thedirtypuma ago

I'm late. I fell asleep last night. Damn those people that take down voat to try to suppress these.

Awesome read. Good choice for the one year anniversary. Good thing I already have a few ARS so the temptation to get a new one is minimal. 300 blackout build would be fun though....

clamhurt_legbeard ago

with an ar you can just get an upper and its like a new gun

course then youll justify spending more because its only a gun part and end up spending just as much as a new gun anyway lol

thedirtypuma ago

I like having complete firearms personally. I have an equal amount of lowers and uppers. For a 300 build, I would want to do a pistol build which I would need to get a pistol lower for. AR10 will be the next purchase. I just can't decide if I want build or buy it complete.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

.300 blackout is an excellent cartridge for a pistol

id do the same

Karbuster ago

I have 2 ar15 style rifles!

One my father bought for me (M&P optic ready, .223/5.56, prebuilt)

One i just built a couple months ago (.300 aac)

clamhurt_legbeard ago

dude i know right

im in the process of building one and im not going cheap

its frustrating when i can drop everything onto the credit card at once lol

but im being good and going with cash bits at a time

clamhurt_legbeard ago

oh thats awesome

Karbuster ago

Yeah, shes made this entire budget program using jewgle sheets as a spine, input income then decide where the money goes, tracks expenses ect

Whats not pictured is the 30k in retirement and 4k in HSAs

clamhurt_legbeard ago

perfectly amusing timing lol

AR47 ago

Got to say that the AR platform is the easiest to make, maintain, and enjoy of all the firearms available today.

You can use a wife variety of configurations to suit your needs.

For instance. My first one was the 16in complete upper assembly I got from CBC industries. The lower my son and I milled together on 4th of July 2 years ago.

Now with me I didn't like the trigger. Just to much take up for me. So I got a 2.5lb pull two stage.

Kid like it as well. Instructed him on the art of double taps. Seeing as he was 8 at the time I had to get a bipod for him as the weapon was far to heavy for him to maintain accuracy.

My second was the 7.62*39 thumper. This lower I milled myself. Ended up that to use this round in an AR you have to do a few things. Small tweeks if you will, but easy really.

First was to polish the feed ramps to a smooth transition into the breech. Also modification of the mag is essential to firing rapidly. The seat of the bullet into the casing would catch on the lips of the mag. Easy to fix with a Dremel

Then came the firing pin. Needed an "enhanced" one. All that means is thr shank is half a cunt hair into the pin so that more of the pin is exposed into the primer.

Then a heavy hammer spring. Russian ammo needs to be hit HARD sometimes.

After all that......never a feed problem or fail to fire. Each round went bang. Plus the report is something you feel more so than you hear. Lol

Kid loves daddies gun.

Last one was the wife. She didn't like the weight of either guns before. Added that clearing a house with that is next to impossible if you turn a corner.

So she picked out a 10.5in upper.

She milled that lower as well with my guidence.

She placed each part in as well. She prefers the standard trigger too. However she didn't like black. So she painted it blue. Like a Robin's egg blue.

Doesn't matter to me if it is yellow. She enjoys shooting it and is very good with it.

Each of these is an AR15 variant. My next will be a .50 beowolf. Just like the sound of it I guess. Plus I don't have one so why the fuck not?

clamhurt_legbeard ago

First was to polish the feed ramps to a smooth transition into the breech.

you mean like m4 feed ramps or something more extensive

one of the great this shit the ar is the huge variety you can get while maintaining commonality of function

your wife could use your gun if needed with zero problems and benefit from skill the handling she already did on hers

AR47 ago

Yeah the standard feed ramp just has a small transition into the breech. It has to be mirror smooth for the 7.62 round to not catch on it.

As for the wife.....she is versed upon each firearm we have, but of course being a woman she must have her own. Lol

Retron ago

I know fuck all about guns and this was very informative. Thanks!

I knew the M16 had a shit reputation in 'nam, but I didn't realise the AR15 was basically the same thing, or that the difference between the M16 and the M16a1 was paying pennies for shit that won't corrode in the fucking jungle.

I wish I lived in some nice part of 'murica so I could go hunting with top blokes like you.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

true shit

its all the fucking bean counters

many men died with jammed m16s in their hands in the early days

but those days are long past and the gun now is capable of incredible feats

you can fire so many rounds trough the barrel literally turns red hot

men have done it and the m4 hung in there and saved their lives

ExpertShitposter ago

there are short carbines

Woha! This rifle fires even the spent casing at the enemy!

clamhurt_legbeard ago

twice the pew per round

name literally any other gun that can do that

TimberWolfAlpha ago

You can also get an AR these days cheaper than you can get a SKS or AK.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

true but buyer beware

TimberWolfAlpha ago

Well, for what it's worth, I've got two dirt-cheap AR-15's that I couldn't be happier with.

First is a Palmetto State Armory MOE Lower, with a 16" PTAC Upper. Iron sights, with a cheap 4x carry handle scope option. She's a real champ, that carbine. I'll see guns that had to cost two to three times what she did choke on brass, while she happily spits Wolf and Tula all day long. That ran me like $450 back in 2015.

