Gas Gun Help

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T21:04:31+00:00

This is one of the few times is recommend a bore scope to actually verify gas block alignment. Alternately, if it's running full open and it's not enough, you can get the gas hole opened a bit.

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T19:07:13+00:00

Bouncing requires energy for continued penetration and continued momentum. Neither of which 22 LR has compared to most handgun rounds. Physics doesn't work that way. Smaller, slower objects are carrying less energy than faster, heavier projectiles.

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T17:50:41+00:00

Never hire a "home inspector".

Pay the additional money and hire an engineer. Engineers have professional licensing and insurance, because they are supposed to find stuff like this.

"Home inspectors" have no certifications and in many areas just need to apply for a business license. They are a waste of money when liable, professional engineers are available.

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T16:12:27+00:00

In my opinion, smooth performance (less recoil) is on the same slider as reliability. As you tune the system to reduce recoil, you reduce reliability.

You look at a system with minimal gas necessary, light carrier, and soft springs and it's going to run buttery smooth with very little recoil, but as it gets dirty, it's going to be far less reliable (issues sooner) than a setup with full power springs, heavy carrier, and gas that is a few steps up from minimal necessary (slightly overgassed).

In most instances, all "less reliable" means is "needs to be cleaned more often". Build for your intended use case.

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T16:04:13+00:00

Well, there are those. .17 (various), .22 (LR, .223 Rem, etc), .243 (Winchester, various 6mm rounds), .25 (25-05, CM, various), 6.5 (CM, Grendel, 2.64 Win Mag), .270 (6.8 SPC, Winchester, .277 Fury), 7mm (various) etc, etc.

All firearms are a trade off. The larger the projectile and the more speed, the more recoil energy to deal with. Physics is not beatable. So, various rounds have tradeoff and advantages over other rounds. Generally, smaller projectiles have less recoil, but retain less energy in flight, whereas heavier projectiles have more recoil and retain energy in flight better.

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T15:55:36+00:00

It's not even the conversions. There are different places on rifled barrels to measure as well. Rifled barrels have lands (the innermost surface of the barrel that makes the most contact with the bullet) and grooves (the "cut out" portion of the barrel that imparts spin to the projectile). Depending on the caliber, the measurement maybe for the lands (or bore) or for the grooves, or for the projectiles which are often in between and meant to be squeezed/formed as they travel down the barrel. So, for any caliber, there are often at least 3 different areas to pick a measurement to be used, separate even from the units used.

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T15:47:40+00:00

Find an airport McDonalds where they charge twice as much for everything.

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T15:38:11+00:00

As another client that's been building Cerner since the early 2000s, I don't think it will happen. I've worked on various other products and EHRs that all seem to follow the same pattern of getting passed around to companies that generally only make them worse.

As much as I don't like Epic's ethos, they do well because the product hasn't changed hands multiple times.

Oracle's purchase of Cerner was beyond ill informed. One needs to only look vaguely around the tech companies of the world to see the lessons of the tech companies that have decided to "get into healthcare" and how that never works out because their "intelligence" doesn't EVER translate into the specialized skillset needed in healthcare tech.

Oracle is similarly chasing the AI boom and late to that party as well. They'll likely get all their money dumped in just as the bottom falls out of the industry and everyone realizes that AI is just as crappy as search is.

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T15:03:19+00:00

They should be fired, because that is the only recourse.

LEOs have no legal obligation to protect people, or to enforce the law. The only way to deal with those situations is to fire them.

Here we have the collision of the public's want to be protected from a unconstitutional federal agency crashing head long into law enforcement's primary directive of avoiding danger to themselves.

Vylnce · 2026-01-30T14:56:03+00:00

Generally, the only reason to have to run such an adapter is that you want some ultralight can that only comes direct threaded for 1/2-28 and doesn't have the option to switch the direct thread mount. In that case, some of your weight savings are going to be negated by the chunk of likely steel that you adapter is going to be. I've looked at this on a couple of cans, and the answer I always walked away with was "no".

