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Anyone hear have any experiences with using these and making their own firearms? I'm very close to pulling the trigger(zing!) and picking up a kit for a glock 17 or 19 build. With all the shit going on, I dont think its neccesarily a bad idea to have yourself a weapon which cant be explicitly tracked back to you.
 
Post in the weapons and training sub forum and there’s some knowledgeable guys who’d be able to help you out with a build


A thread on this topic in the war room sub would be more about should they be legal or not
 
HockeyBjj said:
Post in the weapons and training sub forum and there’s some knowledgeable guys who’d be able to help you out with a build


A thread on this topic in the war room sub would be more about should they be legal or not
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Honestly didnt know we had a sub like that lol. @irish_thug can you please move this to the correct sub?
 
HockeyBjj said:
Yeah kinda buried under standup technique
https://forums.sherdog.com/forums/weapons-and-tactics.65/

It’s a low traffic place but a real good place. You’ll definitely find feedback from someone experienced with finishing an 80%, although I’ve only been familiar with that on an at lower platform. Didn’t know they made 80% handguns
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They're even more simplistic and easy than an ar lower. Come with all the tooling
 
If you want my advice, I would get a MAC-10.



You can scream this song while defending your homestead.
 
evergreenrider said:
Anyone hear have any experiences with using these and making their own firearms? I'm very close to pulling the trigger(zing!) and picking up a kit for a glock 17 or 19 build. With all the shit going on, I dont think its neccesarily a bad idea to have yourself a weapon which cant be explicitly tracked back to you.
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You should get a 1911. It's like a Glock, but for men.
 
evergreenrider said:
Nope, oregon closed that one up a few years ago unfortunately. That was my go to for a few of my previous purchases
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Everything I read up on it says it's best to do the work with the jig in a milling machine. You CAN do it with like a Dremel but it takes longer and won't come out quite as good.
 
Gregolian said:
Everything I read up on it says it's best to do the work with the jig in a milling machine. You CAN do it with like a Dremel but it takes longer and won't come out quite as good.
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I've been following that marine gun builder on YouTube on the guy is super in depth and detailed with every process. Theres definitely some tools that I will need to get before I jump into it. I know he just uses a dremel with 1,000 different attachments(only slightly exaggerating) and highly recommendeds the dremel work stand. After doing a bunch of replacement on my AR I'm quickly finding out it's not terribly hard to do basic gunsmithing, so I feel more confident in my ability to build a kit with minimal hiccups
 
evergreenrider said:
I've been following that marine gun builder on YouTube on the guy is super in depth and detailed with every process. Theres definitely some tools that I will need to get before I jump into it. I know he just uses a dremel with 1,000 different attachments(only slightly exaggerating) and highly recommendeds the dremel work stand. After doing a bunch of replacement on my AR I'm quickly finding out it's not terribly hard to do basic gunsmithing, so I feel more confident in my ability to build a kit with minimal hiccups
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My goal this year is to get a Dremel and actually get cracking on my Polymer 80. The biggest issue though is the one I bought doesn't have stippling so I need to get THAT done before I do work on it. No gunsmith that does stippling will work a Polymer80 that has been finished because it has no serial number.
 
Gregolian said:
My goal this year is to get a Dremel and actually get cracking on my Polymer 80. The biggest issue though is the one I bought doesn't have stippling so I need to get THAT done before I do work on it. No gunsmith that does stippling will work a Polymer80 that has been finished because it has no serial number.
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Yea I guess that would be pretty difficult for them to log in their books lol. Theres a few really good p80 smith's I've seen on IG that do incredible work
 
evergreenrider said:
Anyone hear have any experiences with using these and making their own firearms? I'm very close to pulling the trigger(zing!) and picking up a kit for a glock 17 or 19 build. With all the shit going on, I dont think its neccesarily a bad idea to have yourself a weapon which cant be explicitly tracked back to you.
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P80's are pretty simple. You can get 'er done with these items.
  • Utility knife
  • Drill
  • Vice (maybe not essential, but close)
  • Dremel with grinding wheel
  • Sandpaper (fine grit) with WD40 or CLP
Steps:
  • Slap the frame/jig in the vice.
  • Drill the holes (one side, then the other,)
  • Cut the four tabs off with the knife (you can get it pretty even with the frame)
  • Dremel out the recoil spring channel
  • Sand where you cut off the tabs and dremeled the channel (wrapping the sandpaper around a round file is helpful)
  • Assemble with the supplied rails and lower parts kit (plenty of youtube instructionals on this)
  • Pop your slide on and test functionality
Troubleshooting:
  • Apply nailpolish to dremeled out channel to see if the spring is binding up against it
  • If binding on rails then try pinching them in a little with pliers or grinding off some metal with sandpaper or dremel
 
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