EssOne

  I've often wondered the same thing. In my own case my actions would probably be determined by the amount of time that had passed since I last saw a child hanged by my enemy from a telephone pole, as so many Russians witnessed in World War II. In my case the Rules of Engagement would probably become "loose guidelines" about then. Y'all do what you think is right.

I absolutely love the Hungarian FEG Hi Power clones.They're great guns - but I steadfastly refuse to use one as a carry pistol because it has no firing pin safety or "drop" safety. Same for my all time favorite 1991 CZ 85. Acting in accordance with the ancient principle of "Manure Occureth," no drop safety, no carry. Period.This is a self imposed, mandatory requirement for me in any gun I carry.  

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That's pretty darn good if your FFL doesn't soak you on fees. $41 + FFL. Now all we have to do is find someone selling good quality LPK's for similar savings.

It must be catchin' because AIMSurplus just put them on sale for $39.95. http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?item=F1ANSLNTG

If you want to stay low in price and yet get a pretty good product, I've had a lot of good luck with the UTG line of target sights for not much money. Their adjustments are positive and their click values accurate. I've compared them against my LMT and RRA units and I honestly can't find any difference at all in workmanship, fit or finish. Unless they're using crap springs, they are good sights. They have a carry handle rear sight at MidwayUSA for $40 here:    http://www.midwayusa.com/product/610684/utg-detachable-match-grade-carry-handle-with-a2-rear-sight-ar-15-aluminum-matte

Thank you kindly, gents. Much appreciated.

I'm going to change out a perfectly good Palmetto carbine buffer tube as part of a stock replacement project. The pull off tube appears to be made of 7075 aluminum, has extruded threads, and is in perfect condition. It has a round count of around 350 rounds. I'd like to reuse the buffer tube on another carbine project - can anyone see any structural reason why the tube can't be reused?   EssOne

Go for the solution that will give you the most pain free senior years and don't look back. My solution would be to keep the guns I'd like to take out and pet once in a while and then take up fishing. I've had to give up all of my recoiling shoulder guns, including my beloved Browning Citori XS Skeet shotgun, as well as most of my pistols,  and it isn't the end of the world. Being old AND in pain is a real bitch to be avoided like the plague. I'm 72.

   Yes, I lived there 54 years and have been back 9 times since I left, and I honestly didn't even want to go back even then. It was a wonderful place to live until the 80's, when its ship started sinking. California law enforcement has always been an exasperating place to be. Even when I retired 22 years ago the disability retirement rate among the major agencies was 80% and better, much of it due to stress. Worse now I'm told. It's impossible for cops to live in California in retirement because of the cost of living, so they all seem to wind up in adjoining states. I had never been in Tennessee in my life until we came back for a relative's college graduation in 1995. We stayed two weeks, drove home, sold the house,moved to the Tri Cities and have never looked back. I'll always love the California I grew up in, but neither of us can stand the California of the past 30 years. End of mildly suppressed rant. :pleased:

Hey y'all........Confederate flag..........South Carolina............removal of same and effect on the country and its black population.

During the 21 years I owned my boat, I learned the truth of the definition: "Boat - A hole in the water lined with fiberglass that you stand back and throw money into." second only to a big RV or a plane.

After moving to East Tennessee from California nineteen years ago, I realized that I had finally made the grade when my wife and I were driving home from a Saturday morning shopping trip this morning. Our shopping trip took us to a gas station, a gun shop, and a grocery store. As we drove along on the way home she suddenly snickered and said:   "You realize you're finally a real Tennessean, don't you?"   I asked: "Howzat?"   She replied: "All you bought this morning was gas, guns, groceries and beer."   :usa:  :usa:  :usa:  :usa:  :usa:   The devil made me post this.

Well said.

Go farther down on his timeline. I had trouble pulling it up after it appeared on my wife's FB page. It was a lot farther down than I expected and I was about to give up when I found it.

   The worst losers of all were the nine people whose murders were immediately forgotten in the headlong rush to get rid of the flag.

My take on it was that he was saying that while removing the flag might have made some folks feel better, it really accomplished nothing substantive for black Americans. - that at the end of the day, all of the problems they had when the flag was up they still had when the flag was down.     Agree about corporate pressure bringing the flag down. I think State government saw big corporate bucks going out the window if the flag stayed up.  

  No HP, you detect a damn big note of sarcasm here! :pleased:

Lt. Colonel Allen West posted these comments on his timeline on Facebook 9 hours ago.   "Yippee, the Confederate battle flag has now been removed from the grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol. And, just like that, it solves the problem of black-on-black crime and killings. Now we’ll see the out-of-wedlock   birthrate in the black community drop from 75%. There will be better educational opportunities and schools in South Carolina’s black communities and all across America. The black unemployment rate will drop —especially the   almost 40% black teenage unemployment rate. We’ll now see an economic entrepreneurial boon in the inner cities because the Confederate battle flag’s been lowered. And there’ll be no more gangs of blacks beating on   whites — as we saw in Ohio recently. Yep, the liberal progressive media shouted "squirrel" and an entire nation went a running. All the yelling and shouting by the crowds was evidence of those who lack grace, respect and   dignity. Former South Carolina Gamecocks football coach Lou Holtz remarked that when you get to the end zone, you should act like you’ve been there before. So what does the lowering of the Confederate battle flag have to   do with the killing of little seven-year-old Amari Brown in Chicago — anyone know when his funeral is?"   For those who aren't familiar with Colonel West, he is a black retired Army officer and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

My dad always said we were from Lapland - where Oklahoma laps over into Arkansas. lol

Yep, it was meant for gershootenfighten, not gersmackenfighten.

Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation out there on the subject, which is why I'm asking here. One site says Milspec is made out of 7075 and the Commercial tubes are made out of 6061, while another authority says basically what you said, that the diameter of the tube alone determines if it is milspec or not, regardless of the metal used. Then the different seller sites use anything but standardized terminology, which defies a confident conclusion of the issue.

NOTE: This post refers only to AR 15's chambered for the 5.56mm cartridge.   I've seen it written that prolly half of the buffer tubes being made today are made from 6061 aluminum, although the milspec calls for 7075 aluminum. I know for a fact that Palmetto and Anderson are using them and I see a number of other makers advertising the 6061 buffer tubes. In researching the differences from the personal experiences being talked about on the gun forums, about the only real difference I can find in performance is that a lot of guys feel that if one fell on the gun, the 6061 buffer tube would prolly break at the threads, since their threads are cut into the tube, whereas the threads on the 7075 tubes are said to be on the surface, and 6061 is quite a bit weaker than 7075. 6061 is cheaper and easier on cutting tools, and, as I just said, it is a weaker metal than 7075, but I can't find any evidence of failures in service.   Does anybody know of any 6061 buffer tubes that have failed to give proper service in non-abusive usage? Any other drawbacks you can see with them?   EssOne

  Yeahboy!

  Oh well, when the farkles think New Mexico is a foreign country and can't figure out what famous cowboy movie star the town of Gene Autry, Oklahoma was named after,...............I mean, y'know? :wall: