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Live Fire Media Show 034 – Light Mounts & Barrel Length.
05 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What should you consider when choosing barrel length for an AR?
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It's Live Fire Media Show, episode number 33. It's a show. It's a podcast. It's about guns, games, gear. whatever the hell else we feel like going off about. He's Hunter from Rain Shot. I'm Kwashi. Jesus. Yeah, let's get into it. What's up, buddy?
It's a show about a podcast. About a show.
Yeah, about shit, all kinds of shit. So you just said you're going to be at Gunsite?
That is correct. I will be at Gunsite coming up here soon. Nice for a, I'm going, uh, I'm actually going as a guest, a gun site, Ken, uh, Ken Campbell, but we're going there to take a defensive carbine class. That's cool. And, uh, sponsored by Meprolite. Nice. So Meprolite sent me a couple of their true visions and a three and a four time magnifier.
And some of their iron sites that co-witness, uh, So we're going to go, I'm going to run my little Barnes precision seven and a half inch rig.
You're so addicted to that thing, dude. That's all. I think you, if you shoot anything for your own entertainment, I feel like it's always that thing and nothing else. That's because it, to me, it's ideal, man. That's funny. Cause I wouldn't think a seven and a half being ideal. I mean, but yeah, whatever.
Tell me, tell me what you think a seven and a half inch AR, where does it fail?
Well, I'm going to say your longer range. Well, 7.5 is your end. You don't want to go anything short of 7.5. And honestly, 7.5 is so short, I just don't like it. It almost feels too short to me.
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Chapter 2: How does a 7.5-inch AR perform at different distances?
And he real quickly, within a split second time, dropped five rounds into this black bear and dropped it. So he was like, yeah, and look at the job done. It's funny because that's the kind of shit people are like, you can't use this to kill that and the other thing and this and the other. It's like, do you ever put holes in you and it's hot and you put lots of them?
Dude, you can do just about anything. It's like, get off the fucking high horse of what you think is this most perfect specimen of a round or a gun setup you need to use. Yeah.
I think that when you're picking a carbine for CQB, terminal ballistics is important. Right. But it's not the most important. Right. Because, you know, you've got a 16-inch carbine. Now, here's something to consider, too, all you people out there saying, well, this, that, and the other. If you've got a CQB AR and 5.56 – for your home defense rifle, you absolutely 100% should be suppressing it.
Because if you're in your living room or your bedroom and you touch off 10, 15 rounds of five, five, six, the concussion is going to be immediately devastating to not only your hearing, but your wife, your kids, whomever is in proximity to, You're going to suffer. Now, I'm not saying, oh, okay, well, I'm going to pick hearing damage over getting killed. Absolutely.
When you're freaking out in a situation like this, your adrenaline's kicking in. It's not going to be I say it's going to be different, but it's going to be different than if you're just like, all right, let's go shoot and then stand here with no ear pro on, like, which is beyond stupid.
It would still be different in the world, but you know, but you would, you still suffer the same effects though. They're not immediately recognizable.
Right. Cause you, like you said, you got to do long term damage no matter what.
Oh, so, so in my, in my opinion, if you're, if you're sub, if you're, if you're running a five, five, six for home defense, it needs to be suppressed.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What are the advantages of using a suppressed AR for home defense?
You know, that stuff pretty good.
Uh, because there's dude, there's so much to it. I don't have the time of day to put that shit on. I really, I really don't like, I know, I know what I should say. No, I know an idea of the work that Jordan has to do, put that match on. And then Ian side of it alone. It's a lot of shit, man. Like it's a lot like, honestly, finding a place to do it, which they're not that far.
It's eight hours for me to West Virginia. You want it somewhere. I don't say centrally located, but easy enough for competitors to get to from all over. And they do come from all over, shoot that match. But you got to find a facility that can shoot out until as late as two, three, four in the morning. That's true. Five. That gets hard. Like my range, you know, my club range.
