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This is my AR Build.
I'm using an 80% Lower that I had to complete machining. Because it was 80% completed, it didn't require FFL checks for purchase.
Here you can see where I had to machine the trigger group.
I've added a Magpul MOE M-Lok Handgaurd, with Fore Grip. This allows for side mounting of a tactical flashlight which gives me illumination out to 100 yards.
I've also installed a Redfield Counterstrike Optic. It includes a 1x40 Red/Green dot, and built in laser pointer.
Pretty scary eh? I think it's defective though. Since I've assembled this weapon, it hasn't killed anyone.
However, I have used it to protect my ranch from predators.
So there it is. My scary gun build. Properly used to protect my ranch. Hasn't killed anyone.
Post em if ya got em. Let's see your favorite weapon.
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Thinking (so to speak)
he
might be saying
his mind is his weapon, and those who can't compete with his weapon/mind,
need to turn to guns
or , we could go with yer fellers and lady's take, that he sent EyeGore, to go fetch Abby,
so you could have something for target practice,
I'd have to go with the former, cause Abby Normal ain't for me
Can't argue with you, that is a picture of mankind's greatest weapon and a personal fave of mine.
Dulay,
I fully understand that your post basically translates to the quotation, "The pen is mightier than the sword". While the pen may indeed be mightier than the sword over the long run, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment.
Yes like speak softly but carry a gun, a big big gun and lots of 'em.
Yes, for every time children are slaughtered needlessly and senselessly, let's show pictures of our favorite guns. Good idea!
These are pictures of our weapons, Sweetcheeks. If you want to see a picture of my gun, you gotta ask nicely.
My other SCARY gun. A Remington 597 VTR .22LR Semi-Auto.
That was when I first bought it. I've tweeked it a bit
My 80% lowers. The bigger one is the AR-10 style. Haven't decided what caliber to build it in.
With the smaller lower are you going to do another 5.56 or possibly 300 blackout?
As far as the A10 why not go with standard .308 for ammo availability/cost or were you thinking 6.5 creedmoor?
Yeah, pretty sure it's gonna be a .308.
I don’t have gun personally now but I like The Judge. As for a rifle, there’s not much out there better for most civilian needs than an AR-15.
We do agree on somethings
Mark,
If you want, I can probably bring that picture up a little better for you.
naw its fine , only reason I mentioned the 96 is you can see the shadow .
some things not pictured :
all matching numbered 08 parabellum including matching number magazine from 1915.
1903 Colt pocket mod in .380 acp ser# 02
RIA 1911a1 that has been very worked to include a full length guide rod from wolff to include springs.
most of my prides have been handed down in the family to my father who when he passed passed them to me.
just this one picture covers over 100 years of main battle rifles for our armed forces, and I am working on the other 100 years .
Don't have any pics but I do have a Korean era 9mm Browning that works for me.
Now THAT is a sidearm. Not only can you take on a whole bunch of bad guys, you can also use it to go to the grocery store.
It's my favourite weapon - that's what the article asks for, and it didn't say I had to own it. I don't have a weapon personally because I have no need or use for one - I don't hunt and never did, I don't need one for protection where I am, and I have not shot at targets since high school, where I was the champion marksman. There we used WW2 Bren gun rifles modified to shoot single 22 bullets, reloading after each shot. I have never owned a gun (except as a kid I did have a cap gun that made a loud bang but didn't fire a projectile), although I did have a slingshot. I was a little kid during WW2 and never served in the Armed Forces since only volunteers from Canada took part in any other wartime or peacekeeping capacity.
I absolutely have never missed not having a gun - although I know it's almost a necessity if I were to live in the USA.
Buzz, are you sure it was a Bren gun? Bren guns were the light machine guns for the British and Canadian Armies during WWII, similar in function (Squad Automatic Weapon) to the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) that did the same job for the US Army at that time. The standard infantry rifle in the British and Canadian Armies during WWII was the SMLE (Short Magazine Lee Enfield); a bolt action rifle that was standard in the British Army since 1900. I have heard that some of them were converted to .22 LR single shot for training purposes. Perhaps they were what you used.
