mikegideon

Nothing wrong with the M&P

Yep. Magpul slut. I have a bunch of it.

Jumped in with both feet, eh? Good job!

Google 10/22 stock and hit the images tab. There are tons of pistol grip options

Tell us. Don't hold back. What did you get?

Primary Arms. Cheap, and excellent support. I have owned a couple of their sights. https://www.primaryarms.com/Red_Dot_Store_s/57.htm

Speaking of addictions

I think it comes down to how much elbow grease it takes in some circumstances. Heavy copper fowling in a fast center fire rifle probably needs more than CLP. I use Hoppe's Elite copper solvent for that. For pistols, I use whatever, and scrub until the black stuff goes away.

Real men don't get stitches. He has a stippling tool.

I would be fishing my right cheek out of the sink. The only reason I'm alive today is plastic razors.

Great story

Sometimes Hoppe's Elite solvent and oil. Sometimes CLP.

Yeah. I'll probably leave mine alone. I like the Hogue stock.

GPS receiver chips are tiny these days. The antenna, not so much

All clips are evil. Assault clips are triple x evil. Yes, they're high capacity. Got some of them from you :-)

You could actually wake it up with a search signal. I spent a little time on this. The other end would be expensive. In order to get location data, you would need GPS. All the chips to do it are pretty small, but you would need an antenna too. Just ain't practical

Requires a power source. I ain't talkin' watch battery either.

I can survive a whole bunch of thugs with bats. Got me some of them assault clips

The subject of tracking stolen firearms came up with a friend of mine a few years ago. THE big engineering issue was a long term power source for the transmitter.

I think Willie Nelson is about your age, and he smokes more weed than ls3's entire graduating class :-). Hasn't done anything to him except make his pigtails grow faster.

Yes. Iridium transmits directly to satellites. Never tried to figure out Onstar, but always assumed that the return path was cellular. There is some two way stuff out there, but it ain't cheap. A GPS enabled cell phone knows where it is by picking up GPS signals and calculating position. But, it reports that to the outside world via the cellular network.

They are getting the data back some other way. "GPS enabled probe vehicle" dosn't mean they're transmitting to the satellites from the GPS RECEIVERS. Now... before you continue speculating, I guess I should tell you that I have 7 uplinks here in Nashville, and kinda understand what kinda guts it takes to get a radio signal into space.

Congrats! Good choice too. Just don't go thinkin' this is the end of it

Satellite and GPS receivers are one way only. The satellites don't know they are there

No biggie