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  Also haven't seen a refund in several years.   I always send my "Redistribution of our Wealth" payment to the IRS on April 1st - - - Fools Day.   Its sort of a sick joke on myself.  :puke:   

It wasn't all that long ago that Staff Duty Officers & NCOs along with the Officers of the Day were always armed on Army Posts. I did my last armed duty as the Field Grade Officer of the Day in the early 90s at Bragg. Fast forward to post 9-11 and all the talk was about hiring rental cops to secure the post I was on. I was confused. When I suggested to the CG that we arm all senior NCOs and Commanders - - - the look of shock on the faces of the JAG and the Provost Marshal told me that my Army was no longer one that I recognized. The Army didn't trust us anymore......

  Yea I now need them also....., but there is something "That Ain't Right" about having a red-dot on a Pump Shotgun!  :rofl:     173rdABN and I spent yesterday at the range verifying our zeros.  My old "Pre-Wilson Combat Sellout Scattergun Technologies" 870 will still put a slug Center-of-Chest at 100 yards.  :pleased:     But when did the sight radius change on my FAL?  That front post is all fuzzy and gray now!  :ugh:   However, 173rdABN can confirm that my FAL still has very strong brass extraction and ejection!!!!!  :up:

  When it first came into the country, it was as low as $.11 a round = about $118 for a 1080 round can.  Nobody seem to want a lot of it at the time because it was corrosive and not too many folks had AK-74 based rifles.  Add in Century Arms making the huge mistake of installing 5.56 barrels into the Polish wz.88 Tantals that they built and the round got an early bad rap for accuracy.  Because of these wrong barrels, everybody was up in arms about 7N6, saying that it was so bad that keyholeing was the norm (it was on the internet so it had to be true).  Several ammo sellers would offer "Buy Two & Ships Free" just to move the stuff.   It wasn't until those surplus NOS Bulgarian barrels and rifle kits arrived that people began to realize how good a round it is.    Full disclosure - - - Yup!  I already had four cans (4320 rounds) before I even had a rifle that could shoot it!  :whistle:  

  Robert,   Would meeting up after our 12 April match or at the 14 April Club meeting be too late?

  Holy Cow!   I'M RICH!!!!!!  :woohoo:   7N6 has outpaced all of my other investments.  Reckon I had better head to the bank and move the gold out of my lock-box and replace it with some of my 7N6. 

  First Yeager.  :yuck:   Now Kwik.  :puke:     That should tell you all you need to know about this topic!

The wood on mine was beat-to-hell, but the metal finish was good and the original chrome-lined Bulgarian barrel looked to be NOS. Finding the Soviet era plum stock set as a replacement was a minor victory since those have now become hard to find. It took me a couple of years to locate a matching Tula shiny plum pistol grip. AIM had AK-74 mags that had been painted in some sort of thick black paint. Somebody figured out that stripping them with Citristrip Gel would not hurt them. Some of the ones I did still had the inked Soviet inspection stamps. There were a mix of both Russian and Bulgarian mags coming from AIM back then, you didn't know what you had until the paint was stripped off. I would have to look up to be sure, but I think the 1080 round tins of Russian 5.45 were going for around $120 back in 2009/2010. That led to a lot of AR uppers being build in 5.45. The stuff I got was all late 80s production and being Soviet era it has corrosive primers.

Was it the guy who was building those short barrel 870 pumps as Any Other Weapons? And...... To Get Back On Topic - - - THIS THREAD NEEDS A PICTURE!!!!! Here is my AK-74 with some of that evil 5.45X39 loaded up into those wicked 30 round mags that we have been talking about. This is one of the $399 "Truck Guns" that TGI was selling back in 2009 right after they got into a fix with the ATF over the import (by mistake) of some full auto AK flats. Got to love that Soviet "Plum" stock, forearm, and mag. I have found a matching grip since this photo was taken.

