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Live free or die is a NH joke. Back in the 90's I owned 92 acres in Thornton NH that bordered the White Mountain NF. I cleared 1.5 acres a half mile up near the top of that lot for an off the grid cabin and was told that 1.5 acres "residential" cleared part was worth $4,200 and would be taxed at 700 per year just as a cleared 1.5 acres. The 1800 sq ft cabin would have run about $6800 annually on that 1.5 acre spot. And that's with the nearest power pole 1.5 miles away! My neighbors up there all had it just as bad in property tax since all school funding comes out of property tax. I broke even when I sold that alligator. The 92 acres were cheap at 76 bucks a year as long as you kept it in undisturbed forest land. The locals derided the "massaholes" for moving up from Boston and Liberalizing their state. Same thing NYC did to upstate NY. Now you know the rest of the Live Free or Die story.

It started out as an MPA 971 that is basically a mac 11 upper set over an FAL lower. But MPA did an incredible dis service to the idea by not using a different hammer in the FAL FCG. Anyway, I did a write up here on the build a while back but it has crappy photobucket pics now. Nice semi auto shooter and being what the upper is, fixed firing pin bolts for open bolt firing is a full blown SHTF option. I want to mount a Holosun shake awake dot sight on it soon.

I would look at it as what kind of territory are you most likely be surviving in. If its urban streets and within buildings, a 9mm hi cap carbine is not that bad a choice, A more rural area and the SKS walks away with survivability. The only reason I say 9mm is theres lots and lots of ammo for them laying around small and compact as the ammo is and personally, SHTF more than likely means war time FCG's that can put a lot of lead out quickly and accurately. My castles guard dog.....

My 34 year old home is also insulated like Mr. Pattons. Altho the prior owner had the crawl space vent holes sealed. Luckily, the crawl space is relatively dry and I'v check for black mold up under the fiberglass in spots and found nothing. As mentioned by No-One, the best thing to have in a case like these is pull the insulation out, Foam board the cinder block walls and then have the ground plastic sheet heat sealed so you have a zero moisture penetration from the ground up into that crawl space. The only reason I can think of, of putting Borate up on your floor joists is if you have a termite problem. Boring bugs stay away from it.

1st was a 76 AMC Gremlin I inherited at 16 from my 19 year old brother after he got killed on his motorcycle. Then a 71 Cutlass Supreme Great Car! Then after working at a Chevy Olds dealer for several years in their body shop I bought a 79 Rally Sport, 350, possi n 4 speed. I pealed off the decals and painted it my way. Had this car for 10 years.

Hello all.... I listened to most of this interview today and found it an interesting update to what little I know about this very real subject. One take away out of it all is the guy " Ben Davidson" summarized the next major pole shift may very well be forewarned by a collapsing electrical grid in the south American continent, centered in Brazil. The interesting part is it seems to me from the way he talked about it is you wont need a serious EMP generated solar storm to initiate the grid melt down. Rather it would be the result of the effect of the South Atlantic Anomaly that is growing in intensity quite quickly. Davidson claimed that if the global models are correct, Brazil will be the "canary in the mine". Anyway, its an easy listen to as far as Science in a comprehendible dialog. Enjoy it. https://newstalk1049.iheart.com/featured/glenn-beck/content/2019-01-22-glenn-beck-blog-the-poles-are-shifting-but-what-does-that-mean/

Last month I looked at the 9mmEZ and I was impressed. As a gunsmith, I kept thinking, they must have done more to the gun than meats the eye of just a light recoil spring. Feeding Must be as slick as can be since auto loaders with a full mag when even slightly sticky will hang up feeding with such light pick up energy. Like an AK, generous bolt face over travel past the rim pick up point is essential for added reliability. S&W has all ways had pretty good R&D in building guns. Should be a good seller.

Now that one says 1650-2000 tables. And its 3 hr 45min from my house. First week end in Oct. THANKS!

Checking the show lists for number of tables leads me to believe 500 tables is about the biggest you will find within a days drive from middle/east TN? Iv been to Lebanon, Chilhowie and the other Knoxville show. Also the Shriners down in Chatt. Am I spoiled from the 1000 and 750 8' table shows up in PA or what. I was most fond of the Allentown PA show with the huge amount of antiques if nothing but to stare at and the tables full of all sorts of gun parts. Its a collectors show with a couple tables of just spencer carbines from one guy in collector to shooter grade. Lots n lots of WWII stuff, tables full of original swords and not shy on meat on the table guns. The 1000 table show in Harrisburg PA is more high end stuff but still 2 hours if you do a real fast glance around. I was really hoping to find these sort of shows down here that would make a good all day trip but so far..... there ok but nothing to get to excited about by comparison. Now I know some of the best deals may be found at small shows occasionally but sometimes you just want to drown in eye candy! So any big show favorites worth mentioning?

