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Lol get fucked Springfield.
Mega Rad Gun Thread
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likeacrackado
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As a proof of concept this is interesting, but I don't see a place in the market. Good mrds have long enough batteries and presumably beat it in performance. The small size is nice for subcompact CC guns, but that negates the solar-only feature(unless you want to leave your gun laying in the sun to recharge).
Because we all wanted another gun chambered in a hard to find caliber manufactured by a budget oriented company with bad QC.
FN cucking Springfield is hilarious. I can't wait for some fudd to tell me "FN is just copying Springfield" straight faced.
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Ohhhh, modernized Hi Power by FN. I'm onboard.
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Well if you hate this then you're going to hate the Garand reproductions
Proof is at 1:37 so you don't have to sit through any more of this annoying faggot's voice than necessary
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Well now everyone can comfortably tell Springfield to pound sand.
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So Holosun claims that once fully charged that the SCS will give you 20,000 hours of battery life without seeing sunlight again
Source 1:15 and onwards
Source 1:15 and onwards
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Had my first range trip in several months this evening. My pistol groups were excellent, but I'm rusty with my AR. Even when shooting from the bench, I was wobbling like I have Parkinson's.
What are your opinions on vertical foregrips? I think they're comfortable, but just grabbing the handguard feels more stable.
Edit: while we're on the subject of optics, I'm running a Sig Romeo 5. When shooting tonight, I was having that astigmatism problem where you see double dots, but I'm looking at it now and not having the same problem.
What are your opinions on vertical foregrips? I think they're comfortable, but just grabbing the handguard feels more stable.
Edit: while we're on the subject of optics, I'm running a Sig Romeo 5. When shooting tonight, I was having that astigmatism problem where you see double dots, but I'm looking at it now and not having the same problem.
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MrJokerRager
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So Juggernaut Tactical finally starts selling those rifles to get around the CA AWB at a price tag of at least $1700 plus.
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I have long been in favor of stubby foregrips after weaning myself off broomhandling post-military. I have my forefinger and middle finger on the handguard. Ring finger is right where the grip meets the handguard and pinky is on the grip. You can adjust finger placement to whatever angle is comfortable for your wrist. It's more stable than just grabbing a foregrip and lets me crank into my shoulder easier than just a handguard.
Got my last Form 4. Took just over a year. I hate the fucking ATF.
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Is this true? I've never heard it before, and wonder - how severe can the recoil be on an airgun, anyhow?
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while it is true that a spring powered break action air gun (or really any reciprocal mechanism that has a forward recoiling mass) will have a different recoil impulse and many older or less expensive scopes can be damaged by this, it would be after hundreds of full power firings and the scope would have to be fairly old design with a floating erector tube or adjustable eyepiece design.
example of an older Weaver scope and erector tube design:
example of the same scope, but the ocular assembly. notice the fine threads and bearing shoulders:
the erector tube and adjustment module is a finely threaded separate piece inside the scope body that is either wholly mobile ("floating") via sleeve bearings, or is deflected at one end and fixed in place by a a gliding metal sleeve. this design has been a thing for internally adjusting scopes for around 70 years or so. this allows the ocular to move independent of the scope body and provide elevation and windage adjustment without using external screws on a mount or deflecting the scope body itself (typically a brass body or spring steel). this erector tube design is sensitive to recoil and because it's a bit flexible, it can distort and bend slightly under significant recoil.
during the normal course of fire, recoil from a firearm will tend to drive the scope forward against the mount as the rifle will try to move rearward suddenly. in some air gun actions there is a forward impulse as the piston is shot forward to compress air via spring release. in a pressurized, valve release system, this is not the case.
this forward impulse will over time work harden the fine threads of the sleeve or erector screws eventually deforming them or in severe cases, the impulse can damage the sleeve that houses the internal lenses, causing cracks or breaking the cross hairs or lens entirely as the tube deforms from repeated recoil towards the bearing shoulder, slamming lenses into each other or creating a moment difference inside the tube, slightly bending or twisting it in an unusual way.
prism scopes are generally not subject to this because the prism assembly is "floating" and is not mechanically attached to any sort of sleeve - instead the lenses are typically mounted on an internal armature that is free to rotate or slide in several directions.
notice the armature that is free to rotate and move, and is usually adjusted by gears or bearing surfaces rather than a directly threaded piece.
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MrJokerRager
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Well I managed to fire a pistol for the first time during this MLK weekend and it was a standard M1911.
I can see why it was called the man stopper and the recoil on a 230 gram bullet compared to the usual 55 gram of a 556 round along with the bang, a loud bang. I prefer using rifles over pistols after my experience with it.
Also respect to all those GIs that used it during the world wars.
I can see why it was called the man stopper and the recoil on a 230 gram bullet compared to the usual 55 gram of a 556 round along with the bang, a loud bang. I prefer using rifles over pistols after my experience with it.
Also respect to all those GIs that used it during the world wars.
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Club Sandwich explains it well.
Basically it's the break barrel or underlever spring piston air rifles that cause damage. I'm a retired gunsmith, and I had many a customer over the years bring me this type of air rifle with a scope with broken crosshair wires, fogging from loss of seal and nitrogen, or an objective lens that is loose. I've seen these failures with both low and high end modern optics after less than 75-100 rounds. Dry firing a spring piston gun (which you should never do), can accelerate the problem because without the resistance of a pellet having to be pushed down the barrel, the piston hits even harder. It's also a good way to ruin the gun.
For example, guns like the Diana 460 and Beeman R9 are considered Magnum class rifles, and they generate severe forward recoil impulses as the mainspring drives the front end of the piston into the breech end of the air chamber/cylinder. Recoilless dual opposing spring piston guns like the RWS Diana 75 series don't have this problem, nor do C02, PCP, or single stroke pneumatic guns.
Oddly enough, the new "Gas Ram" guns, which work on the same principle as spring piston but use a sealed cylinder of inert gas instead of a spring, don't damage optics nearly as much.
Another design related oddity for these type of guns is the problem of dieseling. The air in the chamber/cylinder is compressed so quickly and with such force that any petroleum based lubricant in the cylinder detonates and can generate enough overpressure to blow out the piston and/or breech seal. Fun stuff.
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I've noticed that too, maybe they're bummed they can't stack pre-order money and string people along for months at a time like they've been doing.
There's muttering on the boomer side of the ammo panic about if the black powder situation will ever improve after the GOEX debacle, apparently someone's purchased it from Hodgdon already.
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More I'm reading about this new Hi Power, the less I'm interested in it. Plus for $1300, I can just get an original.
They're not even offering wood grips and the guide rods are plastic.
They're not even offering wood grips and the guide rods are plastic.
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I've been running old A1 triangular forends on my two most recent AR builds. One of them a flat top and the most recent an A1 carry handle. I find, when I push my support hand out near the FSB, the triangular grip gives my thumb something to hook into for better support. The FSB is an okay mount for a light and the flatness of the forend gives a nice spot for tape switches.
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I thought about that too, but then I'd just get something better like a CZ since hammer bite is a bitch and inheritance pieces I've seen past 2015 have been severely lacking in preservation no matter how old or new-ish the gun is.
It's an option, but like you said it's comparatively expensive for what little you get. If they put out weird alternate caliber barrels or longslides I'd buy it.
EDIT: FN should consider shoulder stock attachments. Pistol stocks are back in style, get on it you fucking Belgians.
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