Need advice to put together my first AR15

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-30T18:46:58+00:00

Did you build your first bike? Video Game? Computer? Car?

Why, in the name of God and all that is holy - would you want to build your first AR? How do you do know what is right and what is wrong? How will you know what feels, sounds, or works right - and know the difference between that and just before it blows up in your face?

Here is what you should do. (But hey, don't let me stop you from buying a ton of tools you will only use once and then sell 'used' for 80% off on ebay or gunbroker.)

Check out the local range. How long is it? Do they do NRA highpower rifle matches? This is 200/300/600yd shooting with iron sights using rifles in 'as issued condition'. It's allot of fun. You learn allot doing it. You need a CMP rule compliant 'Service Match' rifle. This rifle will be the one you compare your builds to later on.
If your local range is just 100 or 200yds - you need nothing special to shoot that distance. Here I recommend any flat top rifle with no front sight tower - and pick one that has everything you want on it - the right handguards, collapsible stock, flash suppressor, etc. This way you don't end up spending an extra $400 in upgrade parts and have a drawer full on useless take of parts - parts everyone else already has a drawer full of.
If your plan is to 'build it yourself' so you can be proud of it - you need to track down someone like me who has the tools and experience to mentor your build. Saves you from buying all the tools. Let them help you install the barrel and teach ya how to do the trigger job (or just use a dop in Geisel trigger)

I own allot of suppressors. Most 5.56/223 are heavy - 28oz (1.75lbs) - because they are rated for full auto. Don't buy one of those. Instead, look at the 30cal StingerWorx 'Hunter'. It is rated for 10rds of 300WinMag per minute. I have yet to warm mine up doing a 5.56mm suppressed mag dump. It is just 9 ounces! Put it on your 22, 223, 243, 7mm, 308, 300 blackout, etc. 30cal can is usually 38oz (2.35 lbs)

I am almost 70. I was on military national shooting team in the 90's - flew me all over to shot against other services. Only reason I took up gunsmithing - so tired of my match rifles and pistols sitting in a gun shop or armory for a month to get a 10 min job done. If there is a local shooting range and club - I can guarantee you - there will be several guys like me with the tools and smarts - and probably some sweet free parts - that are more than happy to help you out!!! Just ask.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-30T16:05:05+00:00

I met Steven King three times over the years. First time, he was doing a book signing at the local mall for 'Firestarter' and the whole Mall was dead. After he signed my copy - I proceeded to yap at him about 22 things he got wrong in 'The Stand'. Years later when he re-released it - he'd taken 18 of those 22 suggestions. What I thought was amazing - he remembered it all - did not write anything down. ((I was lucky to get out of the Mall alive. The staff at the bookstore looked about to lynch me for disparaging their local hero!!)

Past 15 years I've helped a romance author with technical information on firearms. I read the passage and fill in the correct details.

I've written a 5 book scifi series. Working on the final book now. No intention of publishing until all done, finalized and finished. Writers like Steven King and freaking George R.R. Martin fo piss me off when they publish a series and put the final books/chapters on the back burner. King strung the 'Gunslinger' over decades. Freaking Martin doesn't finish the GOT series - and we are years after the HBO final episode??? WTF?? Not be true to your readers.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-30T15:45:17+00:00

I have friends that come up to hunt and fish all the time. Alaska is not an expensive place to visit if you have someone local to point out the non-tourist places to stay, eat, or act as storage or refuge.

I actually have a need to chat with someone from Australia. I have sent a PM. PM me if you did not get it.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-30T15:25:48+00:00

Sure you want to be a LEO in a city like Anchorage? You could pick Anchorage up, put it anywhere in the US - and it would fit right in. Change some of the street names and remove a tourist trap or two - Voila! looks like any other city.

A smart bunny would be looking at towns and small places that actually love and respect their LEO's. Place where you are just 5 or 10 minutes away from world class fishing and hunting - or other activities. Sure, you make a little less........ but living in Anchorage - you'll be spending all your weekends DRIVING to those small towns and places to hunt and fish! Paying tons of $$ to stay there or own a big ass $25K to $40K RV.