The only missgivings I have on Jr. is his choice in girl friend........ you know, whats her name from fox with all the face paint.

I'm not sure what you mean by the term forgiving. The semi auto gun designs have been trying to build "forgiving" autoloaders for decades and to this day, there is no simple solution in porting. I'm not a big auto shotgun guy so I'm not up on the latest but making a forgiving gas system can work to a degree but its a trial & error with all the various loads. Personally, I think they have been over thinking auto gas regulation for decades. Back in the 70's High Standard had an auto loader that had an adjustable mag tube cap. You just turned it one click and you were good for magnums, click it back for low brass. Simple & effective. The only real forgiving way to shoot everything is just over gas it like what the industry has done with aftermarket AR barrels. Most people will never shoot their guns enough to see ware on the parts. Location and porting are very much linked together effecting action function.

Back when I was looking for a possible home in that neck of the woods, I stumbled onto this place. It only has like 4 tables but no one was ever there when I stopped in. Its a $2.00 honor box a day. Its called Pond Mountain Shooting Range just past Elizabethton along Watuaga lake. Bring some grub and picknick the lake shore across the road.

Jr for 2024.......

Normaly, the hammer is what pushes up on the slide release once the hammer is droped. I would look at the contact point on the slide release where the hammer hits it. Its more than likely bead down to not enough contact to engauge it. Put a spot of weld on the wore tip and re fit.

He kinda reminds me of working special housing in a max joint once. The "bug" inmate in there would say anything thing. Sometimes it was true and sometimes not.... You cant read em. America's adversaries who ever they are, are not about to gamble with a bug. The joe straight moderates are boringly predictable. Ha.... like the nearly year Saddam had to get his WMD's flown to Syria. I like his tweets tho I never bother reading anything on twitter. I could care less.... Litmus test is if it bothers a lib, its got to be good. Obviously Trump is not quite 100 percent right in the head but that is exactly who you need to combat the explosion of Liberalism in the US. All the goody 2 shoe Republicans have let the Dems run rampant in the corruption dept for way, way too long. Long live Trumpizim..... If only to piss em all off!

War in the world is a natural effect of the human condition. Trying to change that is like making a lion eat cabbage. Problem is, its like a box of chocolates.... you never know when that certain some one is destined to tickle that go button. With new weapons like the Avangard missile that carries a 2 megaton neuk warhead traveling at 5.75 miles per second....... I'm figuring my lead time on gulping down a cocktail to toast a new "world spring" has to be re evaluated!

Hmmm, a MA 2A guy. You have my deepest sympathy and admiration. About 20 years ago when I was an upstate NY-er, I made my one and only trip to an MA gun show. Shotgun news all ways prominently advertised the West Springfield show and thought despite my NY CCW being a felony in neighboring MA, I should check it out. Now I used to visit my favorite 1000 table NY gun show in Syracuse regularly back in the day and I have to say, that MA show was something I never "felt" in a gun show. It was a nice show on the surface like any other but..... as I walked around listening to the attendee's and spotting an occasional MA "weapon card" during a purchase, it was like we all were like doing something illegal just by being in the vicinity of all those firearms. Its sure was weird. The entire place was enveloped in a quiet hush of low tone speak. As if it was a drug dealing establishment and no one wanted to be recognized being there except for 2 young guys dressed in full Nazi erra Marine camo uniforms. I'll never forget that experience. That said, a show I Loved to visit was the 750 table Allentown PA show. What a fantastic mix of Antiques, meat on the table guns and A-Z in military new & old. The 1000 table Harrisburg PA show is nice too but the old stuff lives in Allentown. I miss those shows. TN has nothing like em. Any way, welcome to TGO Mr. Brewer!

Oh man, an Argy detective.....Passed one up years ago at a gun show for $325.... minty no less. pause while I kick my self I have an original box for it no less that fell into my position when my son bought a FEG, how it came to be shipped in a nice detective box, i'll take it as a premonition yet to be full filled.

Thank you........

