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Uncle Caveman posted:Deluxe Nylon Holster fits 1911 Government Commander Officer Sig P220 P225 P226 P228 P229 P230 P232 P239 Browning Hi Power FN Hi Power FM Hi Power FEG Hi Power Charles Daly Hi Power Springfield XD HK USP Fullsize Compact HK 45 HK P30 HK P2000 Beretta 92 Beretta 96 Beretta PX4 CZ 75 CZ 75B CZ SP-01 CZ P-01 CZ P-06 Luger P08 Walther P38 Kahr PM9 Smith Wesson 686 Lorcin Derringer Sharpened Stick Assorted Small Rocks iPod Alarm Clocks Wireless Blu-Ray I don't mind that half so much as when the [i]exact same lovely nylon holster is listed under 50 different models and renewed weekly for the last three years[i]. 122740451 S&W MODEL 30 NYLON BELT CLIP HOLSTER 534BCL 122740673 S&W MODEL 31 NYLON BELT CLIP HOLSTER LH 534BCL 122741364 ASTRA CADIX NYLON BELT CLIP REV HOLSTER 534BCL 122743047 ASTRA 357 D/A NYLON BELT CLIP HOLSTER 534BCL 122743222 CHARTER ARMS TARGET BULLDOG HOLSTER LH 534BCL 122743365 CHARTER ARMS BULLDOG TRACKER HOLSTER LH 534BCL 122743512 CHARTER ARMS POLICE BULLDOG HOLSTER LH 534BCL 122743978 COLT BORDER PATROL NYLON CLIP HOLSTER 534BCL 122747840 COLT TROOPER MK III BELT CLIP HOLSTER 534BCL 122750362 EAA STANDARD NYLON BELT CLIP HOLSTER LH 534BCL 122750639 H&R SPORTSMAN 999 NYLON CLIP HOLSTER LH 534BCL 122754502 H&R MODEL 732 NYLON BELT CLIP HOLSTER 534BCL 122758105 S&W MODEL 48 K 22 MASTERPIECE HOLSTER 534BCL Correction, just this particular model (534BCL) is listed under 164 different names. And that's just one of the many poo poo holsters this guy sells. quote:Well of course there's tons of crap on Gunbroker but it's the best as far as gun auction sites go. Am I missing something better out there or just missing the humor in the thread? Nope, it's the best one, and pretty decent overall. AuctionArms has a slightly better search engine but a worse layout and less variety. GB is actually pretty decent aside from just general aspie hobby idiots, rednecks, and people shamelessly exploiting the "Relist for free!" option for four years straight.
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Air Force Bake Sale posted:Or they are just waiting for a sucker to pay too much That's the problem with the whole "free relist" thing. Folks have an incentive to post once at a fairly silly price, and just let it re-circulate for a year until some sucker bids on it. If GB even had a 10c relist fee, it would cut most of that poo poo out, and put the "I have 21,000 lovely nylon holsters listed" rear end in a top hat out of business. Meanwhile, I would happily pay 10c to re-list my $400 rifle if it doesn't sell the first couple times.
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El Jorge posted:(meisterwerk) Amazing, though in fairness I must point out that my Ruger MkII is integrally suppressed. Need to do a box thread on that one, though I might just do an "entire collection" box thread next week.
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DrakeriderCa posted:I'd love it if you would. I know you've talked about a lot of cool poo poo in the past, and I'd like to see what your collection looks like right about now. I think your eclectic tastes are pretty cool, even if the rest of TFR doesn't. As a preview, discounting some random "to be shortly traded/sold" junk: -Marlin 75C (old 60 carbine) with Weaver 3/4" scope -Savage 340 (old, old bolt varminter) in .222 -Birds-head .32 H&R Ruger Single Six -Colt Pocket Positive .32 revo -Suppressed Ruger MkII -Savage 311 20ga barely-legal sawed-off double-barrel (I didn't ruin it) -T/C Contender -S&W 18 .22LR Masterpiece revo -CZ PCR 9mm (my taste in combat pistols is pretty bland and practical) -Federal Laboratories 1.5" (37mm) gas gun/grenade launcher -got some other NFA coming in, but that'll be its own thread Then I've got a bunch of cheap autos, revos, and shotguns knocking around. I must have four shotguns of decent make sitting around "in case I want to take a group skeet shooting" and a drawer-full of revos wrapped in treated fabric "in case someone needs a spare."
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Smiling Jack posted:Tell me more about this S&W .22. Which, the 18? It's a Combat Masterpiece (Model 15) but in .22LR instead of .38 Special. Nothing too weird. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_&_Wesson_Model_18 They don't have a pic of one on Wiki, guess I'll have to upload a pic of mine. Both pics at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_Security_Six are mine, though I no longer have either gun.
