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AGPinochet said:
I'm not expert in metallurgy but those look like Billets and not forgings, is that what he called them?
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Yes that is an extruded billet. Metal is squeezed through rollers into rectangular/round shapes. Forging is basically a big die that smashes the metal into close to the final shape on typical lowers. Big difference in the crystalline structure of the final product; though it probably doesn't matter in this case.

His impreciseness with his terminology and techniques just keeps getting him into trouble

He did the same with the dust covers when he was going to stamp them "just like folding paper". It's like he didn't even google for 2 minutes the cost to get an idea of the astronomical costs.
And when he realized it was too expensive; he got them SLS printed thinking he is owned the haters.
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He is a fascinating specimen. I've seen him do some tricky work and appears to be a competent machinist; but he's completely retarded at the same time.
 
(edit) beat me to it because I didn't refresh a cached page.

Akran said:
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Look at the forged aluminum lowers he has to mill, anyone who buys this shit is brain dead. He does have steel lowers but no pictures, I bet they look just as bad.
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Akran said:
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Its just like folding paper, don't you get it?
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At the risk of being pedantic (or a "hater" or "loser" is what BSD would call me), I don't believe the parts in either of these pictures (the ones cut from a more nested piece of stock and the ones cut linearly in the second quoted post) are cut from "a billet chunk of forged aluminum bar stock"", but extruded or rolled bar stock. He has posted pics from parts cut out of 3 pieces of stock from 3 different manufacturers, the prototype receiver being milled out of Ye Fong 7075, the long piece of Kaiser 6061-T561 stock with the nested parts, and the one pictured above which isn't any further identifiable than "America 6061-T6 ASTM-B???" that's visible on it.
 
Happy Thanksgiving to all fellow American Gun Thread posters; don't forget to say a prayer for the food God graced you with, those you can celebrate with, and those no longer left to celebrate.

All that said, I loaded up on 9mm and .22, I think I'm hitting the range this weekend after picking up a Christmas tree to celebrate our continued freedom in the USA.
 
Too read articles said:
Everytime.
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I once saw a "home defense" AR locked up solid after shooting 2 magazines of Wolf 5.56 and sitting for a month in the closet. The owner was understandably very embarrassed. Thankfully his house did not need defending during that time.
 
King Of The Kiwis said:
How often do you guys clean your pistols/rifles after shooting them at the range
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Every time but only because I like it as part of the range time ritual.

Most centerfire pistols and rifles recommend a cleaning every couple thousand rounds. You can go even longer than that if you're disgusting and lazy and it wont affect performance for modern firearms. Pump shotguns basically never need to be cleaned. Minimally you should at least lube up before you put your gun away.

The only exception is if you're shooting corrosive ammo i.e. .22LR or cheap/shitty 3rd world surplus - its a good idea to clean those afterwards.
 
Romulus augustulus said:
if shooting Blackpowder, every time.

if shooting smokeless it depends on conditions. if it was raining or very humid i will wipe down and oil the gun. I usually go ahead and clean the bore when i do this.
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I gotta go swap BCGs and clean my barrel.... Was shooting during a rain storm 🥲

Polock said:
Every time but only because I like it as part of the range time ritual.

Most centerfire pistols and rifles recommend a cleaning every couple thousand rounds. You can go even longer than that if you're disgusting and lazy and it wont affect performance for modern firearms. Pump shotguns basically never need to be cleaned. Minimally you should at least lube up before you put your gun away.

The only exception is if you're shooting corrosive ammo i.e. .22LR or cheap/shitty 3rd world surplus - its a good idea to clean those afterwards.
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I've kinda locked up a Mossberg 500 firing pin after a few dozen of the shittiest range ammo

That stuff is disgusting
 
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AGPinochet said:
I may be retarded but, is he cutting oversized lowers out of bar stock and then milling them down to size? Wouldn't it be fucking easier to start with smaller billets and then go from there?
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I'm not an expert myself, but I know some forms of aluminum stock are extruded rather than rolled. It's a lot cheaper but it's not very straight and is prone to warpage if you machine it too thin, it's basically the equivalent of using the Play-Doh™ Spaghetti Press with the various dies to squirt out roughly the shape that you want. It's fine for most things honestly, but not for something that requires any level of precision, like a repeating firearm

To give him the slightest benefit of the doubt, he may need a lot of extra meat to be able to machine it down to something actually square and true, but I immediately swing back around to him being retarded because there's no way all that extra machine work is cheaper/more efficient than just buying proper rolled stock. He's also leaving the meat in unnecessary places. I can only guess that he went to reddit to ask why his machining wasn't turning out square, when someone finally managed to help him figure out he was using the wrong kind of stock they suggested buying thicker extruded stock and leaving a bit of extra meat to help square things up if he couldn't afford/find the proper rolled stock, but he didn't know what that meant so he just left a ton of meat everywhere just in case

(Also, just saw @Akran's post about waterjetting it, that explains a bit of the excess meat problem but it's still so goddamn much)
 
Mauser 98 & 16 gauge combo Cape gun:
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Picked up more Buffalo Bore for my Makarov, since it's my shoulder rig winter carry gun; along with some PPU Defense Line 95gr JHP since it was on sale. Even for these two, around my locale 9x18 is still one of the cheapest milsurp rounds regularly available.
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Definitely wouldn't shoot a lot of it in one sitting (unless you hate your hands), but especially with an old or worn out recoil spring. I have no idea what round they use, but it definitely does the job far better than any other 9x18 JHP I've come across; been carrying with it for years now.
 