Didn't this AK74 Pistol topic pop up a couple of years ago and there was a run on 5.45X39 at that time also.   I swear this sounds like something that came up during the first Barry Hussein panic.        Or did I just buy all of those 1080 round cans just for the Hell-of-It in order to buy cheap and stack deep.  :shrug:

Folks, look who started this on Facebook.   JAMES YEAGER!!!!!!!!  :yuck:     That attention whore is just doing what he does best = :stir:

  Hmmmmm...., An Indoor Classifier - - - Never done one of those.   But that would nullify my standard "The Cross-Wind got me" excuse I have used for those 20 yard shots on Stage 3!  :ugh:  

  Was that your Ranger Regiment Buddy who you once shot in the chest?  I'd be giving you a hard time also!        (Everyone needs to get 173rdABN to tell that story sometime - steelplates, Glocks, EVAC in the bed of a pickup truck - - - sounds like the makings of a good country song....)   But DAMN YOU!!!!!  :rant:   Now I'm going to have to build that 9mm AR that I swore I never would!!!!!!!!! 

  Ryan,   Will we need any SLUGs for this match.     slowsure,   Yup...., I'm bringing the Big Iron for this one.  FAL, 870 Pump, 1911! :tough:

  Agree!  :up:

Appears that MTSC is no longer a IDPA club.     http://www.midtnshooters.com/   http://www.midtnshooters.com/Sanctioned_IDPA_Matches.html   Wonder what happened?  MTSC was one of the first clubs to bring IDPA into the area back in the late 90s.

"...... According to Scott’s grandfather Joe Scott, his grandson suffered an event at age three that left him with post traumatic stress disorder."   Gee, I reckon that makes it all OK.     I'm sure all of us who have experienced what Teddy Roosevelt called "that crowded hour" will completely and thoroughly understand the poor young fellow and he will now be a source of inspiration to all of us combat vets.   NOT!   :mad:  

One Word.   WACO.

  Well Ryan...., I'm now old & slow enough that recovering from the recoil really doesn't add too much overall time to my final score!   :-\      Just need to figure out the real Heavy Metal question - - - M1?  M14?  G3?  FAL?   :dunno:   See you on 6 April.   

Hey Ryan,   Getting Back On Topic......   Are we still good-to-go on running Heavy Metal at the MTSC 3Gun matches?

  Me Too!   I get all dyslexia trying to get my brain to process MCTS and MTSC.  :screwy:      I have to think in geographic terms such as, "I'm shooting IDPA this Saturday in Dickson" or "This Sunday is 3Gun in Manchester."   There are those good friends of mine up in Bowling Green who are the Green River Gun Club.    What the heck "Green River" are they talking about?  :shrug:    The Barren and Gasper Rivers are the ones near their range.   Dang Confusing and Bewildering!  :eek: 

  Well Dang It!   The first "non-adverse weather event" classifer that Robert has ever had at the GGC and I'm at the house dealing with a contractor.      But keeping the Delightful & Wonderful Mrs. Kari (She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed) happy with home renovations and updates was most likely far more productive.  The idea of achieving a higher classification is now just a distance want and desire since the Older I Get the Faster I Was.......   

Dang Rickey, the title of this thread gave me a lot of anxiety!  :ugh:   I was afraid that the TVA rental cops had taken the gate pass sign-in a bit too far.......

I will sometime wear different handguns on my hip, more for seasonal time of year "cover" reasons.   But on my ankle is always my S&W Air Weight Model 37 BUG gun.  I carry it in a DeSantis Apache Ankle Holster.  The sheepskin padded lining makes it very comfortable for me.   Also agree with TrickyNicky's Dad in regard to an ankle holster being excellent for car carry.

  And Sam's comment below explains the reason for my jumping back into buying AK ammo before the next panic sets in......   "..... I think buying at today's price the $220-230 per 1000 is buying at close to bottom prices, that's the same price this stuff was 6 years ago back in 2008 so it really can't go much lower and with a wrong turn in the politics price could go way up....."   Buying any ammo at pre-Barry Hussein prices is (was) a good thing!