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It is completely legal. It’s so legal you can own it in AWB states. This is what a proper FAL looks like.

And it’s mine. This is an CAI built, AWB era Izzy heavy barrel on an Imbel receiver. Still not sure what way I’m going with it, but it will be rehabbed and turned into a legitimate FAL once again.

I love reloading for revolvers, and shooting them too. No brass to look for and pick up.

Not necessary. I’m very, very happy about this acquisition. Even in this horrible configuration, I stole it for the price I paid for it. The receiver alone is worth as much or more than I paid for it.

Everyone should have a .357 mag in their collection! Congratulations on getting a great one!

Thank You for all the replies but some else bought the gun before he could, so it all worked out.

As far as I've always been told a straw purchase is when one person purchases a firearm for another that isn't legally allowed to purchase. I don't do any business with third parties.

Best to just cut through the BS and arrange for you and the buyer to meet.

Damn that's ugly. With money and time it can be restored to it's glory. I always wanted a FAL and then last year I traded for one from a guy. It's built on a Hesse receiver so that puts a sour taste in most peoples mouths. It does have the correct widows peak feed ramps and what little I've shot it it's functioned just fine. It has a new barrel installed in it from DSA and a few new DAS mags with it too. I figure if it craps out I will just get a new Receiver and build it back.

I wonder if a local corner slinger can get his suppliers to send up some of this stuff with the next mule train. . . To any ATF agents reading along, that's a joke, son.

Living on a farm/Ranch encounters with snakes was not uncommon. Believe it or not there are a few good types of snakes and my grandfather made sure I knew which ones not to kill, Blue Racer snakes always got a pass as they would keep the mice and rats under control in most cases. When I first moved down here with my parents in 1967 I was taught about snakes and I thought a Black Snake and a Blue Racer were the same snake but learned that they are not the same snake. A Blue Racer will kill and eat a mouse but a Black Snake will killed and eat Rats, mice and venomous snakes also. I got to witness a Black Snake and a Copperhead in a battle and once the Black Snake was able to get the Copperhead wrapped in a constrictive wrap it held onto it till it killed the copperhead and then proceeded to devour it head first. The Black snake was about 3 times as big as the Copperhead so didn't take long to eat it. That is not something you get to see everyday so I watched it all happen which took about 30 minutes beginning to end.

Introduced by Adams in 2014, this Adams COR 3G rifle is loaded from front to rear, it was my spare while running 3 gun matches, sighted it in, ran @ 200 rounds through it, and kept it ready to roll. Has a Nikon 223 scope and mount ill throw in with it. Never had any issues with it.Great reviews on this floating around. Extremely reliable and clean. The Hiperfire trigger is second to none.Once you use it you wont want much else and it can be tuned. Ace stock works great.Its not a backpack gun,its made to pound everything it can w no hiccups.. Piston guns run cleaner than DI setups.Adams worked on their setup to get it right and they did on the 16.Some of the 308's had issues but this 16 just works great out of the box Don't confuse this w some of the plain jane AR's from Adams.Asking 1500.00 w Nikon and mount. Am in Nashville. Thanks! 16" Adams piston upper, Adams lower Ultralight Samson Handguard Raptor charging handle Hiperfire dual spring trigger Dual L and R 45 safety levers Anti walk pins Miculek style Comp Fixed stock Ace Skeleton stock Magpul finger guard Handguard stop for fence support etc 16" Adams piston upper, Adams lower Ultralight Samson Handguard Raptor charging handle Hiperfire dual spring trigger Dual L and R 45 safety levers Anti walk pins Miculek style Comp Fixed stock Ace Skeleton stock Magpul finger guard Handguard stop for fence support etc

Beretta ARX 100 Nato 556 , less than 100 rounds through it.Its a piston gun that runs smooth and folds down to transport very compact, has 16' barrel. Pristine condition, Am in Nashville. https://www.beretta.com/assets/0/15/DimGalleryLarge/arx100_zoom001.jpg Beretta ARX 100's are great for hunting and target shooting. The Beretta ARX 100 .223 REM/5.56 NATO Semiautomatic Rifle is a fully modifiable rifle with a pinless design and Picatinny rails on the top, sides and fore-end. The rifle is equipped with a removable, adjustable flip-up rear sight and features a 30-round magazine and a short-stroke gas piston system. Action Semi-auto Barrel length (mm) 406 Barrel length (in) 16 Caliber .223 Rem Magazine 30 Overall heigth (mm) 215 Overall heigth (in) 8.5 Overall length (mm) 908 Overall length (in) 35.75 Overall width (mm) 70 Overall width (in) 2.75 Rate of twist 1/7 Sight radius (in) 15 Sight radius (mm) 381 Sights Removable/Adjustable Weight unloaded (g) 3080 Weight unloaded (OZ) 108.8 1100.00 takes it. DM me, am around all weekend!

