Chucktshoes

I wanted to build a Shughart M-14 because if you’re gonna have one, it might as well be one modeled off the one used by one of the baddest men to wield it. I started with this M-14 clone from Bula Defense. Mounted an ARMS-18 optics rail and an Aimpoint CompM. I then acquired a surplus M-14 fiberglass stock. The army boys sure do love their duct tape. Once I got it stripped down, it was time to paint! As it sits now, it’s in what I refer to as the “movie configuration” ad it’s similar to what was used in the Black Hawk Down film. The CompM will end up coming off and being used on a retro AR build using the original hi-rise optic mount (carry handle gang gang). As of now there are a couple of bits that are either on the way, or requiring a little detailed work to mount. (Waiting on rings for my Aimpoint 5000 and the AIM-1/D needs a tape switch fabricated for it.) Updates to follow as the build is adjusted/completed.

I don’t even live there anymore. Talk radio isn’t my thing at all anyways. Regardless, I hope he gets better soon.

Gotcha. Talk radio in a city I don’t live in goes a long way towards explaining my cluelessness.

Who is this guy? I’ve never heard of him, but y’all all seem real familiar.

I feel pretty safe in saying that they’re almost all getting RMRs.

Great piece that’s worth a read https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/convincing-the-skeptics/

Nope, I was serious. It’s an actual product. That said, I’ve never had the fogging issues you have. I don’t know what’s causing them, but I do carry AIWB as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Man, here’s the problem. As horrendous as that was, I’m not convinced it was the worst. There’s way too many things vying for that crown. That’s not saying one should be as cynical as me and view it as mostly irredeemable. I’m just saying never stop fighting to make it better for EVERYONE.

Like any other tool or enhancement, they require training and practice to use effectively. They make controlled pairs super simple. If you just want a fun toy to mimic FA fire, they can be fun for that as well.

I was wondering how much you roast your brother on the subject. I figure 2 decades later he still isn’t allowed to live that #### down.

By what you have described, you’re better off retaining the light in hand. A pistol light is going to be a dedicated item. Even having one (like I have on almost all of my pistols) doesn’t absolve the need for a handheld. (Not everything that needs to be illuminated needs to be muzzled.) I’m a fan of multi-use items as a general rule. Pistol mounted lights are an exception to that rule. There is no way to mount a handheld light to a pistol that is not lacking in every way that would make it useful on a pistol. Sorry.

I don’t know what you’re testing, but I wanna play too!

Not with the Fostech. I’ve got the Franklin Armory BFSIII.

I would place the blame mostly on the politicization of things by the media. Though there is also the general underlying bristling at being told what to do by government officials that aren’t on their team. With regards to Op Warp Speed, had the election gone the other way, I suspect we would have seen a far more mixed bag of reactions. Like some lefties being suspicious of the “Trump vaccine” and then conservatives spouting rhetoric about getting the jab similar to what gets thrown around about folks resisting the police when there is a questionable shooting and being friendlier to the idea of vaccine mandates. Of course I’m just a dumb trucker with too much time to think. What do I know? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Vaccine hesitancy is a known phenomenon in the black community that is based on long history of documented malefaction by government health officials. For anyone wondering why that is, I got two words for you, “Tuskegee Experiment”.

Much of the rhetoric around the vaccine is explicitly political. This has prevented many from doing an honest cost/benefit analysis around the vaccine. Political critters and media outlets of all varieties and stripes engaged in this rhetoric to the detriment of everyone.

You didn’t tell us you knew Dick Cheney!

Maybe something from the Leupold VX-Freedom line? Inexpensive and made in Oregon.

That’s at the Inglis plant in Toronto, CA.

I’m not going to dig too much into the politics here as it is a verboten subject, but I would suggest looking into who was very pro-vax and who was vax-hesitant in their rhetoric last summer in the political sphere. Might look a little bit opposite to what it looks like now. Politics and partisanship ruins everything.

Yep. You can tell it’s a total vanity project. The resemblance is uncanny. Looks just like him.

Here is a point where I will break from my generally held views regarding public health, private industry, and intellectual property. We pumped billions of dollars of public money into the research to develop these vaccines. Therefore I believe them to be legitimately publicly owned. The federal government should remove patent protections for these vaccines and disseminate them across the globe. It is not only the right thing to do, it is 100% in our national interest to do so.

As much as I would really enjoy locking and burying this thread under many hundreds of feet of earth, it would be an abuse of my authority.