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Glad to hear it. I personally like SS over chrome lined. Something you need to realize is that most uppers are forged and made by the same people then sold to different makers. I suspect yours will have the keyhole forge mark which is what in on S&W's and Spikes as well as a few other high end guns. As far as barrels go there are a bit more makers of barrels out there but most who sell barrels to the public also have government contracts for the same barrels. And with that a certain level of quality is inherently there. You would be surprized at who makes the barrels for some of the high end guns, I know I was. Glad you changed your mind on the Ti BCG. Chrome is the better option. I will try to get the trigger kit out to you this week. I have a lot of other stuff going on with my health but I plan to get out tomorrow. The biggest obstacle is writing instructions but I will probably just have you call me when you get ready to install it. Dolomite

Is there a requirement for the serial number and type of firearm be recorded? I didn't think so and if there is then for that reason alone I would use a rental. Dolomite

I am not sure I had anything to do with this but I am glad someone else is seeing it isn;t the officers as a whole but the administrations that have lead to all of this. Dolomite

I have always been of the opinion that search warrants that are executed like what was seen in the video should be a rare occurance. Only in instances where a life may be in jeorpady should and officer be allowed to enter under force. Again, this is department policy that has allowed this to get where it is and not the officers doing this. If they are worried about evidence being destroyed change the policy so the first thing that happens is the water is turned off. Perhaps set a policy that the water will be shutoff two hours prior to any raid that way the toilet tanks should be empty. Have surveilance in place and when the suspect attempts to leave the house snatch him up. Also, I believe if someone has a flushable amount of most drugs, especially marijuana, I would consider that a personal amount anyways. And personal amounts should be, well , personal and no one elses business. With the money that is spent fighting the drug problem we could mount a very big campaign against them that would be far more effective than the current "War on Drugs". Legalize marijuana then use it to generate revenue. The way to generate revenue is this. Because anyone could grow marijuana themselves you need to tax the individual and not the product. Put an endorsement on a person's license that allows them to possess it. Make it cost say $20 a year. Have the same penalties as driving without a license if you are caught with marijuana without the endorsement. Make dealers have to have a similar endorsement except much larger costs, say $1,000 per year. Then have the growers, who must have a license to grow, meet certain health standards and such. Make their licensing $10,000 annually. And with this only a grower can sell to a dealer and only a dealer can sell to individuals. And any income must be reported just like any other industry. Think of the revenue if only 25% of the nation smoked, I honestly believe the number is much higher (pun intended). People might grow marijuana themselves in the beginning but eventually it easier to just buy it. And that is where most of the income is going to come from, sales. It would make it less dangerous for all those involved. No more buying from a guy you already know has no problem breaking the law. No more forcing mules to traffic the drugs. No more people willing to risk their lives because it is now legal. And the biggest thing is it would be safer for everyone involved in the enforcement, citizens and LE alike. When was the alst time you heard of a person killed while warrant was being served on an illegal alcohol setup? And just so everyone knows, I have never smoked or used any illegal drug in my life. I have worked in LE for a substantial part of my life. I believe what we need is fewer laws to regualte what might happen and concentrate on what is happening. Dolomite

Another thing to consider. If you are selling a Glock in 40 S&W or 45 ACP you definitely want to include the caliber. The reason? It is possible to do a search for those calibers and come across the reports of kabooms. Imagine if you are trying to sell a pistol to someone who knows little about them and they do a search only to see that there are reports of problems. Personally I want the potential buyer to have all the information they need without resorting to doing a search. Any gun made has had problems and a quick search will show these problems. Dolomite

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No. Blackthorne is the new name for Hesse or Vulcan or whatever names they have used. Dolomite

It says there is a 4 mug minimum for any custom engraving post anodizing. What if I only need a single mug for someone? Dolomite

