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So I lost a Squirrel today.

Saw it on a tree about 25-30 yards away. had a clear shot, no branches in the way or anything. it was just sitting on a limb so i too what i though was good aim. fired the first barrel, no effect. Squirrel didn't move. okay, so i cocked the left barrel's hammer and took aim again. Second barrel is the same. no effect.

I'm starting to vexed at this point. The damn thing is STILL sitting on that limb without a care in the world. I reload both barrels and cock the left hammer and take aim again. This time the shot connects and the Squirrel falls to the ground.

I walk over to the tree to get it and its nowhere to be found. WTF. I searched 30 minutes for the damn thing and couldn't find it. I've killed plenty at that distance with these shells and my barrels are choked extra-full. I'm flabbergasted.


In other news, I've found some photos from the FDR administration that are of interest to the thread:
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FDR's First VP John Nance Garner & FDR's third VP Harry S Truman examining a Merwin & Hulbert and a Colt Single action Army that belonged to famous outlaw Jesse James.

I've also found various photos of FDR with firearms:


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With a Springfield 1903 at a rifle match
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Only fitting that a commie president would own a commie gun. Likely a Remington contracted Mosin-Nagant.
 
Romulus augustulus said:
So I lost a Squirrel today.

Saw it on a tree about 25-30 yards away. had a clear shot, no branches in the way or anything. it was just sitting on a limb so i too what i though was good aim. fired the first barrel, no effect. Squirrel didn't move. okay, so i cocked the left barrel's hammer and took aim again. Second barrel is the same. no effect.

I'm starting to vexed at this point. The damn thing is STILL sitting on that limb without a care in the world. I reload both barrels and cock the left hammer and take aim again. This time the shot connects and the Squirrel falls to the ground.

I walk over to the tree to get it and its nowhere to be found. WTF. I searched 30 minutes for the damn thing and couldn't find it. I've killed plenty at that distance with these shells and my barrels are choked extra-full. I'm flabbergasted.


In other news, I've found some photos from the FDR administration that are of interest to the thread:
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FDR's First VP John Nance Garner & FDR's third VP Harry S Truman examining a Merwin & Hulbert and a Colt Single action Army that belonged to famous outlaw Jesse James.

I've also found various photos of FDR with firearms:


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With a Springfield 1903 at a rifle match
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Only fitting that a commie president would own a commie gun. Likely a Remington contracted Mosin-Nagant.
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His relative Teddy had better taste in firearms, Teddy being a big Winchester fan.
 
Polock said:
I'm glad you mentioned this one, I was going to ask about it because I've been eyeballing their entire product line. The only thing I'm worried about are baffle strikes, but I don't really know what the risks of those actually look like. How much is inevitability and how much is user error?
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Baffle strikes are mostly from suppressors backing off the threads causing the suppressor to be at a slight angle. You gotta be vigilant checking your can with traditional threads as things heat up and cool; things can get loose. Some companies use orings to help mitigate. You can use teflon tape as well.
Personally I think Griffin EZ-Lok pistons & barrel adapters are the best guard against baffle strikes on handgun supressors. They make them for a bunch of different brands. Make swapping between guns really easy.
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Adds a little length to the barrel but with the taper lock it's extremely solid and doesn't come off.

I usually dump a mag. tighten again and it's locked on their the rest of the range trip.

Don't get the "cam-lok" version if you do. There are a bunch of issues I wont go into. I swapped all mine out.
 
HelpingNoone said:
Some companies use orings to help mitigate.
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you can cheat by buying a little pack of H&K barrel bushings for their USP elites, Mark 23 and a few other models. they fit at the base of threads at the shoulder both at the pistol barrel and in the suppressor, and help provide enough of a friction fit to not back off in my experience. very cheap too. most cheap o-rings aren't solvent ready or handle high temperatures very well and these do so. they aren't available for every size barrel, but you can usually get pretty close with 9mm/40 S&W/10mm and .45 ACP.


for more permanent pairings of suppressor and firearm, i use brass shims punched out of shim stock the right size and shape and build up a crush washer.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
Twitter guy fired Turkish 8mm in his converted Carcano and split the stock due to what looks to be an overpressure round that vented down and violently expanded the bottom metal. Most notable is that the bolt did not vacate the receiver, nor is there any obvious cracking. The Carcano action seems pretty solid, in my opinion, based upon this.
also I keep fucking telling people to not use turkish ammo, even the 8mm mauser
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ETA: His findings on the ammunition in question. Some Greek mixed in with Turk, all have varying amounts and type of propellant with some having both stick and flake power mixed together. All within four rounds that he randomly grabbed.
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The brass was essentially flash-welded to the chamber, he's apparently working on getting it out to see whether it was a Greek or Turkish example.
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If you have the money to buy milsurps you have the money to not buy shit milsurp corrosive ammo. Wtf is wrong with people.
 
The Dude said:
I guess technically this applies to me. Except that my AR is in 7.62mm NATO and my 5.56mm rifle is a Steyr AUG A3.
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I am skipping AR-10s and going for SCAR 17. Eventually. AUG is cool, maybe best bullpup option. I've prattled on plenty about my love of standardization before though.
Ravier Xavenblood said:
Laughs in AR-180 clones.

I wish they were as cheap as impingement ARs but oh well. Theres always the Taiwanese T91….
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I'll stick to the CORRECT Armalite operating system tyvm.
 
Big Changes Coming to the CMP
All their auction Items will now be put on Gunbroker
Some of their items will also be available via the "Buy it Now" feature on Gunbroker
Mail-in forms are over, and they now have a proper electronic form for submission of documents and filling out of the form itself.
M1917s are available again, though likely not for long
Reclaimed rifles will be the primary Garand variant available on the CMP website from now on

Battlefield Curator of course does his shpeil of "they got stuff coming from an undisclosed country" but as far as I can tell thats unconfirmed speculation at best. This time around he says it might be m1 carbines which seems exceptionally unlikely given the Obama-Era restrictions on M1 Carbine imports that afaik have not been removed.
 
MultiCam becoming ubiguous instead of the national patterns is sad.

I'm not really sad that the AR reigns supreme. It does for a good reason. SAKO finally decided to officially unveil their AR rifles this week. They are offering both DI and gas piston version. Interestingly, the gas piston version is unique in the AR world, it's actually close to the M14 gas system than to the AR-18 gas system. The gas piston version has been adopted by Sweden, and will (most likely) eventually be adopted by Finland.

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The Dude said:
Cool thing about the SAKO ARs is they are all optimized for reliability in extreme cold conditions (obviously give their country of origin).
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I mean that's what they say, but what does that actually mean lol? The issues that an AR-15 faces in cold climates are fundamental to the rifle. It's the small controls that might freeze up. There is no rifle that is immune to cold by design. It's up to the end user to deploy the rifle correctly in the cold, to avoid issues. Use a proper lube rated for cold weather, avoid temperature changes. That means you leave the rifle outside, if it's sub-zero temperature.
It'll be interesting to see if they make it to the US market.
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If we ever see these rifles in the US civilian market, it will be years from now on. Would obviously need help from Beretta USA, and as of right now, SAKO isn't even selling these to civilians in Europe. They have their hands full with one, soon two (and potentially three, as they are competing in Project Grayburn) military contracts.
 
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