It was still fun even with it behaving like a single shot. I’ll revisit the recession ruger once I’m able to get out to the range more. I’m only able to go shooting once every month or two now and cargo is limited so I only take the most promising or exciting projects with me.

The blue slide I couldn’t tell you. It came from every gun parts as a partskit and idk how familiar you are with the site but they can be a step too far on the vague side of details in their listings. The black slide however is from Davison defense they have their own in house brand I guess you could call it. Idk if they actually machine the slides themselves or if it’s some NIBs type company they contract but they’re able to offer some really neat cuts. I think of them as being on the opposite spectrum end of km tactical like they focus on a few different cuts for all the popular models and lots of colors where as Davison defense is specializing in mainly g19 and g17 lots of slide cuts and maybe 4 colors none of them in cerakote and most of them are only in one color but they’ll be really competitive in their pricing. I paid 200 b4 tax b and shipping for the slide, silver threaded barrel and the slide completion kit if I remember correctly.

I’m glad people are realizing that separating the hobby from reddit is the best thing that could happen for it short of repealing all 2a regulations or government subsidized ammo to encourage firearm competence .

Looks really good. I built an R2 and loved the way it looked but even after buying the proper metal rail kit it wouldn’t recoil far enough back to cycle so I gave up on troubleshooting --that means two things! You will agree mines not quite as nice as yours

Hell yeah love the color scheme. Were you getting tired of the slanted back look of standard Glock mags? printed charging handle or metal? I’ve built a 2.0 in .300 black out but it got boring quick…If I can ever bring myself to buy a bca bufferless 9mm upper I wanna build a bufferless 1.0 or a 9mm famar

My biggest hang up has been finding a grip frame assembly that ain’t almost as much as a new MkIV. Could someone point me to a decently priced option?

I completely overlooked what should’ve been an obvious solution to my concern.

Need to find some way to get past everyone’s monitor displaying colors slightly differently. I wonder if Using a Pantone paint color card in a reshoot of the picture you took then people could get that same paint card and then find tune their monitor until the card matches the same color from the Pantone website.

Hell yeah! Thanks for the heads up I’ve got the 4800 and I can fit an mpr tech ump on pistol configuration in the bottom cushion layer and a macdaddy on top with mags for both. Or that ump with a folding stock and a muzzle device qualifying it for the 26 inch keeping it out of SBR territory and a suppressor… I’m gonna go buy one for my rifles assuming they’re still on sale and in stock. !

I wouldn’t give people saying it won’t work much weight in my decision of what you decide to pursue. It’s takes considerably less effort to list off a few reasons (That doesn’t mean they’re not valid ) why you’ll encounter difficulties with a given endeavor rather than providing suggestions because that requires original thinking.

Have said that I am capable of original thought
And I too have built a rebel 9! I would love one in .22lr … I know that’s probably the last pistol caliber cartridge you wanted to hear suggested .

For anything that’s not 22 and doesn’t have the Browning tilting barrel design the I agree that ftn4 is your best choice in terms of effort vs effect.

For pistols with the tilt barrel (you’ll have to ignore my ignorance of nomenclature) the kneelsun v2 by pembletonandsons(?) that mounts via the booster from their site. it works so well I accidentally v left out the aluminum sleeve and send cut send plates and despite all the extra friction from looser tolerances and steel with rough edges on plastic it’d still reliably cycle with supersonic ammo and occasionally with subsonic ammo.

For .22 there’s several good options requiring no reinforcement or post processing. The pill popper by plaboi is a good option with a small and medium profile. With a ten inch barrel and federal subsonic ball ammo it sounds like a pellet gun until the bullet hits something solid or a spent shell makes the tell tale jingle. Almost movie quiet.

Idk for sure with mpa but I bought a MAF upper and bolt and a year later aves had a sale on their mac bolt so I bought one of theirs. the MAF upper works fine with both of them. I would assume the same is true for all of them but I wouldn’t put it past any company to make their shit proprietary if they knew they could.

You mind showing me how they look in a dm? I’ve never rebuilt a partskit by traditional methods because the ppsh and cetme kits I’ve personally held had that bubbly jagged look of an ugly plasma torch cut

YES! I’ve been wondering why nobodies tried that given how cheap the kits are. I’ll be happy to be a beta tester when you get that far. Either way please please get ahold of me when you to the point you know it’s gonna be a thing because I don’t wanna miss out on the current prices and availability of the parts kit. I can’t tell you how many times I saw parts kit jump in price or stocks dry up because of increased interest from our crowd. A recent example is the Malaysian steyr Aug surplus kits practically disappearing Internet wide shortly after psr made a video about the nylaug. I admit this could be the result of other factors but I can’t help but feeling like that video was responsible for three fourths of all nylaug parts kits sold since the videos release.

It’s possible I could’ve over looked the instructions but I never saw any mention of an extractor. It seemed to be entirely dependent on blowback. Id been savin a proper ten inch barrel liner

It didn’t up load so here’s the link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j_3oFT3btxOaGFL2aUVwgEhizPpV_aSp/view?usp=drivesdk

I just realized before posting the link that I only partially assembled the setup. It was supposed to have a length of seamless metal tubing as part friction reducer part concentricity control in concert with a end plate the piston indexes against.

Despite omitting these two seemingly crucial components the piston indexes on button headed m3s lock nutted at equal height and even works albeit with multiple stoppages. Although it could be from the ill assembled muzzle device (it’s not doing any favors im sure) I believe it more likely to be an incorrectly matched recoil spring given the failures were always with the subs making it cycle just enough to extract the empty shell without enough rear speed to throw the shell free of the slide often getting caught in a double feed situation.

Can you not just buy a barrel? If you live somewhere that’s firearm adverse then isn’t ammo gonna be your real problem? If you can get ram sets without difficulty then you could always make 26.5 mm from 1inch electrical conduit piping. Or 15mm or 37mm which in my opinion is just as fun if not more than regular firearms and aren’t technically firearms in the US.

The mp5k looks Soo nice although I think it needs a shorter magazine to match the smaller dimensions. Is there a bom yet?

The contrast is a good choice.