Clod Stomper

Can't help you with the CMT, but I have built a couple Grendels. Be aware, forming brass from 7.62x39 is the only time that I have genuinely NEEDED to use the forward assist. Of course if you're just using factory ammo or brass, this shouldn't be an issue.

Well, if you're REALLY packing you should be proud of it. Just whip it out and show him what you got!

I appreciate the offer.  I was being lazy and hoping to find some to buy.  :)     I think I have a mold, but I can't remember if it's .32 or .36 caliber.  Most likely .36 because I used to shoot cap-and-ball revolvers.   You use .330" dia. buck?  I may take you up on the offer.  I've been wanting to play around with some light plinker loads for 7.62x39 and .300 BLK.   Thanks,   Will

  Yep.  It's a round whose "bark" is almost as bad as its bite.     My Dad tried to take his HCP course with a CZ-52.  They stopped him in the middle of his shooting portion because he was making holes in the backstop.  He was using surplus ammo.  He finished the class with a rented Ruger .22.

  BTW, Dolomite, where do you get your buckshot?  Is it local or do you order it.   I used to buy shot from Sports Unlimited, but they are loooong gone.  Haven't bought any in many years.

I built a .300 Blackout pistol (and eventually a 7.62x40 Wilson Tactical) for the same reason I have a 6.5 Grendel.  I can make my cases from common rounds and cast my own boolits and not worry about whether the cartridge is popular or supported or not.   I don't really care if what I choose is popular and available.  As long as I have stocked up on what I need to make that round.  For both the .300 Blk and 7.62x40, I have plenty of 5.56 brass.  For my 6.5G, I have formed plenty from brass 7.62x39.  I can also use steel cases, but won't get the case capacity and velocity.     I have not bought a single factory loaded round of either one and probably will not.    Ballistically, I like the .300 Blk because it is efficient in a short, pistol barrel.  But it isn't a long-range round.     I glommed on to the 6.5G because it has the best long range ballistics available in the AR-15 style rifle.  But it isn't efficient in a short barrel.   5.56 is a fair all-around round, but it isn't what I prefer for long-range, and it isn't as efficient in a short barrel.     As an aside, my current home defense rifle is a 16" AR-style carbine in 5.56 with varmint bullets.   For long-term, or my "forever" round, as Dolomite stated above, I have chosen two (maybe three) rounds.  The .300 Blk (or 7.62 WT) and the 6.5G.  Because I don't need to concern myself with factory ammo.  I can make my own.  

If I were king of the world, I'd do away with background checks and the 4473. Then anyone who is legally ineligible to purchase a firearm would have it noted on their driver license or other state ID. Perhaps a different background color. Just like under-21 drivers used to have. (Is that still the case?) So I go into a gun dealer's shop. I show him my ID, give him my money and walk out with my gun. Almost as if it were 1967. It's a pipe dream, of course.

Shut yo mouf! The zombies are coming. Any day now.

We gain our rights back the same way they were infringed. By incrementalism. As for the John Harris comments, in addition to what OS said, some of those points aren't really relevant. Yes, you can still be fired for having a firearm in your car in an employer's parking lot. You can also be fired for driving a yellow Prius. (And quite honestly, should be) Nothing changed for the worse. Only for the better. Had this law been in place in the years before I got my permit, I wouldn't have been driving around in violation.

  Hope the new law doesn't affect you negatively.  Is Claritin (or its generic) covered by the new anti-meth law?  I really don't know.  One of the news blurbs about the pseudo-ephedrine law had a pic of Claritin.   

  Well, let's hope so, fer Pete's sake.  Otherwise, they're trynna keep me outta er'where.  I get my baby's food from Tarjhay...  sometimes.   You can have my chainsaw when you pry it from my cold, dead, partially fingerless hands!

You get the Run-On Sentence Award today! Congratulations!

Well, I heard about this the other day. Not from this site, but it's the first thing I could find. http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/27/1000-u-s-marines-headed-to-persian-gulf/ But obviously they'll have to stay on the ship because there will be "no boots on the ground".

  I wish you luck in your future endeavors.   Edit:  If I KNOW that I have done nothing wrong.  If I also KNOW that our gov't is corrupt.  If I KNOW that they have a history of leaving dead bodies or worse, mutilated children from "no-knock" warrants.  Then, I'm gonna GTFO ASAP.     "So long as they follow the rules"  HA!  They haven't had rules for the last 22 years.  Probably more.  (I'm talking about the feds)   "Unless we know that the law enforcement officer is out of compliance with the Constitution"  I have little doubt that this is the case in this situation.  Maybe "we" don't know it, but the "perp" almost certainly knew it.     Did they find anything incriminating on him?  I'm genuinely curious.  I haven't been following the case.  If not, they shouldn't have been there.   Edit Part Deux:  Snark stricken.  I shouldn't be up past my bedtime.     But this sort of thing genuinely infuriates and scares me.  This could quite literally be one of us.  I know that I have nothing illegal in my home, but if word gets out that I'm a "prepper" (I hate that term), then suddenly I'm on the radar and the assumption suddenly is that there must be illegal weapons of some sort.

WBIR reported on several new laws that went into effect today, including the new knife law.  The new guns in cars law was not mentioned as far as I could tell.  Haven't heard about it anywhere.

  Considering that he cleans his brass in a cement mixer, I'd say he shoots more in a year than I've fired in a lifetime.

Interesting. In my blind spite for Reid, I hadn't paid attention to his recent record on guns.

This.  That's why they used to endorse Harry Reid.  He used to be a gun rights supporter.

More like diapers. Should be changed frequently and usually full of poop.

This is true. So why on earth are we paying 3.35/gal for gasoline here? The freighters should be lined up nose to tail filled with oil and headed this way. I know what everyone says "we're not an imperialist country, we don't conquer other nations." Well, we should at least take back what we spent over there. But nooooo... We just had to prove to the panty-waists that this wasn't a "war for oil". Pshh... Not disagreeing with you, btw. Just ranting. I should go to sleep.

Yep. I used to work at the ANG base. 135s were always doing training flights. Wish I was still there to see what's happening. I always enjoyed watching the various military aircraft flying in and out. Never saw a Raptor, but did see one fly by my Dad's house a few months ago.

  Organic is so last month.   Are they gluten-free?

Had the same thing happen in Alcoa a couple years ago. Officer gave me a lecture on the side if Alcoa Highway about how the law requires that I tell him as soon as he walks up and they should have told me that when I took the course and blah, blah, blah. I didn't argue, for various reasons. But later, I went to speak to a supervisory officer. He told me the same thing! So there is a lot of ignorance floating around out there. To be a contrarian, if ever pulled over I will not offer any voluntary information. I tend not to indulge ignorance.

  I don't think that's just a movie thing.  It's deliberate conditioning.     Mala in se:  "Hey, that rich family left a pie on the windowsill to cool.  I'm hungry.  Food is a right.  I'm taking it"  No problem there....  Hey, they're hungry.   Mala prohibitum:  "Hey!  Is that a masheeeeen guunnnn?!?!  You must be one of those crazy people!"  Uh oh!  Call da law!   Haven't seen the movie yet, though.  Want to, just haven't been able.  

The Colibri are different than the Sniper Sub-Sonic (SSS). The SSS are 60 gr with powder in a .22 short case. The Colibri have a light bullet and no powder which makes them virtually silent without a suppressor. I think I read years ago that the SSS were developed for some foreign govt agency. Basically just like a subsonic 5.56. I went through a box of them years ago.