The .357 magnum was born out of a desire to get more power out of the .38 Special. In 1930 S&W introduced a cartridge called the .38-44 High Velocity. This was simply a .38 Special loaded to current .357 velocity. In 1935 S&W was concerned about heavy duty ammo being used in cheaply made guns. So they lengthened the cartridge case 1/10th of an inch so that it wouldn't seat fully in a .38 special chamber and the .357 Magnum was born. Other than being just a tad longer, All other dimensions are identical. Yes, .38 Special can easily be shot out of a .357 Magnum. However, the .357 is too long to work in a .38 Special. The .357 Magnum is the "Jack of all trades" in the handgun world. You can shoot anything from light . 38 Wadcutter target ammo to 180 gr full house magnum hunting loads. In the 1930s Daniel Wesson hunted everything in North America, including the big bears, with a .357 Magnum just to prove its effectiveness. For defensive use, the full magnum 125gr HP loadings have been rated the #1 man stopper for many years according to several studies. That's one of the reasons why a great many LE agencies went with the caliber back when revolvers were still king. When reloading, the same bullets work for both calibers. However, don't try to push hard cast lead bullets over about 1100 fps as it can cause serious leading. I don't recommend swaged lead bullets at all. My favorite powders for full power loads in the .357 are W296, H110 and 2400. My own pet load for the .357 is a hard cast 158gr LSWC over 6.0 grs of W231. This is a mid-range load that I've chronographed at 1100fps. Wonderfully accurate in all my guns, doesn't lead the bore and is pleasant to shoot.

Guys. I know I don’t post much. Mainly just a lot of reading to learn. Well it’s time for me to do a little teaching If you do not have one of GT’s knives get one or two I have several custom made knives and have wanted to get one of Grand Torino’s because they look good. In the past I have always been a day late and yeah sometimes a dollar short. But NOT THIS TIME. His craftsmanship is top shelf. The fit and finish on this knife is probably the best these hands have held. And the edge( while not yet proven) is super sharp I am rough on a knife and I’m sure to do a follow up on how well it preforms GT. Thank You Sir

I recently acquired a S&W 686 revolver in .357. I understand (and have tried thanks to @Darrell) it shoots .38 special loads as well. Can I shoot .357 Sig? I hope to eventually handload once I can get dies and powders again (at reasonable prices), does anyone use Titegroup (what I use for my 9mm loads)? Recommend a particular bullet? I use Berrys copper plated now. What about commercial self-defensecammo? Gold dots and HST? Any tips and or tricks? Its my first revolver! Love it so far. The SA trigger is so crisp and light. Thanks. - K

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WOW! Talk about fancy. Congratulations. I hope it shoots as good as it looks.

Glad it worked out. [I got into this conversation at the end.] You don't EVER want to get anywhere near even the hint of a scent of a notion of anything that can go however remotely into a straw purchase. If that goes wrong, your life is messed up. And it's so much easier for the good guys to mess with you than actually catching a real bad guy..

If it were my sale Id consider the friend the legal buyer. Deal with him as you would any other buyer.

I have a BOS form I like to fill out when buying or selling. These days you can't be too careful. I like to keep track of where they came from and where they went. I'd have the guy who picks up the gun do the paperwork as he will be the actual buyer. You can prove where it went and what he does with it after that is none of your concern. Of course this isn't legally necessary. Just a CYA measure just in case.

We have a CETME, it REALLY likes steel cased ammo, and the way it spits out the spent cases it is no good to shoot brass and try to find the cases. It will shoot half min of paper plate out past 100 yards.

The ATF calls 100 rounds a stockpile. A prepper... well one probably stole that 7 million rounds in Mexico to top off his cache..

Just how ever you want to look at it, but ATFs lot I guess.

technically not a problem. If it makes you feel better can get a bill of sale from the guy picking it up, but not required.

Do you know either of them? If not I might have to ask him to meet me somewhere later on. Face to face in public area.

That thing just looks mean! Makes an AR run and hide.

My condolences.

That I did not know. Very interesting. I have a friend who convinced me to go with Holosun because his Romeo 5 died on its first range session. I have 4 Holosun units now and am exceedingly happy with them. Have bought from Amazon and Optics Planet without any trouble from either. But that could always change. Online ordering is so very easy, but I just miss walking into a brick&morter store and actually seeing and handling things before buying. But that kind of shopping is rapidly disappearing.

