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Anyone own one of the H&R Colt DOE clones? How do you like it? I want to buy one purely for LARP factor alone
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For years I've wanted to build one but the parts cost double what the H&R clone goes for.
 
Romulus augustulus said:
not the usual kind of black home intruder this time:

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behold, Ursus Americanus:
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Is that a 5.56 upper? Do we know? Would love to know what loading he had too. I have wondered for quite some time if 5.56 m193 would be sufficient for bears. Guess shooting it five times will do the trick regardless.
 
Romulus augustulus said:
If the game warden thought it might have been diseased it would be sent to a lab. otherwise, at least in my neck of the woods, they'd probably leave it for the homeowner to deal with. its a very cut and dry case with video so he shouldn't get in any trouble.

The meat might be eligible for donation to hunters for the hungry but I don't know if they take bear or not.
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Alaska State Troopers (under regulations established by the Alaska Department of Public Safety) take moose to place on a list for donation to food halls, but generally only if it's roadkill and salvageable. Considering the guy killed a bear inside his house when it charged at him, Alaska DPS would likely put the meat on the donation list because this was a good shoot.
 
Ass to Ass said:
Alaska State Troopers (under regulations established by the Alaska Department of Public Safety) take moose to place on a list for donation to food halls, but generally only if it's roadkill and salvageable. Considering the guy killed a bear inside his house when it charged at him, Alaska DPS would likely put the meat on the donation list because this was a good shoot.
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Carnivore meat is usually pretty nasty and likely wouldn't be something one would donate. Or rather, bears are omnivores with a strong bias towards meat, but the result is the same: grody tasting meat.
 
The Dude said:
Carnivore meat is usually pretty nasty and likely wouldn't be something one would donate. Or rather, bears are omnivores with a strong bias towards meat, but the result is the same: grody tasting meat.
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Doesn't matter when the alternative is starvation. Protein is protein and fat is fat when you don't have the economic means to feed yourself.
 
The Dude said:
Carnivore meat is usually pretty nasty and likely wouldn't be something one would donate. Or rather, bears are omnivores with a strong bias towards meat, but the result is the same: grody tasting meat.
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if you get them when they have a majority berry diet they are really good. if they've been eating fish I'd only keep the hide.
 
888Flux said:
Anyone own one of the H&R Colt DOE clones? How do you like it? I want to buy one purely for LARP factor alone
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For years I've wanted to build one but the parts cost double what the H&R clone goes for.
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I fired a mag out of one, the sights are okay and the brace isn't as flimsy as it looks. Like all AR9s a light buffer can result in excessive bolt bounce and out of battery discharge, so get a 10oz. buffer and a better spring at the very least.
 
Sad panda those 3 10/22 knock offs from PSA they refunded me said we don't know when getting em back. Here I go being best husband/son/soninlaw.
 
TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve said:
Does it potentially use a compression ignition system?

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Basically you have a piston, that compresses air, the air heats up, ignites whatever is in the piston. Typically these are just hand powered and used as novelty firestarters but I can definitely see the potential of using it as the basis of a primerless/caseless ammunition. The piston would be spring loaded, you pull the trigger and it's basically just as fast as a firing pin. The ignition resets the piston and you're ready for the next shot. I don't think this would be good for full auto applications because you'll get some intense heat build-up which could lead to cooking off unintended rounds after you try to stop shooting, but that could be designed around. Maybe we've finally made it to the future where our guns have swappable heatsinks, maybe that could even be built into the magazine since you don't have to worry about your cartridges cooking off since the propellant is elsewhere

I actually have in my head a system for how this could work, I might try and draw it out
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The new Forgotten Weapons episode this morning was covering some some of Samuel Pauly's designs (more specifically their evolution by Henri Roux who bought him out) and while it wasn't the gun that he covered in the episode it looks like my idea for a fire-piston ignition design is already excruciatingly old lol, patented over 200 years ago

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Compresses air to heat a fulminate compound which would then ignite the black powder charge

(Source for pics and more info, some interesting stuff in here, archive)

Also it looks like Daisy of all companies did something similar to make a caseless .22 rifle that they sold for a bit before getting bonked by the ATF, the Daisy VL

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Compresses air to directly ignite a nitrocellulose based propellant
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Just bought a 16" Wolf A1 upper (T-91 lookalike) on sale. Anyone here have experience with them? I've heard they'll rip case heads if you install them onto a lower with a carbine length buffer tube so you'll need to switch to a a heavy buffer weight. Is there any truth to that? Any recommendations for buffer weights? I've missed a couple of developmental milestones having been an AKfag my entire life.

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The Dude said:
Carnivore meat is usually pretty nasty and likely wouldn't be something one would donate. Or rather, bears are omnivores with a strong bias towards meat, but the result is the same: grody tasting meat.
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So as for bears it varies a lot from region to region but generally speaking black bears are going to be majority berries and plant food with a minority of meat. Brown bears tend to be whatever is closest except during the salmon runs. Polar bears are almost entirely carnivorous and the liver is actually poisonous if consumed. So a black bear should be pretty good eating and the 2 old timers with first hand experience I asked say to smoke them low and slow but they say that about most odd animals.
 
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