Just got the upper back from D Wilson, they chopped the Colt SOCOM barrel to 10.3". Very fast turnaround time, I think it was about a week. They do a great job and I highly recommend them if you need work done! This upper has an original Daniel Defense Mk18 FSP rail (not a cut down replica) and a legit CQBR receiver. Real DD Mk18 FSP rails are extremely rare, there's only a few of them out there, some I'm very lucky to have this one. I absolutely love this build and can't wait to get an SBR lower for it (the lower will be sometime from https://intlmilco.com/).

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Sweet! DD is great stuff.

My old DDM4 build. Put on a Luth-AR stock and a nice Geissele.

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Here's the latest Mk13 stock my father photographed, hope you guys enjoy these pics!

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Bad ass. I like the dope card.

Got new optics for the Tavor and a few new accessories for the SP5.
Been taking the SP5 out quite a bit and it’s very quickly becoming one of my favorites. Especially fun to shoot steel and the dueling tree.
The Tavor I picked up a few months back pretty reasonably because it was used (de-acquisitioned police firearm). Haven’t fired it yet because i was waiting to get an optic for it, but I suppose I now have and excuse to go out to the desert and do some plinking.

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Crossroads of the West show is going on in Mesa AZ this weekend if anybody’s interested.
https://www.crossroadsgunshows.com/events/

Im probably going to to walk around tomorrow morning just for the hell of it.
Not really looking for anything, but it’s fun to see what people have and what’s going on.

A few Ruger ranch rifles, aka Mini 14s.
May sound blasphemous, but I enjoy shooting these more than I enjoy shooter the ARs we have.
Fun guns that always make me think of the A-Team.

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Did you ever notice how many rounds the A-Team fired and few bad guys got shot? Could they be storm troopers?

Kinda' like The Walking Dead. Full auto all the time. No empty shells and missed everbody.... except Zombies.

Revisiting the ever so fun Socom 16.

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Took my daughter to the range this past weekend. Put over 250 rounds through the SAR 9T.

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Just got the bottom one, these are both versions of the KAC Secret Service SR16 11.5". I'm very happy and lucky to have found these original SS used uppers!

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Also put my M16 clone (original surplus upper, new lower with surplus parts) on display in my basement bar. I think it looks pretty good there! I never leave guns on display when I'm not home, so it gets moved to the safe when I go out. I got the stand from Hurley Marine, it's well made and I highly recommend it if you're looking for a good AR15 stand.

https://hurleymarine.com/shop/ar-15-gun-stand/gun-stand-display/

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Thanksgiving is coming up quickly and a bunch of my family members are going to drive out from California.
My nephews were out here for the first time a few months ago and we took them out plinking for the weekend. My sister said they both can’t wait to come back and asked if I would take them out again.
Picked up a new HK 416 the other day because it was cheap and seemed like a fun plinker for the boys. HK 22s are pretty fun and lord knows when the entire family comes out and I’m paying for ammo I love it when they shoot 22s all day because fun with the daily can get expensive with ammo prices.

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Nice range day.
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Threw a surprise birthday party for the wife on Saturday a few days before her birthday. I’m always traveling for work and I’m usually on the road for her birthday (which I am now) and it was kind of a big deal. Bought her a new Ruger Mark 4 to match her hair. Long day and I had to be at the airport the following morning.
Anyhow, she shoots the crap out of my mark 1 and mark 2 and was pretty excited about it. All her girlfriends now want one in their favorite color as well, lol.

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Another lovely day. Zeroing in the M1A

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Wife and I finally got our 22 year anniversary present after waiting from June. CMMG Banshee 200 with added ambi-charging handle, Law Tactical folding stock, and Leupold Freedom RDS.

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Love the CMMG!

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No flash...

Well, I ended up buying another original USMC M40 this week! This one is all matching serial numbers and has even been signed by Carlos Hathcock! Here it is (bottom rifle) with Major Dick Culver's M40 (top rifle):

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Here's a link to the original listing, there's also a short video clip of Carlos Hathcock signing the rifle at an event in 1992:

https://www.collectorsfirearms.com/products/158599-rare-original-usmc-m40-sniper-rifle-signed-by-carlos-hathcock-30701.html

I also removed the Colt scope on my M16A1 clone and attached a PVS-1, I think it looks awesome!

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Great score. I read the book White Feather back in the late 80's.

Sure wish we lived closer! Between the guns and the cigars, I'm betting we would be friends!

Beautiful rifles and great history.

I was able to meet up with him a couple weeks ago for a smoke unfortunately we both have stuff going on right now which makes it difficult but USMCSGT0331 is definitely an awesome person to hang out with. He even brought one of his kits with for me to inspect which I’m still tempted to pick up.

