Windham 224 varmint rifle in Dillon Blue Press, page 40.
(Just photos) Remington R5 in Tactical Life.
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Vicious enforcement of arbitrary laws.
The utterly illogical and pointless nature of the US gun laws can be illustrated with this simple example. Let’s take a gun owner who has an AR15 rifle.
An ordinary carbine with a 16 inch barrel.
Since barrels are available in different lengths, the owner pays a $200 excise tax to the BATF, waits 6-12 months and finally gets permission to use a barrel shorter than 16 inches. Here’s how a 14.5″ barrel looks on a rifle. The difference of 1.5″ inches is legally significant, though it makes only a minor impact on the actual performance and handling.
With the overall length of the rifle around 35 inches, 1.5 inch difference is pretty hard to tell.
Now, imagine that this person owns more two nearly identical AR15, one of them registered as a short-barreled rifle, and takes both to the range. For cleaning following the range time, both guns are disassembled.
If the owner accidentally puts the 16″ barrel on the registered lower and the 14.5″ barrel on the unregistered lower, he commits are felony “manufacturing of an unregistered short barreled rifle (SBR)” which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. Note that there’s zero change in the actual functionality of the guns: the lower receivers are identical, and the upper receivers are still in possession of the same person who already paid for the “privilege” of using a shorter barrel.
The punishment for the accidental swapping of very similar uppers is harsher than most penalties for forcible rape, armed robbery and murder! How does that make any sense whatsoever?
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Applies to the current desert peaches too
Writer David Burkhead with his own sword and his daughter graphic artist Athena with my vz58.
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Test photos of a new model.
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“Long guns in the mighty .45ACP”
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More SHOT Show finds
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M+M 10x review: new in Shooting Illustrated
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Linda Carbine: new on Shooting Illustrated
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Tippmann M4-22 review
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Before Olympic air guns — Zimmerstutzen: new on AllOutdoor
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Three CMMG Rifles: new on CTD Blog
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Savage A22 rifle review: new on CheaperThanDirt
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Recent articles
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They grow up so fast
Congratulations, Grace!
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New on Steinel blog: 45-70 staying power.
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What rifle ammunition for fat polar fox?
“Fat polar fox” is a Russian euphemism of a euphemism of a rude expression for a persistent catastrophic situation. Things get bad and stay that way. A prudent person’s preparation list includes some weapons and training with it. Let’s say yours is chambered in 7.62×39, a very Russian answer to trouble. What ammunition to pick?
Steel-cased non-corrosive Russian ammunition of recent production, ideally hunting soft points, are a common and functional choice. This will run fine in AK, vz58, ARAK21, MM10x and (some) AR15 rifles. Accuracy is unimpressive, ranging from 3 to 8MOA.
In my experience, Federal Fusion is remarkably accurate (down to 1.25MOA) and provides good terminal performance even out of short barrels. Hornady SST is equally accurate, and provides almost as good a terminal result. PPU soft points provide a good terminal result but not the same accuracy.
In my tests, G2 Ripout loaded with Trident ( Maker Bullet projectile) came out as the top performer in this caliber. It’s accurate down to 1MOA and combines drastic expansion with good penetration.
While it’s expensive to replace an entire 5-6 magazine load-out with premium ammunition, I would look into getting at least a couple of mags worth, plus enough to zero for this load and to function test it. While AK rifles aren’t the most precise weapons, and shooting under stress isn’t the most accurate activity either, why not stack the deck just a little with better-performing ammo? Besides self-defense, the same weapon might be used for medium game like deer…and you wouldn’t want to have to track it for a mile past concerned neighbors.
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Aguila SSS ammunition: new on CTD Blog
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Two new marksmen
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Local gunsmith knows his craft well.
Rifles creased by David from Lebanon Gun Shop.
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When 458SOCOM feels too whimpy…
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