Recent content by waffentomas

When are we going to stop calling the dang receivers "hex" when they ain't?? Three milled shelves on top and rounded underneath.

Folks thought the 10mm was dead when Colt discontinued the Delta Elite...Dornus & Dixon (Google it!) went belly up, etc. Glock was smart, saw the benefits and was the leader of the revival. Want a dead caliber, look up .41 AE (Google it, too)...except I just bought a gun in .41 AE (NIB...

A lot of 'smart' people and 'experts' have advised against it. I suppose I agree with them to a point. Still, just to see what would happen, I have entered numerous IDPA competitions and such with my Glock 20, and fired .40 SW for the whole thing, just to see what would happen. Still haven't...

I use a .308 Win, and killed a lot of elk with it. Truly, you just don't need anything more.

My Colt M4 has a bunch of FDE furniture on it, so only FDE mags are loaded with 5.56. All my black mags are .300 BO only, as my build is all black. Scary. Glad you are OK

I can't speak to a lot of the various types, save mine. I bought a Norinco a few years back that I have been very happy with, an NHM-91. I don't see them much, but Norinco AKs, and SKSs coming through my local store all seem to be well built specimens. With your budget, I'd look to buy a good...

I own both. For your purposes the .300 blackout may be a better choice for the reasons 'badkarma' states. I do love my Mini-30 due to the larger caliber. There is some decent deer ammo out there. Hornady makes some great factory loads for the thirty. I hand-load, so that presents me some...

I had a progressive for a while and decided it wasn't worth all the trouble, so I went back to single stage. I have two presses set up side buy side so if I need a little more volume I can charge primed brass and seat the bullet without changing dies. That's as complicated as I get now. It's...

Granted, this is a sample size of one...however, before I knew squat about ARs, I bought a DPMS right before BHO was elected. It was fine for a couple years until I started shooting more and more. After a rather intense outdoor range session (800 rounds or so as I recall), I was cleaning the...

Jackal's got it right. Gotta build it. I recently built a similar rifle with BCM light weight rails for about the same cost. Used a blem lower I paid 50$ for, but other than that, the costs are spot on.

Don't need a SB die in a military type semi. Their chambers are roomy. SB dies meant for tight match chambers in .223 bolts. Those burrs, and this forum saved you $50. Go buy ammo!

I've loaded a bunch of these for my Colt and they fed and fired without issues.

Whatever elk load is in my rifle is my ideal deer load (though they are mulies.) This last year is was a 180r Winchester Partition Gold at about 2550fps at the muzzle from my .308. Two nice deer and an elk fell from this loading.

I have a PSA upper in 300 AAC and it has been totally fine...no hesitation to buying another. It's running a BCM carrier and Colt bolt. There are a lot of ways to spend more money on one, or a lower, but I think you start paying a lot for brand names - not that I am immune to that, as I fondle...

In my experiences with it, CFE 223 seems to be a better .308 powder than .223 powder, ironically.