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DPMS kit at Joe Bob's: DPMS Lower Parts Kit - LRPK1 Dolomite

About the best "cheap" kit is DPMS. I have been using them for years without a single issue and would be the only cheap kit I would recommend. Not saying the others are junks but I have never heard of an issue with DPMS kits or seen one personally. Some of the other kits I have seen had issues as well as heard of issues. Dolomite

You riding bikes in Afghanistan? J/K Dololmite

Yes Dolomite

Either that is the wrong picture or you were duped. That is a Tokarev pistol or variant (Looks like the Yugo M57). They came in either 9mm or 7.62x25, never heard of a 380. As far as pretty penny goes they can be had all day long in the $250 range. They tend to be good shooters and the 7.62x25 round is a fun round with plenty of power. It is the only pistol caliber that will defeat soft armor as well as kevlar helmets. Dolomite

Or grab a cheap airsoft. They are making about every model now and would be easier to throw away than clean your paintball gun. I always use Krylon or other spray can rather than a more permanent paint like Duracoat. The reason is it is easier to touch up. And believe it or not but Krylon actually becomes very durable and sovent resistant as time goes on. My wife's 9mm AR was painted at least 6 years ago using Krylon and it is very durable. Even the paint on the flash hider is still there although a little dark. And when I went to remove the paint from the sights recently I had to soak them overnight in solvent because nothing I had on hand (acetone, brake cleaner and a few others) would work instantly. I will say that using the textured paints as a base seems to help a lot with the durability of the paint as well. Her AR used a textured base while the picutures above didn't. The rifle above had chips and scratches almost immediately. I normally start with a textured sandstone then add the darker colors in a few layers. Dolomite

The few I have attended had no deals. In most cases they brought retail or a bit higher. Dolomite

Every time I have had a problem with CCI ammo they have taken care of me. I bought a case of 22lr that was labelled as Standard Velocity but when I opened the first box I noticed they were plated. I fired a few and realized they were in fact Minimags rather than Standard Velocity. I contacted them and emailed pictures of the labels with the lot numbers. They allowed me to keep the case I bought and sent me a case of Standard Velocity ammo. Federal has done the same as well. I had a bad lot of Automatch. They sent me a case to replace the bad lot. Dolomite

What are you wanting to know? One of the more knowledgeable smiths in the Knoxville area is Bob at Predator Custom Shop. He seems to be knowledgeable about a lot of odd or rare guns. I for one have always liked them and if I could find one for a reasonable price I would pick one up in a heartbeat. Dolomite

I traded one for a Savage bolt gun recently. It went bang every time I pulled the trigger. Dolomite

If you were planning on selling them please PM me. I would be interested in the top one. Dolomite

I used painter's tape to cover up the turrets and AO on the scope. Other than that there is enough clearance so the paint didn't cause any problems. Dolomite

Also, this: I guess this is meant to discourage people from being in the business of having hog hunts. If they can only have 10 designees a year that would pretty much eliminate having a business. If they really wanted to control hogs they would have a free for all. Anytime, anywhere and by any means. And handle poachers of other species when they are caught and make their punishments extreme. Make mandatory sentencing and very high fines for poachers as well as forfeiture of ALL property they own even for a first offense. Dolomite

I have shot a lot of reloads out of my AR. In the begining I did crimp but decided it was a waste of time. I also belive that sealing it is also a waste of time. Crimping does increase pressures and in turn increases velocity but for me it wasn;t worth the extra step, I'll just make up the difference with more powder. When I reload I use a Lee collet sizer to size the neck and a Redding body die to size the body. By seperating the two steps it allows you save the brass from uneeded work hardening. Something else I did was chuck the mandrel that sizes the neck into a drill and took off a few thousansands. This creates a much tighter neck to hold onto the bullet and I have never had a bullet get set back. If you want the best of all worlds load some heavy Sierra SMK's. I personally load a heavy bullet. It is a 69 grain bullet and have found that in my small amount of testing it does as well as green tip's in defeating hard targets because if its extra weight. In soft targets it does just as good if not better. The reason is because it has a very thin jacket that allows the bullet to come apart easily upon impact with soft targets. Another reason is it holds more of its weight in the rear so it will try to tumble quicker providing your twist rates are good for it. And finally they are very, very consistent which leads to great accuracy. I use them in a 9 twist barrel and it will hold 1/2" groups. Even using lighter weight bullets the SMK's are devastating on soft targets, again because it comes apart so readily from the thin jacket. The donwnside is cost, they run about $20/100 but if you are loading for a "what if" scenario then it doesn't seem all that bad to me. And for me accuracy is more important than cost when you are loading ammunition that you hope you never have to save your life with. Whatever you do choose pick a bullet that is suited to your twist rate. This helps the bullet tumble which in turn helps it performance. If the bullet won't tumble because it is over stabilized and it doesn't have enough velocity for the bullet to come apart upon impact then it is nothing more than a .22. Up to 70 grain for a 9 twist barrel, up to 80 grain for 8 twist and up to 90 for 7 twist. You want your bullet weight the highest you can load for your twist. Only problem is with a 7 twist the heaviest you can go is 80 grain because it is impossible to load 90 grainers to magazine length. Here is a good read on the effects of twist rates and the M855: http://stevespages.com/pdf/5_56mm_military_info.pdf As far as powders go I use either Varget or H335 depending on what I am loading. The Varget works well on heavier bullets while the H335 works better for light weight bullets. The biggest reason I like Varget is it is impossible to get enough in the 223 case to cause damage. I recommend it to anyone who is starting to reload the 223 because of this. Some of the spherical powders can cause some serious issues if you aren't careful. Everyone has their preferences of what works well in the 223. And I think it is because it is a very forgiving round. It is also a very versatile round because of all the choices of components available for it. Dolomite

