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I just picked up a S&W M&P 15 Sport II and have been in a fight with it all week to install a new hand guard. The delta ring is absolutely unreal on this thing. I got my old hand guard off but my replacement is nowhere close to going on. I finally caved and ordered a delta ring tool to hopefully help me complete the install.
Anyways, once I get it on I’ll be trying out a couple foregrips. Any recommendations? I will be shooting with no foregrip, a vertical grip, and an angled grip.
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Nice, congrats on the new!
Removing the handguard is by far my least favorite smithing work to do on an AR. Was to do on anything till I met my Benelli M4 with everything loctited on…
I’ve always been partial to the angled foregrip, never cared for the vertical. I found vertical was great when you were static, but hard to move with, plus the mag well is a built in vertical grip without adding weight. Plain grips were always nice, but if it’s m-lok you’ll tear your hand up - it’s like a cheese grater after a while. If you do like angled, check out the Strike Industries grip - it’s less of an angle than the Magpul one, aluminum vs plastic, and I found offered more positions than the magpul one too.
ETA link to the SI grip -
Please, I need money for Tek-Loks, my belt is very sick.
LOLs aside I have never been able to source these in the UK before and now I find ten different models have come in.
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Wish I could help you with the cash, except that I just purchased a Zastava AK-47 so I’m a bit poor at the moment…
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AKs come first!
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I have a couple tek-loks that I’ve mainly used for knives with kydex sheaths. They are great.
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A chainsaw is just a load of little knives, right? Things were comprehensively poor on the work front since the pandemic ‘ended’, so I chucked my toys out of my pram and tried my hand at tree surgery. With some barely-valid qualifications from almost a decade ago, I’ve been doing suprisingly okay via word of mouth, and am tripping over my own dick from one job to the other, well enough to pay the bills, buy a few more tools (thank our Giraffe God for polesaws), and keep myself entertained. The proceeds of my first few jobs went to upgraded safety kit and a proper first aid kit (who knew combat application tourniquets were so expensive!), but I also ended up buying myself some treats, not least of which is a knife I’ve been after for a while.
I was after a karambit for ages, but they were either made out of extremely dubious metals, and/or a variety of quite unlikely colours, or lacking an outer edge entirely (I did waive this requirement when looking at CRKT’s Provoke but it’s not so good for lefties). Schrade’s McNasty not only had two edges, it’s also solidly built, sharp, and best of all, dozens of fucking yahoos on the internet have hurt themselves with it.
Let me explain. This is a conventional karambit grip.
The reason why a lot of Westerners don’t use karambits like this is because a lot of karambits sold in the West either have a false, blunt, or no outer edge, making backhand/downward cuts almost useless.
It turns out a lot of people are holding the knife like this.
Now that in itself, barring the edge of the knife slicing open the base of your forefinger in the funniest possible way, if your hands are that big, is not the problem. The problem is the sheath’s strong retention combined with trying to draw the knife conventionally, i.e. blade up.
Here is the spine of the sheath. Note the open section. The problem is, the strong positive retention is making certain folk struggle to pull the knife. They are resorting to holding the sheath with their free hand. When they then draw the knife, the spine of the knife happily slices open the web of their hand holding the sheath.
To wit:
And so on and so forth, forever and ever, amen. There are several pages of these reviews.
In short, buying this knife has brought me joy.
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this may be my favorite post of yours of all time, and that’s a high bar.
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Inevitably in a few weeks I will post a picture of my own sliced-open hand and then abandon my place in society for a cave, but until then I am going to snort schadenfreude over the internet.
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Grabbed the Makita 36v chainsaw the other day. Seems decent for a battery powered saw and good enough for around the house chores. $250 for the saw, 14 and 16 inch guides with blades, 4 batteries, and a dual charger. Worth it for the batteries alone, tbh.
I’ll join you in the ER, we can be stitched and get stitched together. Whoever gets there last brings the scotch?
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Deal.
No-one tells you a petrol chainsaw is basically just a motorbike engine that wants to chop your arm off.
Makita is very good, and they only get more efficient the more tools of theirs you own, as they all use the same batteries.
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Hence the reason I bought the saw. Fully invested in them at this point, what with drills, impact drivers, circular saws, sanders, that multi thingamajig and et al
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Yeah, I decided to make Makita my brand for home tools after a good experience with a cordless drill of theirs in the summer of 1994 working as a cabler. Been trying to get away with their reciprocating saw for backyard limb removal because I’m terrified of chainsaws (mostly because I never got any practice with them, and have met too many people with chainsaws and large scars from them). Not only am I generally happy with their tools, I got a knockoff replacement battery on Amazon that’s been great! Has a very useful charge level indicator. So, if you find yourself in the market for a new battery, I recommend checking out the off-brand ones. I’m sure some are crap, of course, and camelcamelcamel and fakespot are worth checking, but sometimes it’s just a good deal.
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Never considered knock off batteries but good to know!