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Thepossiblelight posted:tell me more about the shotguns Nothing fancy. The cut-down 311, an 870, a 1100, and then a really old 1187 recoil-op Remington, just post-WWII. Got it for $125 at a show, and looks quite decent, though I taken it out after clays yet.
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Some Internet Guy posted:What is in your sack of handguns and has anybody ever needed a spare "Dude, I kinda want to buy a gun. I don't want to get ripped off, but I want something decent, but I don't want to spend a lot of money" *opens drawer, unwraps layers* "Okay, here's a S&W Model 10 with 30% finish. I bought it three years ago, shot it some, got bored and shoved it in there. I paid $120 for it, so you can have it for that." Alternately: "Zombies!!!" "I'm on it! Take these *clunk* and distribute them to the villagers." Speaking of villagers, I need to dig up pics of the guns we confiscated (and later re-distributed to allies) in Anbar. I did a big write-up of it for THR years and years ago. I suppose it's not too tacky to write up a new thread with the old pics, since now it's that many years more historical and poo poo.
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Uncle Caveman posted:Tell me more about your time machine. There were these Libyans, and I took their plutonium and gave them a casing full of used pinball machine parts... Yeah, it's actually a Remington 11-48. The Wikipedia article has no pic, so I kind of want to photograph mine to post. Except mine has the uber-common "the too-thin handguard cracked". It's epoxied back together and looks like it's coated in snot. Then again, that's a pretty fair representation of what happens to an 11-48 if you actually shoot it.
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infrared35 posted:I haven't seen AR LMG uppers in a long time. Too bad they're made by Blackthorne. I'm unfamiliar with Blackthorne; what's so bad about them? At least they're filling a market niche that Ares still can't... They showed the Shrike at SHOT 2009 I hear.
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The Rat posted:Oh, Hesse changed their name to Blackthorne now? They were called Vulcan somewhere in between, weren't they? Oooooooh, they're those guys. Say no more. quote:
O hay SSF467 thanks for being a chump and selling below market price!!! Your a true patriot!!!  *goes to post on THR about how everyone is "gouging" and are traitors to the cause and should be first against the wall and hes boycotting them for life*
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Groda posted:Gewehr would appreciate this listing: I always love it when they have "Nazi" guns with a nickel plating, and explain how they were made especially for SS officers... quote:haha his other listings are hilarious Fool, a "cooler full" is a standard unit of measurement in West Virginia.
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Away Message posted:S&W 38 Special 4 or 5 inch barrel CTG 1) "S&W 38 Special 4 or 5 inch barrel CTG." Well, which is it, homeslice? 4" or 5"? 2) "Gernades." Cutesy, or ignorant? I'm trying to figure out which would vex me more.
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walrusman posted:Mmmm hard drive destruction. I wonder what .50 Beowulf would do to a golf ball... .50 Beowulf is a golf ball.
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GWBBQ posted:Shouldn't this be registered as AOW? Not really, to be AOW it'd have to be smoothbore, or else be "concealed" or "disguised" as something. If the ATF thinks that it looks more like an obvious (relatively) knife-gun and less like a knife with a hidden barrel, then it's kosher.
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EndofGoogle posted:http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt...?Item=122346308 Oh yes, the old Crossfire dual rifle/shotgun. I vaguely recall those from 1999 or so, when they did a bunch of advertising in gun rags and such. I remember asking "who the gently caress would buy that?" and my uncle saying "I dunno, turkey hunters? .223 for long-range and shotgun for close?" Then again, they sell for more than retail these days, which isn't bad for a gun. I understand people were balled up laughing when the 100 imported FAMAS rifles were $1,000 each in 1994 or whatever, and they're $10,000 now.
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ChlorineTrifluoride posted:
I find this loving hilarious, since Argentina is the poster child for economic collapse in an otherwise civilised "Western" white country. This essay has been floating around right wing blogs for years now, as an example of how to tough through Mad Max scenarios: Thoughts On Urban Survival (Post-Collapse Life in Argentina) The essay is about 10% interesting and 90% bullshit, since it's written by a loving architect who went though an economic depression closer to the US Great Depression than the Ukrainian Wheat Famine. Sure, it gives him a lot of great anecdotes about riots and food shortages, but when he starts getting into arguments about body armor, FALs, and the utility of getting a black-market submachine-gun to hold off roving gangs of kidnappers, I think that's pushing it. I'd take that from a Rhodesian, but not from an Argie.
