|
Gewehr 43 posted:Fixed. I fully refuse to believe that price was anything but a stupid joke that didn't translate well to the internet. Any other option would just make my head explode.
|
| # ? Mar 16, 2009 20:32 |
|
|
|
| # ? May 22, 2013 22:33 |
|
|
Joke or not, I still want buttstroke the guy with his own Dragu-not abomination. 
|
| # ? Mar 16, 2009 20:46 |
|
|
Gewehr 43 posted:Joke or not, I still want buttstroke the guy with his own Dragu-not abomination. Yeah, it's a monstrosity, but at least he had the good sense not to cut anything up to do it. Then again, I'm also the kind of guy who would have bought one of those crazy aluminum space gun drop-in stocks for my beater Garand (before I sold it) if they didn't cost north of $500. I still can't believe he leaves that rod out in the open like that, though. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at Mar 16, 2009 around 21:09 |
| # ? Mar 16, 2009 21:07 |
|
|
Does it have an actual gas tube?
|
| # ? Mar 16, 2009 21:30 |
|
|
This gun looks positively dangerous: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vi...?Item=125138499 I love how it has BRITISH BULLDOG stamped on the top.
|
| # ? Mar 17, 2009 22:07 |
|
|
Groda posted:Does it have an actual gas tube? Kinda, sorta, not really. It's got a three part rod system. The gas goes through the gas port up into the gas bock, down a very short gas tube and exits out into a cup-shaped sheath that's fairly long. This cup sits on top of a rod segment which extends down the length of the gun and then pushes the bolt. Pictures will explain it better: Here is the front end of the gas system (the rod that disappears off to the right goes the length of the barrel and pushes the bolt)  Here you can see the rod removed from that cup thing.  And here you can see the cup thing taken off the gas tube and set down next to it.  The part he removed to make it look more like an SVD is a metal dust cover that was put there for a reason. All three of those parts are chugging along and moving together when firing the gun and it really doesn't take much to get debris down into the cup and between it and the gas tube. Once that happens it's going to get mashed around and mixed with fouling and turn into a nice gunk that will slow the cycling of the gun and cause all sorts of fun FTE/FTF problems. The whole issue with the soviets not liking this rifle? Its because you had to keep those parts clean. The Germans took the time to do that and loved the gun because of it, enough so that they copied the system for the G/K43 with a few slight modifications. But yeah, leaving that uncovered is retarded.
|
| # ? Mar 17, 2009 22:49 |
|
|
As always, great answers! Why do you think they didn't enclose the whole thing? The AK might not actually need its gas tube, but at least it's there to keep things more or less covered up.
|
| # ? Mar 17, 2009 23:58 |
|
|
ChlorineTrifluoride posted:This gun looks positively dangerous: Well, I know what I'm getting on my next Afghanistan trip (which is unfortunately looking like September at the absolute earliest now): 
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 01:54 |
|
|
TapTheForwardAssist posted:Well, I know what I'm getting on my next Afghanistan trip (which is unfortunately looking like September at the absolute earliest now): This thing looks like a cartoon gun. Does it also have caricature bullets?
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 02:13 |
|
|
TapTheForwardAssist posted:Well, I know what I'm getting on my next Afghanistan trip (which is unfortunately looking like September at the absolute earliest now): Oh man! UNFORTUNATELY I won't get to go to a HELLISH WAR ZONE soon enough!  justkiddingdevildog 
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 02:17 |
|
|
Sgt. Shaved Balls posted:Oh man! UNFORTUNATELY I won't get to go to a HELLISH WAR ZONE soon enough! you don't "get" war, do you?  Besides, if I go this fall it'll be as a contractor, so making about 3x what I made deploying as a captain. That's a spicy meatball.
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 04:25 |
|
|
TapTheForwardAssist posted:you don't "get" war, do you? I played battlefield 2, are you telling me it's NOT like that?! This...this changes everything...
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 04:30 |
|
|
TapTheForwardAssist posted:Well, I know what I'm getting on my next Afghanistan trip (which is unfortunately looking like September at the absolute earliest now): I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing a Martini-action handgun in .577/450 Martini-Henry (black powder cartridge, 8-10 inch barrel...) Ygolonac fucked around with this message at Mar 18, 2009 around 16:56 |
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 04:41 |
|
|
Groda posted:As always, great answers! I'm guessing something about cleaning. You can get away with not cleaning an AK gas tube - even if it rusts it doesn't matter. I can't see a way to do that with this design.
