On addiction
I don’t have a problem. I can stop whenever I want. Below is the latest kit and sack of parts I got:
Got it together and wanted to snap a pic. Since the camera is out, the dog decides he wants to pose too:
The new addition meets his family:
Did I mention I bought some more mags? How many is enough?
February 2nd, 2005 at 9:46 am
“How many is enough?”
All of them?
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Do they not make a drum magazine?
(I honestly don’t know)
February 2nd, 2005 at 10:05 am
You have enough magazines when you cannot lift the combined weight of all the empty magazines you own for a particular rifle. In short, put all your empty mags in a sack. When you can’t lift the sack, you have enough.
February 2nd, 2005 at 10:09 am
They make a 100 round beta C mag but I have no desire to get one. 4 30 rounders wiegh less and hold more. Plus, 30 rounders go for about $10 and beta C sell for $230.
February 2nd, 2005 at 10:20 am
I am not even a big AR fan, but I am still a little green with envy.
Glad to see you are exercising your Second Amendment rights, not that I had any doubts!
February 2nd, 2005 at 11:54 am
I stopped buying AR mags when I hit around 60. I just figured that I wanted enough 20’s & 30’s to last the rest of my life, should I be in a situation where I would not be able to get any more in the future. Approach your buying very carefully. Magazine addiction is a bad thing.
February 2nd, 2005 at 12:08 pm
The drum magazines just look soooo much cooler (and scarier, too…) ๐
I like Dennis’ definition of too many, BTW.
February 2nd, 2005 at 12:21 pm
What, exactly, is the new one?
February 2nd, 2005 at 1:27 pm
It is my effort at building an AR for the lowes possible cost. About $580 total including shipping, taxes and crap.
Model 1 kit
Stag lower
16 inch, CAR with HBAR. Nothing fancy.
February 2nd, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Hmm, in the fully assembled version, I don’t see the salt and pepper shakers. Are they inside the magazine? :^B
February 2nd, 2005 at 4:36 pm
I think $580 is pretty close to what my 20″ A2 from J&T + Stag lower.
And I see it has the evil bayonet lug and flashsuppressor.
February 3rd, 2005 at 2:32 am
where’d you get the kits from? How tough is it to put one of those together? It looks like you have a stripped lower receiver, how hard is it to put that part together? Tools?
February 3rd, 2005 at 9:11 am
Ben, go ar15.com forums for the tutorial. If you can drive a nail, you can assemble a lower. It takes a hammer, pliers, a punch (or blunted screwdriver/nail), allen wrench, screwdriver and patience to put together.
This particular kit came from model1 sales (http://www.model1sales.com)
The lower is a stag, which you can get from eagel (http://www.eaglefirearms.net/stag_arms.htm)
February 3rd, 2005 at 11:11 am
Dangit, now you’ve given me an itch for an Oly 10mm upper.
I’m trying to reduce my credit card debt, dangit.
February 3rd, 2005 at 3:24 pm
cool, thanks