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ChlorineTrifluoride posted:Handguns: Revolver or Pistol? Pistol ALL THE WAY! Yes, I saw the video of the guy that accurately emptied his S&W in ½ a second. I also saw the shooting range and the crowd behind him, watching the event. Can he shoot and reload that way if he is in his car, driving with one hand and shooting with the other, while a bunch of scum bags in another car are shooting at him? Hey, maybe he can. I know I can’t. Can you? I smell a new read-along thread...
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Independence posted:I don't think Krav Maga is any good. It's a trademarked martial art, unlike judo or karate and I'm always watching Krav Maga practitioners get their rear end kicked in MMA bouts. Also, the Israelis developed it and every one fucks with them. I can't recommend it. I'm working on a thesis, but I swear I'll do a read-along once I get a new job and settle in. If nobody's done Domestic Enemies by then I'd be thrilled to regale you with the story of how our heroine overcomes a bulldyke lesbian prison warden, monlingual Mexican illegal immigrants who've seized control of the southwest, and a vanload of stoned college Marxists on their way to "like... the Revolution... man *choom*". The more I think on it, I don't think Patriots Surviving the Coming Collapse would be high priority for a read along. It's just not anywhere near as silly as the EF&D series, and nowhere near as disturbed as Ross. Actually, even the first EF&D book isn't so amusing, but the second is loving hi-larious, and I have high, high hopes for the third book which comes out any day now.
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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): 
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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.
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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")
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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."
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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
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Cyrano4747 posted: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. 
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Roundboy posted:*sigh* does gunbroker *ever* have a great deal on things ? Hell yeah, I've bought several mechanically solid, comsetically 80% S&W revolvers for great prices: S&W 36 3" for $220, S&W 18 for $275, S&W 49 for $180. Also bought a couple surplus grenade launchers for $200 and change, various Ruger .22 semi-auto pistols for $180 on average, etc. There are good deals to be had, just plenty of poo poo in the meantime. Not totally unlike pawnshops, where you ignore all the $500 Ruger P89s and buy the $140 Browning Buckmark and $200 Colt Detective Special.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I've never understood why SIG doesn't re-release the 210 in some kind of "custom target" model. They'd sell a decent number and it would finally help shut up the fanboys and depress the 210 market a bit. I was wondering the same thing. Like several products, it was canceled because "it's too expensive to make." But seriously, given that used ones go for $2000-3000 and upwards, I'd imagine SiG could sell quite a few thousand of them for $1500 with no effort. Of course, having seen SIG's recent endeavors, I fear they'd pull some "we made some great mods for the American market! We modified the grip to make it more Glock like, and and moved the mag drop, and took the sights off so you can put the modern sight of your choice into the dovetail! Yay America!"
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Ygolonac posted:^^^ Word. I keep seeing this lovely set of flaking-plating 1911 parts, that've been not moving and relisted for *months*. If the price was better, I'd almost be tempted to buy 'em just to throw them away and keep them from being relisted... Oh good! Just what I need for my horribly flaking nickel 1911! Q: What's the best gift for a dead baby? A: A dead puppy.
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To tie this into MercuryBallistics 1895 FN pseudo-Mauser Afghan bringback: it's hilarious to me that Afghans are stamping random dates onto quite possibly original early rifles in an attempt to make them US-importable so they can sell the to servicemen/contractors. Somewhere I have a pic of a Mauser we picked up in Iraq that has just completely random Latin letters stamped on it, many backwards or upside-down, in order to make it look (to an Arabic-speaker) like it was made in Europe. I'm wondering to what degree forged stuff will be its own collectible niche in the future. I've been told by Winchester collectors that a Khyber Pass Win 1895 would be worth quite a fair bit in the US just to add to a collection as a "see, even Afghan tribesmen liked these enough to make them out of railroad ties"."
