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MrMurphy

I've had an Estwing for 15 years. Good axe.

MrMurphy

Been using PC's since the 90s. Mac's since the original brick. PC, hands down. Yes, there are more issues at times, but you CAN fix things. Macs are like communism and H&K products. "We know what is best for you, shut up and accept the only solution." Yes, they work, and well, typicall...

MrMurphy

I've stood on the spot on the deck where the surrender was signed, when the Missouri was still in active commission in the 1980s.

MrMurphy

Viking Tactics VTAC.

MrMurphy

Their revolvers can occasionally be hit and miss (seen some problems) but being based on S&W designs initially, generally work.

Their autos once they strayed away from the Beretta 92 are mostly miss.

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http://bearingarms.com/massive-taurus-safety-settlement-include-100000-pistols/ And people wonder why I tell them to avoid Taurus. This may be the biggest recall, but it's far from the first, especially in their semiautos. The frame cracking issue was well known with the Millenium series since about...

MrMurphy

Don't own one, but I've shot quite a few Franchis. They are solidly built and reliable, as good as a Benelli.

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Third Gen SAA's started production post-WW2 by Colt. "CURRENT" ones.....not sure. But 30-40 years worth of them definitely are/were Colt made. I've shot quite a few Colt DA's. Other than the Detective Special, I generally far prefer Smiths. And yes, I have shot over half a dozen Pythons ra...

MrMurphy

On the writing front, if you've been writing professionally, might want to consider a couple articles for the survival-type magazines. You know ARs, and you know real-world survival against large angry critters in Alaska as well as other game animals for hunting. An article on what calibers do what,...

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The GI 20s have been out of production for 40 years. The PMag 20s work well. Haven't tried any other aftermarket ones as I have no use for them (my two 20's are for hunting). Your best bet on mag pouches for 20 rounders will be the Kydex types like Blade-Tech and others make. Or take a 30 round pouc...

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Does your 1911 have a flat mainspring housing? The Army found most guys point-shooting 1911s in trench warfare during WW1 and hitting low. They changed to the A1 arched housing to counteract that, it made most people point the 1911 and hit closer to what they were aiming at. We all know these days t...

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The AR18/AR180 made a superior rifle in theory. Difficulties getting it produced led to it moving around (US, England, Japan) for production. Some people thought it looked cheap. They've always had a reputation for reliability, and the basic features of the gun worked well enough. The AR18 never had...

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You want real, you got it. You want nice, clean, antiseptic non-actual-reality.....watch Disney. As to the sat phone call..... yes, it apparently really happened. The fact he was in Iraq was no secret. As if she didn't know. IIRC he had been making a regular "i'm here, i'm all right" call,...

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Sounds like time to ban your politicians.

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You got a lucky sample of 2. I'm talking about at least 100 examples spanning over a decade....not even counting the mass recall in Brazil.

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I have no love for Taurus as a brand (period.....) after seeing some pretty wild and weird occurrences on a regular basis with all variants of their guns. That said, I had a standard pump 62 from them for several years just to scratch the pump-action .22 itch. It was the only Taurus model (across th...

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There are severe restrictions filming kids and especially babies which is why they often use twins (more shooting time).

From what I uunderstand they did the best they could when the baby wasn't cooperating and the crew was ready.

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Kind of funny that they've got that "nontraditional" design that's 115 years old....which sold well for a century. I have no use for the .327, and for everyone with their pet new caliber of the minute, you have to remember, if it's not going to sell (well) you won't see a major manufacture...

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Ive' used them quite a bit.

Also used to work for REI, and sold a ton of them. For their size and cost, not much else beats them for putting out long term light that doesn't take batteries.

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Daisy, I know I've read of one single mother during the gold rush up there....husband died not too long after getting them settled in. She took his Winchester 94 and two boxes of ammo, and survived for a couple years with it. She'd (if I remember right) ambush moose and caribou I believe coming to d...

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In laws have a farm built in 1935 or so with house to match. House full of short Sicilians. Basement is 10 feet tall.... bigger in fact than most of the house.

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The five NAA Guardians I've shot over the years all had trigger pulls that were better than an AMT, but not by much. They were usable, at nostril inserting distance. None shot particularly well. This is a production span ranging over a decade, so it wasn't just one bad gun. Never owned one. Weight-w...

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They lost so many men to constantly counterattacking and trying to boot the Germans out there was serious doubt if there were enough men left for all the young women. So a lot of young French women married older guys, or in some case the older (mid-late 20s) women married guys barely out of school. ...

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Polymer cases have been around a bit. We will see if they succeed.

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The Guadalupe is up 30 feet where we are.

One particularly dumb driver went around a barricade, the water wasn't so deep at that point but she lost sight of the road and put it in a deep ditch (also underwater) which was up to windshield level on a full size truck. Boat rescue.

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I knew a deputy carrying a Marlin 336 up until 2001. After 9/11 he upgraded. Me, I carry an 870 and an AR. If I want a hard hitting low capacity piece I'll load the 870 with slugs. Me personally having 30 rounds on tap is a great comfort, as I've trained with the AR and carried one most of my adult ...

MrMurphy

Their EOD teams lose about 1-2 guys a year. And that's just the guys cleaning up the WW1 battlefields.....

