Erich

…and a round thing in your face… I can’t get that song or this pic out of my head now. Not that it’s bad thing. Thank you ??

Looking for a nice condition 45 cal 4”upper or conversion kit for my 220 full size. Not interested in a complete pistol unless attractively priced. Lean toward a 220 having sold my 227 that was a bit to chunky tubby around the grip for me, even with the E2s

You only go around once, why deprive yourself. if memory serves, you posted a pic of a part of the collection, on a custom rack? Seems like now is a good time for a pic repost

I was hoping the top end fit a standard x frame so it would just be a matter of getting the slide and barrel, but with a 45 takedown it must use its own grip module. Have 10’s already. so hard sell for me if it’s proprietary and can’t use with my other 320 bits. Look forward to seeing the details and level of modularity.

Wanted to note this here in case folks don’t check Events forum

Says first 50, but who knows

i’ve been running the HB in mine, can’t beat it for the money. had to increase the preload on the return spring since it wasn’t resetting, but it had a couple years on it by then. My stock trigger was in the 14lb range, so huge improvement in pull. Didn’t do much else for it, like the very long reset. End up with more of a decent rolling break long travel trigger you get used to. I’ve tried a friends CZ customs and that was great, much crisper and shorter reset, but $300. Don’t know if they still offer them. I am hoping Timney is produced again. It disappeared a couple months after intro, sold out. They said they were going to make them but it’s been over a year and a half. Possible they encountered a problem with the first ones, but the initial reports were very good. I did get the Mcarbo spring set for my second one, just to try. Same concept as HB. Haven’t gotten to it though.

If your referring to The dealer warehouse in CA, I bought 3 mags for my tt33 and they fit just like the guns original mags. They also worked in another tt33 I got from brownells about 3 years ago. However, I bought them at the end of 2016 so not sure if they are the same as one’s sold currently. They were only $15 each and it possible they were united surplus, I just can’t recall. They would have to confirm for that timeframe if they were the same item.

Yeah, he didn't think that thru. Alienating a key demo right up front isn't a great way to get their support. But if they stayed long enough to listen to the rhetoric, they probably didnt notice it at the part he got them foaming at the mouth mad. The only thing I took away was, hell, I want to know what the rest of the house looks like.

I have OSP and RDP variants. I agree its snappier than anticipated for its size. I was disappointed with the effectiveness of the comp on the RDP. Its only slightly noticeable. For comparison, I notice much more of a difference between my G19C with its factory barrel vs non comp barrel. A function of the short lever arm. But I will disagree about its accuracy / groupings. For a 3" barrel, I thought it was excellent. When you have the sight picture down, no problem consistently hitting full sizes silhouettes @50yds or keeping 4" @ 15yds firing at a decent pace. However it is much more demanding on the basics to get there. Not an "easy" gun to shoot, does not suffer lax grip or inconsistent grip and trigger placement. It will reward very deliberate handling. And as others said, you may have to adapt to its slide catch. I think its fair to say you have to treat it differently. Unfortunately those things may not make it the ideal carry gun in a pressure situation. You'd have to spend more range time with it than you would other guns in your rotation.

I'll propose another possibility, new person could be an out of state person moving or passing thru. The Google pointed me to this very thread when I was researching trailer tags after receive a notice from CA that my trailer was due. If you google TN trailer plates this thread is indexed there. I had zero intent of every giving CA another time of my money. They charge $10 for a 5 year tag. I saw that TN didn't require it so I never thought. But DMV recommended getting one as adjacent states are trailer ticket happy. So, thought fair enough, I'll get a TN plate. I was blown away by the fees!! 3x what a vehicle tag is?? That's simply out of line for a light weight utility trailer that mainly sits and causes far less road wear. At that point I was very happy to pay CA my $10 for the next 5 years. As much as I dislike things CA, what TN is doing with trailer plates is far worse than anything CA DMV was doing in general. And my $40 TN truck reg was $600 in CA!

That is a good analogy, and a bit of both, or between. A very short stroke bumpfire trigger. But so is the Geissele AKT in am AK platform, though not quite as extreme easy enough from the shoulder. Errr.....I mean to say, or so I've been told. I'd neeeever..... I suspect the next step, and why RB is still up, is they are fighting this being owned by a lawyer and all. And the ATF knows it. But like Joe buddy knowingly signing illegal vaccine mandates, if you can sucker some into giving in, they will get some. In this case, if one is stupid enough to call the ATF as the letter suggests. "Best if we take a look sir, we'll have an agent by directly to discuss it with you. We are here to keep you safe"

Or as in this case, creatively re-interpreted by the ATF via a ruling to fit their re-imagining of the law as its to inconvenient to get it changed. And they are given the ability to do, basically what they want. Clever to introduce the word "continuous" along with some other mumbo jumbo to say that is how it violates they existing 'a single function of the trigger', or the rifle's requirement 'single pull of the trigger'. But...the most interesting thing to me about this is that Rarebreed, when I looked, had these available for sale on their website.