No where near as impressive or historical as some of the firearms recently posted here but my father gave this 22lr to me earlier this year.
He told me that in 1974 he was at a weigh station in Georgia and bought a raffle ticket for $1 from a state trooper who was selling them for his sons little league team fundraiser. Dad got a call a few weeks later that he won the raffle. He picked it up on his next trip through, brought it home and stored it, never firing it once.
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Great looking little plinker with some engraving on the sides and a (im sure plated) gold trigger.
I will be proud to be the steward of this firearm until I pass it down to my son.

It was awesome hanging out, I'm looking forward to meeting up at Tobacco Grove again! I still have that Mk13 Mod 5 kit set aside for you in case you're still interested, it's a really nice kit! I'll post a few photos of it in this thread, I'm sure you fellow gun nuts would like to see it! If anyone here is interested in a Navy SEAL used Mk13 Mod 5 kit, shoot me a message, I have a few kits left for sale.

Family heirlooms are the best kind of firearms, especially when it's a rifle that beautiful! I've always wanted an engraved Browning SA-22, someday I'll add one to the collection. Your rifle has the Grade III engraving, but I can't make out who the artist is (it's signed on the left side of the receiver). It doesn't look like Angelo Bee, Baerten, Funken, Magis, Vranken, Lambert, etc. I personally think your engraving looks great, whomever engraved it really put some detail into the dogs and birds!

A bunch of the family is out for thanksgiving and we’re going to go out tomorrow to go do some plinking with the kids.
My father brought out his Weatherby 30-378 so we’re going to do a little bit of distance shooting this time.
I’ve never actually fired this thing, but reading up on it sounds like one hell of a round.
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That's a beauty!

Sure is.
I absolutely love the engraving on those higher end Brownings.
I would love to one day own an over under Browning shotgun engraved like that.

Post thanksgiving family day out in the desert with the kids and their nephews.
Got me 4 automated magazine loaders.

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Harrison thinks the Tavor is the coolest gun ever.
We we’re hitting steel with it at 350 yards today.
First time taking it out and it’s a lot of fun to shoot.
The consensus is that it’s a keeper.

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Sighting in the HK 416 with a captive audience.
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My nephews getting to do stuff they don’t get to do since they live California.
These are the days where I win the “coolest uncle” award.

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These are the faces of having fun.
Great day today.

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Nice work coindork. Seeing those photos reminds me of my dad and his friends who in retrospect were unbelievably kind to a dopey kid. We lived in the country and they would occasionally come out to shoot when the old man wasn’t home. They never failed to allow me to watch and participate with free coaching when needed. Good days….

Yeah it’s pretty good stuff taking the kids out.
That’s how it was done for me as well and it’s kind of like passing the torch.
Perhaps the funniest thing that happened yesterday was there were a couple half shot up pumpkins left out there by somebody a day or so earlier. Needless to say the kids thought it was really funny to shoot at a pumpkin and send pieces of it flying. My son was about halfway through a magazine and a chipmunk ran out and stood on top of a pumpkin and started eating it. My son asked “what should I do”. I said do whatever you want to do and he said “I don’t want to shoot him”. I said “well at least shoot the pumpkin under him and see if he jumps”.
He immediately put a round though the pumpkin sending pieces of it flying and the chipmunk didn’t so much as flinch. We laughed about that and then fired a second round into the pumpkin and the chipmunk took off like a bat out of hell. We laughed even harder at that. Good times.

Fun day at the range with my youngest son

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I picked up 2 PSA daggers recently. Really like the feel of them, more so than a glock actually. I don't care for the glock frame personally.

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Finally a revolver!

Yes Sir…
Nothing better than an old Smith and Wesson model 586. The other revolver I brought was a Smith and Wesson model 625 .45 cal

Sweet. I’ve been looking for a vintage Smith and Wesson 38 Special snub nose Chiefs Special.
That was my dads concealed carry for a couple decades.
Had a lot of fun shooting that when I was a kid.
Went to a couple show recently and saw a few Colt Cobras, but wasn’t really what I was looking for.
Might just pony up and buy one off gunbroaker, but it’s surprising how much some of those have gone up in price.

I’ve been on the hunt for a model 1917 .45 cal for a while now.
Good luck In your search!

Keep a watch on Gunbroker. Those 1917s pop up fairly often.

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New pick up from my local range shop.
Next, accessories!

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Oh man, you are going to have sooooooo much fun with that.
My buddy and I both picked one up earlier in the year and it’s one of my favorite things to shoot. Lots of options for what you can do to it.
There’s a picture of how I accessorized mine on post #1555.

1 nice thing up here is alaskaslist.com. its like Craigslist but the gun section is pretty big and encouraged.

Nice to see a lot of folks here with another great hobby! Been trying to get a lot better at sporting clays - now that it’s winter it’s always fun to see those orange chunks land on a fresh coat of snow.

We've had unseasonably warm temps and my son got to try his new purchase last weekend at sporting clays.

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Any recommendations on a good clay launcher? It won't get used a whole lot but I would like something decent. Cheap is fine too if it does a good job.