Well, you'v got 3 ways to go. Do as wyatt suggested by cutting out material in your stock. Modify each magazine by bending the feed lips open slightly more than they are or, my preferred method would be remove the magazine latch, put a fresh grind on it mag lock up contact point, add a bit of mig weld to it, reshape the weld to act as an extension. Remove what ever else you need to too let the mag ride that much higher in its frame. 30 some years ago, I used to put these in 700's https://www.cabelas.com/product/Kwik-Klip-Remington-Model-Clip-Conversion-Kit/741478.uts These are very well made units and never had any issues with them. I liked them so much, I refit one into my Husky HVA 30-06.

Actually, a modern shotgun shot cup wad seals exceptionally well. Being a hollow skirted bottom, the relatively low shotgun bore pressure & heat makes for a perfect seal. On the other hand, Rifled bores seep pressure past the rifling impressions on the projectile. HK firearms use polygonal rifling to eliminate most all of that seepage. As for bore length vs gas port size, yes, it has a similar math to rifles. Obviously, the actual port sizes are considerably larger due to the much lower shotgun bore pressures.

I'v carried a std 1911A1 that I cut down to Officers size before there was an Officers and assembled hundreds more. I agree with a few others in that it is not an ideal 9mm carry gun..... at all. Its specifically sized for a 45 rd. All the extra girth in the slide & barrel is all oxymoron in typical med frame sized 9mm guns. I can understand the desire for such a classic J Browning design and keeping within that line of character I would suggest Brownings last Great pistol design. The Hi Power. NO ONE can dispute the Hi Power's domination of the 9mm rd in proven mil spec hard ware. Its perfectly sized as the master created it and Mec Gar builds 15 round mags flush. I had a Browning many years ago but sold it to a friend who fawned over it as he joined a local PD and wanted it for a service gun. I bought a FEG Hi power a few years ago and its a very capable carry gun with excellent accuracy. Slimmer & lighter than a 1911 yet doesn't skip a beat in the mystique of John Browning's genius.

Yeah, your probably right! Dealer on that gun was $789.00 when I ordered it. It wasn't perfect either. The thing was throwing fliers no matter what I put in it. Then one day when cleaning it carefully, I noticed the cleaning rod had ever so slight a bind just before a snug swab popped out of the bore. Apparently they crushed the bore when they treaded the muzzle. So I cut that off and put on that contraption you see there. When I used to work at Auto Ordnance, Numrich Arms had a steel scrap barrel in front of one of their parts ware houses right next to AO. I would go at that barrel lunch time and find all sorts of broken gun parts and various bent barrels.... goodies. One day a M14 muzzle brake was laying in the dirt not far from the barrel. The spline end was broken off. That's what you see on the SAR. I turned the broken end to fit into the original base end, then silver soldered it in there. Thing is I never opened up the gas port despite cutting about 3/4" off so I run it with the gas port shut so it would eject. I should drill it out since once in a while I get a fail to eject but it shoots so dang well, I'm afraid to touch it now. Murphy may pay me a visit..... prick that he is.

IDK about that, I rigged the SAR for glass back in about 1986. One time it shot my Sierra 168 BTHP off max loads of W748 into a 10 rd 5/8ths hole @ 100 yds. Normally a flyer or 2 called out a 1.5" 10 string. My rear mount M2 bipod was a success. Back in 86 scope options sucked so I did the next best thing.... THANKS for all the comments!

I like Eezox dry lube. I had a full service gunshop 82-96 after PA gunsmith school and one day before I knew about that stuff, A customer ordered a Win M70 in 300 H&H. It was the absolutely roughest action I'v ever felt on a 70. I wanted to send it back to Winchester but the new owner Eugene, said let me play with it for a while. A couple weeks latter he comes in with the 300 H&H and hands it to me and says try the action. I was shocked.... it was like a completely different gun. the action was silky smooth with ZERO wash board effect in its movement. All Eugene did with it was watch TV while hand working the Eezox into the bolt body and rails. I ordered a case of it and never looked back. When the Gulf war was going on, I called Eezox for another case to ship to a co worker's outfit who was in Iraq. The CS guy at Eezox told me they sell the stuff by the 55 gallons to the Saudis. Back then it was primarily used inside magazines to keep the middle eastern dirt from sticking. The formulation has changed since those days but it is quality stuff. I still use it on actions, mostly 22 autos since that's what gets used most. https://www.eezox.com/