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To be fair on the whole bore axis thing, a low enough bore axis in conjunction with a pistol specifically designed to take advantage of it can actually provide real and tangible benefits for the user. This is why things like hammerli .22 target pistols and stupidly expensive hand crafted and bespoke European pistols in larger center fire chamberings often sport very low bore axes. There's actually a pistol "design" that I hope to someday do an actual real and working version of one or both of the embodiments shown in the patent and nonfunctional display models the designer showed at the shot show around 2 decades ago. The "designer" was a character named Raphial Morgado, he's since moved on to flogging his Massive Yet Tiny engine. Just like his pistol "designs" and the "revolutionary" ammunition he "invented" to fire out of it the engine is not only vaporware, but also far from a new original or "revolutionary" concept. In the case of his ammunition concept, it was just a modernized and smokeless powder using ripoff of the rocket ball... Except for the whole thing where rocket ball ammunition actually works. The two versions of the pistol he was intending to fire the ammunition from is actually the interesting part. (Taking what's in the patent application and turning it into a functional firearm which uses standard non caseless ammunition will obviously involve a nearly complete redesign of course but the resulting guns could potentially be interesting or even really awesome) Basically though the pistols have their detachable box or tube magazine above and parallel to the gun barrel with the cartridge bases down. This makes for a potentially extremely tiny package theoretically making something with glock 17 magazine capacity and barrel length in damn near single stack glock 380 size envelope! Or, in the tube magazine version which is meant to fold in half for concealment you're looking at single stack glock .380 barrel and ammunition capacity in a package almost as small as the absurd .22 magnum NAA derringer revolver. You can probably see why the thought of this excites me... If someone pulled it off and got it to work well and etc it really could be very useful, especially for issue to deployed soldiers as an always on them defense against the whole green on blue / sudden jihad syndrome bullshit that is really the only reason left to keep in inventory and issue pistols to western military personnel.

Toxn has a point kinda... After all you don't pull out your mach 3 razor cartridge refills and proudly tell people how they were made from a battleship. That said, the same guy has also made a steel frame for a glock, and they even offered kits so you too could have your very own sheet metal glock frame... As I recall the whole glock frame thing was strictly a way to get around stupid laws in some states.

I love the look of the Pallad handguard, and suddenly feel much less bad about this maadi I'm about to do a new receiver for because the current one has a bend in it that I don't even want to know the origin of... Considering that the bend is diagonal, starts around 1 inch forward of rear trunnion and .125 inches from the bottom of receiver. Extends forwards and upwards to midpoint of magazine well and about .25 inches from the top of receiver. Has the look of a bend made by a press and jig with attempt made to bend it back the same way before the finish had been applied... Also has evidence in the form of ANOTHER very straight bend that forms almost a y shape with the bend lines kinda intersecting... This leads me to believe that the good idea fairy has visited people in possession of this gun at least twice now...

Applesauce Bandit, TT-33's in general are very very good guns, especially the Polish ones I've fired. I often use one as a carry gun during the really cold and wet or snowy weather. Really though, with a good holster etc my tt33 is solidly 3 season ccw compatible. In some ways the TT carries shockingly better than even much "smaller" guns specifically designed to be ccw friendly. That said, an m57 Yugo is for some odd reason just enough larger to be a horrible choice for ccw unless you are wearing insulated carhart bibs and jacket with no intention of removing the jacket at any point in your day. This is odd to me because the additional 1 round of magazine capacity somehow takes the otherwise identical gun from 3 season ccw compatible all the way to just barely 1 season ccw compatible, and even in winter there are some days warm enough that it's really pushing the envelope.

The galil is only good until you see the gun it "lost to"... Like everything Israel, just when you think they may be almost not totally god damn schizophrenic and extremely prone to ... Being Israeli... They go and be all Israeli... Go home Israel your way to crazy to even think about drinking

Eh, I have this love for czechnology that borders on obsession. I bought cheap and deep when this was still possible, and then went in and backfilled with "modern weapons". Once I'm away from the left coast again I'll probably rotate carry guns occasionally to throw the old weird ones into the mix occasionally.

