Recent content by RainDownmyBlues

Or, you know, Freedom Group.

That's good to hear. I essentially want a bolt rifle with irons. Hopefully they put some decent sights on it rather than the old beaver tail and blade.

That's mainly due to the fact that there are many more types of U.S. factory production for the 7.62x39. Most of the 5.45 is surplus from Russia and ex-combloc countries. Having shot both, I prefer the 5.45 but that's likely a bias due to carrying an M16 for years. The 7.62 isn't a proper...

I'd be interested in this as well. :)

I want this rifle quite badly... That said, I'm not going to pay $800 for it. I guess the main reason I want it is the ghost ring sights(nigh impossible to find ANY irons on bolts these days, let alone ghost rings), wood stock, handy. I couldn't care less about the scope mount, it's a rifle I...

How exactly is the 5.45 in short supply? When you can get a case of 1,000 for $140 that's a sign of abundance not lack of such. Unlike the 30-06, the 5.45 is a current military cartridge that is used in many countries and produced in mass quantities. We won't see the end of surplus 5.45 until...

Depends what unit you are in. In my unit in Afghanistan, we had the option of an issue M9, Sgt and up. I took one and two mags and jammed it in the front of my vest. A few of them didn't, but we had a lot of supply issues. I figured if I ran out of ammunition or my M4 crapped out- it would be...

You may be getting ragged a lot, but I totally agree with you. I was raised by a Conservative father, and a Liberal mother. Took my views from both, but always grew up shooting. My dad only owned a 20ga, 12ga, .22lr, and 30-30. But along with his dad's Garand(served in Korea) I shot quite...

When I was in Afghanistan the enemy learned pretty darn quickly not to try and engage at night, it was a lost cause. We also were orders not to move much during the day, 95 percent of all IED casualties happen during the day time, it's much harder to be effective with an IED when you can't...

This is one of the things that is really disappointing to me. Hardly anyone makes a rifle with irons, or the ability to add them without having to go to a gunsmith. I don't scope all my guns, or any of them really.

That high price is probably simply due to cost of labor and one off custom jobs. Bamboo itself is very cheap, as it's a vastly renewable resource. I don't know why we are not using bamboo more in this country. I remember when I was young, a person in our neighborhood was trying to use...

This, and they switched powders when they fielded them. It didn't have squat to do with chrome lined bores. It was the switching to a cheaper powder, that wasn't tested with the rifle, and the belief that the rifle was self cleaning.

Regardless I'll be a nice guy and ignore my agression on that fact. The SDMR M16A4 I was issued was pretty much the longest reaching 5.56 rifle you could get over there. Did you deal with the same thing? I was 82nd division, but we were treated well on such things, but not well enough to get...

I honestly hate to be a downer, but I have a very, very strong distaste for contractors. Probably seeing the $crap$, and we paved the way. Companies like mine always paved the way for the contractors. As I said, I still have a very saltry, distasteful rememberance in my mouth about contractors...

So truth be told, it honestly has not military application... I've seen the add saying it could be "the next big thing," but being a recently discharged soldier I see nothing that holds merit. 50 yrd clearing is not going to mean anything. What I want to see is what the ammunition can do at...