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Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 29, 2019 0:34:14 GMT
How damn big is your gun safe getting to be?
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Post by Horsie on Apr 29, 2019 0:46:35 GMT
Not nearly big enough, I've got 3 safes and I've run out of room, and buying a 4th is out of the question since I don't have anywhere to put it.
Going to look at selling a few things though, there's a couple of guns that I don't shoot enough to justify keeping. I'll probably offset that by impulse buying another old service rifle or 5.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 29, 2019 2:46:21 GMT
Well, things are changing. Pretty soon nobody is even gonna bother putting any firearm related content onto YouTube.
I suppose that's the whole point.
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Post by wordweaver3 on May 1, 2019 17:43:30 GMT
I was at Cabela's yesterday and saw they had a huge cache of 91/30s.
400 bucks each.
These assholes that keep paying that much for surplus shit really need to stop.
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Post by Horsie on May 3, 2019 6:21:21 GMT
I saw one at a gun show not long ago that buddy wanted $900 for, it was just a regular 91/30 with sniper scope on it, the scope mount was installed just far enough forward for the straight bolt handle to clear the eyepiece.
At that same show I saw a Type 38 Arisaka with a sporterized stock, a lot of heavy chequering and diamond-shaped mother of pearl inlays, I should have got a photo, it was one of the ugliest things I've seen in a while. Buddy said it was a rare "officer's model" rifle.
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Post by wordweaver3 on May 3, 2019 7:06:55 GMT
Right. Sad thing is they both probably sold.
If I had known what was going to happen to the surplus market 10 years ago I would have filled my basement with Nagants and SKSs. Hell, when I bought my Nagant for 190 I felt like I was getting ripped off. I can probably sell it for 400 now even with my upgrades. Tell em it's a rare officer's sniper variant and get 1,000.
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Post by Horsie on May 3, 2019 14:55:55 GMT
This guy is bad for setting insane prices on things and calling them "rare". For years he was asking 600 for a Swiss Model 1911 carbine (the carbine version of the rifle I just got) that had been converted to 30-30 when a bunch were imported in the 70s. The bore was fucked, the action was so stiff I had to put the butt on the table and pound the bolt open with my fist.
About 8 years ago there was a place up here selling crates of unissued SKSs for $1500
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Post by wordweaver3 on May 12, 2019 4:30:26 GMT
I'm guessing a crate is 10 rifles. I can remember when SKSs cost 99 bucks at Dunham's.
So I went to the gun store today and they had in some new Ruger American Rifles in .350 Legend. 450 bucks for the rifle alone.
Right next to it was a Ruger American in .450 Bushmaster with a scope for 380.
I really wanted to walk out with a new .450.
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Post by Horsie on May 12, 2019 4:55:36 GMT
Yep, 10 rifles. We could get Mosins like that too, maybe still can, but I'm not sure what they go for now.
A lot of surplus stuff has gone up in price now that people have started taking an interest in it. On the one hand it's nice to know more people realize chopping the wood off of a surplus rifle and drilling and tapping for a scope mount (or gluing, I've seen it done) isn't the best idea. On the other hand it's getting harder to get really good deals on service weapons, or even stocks, I remember when Lee-Enfield No.4 wood went for nothing, now it can cost as much as a rifle.
That's pretty cheap, was there some kind of promotion on?
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Post by wordweaver3 on May 12, 2019 5:15:26 GMT
I think it's a matter of inventory reduction.
The .450 was the hot round for the last few years, but it's biggest drawback was that the recoil was significant. Since it was hot everyone has a lot of the rifles in stock. I'm pretty sure everyone expects the .350 to be the next hot round since it's similar (in that it's a straight walled rimless rifle cartridge), but with smaller caliber and way less recoil.
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Post by Horsie on May 12, 2019 5:38:56 GMT
Maybe people just need to man the fuck up?
Or I guess they could use a decent brake too.
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Post by wordweaver3 on May 12, 2019 7:27:07 GMT
The .450 almost always comes with a brake, but the problem is that it's used often for hunting. People typically don't wear ear protection while hunting and the brake makes it potentially damaging. So they often remove the brake and suffer the bruised shoulder.
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Post by Horsie on May 12, 2019 19:02:11 GMT
I can see that being an issue. I fired a .300 RUM with a ported barrel and forgot to put in ear plugs (I've done the same thing with a .300WM, so clearly I have a grudge against my ears), it was the better part of a day before my ears stopped ringing.
This is interesting;
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Post by wordweaver3 on May 23, 2019 7:35:37 GMT
The one thing I don't like about his vids is that he never shows the downrange effect. It would be neat to see that impacting targets non stop or sweeping bullets to where he wants them to go.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 8, 2019 22:11:44 GMT
Got my hands on a clone of a Browning SA-22 takedown, functionally it's identical, but the finish isn't anywhere close to the finish on a Browning gun. I only paid about $110 USD for it, so I wouldn't expect Browning quality.
It's a weird action, you pull the mag follower out through the butt, load cartridges into a hole in the side of the stock, grab the charging handle on the exposed bolt underneath the receiver, and it strips a cartridge off the top of the magazine, which feeds from above the bolt.
Speaking of weird shit, Ian profiled the Polish PM63 machine pistol recently, I'd seen photos of them before and assumed they were just a regular 9x18mm blowback pistol with a full-auto capability, I didn't realise they fired from an open bolt.
On the one hand it means you know how far the slide is going to come back before you start shooting, on the other hand it means the pistol is impossible to fire accurately, especially since it has a progressive trigger with very little travel between semi and full-auto.
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