “conservative democrat†for the reasons listed above. Elections have stupendous consequences. Food for thought Kind regards, Leroy

Davis likes his job. He knows a vote for this stuff is political suicide in the district he serves. He has successfully presented himself as a "blue dog" (...an alleged fiscal (...thanks SWJewellTN...) conservative, but a demo rat none the less...) democrat for years. My assessment is that he is just another sorry politician on the public dole. His only redeeming quality is that he is smart enough to be more afraid of his constituency in Tennessee than that witch Pelosi and her other socialist buddies in congress. My advice, thank him for his service and vote him out the next time you get the chance. Until the electorate initiates a "Scorched Earth" policy with regard to politicians of any stripe that subvert the will of their constituency; there will be no end to the problems you see in congress and this country. If you don’t punish them; they will get the idea that they can do anything that they choose to do and then explain their actions away. I say sweep the state and country clean!! As the great character Homer Stokes so eloquently said in the cinematic masterpiece "Oh Brother": "...the little man has admonished me to grasp the broom of reform and sweep this state clean!...). Now is the time!! Remember, there is an election in 2010. Vote early and often!!! Hope this helps Leroy

Archer:________ There is a great blessing in all three of these candidates. They all appear to be very conservative; and they are all newcomers. Always a great thing. This is a tough choice; but i like Robin Smith. She has plenty of backbone and plenty of experience from doing the Tennessee Republican Party Chairman (...On August 4, 2007, the State Executive Committee of the Tennessee Republican Party unanimously elected Robin Chairman of the state party... .-- this is no small accomplishment in my opinion) thing. Hope this helps. Kind regards, Leroy

I like it!! Let's get started. We can start a foundation to buy a gun for each "uninsured" household. What do ya think??!! Kind regards Leroy

Amen brother!!! Build the fire and get the tar kettle out!! Start with Tanner and Cohen!! Keep up the good work! Kind regards, Leroy

I like it!! On a more sober note; it is sadly true!! Keep up the good work. Leroy

Those that believe that this is a "victory" of some sort for Americans are sadly mistaken. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is a tragedy that we have sunken to this level in both society and government. The government has no business meddling in the affairs of any private entity. That includes the banking industry, the auto industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the health insurance industry, or any other industry in this country that is providing a product or service that is legal to provide. Insurance is a product that you buy with your dollars; not a right that some government demagogue sees fit to grant you (...or to take away thru some idiotic rule that some activist can think up...) as a serf. You need to remember that whatever the government gives, it can take away. The democrats and republicans who are pushing the agenda of government intervention into whatever some rag-tag constituency seems to want at any particular time in history is nothing more than political pandering. This current administration along with congress has been the most corrupt and reprehensible that this nation has seen since the radical republicans of post civil war times. They are paying ever possible constituency, no matter how heinous and nutty, because they believe that their political survival depends on it (...the fact is that it does...). This great era of "hope and change" is nothing more than a series of anti-capitalist moves to pay back the various fringe constituencies that make up the demorat party. There are those that believe that the problems with healthcare are linked to the tort law lobby (… one of the protected cows of the politicians because they have lots of money and clout… . You know; the guys who sue the doctors because of some mistake or imagined injury to some budding genius that somehow leaves him less than he was before the poor doctor tried to help him. …) and the meddling of government in the healthcare industry via Medicare and Medicaid. The healthcare providers of this country have been demonized by the anarchist, socialists, anti-capitalist elites (...lots of politicians...), demigogs, ratty politicians, and the trashy to the extent that a pretty large fraction of people have been lead to believe that somehow the folks that are actually trying to help ease suffering and help people they don’t know are someway evil and are the enemies of the very patients they work so hard to help. This is, in my mind, is one of the most heinous lies ever hoisted upon the people of any nation. The people of the USA should be smarter than that. I am old enough to remember when health insurance premiums were about $200 per month for family coverage. That was before the extensive government meddling in the health industry and the damnable tort law lobby flowered. Lest some of you think that my health insurance is free; it aint. My premium in round numbers is about $1000 per month for family coverage. I don’t believe the government is going to lower my premium. Quite the contrary. If this debacle finally becomes law; it will raise premiums for everyone and provide an excellent “back door” arrangement to control behavior by the use of controlling clauses that could go like this: 1. If you own a gun; you could be an unstable nut and therefore a menace to society and a psychopath. No insurance benefit for you or your family. 2. If you are overweight; you are a gluttonous, selfish, chump and you are using up precious healthcare resources; therefore a menace to society. No insurance benefit for you or your family. 3. If you like to take a drink or smoke; you are an unacceptable health risk and a menace to society. No insurance benefit for you or your family. 4. You are over sixty years old (...or whatever age the bureaucrats decide...) and have a life threatening condition (... heart, liver, ms, etc). You are going to die anyway. Just go ahead and do it. No healthcare benefit for you. 5. On and on As absurd as these things sound; they are entirely possible if we keep the kind of administration we have elected. The people of this nation (…including the people of Tennessee, who elected Tanner and Cohen…) need to take reprisal on this trash that is currently sitting in high position in our government before we all become serfs. Remember, there is an election this november. Vote early and often!! Food for thought. Leroy

