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I'm not doing any quad rails but Cameron at PSA-Sabre is your guy.
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We are living in a Tom Clancy novel
Over 50 and reputed to be a formidable brigand https://hr1871.com/ |
Originally Posted By mike_nds: TIA? No, TISC https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/91277/BD_2-2923708.jpg View Quote yah yah |
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I've stayed relatively employed most of my adult life. That should count as miracle #1 - Wandering_Moses |
The voices in my head say I’m just being paranoid
KY, USA
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Originally Posted By mike_nds: TIA? No, TISC https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/91277/BD_2-2923708.jpg View Quote Is the moderator aluminum? Kind of looks like anodizing. |
If you aren't representing Jesus in a way that makes people want to hang out with you, you're doing it wrong.
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No, it was an XM177 I cut down and had painted.
Production parts will be parkerized. |
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We are living in a Tom Clancy novel
Over 50 and reputed to be a formidable brigand https://hr1871.com/ |
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I haven't nailed down the BOM list yet, but it makes more sense to sell it with the cheaper handguard because people will be painting it.
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We are living in a Tom Clancy novel
Over 50 and reputed to be a formidable brigand https://hr1871.com/ |
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"This Is South Carolina"
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We are living in a Tom Clancy novel
Over 50 and reputed to be a formidable brigand https://hr1871.com/ |
I bought all this equipment. What do you mean that the dead AREN'T coming back to life?
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Originally Posted By mike_nds: TIA? No, TISC https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/91277/BD_2-2923708.jpg View Quote Faux third pin? |
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Originally Posted By metalsaber: I mean sort of retro using the H&R M16A1 lower. Give the cloners a conniption. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/57852/IMG_2032-2923806.jpg View Quote I like it ! It is unique. I have a few very special builds, and a bunch of generic ones. All that counts is that you like it ! |
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Originally Posted By PanelVanHalen: Faux third pin? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By PanelVanHalen: Originally Posted By mike_nds: TIA? No, TISC https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/91277/BD_2-2923708.jpg Faux third pin? Well, if that is a real third pin, and they can legally sell them to us, i want on the list ! |
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I put it on a real FA lower for the picture.
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We are living in a Tom Clancy novel
Over 50 and reputed to be a formidable brigand https://hr1871.com/ |
https://imgur.com/a/6SEhKYg
Been trying to keep busy at work last few days but took some time to mess around with a rendering. Not sure what I'll use it for (hat, T-shirt, sticker, etc.), but I was bored |
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Death to quislings.
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Just to update this thread, my 635 lower is fixed after a trip back to PSA.
Thanks Mike. |
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QUALITY MAKES IT A COLT
I'd rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job! |
Originally Posted By ar15inmn: And what did they find/fix? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ar15inmn: Originally Posted By M41A: Just to update this thread, my 635 lower is fixed after a trip back to PSA. Thanks Mike. And what did they find/fix? They replaced the magazine catch and Mike said part of my issue was the feed ramp to magazine catch dimensions being a bit too tight. I removed the feed ramp from my lower completely when I tested things and it didn't help, so maybe the magazine catch was the bigger issue. |
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Hey Mike, any chance of doing a retro AR-10 line in the future? Would be nice to have them back on the market again with Brownell’s discontinuing them a couple years back.
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Originally Posted By mike_nds: TIA? No, TISC https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/91277/BD_2-2923708.jpg View Quote I notice you’ve got a cast stock on this lower and got me wondering. Are the fiber lite style CAR stocks H&R is offering made by and with the same manufacturer and materials as the new GI skinny handguards? Are they the same or similar fiber re enforced stuff? Or are they more of a polymer re pro like a B5 or DSArms? How do they feel compared to a real N1 example? Edit: I guess at that price point they’re a poly of some sort. But if the handguards are possible, I’d be all in on some fiber repro car stocks at a similar price. |
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Originally Posted By neight: I notice you’ve got a cast stock on this lower and got me wondering. Are the fiber lite style CAR stocks H&R is offering made by and with the same manufacturer and materials as the new GI skinny handguards? Are they the same or similar fiber re enforced stuff? Or are they more of a polymer re pro like a B5 or DSArms? How do they feel compared to a real N1 example? Edit: I guess at that price point they’re a poly of some sort. But if the handguards are possible, I’d be all in on some fiber repro car stocks at a similar price. View Quote I like the idea of an inexpensive option since jersey makes you pin stocks , I just spray painted a cheap carbine one gloss black to simulate an aluminum one because I am not going to devalue something because stupid people say I have to to make it "legal" it's not perfect but works It is hard to do good retro in a ban state but is possible but you have to do it yourself because they don't make retro ban state friendly versions Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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So Mote It Be
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Lead, follow, or get the flock out of the way
SC, USA
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NorCal_LEO call sign: Armour
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I do love the Al stocks. I’ve got a few. Despite the commercial diameter I especially like the Bushmaster ones. The Essential Arms / double star ones are also fantastic. For a government profile or hbar equipped carbine especially. But I’d sure love to see a quality fiberlite repro option too.
