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You can swap the 6.5 Grendel in for the AK-47 in the video and everything will apply for the anti-vehicle role. It will have a little bit more power than the AK-47 with budget ammunition at around 1,600 ft-lbs. If you get premium ammunition, you'll get up to 1,700+ ft-lbs. For the anti-material roll that I'm discussing in the video, you need thousands of rounds, so most likely you'll get the budget on that will be very similar to the AK. If I did not have a number of AKs and already thousands of rounds stockpiled, I would get a 6.5 grendel upper. The ballistics for 6.5 grend will be similar as the AK. Same weight bullet going at about the same speed or slightly higher. My criteria for getting into a new caliber is that I must get at least 2000 rounds up front at the time of the order with the goal of getting another 2000 rounds for reserve .That's a mechanism that I have put in place to know that I am serious about training with that caliber. Otherwise I would end up with a lot of different guns in different calibers but not enough ammunition for them to be useful.

When I was buying them, they were 100% shtf gun. It has very much become a novelty now because of import restrictions.

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Greatly appreciate your feedback.. I very much value different points of view based on different experiences.. I had not thought that the disconnector failure might just be because of the spring. I still have the ones that failed, I'll try switching the springs.

@@absolutegunrights3079 Colt gold extractor springs both 4 coil (SOCOM upgrade kit.) Or the Gold 5 coil. Colt springs are generally stronger springs. Those springs will generally outlast the bolt. People tout Sprinco springs because they won't take a set like others. Same with JP springs cause they are chrome silicon. But they will rust. So you have keep a dry film lubricant on hand for buffer springs. If you lube your bolt. You shouldn't have any problems. I have rifles in Mississippi and I generally run stainless action springs. You won't burn up a action spring running semi auto like you would full auto. Trigger springs. ALG defense used to have them on their site. They sourced them from the same vendor Colt does. BCM as well. JP makes a good aftermarket spring. Been seeing 24 coil ejector springs popping up. The TDP spec is 27 coils. There's a guy Peter Egger on TH-cam that bought 2 Wilson Combat BCG's with short ejector springs. I don't know who Wilson is using as a OEM. But their QA/QC sucks. Supposedly a high end company. I don't just bag on Palmetto, Aero or BCA. There's high end companies I dont like as well. Noveske and Daniel Defense are at the top of my list. Marty Daniel is a queef. And Noveske stuff is super overgassed. Plus I'm not a fan of billet 5.56mm guns. A lot of two and three gun guys run Noveske. They have really accurate CHF barrels. Not a huge fan of LMT or Knights. To many proprietary parts. And the cost is ridiculous. Same with DD and Noveske. The biggest killer of bolts isn't the bolt getting hot. It's the M4 standard upper getting hot and flexing. Causing bolt lugs to shear off. There's fixes. Jim Hodge redesigned the M4 standard upper 3/32nds thicker with Mega Arms along with the seating of the barrel in the reciever. Both SOLGW and Sionics use uppers cut to this spec. Eric Kinsel of BCM and formerly of Vltor he developed the BCM Mk2 uppers and the Vltor MUR. Before that Knights, LMT designed proprietary bolts along with LWRC. For the M4 PIP program. It wasn't a bolt problem. It's a upper reciever problem. When they cut that carry handle off. They removed a ton of the stiffness. I tell people a Colt if you don't have a lot of money. That 6920 Trooper is pretty descent for the price. If you have the money BCM or Sionics. Or a DI LWRC. You can find those for under $1,300 at times.

@DutchK75 I have a Colt 6920. I got it for about 1200 back around 2012. I only put about 500 rounds on it just to test it. Quad rail, light. Optic. That mostly stays in my house. That's one of the SHTF guns. I have done a few videos on it in my channel. I only shoot that one a few times a year since I have so many other ARs to burn through. You posted a lot of good information above. Thank you

I thought about getting a 20 inch upper but the numbers weren't different enough to justify it.

When you come over the border to PA you can fix it 😎 The good thing about AR-15s is that they are quick to modify back and forth.

I havevdon a few videos on Radical AR. Good guns !

@@absolutegunrights3079 great to hear! I have a 7.5 inch maurder AR pistol PSA! Absolutely the best thing ever !

@JustinShinn-j7h what kind of accuracy do you get from your 7.5 ? I have a Palmetto and a Radical in 7.5". The Parmetto gets better groups for me. That barrel length is the only place I see a difference.