It is unfortunate that the younf man died but I can see the officer’s side of things. Up until the young man is lying on the floor dead the officers did absolutely nothing wrong. The facts are easy to break down in the video. At 3 seconds in someone says “hit the horn a little bit" and the sirens go on. At the same time you hear "Police, Search Warrant". Then 10 seonds later someone else calls for it to be turned off. It goes off so the cops had control over it. It is not a car alarm as some have suggested. At 18 seconds you ear "Bang, Bang, Bang", over the radio, signalling the start of the operation. At 25 seconds an officer aproaches the door, knocks and checks to see if the door is unlocked. At 28 seconds you can also hear someone yell “Police, Search Warrant, Open the door” Officers breached at 32 seconds in. At 40 seconds the shooting begins Based on the timeline the officers did no just walk up, kick the door in and kill the young man. There were several announcements of “Search Warrant” by other officers at the scene as well prior to anyone entering. Hard to argue the facts. I have always said that it generally isn't the officer's fault but the administration's fault. The administration's policy of how they serve warrants is what caused this young man's death. They knew where he worked and when he worked. No better time to catch him than on the way to or from work. The officers themselves were only reacting to a perceived threat. If I would walk up to anyone on this board with a gun pointed at them what would be the response I get? Even if my safety is on I will likely be met with the amount of force needed to stop me. This is what happened here. The officers saw what they thought to be, because of the briefing before hand, a dangerous man holding an AR. They did not know if he was about to fire on them so they acted first. It is a normal reaction by both sides and any one of us would do the same when confronted in a similar way. I do not fault the Marine in any way shape or form. He was protecting his family with the weapon he is most familiar with. I do believe him just waking up affected his judgement as well as what he heard and perceived. I do not blame the officers who were on the raid either. The reason is because they had no way of knowing this young Marine's intentions after they had announced their presence. They will now have to live with the fact they took a life. And despite how cool it might sound to some of you taking a life is a life altering event for most. Who I do blame is the administration that allows events like this to happen. After all how they reached the point where this young man is now dead is administration policy. Up until the Marine was lying on the floor the officers were not, in any way shape or form, at fault for anything including the young man's death. They did announce their presence and they did knock before breaching. Everyone is ready to crucify these officers but they did nothing wrong until they lied but that was after the young man was already dead. And the young man's death is not the officer's fault. It was all the attempts to skew the truth after the fact that I take serious issue with. Had they just reported the young man had pointed a firearm at them causing the officers to return fire all would be good and we wouldn’t be discussing it here. The young man was protecting his family and the officers were hopefully following policy. I can't see where the officers did anything wrong until after the young man was already down. The other serious issue I have is the person who flagged ½ the team with a laser that is probably weapon mounted. And from my previous posts anyone should know I am a critic of officers and will be the first to shout from the rooftops when something is not right. But in this case the officers did absolutely nothing wrong that lead to the young man's death. Dolomite

Actually there are several that do. Bravo does on every single bolt. Feature for feature Bravo will beat out Colt. They do go the extra mile to ensure you get a quality product. And before anyone says I am a Bravo fan boy I do not own a single product of theirs. Daniel Defense is another well known builder that also tests all their parts. Bel;ive it or not but S&W supposedly also HPT and MPI. When I build personal guns it is a hodge podge of quality parts. I try to get the best I can for the money. I will not spend twice as much as the next step down. And by doing so I have never had a failure of any kind with any of my guns and they tend to be reasonable. My current gun that has the most rounds through it cost me less than $1000 to build. It is 1/2" accurate at 100 and digests anything I have put through it. Dolomite

Velocity is only thing you gain by going with anything over a 16". Barrel length has nothing to do with accuracy unless you are using irons. With irons you have a longer sight radius. With a shorter barrel harmonics are less making the barrel more accurate over a wider range of ammunition. With that being said I would still go with the longest barrel that can comfortably use. And as always every barrel is different so it is possible to have a thin barrel that shoots better than a heavy and vice versa. Dolomite Dolomite

I don't even think Planned Parenthood provides abortion services. There was an article a while back about a reporter who called dozens of planned parenthood clinics asking about abortion and they all said they didn't provide that service. Dolomite

