I'm a total classic thrash metalhead

Motorhead, Megadeth, Slayer

Starting to get into Machine Head

I love it, which is weird because I'm a very mellow and laid back person

It's also just about the only genre that I can listen to into this decade because it hasn't changed much

Lol

I surprise a few people

Being a resident of California, folks wouldn't also expect me to be a right wing libertarian and a steadfast supporter of the 2nd Amendment

But we'll talk more about that another day, I gotta sign off so I can get ready for work

Likewise bro, be easy

Poncho

Its just what some people affectionately nickname pontiacs

Lack of fixed headlamps and the rear end are the giveaways

Untrained eyes wont notice though

Your poncho a WS6?

Yeah

But I buy oem brand when possible

They're fast for the money, too

I'm gonna wind up spending a lot more money on my car to get a vehicle that's probably only just as fast

My vette needs pretty much everything lol

88 Seville? That's got the 4.1 liter V8 in it, right?

The 4.1 was a clusterfuck of bad engineering and junk electronics technology. Not sure about the 4.5

The vette needs to be rewired because one of the previous jackass owners butchered the harness

Thanks. It's a 69, 4 speed car

The lady will love it

Only got room for one so I get to be picky

I've spent like 3 or 4 grand on it in the last couple of months, lol

PGM-FI light?

@Plague Doctor Lawrence Can you tell me what that is?

Not sure about old Acuras, but on pre-96 OBD1 chevies and fords you can pull the codes with a paper clip

Yeah

Most guns take magazines specific to that particular firearm

Some guns use magazines that have been standardized across other platforms though... there's lots of stuff out there that takes AR15 or glock magazines

Honestly just assemble one

We built an 18 inch match grade bench gun with my buddy that would've cost like 2 grand to buy already built

He's maybe like 1300 bucks into it

You don't even need that much in the way of tools to assemble one, either

AR10s are a completely different animal

You ever try my idea out?

Ah gotcha

Well I hope it works out for you

The only way it would be pushing the bullets up too high when it picks em up is if something is directing them that way

For what

Honestly, there's so many of them that you can just pick by preference

Brownells, primary arms, those are the first two that come to mind

But there's so many more

Right now, it wouldn't be a bad idea to look into getting into hand loading your ammo

Ammo is hard to come by

@Odb What do you want your rifle to be able to do? Are you looking for a close range gun or a long range gun?

If you're looking at an SHTF gun, I don't see you needing to go beyond 300 yards

You're not gonna be able to identify somebody as a potential threat at that distance unless they're shooting at you first

If you run a 20 inch barrel or even an 18 inch barrel, and you get good, you can hit at like 460 meters accurately with 556

Whatever that happens to be in yards

Roughly 500

If you have a 1 MOA gun, which isn't hard to do with an AR, you're talkin about a 5 inch group at 500

Oh, one other thing since you mentioned 9mm

You can build a 9mm upper for your AR, too

Then that'll give you some flexibility in your calibers

Add me as a friend too, if you want, I'm more than happy to help you out

Thats your last shot bolt hold open

It works like the slide release on a pistol

If you know how to evaluate a gun's condition, I'd say there's nothing wrong with going that route

No, you should learn how to evaluate

Otherwise you limit yourself not only in the types of guns that you can buy but you also are not as able to watch the degradation of your own guns

It's a lot simpler than you might expect

Look down the barrel, make sure the rifling is still sharp, make sure that there's no pitting inside, check for any signs of erosion

Erosion is a gradual wearing off of material, sort of like how ocean waves pounding against a rock will slowly erode the rock

There are also precision machined go/ no go gages out there

You can use those to verify that the headspace is intact

If that comes out of spec that can be... problematic

Those are the most important ones to look for. Other things to look for are the condition of the locking lugs on the bolt, smoothness of the action, condition of any rivets or screws holding everything together

I'm sure there's more to it that I'm forgetting

And probably a lot that I don't even know

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/722868148637794415/749673347238854766/baa4f3182f56ac4c2bd491f12122ad06.jpg This one is my favorite because I have one that's a work in progress

Drop dead gorgeous

That's back when they made cars

And built them to last

Oh, hell yeah

Someone about 5 minutes up the road from me has one of those

That aughta be a killer stoplight dragster

You need sights bro

Get em on and zero that thing asap

http://preparedgunowners.com/2016/03/17/how-to-zero-your-ar-15-for-50-200-yards-at-just-10-yards/

That changes everything

I didn't even think anything of it because I've seen heavyweight profile AR barrels for the standard chambering

Did you assemble it yourself?

Was gonna say sometimes there's some tolerance stacking between parts of different brands that need to be resolved by firing rounds through it

Yeah you proly just need to break it in

But that's okay, go have some fun with it!

I kinda wanna build a single shot shotgun from scratch just for the fun of it

@RazorBlackBlade Spend that money on training tbh

Are those 30-06 cartridges?

If you got a caliper handy, see if you can get a measurement of the bullet diameter

Most likely those are numbers that are indicative of the plant of manufacture

That's my educated guess

I could be totally wrong, though

AK > AR tbh

Two springs, two pins in the whole gun, all the FCG parts are large

Doesn't get much more crude and simple than that