DocHawk

Whisper, as you know I manufacture my own custom LR308's. Some of them $3000+ guns, plus optics. Even still, my SFAR's are a joy - you owe yourself an excuse to gun up with one of these.

Welcome! Where in Utah? I grew up in Salt Lake City. Long time ago now, but I was there through high school. Beautiful country. I used to haunt all those Wasatch Front canyons in the winter and summer, and color country down south in the spring and fall.

Dagnabbit! I missed it by an hour!

I have other things I like to belt feed 7.62x51, but I do hope to get a Michael's Machine HK23 some day. My OEM HK91 is glorious, though!

I just completed manufacturing of a "dealer sample" full auto MP5 for Shooter's Supply in Hixon (a Class 2 FFL). Based on an LSC receiver flat, which is the best I have encountered in 15 years of working on HK's. Authentic A3 version F recoil-reducing stock and imported HK Navy lower. I was pleasantly surprised by how effective the F-stock is in recoil reduction; it is much more controllable than the classic A3 style stocks I'm most familiar with. I did a 10-mag break-in, both suppressed with 147 and and unsuppressed with 124 and 115. All ran flawlessly. They have it available for range rentals if you ever find yourself in Hixon. It's worth checking off the bucket list, if you've never run an MP5 before. MP5-SSRange02.mp4

I'm a full service gunsmith here in Chattanooga (mill, lathe, restorations and repair, full custom match rifles and handguns, etc). I just finished manufacturing a select fire (full auto) MP5 for your rental gun arsenal over there at Shooter's Supply - I hope your customers enjoy it! MP5-SSRange02.mp4

I wish I got out your way more often.

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Still for sale

Still here!

Still available!

This is off topic, but @Ronald_55 did you know that you are unable to receive PM's? Are you full? I tried messaging you about your PTR but it said you're unable to receive messages.

daggum that's a smokin deal

I own both - unless you are a die-hard Glock Grip Angle guy, you will *love* the M&P's accuracy, recoil impulse, hand feel, ergos, modularity, optics cut compatibility, and trigger. Good luck in your search!

Purdy! They did better than most matching slide to grip module, too. Mind sharing the ballpark cost?

I am a shotgun connoisseur - you'll be hard pressed to find a broader collection of the world's finest production shotguns (game, field, and tactical) in most counties. I don't deal in bespoke customs - I prefer the best versions of production guns that anyone can buy. Every time Beretta, Browning, Benelli, and Remington come out with a new design, the highest trim version eventually finds its way to my safes. With that said, I have several Turkish clones, and I love them. I've dabbled in the original designs, and they are hit and miss, but the clones of the Benelli system with interchangeable parts are reliable, inexpensive, and deadly. I have several set up for loaners, trainers, pre-deployed guns at defensive choke points, and behind the counter shop guns in case someone decided to threaten my staff with injury. There are probably more rounds through these clones than 90% of my other shotguns, save for my personal tactical, and training guns (M1, M4, 1301, A300). They are good to go. Straight from a shotgun snob who happens to sell and shoot thousands of guns, and isn't even offering anything for sale.

Incorrect. Go ahead and push on your barrel mounted comp and see what happens at the breech. Yes, old school rail mounted standoffs work, but no modern compensators are configured that way.

How'd you like the results, Gunner?

GLWS!

Is that Cerakote, or hydrodip camo? GLWS.

I literally just did exactly this a few months back! My wife rode shotgun and dubbed it "The Cannonball Gun Run." Scratched several extremely rare guns off the life list. Still looking for a bringback StG44 and MG34, and I want a better example of a Spencer repeater than the tragically sporterized one that I have now. But I digress...

Do you ever wander through Chattanooga?

Get the comp gun and then swap the short barrel for a full length. You'll get the aesthetics you love plus the performance benefit of a longer barrel, without all the noise, flash, and heat. Now it's not a compensator, it's a heat dissipating slide!

I own all the flavors of compensated and standard P365's. A little over a dozen of these little runts. I have many other compensated pistols in compact and full size, but the 365 series (and Macro, which is really a compact not a subcompact) are the most carryable and thus the ones I have the most experience with. I live on a ranch, and so I actually draw and fire my CCW on a weekly basis (squirrels, groundhogs, coyotes and other vermin). I find very little perceivable and performance difference in muzzle rize between my compensated and standard pistols. I try to sneak in ear pro, but when I don't get to it, I *do* find that a standard pistol shot without ear pro is tolerable, while two separate single-shot experiences with a compensated barrel convinced me to never do that again. I imagine an unprotected multi-discharge defensive shooting would be even more unhealthy. So unless you plan on telling your attacker to wait while you go retrieve your muffs, I strongly suggest sticking to a standard barrel. The other thing that made me take my comps out of my carry pool is size. A subcompact or micro is already a significant compromise on muzzle velocity for a handgun, and of course a handgun is already a significant compromise for self defense compared to a rifle or shotgun. Giving up another inch (20% or more!) of barrel for a gadget that isn't contributing a noticeable benefit is not attractive to me. It's about 100fps, which is not earth shattering, but I like that 100fps more than I care about reduced muzzle rise on a gun that I never noticed muzzle rize with to begin with. Or, I carry the shorter gun and have more comfort and concealability when sitting, walking, running, and otherwise living my life. Lastly - in my draw-and-shoot practice on the range from concealment, putting 11 rounds downrange, reloading and reholstering is much more uncomfortable with a compensated gun than with a standard gun. One to three rounds, no noticeable difference. But after a mag or so, the compensator feels much hotter inside my pants. There's a joke there somewhere but I'm trying to be serious.

That's about the only thing I never got into. I sourced it out when I got hydro customers back in SoCal. Huge variety in talent - take a look at several examples of prior work before committing. Sorry I'm not more help!