Built a rifle length AR this year, this time a Fixed-stock Palmetto State lower, with a 20" Heavy Barrel Bear Creek Arsenal with the mlok handguard. Cheapo Bipod, TRS-25 Red Dot. UTG Back-ups. $350 for the base rifle, maybe $450 with all the accessories on. Hell of a nice gun for the cost.

I'm happy with em at least.

Now if only that Fightlite beltfed upper wasn't goin for like $3500...

CrustyBeaver52 ago

Nice write up Clam, this is good work!

clamhurt_legbeard ago

thank you sir im glad you liked it

clamhurt_legbeard ago

pff

if you want to define machine to include squishy things go ahead

NatSocTemplar ago

Excellent write up and all true. I do like my AUG a bit more than my AR, and dream of an HK93 to go with my PTR91 (wish I'd gotten in on that group buy), but if the SHTF, the AR is the one I'm grabbing. For reasons listed here. It's cheap, it's everywhere, it does what is asked of it. Plus I can't put a binary trigger in my other guns!

clamhurt_legbeard ago

dude

every american needs to be familiar with either the ak or ar

bare minimum

its just so good and all over

clamhurt_legbeard ago

guns are the most complicated machines we make

and we demand 100 percent perfection

its amazing

drakesdoom2 ago

I'd fly over in my space shuttle to slap you for that comment.

Lucky for you NASA crashed it when I let them borrow it.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

oh fuck

TheAmerican ago

Fuck an ar15. I roll with a ar12 with a 20rd drum magazine

clamhurt_legbeard ago

interesting

never heard of that

TheAmerican ago

Its fun. Good price too.

Battlefat ago

Fucking server farms trying to crash the party my dude, but good show and now you can add this to your stellar portfolio.

And if I’m being honest, I’d like to see you make it to the 2nd anniversary as well.

Cheers for real, and not in a faggy semi-sincere way but in a take a sip and remember way

clamhurt_legbeard ago

i dunno

there are only so many guns in the world

can i make it liking guns for a whole nother year

lol

there are major missing spots in the list i did so far

i havevthese planned out

next post starts a pretty different category

plus there are others i just like lol

MrBoutros ago

sorry to crash your sub Clammy, but this write-up is tremendous and worthy of publication.

really good work here.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

omg whatre you doing here lol

you guys are gonna get all the details on the secret project

im half way to the next post for you

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clamhurt_legbeard ago

fuuuuck

i never even thought of that

surplus ammo from when they used the wrong powder

dur hur i only use factory ammo

ok

but what if the factory is an amateur reloader using the wrong powder

Nadeshda ago

M4's like barbies for men... lol love this article!!! well worth the wait!

clamhurt_legbeard ago

gah

these are so stressful

the time period between about ten minutes before posting up to posting is the worst

then when the post is 90 min late ive been stressin hard for 100

Nadeshda ago

It was a great post and us hammering on how much we were anticipating it, did no favors. Sorry...

We just love your posts here and appreciate all the interesting things we have learnt and you have shared over a year. You have been wonderful about this... thank you!

Geez, at this moment it feels like we are like family, lived through so many changes over this last year...

Dude, how much has happened over the last year, alone?

No lie for me, it's been rouph in places... but we made it didn't we @experthsitposter...?

Dude to all here... tva-jó zda-ró-vye

:)

Nadeshda ago

lol, @expertshitposter I royally messed up your name and I mean royally! :D

ExpertShitposter ago

Would have been just shitposter, but it was taken! So then i had to become an expert.

Nadeshda ago

That name hasn’t posted a thing since, what a waste... wonder who it belongs to. Glad you became an expert though :)

DillHoleBagHands ago

Niiiiiiiice! I have an AR7 swell little 22 rifle.

I love where the casing is in the carbine photo.

Finally, lube is usually your friend. Except Lucas brand lube. Used that shit on an AR, once. The fire rate got slower and slower. Two mags later and the bolt jammed shut. Like the whole rifle was filled with sand and epoxi. I stick with Hoppe's

clamhurt_legbeard ago

I have an AR7

whoa fuck tell me all about it

that is a very cool gun

do you use it much

DillHoleBagHands ago

I got it back probably 4-6 years ago. I can confirm they do float, as long as the plastic buttplate seals correctly. Used rifles or ones that were stored in a hot vehicle can warp over time. Mags can be hard to find at times. The stock does allow the rifle to be collapsed down and store three mags at once. I wish they came with a threaded barrel option.

My only real complaint is the firing pin. I think it needs a stiffer sping. I have had a few duds that fired just fine out of my old Winchester pump.

I haven't had a chance to use it much. Maybe 200-300 rounds.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

dude awesome

its such a neat design and im recently more into 22s since i bought one

some survival guns are in 22 hornet which is a much more powerful round

maybe more practical for survival of aircrew

but 22lr is deffo better for us today

DillHoleBagHands ago

I do agree that 22 hornet is nice for more power buuuuuuuuuut, in a survival situation 22lr is perfect for squirrel and small game.

A surpressed AR7 would be an absolute blast.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

ya

i wonder if the hornet was to give more anti personnel

or maybe just more sure one hit kill

not sure

DillHoleBagHands ago

That would be my assumption as well.

22 makes it great for afternoon plinking.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

had to pare this down sooooooo much

and the ddos doesnt help

but they will never stop is from liking guns