+1 This is always my first plan. Lay low and try to soak up as much information as possible for LE when they arrive. I will only get involved if it looks like someone is going to get hurt. Dolomite

I am trying to find something that has a quieter action than my all metal 22 AR. I have a suppressor I made on a Form 1 that is insanely quiet but on my AR the action noise is louder than the shot itself. It is quieter than a nail gun but the action noise is keeping it from its true potential. I have a Ruger pistol with a Paclite threaded upper as well as a bolt gun that has been threaded. The bolt gun is about like a pellet gun when firing subsonic ammunition. The pistol is about as quiet as the AR but I am looking for a rifle capable of using high cap mags. If you own one or both can we meet somewhere so I can hear the action noise? I would prefer to thread my suppressor on but even racking the empty action should give me an idea of how well it will work. Thanks Dolomite Also, if you have any clue as to a quieter semi auto rifle please post here. I am looking for the quietest semi auto I can get. I am also considering having a lever or slide action threaded for bolt action quiet and nearly semi auto fast.

This is the Stevens 200 in 223 that I had a barrel cut back to 18" and tensioned. It sits in a Stockade PDS/T stock. This gun has shot sub 1/2 MOA reliably with my handloads and under MOA with factory ammo it likes. It has a SSS competition trigger and a Stockade bolt lift kit. It also has a 5/8" bolt handle from Stockade also. The scope is in a Leupold base and rings. It will consistently shoot 1/2 MOA with my handloads and shoot MOA with factory ammo it likes. It is a 9 twist barrel and shoots 69 SMK's well. Here are some pictures of when I camoed it. I started out by painting the entire gun a light sand color. I painted the stock and the action seperately to make sure every part was covered by the base color. Next I covered the entire gun with a laundry bag from WM. I used clothes pins to hold it in place. I cut all excess bag material off to help the clothes pins stay in place. After it was covered with the bag I used some brown, tan and green color and painted some strips through the bag. Here is a pic after the bag was removed. Next I cut out some leaf templates to use for added depth. After adding some depth using the templates and brown, tan and greens. Here is how it turned out. You can use a bag with larger netting to get larger "scales". Dolomite

Stake it in place. Take a puch and put a few dimples around the hole it is backing out of. Blue loctite might work but in most cases it is a temporary fix for pins, it works best on threads. Dolomite

Buy a barrel bushing now. There have been several people on here who have had theirs crack, including me. Other than that enjoy. Mine is more accurate than the Colt I used to own. I have close to 2,500 rounds through mine without a single problem. Also, they take factory spec parts easily. Dolomite

I never bought the stock based on how flimsy it was. I do know from a lot of testing and precision shooting I have done that anytime there is any type of movement it affects accuracy, especailly harmonics. Even a bipod can effect accuracy with the harmonics is causes. There is a reason why you always hear about plastic stocks having accuracy issues unless they have a bedding block or an aluminum skeleton underneath. They are not very stabile unless they have a rigid core of some sort. If you are only looking for recoil reduction I would look elsewhere. What is the gun going to be used for? Dolomite

I will say they are some of the most flimsy stocks I have ever touched. That might be part of the "shock absorbing" but it doesn't do much for repeated accuracy with a stock like this. If you are wanting to reduce recoil add a muzzle brake. They can make a 308 feel like a 223. Or add weight to your currect stock. Either one of these will reduce felt recoil and still maintain a certain amount of consistency. Dolomite

Glad to see you were able to find an easy solution to make life easier for you. I am sure you are not the only person programing it the way you were. Now you need to make life easier for others. I would make an easily attachable, universal laser, patent it then sell it or lease manufacturing rights to a major distributor. Just out of curiosity, how much time did it save or will it save you? That could be a big selling point if you can save setup or programming costs substantially. I would also check to make sure the company didn't have rights to anything built on their time and dime. Dolomite

Holy thread revival batman!!! Dolomite

July 27, 2011 at 10:32 PM Dolomite

Being stopped is one of the worst thing you can do. It seems like traffic jams materialize out of no where over there. Some are real and some, I am sure, are planned. I have been caught in a traffic jam over there and it was a very unsettling feeling as the locals began walking out of their shops towards our vehicle. I would have been a lot more scared had the locals began walking or running away from us. It was a random jam but it scared me at first because we were stopped in an area where there was no hope of escape because we had a deep ditche under the road that extended out enough to keep us from passing. Something else, we used to joke about it but we would get daily reports of suspected suicide bombers. I would guess 95% were supposed to be in either a white corolla or a taxi. Another part of the description was the driver who was a dark male with a dark complexion in local garb. Again, it got to a point where is was a joke because every thrid vehicle was either a corolla or a taxi. In Kabul there seemed to be a lot more than in the Iraqi video. Dolomite