BryanP

Apparently someone can understand the signs or nobody would put them up.

I may just fill the tray with boxes / bags of ammo for now. I just want to try one.

I didn't know they rented them. I'll have to check that out. Thanks.

I wasn't sure if this belonged here or in the long guns section, but what the heck. I've been looking at getting an inexpensive shooting rest, primarily for sighting in rifles, but also for introducing some recoil-shy people to rifles. Has anyone here used this one? I was looking at it since it looks like it would work well with my AR, Mini14, AK etc.. Caldwell Lead Sled Solo Recoil Reducing Shooting Rest 101777 FREE S&H 101-777. Caldwell Shooting Accessories. Caldwell Lead Sled Solo

It's purely voluntary. If I sell an individual a gun I will insist on some sort of bill of sale. If someone doesn't want to do that I have no problem with it, but I won't sell them one of my guns.

Apparently there are a lot of different "Escort" models, but the ones I've seen have mostly been Remington 870 clones. Supposedly they're decent guns.

Womans phone. Then shave my legs and call me Susan. I bought a used Palm Pre off Craigslist in December and it's a great little phone. It's unfortunate that Palm is becoming an also-ran that's about to get bought up (either by HTC or Lenovo depending on who you ask). When my Sprint contract is up next year I'll have to see what things look like in the phone world. If Apple has got their head out of their butt and started offering the iPhone through someone besides AT&T I'll consider one, but otherwise I'll probably switch to an Android phone.

A friend of mine has first dibs on it. If he decides he doesn't want it I'll see about putting it up for sale at a later date.

I should introduce you to a friend of mine from San Antonio. He likes to point out that his family was living here (the continental USA) when the border moved south. But hey, he's just another one of the mud people according to people like Glenn Miller.

He's an annoying self-aggrandising twit. Any truth that leaves his mouth is overshadowed by the incredibly stupid presentation. He's even more annoying than Keith Olbermann.

Actually, the linked article points out that 73% of income tax is paid by the top 10% of income earners. The thing is, there's a helluva lot of taxes out there besides income tax, and we all pay those. The sales tax paid by the working poor is a much larger percentage of their annual income than that paid by the top 10%, for example.

Not just individuals. I paid more income tax for 2009 than Exxon did.

I carry a Streamlight Microstream in my pocket. They're great little lights. It's "only" 20 lumens from a single AAA, but it's very handy and a useful tool. Now, that Quark MiNi AA which puts out 90 lumens from a single AA battery ... that I just might have to pick up.

Nope. But then I don't believe in the supernatural in any form.

And my stock has been fixed. First off, Outpost Armory in Murfreesboro rocks. I went by there this evening and showed one of their people my situation. We determined that my cheap gun-show buffer tube (and I won't say inexpensive - apparently I bought cheap crap), was neither fish nor fowl. It was milspec diameter but commercial length. As a result, a milspec stock would fit over the tube but not close the entire distance, and a commercial stock would close all the way but rattle loosely because it didn't fit snugly enough. I bought a proper milspec buffer from them and had it put on. I was out the door in about 30 minutes.

bart, I'm not sure what the logic is there. Everything I've been able to find says that the commercial tube is actually stronger than the milspec tube insofar as it's a bit thicker. And yes, it's basically a fun gun. For actual defensive purposes I'm still likely to reach for my .357 and my 12ga before anything else. I was thinking of taking a carbine course at some point, but it would likely be a one-day class, not a week and thousands of rounds. The main reason I originally chose milspec was because there are so many more stock options available for it than the commercial tube. But the stock I actually want is available for the commercial tube, so it's no big deal. That said, I may call Outpost today and see if they have any milspec tubes in stock. We'll see.

I know. I checked and a milspec is 1.15" in diameter, while the commercial is supposed to be 1.17". The stock is a mil spec and the buffer tube has the angle cut you mentioned, but it still moves freely. If it closed all the way I'd never have known.

I think you nailed it Reservoir Dog. The vendor at RK had boxes of both commercial and mil spec. I picked up a mil spec stock and asked him to get the rest of the parts I would need. Apparently he didn't pay close enough attention and I didn't know enough to know the difference. I just took off the stock and the rear of the buffer tube does indeed have an angle cut so that it is slightly taller at the top than the bottom. I can't remember the name of the vendor I bought it from. I guess I'll pick up a commercial stock to go on it and sell the mil spec. Oddly enough the stock wasn't that hard to collapse or expand. Thanks for all the help guys. Much appreciated. Anybody know of a local shop with commercial MagPul MOE stocks on the shelf or should I order one?

That's pretty much what I was thinking. IIRC, it was one piece.

Six in theory, but I can only seem to lock into 5. ???

I bought the buffer and tube from the same guy who sold me the stock. It's not an A2 buffer and tube.

A number of years ago I built myself a nice 20" HBAR A2 AR. But our tastes change over time. I recently acquired a 16" flattop pencil barrel upper. So to go with that I decided to swap out the A2 stock for a collapsible. At the last RK show in Murfreesboro I picked upa Magpul stock, buffer tube, etc... Since I was going there anyway I had the nice people at a local gun shop put on the stock for me. Yeah, yeah. I know, but I don't have the tool I need and I didn't feel like waiting. So they put it on and when it's fully collapsed there's a pretty large gap between the stock and the rear of the receiver. They said that's the only way it would fit. The A2 fit with no problem, so I'm going to say the actual receiver is fine. Question is, what's wrong with the rest of it? Or is this much variation considered acceptable / normal? Anybody have an idea?

I know the feeling. This was the first time in three years I haven't had to write a check. Had nothing to do with tax policies though.

Exactly. Granted, there are plenty of scumbags on it, but there are some truly egregious abuses of it as well. I saw a news story a couple of years ago about a young couple with an obnoxious problem because of this. When she was 17 the woman had sex with her 15 year old boyfriend. Now she's stuck on the sex offender registry for life. She's married now. They carefully researched where they bought a house. (not to close to a school, church, daycare, etc..) After they bought it, someone found out there was a completely unadvertised private daycare in a house within the proscribed distance of their newly purchased home. She can't live there now.

And yet somehow he managed to make quite a few recess appointments.