I greatly envy you, pop pop, on many levels. That type of trip is something the wife and I had talked about doing in our "golden years." However, circumstances have changed for us to the point I don't see it ever happening. Just enjoy every second to the fullest, and have a safe and wonderful time with all your family.

For those not familiar with the drill a word of explanation might be in order..... The Casino Drill was created by Tom Givens as a way of practicing accurate shooting at speed, target discrimination, reloads, and thinking with gun in hand. The target is 6 numbered shapes that are shot in order with the same number of rounds as the face value of the target. That is shoot #1 once, #2 twice , #3 three times etc . That adds up to 21 rounds. You NORMALLY start with 7 rounds in the gun, seven rounds in a spare mag, and 7 rounds in a second spare mag. (21 rounds) . And par time to "pass" is 21 seconds. So 21 rounds and 2 reloads distributed among 6 different targets in 21 seconds. When you first do this drill that accomplishes all of those things it is designed to work. But as you shoot it more and more and become accustomed to it, it simply becomes a race to the pre determined #s where you will reload and then you just shoot the correct number of rounds left on that target after the reload (3 on #4 and then 1 on #5 after the reload ) and your time is largely effected by whether your reloads are smooth or not and whether you have any misses The having to think is really curtailed by "knowing how to play the game" . Now there are a few ways to make it difficult again... You can make them shoot it starting with #6 and working backwards, or you can make them change the #of rounds in the magazines and instead of loading them 7 , 7, 7 you load them 6 , 7 , 8 or any other combo of such. Since this was an Instructor level event and everyone there has probably shot it more than once in the past (and some probably practiced shooting it leading up to that weekend) Tom had us shoot it COLD (first thing at 8AM Sunday morning with NO WARMUP) and load mags with 6 , 7, and 8 rounds and then mix up the magazines so that we did not know which was in the gun and which were in which mag pouch. This brought the "randomness" of where to reload and kept you from just racing to the predetermined reload positions without having to involve any mental effort on WHEN to reload and how many more shots were needed on that particular target after the reload. As John Hearne mentioned... Once the reloads became random there wasn't anyone turning in anything close to a 10 or 11 second time. (Incidentally the record for the Casino Drill is something like 10.33 ) . So there it is . It was shot cold - no warmup- 1st thing in the morning . We loaded magazines with 6 , 7 and 8 rounds, mixed up the mags so we wouldn't know which were in the gun and how many rounds were in which mag in which pouch and we shot it 1-6 on the numbered shapes.

That'll work great once he gets it there, but the whole 2.7 mile trip would take a long time. If you can rent a truck with a lift gate, that pipe trick should work very well to and from the lift.

Back in December ( or it could have been Nov, ) I got up from my chair to go to the bathroom and saw what looked like a ribbon laying in the floor. As I got close, it headed for the bookcase so I realized it was a small snake. The bookcase is on those super slider things so I slid it out and sure enough it was a skinny little rat snake. It was about 16-18 inches long and maybe 3/4" in diameter. I grabbed it and started to get up off the floor ( this requires me to hang onto something ) and it wrapped it's tail around a spindle of the end table, pulled out of my hand and hauled ass. It was under the china cabinet in the dining room and I wasn't about to move it. It was also bedtime so I decided to look the next morning. Not going into what all is in the dining room, but let's say there is a lot of places for it to hide so I decided we could co-exist until he showed up again. It's not unusual for my dog to bark at things outside the front door but today I was sitting here at the computer and she started barking right beside me. After I got myself off the ceiling I saw she was going from one end of the dresser to the other and was interested in something behind it. Flashlight in hand, I started checking and sure enough Mr. Snake was behind there. It was too far back to get hold of so I used one of those reacher things with the rubber cups on the ends to get hold of it. We played tug-of-war for a few minutes but I finally got him out so I could get hold of him. He'd done a little growing, now he was about 3' long and about 2" in diameter. He is now an outside snake.

This place sells, delivers and removes safes. They may move them also. Worth a shot anyway. They're on Summer near Midtown https://townandcountrylocksmiths.com

because if they had four doors it would be a chicken sedan.

You are Correct Sir. it is ugly!!!! But so are diamonds before refined

ReeferMac, I agree with Grayfox on swaged lead bullets. I don't like them at all for over about 850 fps. I have bought a lot of Hornady swaged over the years, like 158 gr. swc and swchp, because they were available. I don't cast either. I like Magnum primers with slower burning powders in Magnum loads too. I use to load a lot of full loads with standard primers, until I got a chronograph and noticed wide variations in velocity.

Titegroup might work good for .38 loads but, if you want full power .357 loads, slower powder like 2400, H110, Win. 296, Blue Dot, IMR4227, etc. I've loaded a thousand or more, .38 Special with Herco. Loaded some .357 too but, it's not the best for full power loads. There's a lot of good cast bullets available(or once was) that will work good. I like 158 gr. swc or flat point. As far as defense loads go, about any 125 gr jhp or similar weight will work.

