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And all that means is more time before you run out. When I can't resupply it, I don't shoot it, unless I have to. I've stopped shooting 9mm and 5.56 until things stabilize. Fortunately I have plenty of .40, .308 and other calibers I can occupy myself with for a few months.

Since the leadership won't even admit there is a problem, the only way this ends is with them crashing and burning.

I've handled a few of these in shops. What I didn't like is that the triggers were inconsistent and the mags would get stuck on the way out of the magwell. However, I'm rather eager to pick one up as long as it has the optic cut and a trigger that doesn't suck too much. There does seem to be a level of compatibility with Glock parts; I know of one that someone successfully installed an aftermarket Glock trigger in.

I've had a couple Beretta 21As in 22LR. They are teeny, well made little buggers, and handy as all get out. However, the sights only seem to have a very casual relationship, at best, with the point of impact.

It's no good for anybody except the Democrats. There's no other 2A organization with anything like the clout of the NRA, as corrupt as they seem to be turning out to be.

Some bullets, if they are loaded long or have fat ogives, can get forced into the rifling when a barrel has a short leade. You don't always notice until you attempt to eject a loaded round and find it's stuck. I see this a lot with several brands of coated lead bullets, especially noticeable in the 124gr varieties.

I use a BFH (big freaking hammer) and a very short starter punch. Get the front sight block in a big vise as close as possible to the taper pins and whale away.

Nobody should buy the Bodyguard IMO

I always had trouble with vertical stringing when I had them on a gun. In my opinion, the front sight is OK but the rear is near worthless due to lack of hard and readily visible vertical index. If I were to go back to them, I'd trash the shallow V notch rear and have a regular notch rear opened up to work with the big dot front.

Good score! They are a hoot to shoot. The triggers on my MPXs are pretty bad, worse than most AR milspec triggers. Fortunately it looks like Timney finally released a more reasonably priced trigger than the Geissele. $200 is still rather pricey but it beats $350. As for optics, I think I have an Eotech 512 on the carbine and a Vortex Sparc with a riser on the pistol.

Nice one! I had a nickeled one that I traded away a few years ago. I was loading hard cast lead at about 900 FPS, which were pretty pleasant to shoot.

Sure, but they tend to be unreliable.

The great thing about revolvers in auto calibers, in a word, is moon clips. Less bulk and trouble than speedloaders.

There are 3 screws that hold the frames together: 2 where the top grip screw would be on a 1911, and one smaller one on the front part of the trigger guard.

All of the above. Also, the Ruger American rimfire is a handy little .22 as well.

Well, yes and no. They are 100% a 1911 except for magazine, magazine release, trigger, and a couple of other parts... but you could certainly take a 1911 and put most all the parts on a 2011 frame. The main difference between a one-piece doublestack frame like the Para Ordnance and the 2-piece 2011 is that the grip frame bolts onto the railed metal part of the frame and the trigger is sandwiched between them. The first 2011s used a molded polymer grip frame but STI was the only one with the mold. They had an agreement to sell their frames to Infinity for years, and when that expired, Infinity began cutting their grip frames out of metal. Now there are at least half a dozen companies doing the same.

My first SS press was a Lee Challenger. Like many Lee products, it was slightly better than no press at all. Years later I ran across an estate sale of gear and bought it as a lot. Included was a RCII press and I’ve used it since, after selling the Lee. In fact I just loaded some 30-30 today with it.

Personally I’m an Infinity fanboy. Sandy Strayer, the founder, was one of the co-inventors of the 2011 in 1994 along with Virgil and Fred Tripp, and Chip McCormick was mixed in as well. Infinity makes every gun to order and they have several innovations they have patented that they incorporate into their guns. They also make all their parts in-house from pins to barrels and spare no expense doing it. STI makes a good version too. STI has changed hands several times since Strayer and Tripp started it, but they are still turning out good stuff. What they make is basically a high priced production model and not something I would put at true semi custom level. Everything other than Infinity or STI is a clone, as far as I’m concerned... but there are some good ones being built.

I'm not a big fan of any 22 that I own, but I'd say the nicest one I have is a Browning A-bolt that I swapped an Argentine High Power for about 20 years ago. It's built far nicer than I can see a reason for, with a beautiful high polish blue and that typical 80s glossy finish stock. Quite accurate too, as you might expect.

Well, my G45 is more accurate than any other Glock I've owned. The addition of front slide serrations is very helpful on the slick finish they use now. The frontstrap is finally flat all the way to the bottom, with no finger grooves or irritating scallop with sharp edges. And of course the texture is a great improvement over the Gen 2 and Gen 3, which were slippery. I've always hated the G19 because there were either finger grooves or a scallop that made the grip uncomfortable, and I couldn't quite get all my fingers on the grip.

The handguard should be retained by the front pivot pin that holds the receivers together. Take off the upper and the handguard should slide right off. As to flash hider removal, it looks like you can put the receiver into a vise where the barrel meets the trunnion. It's flat there and nothing really protrudes. I would pad it with leather and be gentle on the vise handle. Put the receiver in the vise upside down to prevent crushing the port cover tube. There will probably be a flat on the tube somewhere you can get a crescent wrench on. If not, grab more leather (old belts are handy) wrap around the tube near the receiver end, and use a pair of slip joint pliers to work the tube off. If it isn't budging, hit it with a propane torch for 30 seconds or so and try again.

There are really two Glocks I am fond of. The original Gen 1 17, and the G45.

Recently I installed a RMR 3.25 MOA dot model and tweaked one of my IWB holsters to accommodate it. Then I put another 900 rounds through it, so by my estimates so far I have about 2200 rounds through the Masada. I'm happy to report that I've had zero malfunctions so far; all ammo has been my RN reloads. The trigger slap is 100% gone at this point. Reloads aren't quite as smooth as I'd like, due to the shape of the mag well, but that's the only thing I can complain about. I've been carrying the gun for about a week now and so far, so good. Next thing on the list is to get a set of higher sights. The RMR sight body pretty much covers the front sight so I can't use it for any kind of index.

Me too, but I don't know why I cared about iron sights back then and wasn't even considering an optic :)

Another ban-era Bushmaster Dissipator here. I don't know why it seemed like such a good idea at the time, but they were popular then. I think this was after I had gotten a set of green furniture somewhere. Eventually I sold the upper and put a V-match 20" upper on the lower; I still have it, but it has been upgraded with a railed handguard and collapsible stock (we couldn't have those either, during the AWB).