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SinistralRifleman said:
I do a half hour on the elliptical 3 days a week. I also do practical body weight exercises relevant to getting in and out of shooting positions; squats, lunges, and burpees. I do these with par times meant to simulate stage durations.
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If you actually want to drop weight, I suggest doing at least a mile and a half three to four times a week of running. Combined with a decent diet, the pounds will melt off.
 
HumptiDouji said:
Off the top of my head, there's the transgender stuff. I'm tired and my memory fails me at the moment, and I recall some support of the Chaz stuff and BLM, but I really can't recall that stuff with certainty (Karl usually doesn't occupy my mind much), thus I'll defer to the other guys.
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Don’t forget he lost his mind regarding personal freedoms and lockdowns for the COOF. For a man who claims to be all about personal freedoms he really was quick to have the gov micromanage everyone’s lives.
Club Sandwich said:
looks like one of the counterfeit Lantac BCG's that were around in 2010 or so, complete with "TiN" gas key screws and bolt issues. what might also be going on is a misunderstanding of the TiN coating thickness being added to the piece so it became out of spec after finish machining and coating - generally TiN is chemical or vapor deposited for firearms parts with close clearances. if the manufacturer is thinking that TiN is more of a plating like hard chrome or something and sent the pieces for TiN treatment at some surface shop, it'll come out oversized if the TiN guy isn't super up to date on the proper specs for the BCG or bolt and doesn't measure them after coating to check on dimensions.
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TiN coatings are very thin and won’t throw off the tolerances by that much. At the most a coating put on by CVD (chemical vapor deposition) will add about 0.0007” (20 micrometers for you eurofags) to the surface. That is about the same as what a standard hard chrome treatment will add. The numbers SOTAR was showing is more indicative of it coming from someone who picked up scrap rejects from somewhere and decided to get them TiN to they could sell them quickly to the people who want a “gold plated” gun and don’t have much money to spend.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
That's what I don't fully get. I guess I've just always been lucky that all the ARs I've seen home assembled have all worked perfectly without needing to be gauged, and all manufacturer parts always just came together nicely for them. The guy just seems overly anal about gauging, to the point where it almost seems detrimental.
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SOTAR's work is pretty much not for the end-user but the armorer that's in charge of performing scheduled maintenance to weapons in the department/unit.
It should not be necessary to gauge a fresh off the factory AR, except to confirm that a shipment of them is within the specs stipulated in the contract.
 
Smoke Manmuscle said:
TiN coatings are very thin and won’t throw off the tolerances by that much. At the most a coating put on by CVD (chemical vapor deposition) will add about 0.0007” (20 micrometers for you eurofags) to the surface. That is about the same as what a standard hard chrome treatment will add.
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not if you do it wrong, and man i've seen some really bad coating applications... think 1-2 thousandths added. but i agree, a proper coating shouldn't have resulted in the dimensional issues seen, that's why i was thinking what might have happened was a machine shop turning out the parts, then sending them out to a shop that didn't have specs and wasn't super familiar with PVD/CVD and was going with "what they know" about thicker coatings... maybe they used to do chroming, old school copper/nickel plating, et c. but yeah, either counterfeit or bad parts getting into the supply chain is the most likely.
 
WhatInTheActualFuck said:
I think he's more going for the "an armed society is a polite society" thing. Not actual MAD.
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I don't think so. We can wait for his reply of course. His statement reminds me of the same kind of thought I had in my libertarian days. If he's saying what I think he's saying, he thinks the various political factions becoming armed will create a sort of nuclear peace.
 
Iceland Heavy said:
Came here wondering if someone had already mentioned that lmao. His bolt was just slightly out of battery and tapping it fixed it in time to make Grosskreutz a permanent lefty. FAchads I kneel...
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Came here to see if anyone mentioned it.

I am going to wave this in the faces of forward-assist opponents until the universe grows cold.
 
HumptiDouji said:
Came here to see if anyone mentioned it.
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I am going to wave this in the faces of forward-assist opponents until the universe grows cold.
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So the whole "he was trying to rack the bolt" thing they were sperging about during the trial was actually Kyle using the forward assist? Interesting.

I don't think I ever dissed the forward assist, but either way it's nice to see it doing its job. On the other hand, I own an AR because these things are just so damn convenient, but given the chance I prefer a reciprocating charging handle instead. These just feel more solid to me.
 
Smoke Manmuscle said:
I was about to mention this. I wonder if a certain Arizona based ANTIFA loving cuck has heard of this and what his opinions are. After all he has pontificated that they are useless weight.
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Something about it not being built right, I'd assume.
People have provided personal anecdotes of the forward assist being necessary ad infinitum/nauseum but when your only frame of reference is bouncing around shooting papercardboard and steel with little to no stress, your perception may be heavily skewed.
 
