Archive for the 'AR-15s' Category

Tim Harmsen at MAC does more than 7000 rounds with the BCM.

Via David Codrea, TTAG reports that this is apparently so.

But with the likes of Palmetto State Armory and others utterly offering complete AR-15s for under $400 right now there’s likely not much profit in AR platform rifles.

It shouldn’t been seen as a shock, though. Colt has bowed out of the civilian AR market due to lack of sales. There is an overabundance of product and a relative lack of demand since President Trump’s election in 2016.

It appears that the combination of the “Trump Slump” and Remington’s poor management have killed two well-known names in the AR-15 world.

It seems to me that if you’re going to make MSRs these days, they must fall into one of two categories.  The first is high end rifles and pistols, e.g., Daniel Defense, LaRue Tactical, BCM, CMMG, and the second is the budget gun, e.g., PSA.

There is a huge difference in price point, and there just doesn’t seem to be a big market for the middle of the road price point.

Good Lord.  “Mowing down approaching armies” by sweeping the muzzle from side to side (If you ever try something like that at a range, you’ll be kicked off the range with prejudice, and this isn’t even discussing the fact that you won’t hit anything except by accident – if he was open-minded, which he’s not, it might be useful to take him to a range and actually demonstrate how this is done.).  “Red hot magazines.”  Red … hot … magazines.  And there is just no data at all to justify his statement that mass shootings have to do with whether AR-15s are legal, nor is there any justification that machine guns couldn’t be used for mass shootings today with the relative ease of drilling two holes and dropping in an auto-sear.  A determined criminal can do pretty much anything s/he wants.  And note that he doesn’t allow that the criminal will have an AR-15, but you won’t for defense of home and hearth because you’re not a criminal.  Then again, no one in Virginia will “grandfather” their ARs.  No one.

Finally, mass shootings have gone way down, not of course including state-sponsored mass shootings in “gun free” nations, which is the reason for ownership of AR-15s in the first place.

Fisk it yourself.  It’s not hard.  He’s ignorant, prudish, and arrogant.  And yet with Bloomberg money, an influx of controllers to Northern Virginia, and an absent voter base in the last election, he and his ilk is governing Virginia.

You just can’t make this kind of thing up.  I love it when the progs self-identify as idiots.  It saves us the trouble.

Prior:

• The Captain’s Journal » High Ammo Clips
• The Captain’s Journal » Automatic Bullets In Rapid-Fire Magazine Clips
• The Captain’s Journal » Duck Hunting With Bullets
• The Captain’s Journal » Guns, Accoutrements And Idiots
• The Captain’s Journal » The Fully Loaded Ammunition Cartridge
• The Captain’s Journal » The High Magazine Round
• The Captain’s Journal » Bob Owens On Open Carry In The Atlanta AIrport
• The Captain’s Journal » Mother Jones On “High-Caliber Rifles”
• The Captain’s Journal » The 40-Clip Magazine

UPDATE: Though per David Codrea, it may be impossible to shame him.

Following up our previous video, this one is a must see.  “All six of my six shots can be accounted for.”  That’s quite a statement.  I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to say that.

I don’t normally link him up, but this is a fairly nice rifle and he has a good experience with it.  It looks like he’s shooting Wilson Combat 350 Legend magazines, and his accuracy looks good.

Very good and informative video.  I did well enough in chemistry to do well enough in metallurgy to pass my coursework, but not enough to become a metallurgist.  I sort of regret that.

Shooting Illustrated.

Timney Triggers has leveraged its history as the oldest and largest aftermarket trigger manufacturer in the world with a new budget-minded AR trigger: The Impact.

Responding to consumer requests, Timney developed its Impact trigger as an option that is uncompromising on quality but is priced right for any budget AR build. The Impact is the latest offering in the company’s People’s Choice lineup of trigger options.

The engineers at Timney devised a way to machine the parts for the Impact from billet steel without resorting to metal injection molding or stamped, old-school parts and assemble the triggers without breaking your budget. Despite the low price of $149.99, each Impact is still hand-tested by the trigger technicians at Timney to get you a crisp and 3 to 4 pound break and drop-in compatibility with all mil-spec ARs.

I have tried neither Timney nor Geissele triggers, but it’s nice to see this kind of competition.

I was talking recently to an active duty SpecOps guy about a build he was doing for someone I know, and I recommended a Geissele trigger (based on word of mouth recommendations).

He complained a bit about the fact that the military still uses the Colt guns with the 7+ pound trigger pull, including him.

If you save and spend your money on good equipment, you’re likely better equipped than the U.S. military.

John Lovell has an interesting video up on AR-15 zero.

If you want more, and a somewhat different approach, Shawn Ryan has a video up of his 36 yard zero and why he does it that way.