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Stinger 9 by Jan Lucansky (guy who designed the CZ Scorpion and Laugo Alien). It's a Scorpion with an aluminum upper, two charging handles and some kind of counterweight recoil mitigation system
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Description of the system from a Recoil article

"the Stinger 9 incorporates a simple but effective means to reduce recoil that relies on a floating tungsten mass, incorporated into the bolt, which the designer has named Divided Matter. It works by essentially reducing the bolt’s weight at the time the shooter feels it — specifically at the end of its travel when the bolt slams into the rear of the receiver.

On firing, the mass is in its forward position, tight against the front of the bolt and riding in an oversized slot. During recoil, as the bolt hits the receiver and stops, the floating chunk of tungsten continues traveling rearward, and just as it’s about to hit the rear of its slot in the bolt, the bolt bounces forward, propelled by the recoil spring.

As the rearward-traveling tungsten mass hits the forward-traveling bolt, the two pause for a couple of milliseconds before charging forward to pick up and chamber the next round. This has the effect of decoupling the counterweight from the bolt, in effect reducing its mass when you most notice it and spreading out the recoil impulse over a longer timeframe."

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Back in the day he also designed this pistol designated "Dream", some of the design elements were later incorporated into the Alien (which he describes as "less radical" than the Dream)
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There's a pretty good chance that Ruger will be releasing either a MK.V or Double stack MK.4 at SHOT based on this patent
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"PC-80" .221 Fireball carbine made by an Aimpoint employee (Ian posted a photo of himself with one some time ago so expect a video eventually)
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Shorty "Borzoi" Printed bullpup conversion
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.336 TKM VSS Clone
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Idlibi modified PSL, extremely extended gas system
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Two SKS's from the Gaza strip
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FN CAL modified to take STANAG's from Gaza
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M16A4 with no muzzle device a GP-25
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Pakistani 7.62x25 smg
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Heavily modified Iraqi SKS
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This is not an SVD, it incorporates an SKS bolt/receiver and a PKM barrel
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Idlibi MAS-36 conversion using SVD mags
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Iraqi Kar98 conversion
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Turks made a select fire tube fed shotgun

article on +p+ .300 BLK using shellshock cases out of short barrels
 
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John Badman said:
I’ve waited months but finally it’s just 24 hours until I can shoot with a suppressor. I fucked up my washer timing but a nice old white man fixed them for me for free. God bless White America.
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I use Precision Armament Accu-Washers for timing muzzle devices. Really simple and quick to use. A pack is more expensive than regular shims, but I typically get several muzzle devices installed with a single pack.

Forward Controls Design released a fancy timing washer around a year ago called the Nautilus Variable Timing System that looked interesting, but not as financially sensible as the Accu-Washers. It disappeared from FCD's website at some point, so either there was issues with the design, or problems getting it manufactured. I'm not sure.

 
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what are legal and practical uses of a m4 m203 launcher? I feel that I need one but I don’t know why. It just… calls to me.
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Shooting chalk rounds mainly.

Legally all men 17-45 are part of the "unorganized militia of the united states" per the militia act of 1903 so having a 40 would ensure you could use military 40mm stockpiles in some sort of red dawn total war senario, however unlikely that is.

but mainly because its cool as fuck
 
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Had an issue with my Henry Big Boy in .357. Magazine tube started to fail on me, wouldn't reliably feed the last round and the follower would stick if I depressed it by hand. Emailed Henry and 3 days later I was informed a new magazine tube assembly was en route to me at no charge. The stock was loose at the tang but I was able to fill the void by cutting two shims from a soda can and a thin strip of cardboard. Now it's rock solid. Not what I expected to deal with for a rifle I spent over a grand on (Case hardened steel receiver) but I'm happy Henry is making good on their customer service, and the stock repair was easy to do.
 
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Freedom Fighter said:
Was at the range after Christmas, shooting my abandoned garage Marlin Model 60, when the trigger went dead. Got home, started tearing down and...View attachment 6822399
Recoil buffer went kablooey.
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3d printed replacement coming soon.
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for any old buffers i replace them with urethane spacers of an appropriate size. works for everything i've ever had to do it for that wasn't something weirdly shaped like in my P9S, where i bought a dozen spares and keep them vacuum packed and inside a little mylar baggie.
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what are legal and practical uses of a m4 m203 launcher? I feel that I need one but I don’t know why. It just… calls to me.
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as someone with an old Colt M203 (1980's era before the small pony when it was still a big chonker on the side) the practical uses, even for me are nonexistent. chalk rounds, smoke, and beehive stuff basically or sub caliber inserts for shotgun shells i guess or flares. i have a variety of 40mm ammunition and other than very limited demo shows sometimes it's a pain to deal with. because the fuze is integrated with the grenade (M433, et c) i have to store it in an approved magazine and maintain an FXP with the BATFE (as well as a permit from the state). separable explosives (example, a binary explosive) generally do not need this unless your state requires it and typically fire control ordinances apply same like black powder or kerosene or whatever.
 