Basically I'm doing a version of the prototype MPA machine pistol from Argentina. (You can see an article on the gun at TFB from a few days ago) I'm not doing it anywhere close to the same way as the original, but I should be able to get a very similar look. The secret sauce is gonna be in the buffer system and some other little things I'm doing. Mostly it's just a good time burning project / way to use up a cz-26 SMG parts kit, a 0% AR15 lower forging, and a handful of other items on something interesting and crazy. Unless of course it turns into something awesome... Then I'm gonna sell the shit out of the little bastards.

I decided to forego the makarov for the cz-82... Does that make me a full on commie boo hipster? Do I have to incessantly talk about how krav maga is OK but systema is better?

Sturgeon, Yeah really what's surprised me is just how many ways there are that are essentially low hanging fruit. My particular solution is treading down a well trod path and really just started out as me having a fascination with the Argentine MPA machine pistol, Robinson's work, and some poking around my spare parts bins etc. From there several wouldn't it be cool if... Conversations turned into wait a second that'd actually be pretty easy to implement using x, y, and q conversations. I think I've spent $80 so far beyond the stuff I already have on hand, and even if I totally fail I'll have only "wasted" the $45 worth of strike industries parts I'm altering to be something other than what I bought them as. On the other hand if I succeed... It could potentially be something worth making kits for etc to defray costs on my big projects. Especially since the "industry heavyweights" in this particular market segment are masterpiece and excel arms... Hardly paragons of quality manufacturing and top tier products honestly.

That's a good point. In my diy builds and experiments I often find and order existing parts that are 95% of the way to what I need, then alter them to fit my needs and purposes. These are often quite divergent from what they were originally intended to do, but it's not improvised. Nor is it hardware hacking!! It's just the most sensible way to do some stuff when you don't have unlimited time and funds. For example: My current fun gun project has parts from 4+ production guns and an eclectic basket of repurposed aftermarket gun parts... If I can get the one really cool feature of the build to work out right I'd happily put it head to head against any production firearm in it's class except possibly the Kris's Vector. Though even the Vector would be looking pretty pale against this freaky little mutant! Speaking of which Sturgeon, I'm hoping I've figured out a way to bump up the power level of ammunition which a compact machine pistol can use and still be controllable. (While still being both affordable, robust, simple, and actually compact) Needless to say that version 1.0 will not be giggle switch compatible, but I'll know pretty much right away from semiautomatic testing whether it COULD be controlled in full auto.

Someone apparently rediscovered salvo squeeze bore ammo but only looked at the pictures... One of my gun design heros was a big proponent of the SSB concept in the years just before he retired. Russell S. Robinson was his name. Speaking of which, I have a decent PDF copy of the two articles covering his work Fighting Firearms did years ago. If Sturgeon wants, I can email it to him if he wants to put it in his document repository here.

The john moses browning of intramural warfare?

I'm definitely in for the next competition... I'll almost assuredly lose every time, likely because of my ideas always seeming to be a step or two beyond what's possible / economically viable currently. But I'll strive to entertain at the very least

I still want a reputable western manufacturer to clone the gsh-18 without the shitty build quality and bad materials. Despite the extremely poor initial production models I think that the basic design could be genuinely ground breaking from a cost, production, and usability standpoint. It's a phenomenally cool design that was let down by bad manufacturing.

This could also be why I have had no trouble with mine. I buy ammunition in bulk, especially practice ammo, and rotate the newest to the back so I'm always shooting the oldest first. This still leaves me shooting 500-2000 of a given ammunition before I'm changing to a new brand or even really divergent lot numbers. It's also usually my reminder to do a thorough cleaning of a gun. I also live in the pacific northwest where temperature etc aren't super divergent. I'm curious to see whether my impending move to Kansas will change the behavior of my guns.