Don't buy a headspace gauge. The headspace is set on the AR using the barrel extension. If the headspace was off there is no way to adjust headspace after the gas hole has been drilled and the barrel extension is in place. You could adjust the headspace but it would cost mre to fix than the cost of a new barrel. When reloading for the 223 (or any bottlenecked cartridge for that matter) make sure to seperate the neck sizing and the body sizing. DO NOT do it all in one operation unless you only want your brass to last a few loadings. You can set neck tension very tight by filing the mandrel to be a bit thinner if you want. What I mean by seperate is use a Lee collet die for the neck sizing only and use a Redding body die for the body only. Then you can set the body die to only touch the shoulder of the fired case. This keeps the case as close to your chamber's dimensions as possible and that minimizes case stretch. It is almost like fire forming to your chamber then only neck sizing a lot of bolt gun guys do. It adds a step but minimizes the wear on your brass. You may also need a small base body die but I would buy that when the problem shows up becaus not all AR's have the problem. The all in one Lee sizing die wears brass out quickly and unless you anneal there is nothing you can really do about it. The reason why the the die squeezes the neck down way past the minimum than pulls the mandrel back through the case neck to give it its final dimension. This opens the case mouth back up. This squeezing then opening up over works the brass like a copper wire that you bend over and over again, eventually it will break. Those dies were good when brass was cheap and you weren't worried about getting more than a couple of loadings out of each piece of brass. And as Leroy said if your cases need more of a shoulder bump then add a 1/8 turn and do it again. Once you have the cases so they will chamber then the dies are set to YOUR chamber. This minimizes the swelling and stratching of your brass because your brass is just barely smaller than your chamber. The only down side to this is if you have a loose chamber then your sized cases might not work in other 223 guns that have tighter chambers. Dolomite

They are not. The best DPMS does is batch test. Dolomite

The foul weather flag is no different than a standard flag other than a smaller size. The materials used to make them are the same. An interesting flag story. I was stationed as White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. We would have to put up and take down the flag every day. Along with that was a salute fired from a 105 howitzer blank. Anyways, during the ceremony when we take it down we would have designated jobs and one of them was to grab the lowest part to keep it from touching the ground. This particualr day the wind was blowing very hard which it always did during the spring months. Probably 40 MPH constant and 65 MPH gusts. As we were lowering the flag the desingated guy grabbed the corner of the flag as it was lowered. He got a good handle on it when a gust came up. It lifted him at least 20 feet into the air before he let go. He fell and sprained and ankle but was no worst for wear. Prior to that and after that we never saw anyone fly as high as that kid. Another part of the ceremony was to check the bore of the cannon. The reason? People would put all kinds of stuff in the barrel. Over the years there have been bags of flour, confetti as well as all kinds of other food items. The worst one was when someone forced a roll of toilet paper down the bore then added a countless number of golf balls on top like a giant sized shotgun. I wasn't working that day but I was told some of the golf balls flew over a 1/4 mile and damaged dozens of cars in a parking lot. After that happened they went from using the 105mm blank to having a case machined to accept a 12 gauge blank. With the 12 gauge there was no risk of golf balls flying like before although it would cover us in flour or we would have to pick up confetti if we didn't catch those items before hand. Dolomite

Glad I could help. Dolomite

So many RSO stories from that place, so little time. They are some decent guys but the idiots out number them four to one. I understand safety but what I hate most is the unwelcomed commentary or instruction on what I need to know to be able to shoot like the sniper they are. When my wife goes they feel the need to hover over her and instruct her on how to properly shoot every gun she pulls out of the case. In most cases it is more of a distaction for her to answer their incessant comments and questions. What they don't realize is she probably has more rounds down range than most of them. Almost all of them are the been there done that kind of guys. Then there is the taking of peoples brass without asking. I reload everything I shoot so I pick up my brass. I got onto them last time about picking up my brass and they asked how I could prove the brass they took was mine. I then asked if the headstamps were pink. They handed them back very quickly. I guess because none of those manly guys would ever have anything pink. I have watched them make a game out of catching people's brass as it is ejected and putting it in their pockets. Any gun ejecting 30-06 brings them all over like vultures. They run it like their own personal brass supply depot. Had a RSO say the LC brass I was using was the best brass because it was made in Tennessee. I said it wasn't and he argued saying he knew it was and that I was wrong. He went on to explain by saying that LC stood for Lenoir City and that is why everybody wants the brass. I chuckled and let him know LC stood for Lake City. He got a look on his face like a disappointed kid who didn't get the Christmas present he always wanted. He then walked off a bit bewildered as he closely inspected my piece of LC brass he had picked up off the concrete. I was there one day when an RSO asked if he could have my Coke bottle when I was done. I said sure thinking it was for a spit bottle. When done I handed it to him and he said great, now I can build a silencer. I watched him stuff it with tiolet paper then duct tape it to the barrel of a pistol. After which he proudly showed it off to everyone up and down the firing line. He declared that it was legal to the crowd that had amassed for his first test shot. And then he fired it and it seemed to imress some of the shooters. Probably enough that several of them now have a Coke bottle silencer that the RSO declared legal. That will not be a defense when they get caught and sentenced to 10 years in the nearest federal "pound me in the a**" facility. The final straw in the whole thing is this. They have an agreement, or at least did, with the Boy Scouts. The Boy Scouts get all the scrap brass to recycle and use to help fund the local troop. Sounds like a good deal except there is one RSO that takes a lot of the brass. He then trades the brass to a local shop for parts and accessories. I know this because I watched him digging through the can as I was leaving the range one day. About an hour later he shows up at the shop with a box saying he got a lot of useable brass that day and traded it for some parts. He is a personable guy but in the end he is taking funds away from the boy scouts and using it for his own gain. As bad as the RSO's are try listening to some of the shooters, they are 10 times worse. Like I never knew a 17 HMR fired a bullet at over 5,000 fps. And that the only thing left of a ground hog after getting hit would be the teeth. Or the usual "A 45 ACP will rip you in two if hit with it". And another common one among AR shooters is "An AK 47 is only accurate to 25 yards". My canned response to most people, including RSO's, who are there talking crap is "whatever" and then walk away unless it has something to do with safety. I have tried educating them but I guess I don't know what I am talking about because their cousin's brother's stepfather, who worked with a WWII vet told them it was so. Dolomite

