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BikeLock said:
the extractor is one of the weak points of the 1911
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That's partially why I want to know if the Sig's 1911 slide fits on a standard frame, I might snag one for a build. Not a fan of the square look but the external extractor is a great improvement.
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E series owner here and Smith is kinda funky when it comes to 1911 slides and barrels they tend to play by their own rules and things such as sights and barrels you gotta get specifically for Smith 1911s where sometimes you can get something meant for a Kimber and get it working on a Springfield or Tisas.
 
Martys_not_smarty said:
E series owner here and Smith is kinda funky when it comes to 1911 slides and barrels they tend to play by their own rules and things such as sights and barrels you gotta get specifically for Smith 1911s where sometimes you can get something meant for a Kimber and get it working on a Springfield or Tisas.
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1911 compatibility can be boiled down to the chamber ramp and caliber, otherwise it's cut and dry. You either have a similar ramp or no ramp or the gun wont cycle, but people are no longer a fan of the old GI design so the 1911 forums say you MUST have a ramp, and the breechface MUST be the right width, and the firing pin MUST be the .38/9mm because it's more efficient.

Fudds fucked the tinkering side of the internet so hard.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
1911 compatibility can be boiled down to the chamber ramp and caliber, otherwise it's cut and dry. You either have a similar ramp or no ramp or the gun wont cycle, but people are no longer a fan of the old GI design so the 1911 forums say you MUST have a ramp, and the breechface MUST be the right width, and the firing pin MUST be the .38/9mm because it's more efficient.

Fudds fucked the tinkering side of the internet so hard.
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I can take or leave ramped barrels on .45 1911's, but I kinda do wish my Colt Delta Elite had one so it didn't bulge cases so hard.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
Sig's 1911 slide fits on a standard frame
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SIG 1911 slides are functionally modified series 80 compatible caspian slides. if you have a series 80 frame, it should fit and function without much issue unless the frame is something nonstandard (as in, it's its own secret sauce series 80 clone frame from someone else). it will not work if your frame is a series 70 clone (example, Springfield Loaded, TRP, Ruger 1911s, et c). another way is to look at the frame and what features it has and must be present for the slide you want to fit (short ejector compatibility, FP safety detent, 9mm FP compatibility for external extractor like SIG or S&W, ramped frame, or ramped barrel, et c).

the key aspect of a series 70 slide is the bushing collet and a few other things. what makes the slide not function (ignoring fitting concerns) is the firing pin safety plunger and spring interaction and specific measurements for the ejector and feedlips and breechface.

in short a lot of modern 1911's are not really series 70 or series 80 but kind of their own thing based on one or the other and you have to know what you have and what you're looking at and have some ability to fit the parts to cobble together a franken gun. i learned a lot about 1911's from some of the old master gunsmiths and they aren't lego once you start mixing manufacturers.
 
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my buddy in California sent this thing said it was going for 16k, not full auto, but dam
 

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Akira Satō said:
my buddy in California sent this thing said it was going for 16k, not full auto, but dam
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seems about right. depending on exactly which semi-auto MG you get, the price can vary a lot, especially if parts are hard to come by or they're especially difficult to work with. some are just flat out expensive from a combination of all of the above to the point where you may as well get a transferable.
 
Akira Satō said:
my buddy in California sent this thing said it was going for 16k, not full auto, but dam
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Probably an Ohio Ordnance Works M240SLR. Last time I price checked them they were about $14k on OOW's website, but I believe they build them less often than their BAR and HCAR rifles.
 
Akira Satō said:
my buddy in California sent this thing said it was going for 16k, not full auto, but dam
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That AK above it is so damn sad...

Weren't those like $8k new? I remember that FN did a run of semi-auto only ones for a bit, so I guess this is one of those.
Guess those were the Ohio Ordinance guns, like 10 years ago, which that probably is.

Surprised that its for sale in California of all places, how the blue fuck is that legal when the AK above it has to look like... well like it does.

Laws are gay.
 
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Belgians in the Congo said:
Make sure to budget heavily for ammo and training, at least the value of the rifle itself
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I’m super late to replying to this post but this can’t be overstated enough. My apprentice said he has a S&W XD45 and an AR but he was thinking about getting an AK. I told him first of all that he’s going to be spending a couple paychecks of his money since he’s on apprentice wages.

Second and most importantly, I told him to take that money and invest it in ammo for the guns he already has, to train and get as proficient as he can with what he already owns instead of getting a collections of guns, of which he only shoots each one once in a while.

Whether you have lots of money or you’re on a budget, the best move you can make is to get a substantial amount of FMJ training ammo and get as familiar and accurate with two or three guns you own, instead of having a safe full of a bunch of cool guns but you only shoot each one like once or twice a month. Not that there’s anything wrong with having a safe full of a bunch of cool guns n
 
BikeLock said:
Surprised that its for sale in California of all places, how the blue fuck is that legal when the AK above it has to look like... well like it does.
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a belt limiter is added to the feed mechanism to prevent using longer belts without disassembling the action in some way (disassembly in this case is opening the top cover, which counts, since the OO M240's are closed bolt and the top cover is modified in the state to push the bolt out of battery via a cam welded to one side, preventing firing when the top cover is open. this then meets the definition of a "fixed 10 round magazine" and the current version of the CA assault weapon law(s), otherwise it's like any other semi-auto centerfire rifle.

another option i've seen done (and there's only a few of these semi-auto M240's in the state) is literally removing and welding up the gas system, turning it into a single shot, self-ejecting rifle (unless you replace the barrel and gas piston assembly). single shot center-fire rifles that otherwise meet CA's overall length restriction (30 inches, not the federal 26 inches), is perfectly legal here, same as any other manual action rifle.
 
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Club Sandwich said:
a belt limiter is added to the feed mechanism to prevent using longer belts without disassembling the action in some way (disassembly in this case is opening the top cover, which counts, since the OO M240's are closed bolt and the top cover is modified in the state to push the bolt out of battery via a cam welded to one side, preventing firing when the top cover is open. this then meets the definition of a "fixed 10 round magazine" and the current version of the CA assault weapon law(s), otherwise it's like any other semi-auto centerfire rifle.

another option i've seen done (and there's only a few of these in the state) is literally removing and welding up the gas system, turning it into a single shot, self-ejecting rifle (unless you replace the barrel and gas piston assembly). single shot center-fire rifles that otherwise meet CA's overall length restriction (30 inches, not the federal 26 inches), is perfectly legal here, same as any other manual action rifle.
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I've never been happier to not live in CA.
They hate my two favorite things: Guns and Cars.
I have no clue how an enthusiast of either could stand to live there.
 
BikeLock said:
I have no clue how an enthusiast of either could stand to live there.
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i'm not sure if i count as an "enthusiast" compared to some other people, but the various exemptions and carve outs help dull the pain and also create incredible new headaches constantly. maybe this is what it's like to chew 5 gum or bossmanjack with your livelihood.
 
BikeLock said:
I've never been happier to not live in CA.
They hate my two favorite things: Guns and Cars.
I have no clue how an enthusiast of either could stand to live there.
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My time in CA was before the guns.

The cars were painful. Arguing with a smog tech that my meticulously kept-stock-for-smog car should or should not pass because the exact replacement fuel injectors didn't have a Ford logo on them.

I literally do not know how an enthusiast of either could live there. It was so bad.
 
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