Wild Hound and Lear70
As much as it pains me to do this, I have lost my patience with
Wild Hound (formerly Wild Card) an FAL FILES member from South Africa where he is a cop. I paid for an R-1 bolt carrier with M in U marking last 27 May 2021. I have not received the bolt carrier despite numerous PMs sent to him along with Facebook Messenger messages. All I have received is periods of no contact followed by excuses. The last excuse and communication I received was on 26 November 2021.
Nov 26, 2021
Hi Hector.
I am so sorry things where not well myside. Work has really been crazy and I suffered a relationship breakup meaning I had to move from George here in South Africa back to Oudtshoorn so I can afford accommodation. I was also taken up in hospital again with a possible return of my Cancer but luckily all tests proofed to be negative which I am very grateful for.
I do however need to make up funds for your shipping this has never happened before and I am really sorry for all of this. At times things go beyond expectations. I will make this up to you. It has been a while I know but I truly hope you can understand. I will keep my word.
Regards
Walt
I have PM'd him several times but have received no response. Consider yourselves warned. This really sucks as Walt was a good member here and sold rare R1 and R4 parts. His shipping was always slow but the parts came in. He has also stiffed another FAL FILES member on another part and sent him a verbatim copy of the PM he sent me to also explain his delay. That member also hasn't received his parts since the last time I PM'd him.
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The second person to be warned about is
Lear70.
Last year I lent my Meeper (Vern Smith) FAL AR-15 magazine adapter to MP to have his gunsmith reverse engineer it in order to produce more copies for other FAL FILES members. MP's gunsmith said he couldn't reverse engineer it as it was too complicated. MP returned the adapter and at this point I received an unsolicited PM from Lear70 (Richard Murphy-Lucky Irish Firearms) 19 March 2021 wanting to borrow the adapter to reverse engineer it. I had previously bought a couple of FAL ACR stock adaptors from him along with the DSA para rod adapters for the Grenade Precision scope mounts.
I sent him the adaptor via FEDEX and he received it on 2 April 2021. He has consistently ignored my PMs, e-mails and Facebook Messenger (He has since deleted his Facebook Messenger account and turned his Facebook profile to private so I can't contact him there any longer).
The last communication I received from him was on 19 March 2021 on FAL FILES PM and on 9/25/21 on Facebook Messenger. Here's a copy of our FACEBOOK MESSENGER PMs.
Richard Murphy
6/18/21, 5:23 AM
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Richard, I am still waiting for the return of the Meeper AR-15 magazine adapter you rented to reverse engineer. I sent you several PMs on the FAL Files which you have not responded to and I called you but it went straight to voice mail.. will return your deposit when I get my magazine adapter back. Hector Rivera Jr. (MY REPLY)
6/22/21, 3:25 PM
Richard
Hi Hector, I apologize, I have been buried with two baby birthday parties across the country, traveling, and 16 hour work days. Meant to respond but haven't responded to anyone. I'm 3 weeks behind on orders and digging out yesterday and today.
Everything got sidelined getting things set for the birthday celebrations and now I'm back working on things.
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Richard
I took your mag adapter with me on two trips for my day job but never got a chance to draft it. It's here on my desk and I'll be working on it this week. Unfortunately I work 12 hour days at my day job and 16 hour days here at home juggling home life and side business. I
WILL get it done.
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Richard
I blew my knee so I'm off for several months and can concentrate on all the design work I need to clear off my plate.
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Richard
Surgery in 3 weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to have all designs done in the next month or two, as that will be my primary income.
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Richard
Sorry to have not been replying to the emails or the phone call. Been a while since i got this far behind, everyone's upset and it's just me not having enough time in the day, my apologies.
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7/5/21, 2:48 PM
Richard, For future communications please use the FAL FILES PMs or my e-mail of
raexcct2@gmail.com as Facebook PMs have not been consistent for me. Not sure if Facebook banned me again or if it was just some quirk with Facebook but receiving/sending PMs on Facebook have been inconsistent. (MY REPLY)
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7/5/21, 3:16 PM
THUMBS UP EMOJI which wouldn't copy.
Will do.
Thanks Richard. I really hope you can get these magazine adapters to market as there are plenty of FAL FILES members that are looking to get these. I was thinking of starting a thread on the FAL FILES to have folks who are interested in a new AR-15 magazine adapter to post how many they want to help give you an idea of what the market would be but I decided to hold off until I contacted you. Not sure if you would want me to do this or not. (MY REPLY)
That would be great! I’m working on it tomorrow.
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Do you want me to start the thread or are you going to do this tomorrow? Just want to make sure and not step on your toes on the marketing. (MY REPLY)
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Frigging weird that Facebook messaging is working now. (MY REPLY)
Yeah FB sucks
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On that we agree. (MY REPLY)
Richard
Let me get a draft first then I’ll have a PDF and a 3D print of it soon after that.
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Cool. Thanks for the update. Between Matt Perritte (MP) and myself, we would be in for 2 adapters each and I have gotten other PMs from folks who were interested. (MY REPLY)
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Richard
Cool. I appreciate it.
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No worries. I wish Meeper was still gunsmithing as he was a genius. (MY REPLY)
No doubt.
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In case Facebook bans me again can you send me your e-mail so I can contact you direct? (MY REPLY)
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Richard
Sorry. Driving and on the phone. It’s
lear70@gmail.com
Thanks (MY REPLY)
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Richard
Thank you.
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9/20/21, 5:54 PM
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Richard, I am still waiting for an update and return of the Meeper AR-15 magazine adapter. Hector
9/25/21, 6:42 AM
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Still waiting Richard. What is so damn hard about returning the adapter?
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Richard
Good morning. I’m out of town and will be home tomorrow evening. I haven’t had time to finish it but it’ll come back whether I’m done or not tomorrow. I have been on a road trip recovering a stolen airplane and it’s been consuming the last three weeks plus staying on top of orders. It’s been very busy. Most people don’t work like this so I know it’s hard to understand and I apologize but I’ll send it back and just wait for another one to have time to finish it.
I'll await your tracking number so I can send off the adapter to Arizona Response Systems to start my build.
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Richard
THUMBS UP EMOJI THAT DIDN'T COPY
THIS WAS THE LAST REPLY ON 9/25/2021. Basically, it appears that Rich Murphy could not get anyone to sell him one of Meeper's FAL AR-15 magazine adapter and conned me into letting him reverse engineer it but he had NO intention of reverse engineering it. Thanks to him I now have an 5.56 AR-15 magazine FAL project that is dead in the water while he got to complete his rifle.
DO NOT TRUST ANYTHING THAT LEAR 70 (RICHARD MURPHY) IS SELLING EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH HIS COMPANIES LUCKY IRISH FIREARMS AND IT'S NEW NAME, LUCKY IRISH TACTICAL. HE HAS HIS OWN FACEBOOK WEB PAGE AND REGUALR WEBSITE. YOU WILL GET SCAMMED, LOSE YOUR MONEY AND GET NO PRODUCTS AND EITHER GET BASHED IN COMUNICATIONS OR GET NO COMMUNICATIONS.
UNFORTUNATELY, WILD HOUND HAS ALSO GONE FROM A REPUTABLE MEMBER HERE TO SOMEONE THAT CAN'T BE TRUSTED AND WILL NOT SHIP THE PARTS THAT YOU PAID FOR.