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Funny, I've seen 100lb soaking wet petite female shooters who shot 1911s and 9mm Glocks just fine.... Including one who's 4'10" tall and now a cop. Even with her full duty rig on she doesn't break 110lb. I'd go with the Tomcat in .32 if she absolutely has to have a microgun. Because they're rel...

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During WW1 the Royal Navy had several thousand Winchester 92's in use for ship boarding parties and guard duty. Apparently the sailor boys didn't particularly care for them as they were used to the considerably longer-ranged Lee-Enfields with clip loading (not single rounds), but for compartment-to-...

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7.62 beat me to it, as I was at work. I normally sling carbines to my front (along with shotguns), head and left arm through the loop muzzle down. This keeps it handy and it drops in place for pistol transitions. For a pure house gun, not absolutely necessary, especially if you don't train with it. ...

MrMurphy

My grandpa started deer hunting with a Trapdoor. Wilson was President. ....

MrMurphy

I've been wearing Wilderness 5-stitch Instructor belts for 15 years. Two of them (only went to the second one because I am no longer a 175 lb 23 year old). If you're more into leather, the Aker B21 is a perennial favorite among detectives I've known who needed a leather gunbelt which didn't scream &...

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Most people use cheap scopes, and never maintain them. A good quality scope might do it but it is going to take some time. Not a big scoped rifle user (i have a total of one) but I've shot my fair share of very high end optics while on the job (as in, scopes costing $1-7,000, not counting the mounts...

MrMurphy

He got lucky and had bad judgement. By his training and previous experience (coworkers of this guy are known to me), he should have shot the guy. I most likely would have shot the guy. We had a situation like this go down 2 days ago. Only reason the guy got tasered as opposed to shot was he was bare...

MrMurphy

For your intended purposes, either rifle will do fine. I am an AR 'elitist' by some people's definitions. Mostly because I use them for their original purpose, not whacking coyotes, and hold to a high standard so I come home alive. I used to work with the guy who took the photo in AJDM's post....for...

MrMurphy

Used to work with a guy who had a Ural, the sidecar model in "Russian Army Green".

All it was missing was an MG42 mount. Put him in feldgrau with a helmet (he was a six foot blond) and he'd be right out of Operation Barbarossa.....

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Winchester and Remington both make or made a 110 gr JSP for the .30 carbine. Should still be able to find both. I've shot a few thousand rounds of Prvi Partizan in 5.56, 7.62 and 7.92mm, as well as some hunting loads in 7X57mm. Average to good quality consistent with any other western European compa...

MrMurphy

Pinning grip safeties is a lot older than the 70s......a Texas Ranger tied his down with rawhide straps in the early 20s and was known for it. Cooper discussed pinning grip safeties from the 60s onward, before the memory bump types were around. If you've got small hands, or your hands are wet, or yo...

MrMurphy

Never seen an SKS run well with anything but the original mag, except an SKS-D (which was made WITH a detached 30 round mag intentionally). The Yugos made a solid AK, you won't have any issues with them. Bulgarian, Russian (VEPR), Polish, and Hungarian AKs all work very well. On the odd chance you e...

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Not a new idea (people have been doing it with Aimpoints in the past), you can also leave the front lens cap on and use it as an occluded eye gunsight (like the original Armson OEG). I had to do that on a no-BS hot call back in 2006, when I (without thinking) kept the windows up in a warm Humvee, si...

MrMurphy

See my post on here about flying in a B-17. Lot of pics and video for you.

MrMurphy

The safety was never intended to be used with scopes.....

And it's meant to be pushed in with the palm of the hand and rotated.

MrMurphy

The M134 is interesting to fire, but it definitely needs a mount......

Predator didn't show the power cable leading to the battery powering the gun.

I went through a 100 round belt in two bursts with a M134. 3 seconds firing time, total.

MrMurphy

They never came in nickel for military purposes, but they made the '17 for many years for civilian purchase, so it's possible. I'm not a hardcore S&W guy so I couldn't say for sure. It's the only non-blued/parked M1917 I can remember seeing (and I've seen a few dozen in person and hundreds in ph...

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Sore...... No. Speaking as someone who used to sell a ton of exact return to zero mounts and watched every step of their manufacture.....and having had the question asked me before. If the M1913 rail is correct-to-spec (and quite a few cheaper ones aren't), a quality mount needs absolutely nothing m...

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Oh I'm aware.. most people think the 47 went into service widespread the same year and all that. Most Nato members have gone to something newer but the G3 and FAL are still seeing service in India Pakistan and South America and Africa in large numbers.

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Streetstar, the AK didn't actually reach units until 1949, and it wasn't truly in wide use (as far as anyone knew) until the 1956 Hungarian uprising.

The FAL and G3 both went into service in the mid 50s, so they've only got the AR beat by a decade.

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I didn't grow up in the same time period as most of you. Elmer Keith was never my hero. Smart guy, obviously widely experienced, and I respect his knowledge (he was still writing regularly when I was growing up). Different paths and all that. I have little use for a .44 Mag (not living in Alaska, et...

MrMurphy

Blaine the burst fives it a horrible trigger in either mode. They tried a technical solution to a training issue. Having shot both types extensively I'll take the full auto.

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I've had a GAU-5 (USAF issued CAR-15) fired at me with blanks, indoors, in an exercise, from about 5 yards away. By a supply grunt or whoever playing OPFOR. On full auto. Yeah, I'm acquainted with the noise level.... I've handled an M231, never saw one fired though. The Bradleys lost the firing port...

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