@@absolutegunrights3079 so far I’ve only shot it out to 15 yards and I’m very new to shooting. But I can stack shots almost! Not every time but I can get some nice groups, I’m sure my stance and grip and everything is playing a part of being not as accurate but I’ll get better 😅

As always, I appreciate your feedback and sharing your experience. I run up very high round counts, but I don't do mag dump after mag dump. The other thing that I do is I'll use a number of AR-15s and rotate them as soon as the handgun gets too hot to hold, rather than put gloves on. Heat kills guns, and that's something that I monitor very closely and avoid. Something that I should do a video on . The other thing that possibly is prolonging the life of my guns is that for 95% of the high volume shooting I use Tula . Which is compatible with the overgassed systems of budget ARs. The energy on a 16" is 865 ft-lbs vs the 1150 of green tips. This might be the reason why I have had so much success with the budget ARs. Just contemplating what might be the difference between your experience and my experience. I use the guns to run a business and they have been successful and profitable. I have not had a reason to go to a more expensive. Regardless, I you appreciate the details that you gave me. Something that I will continue to monitor.

Do you mean black powder guns. I started off on that. I'm certified black powder instructor. If you search my channel name and black powder you should see a few videos that I have done. A lot on the cap and ball revolver. I also have a popular web page on black powder ballistics that has been up for many years.

Sustained rate of fire for the M16/M4 is 15 rounds a minute. That's infinite basically til the gas port erodes to the point of over gassing the gun til something breaks. While the Goldenwebb stuff is cool it's not a cumulative test over any sample size. Except the sample size of one. So you have to take it with a grain of salt. With that said...Yeah Daniel Defense is expensive. And I probably wouldn't buy one. I haven't seen any clear evidence that a CHF chrome lined barrel is better or has longer longevity than a button cut barrel. That's where DD tends to be along with their rails seem to be where most of the extra expense comes in.

Heat kills the guns. AR-15s are designed to be lightweight. I don't think any brand will take continuous fire approaching 1000 rounds and not suffer damage.

I have a 6X magnifier from Vortex that I like using behind Red Dots. It works very well and I have been out to 500 yd several times with it. With a magnifier have the benefit of being able to remove it completely for a lighter rifle. That's why when it comes to scopes they have to be a minimum of 8 magnification for me to justify the extra weight. We also have to have complex reticles that give a lot of information for that extra weight. The problem with the 2-10 is that I find that I have to also mount a Red Dot. Not something that I love to do. Not using a red dot and trying to stay in 2x is very disorienting when I'm moving around on uneven ground.

I agree that the 1 to 10 have flaws, but there is a payoff if the retical a good design suitable for both CQB and distance.

@@absolutegunrights3079 The reason I say 6X is plenty is because most combat engagements are under 200 yards. In Afghanistan it played out that way. In Iraq it was generally even closer. In Ukraine it's playing out that 200 is about where it's at in a peer to near peer engagement distances. I don't see the human interface with small arms taking a evolutionary leap. Hardware is never the solution to software problems. The problem with not having a top mounted dot on a 1-8/10 is the fact at distance 400+ meters and at higher power it's hard to track movements in real life scenarios. Because of that narrow field of view. I don't look at a LPVO as a DMR or sniper system. I look at it from a 200 yards and in optic. (When Jimmy the Commie pokes his nugget around the bumper of his daddy's Buick that he stole to go to the mostly peaceful protest, you can pop him in the nugget.) A dot on top can point you in the right direction at distance. Dialing back and then forward doesn't work. It doesn't matter on a range. You know where the target is. On the two way range. I think you may be surprised that you'll need a dot regardless. With 1-6's you generally have wider field of view. The 4X ACOG's were/are wonderful because of the FOV is so wide. 10X Unertal's when I was in the Marines were better because of the FOV was much greater than most of the variables at the time. Plus parallax wasn't a issue. Once you push LPVO's past 6X then you run into not having parallax adjustment. 8X and 10X LPVO's eyebox tighten up considerably at max magnification. I own two Plx-c's. They are better on 6X than they are at 8X for the above mentioned reasons. I run a top dot on pretty much everything now. No free lunches. That's why if I'm trying to push out I'd want a 2-10 or 4-16. Wider objective, parallax adjustment etc. With a dot on top. If I were King the perfect optic for a general purpose rifle would be a Trijicon TA02 with the ACSS Aurora. With .1 mil adjustment. And a top mounted RMR. Followed by a 1-6 VCOG with a updated M6 Griffen mil and a top dot mounting plate. I have two TA31's with the ACSS Aurora. I wish I had bought a few more. If the dot could be placed like the TA02...Money.