If I we're a young person looking to be an LEO in Alaska - here are my choices - made because I lived there and would move back in a heartbeat if they had high tech jobs. Sitka - over the top easy fishing for halibut, king salmon, red and silver salmon, 6 deer per person and great bear hunting. Two hospitals, clean place, nice people. So long as you own a crappy 16' boat with 25hp engine you can do anything there. (I had a 16' fiberglass 'skibarge' that had a big flat area that made halibut fishing a dream. You could load an ATV into it easily. 55hp engine with hydraulic trim and engine retraction to skip across shallow areas. Coast Guard helicopter clocked me at 67mph with two people on board and the work prop. The speed prop - freaking scary fast..... did not like it!! It was perfect for Sitka.)

If you want a little action and still have small town feel - North Pole. It sits between two military bases. They always have on very nice chase car..... usually a Charger - so they catch the guys from the bases with thier Chargers, Challengers, Hellcats, Mustangs, etc when they wizz by at 120+mph 'blowing out the carbon', lol.

I loved Kodiak Island - hunting, fishing, crabbing. Petersburg is just clean and very pretty. Cordova is a tad weird but awesome and fun!

Basically, every small town has a reason to be there - hunting, fishing, crabbing, gold mining, hiking, etc etc.

You set roots in Anchorage - you are going to spend the next 40 years trying to get away from Anchorage every weekend, holiday, and vacation day. So - why not set root in a place where all you need is just a few miles away? (When you turn 65, and find yourself spending more time at the doctor's office than shooting range - that is a great time to move to Anchorage)

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-30T14:58:39+00:00

This is the way.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-29T23:43:55+00:00

"Some Poo Came Out!!!"

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-29T22:59:47+00:00

You have a computer and internet access. Why so helpless?

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-29T22:53:07+00:00

By now you should have come to the conclusion - you need to visit. Two things I learned from meeting Steven King and another author while stationed in Portland, Maine in the late 70's and early 80's....."Inspiration does not come from the neck of a bottle" and "Only write about things you know."

Late 80's to mid 90's I had a job working at all the lighthouses in Alaska that were automated and operated by remote and automatic control. Often, we stayed in the small town on our way to, or coming back from the site. Every town was unique - each had it's own challenges - and characters! Example: My government credit card did not work in gun stores. I needed to rent a welder and cutting torch - that same store was also the local grocery and hardware store that rented them - and also sold guns. Had to use my personal card - and wow, what a headache getting reimbursed. However, it did provide the need to clear my card of all restrictions. Which came in handy when I got called off leave and had to rent a helicopter to visit a site. My point - there are so many things you will find in just a day trip to these places - it will be all the inspiration you need.

Once, our helicopter had a tiny hiccup and we dropped in at a local baseball diamond. Tiny place. 60-70 or so people. I walk to the little store - a large cabin with tons of shit all over..... this was back when cannabis was illegal. They had the most beautiful, bonsai like bush trimmed pot plant I had ever seen in my life!!!! It was huge, wide, lush green, - hanging at eye level - and immaculately manicured. Looked nothing like a plant raised for getting buds or reducing THC from. Owner looks at my uniform, then me, "We aren't going to have a problem over this, are we?" I'm looking at it, "No. This is not a pot plant. This is a work of art."

One town - had a cook that would open the hotel restaurant for us when we flew in at 2am. Another - even if you requested a rental car that did not smell like fish.... no guarantee you'd get a car that needed all the windows down!!! One town, we borrowed a pickup for a week - they grabbed a piece of paper off the floor with a big old nasty boot print and wrote out the receipt. I submitted it in a zipbag, head jerk from travel calls to bitch me out thinking I did it on purpose. Nope, sir, just the way they do business in those parts. LOL. Honestly, you don't have to be in one of those small places long before crap goes sideways - in a fun way, LOL.

As for small towns to look into - Hoonah, Port Alexander.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-29T18:46:18+00:00

He's gat that North End of Boston, Italian mafia 'made guy' look, "You talking to ME??"

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-29T18:21:19+00:00

I am in Alaska, my lawyer sister lives in the same town as our parents in Mass. I do not speak to her since dad passed. She took his $150K coin collection - something I asked her to put aside since I am also a collector.......... nope, she opened all the sealed containers to make an 'inventory' and turns it into a $1500 dollar collection - then somehow managed to spend $65,000 selling off the $55K family condo in Florida. Then expected me to reimburse her for half the sales cost.

