D.E. Watters

I thought that the Fort-produced Tavors were chambered in 5.45x39mm.  The following link shows their 5.45mm-specific magazine.

http://www.fort.vn.ua/en/products/weapon-accessories/magazine-cal-545x39-mm.html

I thought that the Fort-produced Tavors were chambered in 5.45x39mm.  The following link shows their 5.45mm-specific magazine.

http://www.fort.vn.ua/en/products/weapon-accessories/magazine-cal-545x39-mm.html

I thought that the Fort-produced Tavors were chambered in 5.45x39mm.  The following link shows their 5.45mm-specific magazine.

http://www.fort.vn.ua/en/products/weapon-accessories/magazine-cal-545x39-mm.html

That is because the BAT was the Geco Action Safety.  US importer Phil Engeldrum merely slapped a sticker over the factory Geco boxes.

FWIW: Arkansas is a T4, not a T5.
The Texas supposedly has better AA in the game than its sister ship, the New York.

TIL today.
 
Thanks to Daniel Watters responding to a Katie A. post at TFB, I learned there was such a thing as "chamber flutes" which are not a musical instrument - in this case - but a design feature used by certain high-falutin' gun manufacturers to assist in the operation of a rifle. This may be old hat for the gun gurus here but I had never really had any experience with the term or - if I had - ignored it.

Well RIA is over. Some cool shit coming to TFBTV soon:
 
 











 
 
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I am most excited about Webley automatic. Since it's chambered in .38 Auto and not .455 semi-rimmed moon rock I can actually shoot it and use it as a concealed carry piece.

You know what, it's been less than 24 hours, and I regret having ever written that post. I now seek only the sweet reprieve of death.

FWIW:  I recommend only removing the magazine safety's spring, and then reinstalling the magazine safety.  Removing the entire safety assembly creates quite a bit of overtravel.  Don't worry about the despringed safety flopping around.  The tension of the trigger spring against the trigger lever will be enough to hold the safety in place.

Hi Powers are cool.
It can team up with the No. 4 I picked up 15 minutes ago and they can both star in a BBC buddy cop movie.

Yes, the MBA is probably the single most destructive college degree, as from where I am standing they basically train people to liquidate a company's nontangible assets (like customer service or catalog diversity) to increase the company's bottom line, then move on before the bottom falls out.

Best supressor

Mech mentioned this very interesting Soviet aircraft gun design to me, the Savin-Norov:


 
The breech and barrel are rack-and-pinioned together.  The barrel is forced forward by gas actuation, rather like the SIG AK-52/AK-53, but the breech is conventionally driven backwards at the same time.  This way the movement is split between the barrel and the breech, and each can be accelerated to half the normal speed to achieve the same relative motion, and therefore the same rate of fire.  It's an interesting solution to the problem of high rates of fire in conventional linear-breech mechanisms.

Winnie the Putin!

Winnie the Putin!

MMMMmmmmmmm:
 
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http://www.quietrev.com/6-illustrations-that-show-what-its-like-in-an-introverts-head/

The various HP-DA and BDA were not true HP variants.  Even D.J. Saive's post-WW2 attempt at a DA pistol didn't keep much in the way of parts commonality with the basic GP35.

Back in the 1970s, Louis Seecamp converted a pair of commercial HP for double-action.  I suspect that it worked like his DA conversion for the M1911.  The trigger would pull a draw bar which engaged a pin added to the side of the hammer, camming the hammer into the conventional single action position.  At that point, the factory action parts then take over to trip the sear.

 

Oh yes, a bunch of Brownings have used the BDA label, but the SIG-Sauer P220 were among the first during the late 1970s.  Another early BDA was the Beretta Model 84 variant.  The BDA380's major differences from the original Beretta were the use of a fully enclosed slide and a slide-mounted safety/decocker. 

Don't forget that some of the first SIG-Sauer P220 imported to the US were sold as the Browning BDA.  I once saw a full set of the P220-based BDA in a pawnshop in Katy, TX: .45 ACP, .38 Super, and 9x19mm.  They also had a P220 chambered in 7.65mm Parabellum.

New ammunition I received today...
 
Project SALVO and related, 6.35x53mm Simplex, 6.35x53mm Duplex, .22-30 Light Rifle, .25-30 Light Rifle, .27-30 Light Rifle, .22-06, .22-06 Triplex:


 
Miscellaneous, 4.32x45mm US Experimental, 5.56x38mm FABRL, 6.35x48mm Winchester pre-SAW Ballistic Test, .280/30 British Type C, a brilliantly preserved 6mm SAW, way better condition than my other one, 7mm High Velocity, 7.62x51mm NATO (LOL), 5.2x68mm Mondragon:
 

 
Flechettes, 5.56x45mm Steyr annular-primed polymer-cased flechette, XM144 SPIW, 5.56x45mm AAI flechette, XM110 SPIW flechette, XM645 SPIW flechette, 5.56/4.32 sabot for XM70 rifle, .330 Amron Aerojet, 9.53x76SR Winchester:
 

 
5.56x25 Hercules telescoped caseless, 4.7x21 DAG/HK caseless prototype, 5.56x30 Hughes Lockless, 4.73x33 DM11 DN/HK telescoped caseless for G11, 5.56x24 US caseless, 7.62x34 US caseless, 5.56x45mm M855 composite case (I think this is an AAI round, but I'm not sure), 6mm SAW long aluminum case:
 

Somebody sold our Fatherland 

 

As I understand it, Beretta was basically given a no-bid contract to develop the ARX-160.   That's what happens when you own nearly every domestic gunmaker, and your politicians aren't willing to consider a foreign design.

Gerlich rounds:

Um, so, I don't know how I only just now realized this, but Jerry Miculek lives literally 20 minutes away from me.