| Author | Message | ||
     Rick_a |
The history of firearms design and development is interesting. Few poor or mediocre designs stand the test of time, regardless of the designer or Army ordinance officers ego. Browning, aside from early shotgun designs...I'd say, has designed a few guns that were essentially perfect when adopted. One was a general issue pistol for some eighty years and a heavy machine gun that's still in use today...some 101 years later. I can respect that. I've been thinking of how I miss having a 50BMG rifle. That's some fun if you have a place where you can do some blasting. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Sounds like a case of "87% of statistics are made up on the spot." https://www.ammoland.com/2022/04/not-even-atf-can- verify-atfs-ghost-gun-claims/ | ||
| Rick_a |
She says it well. She's sharp, attractive, and has held some admirable positions in the gun industry. She's the type of woman so called feminists should be propping up...but...agenda. They don't really want strong, independent women. They want victims to sell their nonsense. | ||
| Rick_a |
Also, I put our AR machine gun together at work. It was in pieces for reasons unknown. It's a post sample lower with a cheap, heavy barreled upper. It ran hard and fast. With an H3 buffer it's not too bad...but it's definitely over gassed. I'm going to see if we can get our gunsmith to chop it to a 14.5" and re-thread it (it's a 16" midlength). I think that would fix it right up. We also have a 11.5" upper that would go well with it.  | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Patches |
I'm Pro-Gun (2nd Edition) | Change My Mind https://youtu.be/SDlSVE0X3Ao?list=PL3e1orPYt_4ZHGj uivZFsyJ81RL7j7_E1 | ||
| Chauly |
The story is (apparently) self-parody-ing. All The People's Cube has to do is quote the (P)resident, and voila! | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-ghost-g un-rule-dead-arrival-thanks-0-receiver | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/how-i-came-to-lo ve-and-appreciate-the-anti-glock/ | ||
| Ourdee |
And now to make the word gun illegal. WHY!? Because it looks like a "gun". | ||
| Rick_a |
My Glock is my favorite handgun to shoot.  20180223_135033 by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr My 1911 is my favorite period.  20210820_080046 by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr My 22-4 is an elegant and functional historical reference.  20140914_093831 by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr | ||
| Ratbuell |
My new AR is sighted in... 36 yard zero. Used to be a 1/4" plate...whoops, heheh....  | ||
| Ourdee |
Joe, Give this guy 5 minutes. He seams to be on the ball and has a couple of products on his equipment that I like. | ||
| Rick_a |
3/8" is considered the minimum required to stop centerfire rifle stuff. I'm still using mild steel bolts, which can be a pain with the smaller targets. I still need a pepper popper. I made hints over the holidays, but alas... | ||
| Ratbuell |
Meh. It was still fun punching holes in it. Maybe I'll add eyes and a mouth and turn it into a smiley face! (Message edited by ratbuell on April 20, 2022) | ||
| Aesquire |
Paint it like a road sign for full redneck credit.  One time when a kid, I tried to catch a bullet in a 3 foot tall plastic garbage can. Home alone, winter, so I put a telephone book on the bottom, filled it full of well packed snow, filled it with water, stood on a chair next to it, and fired one shot, .22LR regular. Bang, big splash. Quickly put rifle away, and then started digging through the snow for the bullet. It was sticking out the last page of the phone book, after cracking the bottom of the plastic & spalling a 1/4" chunk out of the concrete floor. I really thought 3' of slush would stop a measly .22... Wrong. Did my best to clean the mess up, and to this day can't believe I got away with it or how dumb I was. | ||
| Gregtonn |
When I was a kid I did a similar experiment. Dumped a bag of Portland cement powder into a five gallon bucket. Fired a round nose .22 lead bullet down into it, result after sifting through the cement powder...a near perfect lead mushroom. G | ||
| Rick_a |
I've got the girlfriend's kids enrolled in my firearms training class. They've been shooting with their dad, but with minimal instruction. They had no idea what the firearms safety rules were. We've gone over safety and shooting fundamentals. Next we go over shooting positions and sight picture. Then we go shoot. I let them know that they have a duty and tradition as Americans to become trained and proficient riflemen. Looking through my stuff I found some vintage XM257 #4 buck military shotgun ammo. Kinda cool. I have a ton of old heavy game loads that people have given to me over the years. There's some that are frayed from being chambered repeatedly. There's even a couple paper cartridges in there. I can't imagine giving away ammo for any reason  | ||
| Oldog |
Joe: Thanks for sharing that info on the steel plate, I have some saw off ends of large alloy bars from work it looks like they cant take 223 hits yeah do the smiley | ||
| Ratbuell |
Paint it like a road sign for full redneck credit. ; ) Nah. Hang it at the end of my (1400') driveway, right below the "private driveway - NO TURNAROUND" signs, with Sharpie writing on it: "If you can read this...you're in range" | ||
| Rick_a |
I'm going to set up a 10" gong to help me dispose of some of this shotgun ammo. | ||
| Ourdee |
What knife do you carry?  | ||
| Screamer |
When? & Where? | ||
| Ourdee |
Exactly. | ||
| Chauly |
Without much information, the Swiss army knife. | ||
| Chauly |
Or "anticipation"  | ||
| Ducbsa |
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| Rick_a |
I sold most of my fixed blades. With inflation factored in, I sold them for what I had in then.  20140729_151354 by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr | ||
| Court |
All Benchmade.. Which, of course, are illegal to ship into NY. Gave away 8 9 guns 3 weeks ago …. Unable to bring back to NY. Welcome to the land of the ball bat and 12” kitchen knife . . . Which Benchmade have just started making and ARE legal to ship to NY. Anyone figures that all out . . . Lemme know. | ||
| Rick_a |
I sold all of those but my favorite.  I often say, laws don't have to make logical or rational sense. It's a simple matter of what they can get passed. People ask me about gun laws often. |
