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Betas can be had for $130 now. They were the rage a decade or two ago but now they are cheap. In a squad automatic role I would rather have a Shrike than an AR with a high cap mag. They were vapoware for a while but are shipping now. It can use belts or magazines. It is lighter than the SAW we are currently using. It is more reliable. They use a standard AR lower so the controls are familiar to most who would be using it. And because they are just an upper than can be swapped out easily if there is a failure immediate action won't fix. They are pricey but the .gov can afford it. For me I couldn't justify it unless I aleady had a MG lower. Dolomite

I try to live by the "you can't police your neighborhood" saying. It is one thing for it to be a random person in a random place. It is a totally different thing when you know the people involved and will see them over and over again. Although I seriously doubt it is going to change his behavior the kid is now aware that you are aware. He is not likely to do it anywhere around you or your property ever again. And one more thing, it is possible to be wrong and still be right. I think looking the other way is wrong but in the end it is the right thing to do. For you as well as your family. Your son knows the difference between right and wrong through your parenting. I would consider the situation a win with your son walking away and leave it at that. Dolomite

And those problems noted in his file are probably only a few drops in a bucket of failed judgement calls on his part. Although people feel the need to blame Benjamin the main problem is the administration that allowed it to go as far as it has. It was also his fellow officers that allowed it to get to this point by looking the other way. You can blame Benjamin but you can also blame every other officer that witnessed his actions but did or said nothing. Every time this officer did something wrong and was not disciplined accordingly it only empowered him more. And when I say accordingly it shouldn't mean he had to attend a 1 hour block of instruction on "you don't grab their ass". The first time he had a lapse of judgement they should have sent him home without any pay for a week. Second offense he gets sent home permanently and his POST certification gets revoked so he can't continue his antics at another department. Problem is that never happens. The administration and other officers allow it to get worse and worse then all of a sudden everyone acts surprized when something like this happens. But it is no more of a surprize to other officers now as it probably was 10 years ago. Officers are good at reading people, including their own, and know who the bad apples are. Officers will look the other way to protect their own bad apples as well as to protect themselves. I have seen it first hand. And if an officer does do the right thing by turning in another he is labeled a "rat" and is often treated far worse than the officer he turned in. The backlash from this is overwhelming for most, threats, no side jobs as well as other officers just not assisting. This often leads to the good officer quitting. Most often time the bad officer stays and gets some additional, minimalistic training and that is the extent of the punishment. And if they are really bad they will get some time off with pay or pulled off the road for a few weeks. I am far from anti LE, I support my local LE with equipment if they can't afford it and the department won't purchase it. I have complained about their low pay and lack of benefits. With that being said what I am against is officers who bring discredit on the uniform. Dolomite

I have so much non crimped brass that crimped brass isn't worth the time to me. I guess when all other types of brass are gone I will drag the crimped stuff out of the recycle bucket (I haven't recyced anything in the last 10 years). As it stands right now I have at least 1,000 pieces of non crimped brass and considering I can load each at least 10 times I don't see me making my way to my crimped stuff. Dolomite

If I was going to use one brand of brass it would be a toss up between R-P and Winchester with the nod going to Winchester. I have some R-P brass that has well over 10 loadings on them with no ill effects so far. As a matter of fact I have more load experiance on R-P brass than Winchester but Winchester seems to be more consistent. I am shooting them out of a bolt gun with a very, very tight chamber though. I can take my fired brass and it will chamber into any SAAMI spec chamber because they do not grow with my tight chamber. As far as longevity goes there was a guy over on ARFCOM that loaded a single piece of brass over 100 times. He was using a neck sizing die and a body siszing die in seperate operations. He was also annealing the brass every so often. It isn't that hard to get brass to last a lifetime but it does take some work. I start by visually inspecting all the brass and I sort them by brand at the same time. Any obvious problems or crimped primers and the brass goes into the recycle bin. Then after that I begin prepping my brass by uniforming the primer pockets then I debur and uniform the flash holes with Lyman tools. I neck size with a Lee collet and use a body size die by Redding. Then I finish by trimming to length using a Lee trimmer and chamfer the mouth. And with my tight chamber I haven't had to trim in at least 5 loadings and still have plenty of room to go before I need to. I haven't had to anneal yet either, probably because I do not over work the brass with a all in one die that does the neck and body in a single operation. It is a lot of work but when I plan on getting as many loadings out of my brass it makes sense to me because the prepping of the primer pockets and flash holes only needs to be done once. Another key to brass longevity is to not push the limits. All of my brass is loaded rather mildly compared to most. I use barrel length to get velocity the velocity I want, not powder charges. I push 69 SMK's to 2950 fps with only 24.5 grains of Varget, hardly a barn burning powder charge. In my AR the velocity is a bit low but it cycles and is accurate, .5" groups, so I don't mind. The same load out of the bolt gun holds .4" groups with several .3" groups through its life. Dolomite

