I still have a unit waiting at SOT for me. It's all paid up and everything I just been slacking. Now have a savage rifle on the way there to further motivate. Used the SWR and CMMG this weekend a little.
This is a great place to buy adapters. Finally ordered one to get the Diana R-22 from 1/2-20 to 1/2-28 threading. Shop - Hughes Precision LLC
This is my first time working through the paperwork with ATF. It's not as bad as I expected...we are using Eforms and it's not terrible. Is a form 1 any different? I've always wanted an AR-9 SBR but the $200 and hassle always held me off. If the form 1 process is as easy as the form 4 I may reconsider.
I have done about a dozen form 1 applications. It is super easy if you have your eft file for fingerprints. I can submit one in under 5 minutes.
Still waiting. Decided to get the rimfires ready for their new toy while I wait. The old bolt gun was looking a little rough so I stripped it down and gave it the finest rattle can job I could. My 10/22 had a factory unthreaded barrel with iron sights. I ended up buying a new threaded barrel for $130 and sold my old one for $80. It has a better finish than the factory barrel and is at least as accurate, if not more so. Ended up being $100 cheaper than having the smith thread it so I can't complain about that.
Lots of options. Whose barrel did you choose? I been threatening a zebra paint scheme on one of my Rugers. Not got the gumption together yet to do it, though I located a stencil.
Subsonic hollow points are the stuff with a suppressor. Minimags or other supersonics defeat the purpose. I run cci suppressor hollow points and they are VERY quiet. Standard velocity has some zip to it because it is so close to the sound barrier.
Sit tight. You’ll get it. It felt like forever waiting for my first stamp this year. Now I have about a dozen.
I didn't have a lot of time last night but I got a few rounds through the new can on my bolt gun. Subs are very quiet, supers aren't bad at all either. I tried to run it on my pistol but the pistol had something wrong with the trigger group and wouldn't fire...
The sound difference between subsonic and “more subsonic” is pretty drastic too. I used to shoot cci standard velocity (1070 fps) and they had a snappy hiss sound to them (not a crack like supers) because of the sonic flow regions around the bullet. Now I shoot cci suppressor hollow points at about 970 fps and they are nearly silent in flight.
I may start replacing what I burn with some quieter stuff, but I'm not sure if I care enough to get the super duper quiet stuff. I'll keep a little for nighttime dispatching, but for plinking, as long as it is hearing safe, that's fine with me.
I ran some CCI standard velocity through the 10/22 today. All I could hear is the bolt and the projectile hitting the target. I don't think suppressor specific ammo would even matter.
