Greetings and Salutations!
Well, apparently I was correct in my analysis of the SAW malfunction the other day. I swapped out the buffer to an H3 (Heavy) and the Orange (also heavy) recoil spring.
To fully explain.
After watching the first vid I pushed the other day, when the rifle was acting like a single shot, I realized that the trigger kicker was being activated (as it should be) but because the BCG/Bolt group wasn’t being powered as stronkly as it should have been, the hammer was ‘riding’ the BCG in, resulting in a really light strike on the primer.
Swapping back out to the heavy set, cleaning out the Riflespeed gas regulator, and resetting everything back to ‘factory’ did the trick as you can see here:
….and as you can see, the cyclic rate with that thing SOUNDS remarkably like a M-60. It’s got that cadence if you will…
That also, for those interested was the leftover 16 rounds of M855A1 that I tried to use at the range when I had it behaving like a single shot musket, rather than performing what I call “sem-full-automatic”…
ALSO!
Another ‘thing of wonder’ was that on Thursday Night while I was diagnosing the issue, I went to Hoffman Tactical to check there on his blog for any tips/info regarding the Trigger Kicker and lo and behold!
They were IN STOCK!!!
Naturally I took out my one remaining credit card (at 29.99% interest LOL) and put 3x of them on it right then, and there.
So they’re already in the mail, and the next weapon I’m going to drop on in is my AR ‘Pistol’ with the 10 1/4in barrel. I had the H&R ‘brace’ on it, but since the SBR portion of the NFA went bye-bye, I threw a full size stock on it, and got an XM-177 Nam length flash hider for it, which makes it look like a slightly modernized CAR-15 or, as such, the XM177.
For those unfamiliar. the CAR-15/XM-177E1 was a ‘shorty’ variant of the M-16. Per the wiki: “The Colt XM177 is a short-barreled, compact carbine variant of the M16 platform developed in the mid-1960s. Widely considered the direct predecessor to the modern M4 carbine, it was designed to offer highly mobile 5.56mm firepower to specialized military units during the Vietnam War.”
Now, my rifle has the A2 with Picatinny rail, and detachable handle. Smol sacrifices but hey! I’ll take it. Adding the Trigger Kicker to it should be fun as well, as the vids I’ve seen of a TK running in an AR are impressive
ALL of the vids appear to run about the same cyclical rate
Meaning FAST AF.
It takes a bit of training to get control of it, but hey
THATS the fun in doing ‘stuff’ like this
I call it “Semi-Full-Automatic” as it isn’t, by definition a converted full auto. It just appears to be such.
So let’s see…
Other things
We went up to the Villages today to fetch the Dooney his (future) crib out of storage. Yesterday morning when I woke up, he had already beaten us to the punch on first call, but the problem was he was sitting up in the Bassinet. Which means he’s now capable of crawling OVER the edge of said-bassinet… which would not be ideal, as it’d mean a trip to the ER and a Damaged Dooney…
So off to the ‘rents to pack up and haul the crib back here. We had to take the Boat which was, to fill it from 1/4 of a tank to ‘full’ (added 20+ gallons) was $80 to fill, at $3.89 a gallon…
Good Lord I hate OrangeZioManBad… I really fucking do. Fuck that prick…. anyways…
So, we got the crib, and the roof rack worked like a charm as expected. The next step in the next 24 hours is re-aligning the bedroom furniture to fit the crib, as well… we have to keep reminding ourselves that he IS only eight months old, despite him being almost 10 pounds heavier and 7 inches taller than the three year old kid across the street.
I swear HIS mom had a fucking stroke when we told her how old Dooney is… I was out walking him in his (the Dooney’s) stroller, and she came over to do the ‘Mom/Neighbor’ thing… she’s cool… not one of the Watchers… that being said, HER kid is average for his age… well, possibly slightly below average… not by much however…
Yeah, I have a Beast on hand.
For that matter, I fed all of his (Dooney’s) info (height/weight/head circumference/mother’s vital stats etc) into an A.I. which came back with Dooney’s approximate ‘final height/weight’ later in life (age 18 is what I asked for)…
SHEESH
I am soooooooo fucked
The A.I. told me he’d possibly be around 6’8 at a minimum (probably taller) and roughly 310lbs with a 29in +/- neck. It even suggested that I look at getting him into football at an early age and the like… I’m truly not sure what route we’re going to go, but I know for a fact that football is brutal on the body over time… I’d rather spare him, and NOT have him have to deal with the aches and pains -I- have on the daily, albeit that MY damages were done from being a fucking Grunt in the Army.
Worst part is the kid would be a great addition to whatever he does… he’s just sooooo smart and good natured… scarily so.
Either way, when I start the fundraiser for the Deep Freeze and now-3/4 Cow, (“We’re going to need a Bigger Cow”) I’ll let y’all know… Suggestions for the Auction/Raffle and whatnot can be made in the comments. And yes, after he’s trained, maybe I’ll let him freelance as a legbreaker? Lord knows he’ll be able to rip someone apart barehanded limb-from-limb…
So otherwise
Got into a discussion with a couple of guys at the gun store last week. The debate was IF the NFA as it used to be (i.e. a few weeks ago) can EVER be brought back?
My answer was no way in Hell.
As things stand right now?
Pandora’s Box was not only opened, it was blow’d the Hell up, scattered to the four corners of the Erf, and then said-Erf salted behind it. My rationale for this belief lies in that ALREADY there are SO many suppressors/SBRs/SBSs that have been bought/sold/produced in the last week there is NO WAY to account nor track them.