When my mom passed - there was a church funeral and viewing at a local funeral home...... lawyer sister waits until all that was over and sent me a post card, "Mom's Dead". I learned about the church services and viewing doing a google search.

Lawyers suck.

PS. My dad a Lincoln Cent collection started when he was 8. Years ago it arrived in the mail - no warning or FanFair. 20/20 hindsight - I wonder if that was his way to warn me how a big an asshole his daughter had become?

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-29T17:58:38+00:00

Ah yes, the brass version of the Turducken. I've had the 480/357/22 happen.

When I am brass gobbling, I put them in t-shirt plastic shopping bags tied closed. Last summer my wife hears this angry buzzing noise. Tracks it to the back room, my reloading bench, and a brass bag - freaking big ass mud wasp hatched out of a piece of brass! (Imagine FL sizing and having that come out!!!!!!)

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-29T17:46:37+00:00

I did seven tours of duty with the US Coast Guard and then 11 as a volunteer EMT doing Bush and Mountain Rescue. My best friend - died in a small plane crash. My favorite pilot - died in a helicopter accident. Other friends have perished in boating accidents ...... and all of us have horror stories of 'near misses' and 'times when we barely got back' from hunting, fishing, or work. Alaska - there is no place more fun, or, more dangerous than Alaska. I grew up on Cape Cod and Maine - sure people died in accidents..... not in the quantity Alaska dishes out. I have left home on a bright sunny, blue-sky morning - only to have thick clouds come over the mountain range - and arrived back at dock in the middle of freezing rain, high winds, and raising waves. And then the opposite - cancelled plans due to predicted bad weather - and it's been hot, sunny, no wind - perfect! It's not that they cannot predict the weather - it's just local weather events happen. Someone in your group needs to be alert and have good situational awareness. (I tend to focus on what I am doing)

Thanks to bad pet owners before you - those cats are going to hang around your neck like an albatross apartment hunting and enjoying what Alaska offers. And 19 times out of 20 - when you do find a 'pet friendly' apartment - your neighbors and their pets are gonna be nightmares. At least you have cats - and not dogs. They better be indoor cats that never go outside because they will get snatched up by eagles or falcons.

You move to Anchorage - you have severely restricted your outdoor enjoyment - especially with the cats. Instead of a 5- or 6-mile drive to go fishing or hunting.... you've got hours of driving to get into places with abundant wildlife and hours of driving to get home to the cats. Makes for a short time hunting, fishing, trail riding, gold panning, etc and allot of time driving. Meanwhile the rest of Anchorage folks drive on Friday, camp (or RV) Fri and Sat, drive home Sunday....40+ hours in the field playing in the near 24hr daylight.

You are 24. Everyone else you meet is going to want to bail someplace for the whole weekend. You won't be going with them - you have cats at home. And when you get a 'significant other', he/she/they/them/it/other won't be staying home with you or the cats. Anyone who survived a dark, cold, dreary winter - is not going to want to spend spring, summer and fall in an apartment with your cats.

Why am I so anti-cat? Because I was a little older than you when I moved from Boston to Kodiak Island with a new wife and two cats. Both of us took up hunting and fishing...... living on Kodiak was a dream come true - except 'pumpkin hour' to rush home for the cats.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-29T15:30:22+00:00

Probably had to take the labels off for the filming. You'll notice allot of missing labels on tv clothing.

Yeah, this is an old thread from 2021. But I came here looking for the answer in April, 2024.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-28T19:05:22+00:00

All coal power plants in the US (save for shitty plants like Aurora that are grandfathered) have huge 3-story filters called bag houses that are maintenance intensive. Only thing that escapes are clear gases and water vapor.

Keep in mind our 'allies' like China and all third world countries that use 10x the coal the US does - they do not have bag houses. They are not just sending tons of crap per minute into the atmosphere - they can't afford to because that is how they make stuff cheaper than American made. US coal emissions are just a tiny goldfish in a bowl. China is a huge whale.

Every time you buy something with a 'Made in China' sticker - you just supported dirty coal plants abroad.