Sounds like a plan is forming. Maybe we need to put this somewhere along with a form letter so we all can overwhelm them with our demands that this be investigated and thos responsible be held accountable. Dolomite

It has been fired and resized several times. What happens upon firing is the front of the case swells and locks into place while the rear of the case moves back against the bolt face. This is what causes cases to stretch and the need for trimming. The stretching generally occurs a little lower but it is possible to have split where it did. The way to check is take some of the other brass from the same lot. Take a paperclip or something else and feel the inside of the case along the wall. If you feel a ridge that is where the case is stretching. I check mine every few reloadings for the ridge and if I find any I throw them out to prevent what happened here. Dolomite

Model 1 Barrel AR-15 223 Remington Heavy Contour 1 in 9" Twist 16" Chrome Moly Matte with Front Sight Pre-Ban - MidwayUSA Dolomite

Where were you hiking? Dolomite

And military force isn't just boots on the ground. It is anything that is deemed appropriate to defeat the terrorists. We already have drones flying over various cities as well as along the borders. Dolomite

Whether it is chrome lined or not PM me your address I'll send you the stuff for your trigger that I was talking about. Dolomite

M4 is just the ouside profile of the barrel. 4150 Chrome Moly Vanadium Steel is only the material the barrel is made of. 5.56 chambered is just the chamber dimensions. Air gauged is just a way of measuring the bore diameter and doesn't assure quality. I can guarantee their barrel is not chrome lined. If it is PM me your address and I'll send you what you need for a better than factory trigger on your build. I'll send it free of charge, no qustions asked and on my dime. From experience I would pass on the titanium BCG. They are not needed and are nothing more than "bling". If I was going to get a coated BCG it would be a chromed one before a titanium. Chrome is more resistant as well as slicker than Ti. Personally I like a phosphated one as the phosphate coating holds oil better than anything else. I would take the extra money you are going to spend on the Ti and get a bolt that has been shot peened for hardness. I like and use UTG rails on a few of my guns. For the money you can't beat them. I have had a set on my wife's 9mm for the last 5 years and through 7,000+ rounds. It is the one gun that gets used and abused and the UTG quadrails have held up. Another gun had them on for 15,000+ rimfire rounds. It was my training gun when I was home from my trips and it was also a used and abused gun and the UTG's never failed. As a matter of fact when I took them off I gave them to a friend who also used and abused them on his gun for a while before he returned them. They are still as good as new despite some scratches. I am not trying to burst your bubble but I just trying to get you as a new AR builder/buyer from making some mistakes. You do not need to spend a ton to get a quality gun but there are some things that are not needed. $555 seems like a lot for what you are getting. In the end it is your money but I would definitely do things a little differently. Dolomite

If that doesn't come with the BCG there is a much, much better option for the same amount, actually probably a bit less overall. I have recommended these to several people and they are all very happy with them. Stag Arms Dolomite Yours doesn't have chrome lined bores while the stag does.