Dear fellow Tinkerers and AR mechanics:_____________ Have just done another AR lower using the usual GI parts. Smoothed the engagement surfaces on both the hammer and trigger. The pull is slick; but a bit too long to suit me. The question is: How would you shorten the first stage pull? Do you bevel the hammer notch a bit; or bevel the trigger? Please think about this and let me know what you think. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Leroy

This is great advice!! I heartily agree. Leroy

Did mine yesterday too. I thought it was interesting -- same questions as yours. Must have been a bunch of complaining about the last census. The income and house stuff is none of their business anyway. Kind regards, Leroy

I like 'em!!! Kind regards, Leroy REMEMBER: The 1911 is the only acceptable replacement for the greatest colt of 'em all --- the Single Action Army!!! Check this picture out from here: California and the Punitive Expedition, 1916: On the Mexican Border, 1914 and 1916

Dub:____________ Just been thru the same thing. Check these guys out for AR parts: J&T Distributing: AR-15 & Black Rifle Specialists. They are good guys and close to home. Check these guys out for stocks, mags, etc, etc. : Rainier Arms, LLC™ | Taking the AR15 to new heights.. They are good guys too; and their shipping is super fast. Their place to my house in east tennessee -- three days!! RE: Collapsable buttstock. You get what you pay for. I like the Magpul CTR and the Vltor EMod (... got both of them...). Make sure you get a mil spec carbine buffer tube for your stock. Hope this helps. Kind regards, Leroy

Roy:__________ I like the baby glocks (...26,27,33...) for concealed carry. I regularly carry either a Glock 33 or a 2 inch J frame smith in my hip or jacket pocket (... the glock hides better, shorter, square shape...) in a kydex pocket holster by Alan Miller (...website here: Holsters and accessories). I think the baby glocks are a great small carry pistol with plenty of punch. If glock made a single stack (...like the Walther PPS...); they would be my "ultimate" concealed carry pistol. For what it's worth, ive carried full size 1911's and commander 1911's in both the old time shoulder holsters and inside the pants holsters. The glocks carry much better in the hip or jacket pocket because of the short overall length. I (...and others...) have found them to be extremely reliable and they pack a powerful punch. Hope this helps. Kind regards, Leroy

Amen brother!! We need to target these clowns, provide money to their opponents, and rid the country of them. They are dangerous men (...and women...). I believe what they advocate is treasonable; but no one has the nerve to go after them on that account. They regularly hide behind the First Amendment. Keep up the good work!! Kind regards, Leroy

Great to hear!! I like the 265 grain bullets for both the 44 and the 45 Colt. Keep up the good work! Kind regards, Leroy

Thanks for posting this most interesting read!! Kind regards, Leroy

Great looking rifle. Cant wait for a report on the IOR scope. I am thinking about a low power variable for an AR. Kind regards, Leroy