artompkins
| Favorite team: | US Marine Corps  |
| Location: | Orange Beach, Al |
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| Occupation: | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer |
| Number of Posts: | 6346 |
| Registered on: | 5/1/2010 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Official AR-15 thread
Posted by artompkins on 1/20/26 at 5:57 am to bbvdd
Just made a deal for this upper. What m4 lower would you pair with it? Just curious
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re: Portal & Roster Tracker (see first 3 posts for updated roster/staff info) - PORTAL CLOSED
Posted by artompkins on 1/19/26 at 1:42 pm to phaz
This was reported a few weeks ago that he would be let go after the portal closed.
re: Official AR-15 thread
Posted by artompkins on 1/18/26 at 1:16 am to finchmeister08
Looking at it closer you can see where a very faint lay line was that says SOCOM RC2. Good catch and thanks for that. I really had no clue.
re: Official AR-15 thread
Posted by artompkins on 1/18/26 at 12:36 am to finchmeister08
It probably is. It actually doesn’t have a manufacturer listed on it and I have had the thing for years. I traded a buddy a working Harris PEQ2 for it several years ago and he said it was a KAC. I’m not a big suppressor guy myself.
re: Official AR-15 thread
Posted by artompkins on 1/17/26 at 10:51 pm to finchmeister08
My issued weapon obviously didn’t have the suppressor but that is a GI Knights Armament suppressor I had so I stuck it on there.
re: Official AR-15 thread
Posted by artompkins on 1/17/26 at 7:54 pm to HeadSlash
A couple I am adding to. Top one is an FN M4 carbine with an Aimpoint/Wilcox ECOS-N mount and an M962 light. The second is an attempt at a MK18 Mod 0 CQBR set up like the one I was issued while forward deployed with NCIS.
re: Suppressors Dec 26
Posted by artompkins on 1/17/26 at 3:05 am to finchmeister08
Working on a few clones myself
re: Lane is Tweeting this while Pete Golding is blowing into an interlock to start his car
Posted by artompkins on 1/12/26 at 2:39 pm to CatfishJohn
No it didn’t.
re: Lane is Tweeting this while Pete Golding is blowing into an interlock to start his car
Posted by artompkins on 1/12/26 at 11:48 am to pankReb
1/9/12 did more damage to that program than dropping the bomb on Hiroshima did.
re: OLD Portal & Roster Tracker - No Updates Being Made to First 2 Posts
Posted by artompkins on 1/11/26 at 8:59 am to Crimsonpirate23
And if any of that were true then no slap dick posting on a message board would know it.
re: OLD Portal & Roster Tracker - No Updates Being Made to First 2 Posts
Posted by artompkins on 1/10/26 at 9:49 pm to Diego Ricardo
Money is always relevant
re: Best purchase you’ve made in the last 30 days
Posted by artompkins on 1/10/26 at 9:44 pm to olemc999
Everything you see here.
re: Cover for Concealed Carry?
Posted by artompkins on 1/10/26 at 12:24 pm to RetiredSaintsLsuFan
I am a bit different. I have a back pack with me all the time mainly for work so I carry that way. I have a 5.11 backpack that has a dedicated CCW Velcro pocket. Easy Peasy. I also have some nice Del Fatti IWB holsters for carrying a Sig 226 Legion or my Volkmann custom 1911 as well though.
re: Ace Hardware provides one of the best shopping experiences in 2026 America
Posted by artompkins on 1/10/26 at 12:15 pm to weagle1999
We have several in our area, mainly the Daphne and Elberta stores that are excellent and I buy everything in can from them. Mobile has one on Cottage Hill that’s inside a Winn Dixie. That one is kind of weird.
re: OLD Portal & Roster Tracker - No Updates Being Made to First 2 Posts
Posted by artompkins on 1/10/26 at 12:12 pm to PBD4BAMA
WTH does BSC mean?
re: What is your conceal carry ? Updated with new CC purchase.
Posted by artompkins on 1/8/26 at 1:30 pm to holmesbr
I am CC’ing this since I carry it in my back pack that’s always on me.
re: OLD Portal & Roster Tracker - No Updates Being Made to First 2 Posts
Posted by artompkins on 1/8/26 at 1:28 pm to TideSaint
That’s a key and peele name if I ever heard one lol
re: FN FNX 45 Tactical
Posted by artompkins on 1/4/26 at 7:44 pm to Stateguy
re: FN FNX 45 Tactical
Posted by artompkins on 1/3/26 at 3:42 pm to lsujunky
I would check out a holographic sight like eotech EXPS3 or a green dot holosun.
re: FN FNX 45 Tactical
Posted by artompkins on 1/3/26 at 12:59 pm to lsujunky
Added a light and RMR and shot it today.
It’s a great shooter and a lot of gun for the money and it’s surprisingly light for a weapon of its size. The suppressor height sites are a little weird and take some getting used to but they cowitness perfectly with the RMR. Very accurate as well.
It’s a great shooter and a lot of gun for the money and it’s surprisingly light for a weapon of its size. The suppressor height sites are a little weird and take some getting used to but they cowitness perfectly with the RMR. Very accurate as well.
re: Congratulations to all the SEC Rose Bowl teams
Posted by artompkins on 1/1/26 at 10:38 am to cmayes56
It was at the Rose Bowl but it wasn’t THE Rose bowl. It was the national championship game; the bowl game was played a week and a half earlier.
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