Seems like the only thing that is posted over there anymore is the old “which AR should I buy” or “should I buy this piece of gear” thread. Maybe only 1 or 2 people reply to threads in the forum per day. Seems dead, and nothing really interesting to read there anymore. The General Discussion forum is a little more interesting and I like reading your guys’s opinions on current events, but still only seems like a handful of people posting here. This website as a whole is becoming a ghost town.
Um we have lives. Plus nothing really to talk about.
What he said
Although, I gotta admit I haven’t seen a good AR lube thread in a while. I have a feeling were missing out on some new and potentially game changing oils
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Well, I mean, what do you expect from a website where the search button reigns supreme? :laugh:
As far as I know the major informational issues haven’t changed in 10+ years, so the only things TO talk about are new issues. Like… which widget should I buy since x and x items didn’t exist a couple years ago.
Also, the fact that the last decade of leftist asshattery has left us flush with a plethora of solid AR and AR accessory manufacturers, so the endless refrain of "just buy x and x already’ tends to cut through a lot of BS since it’s “easy mode” for new buyers right now.
Just go over to ARFCOM - they’ve had an interesting thread going for your edification:
“Do Vampires Poop?”
I do visit that place once in a while. I would post something here about an auction I went to Wednesday evening in Las Vegas, New Mexico where I was the high bidder for a NIB Ruger AR-556, but I’d get run out. $290 for the thing. Owner bought it a couple of years ago, never used it and died. I’d be getting high fives at that other site.
Now I need to ponder how well I did. Fit and finish seems nice. Might end up being a fun shooter. But don’t tell too many people here I own a FUDD gun…
Dude I’d love to have an AC556! Congrats!
Oh wait, you said AR556. Never mind…:sarcastic:
I don’t recall ever seeing the Ruger AC556 until the first episodes of The A-Team. I was in my last months of flight school and the wife and I had off-base housing in Dothan, Alabama. Kind of a crummy apartment, but I was a 2LT. That was ca. January 1983. That was a cool looking weapon, for sure.
Pretty hard to beat under $300 for a like-new AR.
Andy
What, like GlockTalk and the new, exciting front serrations on the newest pistol? Does seem like most everything has been discussed though. Hard to develop something actually new- like the Franklin Armory and the smooth bore barrel stuff. Really? At least they are trying.
In general, guns have reached their technological high point.
Everyone is jaded or something. If we were all scrounging for food and women and clothes and shelter then in our few moments of leisure we could talk about our grand daily adventure in life, but now we’re just waiting for the boog.
You know we love you mang.
Honestly $290 for an AR to just do whatever with isn’t bad.
Fudd isn’t a gun. It’s a state of mind. I knew a guy (sadly passed on) who wasn’t really at all a “gun guy”. But he had two identical Colt SP1s and two 1911s. He had other guns like bolt actions and lever actions and loved his single action Ruger revolvers.
But he kept them Colts sighted in and oiled. He did four tours in Vietnam and said he only had those guns because he knew “damn well how to use them and what they will do”.
It took a LOT of cajoling to get him to buy a Glock and he did. A Glock 34. And his eyes lit up. “Say this is mighty nice”. And he considered it a “killing gun” and sold a Colt 1911 to offset it. I mean something he bought in the early 70s. He offered it to me for like nothing and I stupidly turned it down because I had a Kimber and didn’t think I needed another 1911.
When he died his son got his stuff. But he was a really nice, well mannered guy. Really positive.
Ostensibly you could say he was a “fudd” of you judged him solely for the guns his like but that being said there are probably some Vietnamese orphans and widows still out there somewhere who would argue that point.
ETA Barfcom is easily trolled and fun and I swear they bleed soy.
I’ve been a member over there since 2002, but only around 200 or more posts. It’s too busy there for my taste. The threads are flying in and out, and if you leave for 5 minutes and return - you have a hard time finding where you were.
I should have said “Fudd’s gun” than Fudd gun. No matter, it had never been shot and still in the bag in the box. It was covered in so much oil/preservative that it reminds me of combloc stuff and their cosmoline. I thought it was a good buy. It was an estate sale/auction and the big items were all the antiques and coin collection stuff. This Ruger seemed to fall between the cracks because I was the only bidder. The wife left with a Tiffany style lamp.
Yeah I got booted from BARFCOM about 8 years ago, having been there for about 10 previous to that. Went out in style for sure, told Ed Sr. what he could do with his website and there were a few subsequent vulgar emails exchanged. Oh well…
I will say this though: I do occasionally browse their GD forum for “current events” type stuff, which is funny because that’s where my donnybrook took place!
I don’t even lurk but I do love the Divorce threads, the Virgin at 45 threads and some of their other trainwrecks. And the leg humping.
Most of them buy guns just to buy guns like the walking licks that they are.
There are still some good discussions. The sub forums I like are retro AR, bullpup, hk, fn, Colt and KAC industry. Then the EE. The EE has always been a great place to find deals on gently used items that people are selling to fund the new hotness.
TOS has two things going for it.
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A massive Equipment Exchange.
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A Night Vision Sub Forum
The NV sub forum has the occasional back and forth between vendors, but over all it’s one of the few places around with that specific information.
If only M4C had its own NV sub forum. (Hint).
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I think once we realized in the last couple decades that:
No round is actually better than 556
Pistons are stupid
BCG coatings are stupid
PMAGs are flawless
Rails are all LW now
ACOGs and AimPoints have been surpassed by LPVO’s
… and we get a parts and ammo shortage every 3-5 years like clock work…
What is there left to argue about?
Gas ports? That’s where we are at in 2020 AR land.
Can’t necessarily agree with that particular point.
Something as simple as hard chrome (especially the bolt) or the higher-end Cryptic Coatings Mystic Black are pretty cool. DLC ain’t too shabby either. Pricier than phosphate but if you’re not cheap they are actually quite nice. That said, there’s still a need for lube despite the advertisements to the contrary. Keep them oiled up and cleaning is a breeze (if one cares about such a thing). 
Pretty much. I’m not gonna argue port size. Honestly suppressors are nice but like not everything.
I like my ACOG though. And I have a couple piston Hks but I got them because HK and I like them
Eventually someone will make another 6MM bullet that wants to be the new SOCOM round.
I dunno
I lube my AR with an advanced non-synthetic formula consisting of beef tallow and pig fat. That way I have the comfort of knowing that even if I’m killed by Muslim and Hindu terrorists, operating operationally as like-minded brothers in creed, they won’t have the satisfaction of eating my AR’s bolt carrier with a clean conscience.