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I have considered a 997TT. My WS6 is the fastest car I could touch for under 50K excluding a terminator or a Z06. It has it's weak-points, but acceleration makes up for a lot... I am 5'10.5" and 175# currently. The newer Vipers are a lot more comfortable and generate a lot less heat in the cabin due to how the exhaust is routed. Cars I am considering: 997TT Viper Z06 GT (40) Or I could wait 2 years instead of one and consider lightly used Gallardo F430 I dunno. Sports cars are my thing, and houses never were. A house will come later. Upper-scale appartment is fine with me for a few years anyways.

Also take into account that the man has publicly stated that if it were up to him, he would do away with private gun ownership, but he understands that he could not enforce such a law. He has accepted the inevitable, to some extent. However, the man is ROYALLY messing everything up. I dislike him due to many a thing, not just his stance on freedom, or his desire to eliminate it. However, I have nothing against his abortion policy. Abortion never bothered me, and I think it should be a right if you so choose. unwanted children just cause problems. A drop in crime rate roughly 10-14 years after abortion was legalaized underscores this. So I guess he and I can agree on at least ONE thing, lol.

The T1 should be faster than irons. I may even go with something like an MRD instead. Maybe Trijicon's RMR will fit the bill. Think about it... ...dot+target=bang. or 2 rear dots resting on either side and slightly above center dot which is placed slightly below planned POI=bang. which do you think will be quicker to put a slug or tight-patterning cloud of buck where it needs to go? I know which one I would want to use!

I saw plenty of them when Chris Costa and Travis Haley had pix of their classes posted. Costa was even using one. Vipertime=time to buy a Viper.

Mine breaks enough stock. Got knows it would destory itself with any more horsepower. I am going to give it away or something when I graduate anyways. Vipertime in 2 years

I live in an appartment.

Nice, mine is getting me by through college (2001 WS6 M6). They cost SO MUCH to own with all the repairs. GM sells me stuff 10% over cost I buy so many replacement sensors and crap.

Given my choice, I would use the Glock 17. However, We have the castle doctrine in my state. Doesn't matter. Guy was in my house. I don't know him. Open/shut. I have not shot it yet, but it should handle recoil just the same as the fixed PG stock. They feel identical on the shoulder and cheek when the COL is fully extended.

They are so expensive because they are illegal to import, and have been for a few years. Originally they were $175-225. However...supply and demand. My shotgun is plinking/hunting/SD. Do-it-all basically. I view the stock as an investment, as it will only go up in price month by month.

Look at it another way. Owning an M4 without the COL stock is like owning a mustang 5.0 GT (about the same price now as an M4 benelli) and running junk tires vs. some F1's or something on it. The stock is the only part (besides the trigger) that YOU interface with. Much like tires are the only part of the car that ACTUALLY touches the road. I like performance where the rubber meets pavement, and yes, the tires on my WS6 are all but prohibitively expensive.

Problem is, it's not smoke and mirrors, but real marketing dynamics. No more of these are hitting our shores. The market was not artificially driven up, it is a realistic condition that I have watched develope for over a year. I feel that the quality of the stock is roughly equal to the SOCOM, so I payed more than it is worth from a material/function standpoint, but still less than TMV or what I could flip it for.

Got my M4 collapsible stock in today! Payed $725 for it and the guy was nice enough to next-day air it. Middle position is PERFECT for an optic! Rear-most position is equal to the fixed stock. Fully collapsed is perfect for stowing the weapon, or running around shooting from the hip just having fun. It locks up very solid, with just a hint of wiggle left/right if physically torqued on a little, but NONE fore and aft. You can shake the weapon and it won't rattle. I am very pleased with it. It is very high-quality and you can tell that THIS is what was meant to go on the weapon from the get-go. I was also charged @$200 the other day. Means my Ti mag-tube should be on the way very soon. In 2-3 months, I will buy a T1 and LaRue mount provided Kip's rail is out by then, which I am sure it will be. Waiting on that stipend check...

I was cutting the target in-half as I walked the sights on at 50 yards. Good enough for me. I have found both IC and MOD to work well. If you want a .015 constriction, I suggest you try LM. That fits the bill.

+1 I concur!

I benched my M4 with 1oz/1760fps slugs once. Once. Never again. THat range-session sucked. 3" ammo is to be fired from the standing position. Period.

Nope, that's his name. Good company too.

There are directions on the rear-sight on my M4, did your LPA sights not come with these etched-on instructions?

I have a Trulock IC choke tube flush-fitting for an M4 that I will sell for $20 shipped (CONUS). Has about 30 shots through it, no problems, I just have no need of it personally. PM me if interested.

I doubt this could be the cause, but check to see if maybe someone at Benelli fell asleep at the wheel and your mag-tube isn't screwed in all the way. Also, as to the observation of the pistons, yep. That is the short-stroke piston design, you can see other examples of this design at work in the HK416, and other examples of it's kind, as well as plenty of other weapons.

Maybe YOUR Benelli breaks once a month, allows others to shoot it behind your back, and rattles endlessly, but my M4 does not.

I don't think you will find anything that will co-witnesses. However, it would be interesting if you could get a bare Pic rail for the M4, sent it off, had it machined, mounted a Jpoint to it... Sorta like the Glock slides you see. Also, I would try maybe only getting the FSP in tritium, I have heard that rear ghost-rings sit too close ot the face/jack up night vision/cause problems in general.

Well, the harder the shot, the tighter the pattern for given constriction, as a rule. Following this, the Hevi-shot and Steel will pattern tighter than Bismuth. He listed all top-end loads, and his weapon may like one that yours hates, or vice-versa. My experience with patterns of several feet at 30 yards with Hornady TAP buckshot vs. 12" patterns at the same distance in other people's testing is a perfect illustration.

Sorry, no cheap way to do this. Buy the shells and pattern YOUR shotgun/chokes. What you are asking us is akin to me asking you how I would like my steak cooked.

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