You're probably right. I don't know why I remember "Bren gun" - so it might not have anything to do with what we used. I know it was a bolt action WW2 Army issue, converted to fire 22 cal.
Oh come on Buzz, no it isn't. Nothing forces anyone to own a weapon here and if one feels like one might need a weapon where they live, they are free to move where it is not a requirement. I've had a CCW/CPL for nearly 30 years and rarely feel the need to carry in public.
But unlike many other countries we do have a constitutional right to own a weapon. Rather unique in this world for a country as large and diverse as the US.
Unfortunately ..... that freedom does come with a unique set of problems as well.
Buzz you were using a modified 303 Lee Enfield
Buzz,
Here are a couple of pictures from Wikipedia.
Bren Light Machine Gun
Short Magazine Lee Enfield
A surplus Enfield was my first deer rifle. When I got it at age 14, someone had removed the front part of the forward stock just in front of the barrel band and cut the barrel just behind the front sight. Then the front sight was replaced with a commercial model. The rear stock had not been touched. I mounted a scope on it and it proved to be quite accurate but it kicked like a mule, probably due to excessive drop in the rear stock and the brass military buttplate. They would be fine, of course, for a .22LR which has no recoil to speak of. Finally I replaced the stock with a commercially made model and the recoil dropped off like magic. I have the same problem with an M-1 Garand; the stock just doesn't fit me and it kicks like hell. Firing the same 30-06 cartridge from a 1903 Springfield, where the stock fits my arm length perfectly, it hardly kicks at all.
lol yes it did
I guess you were right.
Yep like you I shot the same weapon briefly in school and then also in the reserves. However I was never a marksman unfortunately
So, Buzz, what kind of holster do you use with that one?
Why does it need a holster? After all, it's nothing but a mirage. LOL
Don't mess with Buzz, lol
I don't see examples of them on the internet, but the targets we shot at in high school were 5 on a card, three above and two below, each of the five targets was about 3" diameter with a bullseye of about 1/2" to 3/4" diameter. We would lie on our stomachs about 20 yards back to shoot. What was important was perfect eyesight, controlled breathing, timing, and the correct pressure on the trigger. I was the only one in the school who shot perfect 10-shot cards, two bullseyes in each target. At Spring Games Day, I was awarded the Frances Malloch Gibson Memorial Marksman Trophy (actually the biggest trophy in the school) by the widow of the trophy's namesake. Here is a photo of me accepting it, with the school Headmaster looking on.
That photo was published in our city's newspaper. I think if I had ever been the proper age to serve in a war, I would most likely have been a sniper, and a trainer of others on shooting - I was my school's Sergeant York (There Buzz goes with classic movies again).
Is that the Israeli version of the French Mirage 3?
Yes, it's a Mirage.
Northing out of the ordinary in weapons. Shotgun, rifle and one handgun.
But then, there is this beauty with a story that is, to say the least, interesting.
Model 1907 Savage .32....
Once owned by Kid Cann (Isadore Blumenfeld) who ran the mob in St. Paul and was a close friend of Meyer Lansky...I inherited it from my uncle, Pietro Felicio Salvataro who married my mother's sister.
I'll bet it could get big bucks at an auction, although I'm sure you don't want to sell it.
Your right Buzz. I don't want to sell it.
Since my uncle was an ''associate'' of the Kid, there are a lot of stories to tell...
Well go for it guy. Someone with your writing ability telling an interesting story like that should go over big around here.
Actually TTGA, that marriage between Pietro and my aunt caused huge problems in the family, for a couple of reasons.
So, I'm going to leave that story alone.
I'm not into guns, and I would never own one, but if I had to pick a favorite one it would be this:
Don't have any pics but i have a couple really nice M1 Garands that are fun to shoot. I got one shooting in a CMP match the other i inherited from my Dad. That one is unfired and still in the cosmo. Manufacture date March of 1942.