I also noticed that the Griffin is sold out. I'm glad I got it. Somebody Elsa also told me that they were I'm not going to make any more. This is a very boom / bust industry. That is a good subject for video. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow. When something comes on the market that I really like, I don't hesitate because I know that production can be cut off at any time. There's so many variables.

Here is a recent link to a video that I did on my Colt. th-cam.com/video/iGRkPhKAgpE/w-d-xo.html I do a pretty high volume of shooting. I have not been disappointed by the budget rifles. My Colt mostly stays in the safe too. I'm glad you like the videos. Thank you for your feedback.

Where's the reality is that you don't even need to drill a hole and buy expensive parts. A piece of metal can be crafted to trip the disconnector as the bolt goes forward. People refer to this as a lightning link or coat hanger. The second amendment protects the right to own military guns. Black powder can be crafted from charcoal, stump remover, and sulfur all of which can be found at a Hardware store.

@@absolutegunrights3079 Which is why the anti-gunners want laws or court rulings that allow imprisonment for any political opponent 'potentially' possessing banned items.

lol... thank you

The design is even simpler if you craft a piece that does not have an on-off switch. It will be Auto until you take your finger off the triggering.

Keeping both and switching as circumstances require. One will be sniper rifle configuration and the other one battle rifle 😊

Definitely a good use of beer cans!

It would be nice for the ATF to get a black eye.

It's principle. Yes, they sux!

I agree. One of the purposes of this video was to make more people aware of his channel.

That's where this ultimately goes if the ATF gets its way.

That's excellent. Thank you for sharing your experience.

That's exactly the line of thinking that I think is going to when the case for us. Any piece of plastic or metal can potentially become a gun.

@@absolutegunrights3079 for real. People make shot guns out of pipes. we gonna have to pass background checks to do plumbling now? xD great informative video btw.

I don't think it's got posted. Put it up again. Sometimes TH-cam glitches.

@@absolutegunrights3079 YT censoring my comments again. Now you know how I got my name.

I love that. I'm going to use that at some point in a video 😊

And all men are grapists (spelling error is intended) because they have the equipment to do the deed.

It's great to have you on the channel. Thank you for your feedback.

I'll ask him, but like I said in the video, you can't rely on it unless you're paying them something. You would not be able to offer that as proof of due diligence. If you're paying them something, even if it's $10 a month, and even if they give you the wrong answer, you're still in a position to say that you did what your lawyer said was okay to do. I think the deal that they're running now in some states that you get the first 2 months free with no sign-up fee with the promo code. So use the promo code to get your answer, and then cancel it next month and it won't cost you a thing.

The lawyer just got back to me. You can NOT put a pistol grip on an AR pistol without going through the NFA.

@@absolutegunrights3079 thanks for checking into it. i figured if the vertical grip was connected to the suppressor and not the firearm it might be ok. im glad i didn't do it and catch a charge.

@twodogs7741 it's great to have you here. thank you brother

Very true. More importantly, match up the right guns to the ammunition. I got plenty of Tula stockpiled, but I know I got to shoot it out of my 18-inch Barrels in SHTF. I have come across a lot of brass that's also very low power. Unless it's a big name brand you got to run it through a chronograph. Even the big name brands usually test in a 24-inch Barrel and put those numbers out there.

Expensive even for 556. From what I remember, it's an upper that fits on a standard AR Lower. If the price was lower, I might take a chance with it.

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@@absolutegunrights3079 Well said

That’s not true at all. Mil spec M193 out of a 16” gun is very lethal. Your bonded SP out of the 10.5” isn’t better. You lose a ton of velocity cutting that much barrel length. Acting like a “good” SP round makes up for the lack of velocity is misinformation. Also your effective range isn’t as good with a 10.5” as a 16-20” barrel. You’re trading range and velocity for maneuverability dropping to a short AR platform. There are no “pros” to lethality of a 10.5” rifle compared to longer 16-20” AR’s, only cons.

@@paulf7803 at close range sure fragmenting 193 is comparable to a soft point. But that’s only at close range. Stretch it out to 75-250+ yards and a 10 inch gun with good soft points will absolutely stomp a 16 or 20 shooting FMJ. And because of that, it’s better. Period. I wasn’t saying there were lethality pros in a short gun. I was saying there are bigger lethality pros to be gained and lost by ammunition selection than barrel length. Ammo selection makes a much bigger impact.

I think the real take away from this is that if you have stockpiled Tula like I have, best use it in an 18 or 20 inch barrel. If you need to use a short barrel, best use heavy bullets and hot ammo.