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4 hours ago, JustEd said:
Yeah, I pretty much discarded the validity of that video when he was poking parts in a partially disassembled gun
I get it, but his experiment created more questions than it answered. The repeated failure of the firing pin safety especially can’t be ignored. Either it works or it doesn’t, and his didn’t. SIG needs to explain why.
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3 hours ago, tercel89 said:
I understand getting rid of low selling models but I vant stand buying a pistol with a red-dot cut-out on thr slide that I will never use. This just adds extra screws and parts to a gun.
Also the MOS guns limit your choices for aftermarket rear sights, unless you are ok with the sight hanging over the back of the slide.
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1 hour ago, gregintenn said:
I change my Tacoma at 10k. Still full and I never have to add oil. It's got 170k miles on it.
Been doing that since it was new? If anything will hold up to neglect, it’s an iron block Toyota four cylinder, but oil changes are cheap insurance.
The engineers may tap their heels together three times before wishing their new whizbang formula will last 15k or whatever the latest claim is, but what mechanics are finding five years down the road is a lot more relevant.
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19 hours ago, Erik88 said:
burns a ton of oil. I think it's mainly from folks that tried to do 10k miles oil changes. I've always changed ours every 3-5k.
This. 10k oil change intervals are more common and surprise surprise, so is unprecedented oil consumption across brands.
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11 minutes ago, gregintenn said:
LOL! I've no idea how the female brain works. My wife is thoroughly convinced a full sized pickup truck will not fit in a regulation parking space. I finally talked her into a 4 runner, and you'd think she's driving a Euclid rear dump.
6 minutes ago, GlockSpock said:I've got a 4th Gen 4runner and she complains to me anytime she's ever driven it.
Right. My wife drives a RAV4 and says my 4Runner is a big SUV. A friend has a 2001 crew cab long bed F250 he calls "Hank the Tank." I think she needs to take Hank for a spin to get some perspective.
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3 hours ago, JustEd said:
Yep. If there is a problem, it should be duplicatable.
"Can't be duplicated from gun to gun" implies faulty parts or tolerances, as opposed to faulty design. It is highly concerning that the striker safety is not always catching the striker in the video Ken posted.
Back in the 90s, Glock was chastised as being unsafe, but Glock simply produced a mechanically sound gun whose design exacerbated lousy gun handling habits. I don't think the 320 issues can be compared to the Glock issues of yesteryear.
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18 hours ago, Choatecav said:
That video was very informative. Thanks for pointing it out, Deerslayer.
The Brownells Youtube channel with Caleb and Steve is a treasure chest of AR building, tuning, and troubleshooting info.
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It's all about having the ideal dwell time for gas interacting with your bolt carrier group. Different barrel lengths need different gas systems. Mid-length for 16" guns is generally more tame than traditional carbine length and has become more popular recently, especially if a suppressor is involved. Caleb at Brownell's explains it pretty well:
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2 hours ago, BigK said:
Do you see a ridge around the base of the brass?
This could indicated the ammo was fired one or more times out of handgun with an unsupported chamber (most famously in gen 3 or earlier Glocks). The brass is reshaped (stretched) in stage 1 or the reloading process, which makes this area weak. If that brass was reloaded and fired out of the same gun with an unsupported chamber you increase the chance of a blowout. This might also be noticeable by a case that is slightly longer than the others.
When I bring home range brass, my first step is to toss out the ones with that Glock bulge just in case. I'd bet even a small company wouldn't take time to do that.
I think this is overhyped. Very few guns have "full case support." Early Glocks were notorious, but other brands have done the same thing. "Glock bulge" was more common in .40 guns, but was less a thing in gen 3 and later guns. I've resized zillions of .40 cases in a U-die that definitely worked the bottom of the case and never had a single problem. In my experience, loading .40 (bulged or not) has presented a lot less trouble than loading 9mm, probably due to the 9mm being around over a century and the resulting vast variety of troublesome 9mm brass one may encounter if a bunch of time is not invested in meticulous sorting.
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After the first blown case, I would have stopped shooting and started pulling bullets.
Measuring the charge weight of pulled bullets can be iffy (sometimes powder sticks or spills), but depending on the powder, 5.2 grains could be a significant overcharge.
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The pro fence/deck people are going to kill you. There is a side gig guy out there who will do just as good or better work for a lot less. The problem is finding that guy (usually by word of mouth). A friend and I used to build fences on the weekend. I've built a lot of fences and hope I'm done with all that lol. I've driven delivery trucks, cut grass, and done HVAC in the attic all summer when it's 95F outside, but the closest I've ever come to a heat stroke was the day I set 44 posts at our new house. That was 20 years and two rotator cuffs ago.
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35 minutes ago, DRD said:
He is a brand new member without PM privileges. It is not uncommon for these guys to fail to read and adhere to the classified rules.
I appreciate your comment.
Rules or not, that was a silly lowball.
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4 hours ago, pop pop said:
Airstreams are the best
I always thought it would be cool to have a camping trailer that looked like a B-29.
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44 minutes ago, Grayfox54 said:
I happened to be over that way yesterday and stopped in. There was a good bit of empty space in the various cases. But they still have a lot of guns. Place was kinda dead. Only a couple of customers. Only three guys working, so I guess the other employees are already gone. Got to talking to one of the salesmen. He figures they will close at the end of June. Said they had to be out of the building by July 15.
However, prices don't seem to have gone down any at all. I asked when the big closing sale would start and all he said was that he would make me a deal on anything I wanted. But didn't say how much of a deal.
I was also in there yesterday. Talked to a guy who has worked there for decades. Can't ever remember his name, but he's a good dude. He told me the same thing - closing in June, will make you a deal. They had an excellent price on a gun I've liked for a while, but I didn't pull the trigger. Decisions decisions
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3 hours ago, mills213 said:
I have ordered thousands of dollars of stuff in the last 6 months it has been so cheap since Black Friday I believe they are just overwhelmed I would not hesitate to order anything from them but they do not communicate at all but it has always gotten to me
They will never get another dime from me. I finally got my money back after three months. No communication is a total deal breaker - I never even got an order confirmation, much less a tracking number. If they ever did decide to ship it and it got misdelivered or lost, I would be completely SOL because they refuse to be contacted. There should be some sort of law against taking folks’ money for an item listed as in stock when it is clearly out of stock. Their business model is horsesh!t.
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Research magazines. Early Echelons were having magazines come apart unexpectedly.
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Local radio was playing ads and I saw a couple billboards advertising it. You would think a quick web search would net some reliable dates and times, but I guess that's a lot to ask
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How this is still available is baffling…
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1 hour ago, Grayfox54 said:
I've noticed that this is getting a lot of comments on several gun boards.
What's the big deal? They all look the same anyway.
Each one has its own nuance.
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Oil breaks down the older it gets and loses its ability to lubricate. It may even break down and begin to turn to sludge. Below are a few examples of what old oil can do to an engine. A 3000 mile interval was the standard in the old days, but newer oils can go longer (but I personally don't trust any of them past 5k or so). Guys with lab coats who never work on cars claim that their products can now protect engines for 10k or even 20k miles, but reality is that many newer cars are significantly burning oil after 70k or 80k miles and dealers shrug their shoulders when customer complain and reply that this is normal and acceptable. This didn't used to be the case. Some theorize that manufacturers planned this so they can sell new cars or expensive repair jobs. That sounds a little far-fetched; I think a more likely explanation is that the Marketing department started listening to the lab coat geeks and decided they could claim their cars now require less maintenance. If you sell your car after 50k miles, I guess it's not your concern, but if you plan to keep it a long time, oil changes are cheap insurance.