Thought you fell off the face of the earth. Been a while since you have been around and sporadic at that. Hope everythign is going well with you. Dolomite

I load 9mm with cast bullets for about .11-.13 a round. I quite using jacketed when I sold my Glock. Missouri Bullet company is where I order bullets from and buy primers and powder locally. Dolomite

The problem isn't the shape it is the weight. The SS media is heavier than the brass so it will just sink to the bottom of a vibratory tumbler with the brass on top. This is why you need a rotating tumbler so the media will cascade over the brass. If you want some better cleaning with a vibrting tumbler add some airsoft BB's to the mix. I was running low on my media so I decided to add some to make some volume. When I checked later the brass was way ahead of where it normally would be. I have done this with thousand of brass without issue as has several oterhs I have told this about. One thing to be mindful of is that the BB's will get stuck in 223 casea as well as other calibers that are close to the 6mm diameter. It works great for 9mm, 38/357 and 45 ACP. Dolomite

No, a SP primer will work just as well as a LP primer. As long as the primer is strong enough to ignite the powder you will not have any problems.A squib is when there isn't enough powder or the powder doesn't ignite for some reason. I have yet to find issue when using SPP's over LPP's. I have loaded my SPP 45 brass with standard small pistol primers from CCI, CCI 400 rifle primers, Remington 6.5, Remington 7.5, and small rifle magnum primers from Wolf. I have never had an issue when shooting them out of a 1911. I have used no less than a 1/2 dozen different kinds of powders and never had a the powder fail to ignite. Dolomite

I honestly womder if the gains will be more than expenses involved. I mean look at Iraq and Afghanistan and the total amount that has cost the country. I seriously doubt we will ever "break even" with those wars. I have said it before it has nothing to do with money. It has everything to do with control. All the back door dealings and what has run this country into the ground is nothing more than an effort to gain more control. With Iraq and Afghanistan did not do it because of the WMD's or even terrorists, we did it to exert control. Control over the massive oil reserves but unfortunately we have been left out in the cold because Russia and China, those who we wanted to keep control from, won most of the oil contracts. And yes in the end we might end up with more gold, oil or other minerals but we aren't doing it to become richer. We are doing it because we will have control over those resources and who else can have access to them. You starve your enemies of supplies and they will fall just as quickly and cheaper than invading them. Dolomite

I actually like and use small pistol primer 45 brass. It makes loading easier on my because I also load 9mm which uses small pistol primers as well. I don't have to swap out priming station on my progressive. It also makes stockpiling primers easier as I can use small rifle primers in everything I shoot. If you don't want them I will gladly meet you and take them off your hands. I have about 400-500 pieces now and always looking for more. Dolomite

That is pretty much your options. I am sure in the eyes of the law it is considered private property, same as you or I. And with it being private property they can make the rules any visitors must abide by same as you and I can. The unreasonable search and seizure, constitutionally, applies to government entities. A private party can't search and seize another private property without consent or court order. But what they can do is set mandates in order for you to gain access to their private property even if it includes being searched or even hopping on one leg. Now I agree that they are fence sitters in the fact they scream they are private property yet receive federal, state and local funds to support their operation. Dolomite

I would honestly avoid Federal. Most have crimped primers which are a PITA to work out. Also Federal 223 brass tends to be a bit soft in the primer area. This can lead to primers falling out after only a couple of loadings. Pretty much anything else is good to go. Dolomite