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Cyrano4747 posted:The reality is that the Khyber pass stuff is coming in in very limited numbers and only from service members. Once you eliminate the people who won't ever sell them because they want a memento of Afghanistan that pool gets even smaller. Yup, every gun I brought back from AF had a form, in quadruplicate, with a notary seal from JAG and a stamp from Customs saying "Firearm marked ENFEILD 1878 #13750 is certified as importable under the GCA 1968 and SNM testifies that it meets import criteria, etc. etc. etc." Nothing amazing, but at least it's paperwork saying it comes from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. I'm hoping (inshallah) to go back over in January or February, and if not I'm going to have harsh words with my current employer. If I go back, drat straight I'm sending back a variety of gats. I'm still kind of kicking myself that I didn't get that Winchester 1895 copy. Sure the asking price was steep, but asking and actual can be incredibly far apart in that part of the world. Probably can't get an 1895 copy for $100 on an actual US base where there's a set number of vendords, but $400 isn't impossible. All the more so if I can get a hold of an Afghan Army officer, give him a printout of pic of an 1895 and say "talk to all the arms dealers you know, find one ofthese and I'll give you $300 US cash". For those that missed it the first time, here's what I didn't buy. I want to say asking price was $900, but I think he quoted DannyWilson a totally unrelated price: 
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Dannywilson posted:Yeah, he pulled a starter of like $1200+ I think, and all I could get him down to was ~$700. This was the same dealer that sold me my BSA. I want to go back just to send back a ton of KP guns and see if I can find more unique guns like the BSA and the falling block Howdah. Yeah, hoping to go back in January or so and mail a bunch back. Mainly Sniders and Martinis, but also looking for Lebel or similar. Isn't the interweb amazing? Here we are, two us on different sides of the continent discussing how much one individual guy on the opposite side of the planet in a war zone wanted to charge us for one single rifle. What's odder, he probably had a cell phone, so if we'd gotten it I could call him on Skype, argue how he lost a sale, and then post it here as a .wav file for other goons to enjoy. It is, indeed, a small world after all.
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FiveOClock Charlie posted:Obviously, rarity brings a premium price: Well, Patton himself did say "the Tanker Garand is the greatest battle implement ever devised."
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daskrolator posted:His AR-15 Come with alot extra I b`lieve you mean ``OME`` with a lot extra...
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Well, in fairness $950 is a relatively decent deal for a Vector V93 clone of the .223 HK. Though he's had to drop it from $1100. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vi...?Item=149358741 ...And then there's the cosmetic aspect:  Turns out it's Duracoat. Went and googled up "remove duracoat". Turns out it's called duracoat for a reason. Apparently it can be removed via careful professional media blasting, but that's about it. Some folks have sporadically had luck with really heavy-duty strippers, but that might be less-cured or non-baked Duracoats, or whatever. I considered it, thought I could maybe camo paint over it in some cool pattern. But then again the Century (don't laugh) C93 is down as low as $599 now. The Vector is better, but not sure a used, Duracoated V93 is $350 better. Or that, for me personally, a gen-u-ine HK is $1800 better.
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ShaiHulud posted:Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels did for English shotguns what Dirty Harry did for S&W hand cannons. There's actually demographic overlap between "can afford $10,00 shotguns" and "saw Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" ? Huh. I mean, I liked it, but I don't shop for $10K... anything.
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Detective Thompson posted:Since it's nickel, all the buyer really needs to do is submerge it in Hoppes for an extended period of time. Once all the plating sloughs off, then it's time to refinish! Per the auction: Overall impression of this gun is favorable Awfully white of him.
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Looks like someone didn't read the rules for AOWs: Mossberg AOW, 12 ga., 15.5" , Folding Stock  http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vi...?Item=155269570 
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walrusman posted:God I feel like I'm somehow complicit in a crime just by looking at that. Someone alert that dude post-haste that he's an unwitting felon. Done, standing by for any variant of: "How about you mind your own drat beeswax?" "AOW, SBR, whatever, I've got the paperwork sitting around here somewhere. It's up to the buyer to make sure they're complying with the laws in their jurisdiction." "How about you look into a little thing called the SECOND AMENDMENT!?!?!  "
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FRENCH LEBEL FIRST MODEL 1886. 8mm NO FFL ANTIQUE BUY NOW for $625.00 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vi...?Item=163870951   quote:
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I'm not totally sure what to think of this: Click here for the full 1000x750 image. S&W 1st Model Baby Russian .38 - The MGI B&W
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Sixgun Strumpet posted:Also, a Kyhber Pass gun for only $1,100! I paid $600 for six Khyber rifles back in 2008 (half Martinis half Sniders). I think they're even cheaper now in Afghanistan because the US Military's new Customs policy puts more paperwork in the way of sending cartridge firearms back. On the downside, that caused a spike in the price of Khyber BP firearms since those just take a few forms and visiting a couple offices to mail home. It was that way with pre-1898-style gats until 2009 or so, but .mil Customs decided they didn't want to take on the liability of trying to figure out what's legal or not, so now they make you get ATF thumbs-up before the .mil will sign off on it. Didn't stop a certain friend of mine from (legally) mailing something like 15 catridge firearms back, including several break-top revolvers. I hotly coveted his unmarked pseudo-Schofield Khyber revo, which I think he paid $150 for. He had some long conversations with the ATF over the phone from Kabul, but apparently he talked them in circles until they gave up.
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