DocHawk

There's at least 3 people (including me) who might be interested in this, but we're waiting for more info...

As a S&W wheelgun collector, I just want to chime in that this is the best version of this gun to own. The -2 model is the last pinned & recessed Model 29 with all the manufacturing upgrades before they downgraded the gun for manufacturing cost savings in subsequent revisions. A great firearm... Harry Callahan says so!

I see gun upgrades almost exactly the same as car upgrades. A Heartbeat supercharger, T1 full suspension, precooler, MRR Flow Forged wheels, and custom wrap might have cost half as much again as the Corvette, but all together they add maybe 5%-10% to the market value. You might get lucky and find the just-right person who wanted that exact setup, but he still isn't going to pay what you put into it. Those "pay me what I paid" ads tend to stay up forever.

I have a few dozen suppressor hosts; I really enjoy playing and training with suppressed firearms. In .45, my favorite is my FNX-45 Tactical. It comes from the factory with so many desirable features that take significant modification/upgrades on other handguns. Suppressor height sights, unobtrusive factory threaded barrel, optics cut with all the required plates, high capacity for a .45, user-configurable modularity to accommodate your hand size. It's reliable with everything I've put on it - Osprey, Omega 45K, Hybrid, Gemtec-45, Rugged Obsidian, and a couple others. I also have a 1911, 2011, Para double stack, G21, HK USSOCOM Mk23, M&P 2.0, and a couple also-rans that I took the threads back out of. Only the Mk23 runs as reliably perfect as the FNX, but it is a pig of a gun... I feel like I might as well be carrying my UMP45. The FNX lives full time with my Osprey on its nose. Feeds any ammo, any weight. Slap rack aim pop.

Watching...

Gorgeous, rare, and desirable. GLWS.

I'm not saying I cried, but my eyes welled up a little bit.

Nyet, all this is fix with dzenjuine karbine drill, two times for day, to be going up and down hill, fire karbine hit targets. You run, hit targets. Groundnyy, hit targets. You crawl, hit targets. You diabetic, take jumping for to hit targets. You need svezhest. Freshness, da! Go, karbine drill, go now!

Ahh, a few upgrades from Talaria I see. I did the same thing - literally imported my own container to my own specs and sold them through my gun store as the Stealth Bee. Battery, controller, lights, run silent/run dark mode, forks, and tires. We even got MARSOC to buy one, and we later saw the concept (not ours) in action in Ukraine.

So glad there was a spot in the Scenic City for you. Heal well. Sounds like the barreled assembly is shootable; it's probably a combination of issues with furniture and accessory mounting throwing off the rifle.

If you wander through Chattanooga, I'll take a look at it while you wait just to give you a read on issues I see and line you out on the direction(s) you might want to go. There are so many things that can detract from a rifle's accuracy, and those things are all the more numerous with an AK design. Scope mounting is the most common culprit, although you've obviously identified another fundamental if your stock is wobbling. Out of curiosity, can you be more specific with your description of "bizzare accuracy issues"?

We ride SurRons all the time out here in Chattanooga! We have 4 of them, with mild upgrades. Why do you call it a Sting? Your nickname for the Light Bee? Get yourself a good LED as the first upgrade. They are so fast, they can outrun that stock headlight at night.

Well, it did not work out. The auction bids went up well over what the lathe and mill are worth in the last two minutes. I was high bid until the end, but I was not going to overpay just for the sake of winning. I'll hit you guys up the next time I'm up in Music City just to see who I can treat to lunch, anyway! Thank you for being willing. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Grateful, sir. I'll send you a private message with my contact info and we can keep in touch. If we can get one or two more people, it will be easy. I mostly figure this will be rocking/using a lever to get one side up on pipes (or my pallet jack and piano dollies), and then rolling it out onto the trailer. There shouldn't be much lifting at all. Going for "smarter not harder."

[Edit: Cancelled; I didn't get the equipment purchased after all.] I posted this in the Nashville Club, but I've since realized that Club content doesn't show up on the main site, so I'm reposting in the main chat. Would anyone happen to be available for an hour or two of firearms-related labor next Thursday or Friday? I'm a gunsmith, recently relocated to Chattanooga from San Diego. My shop is still active in Commiefornia, so that's where all my equipment is. As I've grown into Tennessee I have come to find that professional gunsmithing is fairly rare out here (the opposite of what I expected, moving to such a gun-friendly state). So, I have decided to buy another lathe, mill, etc. and set up another shop in my new hometown. I have a line on a mill and lathe located in the Rosebank area of Nashville. If I get it done, is there anyone who would be willing to help me get these loaded for transportation? I have a hydraulic drop-deck trailer that literally puts the flatbed on the ground, so there's no crazy lift to do, but a 1000# metal lathe is just too much for one man to shimmy around with rollers, pipe and a pallet jack. I'm looking at December 29th or 30th, but I could float it a day or three. I'd be happy to pay for your time, or even happier to treat you to lunch, talk guns and make new friends. Merry Christmas!

Nobody uses Kydex holsters? That's all I use anymore... the biggest considerations being active retention without needing an active defeat, and maintaining shape when the gun is drawn, so that I can reholster without using my support hand (or worse, root around with the muzzle) to open the mouth of the holster.

Anti-gunner logic is fueled by fairy dust and rainbow farts.

Man I am shopping for this exact truck... just about 12 years newer. Moving up from my 2003 F250 7.3 Super Duty long bed crew cab. I need a dually for the things I ask it to do... unfortunately, she runs so well at 200K miles, I have attachment issues.

Congrats on the sale - I'm trying to find an M107 through distribution but they never come up for me. I think I might be the one other guy in Hamilton County with a Porsche and a Hummer. Just got back from a Cherohala Skyway run. This place is automotive heaven. Let me know when you want to carve some canyons!

Hi Nashville shooters, Would anyone happen to be available for an hour or two of firearms-related labor next Thursday or Friday? I'm a gunsmith, recently relocated to Chattanooga from San Diego. My shop is still active in Commiefornia, so that's where all my equipment is. As I've grown into Tennessee I have come to find that professional gunsmithing is fairly rare out here (the opposite of what I expected, moving to such a gun-friendly state). So, I have decided to buy another lathe, mill, etc. and set up another shop in my new hometown. I have a line on a mill and lathe located in the Rosebank area of Nashville. If I get it done, is there anyone who would be willing to help me get these loaded for transportation? I have a hydraulic drop-deck trailer that literally puts the flatbed on the ground, so there's no crazy lift to do, but a 1000# metal lathe is just too much for one man to shimmy around with rollers, pipe and a pallet jack. I'm looking at December 29th or 30th, but I could float it a day or three. I'd be happy to pay for your time, or even happier to treat you to lunch, talk guns and make new friends. Merry Christmas!

I'm a car/truck guy - I did that even in CA! One difference in TN is that they wave back with all 5 fingers.

Whatever you do, don't remove the takedown lever. It will lock the gun up (worse). Use the side breech window to ensure there's no round in chamber. Depress trigger. Make sure firing pin is retracted (use a flashlight). Use a rubber mallet to put the slide all the way into battery if it isn't. Mallet to get it out of battery if it is. Once out of battery, you'll be able to rack it back. Use the slide lock repeatedly while the slide is back. Release.

Looks to be a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.

UTG makes (in the USA, no less) an excellent over-cover picatinny rail that replaces the rear sight and bolts into the stock tangs. Much more secure and better at holding zero than other options.

This is not regionally specific - the same was true in Southern California and Southeastern Arizona, where I lived previously. Especially as true gunsmiths become fewer and further between, those performing armorer work elevate themselves to the gunsmith title, lacking anyone to compare themselves to, I suppose. I am a gunsmith by trade... I founded AO Sword Firearms in San Diego, where my crew still turns out "Custom Tools with Triggers" for our customers. I've done my time behind enemy lines, though, and moved to Chattanooga with my family this year. I thought I might encounter a multitude of comrades here in the Old South, and learn a thing or two alongside the grognards. Imagine my surprise upon finding even fewer craftsmen here than in anti-gun California! I've been introduced to several people in local gun shops that the other folks call their gunsmiths. Generally when talking shop, it becomes apparent they are armorers (and not even certified armorers, usually), and I gracefully praise their expertise. To his credit, one local gunsmith was quick to qualify that he's a journeyman who does light repairs and parts replacement - and not surprisingly, upon probing I found him to be the most knowledgeable of the bunch. I have great respect for a good quality armorer - I employ two, and I would be lost without them. Nobody wants to pay gunsmith time for a job that just takes a trained armorer's hand on a $600 sight pusher, or a seasoned eye on an action bar and barrel nut wrench. I respect them all the more when they know the difference between a problem diagnoser, parts changer, and parts maker. I come from a tradition of manual mill and lathe to make parts that need replacement. $10,000+ in specialty tools just for building 1911's. Another $20,000 for all the dang vices, action wrenches, special tools, jigs, and other precious nonsense for working on bolt guns. More and more again for the full spectrum of different sized spares and the multitude of generations of lifters, followers, bushings, rings, nuts, lugs, and oh-dear-Lord the screws. In contrast, today's gunsmith seems to expect to buy a complete kit in a plastic blister box to do everything needed for the job du jour. I've already filled the weekends since I've been here with jobs for my neighbors and their kin, and I love it. I am shopping for a metal lathe, now, because there's such a need. My gunsmithing shop remains at my gun store with my apprentice in San Diego, so I'll have to establish a new one. It's like paradise out here to a shooter who has had to fight for every inch of the 2nd Amendment for the last decades. I hope y'all know how good you have it... and that you do the work to keep it. Sorry, I digress! But, I love Tennessee so much, it's distracting.