incredible. The firey blue of the old parts is particularly nice to see.
What's simpson LTD? (on the mag well bottom plate)
One of my favorite parts about that gun. I almost felt bad about converting it.
I’ve got some really good close ups of the blue bits before it was converted:
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Ignorance alert: what is the significance of the blue bits? (Other than they do just look pretty cool).
It really is beautiful nick. Congrats on an amazing piece and well done by Scott as usual.
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Nothing significant about it, really. I’ve seen a few Mausers and other older firearms with fire blue pieces, but it really pops on this gun for some reason. Guess it’s partially a matter of the climate it was stored in and it’s old age.
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Those are the guys I bought it from. That stamping rubs off easily. Not meant to be permanent.
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100% meant to be there. 100% illegal to remove. The ATF requires the importer company to mark the receiver when the gun is imported. Removing it is a Federal crime.
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firear...rms-ammunition-firearms-verification-overview
If you haven't blown through all the 2nd mortgage there's a real MG-81 flash hider up for auction in the Junkyard...
Haha! If that one looked like the one we saw on screen without the heavy pitting, I’d maybe consider it. The only other thing is the flash hider actually needs to be aluminum in order to fire reliably, so it wouldn’t do me much good anyway unless I just used it as a display piece.
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Yes, out of all the ones I've built only a small number of them would function with a steel flash hider reliably, without stronger loads. Not worth the safety trade off. Aluminum works just fine and can look like steel anyway. There has to be some compromise. They'll fire with a steel flash hider... but not reliably. Sometimes you'll get failure to eject and stove pipes because the extra weight means the bolt can't travel back far and fast enough. The WHOLE upper moves rear to unlock the cams and move the action.
If you watch the movie Han only fires one round per cut... likely because of the same reason.
Ignorance alert: what is the significance of the blue bits?
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