I have seen it but it is rare. Im my case it was a Beretta 92 aka M9. The mags were filled to max and when I went to clean them about 4 months later the ammo just fell out of the mags. These were new, unissued mags when I got them. Dolomite

Use it for a dedicated rimfire upper to train with. It almost looks like it has endured a kaboom at some point in its life. I can think of no other reason why there would be cracks in that area. Or perhaps a round was stuck in the chamber and they used a rubber mallet on the charging handle to get it out. Do you know what upper that is supposed to be? It is an odd mark that I have never seen before. Actually it looks like it was from the Cardinal forge. Dolomite

I personally like the idea of corporal punishment for misdemeanor offenses. Like the those struck with canes you hear about in Asia. Or perhaps a weekly tazing during your period of probation. Save the jails for felons. Jail is too easy even if they do spend time in there but in most cases they are let go with time served or unsupervised probation. Something else that I think would deter a lot of crime that is simple is cut the hair off of those who plead or are convicted. It is not cruel but it would likely fit the unusaul punishemnt. Most people take great pride in their hair, especially the ladies. If they are found or plead guilty to a crime they would be required to have their hair removed as part of the sentence. Now for those like me that don't mind not having any hair it is nothing more than a free hair cut but in those instances something else could be substituted. Dolomite

There is something LE does from time to time when the road crews are working and it does involve various jurisdictions if it involves more than one county. They perform what they call rolling roadblocks. That is the officers will pull out with their lights on then slow down to 30 or 40 miles and hour. This reduction in speed gives the road crews some time to work on the roads without cars wizzing by at 85 miles per hour. Perhaps they were getting ready for a rolling road block or perhaps they had just pulled off into the median to allow traffic to resume after a rolling roadblock. Speaking as a prior LE there is one thing you don't want to do. Bring uneeded attention to yourself and lights are like a beacon for all the haters to call dispatch to complain if they don't see something going on. Also, most jurisdictions don't want their officers to run lights unless they have a reason and to beat that red light isn't one of them. The odds that a couple of officers from different jurisdictions were running lights just for kicks would be astronomical. They had a reason, either they just finished something or they were getting ready for something. Dolomite

One thing they could easily do to make things harsher is this. Rather than run sentences concurrent make them consecutive. I have seen people who had dozens of charges and had all of them run concurrent and the person be out in a year because all the builty charges were run concurrently. Dolomite

Cops: Walmart shopper concealed 111 items Think about it. If they charged her with each item she could spend the rest of her life in prison. Persoanlly I think she should spend some time in jail, at least a few years. Stealing is stealing, regardless of what is stolen or the value. It is people like this lady that are costing all of us more at the register as the companies are trying to recoup their losses. Dolomite

They also make them with a hardened penetrator for breaking automotive glass. Not really important to most people but for LE it could be useful. Dolomite

Dig the hole. After all you have done for this country, show you are still proud of her. Who knows, maybe it will catch on in your neighborhood and all your neighbors will follow suit. Would be nice to see an American flag on the property of every American. If for nothing else to identify those who aren't. I fly a flag and have pretty much non stop for years now. Dolomite

Well, I guess I'll "Like" it as well. Dolomite

Need to lean into it more. Bend at the waist and put more weight behind the gun. Rocking back on your rear foot is never a good thing. It also makes for a smaller target. Dolomite

CDNN has them for $179 + shipping. Add $30 for transfer and TICS and you will easily come in under $300. Or go with Buds. There prices include shipping but there is a 3% credit card fee. On a $200 10/22 they sell that is only $6. Then with the transfer and TICS that is $234 out the door for a basic model. Ruger Rimfire Semi-Automatic Rifles, .22 LR, target, plinking Like I said 3% CC fee so take your pick, multiply the price by 1.03 than add your transfer fees for your local FFL. Going to be less than your local shop can get them for. You are going to have a hard time finding a modded 10/22 with a scope for under $300. Most people who do one mod doa bunch and have a ton of money in them. Dolomite

Me not being originally from here I also get it. Not as bad as you I am sure. I can say that in my little community they are quite clannish. Dolomite