Coat hanger DIAS

[NWS]

I've had an M16. It ruined shooting for me. Besides the new Glock 48 I shot the day I bought it, I haven't shot anything in over a year. Collecting lowers has opened up a love for guns for me again, but I still have no desire to shoot. It was something I wanted my whole life and now that I have had it, meh.

 

[EugenFJR]

I only like collecting old WWII rifles now, I'm sick of shooting machine guns... I still like 3 gun, I think the Army has ruined any remote joy if shooting machine guns. Once you shoot them at -20, outside of a M998 turret, or in the middle of the summer when you need to change the barrel and it's about 1700 thousand degrees Kelvin... and hotter than a thousand Death Stars.... Shooting machine guns tends to lose its appeal.

 

[chance]

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I dont know why it didnt occur to me earlier, but I could really crank these things out on a press brake out of sheet metal. Might have to crank out some spares for events when we want more m16s on the line. Hmmmm

 

[1776]

I dont know why it didnt occur to me earlier, but I could really crank these things out on a press brake out of sheet metal. Might have to crank out some spares for events when we want more m16s on the line. Hmmmm

Isn't the mechanics of this basically the same thing as a lightning link?

 

[chance]

Isn't the mechanics of this basically the same thing as a lightning link?

Sort of. A lightning link uses a semi auto carrier to trip a lever that pulls the disconnector out of the way. This uses an auto cut bolt to push the tail of the disconnector down, releasing the hammer.

Same results, different way to get there

 

[Hoss]

I've had an M16. It ruined shooting for me. Besides the new Glock 48 I shot the day I bought it, I haven't shot anything in over a year. Collecting lowers has opened up a love for guns for me again, but I still have no desire to shoot. It was something I wanted my whole life and now that I have had it, meh.

When we moved out of the burbs and bought our current house 6 years ago, I couldn't wait to have a place where "I can shoot every day!!!" That lasted about 6 months. Now, unless I'm sighting in or testing a new gun, I rarely shoot anything that isn't 22lr. I do shoot a good but of 22lr though.

 

[Axeman]

When we moved out of the burbs and bought our current house 6 years ago, I couldn't wait to have a place where "I can shoot every day!!!" That lasted about 6 months. Now, unless I'm sighting in or testing a new gun, I rarely shoot anything that isn't 22lr. I do shoot a good but of 22lr though.

I have a good friend who was a Ranger DI, and parachuted into the airfield at Panama during Operation Just Cause.

No matter how many times I tried, he NEVER would go to the range, even at BSA camps. I finally offered to build him an AR, and he told me at that point that he just wasn't interested in shooting again. I think something about combat ruined it for him, but he wouldn't say more.

He was always more than happy to be critical of my shooting skills. I showed him a one-hole group of ten rounds at 50 feet with a single-shot no-mag iron sights BSA Camp .22 rifle and he said "But you didn't put them all in the middle of the bullseye!"
Just like a DI...

 

[dial1911]

He was always more than happy to be critical of my shooting skills. I showed him a one-hole group of ten rounds at 50 feet with a single-shot no-mag iron sights BSA Camp .22 rifle and he said "But you didn't put them all in the middle of the bullseye!"
Just like a DI...

If you'd put all 10 through one hole in the dead center, you still wouldn't have done it fast enough.

 

[Willy Leadwell]

I would imagine brass would work better.

I’d think steel would create burrs all over the mating surfaces

I don’t think they’re made of just steel. I can remember seeing old school bodywork guys using coat hangers for brazing. That wouldn’t work with regular steel. My guess is that they are some kind of softer, more rust resistant alloy that does contain brass.