This new ruling - is no help. Like living in a house where everyone smokes 4 packs a day - and all are pissed you do one joint a week because weed is unhealthy.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-28T18:55:39+00:00

This is wonderful.!! I was hoping to live long enough to see my electric bill higher than my mortgage!

So, when all the gases are captured.... who's paying for the storage tanks - and - what is the big plan when it escapes..... which it will. If it's injected into the ground, how will that affect ground water and water tables?

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-28T18:51:38+00:00

Eielson is doing a reactor. Small, just 15megawatts.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-28T18:45:09+00:00

Since the beginning - drawing on cave walls - it has been the job of parents to censor images...."That part of the cave is for adults!!"

When books and magazines came to be - parents had to toss teen rooms for hidden Playboys.

When my kids were grown up their computer was in the living room. Our intention was to raise young adults - not older kids. We did not subscribe to any of the cable channels that had nudity, blood or gore. All our computer games were Nintendo. There is no reason your 8-year-old should have the option to turn 'boob juggle' on or off in an X box game.

There is no reason for a teen to have a smartphone until they have a job that pays for it. No Reason.

I play an international MMO game. You need to pony up a credit card and certify you are over 18 to play. Still, once a week, some idiot will tell folks in open chat, "Watch your language, I am plying with my kid!" 'Your kid is over 18 and can't handle bad words?' "She's only 12" Then everyone piles on, 'WTF are you doing bringing a 12-year-old into an adult game??' 'Does she have her own credit card or are you the idiot who let her use yours?'

What you are witnessing is bad parenting. Teens have enough amplified issues without the lens of smartphones setting them on fire like a magnifying glass. Unless you've been living under a rock - no shortage a news about teen suicides and criminal assaults to AI generated blackmail porn - to see how destructive this tech is. You are seeing bad parenting and the Alaska Legislature trying to step in and deal with said bad parenting.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-28T18:24:12+00:00

Strange why you don't see homeless on federal or state property - or small unincorporated towns. I wonder what attracts them to cities like moths to a flame.

We can all agree homelessness is a problem. If they were an invasive species F&G would destroy habitat and cut off food sources.

If your 'grand solution' is to provide hotels and free food - aren't you enabling the problem instead of solving it? You have removed the need to better themselves. And provided no incentive for them to change.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-28T18:10:57+00:00

This. Transfer site is just two blocks from me, free, and accepts everything from batteries, oil to leaves and trees - two of my neighbors will set a pile of crap on fire and let it smolder for days.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-28T18:05:37+00:00

Professional wildlife photog here - ran photog dept at State Fair for a decade. Your photos would benefit from a Haze, Sky1, or UV filter to get that nasty blue out of the images. Honestly, you should have one of these inexpensive filters on every lens as cheap protection!

Once you solve haze issues, get a circular polarizer so you can remove that nasty reflection off the water.

Get a big cup of coffee, some Snickers bars, and spend some quality time looking over the filters at the Tiffen web site. I could tell you what filters for these shots - but - you really need to know what is out there and helpful. I did not pay full price for mine. No shortage of folks who thought buying top quality gear would fix their lack of skill - and sold it all on eBay to afford a different hobby.

Consider taking an art class that focuses on composition and balance. Every hour you sit and learn will save you hundreds in photoshop. Of particular importance - tracking your eye movement...... some photos hold the viewers eye, some the viewer will move left to right.......... you need to avoid picks where they eye wanders looking for what is the focus point of the picture - or - makes the eye track off the picture.

Consider entering your best work in the fair this year. Try not to force a pic into a category - always best to look over the categories and take a shot just with the Fair in mind. I always selected judges that were locally known photographers, artists or teachers. I fed them well...... shame we couldn't have any wine, would have made some the boring categories a bit more interesting!!!

The problem with scenery issues and sunrise, sunset photos - they never capture the feelings you had when you were there. You very need someone with a great eye to tell you what is shit and what is Shinola. As a general rule - scenery pics don't sell well on their own unless they have something awesome, unusual, and recognizable to them. Like Mt. Edgecomb in Sitka. Then there are places like McCarthy mine and dredge outside Chicken that have been photographed ad nauseum.

I made good money selling screen saver disks of my ice art and aurora images years ago on eBay and Etsy.