Akran said:
He is waterjetting the shape out,
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Is he subcontracting the receiver blanks out to another shop? Because I thought he only had a CNC mill and a lathe and operated out of a shed on his property. It would also still be cheaper to buy a $5k Bandsaw and and chop chunks off of bar stock himself wouldn't it?
TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve said:
I'm not an expert myself, but I know some forms of aluminum stock are extruded rather than rolled. It's a lot cheaper but it's not very straight and is prone to warpage if you machine it too thin, it's basically the equivalent of using the Play-Doh™ Spaghetti Press with the various dies to squirt out roughly the shape that you want. It's fine for most things honestly, but not for something that requires any level of precision, like a repeating firearm

To give him the slightest benefit of the doubt, he may need a lot of extra meat to be able to machine it down to something actually square and true, but I immediately swing back around to him being retarded because there's no way all that extra machine work is cheaper/more efficient than just buying proper rolled stock. He's also leaving the meat in unnecessary places. I can only guess that he went to reddit to ask why his machining wasn't turning out square, when someone finally managed to help him figure out he was using the wrong kind of stock they suggested buying thicker extruded stock and leaving a bit of extra meat to help square things up if he couldn't afford/find the proper rolled stock, but he didn't know what that meant so he just left a ton of meat everywhere just in case

(Also, just saw @Akran's post about waterjetting it, that explains a bit of the excess meat problem but it's still so goddamn much)
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I mean, take the maximum dimensions of your desired end piece and add 10-20% in every dimension to allow for standard sizing of material and then mill it out from there.


AGPinochet said:
Hello everyone, I come bearing a most interesting data point with potentially massive implications.
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If You've ever liked a photo I posted or piece of writing I did I humbly request that you the reader humor me and engage in a logic exercise (use my quoted post for reference)

The Situation: It is some time in the future (5 to 20 years) and Forced Reset Triggers/Devices and Super Safeties of various style and manufacture are widespread in every state they remain legal in (which is most red states and some of the purple states) and are obviously illegal in the purple states. Many millions of them have been sold or created. Banning them outright is politically unviable and will be met with a giga-lawsuit that has a non 0% chance of making it's way to the supreme court and ending badly for the gun control side. There is now a serious movement to repeal the Hughes Amendment with some mainstream political support. Their argument: 1. Everybody already has a pseudo-machinegun so why are we still playing games and banning the real ones? 2. If the Hughes Amendment is repealed and the machinegun registry reopened, then machineguns can be taxed (nevermind that at this point in this hypothetical future $200 is nothing due to inflation), regulated and registered and 3. This is just like Marijuana criminalization or alcohol prohibition, Criminals already do it illegally so why not let people do it legally and in a government regulated manner?

Disclaimer: Yes, I know the grabbers are paid retards, insane ideologues and shrill harridian harpies and would only respond to these arguments with shrieking and blubbering about "gun violence" but this is a hypothetical mental exercise where we can make the rules whatever we want them to be


Your role: Can YOU, the reader, adopt the mindset of an anti gun activist and present to me In the context of the theoretical future this logical exercise takes place in a coherent argument as to why new production, real, taxed snd regulated machineguns should remain outlawed while pseudo-machineguns are legal in large swathes of the country?
 
AGPinochet said:
Your role: Can YOU, the reader, adopt the mindset of an anti gun activist and present to me In the context of the theoretical future this logical exercise takes place in a coherent argument as to why new production, real, taxed snd regulated machineguns should remain outlawed while pseudo-machineguns are legal in large swathes of the country?
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I don't have the requisite level of brain damage/delusion required to fully flesh out an argument but I can think of two (bad) points of attack if anyone wants to try and expand upon them

The first is how automatic and force reset fire reduce accuracy, but if automatics are brought back to the consumer market then burst fire weapons will become available again and burst fire is obviously superior to automatic fire because it's more accurate

The second is how a lot of (or maybe just one) south american countries ban military cartridges for civilian use/ownership and those countries never have mass shootings. Giving civilians access to military style full auto instead of civilian style fully-semi-automatic will obviously increase school shootings

to be clear I don't believe any of what I just said aside from Brazil and maybe other countries banning military cartridges for civilian use but if you put a gun to my head and made me argue against them that's the line of attack I'd use
 
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