Suppressors Ahhh....Osprey greatness!

[cal50]

After a painful 3 month on wait for paperwork it finally arrived. My new Osprey came home with me tonight. After a much anticipated arrival and reading a LOT of opinions on the Silencerco I had to try it. After I swapped barrels I loaded a clip of Blazer 230 ball ammo and fired a clip. I had a huge shitty grin ear to ear. When you can safely fire a .45 without plugs or muffs and no one inside the house notices you have something great. This was from the group buy on the hide a while back.

The clearance for the light is pretty close. No marks after one clip.

Paper work in on Xmas.
Pending the 1st week in January
Approved 3/7/11
(Snook / Examiner)

 

[jwsnydes]

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LOOKS FANTASTIC! When did your check clear?

 

[mavrick10_2000]

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Congrat's. Those Osprey's are nice.

Also, the obligatory... <span style="font-weight: bold">It's a magazine not a clip</span>. A clip holds rounds to load a magazine. A magazine holds rounds to feed into the chamber of a firearm.

 

[cal50]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JW Snydes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">LOOKS FANTASTIC! When did your check clear? </div></div>


I sent a postal money order. I called weekly and it went "pending" the first week in January. I know they received the paperwork right before Xmas 2010.


(Correct on the magazine / clip nomenclature)

 

[bryanZ06]

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Looks good. Lucky for you that the paperwork cleared so soon. It took forever when I sold my SBR.

 

[BookHound]

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Great suppressor. I love mine.

The wait is certainly the hardest part of the NFA process. It flat out SUCKS.

 

[Sgt. 0811]

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Supercool. 2 months and a wake up for me

 

[Tucsondave]

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Got my Osprey 94 days later

 

[Cheetah]

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Looks good! I'm still waiting on my paperwork..I try to forget about them, I'm not sure how long ago I mailed it off..When my dealer calls I'll just smile

 

[pfcustom]

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my examiner tells me that is people like cal50 didn't call up there every frikkin week they could get more work done.

 

[cal50]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pfcustom</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> my examiner tells me that is people like cal50 didn't call up there every frikkin week they could get more work done. </div></div>


Lol!

 

[Lofty]

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LOL......did you fire inside your house or are you lucky enough to be able to shoot in your back yard?

 

[cal50]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lofty</div><div class="ubbcode-body">LOL......did you fire inside your house or are you lucky enough to be able to shoot in your back yard? </div></div>


My bullet trap is not rated for center fire so I was outside.

 

[Lofty]

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Osprey makes a great can. Mike and the guys over there know their stuff.....congrats.

 

[pfcustom]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: cal50</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pfcustom</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> my examiner tells me that is people like cal50 didn't call up there every frikkin week they could get more work done. </div></div>


Lol!
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Well, the next time you call, ask your examiner if your calls help her get any work done on your or any the other forms she is trying to work thru. I know of one examiner several years ago that unless it was a very legitimate question she would find the callers form and put it on the bottom of the pile.

It is the same in my shop, when the phone rings, a customer wants to know if his gun is ready, I have to stop working on, possibly his or another customers gun to tell him that if we have not called his gun is not ready. Do this 10-12 times a day at about 5 minutes per call...I've lost a hour.

But you jokers think you are the only one and that the NFA examiners are just sitting around doing nothing. Maybe 10 years ago, when NFA was still down in DC. But not the guys and girls at NFA now. Ken Houchins set up a great program that the Branch Chiefs that have followed have carried on and have improved on. Come to Knob Creek or one of the SAR shows and actually talk to the folks from the NFA or FTB branches...they can politely tell you what a PITA people like you really are.

Thus it slows down transfers for all of us.

Keep laughing, I don't see a damn thing funny about it.

Just my 2 cents...

 

[cal50]

Re: Ahhh....Osprey greatness!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pfcustom</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: cal50</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pfcustom</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> my examiner tells me that is people like cal50 didn't call up there every frikkin week they could get more work done. </div></div>


Lol!
</div></div>
Well, the next time you call, ask your examiner if your calls help her get any work done on your or any the other forms she is trying to work thru. I know of one examiner several years ago that unless it was a very legitimate question she would find the callers form and put it on the bottom of the pile.

It is the same in my shop, when the phone rings, a customer wants to know if his gun is ready, I have to stop working on, possibly his or another customers gun to tell him that if we have not called his gun is not ready. Do this 10-12 times a day at about 5 minutes per call...I've lost a hour.

But you jokers think you are the only one and that the NFA examiners are just sitting around doing nothing. Maybe 10 years ago, when NFA was still down in DC. But not the guys and girls at NFA now. Ken Houchins set up a great program that the Branch Chiefs that have followed have carried on and have improved on. Come to Knob Creek or one of the SAR shows and actually talk to the folks from the NFA or FTB branches...they can politely tell you what a PITA people like you really are.

Thus it slows down transfers for all of us.

Keep laughing, I don't see a damn thing funny about it.

Just my 2 cents... </div></div>


Well the reason I am laughing is becasue the person that answered the phone was:

A) Not the /A examiner.
B) Did not ask the examiner anything at all.
C) Strictly answered the phones and questions and looked in the computer for status. (I asked her).

