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    mini 14 using m16 mags

    I bought my first SP-1 in 1976, and was a REAL oddity at the time. I never saw any others, nor had anyone I knew (except vets) ever seen/shot one. In fact, the cartridge itself was pretty much unknown, except by a few varmint hunters who used it in bolt action rifles. I got my first...
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    mini 14 using m16 mags

    You are apparently not old enough to remember that the Mini-14 came out in 1974. At the time, the AR-15 was an uncommon oddity in the civilian shooting world (and made ONLY by Colt). Making a commerical rifle such as the Mini-14 share a magazine with an uncommon military look-alike would...
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    What type grease for M1A

    All of that series can be splashy after first being relubed. When I do a regrease of the actions on my M1's, they always throw a bit of grease on my glasses lens in the first few shots.
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    What type grease for M1A

    As others have mentioned, the M1 type action (which includes the M14, M1A, M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, and the Ruger Mini-14 series) should ALWAYS use GREASE to lubricate the action, EXCEPT in cold climates. CLP, while a fine lubricant, is NOT suitable for use on the M1 action in temperate...
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    HK and CETME - fluted chamber - case head separations?

    Bolt rearward velocity on a roller-locked breech is SEMI-INDEPENDENT of propellant burn rate. Thus, if the propellant in the case is really slow-burning (as could be the case with certain "high performance" commercial .308 ammo, and/or with some handloads), it's possible for the rollers to...
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    40 years ago even the REMFs used their M16s & More

    When I said the "domino theory" was in vogue, I was thinking more of how it was popular when we first got into the mess in SE Asia. It was DEFINITELY still the subscribed theory in 1961, when we put our first foot in the water, and was even pretty popular when we sent the first round of Marines...
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    40 years ago even the REMFs used their M16s & More

    Your comments are spoken through the clarity of 40+ years of hindsight. AT THE TIME, it was not NEARLY so clear that being there was a "bad thing". The "domino theory" was a widely accepted truism at the time, now since discredited. It's clear you are not old enough to have lived at the...
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    Differences in mini-14 series?

    GB series were made from the early 1980's on, and are all "181 series" (although your SN might start with a 3 digit number higher that 181). I "THINK" the flash hider is threaded on, but Lord knows how tight it may have been attached. Unless you have REAL good reason to want it removed, I...
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    Differences in mini-14 series?

    There are THREE different "vintages" of the Mini-14 series: "180" series--so named for the serial number prefix. Uses early style sling swivels, early style external bolt hold-open system, and a roller on the bolt cam track lug "181" series--again named for serial number prefixes starting...
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    Vibrating loaded rounds

    This is COMPLETELY FALSE, for reasons cited by others above. It's an old wives tale with NO EVIDENCE to back it up.
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    Calculating recoil?

    The propellant charge (and the propellant used) is not only specific and proprietary to each ammunition manufacturer, but it CHANGES regularly. The manufacturer often uses bulk powders that are not available to reloaders. Additionally, the manufacturer will "tweak" is propellant charge for...
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    I'm never selling a Rock River again!

    Actually, not at all, at the time. Fairchild's Armalite division was NEVER intended to be an arms manufacturer. They always either sold their designs or licensed them to existing firearms manufacturers. (Witness how they had the original AR-10 licensed to made by Artillerie Inrichtingen in...
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    I'm never selling a Rock River again!

    Eugene Stoner (and James Sullivan) both worked for Armalite in the late 1950's. Stoner is credited with a NUMBER of designs for Armalite, the most long-lasting of the bunch being the AR-15.
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    I'm never selling a Rock River again!

    Armalite (the original company that was a division of Fairchild Airplane & Engine) invented the AR-15. Armalite sold the rights to the AR-15 to Colt's back in 1959, and other than a few prototype AR-15's, all the AR-15's and M16's up through the mid-1980's were Colt-made. Fairchild divested...
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    Woman arrested in Disney Land for concealed weapon

    Vektor 1, you failed to address my challenge further back in this thread. Please show me data that suggests that CCW in an environment with disproportionate numbers of children is inherently more dangerous. Until you do that, we must treat carrying on Disney property the same as carrying on...
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    Woman arrested in Disney Land for concealed weapon

    Let's take the Disney-specific factor out of the equation here, because Disney is an anomaly in the world of places populated by large numbers of children, and Disney probably does a better-than-average job of protecting their guests. IN GENERAL, there are FAR MORE examples of children being...
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    Woman arrested in Disney Land for concealed weapon

    I guess we have different perceptions here. I absolutely despise using the argument that when children are involved, it's somehow worse than when other innocents are involved. (This is a VERY common practice used by the gun grabbers, i.e. "do it for the children".) We are going to have to...
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    Woman arrested in Disney Land for concealed weapon

    That specific mention of "children getting accidentally shot" tugs on the heartstrings nicely, but is really irrelevant. ANYONE getting accidentally/unintentionally shot is a "bad thing". It's not like it's any worse when it's children, in all honesty. By your argument, ANY location where...
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    Does your Ruger Ranch Rifle mangle your brass?

    The Ruger Ranch Rifle uses a fixed ejector that intercepts the base of the cartridge case as the bolt recoils. As such, ejection velocity and angle are a direct function of bolt and operating rod rearward velocity. If you can slow down the rearward velocity of the bolt and op rod, you can...
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    FAL

    The long flash suppressor used on the actual FN Model 50.00 was designed by Springfield Armory (the real .gov operation) back during the trials in the 1950's. One of those should screw on to most any metric FAL. If you have a Commonwealth FAL, (aka "inch pattern"), then the L1A1 flash hider...
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