I just did what every American should, and I'm better for it. :salute: No need to thank me. If we'd just mandate military service like all the countries they claim have better healthcare than we do - we wouldn't have the public school under achievement, excess social services, or need to spend the m...

I'm not into the fo-tactical crap outfitting. I'd only consider a flashlight mount for hunting coons, since using light on anything else is pretty much illegal. We don't have too many coons up at the land I hunt, or at my own family's cabin. The MOE front grip has a better looking profile than the s...

Ha ha, made you look! I'm building an AR. :mrgreen: Oh, come on, you know you'd ignore it if I was up front in the title. 8-) I know there's a whole forum for the black gun, but I tend to see that place like the little know-it-all twerp who works the gun counter at the Blaine Gander mtn: all hear-sa...

Why would you be shooting off a bench with a 16" barrel?

Isn't the whole point of the carbine to shave weight and improve mobility? 15lbs?? Good lord...


I'm currently looking to acquire/build a M4 to stop having to hump a 12# gun into the woods to take <200yd shots.

I'm Jim. Long time TC resident, gun lover, machinist, fabricator, welder, and mechanic. I like making custom stuff, have a full machine shop at my house, but am NOT A GUNSMITH - and don't have FFL either, so guns don't stay here. Having said that: if you need something tweaked, or taken from napkin ...