At no point did I request to speak to the examiner nor did my calling speed up or slow down my paperwork or anyone else.

As Red Foreman would say: Dumbass

 

[KYS]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pfcustom</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: cal50</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pfcustom</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> my examiner tells me that is people like cal50 didn't call up there every frikkin week they could get more work done. </div></div>


Lol!
</div></div>
Well, the next time you call, ask your examiner if your calls help her get any work done on your or any the other forms she is trying to work thru. I know of one examiner several years ago that unless it was a very legitimate question she would find the callers form and put it on the bottom of the pile.

It is the same in my shop, when the phone rings, a customer wants to know if his gun is ready, I have to stop working on, possibly his or another customers gun to tell him that if we have not called his gun is not ready. Do this 10-12 times a day at about 5 minutes per call...I've lost a hour.

But you jokers think you are the only one and that the NFA examiners are just sitting around doing nothing. Maybe 10 years ago, when NFA was still down in DC. But not the guys and girls at NFA now. Ken Houchins set up a great program that the Branch Chiefs that have followed have carried on and have improved on. Come to Knob Creek or one of the SAR shows and actually talk to the folks from the NFA or FTB branches...they can politely tell you what a PITA people like you really are.

Thus it slows down transfers for all of us.

Keep laughing, I don't see a damn thing funny about it.

Just my 2 cents... </div></div>

The people who answer the phones are not examiners
They do not pull your paperwork and put it at the bottom, that would take more time then approving it as there are 11 examiners to do all that paperwork. They see nearly 65,000 forms a year.

You need to relax!

 

[Cam McFarland]

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Don't forget to look into getting the other pistons to allow useage of your .45 Osprey om .40 & 9mm as well....

 

[cal50]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ZX9RCAM</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Don't forget to look into getting the other pistons to allow useage of your .45 Osprey om .40 & 9mm as well....

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Already got it (9mm Piston).
I have not tried it on my 9mm Glock yet but its impressive on the .45.

 

[sweetbeard]

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you know enough to jump thru all the hoops to buy a suppressor and then you say clip..

ugh I blame the media

 

[chainring]

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The BATFE works for us, not the other way around. They damn well better answer the phone and give status reportsand that right cheerfully. I've only had one guy act a bit grumpy with me when I called, other than that they've been quite pleasant. It helps to be efficient. "Hi, checking status on a _______, the shop doing the transfer is ___________, and my name is ___________." Only takes about 30 seconds.

Love the Osprey/GLock package. Gotta save up...

 

[300WSM]

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sweet

 

[KYS]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: chainring</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The BATFE works for us, not the other way around. They damn well better answer the phone and give status reportsand that right cheerfully. I've only had one guy act a bit grumpy with me when I called, other than that they've been quite pleasant. It helps to be efficient. "Hi, checking status on a _______, the shop doing the transfer is ___________, and my name is ___________." Only takes about 30 seconds.

Love the Osprey/GLock package. Gotta save up... </div></div>

Ehhhh they work for the government. And you see how quick they operate, right? Even they wan to make answering the phone a hard job sometimes!

 

[Danneskjold]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pfcustom</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: cal50</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pfcustom</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> my examiner tells me that is people like cal50 didn't call up there every frikkin week they could get more work done. </div></div>


Lol!
</div></div>
Well, the next time you call, ask your examiner if your calls help her get any work done on your or any the other forms she is trying to work thru. I know of one examiner several years ago that unless it was a very legitimate question she would find the callers form and put it on the bottom of the pile.

It is the same in my shop, when the phone rings, a customer wants to know if his gun is ready, I have to stop working on, possibly his or another customers gun to tell him that if we have not called his gun is not ready. Do this 10-12 times a day at about 5 minutes per call...I've lost a hour.

But you jokers think you are the only one and that the NFA examiners are just sitting around doing nothing. Maybe 10 years ago, when NFA was still down in DC. But not the guys and girls at NFA now. Ken Houchins set up a great program that the Branch Chiefs that have followed have carried on and have improved on. Come to Knob Creek or one of the SAR shows and actually talk to the folks from the NFA or FTB branches...they can politely tell you what a PITA people like you really are.

Thus it slows down transfers for all of us.

Keep laughing, I don't see a damn thing funny about it.

Just my 2 cents... </div></div>

The folks who answer the phone at NFA Branch are NOT examiners.

Speaking to them does not slow down anyone's application that is in process.

This rumor needs to die.

 

[Tucsondave]

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Keep your fingers off my butterfinger

 

[simmy952]

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Nice. I am in the process of getting an Osprey .45. This does not help the anticipation. Enjoy.

 

[Gavin S.]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Exactly. The folks who answer the phone at NFA Branch are NOT examiners.

Speaking to them does not slow down anyone's application that is in process.

This rumor needs to die.</div></div>

Exactly.

 

[kalashnikev]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pfcustom</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
It is the same in my shop...

Keep laughing, I don't see a damn thing funny about it.
</div></div>

Hey, what's the number to your shop? I promise never to call!

Hahahaha!