Any new firearm purchases?

[Blmpkn]

I genuinely hope it works for you, but my experience tells me to tell you not to waste $50. The streamlight TLR-1 is THE BEST handgun light on the market, and can be had for a hair over $100 at the right time of year.

If I do end up buying the thing it'll be more of a purchase made for the purpose of shits-n-giggles rather than expecting it to be a quality piece of kit.

I have a couple lights I've purchased at hazard farts already..

..and I'm not terribly impressed with either lol. The quantum flashlight is kinda neat because it somehow has a SQUARE beam pattern out of a round reflector, turbo mode, adjustable focus.. but the switch is WAY too touchy.. shake the light around and the beam will flicker. If it wasn't for the crummy switch I really wouldn't have any issue with it for the price.

The quantum magnetic work light is a little better... It's awesome for backlight when welding.. but the battery life is.. not great. Kinda need 2 to rotate out while the other charges if your gonna be in the garage all day.

 

[Blmpkn]

Someone was talking about fancy triggers a few posts back.. binarys and force reset jobs..

Anyone ever mess around with one? Binary setups are so incredibly amusing lol. Damned expensive for a shits-n-giggles purchase.. but absolutely worth it. I just recently heard about force reset setups over the summer and naturally got super interested.. less than half the price of a binary trigger and much easier to install apparently..

Sounds like a fun candidate for a blowback PCC build.. I had thought about putting a binary in a PCC (because cheap ammo).. but apparently that's not at all advisable in a blowback configuration.. wondering if a FRT could be run without fear of shrapnel in the face thanks to an OOB mishap..

 

[Gunfighter97]

Someone was talking about fancy triggers a few posts back.. binarys and force reset jobs..

Anyone ever mess around with one? Binary setups are so incredibly amusing lol. Damned expensive for a shits-n-giggles purchase.. but absolutely worth it. I just recently heard about force reset setups over the summer and naturally got super interested.. less than half the price of a binary trigger and much easier to install apparently..

Sounds like a fun candidate for a blowback PCC build.. I had thought about putting a binary in a PCC (because cheap ammo).. but apparently that's not at all advisable in a blowback configuration.. wondering if a FRT could be run without fear of shrapnel in the face thanks to an OOB mishap..

*my entire post is within the AR15 platform* The only reliable binary triggers I have experience with are by Phostech and have a safety sear to tell the trigger when the gun is in battery. Everythig else runs on hopes and dreams to avoid hammer follow. OOBs arent mechanichally possible with any binarys or frts. When the bolt of a pcc AR is not fully in battery, the hammer cannot impact the firing pin due to the geometry of the carrier.*

When it comes to frts you get what you pay for. Rarebreeds L3 looks promising, but I have yet to see a high mileage example though know of one that will get there sooner rather than later and I will get an opportunity to look at. They work great as long as you dont death grip the trigger to the rear. The cheaper single mode versions are too fast to get singles from in DI guns. Piston might be a different story depending on how its gassed. The super safeties I've seen (two examples) lasted one mag each before they broke.

*properly designed pcc bolts. NOT cheapo bargain specials

 

[Blmpkn]

*my entire post is within the AR15 platform* The only reliable binary triggers I have experience with are by Phostech and have a safety sear to tell the trigger when the gun is in battery. Everythig else runs on hopes and dreams to avoid hammer follow. OOBs arent mechanichally possible with any binarys or frts. When the bolt of a pcc AR is not fully in battery, the hammer cannot impact the firing pin due to the geometry of the carrier.*

When it comes to frts you get what you pay for. Rarebreeds L3 looks promising, but I have yet to see a high mileage example though know of one that will get there sooner rather than later and I will get an opportunity to look at. They work great as long as you dont death grip the trigger to the rear. The cheaper single mode versions are too fast to get singles from in DI guns. Piston might be a different story depending on how its gassed. The super safeties I've seen (two examples) lasted one mag each before they broke.

*properly designed pcc bolts. NOT cheapo bargain specials

The binary I have experience with is a Franklin armory kit (the one with the sweet straight bladed trigger ).. but yeah.. my PCC bolt is ABSOLUTELY one of those bottom of the barrel bargain specials lol. I guess technically it's not even a PCC.. 3" barrel 3" buffer.. it's a PCP.. either way.. bought the upper complete with BCG from some suuuuuper cheesy website (Pro2aTactical.com?) for like... Under 200$ IIRC. That says it all.

Haven't even shot but a few rounds through it so far... It's not wanting to fully eject (duh, it's cheap lol)

I've read a little about how to adjust on the extractor a bit but.. I never think to mess with it whenever I have the time to waste so it's just been sitting around for a year lol.

I'd really prefer to just buy it a real BCG too.. rather than try and mess with the crappy one the upper came with. Haven't bothered shopping around for one yet though.. trying to reel back my spending so I can buy some land next year..

Just one of those projects that gets put in the 'eventually' pile, unfortunately. Although I probably should try and at least move it to the top of the pile.. probably the easiest one to finish..

 

[Gunfighter97]

The binary I have experience with is a Franklin armory kit (the one with the sweet straight bladed trigger ).. but yeah.. my PCC bolt is ABSOLUTELY one of those bottom of the barrel bargain specials lol. I guess technically it's not even a PCC.. 3" barrel 3" buffer.. it's a PCP.. either way.. bought the upper complete with BCG from some suuuuuper cheesy website (Pro2aTactical.com?) for like... Under 200$ IIRC. That says it all.