Pretty rare and valuable as most weapons made then went to war somewhere.
When ya know how to shoot, you only need one shot.
Sharps Buffalo rifle, 50 cal?
Three of my Favorites:
I have a 1943 Walther P38, never re-blued, but it was re-gripped. I also was lucky enough to receive my dad's .357 Magnum Revolver, with a mounted 1.3 power scope, and modified holster. I'll have to take some pics......
That P38 is a great gun. Reliable as all get out. I have more comfortable wood grips on mine, as I do shoot it more, but saved the original gribs in my "Special" box.
My P38 (John Wayne) was reliable as heck as well.
That sucker could really open a C-rat can ......
One thing about the Germans, they could build excellent machines back then.
I have a 1943 Walther P38, never re-blued, but it was re-gripped. I also was lucky enough to receive my dad's .357 Magnum Revolver, with a mounted 1.3 power scope, and modified holster. I'll have to take some pics......
Since someone mentioned the Enfield, I thought I'd post these.
This is an Enfield I had while in Montana. It looks like the Enfield No 5, but in fact it's a No 4 that someone converted to a carbine by changing the stock. While in Montana, it seemed to shoot pretty good. As good as the Mosin Nagant 91/30. Here is a pic of The Marine hitting a 300 yard target 8 out of 8 shots, iron sights with that weapon.
Any way, I digress. When I got to Missouri, I noticed that the Enfield wasn't holding zero with the scope. In fact, a deer I shot at 70 yards was actually hit in the spine breaking his back. I was rather unnerved at the sight of him suffering before he died. I checked headspace, and the barrel, and found that the rifling in the barrel was very worn. IN other words, the barrel had been shot out. Rather than spend the money on a new barrel, I sold the rifle, and bought a Savage 270 Winchester. I also took up reloading. And now, I'm shooting <1 MOA with that rifle. Deer fear me.
Yeah, the Enfields were known for headspace problems since the locking lugs were at the rear of the bolt rather than the front like the Mausers and Springfields. Because of the rear locking lugs, though, cycling the bolt was incredibly fast. At Ypres, in 1914, the German infantrymen were convinced that all of the British soldiers were issued slow firing machine guns when they actually had very few real machine guns.
Well, this article certainly was entertaining, but take me back, please. Take me back to the 1940s when we didn't have to lock the doors on our cars and houses. When NOBODY carried a gun (except a policeman) and it was a very rare city-person who even HAD a gun. I'm sure many country-folk had rifles for hunting purposes, but didn't have collections like these days, when people collect guns like dinkey toys.
Now there's talk of training and arming teachers. Unemployment will drop because so many people will get jobs as school guards. The schoolkids will be aware of it, and for them a gun will become a sign of status ("My gun is bigger/better than your gun." "Maybe it is but I've got three of them.") Guns will proliferate like iPhones. These days I see people sitting at Starbucks looking at their cellphones - tomorrow I will see people sitting at Starbucks, stroking their pistols. What a life.
Even Atheists might convert to America's new religion:
I agree. When it comes to American's gun culture we devolved. I would say we are becoming Dodge City of the 1890's except by that time the law had come to the west and people were required to check hand guns at the Sheriff's office when they came into town. Due to the political aspect of the gun debate some have made carrying guns as much a fashion as a political statement.
I find it odd those who are supposedly afraid, terrified to the point of being way over-armed, that the government is going to take their guns would want to make what they own including in some cases the serial numbers public. If the big scary deep state wanted to I cannot imagine it would be that hard for professional spooks to figure out the whose and the wheres if you catch my drift. Forgive me for not understanding gun porn...
Not even close. Last night, my firearms were never fired. Nor my neighbors. Nor anyone in my county. No one was killed in my county or the cities in it last night, last week, last month. In fact, the last serious injury we had in this county was a stabbing.
Bring out the Dom Perignon. JBB and I have finally agreed on something. LOL
I think that JBB and I were both addressing the culture, rather than the number of incidents.