Only purchased form them once but I was very happy with the transaction.
Type: Posts; User: M-Tecs
Forum: Vintage Rifle & Range Scopes
Only purchased form them once but I was very happy with the transaction.
Forum: Military Rifles
If they are coming over the top of your foxhole you weren't using your night vision properly since even the older issued ones were good to 300 meters. Not sure what range the new ones are good for...
Forum: Military Rifles
https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/vortex-optics-xm157-overview-the-next-generation-squad-weapon-fire-control-nsgw-fc-2/#:~:text=From%20the%20ground%20up%2C%20the%20XM157%20is%20a,this%20optic%20apart...
Forum: Military Rifles
Wow just wow. The US has the best night vison in the world. The M-4 started being equipped with the Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG) in 1995. About 15 years ago the ACOG became standard on...
Forum: Military Rifles
M-14, M1 Garand followed by Trapdoor Springfields.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I've seen a couple of different variants of this but this one piques my interest since I am currently looking for cost effective 375 bullets. Thanks for posting.
Swaging 375 bullets with 223 or...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I used it a fair amount thru the years, but I never kept much on hand. When I heard it was on the way out, I ordered 32 pounds from Power Valley. I should be good for a while.
Forum: Military Rifles
Lots of branch's and career fields are giving more than 10K a year enlistment bonus to maintain manning. In modern warfare 10K for a weapons system is very cheap compared to most. Also, they are...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
https://winchestercollector.org/forum/winchester-rifles/stainless-steel-barrels/
However, the decision was made to drop the CMS barrels for 220 SWIFT in about mid-1937, so all barrels in that...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
A strip of black cerakoting would work well.
For a DIY Brownell's ALUMA-HYDE® II will work also.
https://www.brownells.com/tools-cleaning/paint-metal-prep/paint-finishing/aluma-hyde-ii/
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Forum: Military Rifles
Per claims from Sig and contract requirements barrel life will be the same or better than the current M-4 system M240 systems due to different steels and treatments. I had the specs posted in a...
Forum: Military Rifles
Agreed. Like most, I have never been the pointy end of the spear, so my FA experience was solely for fun with the exception of the M-60. I did train minimally on the M-60 in prep of competition at...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
Some more information here
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/archive/index.php/t-108838.html
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Forum: Single Shot Guns
With a single shot no problems whatsoever until you jam into the rifling. If you do you may stick a bullet if you don't fire it. I have never had that great of results with a light jam unless I...
Forum: Military Rifles
I've never been properly trained on M-14 FA. I have fired them a few times FA. Even untrained short burst was surprisingly controllable for me for aimed fire. With a full mag dump not so much...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
If I remember correctly, it was being made in Canada and production costs verse volume of sales was the main issue.
At one time Lyman sold completed block with no cavities cut. The cavity looks homemade. The lack of concentricity on the largest diameter is interesting. Was it by design?
Forum: Military Rifles
The .270 Winchester was developed by Winchester in 1923, and it was released in in 1925. It is a 65K cartridge. The 6.8x51 is 80K. Technology and metallurgy have came a long way in the last 100...
Per the US Gov there are still 9.2 million homes in the US that have lead water supply lines. This isn't an issue as long as the HP is properly maintained.
Forum: Military Rifles
I fail to understand how gearing up to deal with the newly emerging proliferation of body armor is fighting the LAST war???????????
Boots on the ground will be needed for the foreseeable future. ...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
Hard to claim corporate greed when the manufacture can't get enough materials to produce powder for the highest profit margin consumers like reloaders. How much profit do you have to make per item...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I like Franks on wings so we mostly use that. I use Crystal hot sauce also. I have started using chili crisp a lot.
https://www.bhg.com/recipes/ethnic-food/what-is-chili-crisp/
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |