MacGyver

Make sure to shoot me a PM if y'all want to go to Loveless or Monell's.  Pretty sure I can talk my wife into either.

I'd certainly take a couple pounds next time you're over this way.

Remember that when it comes to these things, penetration reigns king over expansion.   Penetration is a must have.  Expansion is a bonus.

I'm always interested in local honey.  I'd echo posting it up here.

As was put forth by an Arab ambassador last week, "There has to be some additional motivation for the Obama administration to act now.  I mean, excuse me, but where the f*** was your outrage over the last year as more than 100,000 people were killed?  Why the outrage now over an additional 1,000?  He must have some other strategic objective."

I have a deal with most of the kids I know that I'll take them shooting when they can recite to me the four primary rules of firearm safety and tell me what they mean. I'm always happy to make good on my end of the bargin, and a lot of parents I know are happy to know they're learning in a safe environment.

Shimano Stradic CI4

Call me a stick in the mud, but I don't think I like them.  There's no sense of grace to those synthetic stocks. 

"and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night"

I run their BCGs in a couple of my rifles.  My 300BLK upper came from AAC with an Ice Arms BCG.  No complaints from me.

I've always liked that blade. I wish someone other than Ontario made it though.

Love her or hate her, it's a pretty faithful rendition of the original.  She originally did this for the West of Memphis documentary.

People can have anything they like engraved after they take delivery.  I can say with certainty that we're engraving a custom range of serial numbers and that's it on this round.    CMT is doing us a huge favor by considering doing it at all.

I don't buy it.  I wonder if this is our same guy who was selling the M&Ps a couple of weeks ago?

The only way this works is with one set range of custom serial numbers that can be sequentially machined.  Anything else takes custom programming of each lower and any economy of scale goes out the window.

7.5 or 8 light target loads

Here's a neat site by a graduate architecture student on his final project:   http://www.hankboughtabus.com/a-tour-of-the-bus/   He put off some of the harder decisions, as is appropriate for a academic project like this, but it sure is a neat concept of what can be done in such a small space.   Caster, I'm looking at you, here.  This is a conex container with legs.   There's also a good discussion of this over on Hacker News.

We're not even sure we'll have anything but the lowers. CMT has talked about maybe putting together some upper options, but that'll be up to them.

This seems to be a solution in search of better training.

If you ever find yourself needing to pistol whip someone, you'll be well prepared...

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/pistol-packing-private-school-takes-aim-at-bad-guys.html   I like the administrator's quote, "If you can read, you can succeed."

I expect they're hiding as in Animal Farm, that "some animals are more equal than others" when it came to city pensions.   Within that vault - I expect is the evidence that's going to send a lot of administrators to jail - or the morgue once the unions and the workers at large find out just how royally they were being screwed by their leaders.  By locking it up and requiring NDAs they're hoping to squeeze through this bankruptcy without the truly damning stuff coming to light.   Problem is, they're finding out that their little ecosystem is a part of a much larger farm, and as important as they think they are, Obama has enough potential problems of his own to bother getting his shoes dirty cleaning up their mess.  Turns out there's someone "more equal" than them, too.   If they don't get a Federal bailout and the white glove ushering through bankruptcy court that goes along with it, we're looking at a really good comedy in the true Shakespearian sense.   Good times. 

Clean that dude up and I bet it is smooth...

I've become awfully fond of the Knight's Armament URX 3 8" .  It may be my new favorite RAS.  It just feels good.    I've not shot any of the longer variants because of my penchant for short barrels, I've been thinking about putting one of the 13.5" on a SPR.

Piston based operating systems were nothing new when Eugene Stoner designed the platform.  He could have gone that route, and instead chose direct impingement.  As has been mentioned in this thread, DI systems are significantly lighter with several fewer moving parts.  As an engineer, I like fewer moving (potentially breaking) parts - especially when you're fielding them for battle.    DI systems are dirtier, but one good part about the military is being able to set a standard for maintenance - largely making the issue moot.  As TMF said above, there are a lot of soldiers out there today along with their NCOs who may not be as strict as they need to be about cleaning and maintenance and they experience the failures and stoppages that go along with that.  A piston operating system wouldn't solve that problem.  It would compound it.  If they can't maintain a DI system, they're not going to maintain a piston system either.   What does this have to do with you as an average shooter?  Not a thing.  Lube is king in the AR platform, and as long as you lube the rifle appropriately and occasionally clean it responsibly, it'll do everything you ask of it.    I'd encourage you to shoot both platforms.  See what you like.  For most of us, it's not a matter of "what do I need," it's a matter of "what do I want."  Figure out what qualities you're looking for, and that'll help drive your decision.