The one with the dog is great. A lot of guys don't flush, and the car, yeah, that's probably mental illness. I know a woman who's car looks a lot like that, and she's, out there.

There are several threads/posts out there on boards like the CMP boards regarding cleaning wood stocks. Believe it or not one of the most promoted is the dishwasher method. Do your own research on the process but it basically a hand wash with something like simple green and then a cycle in the dishwasher (without the dry cycle) and without added cleaner/chemicals other than the simple green. Apparently it not only cleans all the grease, oils, and dirt from the wood it also restores some of the minor dings and dents much like steaming a dent with a damp cloth and an hot iron.

I have 2 for myself, and got one as a gift for a deer hunter I know. He won't use it for skinning, etc., says it too "pretty" to use. LOL. I'm not a knowledgeable person on knifes, but they are super nice to look at, and Don is a super nice guy on top of that.

Just got home from vacation and found my M1 waiting for me/ Here are some fresh out o the box pics, pre-cleaning. This is a Postal Meter Very Good - Fine grade: The splotches on the wood appear to just be on the surface. It's either a dried substance or perhaps some mildew/mold. It scratches off easily with a fingernail (which was promptly washed). Any suggestions on cleaning the wood? With my old Mosins I just scrubbed the wood with Simple Green and rinsed them off with clean (ish) water....they were $80 Mosins. I suspect I may need to be a bit more diligent about this one. I was thinking Murphy's oil soap would do the trick. What say you? The metal looks to be in great shape. No significant wear that I saw off hand. No rust. The wood has no cracks, but has the usual dents, dings,, etc. The barrel is marked Underwood 3-43. I'll get some better pics, including the bore after cleaning. P.S. I can confirm the email from Midway posted above is legit. I received the same one.

That's my load too. They's plenty spirited.

I have a couple of great ones too. I was going to get him to make me a big one before he got famous. Next thing I knew, he was Mr. Knife. One of these days.

I need to get mine out and take a “family” photo. Don sure makes some beautiful knives.

Their returns are almost as easy as their ordering. So, at least you're not stuck with it.

Amazon is so damn easy to order from and usually great prices. I've seen may stories like this...makes me afraid to order anything of substance from them. I also hate how a search turns up shady results. I just picked up a new Holosun HE507k-GR-x2. Didn't trust Amazon, Optics Planet farts around with their availability, so ordered it from Kenzies Optics. Got a 10% discount so got a great price, free shipping and a really fast delivery. Haven't tested it yet, but looks really great.

Yep, he does good work.

Are you talking about getting a regular M1A or are you specifically looking for one already customized with the Sage International combat stock? New Springfields in all versions are out there. However, a used Springer M1A is kinda hard to find as those who have 'em, tend to keep 'em. I've bought 2 used Springers, but that was just dumb luck. Just happened to be in the right place at the right time. But like everything else, prices are way up. People who build rifles using Sage stocks also tend to go all out on other custom and accuracy work. They ain't cheap and they don't get sold. I don't believe I've ever seen a Sage stocked rifle for sale. The smart option would be to put the rifle back in a regular stock and sell the two separately. That Sage stock is close to $1000 by itself. I think if you go looking for a used Sage Custom, you'd have better luck finding unicorns. Another thing to consider if you're looking into M1As is that even before the current shortage, the supply of cheap Mil-surp 7.62X51 ammo was already starting to dry up. It ain't like it used to be. I love the M1A. Its my personal choice in a MBR. But these days they ain't cheap to buy or shoot. Nope, not for sale.

Funny story.... In my past life as a Prepress wizard extrordinaire, I was working at an MBE print shop downtown. Only 2 white guys in the whole place (the estimator and me)..., that was the shop where I came across the photo I'm currently using as my avatar! So a bunch of the guys would get lunch from some bodega down the street every Friday. Real home cooked soul food, 10 bucks, got a big styrofoam clamshell filled with whatever they made that week. Driver walked around at 11:30 taking orders from everyone in the plant, I'd stop for a sniff, sometimes it was interesting, smelled good, sometimes. One day Kameron our driver asks "wanna try some?" Me: Smells good. What is it? Kameron: Ox Tails, white beans and rice with greens. Me:...... Kameron: (holds up forkful) Me: Nah man, white folks don't eat that part of the cow. They were all rolling on the floor laughing. Ya know its funny, out of all the jobs I've had and places I've worked, I experienced the least amount of racial tension while there. We'd cut up all kinds of jokes and stereotypes about each other, nobody got offended. Good times!