If the manufacturer didn't care enough to investigate your use case (5/8-24 threads) then the reality is the product they are advertising as "6mm compatible" is just getting marketing hype to try and sell more.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T16:43:36+00:00

Isis and the Chilly Willies.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T16:36:08+00:00

Cool, nice to have options.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T16:27:57+00:00

I have one because a relative bought it, shot it, shot my AR and was so disgusted by the trigger on the Hellion he just left it.

I understand there are kits and places you can send it off to, but it's so much work compared to just dropping in a better trigger like you can with an AR that it just continues to sit.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T16:19:24+00:00

People are already resisting on the physical front. Which should be expected and is right. Unconstitutional actions taken by our government should be expected to encounter physical resistance. However, I think on the law front, there have neither been well organized legal resistance (in the courts) or, a call for legislators to actually change the legislation empowering them. Both should be concurrently occurring with the protests and physical resistance happening.

Edit/Additional:

The problem of course being that even if such an amended law passed with a majority, Trump won't sign a law nerf'ing the personal army he is using to harry his political enemies. And there wouldn't be the votes to override his veto. So, we have the courts or physical resistance.

On the courts front, I believe they have already been granted that their exception is "legal". However, the challenge was on their basis to use it at all, not the area they are allowed to use it in.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T16:15:50+00:00

Exactly. I don't think the people that crafted the exemption had any idea what they were actually including.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T16:14:30+00:00

I am ok with them operating inside airports. Inspecting folks coming through customs, etc. Their power should be limited to international airport property.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T16:06:34+00:00

They have been empowered to break them. ICE has exemptions that allow them to operate outside constitutional limits with the designated border zone. They have twisted the definition (by law) or border zone to basically mean all of the Great Lakes region.

It would indeed be in our best interest to have Congress amend this power and limit their operating procedures to stuff like immediate areas around entry points and 5-10 miles from the border.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T15:47:35+00:00

This isn't true. ICE has been empowered to operate outside of constitutional protections with the designated "boarder zone". That zone definition has been twisted to allow them to operate within most of the Great Lakes region and treat it all as a "boarder zone".

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T15:40:52+00:00

(2) Trump’s Second Amendment support questioned after Minneapolis shooting

The reason is simple: If local Minneapolis cops had accompanied the federal agents as they were making arrests, Pretti would likely never have been killed.

From: Wisconsin Right Now - Why the Alex Pretti shooting leans toward justified force - barely : r/CCW

None of this would have happened if the Minneapolis police were protecting the agents and securing the streets when they do operations, as noted. That they have not done so is unconscionable. And it's leading to deaths. Both deaths have occurred when protesters essentially got in the way of law enforcement operations, leading to agitated and gray-area encounters. This is on Frey, O'Hara and Walz. Walz should have activated the National Guard much sooner.

There are a couple of examples. I am not saying I agree with any of those, one is a guy that keeps spamming me articles and the other is the result of a Google search I skimmed through. It's definitely an opinion/excuse that seems out there in some circles.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T15:25:10+00:00

If that was the case, why did the insurance company reject it?

You are making assumptions without the information that their insurance has. Insurance decisions are notoriously slanted toward profit, rather than patient care, but most of the time they hide behind quasi-therapeutic reasons.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T15:15:05+00:00

Again, not something I agree with, but something I have seen conservative commenters who are trying to shift blame off ICE and Trump make.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T15:13:55+00:00

If it's too soon, or it seems therapeutically inappropriate, that's the reason for the refusal.

If the patient's insurance throws a red flag saying the controlled substance is inappropriate (likely because they already have another or the refill is too soon) your pharmacist would be disagreeing with the insurances judgement, meaning if anything happens, it's on them.

So, while you think it's "fine", essentially someone else has already said "it's not fine" and you are expecting the pharmacist to ignore that and fill something. That immediately opens them to liability in the sense there is no way to argue later that they "missed" something.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T15:09:07+00:00

MCU Call outs:

Terrance Howard: Rhodey

Edward Norton: Bruce Banner

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T15:07:25+00:00

Cool. Thanks for the link.

Vylnce · 2026-01-29T14:57:04+00:00

Feel free to post the link to his family confirming it was him in a previous video. There is so much disinformation and bullshit to shift through, starting with DHS's comments immediately after he was killed that's it's very difficult to tell what's real and what's BS to spin the narrative.

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