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Originally Posted By Shlouf: H&R needs a separate piss & moan thread @mike_nds Any updates on wood furniture? View Quote Attached File |
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17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
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Lame, Elmer.
I’m just asking if the fiberlite, like the new hand guards, can be a thing. Or might be something coming down the road. |
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Is H&R planning on offering more barrel options, such as the 1:7 twist 14.5" m4 or government profiles with a fixed A2 FSB? That would make it a lot easier to mount a suppressor than your current products.
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It is hard to do good retro in a ban state but is possible but you have to do it yourself because they don't make retro ban state friendly versions
That is one of the reasons that i left NY ! The only way to make ANYTHING like that there, is to have the magazine fixed in place ! They all came out very nice i might add ! Really like the green one, that one is interesting ! |
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Originally Posted By Tedpro1: It is hard to do good retro in a ban state but is possible but you have to do it yourself because they don't make retro ban state friendly versions View Quote Hmm, hadn't thought about retro's in ban states. Not living on one (yet at least) I'm not intimately familiar with the arbitrary rules but a fixed mag does get around most of the limitations I believe. If so, the Compmag is a pretty easy fixed mag solution that easily reversible if you move to a free part of the country later. Of if any of the bans start getting struck down. I had a chance to work with it and write it up earlier this year. It's inexpensive, easy to install and doesn't permanently alter your gun. Maybe some ban state folks could chime in if this would work on a retro in their states? I'm thinking it should but again, not familiar with each states idiosyncrasies. The CompMag 10 |
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Originally Posted By tstetz: Hmm, hadn't thought about retro's in ban states. Not living on one (yet at least) I'm not intimately familiar with the arbitrary rules but a fixed mag does get around most of the limitations I believe. If so, the Compmag is a pretty easy fixed mag solution that easily reversible if you move to a free part of the country later. Of if any of the bans start getting struck down. I had a chance to work with it and write it up earlier this year. It's inexpensive, easy to install and doesn't permanently alter your gun. Maybe some ban state folks could chime in if this would work on a retro in their states? I'm thinking it should but again, not familiar with each states idiosyncrasies. The CompMag 10 View Quote It depend on the rules in each ban state. Cannot provide blanket statement as whether one product works for all banned States. Also all "compliance" parts makers will have a disclaimer that the products are designed based on their interpretation of the State law & regulations. None were ever explicitly reviewed by State DOJ or approved in the State(s). So that's the grey area until either State DOJ challenge or court case involved. Classic example was the bullet button got axed when liberals figured out that was a popular way to bring AR to California market with a tool to push button instead of using your finger to remove magazine. Then CA DOJ and liberals outlaw that product. Specifically for California, because of grey area of the validity on compliance parts, some gun owner just build neutered (featureless - no flash hider, no pistol grip/foregrip, no collapsible/folding stock) AR to be absolute sure there is no room for State DOJ to challenge their rifle. But lots of owners still running compliance parts as is based on self-interpretation of current State law. |
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I think in Washington State the only new retro they can build there are Garands, M1 carbines, & Bermuda service rifles.
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Death to quislings.
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Beautiful!
So quick question for anyone. I filed for an SBR for my 11.5’ commando-ish build. I will be adding the moderator, and grenade ring as well. What washer, or ring is being used to tighten down the MD. Now I’ve seen both in from of the grenade ring, as well as behind it. Does it make a difference? |
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I have an itch to build a BHD/Gordon Carbine/727. I've read through this thread once and I can't remember but is there a potential down the road to see a C7 type upper?
