Ronald_55

Yeah that is nice. I worked in a retail store in a tourist area for 5 years. I feel your pain about the BS. I would probably just put a bunch back or on layaway and buy them at once so you even save the multi charge on background checks

Crap on crackers....

Wow, now that is one to remember.

Hipower Any chance you have a link to it? I looked on their site, but it is kinda hard to navigate for my mobile. Thanks

You mean you are going to use them as part of that windmill so you don't have to be on the electrical grid, right?

Good for him. Being the first on scene of a car crash is hard. I can't begin to imagine how hard it was to find some psycho beating an officer into the ground. A lot of people would have froze up. I wonder if the attacker caused the other car crash?

Interesting, but are we sure the journalist is not a Magpul employee? Lol It sounded like he read all the sales pitches and used them to build his story. So the Marines will now be using the same mag I can buy. We will see how that works in real combat. I am not a fan of the windowed mags. Just another way to get crap in the mag to cause "stoppages"

I agree completely. Even with the "use a hand drill" jigs it could go very wrong.

I plan on trying to get to one of the local ones soon. i missed the last couple. I had even thought about trying out an 80% lower, but I don't trust my skills that much yet.

I have at a few, but most have not had them when I asked. I think a lot of them go ahead and build a cheap AR with anything they have lying around. Several of the stores are handguns and hunting rifles only. I still have not gotten a good relationship with one that is close enough for frequent stops. The couple close are not a good fit for me on attitude or environment. The couple I like are way out of my way. Maybe if I was a "regular" I might get calls when they get something. I might have to break down and get some online from PSA or something. I just kind of hate to order a $50 lower off PSA and then pay $25 for transfer and background check. I know it spreads our if I order several, just still seems wrong. And, Yes, I know I sound like a cheapskate in this and some other posts, but I have a finite amount to spend, I had better make the best of it.

Maybe we will see the $250 milspec carbine AR. I agree on Magpul, I have it on my pieced together AR, but I bought a used set dirt cheap. Other than that I woukd have just had a cheap set. New take-off DPMS sets can be had for $10-$15. They do what 85% of shooters need.

ZJ, I have seen these. They have only shown up in the last few years. Mainly due to the .22lr drought. I did not say impossible to reload, I said barely possible. It can be done, but is a lot harder than centerfire ammo. You can reload a shotgun shell primer with crushed match heads, use black powder for the propellant, a piece of cardboard for a wad, and lots of stuff for projectiles. Home brewing the primer paste for Rimfire from scratch has to be harder.

So if prices are dropping, where is the best place for me to pick up stripped lowers? Not real picky on brand, as long as I have heard of it. I figure I could put a few back for later. I can't seem to find them locally. Every time I see an private sale ad for some, they are either way over MSRP, or the seller is like a ghost and never gets back to me. I figure I can pick other parts as cash presents itself. Thanks

OS I wondered that too. Looks like a Periodic Table got cut up and thrown around the forums. lol

No one is discounting them, but reloading the ammo is barely possible. At some point you will run out. At least with a centerfire, you can improvise reloading the primers and cartridges. Same for shotguns. I have my share of .22s and love them, but if you are planning for the long haul, you have to plan on running out of rimfire ammo at some point.

I might choose to load they shotshell back with a stack of washers or something else instead of the wax slug with that being the case. Of course the exact load would depend on its accuracy too. I think kind like the old cannon guys in a castle under siege. When they ran out of ammo they stuffed anything hard or sharp in there. Rocks, ham bones, broken swords, broken pottery... lol

I would love to get a chance at some of these before they get into a bidding war online. Even a beat up HiPoint 9mm usually goes for $75 on there. Then you have shipping and transfer fees. I know you can find gems, but me and 40,000 other people are looking. So time and smart searching is what finds you something once in a while. The gun I ordered was pretty scuffed up, but solid mechanically (at least the description detailed that). That and it is not the most sought after model is what let me get a decent deal on it. I would not call it a steal or anything though. I was looking today at single shot 12ga shotguns. You would think you could find one that was not held together with duct tape for $75 if you are not picky on brand, barrel length, and cosmetics. Seems to not be the case. Maybe the really cheap ones do not get listed because it is too much trouble for the small return. Or I am too much of a cheapskate. I have a friend that does the local auction circuit looking for guns. He scores sometimes, but the last time he bought 3 guns at one auction they all turned out to be stolen. The auction house had to take them back, refund his money, and forfeit them to the police. Sad day for him because he got good deals on them and they all were really nice older revolvers.

I have to say, that store owner had shot placement. That guy went down like a sack of bricks.

I remembered an incident from when I was a kid. A police officer left his cruiser running to step into a restaurant and grab some coffee. A teen kid took it on a joy ride that I think was about 2 hours. lol Man the sheriff was not happy.

I think my problem was I did a general search, so I got a lot of hits on people asking for one. Anyway. Thanks. Hoping I have it soon so I can see if I can get it going.

I agree, I save the info digitally and then print a copy to put with my stuff.

I always keep my eye out for stuff like that but I never see it going on. My Papaw was a LEO for the county. I know he said multiple times they would take a truckload of guns to the dump. They dug a hole, dumped them in, and set them on fire with diesel. Then they ran the dozer over them before covering them up. Always made me sad. Not sure if those were the illegal guns or all of them. I know a few places sell guns on govdeals.com, but you have to be an FFL to buy those. Like someone said in my post about auction sites, the internet has ruined lucking into great deals for the most part. Everyone knows they can advertise them and they can look up what they have been selling for. I don't want to cheat anyone, but I would love to run into someone who just wanted rid of the guns they just inherited at a good deal. They get cash and I get some good guns. Then maybe I could sell a few to recoup part of my investment. I know I am dreaming. This is why I should have started buying guns in my 20s.

I will just end my comments on this saying, if you lived my life, had seen what I had seen, and endured what I have endured, then you would be a much better person than me to not feel the way I do. Or maybe I am just an a$$hole at heart.

Definitely, because I do not care to buy a gun that has numbers engraved in it for 1/10th the new price or something like that. Not the gun's fault that some guy got arrested for meth (or something) and it just happened to be in his house. I am sure any that are related to really bad or high profile cases get kept there or destroyed.

I knew a guy that used to leave his keys in his car hoping it got stolen. The insurance pay out based on mileage and age would have been much higher than the worth of the pos car. On the outside it looked good, but he had had engine and transmission trouble forever on it. No matter where he parked it or how long he left it, no one touched it. lol