Hasn't InRange tried to say FA is useless before? That's about as real life of an example that you're gonna get, fucknuts.
 
I will concede that the forward assist is useful when you’re using a bargain budget M&P Sport

The same time spent mashing the forward assist is better spent running the charging handle. Eugene Stoner himself agreed.
 
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SinistralRifleman said:
I will concede that the forward assist is useful when you’re using a bargain budget M&P Sport
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I was going to mention it: the kid was using likely the cheapest AR he could get, and he admitted on the stand that he bought that ammo because it was the cheapest he could find. Frankly, at that point you're going to need something to help with feed malfunctions.
 
SinistralRifleman said:
I will concede that the forward assist is useful when you’re using a bargain budget M&P Sport
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We had this discussion a while back in the thread, there are reasons militaries still insist on including the forward assist in rifle drills.

One is that doing a forward assist is an extra oppotunity to identify a malfunction before you actually go to fire, particulary on the load.

Actually laying the side of your hand on the cocking handle while it probably won't clear a malfunction will let you know that theres something wrong.

Also consider the typical military rifle. It's probably 20+ years old, has had dozens of not very careful owners. It's issued to say a Vehicle Mechanic who deploys on a 3 week exercise and has to drag the rifle with him everywhere while he's actually doing a job spannering.

The only time he gets to fire the rifle is a short range package towards the end of the exercise, and even though it's clean, it needs a little bit more careful handling that a rifle taken out of a case on a range somewhere.

Anyway I don't know what the US military will do but the UK military will still insist on the Forward Assist, the same way they'll insist on being able to safe a weapon while it's unloaded, and having a seperate change leaver and safety catch.
 
Corn Flakes said:
I was going to mention it: the kid was using likely the cheapest AR he could get, and he admitted on the stand that he bought that ammo because it was the cheapest he could find. Frankly, at that point you're going to need something to help with feed malfunctions.
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I’ve had so many customers over the years use the forward assist to beat steel case ammo into the chamber that is misfeeding from questionable magazines. One even ruptured the casings doing so.

That said this is a subject I don’t really care much about. We sell uppers with and without forward assists. Buy whatever you want.
 
SinistralRifleman said:
The same time spent mashing the forward assist is better spent running the charging handle. Eugene Stoner himself agreed.
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Won't always give a useful result. If the carrier is hanging up/slowing down because something is wrong with the magazine, which can be a number of things, doesn't even have to be a misfeed (hell, the magazine can be fine and there could simply be dirt between the carrier and receiver wall), pulling the carrier back and letting the spring shove it again may just make the same thing happen again.
With the assist you can push the carrier past the point where it slows down and ensure that a round is chambered, it doesn't have to involve any kind of obstruction in the chamber, and it doesn't have to involve the magazine trying to feed the cartridge at a funny angle.

In a situation like Kyle's, where split seconds matter, I think that the assist was slightly faster, but more importantly much more definite, getting that single shot off was critical to making Gaige not pull the trigger, whatever else happens after that has to take second priority.
Could this have been avoided with a better quality rifle, a better quality magazine, and better quality ammunition? Probably, but fact is still that the assist helped in a situation which was less than ideal.

Additionally, various different people who shoot AR15s suppressed a lot tell me that since the gun gets dirtier faster, the forward assist gets a lot more useful.

SinistralRifleman said:
I’ve had so many customers over the years use the forward assist to beat steel case ammo into the chamber that is misfeeding from questionable magazines.
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That's one of those things about contexts, it's certainly a bad idea to tap the forward assist when a cartridge isn't feeding, just like it's not a useful approach to tap the slide on a pistol to try to make a misfeed feed. Magazines can also be damaged in the field, so what was once a good magazine may stop being one.

SinistralRifleman said:
That said this is a subject I don’t really care much about. We sell uppers with and without forward assists. Buy whatever you want.
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For sure, there's plenty of room in the world for both kinds of uppers, and I see the appeal in the slick-side rifles. I'm simply of the opinion that the forward assist isn't useless, and that quite a lot of criticism against it isn't actually very poignant.
 
HumptiDouji said:
For sure, there's plenty of room in the world for both kinds of uppers, and I see the appeal in the slick-side rifles. I'm simply of the opinion that the forward assist isn't useless, and that quite a lot of criticism against it isn't actually very poignant.
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At the very least, the people in the AR purist community who lambast the military's choice to require one saying "It's a solution searching for a problem" are once more proven wrong. I imagine this video will be used to garner salty tears on arfcom well into the future.
 
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