Amen! Sometimes I wish I could try that out.

Did you take a look at some of the other things this 'winner' has bought very recently? All relatively pricey, several thousand range! Same pattern, comes in last day willing to pay more than anyone else would. Could be washing his cash no doubt, crypto millionaire , recent stocks or ???. Whatever it is, it actually looks legit we just cant relate as we have a pretty darn different relationship with money than he seems to. Here are a couple examples https://www.gunbroker.com/item/924751177 https://www.gunbroker.com/item/923926327

Seems pretty much every type / brand specific forum has a core dynamic driven by the loyalists and the ownership/mods. arfcom and the akforum are a great example to me of how 2 different places you’d expect to be similar are anything but. Gun communities that are not brand aligned have their distinctive flavors to. Larger seems to mitigate the old guard clique issues and less sensitivities. It’s good to have options!

If it helps anyone else, I picked up NordVPN yesterday. Playing with it still, but after adding to Desktop, iPhone, and Firestick its seems pretty good. Not seeing any decrease in speed to my fiber connection on speedtests. Love seeing geoblocking is no longer a worry. Uncensored news and the UK library for TV streaming! Look forward to the roadracing season starting up.

I'd may be helpful to get specific timeframes on the anecdotes. The only time I hit up Walther was after ordering a new standard barrel to swap into my Q4 tac when I found a problem with it. They asked for a pic, sent me label within the hour, and a new barrel arrived 3 days later. Around Nov '18. Generally had pretty nice service within the industry for the handful of times I've had to deal with something. Overall I have found Springfield to be the most consistent overtime, always top marks for me. Sig is the most spoty, base on who you get and day they are having. S&W wheel guns are not something I will buy online anymore, only in person with feeler gauges in hand to check their barrel fitting since they no longer seem to check forcing cone gaps or if a barrel is clocked right. Generally it does seem that QC in the last 3 to 5 years has slipped. But to be fair, I have bought a lot more guns over the last 3 years compared to the prior 10 since moving away from a restricted blue state where I could not buy those guns.

Looking at adding a VPN service. Would love some recommendations from those who have tried various providers. Considering Nord, Express VPN, and the like. Friend was telling me that the downside he has seen is around subscription services that you pay for legitimately rejecting IP's if its one they recognize as associated to one of the VPN providers. Any other downside by provider you have experienced would be helpful. Appreciate insights.

Yes, HK. P30 or VP9. Most are 17 rounds so maybe an older one?

I wouldn't mind picking up another if came across the pistol version. The only thing that is slightly unfortunate is they have a proprietary trigger so you can pop in the AR upgrade options. The factory trigger is decent however.

That is either modeled after our licensed by Ares / Fightlite. They use a modified carrier that has a tail that works with a Mossberg style recoil system. I have an Ares rifle and they run a less than a third their ridiculous price. They stocks are swappable for most any nice Mossy custom stocks and you can run any AR upper using the proprietary carrier. Gives lots of great options. The JJ version must be meant for the types that would buy Ed Hardy shirts and have all the traits that go with them

Damn! That is some really vivid imagery you painted in so few words. It striking how close to death you can come just by circumstances and how a few seconds difference in timing of things could have played out. I wasn’t there, but will carry the images for awhile, it’s impossible to imagine how indelible it is to you. Almost dying and then moments later having to do what you did probably mostly negates any good feeling you could have had from narrowly surviving. Glad you are talking to someone, hopefully they can help give you some peace after 40 years. Kudos to the bravery and sense of duty the aviators showed in their final moment, sticking with their wounded bird to save others knowing they would likely be making the ultimate sacrifice.

Love it! I really wanted one of these, but nearly impossible to get were I was at the time. Nice lucky find They were, around 2013 or so. Share some lineage and parts but if I recall the receivers are different and the most recent was a modified M70 slanted receiver. The beauty part on the mags was you could file down the tab of M1A/M14 mags and they worked perfectly. Had plenty of those so no spendy proprietary mags to buy.

I had one and can highly recommend them. I found it to be surprisingly accurate, but no doubt that was in large part due to better quality 308 than the usual x39 steel case Russian I put thru x39. If you run accross one that is still configured with the thumbhole at a deal, jump on it. I sold mine since I bought a Galil in x51 and it is the best of all worlds IMO. Much better ergos than the M77 though I didnt bench it the M77 to compare accuracy. Seems close enough. If you get a deal on a Galil in x51.....really jump on it.