Haven't even shot but a few rounds through it so far... It's not wanting to fully eject (duh, it's cheap lol)

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I've read a little about how to adjust on the extractor a bit but.. I never think to mess with it whenever I have the time to waste so it's just been sitting around for a year lol.

I'd really prefer to just buy it a real BCG too.. rather than try and mess with the crappy one the upper came with. Haven't bothered shopping around for one yet though.. trying to reel back my spending so I can buy some land next year..

Just one of those projects that gets put in the 'eventually' pile, unfortunately. Although I probably should try and at least move it to the top of the pile.. probably the easiest one to finish..

The franklin units are most reliable in 5.56 platforms with careful spring ballancing and effort on part of the shooter not to outrun the cyclic rate. If you go to a phostech, and a carrier with an M16 tail, you wont have any issue with the trigger, just make sure the buffer is properly operating to prevent bolt bounce.
Re: jamming, I would look into your ejector as well as the buffer. Very seldom see bad new extractors anymore. The extractor, assuming fit properly, should hold a loaded cartridge in the bolt face at any angle, assuming an enclosed bolt face.

 

[901wd#2]

I’ve got a forced reset trigger from freedom fingers triggers coming for a TX 22,

There is a rare breed AR FRT somewhere here, it got hidden when aft was doing aft things.

 

[Gunfighter97]

I’ve got a forced reset trigger from freedom fingers triggers coming for a TX 22,

There is a rare breed AR FRT somewhere here, it got hidden when aft was doing aft things.

I'm actually in the design concept stages of one with plans to make it and several more for PCCs once I set up shop again. Specifically for proprietary PCCs like the Stribog and Scorpion.

 

[JoshT]

If I do end up buying the thing it'll be more of a purchase made for the purpose of shits-n-giggles rather than expecting it to be a quality piece of kit.

I have a couple lights I've purchased at hazard farts already..

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..and I'm not terribly impressed with either lol. The quantum flashlight is kinda neat because it somehow has a SQUARE beam pattern out of a round reflector, turbo mode, adjustable focus.. but the switch is WAY too touchy.. shake the light around and the beam will flicker. If it wasn't for the crummy switch I really wouldn't have any issue with it for the price.

The quantum magnetic work light is a little better... It's awesome for backlight when welding.. but the battery life is.. not great. Kinda need 2 to rotate out while the other charges if your gonna be in the garage all day.

Although they aren't guns, I thought I'd address two things in this post.

First, what do you dislike about the Braun worklight? I've got one and love it. Actually went back and bought two more while they were on sale. One is somewhere in dad's shop, and the other still in the package. Since I only see one Quantum and it is the flashlight, I'm guessing that maybe this is the one you're referring to by "quantum magnetic" and the battery life? Batteries are actually one of the reasons I love it, I bought into the 18650 batteries years ago, so I've always got a charger and/or a few spares available. Most of these work lights run off AA type batteries or are non replaceable which really sucks.

Second, the square beam. Your reflector may be round, but the LED emitter is square. The type of lens in most zoom/focusable flash lights like that is aspheric. If you were top remove it from the body of the light one side if flat and the other is dome shaped. Depending on the focus, a lot of the light bouncing off of the reflector is lost, only light going straight out of the square emitter to the lens is being passed through. That's a rough simplification from years ago when I was messing with and modifying flash lights.

Someone was talking about fancy triggers a few posts back.. binarys and force reset jobs..

Anyone ever mess around with one? Binary setups are so incredibly amusing lol. Damned expensive for a shits-n-giggles purchase.. but absolutely worth it. I just recently heard about force reset setups over the summer and naturally got super interested.. less than half the price of a binary trigger and much easier to install apparently..

Sounds like a fun candidate for a blowback PCC build.. I had thought about putting a binary in a PCC (because cheap ammo).. but apparently that's not at all advisable in a blowback configuration.. wondering if a FRT could be run without fear of shrapnel in the face thanks to an OOB mishap..

I don;t own either. For the most part I fiew them as ammunition wasters. I can fire as fast as I can accurately shoot with a normal trigger, actually I can fire faster than that with a normal trigger. That said if I were to buy one or the other it would be the FRT.

For me th reasoning is that the FRT has the same function as a normal trigger, it just "helps" speed up trigger reset. Anyone familiar with firearms knows that pulling the trigger fires the gun and releasing the trigger should not, just with the FRT (and MGs) if you keep pressure on the trigger is keeps firing. Binary trigger on third mode has a complete new function it fires with release of the trigger too, something that many shooters may not be familiar with and know how to operate without instruction. Someone unaware or unfamiliar with operation accidentally switches to third mode, you have a lot more potential for big problems.

Again, I feel like both are ammunition wasters. That said I might inherit a TX22, and kind of thinking I might get the FRT for it, just for a range toy. Especially if it is easy to swap out when I just want to use it with a regular trigger.

 

[901wd#2]

I'm actually in the design concept stages of one with plans to make it and several more for PCCs once I set up shop again. Specifically for proprietary PCCs like the Stribog and Scorpion.

My scorpion thing would like FRT!

 

[Gunfighter97]

My scorpion thing would like FRT!

Soon as I aquire a Scorpion I'll start brainstorming. Will probably be a year or two though. The stribog is up first as I have access to one. But even it is only on paper at this point, and will only be for the OEM lower. I need to make a large scale mock up to experiment with on a bench to work the finer details.