By the way Josh, I am considering doing a M4 build. so feel free to pm me or call & tell me what works & what didn't. Guess I'll let you be the guenie pig. Are you doing all mail order, going to Cabella's or other vendor?
I've actually been trying to find the least expensive parts. Everything I've ordered has been mil-spec so the only thing I will worry about are the bolt and the barrel. But to actually answer your question, I've been sourcing everything online from a few different places. I'll shoot you a pm with some linky's.
doug is correct.
although I've never had a problem with steel/aluminum cased stuff in anything. dad's shot plenty out of his 1911 as well. Don't drop the slide on a round in the chamber. Always feed from the magazine.
I had some extracting issues with the steel cases in a Bersa 9mm. Owner of the weapon is new to guns and worried there was something wrong with his extractor. Literally every round needed to have the mag dropped and re-rack the slide to get it to grab the case again. I fully loaded a mag with brass rounds and ran through the whole mag without issue. He was happy. Some weapons just don't like steel. :dunno:
8000+ rounds on my XD .45 Tac and still 100%. 95% of it was brass. The other casings definitely aren't as clean cycling imho.
Clean them. Get good solvents and lubes. Get familiar with taking them apart and keep an eye on wear points: chamber throats, extractors, barrel bushings etc. Being not afraid to take them apart and do maintenance is the biggest thing I can think of; with that then you get familiar how they work and you're doing an inspection of sorts.
Yeah, this for sure. I've had no issues with my Sigma (which everybody who hasn't shot it hates). I have taken it all down to just the frame a couple times, disassembled the slide, cleaned and oiled the parts and have always ran brass. Though I am buying bulk .223 with steel cases for my M4. If it doesn't run, I'll sell it. It's always in demand.
Give me a good reason to check my spark plugs also, haven't done that for a couple years (I know, should check them every year).
Spark plugs are supposed to be good for 100K. Don't need a reason other than a misfire.
If you're gonna go through the trouble of checking them just spend the $12 and change them.
But this trumps it.
they are still in the garage..
Heh!
My wiring is so facked i wouldn't trust a code if it was thrown.
It could at least be a good platform to start from if your crap don't run...
my Jeep has no codes, there is nothing wrong
HA! Really got a good chuckle out of me.
The two blue products I actually want.
This is more of a general photo, but any SD I do like but like the old Powerstrokes mostly.
I want a million dollars and a carload of spending money...
Another topic. We were watching some end of the world show today. I grisly dont believe anything is going to happen, but, you never know right? (Y2K lol).
Who here maybe has enough canned/dried food to make it a week of two without outside power or resources? I m not talking crazy prepper crap, just enough to get you and your family by for awhile.
I'll go ahead and say it. I am a prepper. I'm not a crazy, build a bunker in my basement kinda prepper. We (as a family) have been exploring self-reliant techniques. Alternative fuels, gardening, etc. We have also been looking into bulk foods. We commonly have a lot of canned food around already, but Jennie is the real canner of the family.
I keep telling Meganne's dad that he needs to get a diesel generator and we need to run it on biodiesel. I'd like to be off the grid, but that's an expensive undertaking.
