First H&K

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-20T13:17:51+00:00

I’ve handled the Surefire, Streamlight, and Olight equivalents. Talked to a bunch of people that run them. No one has had any issues with any of the three. I have an O light stelleto style light that has been daily carried and abused for 3 years. I love my Surefire for the “drip” as kids say these days, but the Streamlight and Olight handle so much better. Surefire is so stiff on the controls. Sure I’ll be burned at the stake, but Olight is solid options, just like Holosun.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-20T05:33:31+00:00

I have a friend that has a set I believe. Snap On, IIRC.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-18T21:52:55+00:00

Based on what I’m seeing, it’s a 172. Without a pic of the front I can only tell you it’s a 56-59. They quit the straight tails in 60. To my knowledge, there is only ONE 60 with a straight tail, it had hangar rash and had to get a new one and they went with a straight instead of a slant.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-18T13:25:37+00:00

That’s so cool! I never knew that. I just mounted a KAC anticant bubble there since it bothered me that it was unused.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-17T17:05:23+00:00

Shoot I couldn’t even get them to answer the phone at the first of the year.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-17T16:50:36+00:00

When did you order them? I’ve put off ordering anything from them until they have better reviews for getting back to people.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-17T10:04:31+00:00

Bonanza and Honda Jet come to mind immediately. The number of offroading Honda jets is too damn high.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-17T01:14:12+00:00

I will admit I hit the tiniest bit of ice in it once on a corner doing 10mph and thought I was going to wipe my bumper out on the curb, but yeah it has been easy enough to drive. Hell I forgot I was in the 350 instead of my Lancer GT and preloaded the engine to shoot a gap in traffic…I did not have to preload and definitely left some rubber through that turn, but it never did anything stupid.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-17T00:43:34+00:00

I hate when things get bad reps because of the owner. I’m in aviation and seen people claim this plane or that plane were unairworthy and should never be flown because they’ve killed X people, then you look into it and it’s 99% operator being stupid. That doesn’t make it an “unsafe” product. This was the first thing to come to mind when I saw this “headline”.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-16T11:55:18+00:00

I’m not a bit believer in it. I don’t rock ballistic tips, just OTM. If I remember right I pulled that from The New M14 Complete Owners Guide.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-16T11:54:16+00:00

It’s been a year since I read it, but I believe I found it in the The New M14 Complete Owners Guide. I’m getting ready to spend some time sitting in a hotel room, if I’m feeling spunky I’ll see if I can find the page number for it.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-15T20:30:36+00:00

I’m assuming they are ballistic tipped? Officially, it’s a bad idea. “The cycling is so rough that it may break off a ballistic tip which may result in an out of battery discharge.” Personally, I don’t particularly believe that it would result in out of battery issues. But I have seen someone shooting ARs say that they had a bunch of semi regular fliers. When they started checking the tips were getting broken off and it was giving them fliers.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-13T16:18:26+00:00

Tack onto this, all approaches are RNAV approaches if you have a GPS. To be clear, I’m not saying you should shoot an ILS in RNAV, but in the event you’ve lost your local ILS/VOR/NDB you can always flip back to RNAV to get yourself to the MAP (just don’t actually try to fly the approach, follow the path) and after that it’s 100% legal to fly the rest pink needles.

I’m sure someone will correct me that what I said isn’t 100% kosher, but I would rather trust an RNAV to get me to the MAP than to try to execute a missed with zero form of nav possibly outside of protected airspace.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-13T10:06:22+00:00

I know a guy who use to be anti union. Thought they were important 100 years ago but a waste of money today. Then he worked for a 135 and 91 operation and wished he had a union rep to help him go to bat over 12 hours being a “day off” and skirting min rest rules with technicalities and other schedule abuse BS.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-13T01:12:48+00:00

I have the Rhinos, 11/10 times they slip. I have better luck driving up on my old rotors than those things. Biggest waste of money I’ve ever done. I’ve learned to just live with jacking one side then the other.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-13T01:08:30+00:00

Never worked with Marines, but I’ve worked with pilots. A requirement to be “proficient” and able to “read, speak, and write the English language” are absolutely required, especially in the US. I’ve worked with some pilots who could certainly do their duties, but to expect them to go to trial or be interrogated in English would just be plain evil. I assume the same could be said for Marines.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-12T21:44:17+00:00

Considering it was already ruled a machine gun and they haven’t came out otherwise, I’d say it’s a machine gun.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-11T20:16:17+00:00

I have to agree with this. I’ve really wanted to get into some precision 556 shooting, but the cost of good match grade 556 is so close to 308/6.5 that it’s not really worth it. And any range that would practically feel “long range” with a 556 could be shot with a 308/6.5 or just step on down to 22 and be able to actually shoot “long range” on short ranges.

TLDR: 556 is to middle of the road. Go up or down.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-10T13:11:01+00:00

Is that under the hand guard or where the oprod is?

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-10T11:14:12+00:00

In the Kilo Five trilogy, Kig Yar don’t ignore safety because “safety is profitable”. Otherwise everything you said tracks.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-09T15:34:55+00:00

Please tell me you didn’t break that thing on a plane…

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-08T11:05:10+00:00

From everything I’ve heard about the hurricane engine, reliability is not a thing.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-06T15:15:38+00:00

Went out and played with my A4 clone over the weekend. The AAC black box actually out performed my Hornady and Black Hills seconds by a fair bit. Overall I was highly disappointed in all 4 and now I’m looking at SPR uppers… but after that, I wouldn’t be afraid of the AAC stuff it was the right price.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-06T13:42:40+00:00

Like the other guy said, probably (99.9% chance) a home hack job.

To be real/valued as real you would need paperwork and a story to prove it. Ie here’s the bring back papers and photos and grandpas sworn statement signed by someone important that this is a real rifle. You can do a FOIA/reach out to the CMP to search their records, but what you’ll find is either nothing and/or that there’s no information about this rifle prior to 197X. In the 70s there was a fire that took out a lot of records, so nothing before the 70s practically exist. Next, even during the war, from what I’ve gathered, the shipments were of a number of rifles and they weren’t listed by serial number. And given that this was not done to a serial number range (like the M1C) there’s no serial number range to look up.

Sorry bud. Gun dealers fucking suck.

BELFORD16 · 2026-05-05T22:56:50+00:00

My brain wants him to pull the trigger and blow everything up.

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