I mean “The AK Guy” Brandon Herrera who’s running for Congress in Texas made a video at Silencer Shop buying a suppressor on a 4473 at 1201 a.m. on the day the NFA went bye-bye.
Multiply that by tens of thousands of hush-puppies nationally
Despite the DemoncRats and Repugnicunts, there’s no way politically to undo this particular issue… ANY sort of attempt to get these items ‘registered’ is going to have MASSIVE political blowback. Seeing that the ATF is NOT supposed to be tracking/recording the Form 4473 (the standard transfer paperwork) then by the Law they should have ZERO Clue who bought what where and when.
And do NOT even get me started on the 80% ‘thing’
‘Cos making your own firearm AT HOME, be it from scratch, from a kit or from an 80% item, theoretically said item DOES NOT FALL UNDER THE PURVIEW OF THE DotGov in and way shape nor form. Which from MY understanding means that home-brewed hushers, short barreled rifles, and sawed off gauges are now open to a free-for-all buildfest.
I mean shit, I’ve reattached my wire stock to my Skorpion, and replaced the brace on ONE pistol, and now made BOTH into SBRs… LEGALLY if you interpret the laws as such. Until such time as I find out otherwise, they’ll remain that way, as I am following the Law, as God intended amiright?
So your thoughts welcome per usual in the comments.
More Range Time tomorrow… Sappers is a little pissy that he hasn’t been able to be present for the SAW being fired, and he’s got a new Glock 43x he picked up for short $$$ that he needs to try out… $200 to be exact… Bastard.
So More Later
Big Country
> It even suggested that I look at getting him into football at an early age and the like
At 6’8″ I’d recommend basketball instead. He could probably pretty much get a free ride and any of the lower tier colleges as a power forward. Being White, there’s almost no chance at the pros, but then the NFL is going that way too. But in basketball, there’s plenty of opportunity to play overseas and make good money.
Of course, that’s now. Who knows what the situation will be in another 17 years.
Valid points… hadn’t even considered Niggerball…
I mean “basketball ‘muricans’ and all that… I’d rather have him avoid such monkeyshines….
I’d consider football to be every bit as much niggerball as basketball, and the latter would be less physically damaging on his body. But why feed the kid into the bread and circus machine (owned largely by jews) anyway? Unless he can go pro, and pull mucho $$$, I can’t see any point to that. Even with a fat paycheck on the table, I’d be very hard pressed to see the kid go that direction.
Bitchin’ test fire on your “little friend”, by the way. I like it. I like it a lot.
Martial Arts. Find a real, traditional school where the adult classes are 90-120 minutes and the teacher isn’t wearing a gold trimmed belt and actually works with the students. Forms, conditioning, and fighting. Intellectual challenges, body conditioning, great for coordination and balance, and it’s individual. No slackers on the team to drag him down and far less of the B.S. political/“cultural preference” stuff that team sports can have. Tremendous help for our son who had significant gross motor skills delays and a dose of ADHD.
His pictures are all great. Congratulations and blessings for you and your lady.
And the new build looks like big dirty fun…. Thanks for sharing the vid.
If my understanding is correct, with the way the laws are, at present, anything that would normally have required a Form 1….
Doesn’t.
So, making your own SBR/SBS/AOW and suppressor is wide the hell open, which means, state law permitting, those solvent traps that were basically 80% suppressors are now firmly back on the menu, as well as jigs for stamping your own baffles, and those barrel adapters that turn an oil filter into a suppressor.
What with FRTs and Trigger kickers that basically leaps over and around 922 (o) like a 2 stroke dirt bike on steroids, well, the old NFA is done for, as that genie ain’t going back in the bottle.
Bloomberg must be close to stroking out.
What with the prevalence of FRTs, I give it maybe six months before no one even looks sideways at someone throwing full-auto (legal or not) at a range, which means EVERYTHING at that point is back on the menu IMO
Get that kid a big fukin hammer like the one the barbarian chieftain in Gladiator had. Should fit him well when he turns 18. I agree with Coelacanth on getting him into a martial arts program, that’s a must for a young man today as it both keeps him out of trouble and imparts some common sense. As for the raffle, your work on Enfields seems to turn out a good product.
Yannow… seeing how EVERYONE here has been so suppostive, I think I might have to just give away an Enfield…
No raffle… no money… I mean DO it like a raffle, but no $$$ involved…
Just have y’all send me an email with a line like “Enter Me in The Giveaway” and then I do a drawing, and BOOM! A new Lee Enfield (so to speak) as a freebie…. What do you think. Lord knows I owe all of you….
I cannot speak for the other denizens here, but throwing a few debtbux your way for a raffle of a cleaned up and functioning Enfield is fine by me. Adds a bit of spice to the proceedings.
I agree, a giveaway is nice and appreciated, but with all you’ve been through the last year and the future bills to come growing a man mountain, I think most would understand a raffle.
Have you thought about hockey? Work on the Big Little Man’s balance, if he has some then hockey might provide better school options. Also NO VIDEO GAMES allowed in house. People ask why my 4.0 spawn had such knowledge and concentration skills. No brain rotting activities. Going to be tough on you and Sapper though. Akido maybe best MA for his size. Energy management makes internal framing and joints last longer. BTW don’t you get our emails from the comments?
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