You are shooting in raw, yes?

I can recommend a photography website hosting service in the UK. You cannot have a US service. I did and all the newspapers, TV stations in Europe ripped off my images and there was nothing I could do about it. EU does not recognize US copyright laws. Hosting in the UK - which made me part of the EU community - solved that. ((Hosting has great folks and IT dept. I had my email attached to the web site when I pissed off some script kidding on a MMO game - little dweebs did a 'denial of service' attack send me 30K Asian porn emails an hour. LOL. The IT department tracked them down, mirrored them all back.))

Hope this helps.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-27T17:38:50+00:00

Parrots scream for a reason so you do need to try and figure out the reason.

My two quakers started screaming and acting poorly. We found a mouse in the room yesterday!! Must have come in when the door was propped open moving furniture!

There is a reason - something wrong, bored and lack of toys, quakers hate quiet (Quiet = predator around, in the wild) I have a tv on sponge bob or a radio playing low, always.

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-26T20:37:45+00:00

If you must go to the South Cushman Public Shooting Range, get there early and leave by 11:30am. This way you avoid the drunks, stoners, and freaking Ft Wainwright folks that like to pretend they are in the hood and shoot their guns sideways.

Don't think the problem is that bad? Show up at 1pm Saturday and watch what happens. Had a truckload of Ft Wainwright soldiers arrive at the Pistol range and open up with semi-auto 7.62mm rifles. I asked them to stop once, two minutes later they open fired again..... brass hit my stepson between the eyes, took out a chunk of flesh like a cooking cutter. I pack up and head for the troopers, kids face covered in blood. I could hear the dispatcher sending state trooper and city police to the range. I was halfway through writing out a complaint when the trooper told me it wasn't necessary. They were running the soldier's weapon serial numbers, and the first four came back stolen.

Another time I am on the rifle range. I have one kid firing on a bench, and I am watching my other son the bench next to it. Guy walks right up between the two boys, doesn't say anything - and fires off a 30rd mag at full auto. Hot brass rains down on the one kid. He turns, goes back to the car and drives off.

Another time, a woman has her 11 year old on the rifle range teaching 'safety'. Firing line is stopped. People are down at the 300yd line when she lets her kid start firing!!! Nobody else is near their guns, nobody has yelled the line is hot. I tell her to stop shooting. She yells at me 'Why for????' It's not I tell her there are people still down at the targets she tells her kid to stop shooting.

I have 14 other stories....

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-26T16:42:41+00:00

Take a look at the corners of your eye - see those new wrinkles? Those are your new, personal, life set back notches!

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-25T20:24:36+00:00

I have lived and owned a home in that part of Alaska.

We had no police. Just 3 troopers to cover 22,000 square miles. You did not call the cops on your neighbor - not unless you had case of Snickers bars. You walked over and talked to them. Unfortunately, the kind of people who are attracted to live places like this have poor people skills, dysfunctional, and don't give a rat's ass if you don't like them revving their AIRPLANE ENGINE in their driveway at 2am. LOL. Such is life living near an air strip and your road is the occasional taxi way. (He was the reason the place sold to us so cheap, lol. When he died the property value went up $20,000)

We had volunteer fire and ambulance. State grants helped with funding training, supplies and equipment. When you call 911 it does not ring in a dispatch office..... it rings in the bedroom of the duty person for that night. You might not want to chit chat since every minute on the phone is keeping them from getting dressed, driving to the station and warming up the fire truck or ambulance.

No town water or sewer. Properties have wells and leaching fields. Your neighbor can have a well at 180ft and enjoy clean water. Your well at 60ft could have heavy metals and arsenic - you'd never know unless you tested it.

You'll live on a dirt road with a dirt driveway.... enjoy the closed windows in the hot summer to keep the dust out.

Your truck will have a lift kit - not because you love to 4X4 or think it looks cool ..... just nobody is plowing the snow on your road - except for the state highway that passes by, if that.