Well, it's all flat range stuff. We don't have the woods courses like this place has. But 10 p.m. is I cut off flat out.
Yeah.
I shot a night match down in Kentucky a couple years ago in Lexington area. Same thing. It was a hardcore 10 o'clock cutoff. We were running guys through the last stage as fast as we could to get everybody through the thing before that time cutoff. That shit gets... It's a lot of logistics, man. Yeah, I can imagine. Honestly, talking to another buddy, we kind of joked.
It was like, whether we get in or not this year... it's cool to find one way or the other, but it's expensive. I mean, it's like three and 50 bucks just for the feet to be in the match, let alone ammo, let alone travel, hotel, food, all that shit. So it's like, ah, this is probably gonna be it for us next time. We'll just do our own semi local thing.
Half dozen guys, you know, so we know we can be done by 10 o'clock and utilize our whole range, uh,
If you were going to do something like that, I would like to come up there and shoot that with you.
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Chapter 4: How do light mounts affect AR functionality?
Now click on it. So that's top eject.
Yeah. Not what I'm thinking of that Rossi has, but still might be the 92 though.
Yeah, it's just, there's mama. Bless her heart. She's, yeah, that's a, now if you, I'll tell you what though, if you'll scroll down just a wee bit. Yep. Right there. Hit play on that. Will it play from yours? Yeah. Now this is 50 yards. I don't know if you get any audio off of this. Not really. Not really. Yeah. That's 50 yards. I was hitting a steel target with it.
Now, see, they got a rail on that.
Right. Well, that's what Charlie's 500 Smith has a rail like that over the hand guard. So he's already got a dot mount to it. And he was just showing me some of the ammo he's got in for the thing. Some 400 grain solid lead projectile flat point bit.
Why did he buy it at 500 and not 4570?
I think just because it was different. Just because. Yeah. He probably has a 4570. Oh.
Something different. 4570, I think, in a carbine. outperforms the 50. Now, in a revolver, the 45-70 and 500 Magnum are tit-for-tat. Right. But I think in a carbine, the 45-70 outperforms it.
That's kind of what we talked about. It was like, you know, I would think that the 45-70 is still going to outperform the 500 Smith, but at the same time, it's just because it's cool.
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Chapter 5: What are the benefits of using a lever action rifle?
I should be close to 70,000, you know, 60,000 unique views a month. Sure. I think 2000 a day is, it will be a reasonable cause now I'm at, you know, 15, 1600 and we still got tweaking to do.
Right.
So I'll go to them with that and be like, Hey, uh, here's my numbers. Cause I don't know. Fuck all about Henry. You know, I don't know anybody there. Same. And it's, it's gotten so hard Dave to walk into a booth and get a test sample. If you don't know somebody there, cause they, they hear yard, your hands out. Right.
Well, and there's still, there's so many of them. There's so many writers of yours. They're like, if I'm not getting it for free, I'm not interested. Yeah. you know, there's a lot of that.
All I asked for is 90 days. Can you give me 90 days with it? Right. I know MPS does a one 20. Yeah. No one 80 or one 80 on 80, which is way more than fair. Um, and believe it or not, man, I have got the review finished for the carbine pistol. The, Oh, the 45, uh, Yeah, I've got that actually done. What's that? The 4595P. 4595P for pistol. Yeah. Carbine pistol. And I've got that done. I'm waiting.
PCP. Pistol caliber pistol. Pistol caliber pistol. Wait. Pistol caliber pistol? Pistol caliber pistol.
We joke, what do you call it? Large format pistol. You can't say carbine because an ATF get up your ass because it's not a carbine. So what is it? How do you designate it? We say the name 4595P. We have joked and said pistol caliber pistol, which that one came from Paul Markle, a student of the gun. We've said large format pistol to a lot of people because they're like, well, what is it?
What's a large format pistol?
I like large format pistol. I've got that review done. I haven't shot the wrap up yet, but I'm going to be rolling everything done. I've been kind of waiting for a good time to drop it. I'm thinking right probably
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