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what are legal and practical uses of a m4 m203 launcher? I feel that I need one but I don’t know why. It just… calls to me.
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Actually I know a guy who uses his 40mm to crop dust and plant seeds. He's a pretty god damn based /k/ommando.

So thank you for the info on the vz 52. I understand I do shoot, but mil surp is my thing. Working on it owning it etc. I put some thought into it and also I like keeping things closer to stock, even if I restore or upgrade the right way I'm still kinda bubbaing it.

So for much less money I snagged one of those C grade vetterils pre cut into 6.5 since I already own a Kennedy Killer Karbine and dies. I'm sure it'll be one fuck load of a project it's been sitting around in Ethiopa for a 100 years but it's an antique so no FFL costs cheaper shipping and only a C note. Not that Mrs Basso cares but I do think she's kinda leaning on me less guns, get the turbo project on her car going.

I hope everyone's having a great safe 2025 so far and I have a really good feeling about this year for us gun owners/nerds. Hopefully it's not "dude we all get free 'salt rifles" because of ww3 drafts lol. My tea reading skills aren't the best.
 
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Apis Mellifica said:
Had an issue with my Henry Big Boy in .357. Magazine tube started to fail on me, wouldn't reliably feed the last round and the follower would stick if I depressed it by hand. Emailed Henry and 3 days later I was informed a new magazine tube assembly was en route to me at no charge. The stock was loose at the tang but I was able to fill the void by cutting two shims from a soda can and a thin strip of cardboard. Now it's rock solid. Not what I expected to deal with for a rifle I spent over a grand on (Case hardened steel receiver) but I'm happy Henry is making good on their customer service, and the stock repair was easy to do.
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on my old .45-70 Henry the mag tube would walk out under recoil and the barrel band was not holding anything at all. Henry took it back for service and replaced the mag tube, barrel band, fore-end wood, barrel, and sights free of charge. basically only thing original i got back was the butt stock and receiver. 60% of a new gun for free. pretty cool.

Ruger has been the same in my experience. they once took back a Vaquero that i could not put back together for the life of me and re-assembled it at no charge AND replaced all the springs.
 
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POWER IN MISERY said:
i love the red dot as well. comes out very clear with my bad astigmatism eyes
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I have astigmatism too and green dot sights are not a good fit for me. I used to be a fan of the Trijicon MRO before I found out the Aimpoint Duty RDS is a better, comparably priced sight. A few years back when the US was in Coof Panic Mode the red MRO was damn hard to find so I bought a green one when I found it in stock. Even with vision correction designed to account for astigmatism the dot on that sight is a green smear. Anyone else here have a similar experience?
 
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Dean Pentel said:
I have astigmatism too and green dot sights are not a good fit for me. I used to be a fan of the Trijicon MRO before I found out the Aimpoint Duty RDS is a better, comparably priced sight. A few years back when the US was in Coof Panic Mode the red MROs was damn hard to find so I bought a green one when I found it in stock. Even with vision correction designed to account for astigmatism the dot on that sight is a green smear. Anyone else here have a similar experience?
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I had the same experience with astigmatism and the MRO. The 'green' was also very yellow. I did not care for it and passed it along.
 
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I've been lucky with my astigmatism as dot sights work just fine for me regardless of color. Though, I do find green optics easier for my eye to "pick up" than red. I wish the Vortex holo sight I have on my Origin 12 was green instead of red. The 3x ACOG Mini I have on my AUG is a green horseshoe style BDC reticle and I love it.
 
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Dean Pentel said:
I have astigmatism too and green dot sights are not a good fit for me. I used to be a fan of the Trijicon MRO before I found out the Aimpoint Duty RDS is a better, comparably priced sight. A few years back when the US was in Coof Panic Mode the red MRO was damn hard to find so I bought a green one when I found it in stock. Even with vision correction designed to account for astigmatism the dot on that sight is a green smear. Anyone else here have a similar experience?
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For me green is less "starry", but this is me comparing two Holosun dots (403 vs 403GR) that are identical save for the emitter - I think why it works better for me is that I can run it at a lower brightness level and still pick up the dot easily, though. I also have fewer issues with the ACSS dots with a chevron reticle (even in red), likely because it isn't just a dot.
 
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