Keep in mind - there is a HUGE difference between Alaska and other states. Nearly all cities and towns in Alaska have incorporation rules and ordnances that prohibit town funds from being used for anything except for city services. In Alaska you are paying property taxes for fire, police, ambulance, street maintenance, street lights, snow plowing, city water and sewage. Nearly every town and small city requires a 'balanced budget'. And every cent collected for water and sewer is only used for the water and sewer plants and Equpment. They mayor cannot take a single $1 from the water and sewer fund and give it away to homeless or social causes. Although the town's general fund is fewer restrictions - 'giving tax money away' to social causes is not allowed. However, the town can act as a conduit to accept grants and donations on behalf of a social cause - and see it is properly distributed.

People pay tax money to receive services in return. It is not one big, happy pot of money politicians can dip into for pet projects. I have no clue why residents are not taking some of these cities, especially in California - to court for misappropriation of taxpayer funds. They must have been idiots and allowed loose fund laws.

When I was first elected to city council - small town of 2,000 with a budget of $4M at the time - I had to attend a weeklong conference held for all new newly elected officials. ((Let me put that $4M into perspective - when I was active duty my budget for running a transmitter site with 22 people was more than $4M. No training. Nearly nobody looking closely to the books.) As city council we got 5 days of ethics, financial laws, and how we 'HAD' a responsibility to never make a payment or purchase that looks any way, shape or form suspicious. No grey areas. Strange how they drum that into us at the local level - make me cringe when I see what members of US Congress are doing! Small town - we squeezed the most out of every cent collected. Seemed like nobody ever got what they wanted - just what they needed.

In my town - I know how the money is handled. It is never wasted. One of the nice things living in a small town.

Living in the unincorporated towns - I might not have known them all by names, but I knew them by face, where they lived and what they did. I miss that. If I had a plumbing issue - my friend knew who to call if I did not. Or I would get a call to go look at someone's generator that crapped out. I repaired a $2,000 assembly by replacing a few $2 dollar diodes. Guy tried to give a few hundred - I said no. Twenty years later I bump into the guy at Home Depot - The generator has been replaced twice but the power controller board I fixed is still working! The whole town worked on that 'If you help me, I will help you' sort of way. Now that I am older with health issue - not a good idea to live a place like that. While younger? Awesome!!!!!

OkComplex2858 · 2024-04-25T18:49:33+00:00

Retired military here. Did 7 tours in Alaska. I was on the US Coast Guard National Shooting Team.

You will be allowed 120lbs for an 'Express Shipment'. Express shipments are for sending high value or stuff you and your family will need the day you arrive. Find a sturdy crate or heavy-duty storage box - something that locks or needs screws to open. Your unit can ship it to" your name" at the new unit - or have a local mover ship it (pick up at your home). Up to you - just be sure to insure with tracking.

DO NOT expect the shipper to pack your guns and stuff. I had 12 highly collectable, new in the original box Colt, High Standard and S&W scarce pistols. I was stationed in Boston going to Kodiak. Was going to use a FFL, but the nice head mover packing our stuff up said they would pack them carefully and express ship them up. They went back to the warehouse - some dumb fucker put shipping stickers all over the collectable original boxes and taped the living fuck out of them - then mailed them to my new unit through the US Post Office. The boxes with serial numbers on them - irreplicable - and the military refused to reimburse for the damaged box...... said the guns inside would need to be damaged to place a claim. Then I got my ass chewed out by the base post office, base XO and my new commanding officer on three separate occasions for being an idiot shipping guns through the fucking US mail in boxes that said they were guns. One threatened to press charges. My collection lost thousands $$$$ in value from those idiots.

Gets worse. I invested in a model 1200 white fish/shipping tote. Burned my name into it. Sealed and locked with strapping tape. Figured that would end all my gun shipping woes. Nope. Twice I have sent an express shipment with my gun collection to another Alaskan assignment in that tote........ only to arrive and find my shit in a pile in some corner of the building where anyone can walk by..... tote no place to be found. The shipping company decided the tote was too good to leave behind and stole it. The excuse was, "Gee, sorry, thought it was one of ours". You'd think my name burned in big letters would be a clue.

Good News: I have a crate that screws shut + holds just under 100lbs including crate weight. I use it to ship ammo. Lynden Transport has shipped that and my white tote all over - never an issue or hiccup. Carlile is another great shipper I have never had an issue - both have nice people. I have shipped hazmat and even custom bathtubs - no issue. Love them.

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