True, it's definitely a less pronounced phenomena when you get away from things like the DI system in the AR. however, I try to stick to the brass before steel rule whenever possible. One thing I've noticed is that with modern pistols that don't outright suck malfunctions and quirks almost seem to be somehow user dependent. ie. It's not like every single pistol of a certain type will always choke on the same things. For me, the grand power works great. So do my eaa witness cz52 82 83... Sue me, I like czechnology! Overall, we've really got an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the huge variety of makes and models that are perfectly serviceable and readily available. You wouldn't know it by the whining, bitching, and insane expectations of the internet gun world and their insane expectations. "Any pistol that can't fire eleventy seventy three double charged rusty surplus double charged steel case from buttfuckistan and lubed with homemade napalm and magnesium mill shavings without a single stoppage is OBVIOUSLY not reliable enough to trust my life, ugly girlfriend, and minimum wage paycheck to!!!"

Colli, I'll buy some steel case for mine and see if I can replicate your malfunction. One question first though, did you alternate between steel and brass case in the same shooting sessions? Over the years I've learned that this can cause all sorts of interesting shit to happen. Though, usually it's just shooting steel case then switching to brass that causes issues.

I'm getting myself another grand power for Christmas this year. Seriously love those pistols.

Really quick and violent displacement after firing? Either that or he's using the optic and the additional height to try and spot the enemy. I like the really quick displacement idea better.

It's a hell of a start, and very much in the vein in what I'm working on! And, like you said, it will definitely take exploring the design space somewhere far more empirical. I look forward to reading and participating in the conversation your experiments produce, regardless of where that conversation winds up being at. Probably the only place you'll see me commenting on Tony's site, since I finally reached my burnout point otherwise there. On the plus side, I did get to use the terms aggressively pedantic and passive aggressive pedantry repeatedly in my last two posts repeatedly. It's OK though, the whole 7 posters left who comment there would all prefer I just went away anyway since whenever you stop pissing on the gerpesher parade... Here I come with a bunch more stuff that makes them confused, angry, and etc. It's not like half of them respond anyway. And the ones that do for the most part, we'll just say that the aggressively pedantic and passive aggressive pedantry comments apply to more than one of the regulars there.

Also, Very jealous of Alex right now. P.S: While the JSAR and JLMG were both multi caliber capable, they did still require a bbl swap / correct case head diameter for the bolt installed. Not sure if Johnson ever really manufactured other bolts for them, but it was theoretically possible. Pound for pound it was seriously one of the coolest weapons systems to come out of this era.

I am very excited to find out what exactly project ATHENA actually is. Me and the rest of demented gnomes are still working away at the bullet thinger we talked about. It's going better, worse, slower, faster, and way more expensive than expected... So, pretty much exactly as expected LOL New technology is hard.

The Uziel Gal rifle is on of my favorite might have beens as well. Unfortunately after rage quitting the first in the series of two videos that are out there about it three times, I've basically accepted that I'll never really get to learn much more about it. If they hadn't hired porky pig to be the video host, I could probably learn more about the guns.

Sorry for the double tap. But I'd probably honestly use an AR because I can shoot well to distance with one if I need to... And, because only crazy people hunt with AK's in North America. If you reside in the land of the rising Saiga, and can't afford a VEPR / Molot, I'm sure it's perfectly acceptable. But since I don't live in Eastern Washington, Oregon, or Idaho. Don't listen to "heritage music". And am not even a part time wehraboo,except my obsession with the type 1 fg-42. Hunting with an AK just isn't something I'd do.

Ok, If forced to choose between the first two options, I'd take an SKS every time. FWIW, I own an SKS and an inherited Winchester 94 so I could actually choose between the two. Personally though, I'd take a vz52 if I could just to be different. And because vz58's with 30 round mags suck to go prone with... Sorry Don, I know us PNW people should stick together, but I'm just not a lever gun guy. Mostly because I never found a source for $179 parts kits, nor can you make lever gun receivers with harbor freight shop presses.