comming back from the dead

[Lloyd Smale]

my 4.5 in 45acp ar. it was in my truck when the son in law borrowed it and he took it out at home to shoot it, stuck it in the house, went to work and his house burned to the ground. ive been 2 weeks restoring it and it should be done sunday. ill post an after picture when its done. i did some research about barrel temper and they said as long as it doesnt get over 1200 f. im sure if it got that hot the stock and grip would have been completely gone. as is i had to relace the bumper on the buffer, the brace, the red dot, stock quick dethatch (its on order) all the springs and pins. i had everything in the spare parts drawers except the quick detatch. many hours in the ultrasonic cleaner and elbow grease!! even the binary trigger worked after cleaning it up but i stuck it in my 9mm cmmg 16 ' gun and if this thing runs well ill buy another for it. its a cool little gun. retract and detatch the stock and it will fit in a lunch bucket. uses glock mags so i can throw it and my glock 30 in a small bag for a truck set up. if i get it running reliably again on a binary i just might have to buy a 45acp suppressor! Christmas has about drained me though so it will have to wait a bit

[GTS225]

i just might have to buy a 45acp suppressor! Christmas has about drained me though so it will have to wait a bit

That's a given, being the $200 tax is gone after Jan. 1st.

Saw this in one of your earlier posts, but didn't respond.   That's a tough break, and like you, I hate to see what might be a good firearm scrapped.  Good on you for attempting to keep it alive.

Roger

[Lloyd Smale]

it aint going to look perfect and its now camo to hide the flaws but it will go bang and sure isnt a coffee table gun to began with. i know one thing. id hate to face it at night with a 30 round mag. lined up 10 milk jugs full of water at camp one day and the nephews watched me destroy them on binary mode. sometimes wish i would have gone 7 in but the shorter barrel has less bullet dwell time in the barrel and muzzle climb is less than my 8.5 40. another good thing is my 4.5 in 9mm ar has a suppressor and is the same length as my 8.5 40. these pistol cal ars ar the most fun guns i own and for not much more than what 22s cost i can shot these things using a free cast bullet a primer and a few grains of powder

[Lloyd Smale]

well its done far from perfect but it ran 2 30 round mags. when i first saw it burned i about threw it in the trash

[victorcharlie]

Wow, that's awful.....Hope he has good insurance.   

[Lloyd Smale]

Wow, that's awful.....Hope he has good insurance.

no actually he had crap insurance. when he took the loan out to build it 15 years ago he borrowed 125k. he was young and dumb and only took loan insurance so what they did was pay off the 27k he owed and he got nothing. just a foundation and the land. nothing to rebuild or for contents. hes living in a camper (and temps are single digit) and all he had was the clothes on his back. he saved a few guns because they were buried is debris but some were worse than this and got thrown away. about 12 made it through in fairly good shape. but ever appliance furnace water heater ect and everything he owned was lost. the real clothes on your back. hes not really my son in law. he and my daughter never married thankfully. i havent talked to her in 10nyears. hes over at least twice a week and fixes everything for me. he could have been a home builder or a mechanic. he now runs a big rig repair shop. he does all my mechanic work and about everything at home from remuddling to shoveling my roof. i consider him my son. we gave him 15k to get started and told him he could have this years tax return which should be at least 4k. noyhing compared to what he does for us!! what sucks is we bought a second home in my home town 50 miles from here that needs work. im probably going to have to hire most of it out because this summer he will be busy on his own