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 04:44 |
|
|
Ygolonac posted:I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing a Martini-action handgun in .577/450 Martini-Henry (black powder cartridge, 8-10 inch barrel... Dannywilson had one, but customs wouldn't let him take it back. Not sure if it was because it was a handgun or because it was .303. I, however, got two Snider pistols back:  (No, I haven't shot them, since they're cobbled together by Pathans and I don't want to go through life nicknamed "Lefty")
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 04:50 |
|
|
TapTheForwardAssist posted:
What about ye' old hide behind a tree with a string on the trigger technique? It's how most of TFR headspaces their mosins iirc.
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 04:58 |
|
|
Sgt. Shaved Balls posted:What about ye' old hide behind a tree with a string on the trigger technique? There's a huge, tremendous difference between: -"Check the headspace on a century-old rifle made by a government that was still operating under the feudal system." and -"Proof-test a firearm based on a halfassed mid-19th century breechloader design that has been copied by a Pathan 150 years later from purloined railroad spikes using fewer tools than most of us would use to assemble Ikea furniture."
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 05:07 |
|
|
Wow, never seen Snider pistols before. I have a Snider carbine sitting in my closet. I managed to get my hands on an Enfield Cavalry Carbine pistol a while back, but sold it before I could take any pictures. And I'm with TTFA, you couldn't pay me to test-fire my Snider.
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 05:43 |
|
|
TapTheForwardAssist posted:
Wait, you were a commissioned officer? No wonder you're so clueless  I kid, I kid
|
| # ? Mar 18, 2009 19:50 |
|
|
Hey guys, check out the buy now price on this baby! What a steal! http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vi...?Item=124872911 Seriously, what the hell? What some people try to get away with. Out of curiosity, how much should one of these go for? I saw two, one by Colt, one by FN, at a local store going for $299 a piece.
|
| # ? Mar 19, 2009 23:44 |
|
|
Detective Thompson posted:Hey guys, check out the buy now price on this baby! What a steal! AFAIK those haven't been manufactured since 1948, and like any old Colt, (or old Browning design) they're probably pretty collectible now.
|
| # ? Mar 20, 2009 01:03 |
|
|
HotCanadianChick posted:AFAIK those haven't been manufactured since 1948, and like any old Colt, (or old Browning design) they're probably pretty collectible now. Yeah, I'm sure they're collectible. The ones I saw piqued my interest. But I was just blown away by the $1200 Buy Now price on that auction I linked to. If the dealer I went to is selling them for $299, then $1200 can't possibly be reasonable. But they are neat little pieces, and I've had a thing for the past few weeks for pocket pistols.
|
| # ? Mar 20, 2009 01:23 |
|
|
Ygolonac posted:I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing a Martini-action handgun in .577/450 Martini-Henry (black powder cartridge, 8-10 inch barrel...)    TapTheForwardAssist posted:Dannywilson had one, but customs wouldn't let him take it back. Not sure if it was because it was a handgun or because it was .303. The reasons they gave me were a bit of both. I really wish I could have got it back. Maybe if I had sweet talked the customs agent some more, but I didn't want to try my luck after getting the BSA .22 back. The 8's stamped all over the fucker really cracked me up.
|
| # ? Mar 20, 2009 03:00 |
|
|
Dannywilson posted:pics
|
| # ? Mar 20, 2009 03:38 |
|
|
Away Message posted:Okay, what the hell is the effective barrel length? Half an inch? It was picked up in an Afghani bazaar for $50 and I never got to throw a bunch of different rounds at it to see what the probability was, as i couldn't take it home, but .303 seems to be about the right size. the effective length was around 3-4 inches, the gun is a lot bigger than the pictures make it out to be.
|
| # ? Mar 20, 2009 05:47 |
|
|
One of those Martini pistols did make it stateside, someone was selling it on Gunbroker. I had to dig out the pics I saved from your previous thread and compare 'em to make sure it wasn't the same one. (Double-rows of 8s on that one.) http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vi...?Item=122333757 Oh hell, here's another one... http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vi...?Item=124753507
|
| # ? Mar 20, 2009 06:04 |
|
|
This should probably go in the Taticlol thread, but... Linda: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vi...?Item=125086556
|
| # ? Mar 20, 2009 17:51 |
|
|
ChlorineTrifluoride posted:This should probably go in the Taticlol thread, but... Looks like a Tippmann 98
|
| # ? Mar 20, 2009 22:53 |
|
|
Dannywilson posted:
|
| # ? Mar 22, 2009 23:15 |
|
|
Just Joe posted:Spotted: Rock or something. 
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 00:42 |
|
|
What the hell did this guy do to the finish? ANTIQUE - BURNSIDE - MINT? BUY AMERICAN quote:FIRST, BUY AMERICAN AND SAVE AMERICAN JOBS. LETS GET TOGETHER. PLEASE INCLUDE THIS MESSAGE IN ALL YOUR GUN BROKER LISTINGS.