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Originally Posted By bradpierson26:
So I know you're a SF whore . . . . . |
Originally Posted By tstetz: Hmm, hadn't thought about retro's in ban states. Not living on one (yet at least) I'm not intimately familiar with the arbitrary rules but a fixed mag does get around most of the limitations I believe. If so, the Compmag is a pretty easy fixed mag solution that easily reversible if you move to a free part of the country later. Of if any of the bans start getting struck down. I had a chance to work with it and write it up earlier this year. It's inexpensive, easy to install and doesn't permanently alter your gun. Maybe some ban state folks could chime in if this would work on a retro in their states? I'm thinking it should but again, not familiar with each states idiosyncrasies. The CompMag 10 View Quote When they first made the NY SAFE law, i worked in a machine shop and made my own "permanent" mag solution. Later on, Mean Arms came out with a magazine locking device, we started using that and top loading the rifle as a work around. Then, Mean arms came out with a MA LOADER, that loads 10 rounds through the port, and it was very fast. Now, the NY State AG is suing MA claiming that it is illegal to use, so they wont ship to NY now. So glad that i moved away from that cesspool of a state ! NOW to your question, They intentionally write the law to be confusing, so it is difficult to say EXACTLY what is "legal" in some of those states. Case in point, right after the SAFE LAW was passed, i tried to get clarification that a permanent magazine meant that a rifle was no longer an "Assault weapon" under S265 of the NY penal law. The attorney generals office would not answer the question and told me to ask the NY State Police. The person that contacted me from the "office of council NYSPD" was Kevin Bruen, YES, the same one in the Supreme Court case. He said that what i described sounded 100% legal. I asked for something in writing, he refused and said "THEY WONT LET ME DO THAT" ! I asked a specific question, WHERE EXACTLY do i find in the law what constituted a "permanent" change ? He could not answer because it was not WRITTEN in the actual law ! SO, proceed with extreme caution ! |
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Originally Posted By Tedpro1: When they first made the NY SAFE law, i worked in a machine shop and made my own "permanent" mag solution. Later on, Mean Arms came out with a magazine locking device, we started using that and top loading the rifle as a work around. Then, Mean arms came out with a MA LOADER, that loads 10 rounds through the port, and it was very fast. Now, the NY State AG is suing MA claiming that it is illegal to use, so they wont ship to NY now. So glad that i moved away from that cesspool of a state ! NOW to your question, They intentionally write the law to be confusing, so it is difficult to say EXACTLY what is "legal" in some of those states. Case in point, right after the SAFE LAW was passed, i tried to get clarification that a permanent magazine meant that a rifle was no longer an "Assault weapon" under S265 of the NY penal law. The attorney generals office would not answer the question and told me to ask the NY State Police. The person that contacted me from the "office of council NYSPD" was Kevin Bruen, YES, the same one in the Supreme Court case. He said that what i described sounded 100% legal. I asked for something in writing, he refused and said "THEY WONT LET ME DO THAT" ! I asked a specific question, WHERE EXACTLY do i find in the law what constituted a "permanent" change ? He could not answer because it was not WRITTEN in the actual law ! SO, proceed with extreme caution ! View Quote Ugh. What a mess. Fingers crossed we start seeing some (all!) of this crap fall with the trend of pro 2A court rulings. |
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Originally Posted By AZgunn3r: Beautiful! So quick question for anyone. I filed for an SBR for my 11.5' commando-ish build. I will be adding the moderator, and grenade ring as well. What washer, or ring is being used to tighten down the MD. Now I've seen both in from of the grenade ring, as well as behind it. Does it make a difference? View Quote |
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I see the MX-177E2 flash suppressor is now being offered. How long is it? Or maybe a better way to ask, how long of a barrel do I need for it make a 16.1” OAL? Will one of the 12.7’s work? I’ve done enough Form 1’s over the years and I’m not up for wait. I’m not as worried about “clone correct” but rather something I can shoot sooner than later. Thanks!
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Stumbling on the stepstool of mediocracy...
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Nice, hopefully XM177 rifles are coming soon!
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Mike, who makes your 20rd straight gray magazines?
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What’s the length of the moderator/grenade ring on PSA?
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We are living in a Tom Clancy novel
Over 50 and reputed to be a formidable brigand https://hr1871.com/ |
Originally Posted By Colt_sporter: I see the MX-177E2 flash suppressor is now being offered. How long is it? Or maybe a better way to ask, how long of a barrel do I need for it make a 16.1” OAL? Will one of the 12.7’s work? I’ve done enough Form 1’s over the years and I’m not up for wait. I’m not as worried about “clone correct” but rather something I can shoot sooner than later. Thanks! View Quote That will be over 16 inches. On my 11.5 its about 1/2 too short to pin and weld. |
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Any chance of seeing GAU-5 or GUU-5/P marked lowers?
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“If you want a glimpse of the future, imagine a clown shoe stamping on a human face. Forever.”
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Originally Posted By GunsAndWrenches: Glad they fixed it... Still not very usable without an upper though. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By GunsAndWrenches: Originally Posted By M41A: Just to update this thread, my 635 lower is fixed after a trip back to PSA. Thanks Mike. Glad they fixed it... Still not very usable without an upper though. I bought a Colt parts kit to complete mine. |
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Machining will start next week on the 9mm uppers.
I have to approve the first article samples, then we run with it. I'll post updates as I have them. |
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We are living in a Tom Clancy novel
Over 50 and reputed to be a formidable brigand https://hr1871.com/ |
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