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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: TAB on April 05, 2022, 07:49:00 PM
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I am having a hard time deciding.
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Its nothing crazy, just a heavy 18" barrel threaded for a can in 556.
Both is not an option... I don't have room in the truck for 2.
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FDE
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can't go wrong with basic black, it goes with everything.
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FDE
Plain black is just so common...
Crusader Rabbit
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I wonder why they call FDE flat dark earth. Probably because it sounds cool. It's a lot lighter than and "dark" earth I know of. I call it tan...
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For anything that might get used in self-defense I'm going with plain "original" color, usually black. I don't want some hot-shot prosecutor or personal injury lawyer getting the idea that I was a Tactical Timmy. Plain vanilla. (though my P365 does have a dark grey grip, but in my defense it was the only color I could get at the time.) That's just me.
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I color coded my guns (and mags and associated gear) - black for 5.56, FDE for the 6.8 SPC I built, and gray for the 300BLK.
Go with pink, or paint it like a l'il Tykes car. Whatever you like.
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I color coded my guns (and mags and associated gear) - black for 5.56, FDE for the 6.8 SPC I built, and gray for the 300BLK.
Go with pink, or paint it like a l'il Tykes car. Whatever you like.
I do that with holsters, brown is commander length, black is full size.
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can't go wrong with basic black, it goes with everything.
My thoughts exactly. You can't go wrong with the classic. 8) And he wouldn't have to ask the missus if it goes with his outfit or not before he leaves the house. :D
Another thing to consider if you get FDE is if it's going to be anodized FDE or Cerakoted? You can camo paint a black rifle any color you want and it's going to cost less than the typical upcharge for FDE. You can get 1 color of Cerakoted upper and lower for an extra $35 give or take, or 3 colors of Rust-Oleum camo paint for under $28 and paint the whole gun. If the paint got all scratched up it wouldn't bother me like it would if my Cerakote did. There's always more paint where that came from.
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I am having a hard time deciding.
>:(
Its nothing crazy, just a heavy 18" barrel threaded for a can in 556.
Both is not an option... I don't have room in the truck for 2.
So what was the decision?
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He said he was having a hard time deciding...
but it's really been awhile.
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I went with black, still waiting on a few parts.
I am thinking really hard about building a m25, but the new sig rifle also has my name all over it.
So many guns, so little time
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If you're talking about a SIG MCX-SPEAR I would put off the purchase for now. And not just because I don't have 8 grand for a First Production Run Special Edition. I want more data about throat erosion with the .277 SIG FURY cartridge and its SAAMI max. 80,000 PSI chamber pressure.
I think it's interesting that the .277 FURY uses 7mm diameter bullets (7.06mm x 51.2 mm case). So did the .276 Pedersen (7.22 x 51.4mm), and so does the 7mm-08 Remington (7.2 x 51.7 mm). All three are 7x51mm or 7.2x51mm if you go by bullet diameter instead or bore diameter like the British used to. If the U.S. adopted the .276 Pedersen 99 years ago they could have avoided a lot of nonsense, switching calibers over and over and over again. Or better yet they could have improved the .276 Pedersen by straightening out the taper of the case making it like the 7mm-08 Remington and adopted THAT 99 years ago. The only thing the .277 FURY does better than the 7mm-08 Remington is achieve its velocity from a 16" barrel instead of a long test barrel. If after 99 years the military decided they needed more power than a .276 Pedersen/7mm-08 Remington type of cartridge they could get it with a hybrid case like the .277 FURY without changing calibers. I just found out the .277 Fury also has a 0.025" longer OAL than the .284 Winchester even though the .284 Winchester case is 0.155" longer. I guess you could seat the same length bullets 0.18" further out in the .277 Fury and squeeze in a bit more powder.
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Black makes its scarier and more dangerous
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Black makes its scarier and more dangerous
Also, it's what a ninja would choose. ;) Not a true tacticool mall ninja or course. Black isn't half as tacticool as a Big Brand Name digital-woodland-desert-before-dessert-A-TACS-dirustive-pattern-multi-season-multi-terrain-multicam camo pattern with fluorescent highlights that shows off your style.
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I like army green.
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Paint it Hot Pink and name it Fluffy, Like Massad Ayoob did with his Rem 870.
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Paint it Hot Pink and name it Fluffy, Like Massad Ayoob did with his Rem 870.
I had the chance, joy, excitement, thrill, of shooting on the same squad as Julie Golob. In the limited division she was shooting a new pink S&W with eight pink magazines. Pink was very new to S&W, and this set up was custom for her from the pro shop. She told me the best part of a pink gun and pink magazines is that no guy was going to walk off with her magazines at a competition.
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I had the chance, joy, excitement, thrill, of shooting on the same squad as Julie Golob. In the limited division she was shooting a new pink S&W with eight pink magazines. Pink was very new to S&W, and this set up was custom for her from the pro shop. She told me the best part of a pink gun and pink magazines is that no guy was going to walk off with her magazines at a competition.
Clearly she has never heard of the pro 2a group the pink pistols.
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Clearly she has never heard of the pro 2a group the pink pistols.
I'm sure she has now, but this was very early in their existence.
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I like army green.
I was so sick of O.D. green when I got out of the army I wouldn't even buy a T-shirt, or anything else, in ANY shade of green for a long time. If green was only a fraction of the color in a camouflage pattern that was okay. U.S. Woodland camouflage was good enough to wear in a new M-65 field jacket, but I gave my O.D. green army issue field jacket to my younger brother. I like my Rhodesian Brushstroke camo shirt's pattern way better. Not being forced to wear it as a uniform doesn't hurt either. It was well over 35 years after I got that I started to like army green and I just recently started buying it. Some people never get over hating it.
For a few years I've been looking at Robinson Armament XCR rifles I'll never own, but if I did buy one I'd order it in O.D. Green. Every so often, maybe once a month they'll offer a few rifles and pistols for sale to anyone on their mailing list who doesn't want to wait to have an order filled for something specific. Here's an XCR-L, Standard - M-LOK SBR, with a 9.5 inch 5.56mm 1-7 Twist Barrel with Black Cherry Cerakote. It's the first time I've seen them offer that color, or an SBR off the shelf. They also had a nice looking O.D. XCR-M Competition rifle in either 6.5 Creedmoor or .243 Winchester, I can't recall which, and some kind of pistol, a 5.56mm in FDE, maybe.
Here's something that might not look bad on an AR. It's British Multi-Terrain Pattern (MTP) camouflage. I cropped then patched together a half dozen copies of the same picture until I ended up with a 1920x1080 picture to use for a background. But it was too big to post so I started cropping away until it was a little too small, and stretched it back up. Now it's only 80% of the original size but it's zoomed in a little bit. It still expands to fit my 24" screen without looking bad but I'm going to delete it anyway. I started using Bing Wallpaper and have a new picture on my desktop every day.