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 02:48 |
|
|
Groda posted:What the hell did this guy do to the finish? I'll make sure to do that. My next K98k purchase will certainly provide lots of work for our workers.
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 02:54 |
|
|
Cyrano4747 posted:I'll make sure to do that. My next K98k purchase will certainly provide lots of work for our workers. REMINGTON 1894 SHOTGUN - BUY AMERICAN- quote:...URGENT MESSAGE... PLEASE BUY AMERICAN AND ONLY AMERICAN. IF ANY NEW CAR OR TRUCK PURCHASED OR LEASED IN AMERICA WAS A BIG THREE PRODUCT WE COULD GET OUT OF THIS MESS. EVEN IF YOU ARE CONVINCED THAT FOREIGN CARS ARE BETTER IT WOULD HELP OUR COUNTRY EVEN IF IT WAS A ONE TIME ENDEVOUR. AND THAT GOES FOR ANY PRODUCT THAT DOES NOT SAY MADE IN AMERICA. LETS SEND THE OUTSOURCE PEOPLE OVER SEAS ON A RAIL... PLEASE PASS THIS AROUND. INCLUDE THIS MESSAGE IN ALL YOUR GUN BROKER LISTINGS..... That first gun looks like he really went at it with rust removal. Like with kitchen steel wool.
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 02:58 |
|
|
Aren't most American cars built in Mexico? I know my JAP TOYOTA was built in the US though.
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 05:18 |
|
|
McCheese posted:Aren't most American cars built in Mexico? I know my JAP TOYOTA was built in the US though.   I own a Corolla, probably built in Tennesse. And my motorbikes are all Nipponese
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 07:03 |
|
|
TapTheForwardAssist posted:I own a Corolla, probably built in Tennesse. And my motorbikes are all Nipponese First number of your VIN is the country code.
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 07:28 |
|
|
McCheese posted:Aren't most American cars built in Mexico? I know my JAP TOYOTA was built in the US though. A lot of Ford's parts are made in Mexico, but final assembly occurs in the US so it can be called 'American Made' for the  crowd. Toyota and Honda have massive amounts of US made parts, pretty much only the electronics and computer-y bits are from glorious Nippon. BMW, VW and Mercedes are getting there if they aren't already. My sisters G6 sales sticker claims 100% US-origin parts though. I'm not really sure where GM and Chrysler stand on parts origin, and if they are hiding behind the small print like Ford, sending US-made subassemblies off to get put together and then doing final assembly with union workers.http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vi...?Item=125452365 The title makes me chuckle. Propagandalf fucked around with this message at Mar 23, 2009 around 12:29 |
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 12:26 |
|
|
Propagandalf posted:A lot of Ford's parts are made in Mexico, but final assembly occurs in the US so it can be called 'American Made' for the
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 12:42 |
|
quote:...URGENT MESSAGE... PLEASE BUY AMERICAN AND ONLY AMERICAN. IF ANY NEW CAR OR TRUCK PURCHASED OR LEASED IN AMERICA WAS A BIG THREE PRODUCT WE COULD GET OUT OF THIS MESS. EVEN IF YOU ARE CONVINCED THAT FOREIGN CARS ARE BETTER IT WOULD HELP OUR COUNTRY EVEN IF IT WAS A ONE TIME ENDEVOUR. WHO CARES IF THE DOMESTIC PRODUCT IS INFERIOR AND WILL COST YOU MONEY IN THE LONG RUN? YOU OWE IT TO DETROIT AREA FACTORY WORKERS TO PROP UP THEIR INFLATED SENSES OF ENTITLEMENT BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT THAT YOU WERE BOTH BORN ON THE SAME LAND MASS. quote:AND THAT GOES FOR ANY PRODUCT THAT DOES NOT SAY MADE IN AMERICA. Too bad most of our manufacturing equipment was boxed up and sent to China long ago, and that the average American is unwilling to do the job of operating those machines for anything less than the equivalent of about $50,000 a year.
|
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 12:57 |
|
|
|
| # ? May 22, 2013 22:33 |
|
|
Tmavomodry posted:Too bad most of our manufacturing equipment was boxed up and sent to China long ago, and that the average American is unwilling to do the job of operating those machines for anything less than the equivalent of about $50,000 a year. The way my current employment prospects are looking, I kind of wish I'd taken some machining courses or something after high school. $30k a year would be a king's ransom right about now for me.
|
| # ? Mar 23, 2009 13:14 |
|
