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Guns General
Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:07 am
Mackerel
Joined: Thu May 05, 2011 1:30 am Posts: 2876 Location: Rent free in your head. Vacation in your ass.
Re: Guns General
All gun topics welcome.
If you get warned/reported/banned. You ♥♥♥♥ up.
Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:09 am
Duh102
happy carebear mom
Joined: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:40 am Posts: 7096 Location: b8bbd5
Re: Guns General
If I had a gun, it'd be a run of the mill handgun and probably never cleaned because I'm too busy shooting make believe ones to care.
Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:11 am
painbringer1998
Joined: Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:37 am Posts: 201 Location: Oregon, USA
Re: Guns General
my dad owns a 10mm handgun, a 25. pistol, a 22. single shot rifle and a 30-06. I own a 30-06 sweet 1,500 30-06 that's ♥♥♥♥ amazing I'll put up pictures if you guys want.
Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:30 am
Kettenkrad
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:51 am Posts: 1198 Location: Sydney
Re: Guns General
Do want:
Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:55 am
Deltabacon
Joined: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:36 pm Posts: 12
Re: Guns General
I enjoy firing L98A2's with my local cadet squadron, but I wouldn't personally want to own a firearm.
Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:47 pm
Arcalane
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:32 pm Posts: 1609 Location: UK
Re: Guns General
Kettenkrad wrote:
Do want:
Huh, I didn't know those guys had a channel or anything. Very nice. Especially interesting to see some of their videos on stuff like the EM-2 prototype bullpup.
Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:45 pm
TheKebbit
Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:24 pm Posts: 3939 Location: NORTH
Re: Guns General
I'm about as much of a bleeding heart commie liberal as you can get, but I still plan to purchase a shotgun and high-caliber handgun for home defense.
Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:58 pm
David Rodrigov
Joined: Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:35 pm Posts: 675
Re: Guns General
Semi-Auto Pistols or Revolvers? Which is better?
Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:25 pm
Duh102
happy carebear mom
Joined: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:40 am Posts: 7096 Location: b8bbd5
Re: Guns General
Depends on if you like reloading every 5-6 shots.
Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:49 pm
Azukki
Joined: Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:44 pm Posts: 1916 Location: Flint Hills
Re: Guns General
I own a Saiga 308 that I've customized, and a Norinco ATD. I used to have a Ruger 10/22, and I plan to replace it at some point.
If I've offended you with my terrible attempt at imitating a part of your language, or you just hate mspaint's airbrush and jpg artifacts, well, deal with it
--The ATD is a bit odd. Reloading is a pain due to the tube mag in the stock, and mine is broken in a way that makes reloading even more of a pain. Use the charging handle, and it tries to chamber every round in the mag at once. Obviously they don't fit, and the rounds gets damaged. Gotta load the chamber, then the mag. Cycles very reliably, no accuracy problems. The Browning Semi Auto 22, which this is a ripoff of, I would recommend, if you don't mind high cost, a wacky reload, and 10 round mag. This Chinese knock off, I would not recommend. --The Saiga, after my conversion, is pretty satisfying. Before conversion, the ergonomics and trigger were pretty bad, but some AK parts, tools, knowledge, and time fixed that right up. 308 has some real oomph to it, compared to the intermediate cartridges of a usual modern carbine. Paired with semi auto and 20+ round aftermarket magazines, that makes a S308's firepower on par with battle rifles, but for an affordable price. Recoil is at a 'fun' level; it throws your aim around and is felt, but it's comfortable. The main drawbacks that are apparent to me are weight and ammo costs. Being an AK, it does waste a little of the accuracy potential that 308, a round suitable for sniper rifles, has, but it's certainly still adequate for plenty of purposes. Rocking the mag in is another small drawback. I'm surprised by how lefty friendly AKs are. Mikhail Kalashnikov may have made his legendary rifle exclusively for right hand shooters, but in some ways, it's so backwards from the modern western shooter's practices, that it's arguably better for lefties. Right charging handle, crummy safety either way, ambi mag release, right side but forward angled ejection. Overall, would recommend, firepower at a bargain. --Ruger 10/22s are very fun little guns. Mine ran very well. It has been missed, except for its tasteless digicamo finish. Would recommend, will buy again.
Owned between my brother, sister, and I, is a decent assortment of hunting oriented rifles and shotguns, and some .22s, most from grandpa. I intend to buy out their shares of most of these and maybe sell a few.
Winchester 101 (Double barrel over under 12g. A proper clay pigeon shooting gentleman's gun is too rich for my blood. Would sell if not for being somewhat an heirloom.) Mossberg 500 (classic pump 12g) Winchester 12 (classy pump 12g, also, slamfire fun) Black powder single shot 12 gauge Black powder double barrel 12 gauge Savage 24 (Double barrel .410/.22. Do-all, yet utilitarian small game gun) Marlin 60 (semi .22lr, tube mags. Ours has been abused since the eighties, pretty jammomatic now. I installed tech sights.) Winchester 61 (pump .22, tube mag. Plenty of fun. Needs a firing pin replacement due to dry firing.) Colt Woodsman (semi .22lr pistol.) Colt Single Action Army .22lr (.22 SA revolver) Snubbie .22 revolver. Armscor 059 or something, pretty trashy, and broken. Unless I can jury rig it to work again, the best use for it now would be exploiting a police buyback's fixed offers. Winchester 94 carbine (30-30 lever action, classic deer gun) Winchester 94 Buffalo Bill commemorative carbine (gold painted cowboy-motif decoration version of the above) Savage 99 (Lever action, rotary mag, .300 savage, scope. The obscure round, 308's daddy, has kept me from being able to feed it much) Savage 170 (pump 30-30. Rifle for shotgunners is the idea, I guess.) Remington 742 (semi 30-06 rifle, Dad's deer gun) No bolts. Not sure why. Might fix that.
In the future I definitely want to get a centerfire handgun. So, David, I am facing that dilemma, and based on what I've looked into, there's no right answer for all situations, as is often the case of hotly debated questions like that. If you want to think things through entirely, both certainly do have their places. But, to give a conclusion that's overgeneralized and not necessarily right, a "straight answer", semi autos are way better. When considering things like this, it's also interesting to at least take a glance at the pathslessfollowed.
Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:34 am
Arcalane
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:32 pm Posts: 1609 Location: UK
Re: Guns General
David Rodrigov wrote:
Semi-Auto Pistols or Revolvers? Which is better?
Semis for practicality/capacity, revolvers for style. Simple.
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