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Broken Legend

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  1. Hmm. Bacon is to Muslim terrorists as garlic is to vampires. I like it! Just make sure that it's real bacon bits and not the fake stuff or you'll just end up with a well fed Muslim terrorist with some 00 buck holes in him.

  2. Don't forget lubrication. Spray it a bit before taking it out. It should almost be dripping. Since it's a gas system the weak shoulder shouldn't come into it much, but I'm sure it can affect it.

     

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  3. Since a super quality trigger isn't essential for a shotgun, and Benelli's trigger on the M4 is pretty good, I'm thinking about just paying the $200 tax stamp and registering it for the ability to use a short barreled shotgun. I don't have a short barrel for the M4, and I don't plan to get one, but that $200 tax stamp would exempt me from the 922r nonsense. It would be like "just in case" insurance if you wanted to upgrade a few pieces of the gun and not have to buy a handguard, trigger group, or hammer that I don't want/need.

     

    And if I ever got the hankering for a shorty M4, I just have it shipped to me and slap it on.

  4. For the Benelli M4: If I was wanting one, I guess with all that fancy gear between 1800 low and 2200 high. Remember that everyone's preferences on accessories are different and might not be worth the purchase price to others.

     

    I am not an expert and probably have no idea what I'm talking about.

  5. I think I'll wait for the whole trigger assembly to come out. Can't wait to try an upgraded trigger for the Benelli M4, not that the original was bad in any way, but a company that only makes trigger groups sound like they know what they're doing if they're still in business.

  6. Yah, when they made up the stupid laws having to do with $200 tax stamps, they wanted to price it out of existence. The price for a shotgun back then was $10. Today that would be like buying a $300 short barreled shotgun and having to pay $6000 in a tax - every time it was transferred.

    They wanted to include pistols into the legislation, but little old ladies with pistols revolted and forced them to only make it apply to short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and fully automatic weapons. Which is kinda funny since the whole legislation was about an assassination attempt made with a handgun by a crazy person who "blamed FDR and all rich people and capitalists for his chronic stomach pain." Which is stupid and crazy since FDR was nearly a socialist.

    National Firearms Act of 1934

     

    It was, in fact, a prolific mass murder that brought about the very idea of gun control in America. The National Firearms Act of 1934, which effectively banned private ownership of machine guns and other “gangster” weapons, was the first federal gun control law with long-lasting consequences. It was also a result of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929. Americans had already grown weary of gang violence perpetrated by the likes of Al Capone and Bugs Moran. But the Feb. 14, 1929, incident seemed to be a tipping point.

     

    Four years later, an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt left Chicago mayor Anton Cermak mortally wounded. Together, the two high-profile shootings helped pave the way to the National Firearms Act.

    Source: http://civilliberty.about.com/od/guncontrol/a/Political-Shootings-Gun-Control.htm

    Then U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings recognized that firearms could not be banned outright under the Second Amendment, so he proposed restrictive regulation in the form of an expensive tax and Federal registration. Originally, pistols and revolvers were to be regulated as strictly as machine guns; towards that end, cutting down a rifle or shotgun to circumvent the handgun restrictions by making a concealable weapon was taxed as strictly as a machine gun.

    Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

     

    Ugh, I hate how short barreled rifles and shotguns were just tacked on the end of that law for no reason. Kinda pisses me off. Stoopid politicians!

  7. I eyeballed mine and it's about 2.5" and close to 2" without the bolt handle. If you took off the bolt handle and the foregrip, you should be able to fit it into a 1.75" wide area.

     

    Note that these measurements aren't precise, I used a ruler, not a set of calipers.

  8. There's a do-it-yourself liquid hydroprint kit that you can use to put on your own pattern if you don't want to send it off to be done.

     

    Here's a guy using it. Pretty hokey until you get to the amazing job it does on the items he camo'ed.

     

    Part 1:

     

    Part 2:

     

    He says that http://www.timbersedgecamo.com have the kits for sale.

     

    You could also have it done at one of the many professional places like this one: http://www.liquidconceptsus.com

  9. I had a great time shooting the clays on Saturday. There was a group of 5 of us shooting different shotguns. Mine was the only semi-auto, the rest were pumps and one break open single barrel shotgun for the kid with a smaller caliber. We had one throw the clay with the thrower while we took turns trying to hit it.

     

    At first I stunk, then I tried one of the pump shotguns (first time ever with a pump shotgun for me) with a bead at the front. I hit a few with it and went back to my M4. I was able to keep the sight picture while swinging the shotgun and kept both eyes open to find the target and the clays began to break. I gained some confidence and I began to break more targets than I thought was possible for me. Before I would get 1 in about 10. Saturday after I got my rhythm down, I was able to hit about 7 in 10. I've got a feeling that I could make it more with some practice.

     

    Thanks for all the great advice from you guys. With your help it was finally able to "click" for me.

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