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king of the bongo posted:I think I just bought a SW Model 18. Please explain yourself.
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| # ¿ Apr 11, 2009 19:06 |
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I would just like to mention that I'm reading Elmer Keith's 1955 book on sixguns and he emphasizes several times that one should start out with a .22 and then work up to larger guns, and as soon as one starts having trouble with larger guns, to go back to the .22 for a while. I mean, duh, but I thought it was pretty progressive for the time.
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| # ¿ Jun 23, 2009 01:49 |
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B4Ctom1 posted:This is my other 22. That is sweet. A coworker of mine has one with the heavy "target" octagon barrel. From a comfortable rest position, we can stack rounds in a postage-stamp-sized area at 25 yards all day long. And he paid $9 for it at a yard sale. 
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| # ¿ Jun 24, 2009 02:39 |
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TheNothingNew posted:Holy crap. The octagon-barreled ones are collectible, worth a good bunch. This one's pretty ratty-looking, but it shoots well. I'll see if I can get a picture of it.
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| # ¿ Jun 24, 2009 02:50 |
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hangedman posted:My approach, therefore, has been pragmatic: load 5 in each and avoid the first three rounds out of a full mag that routinely give me problems. I just chalk it up to having an autoloading rimfire pistol trying to cycle subsonic rounds that were probably meant for a rifle. If absolute functionality AND accuracy was a key consideration, I'd probably use CCI Green Tag or Pistol Match, which is actually more accurate for me and doesn't give me any functionality issues. That's pretty much it, according to the guys at the rimfire club here. Wolf is great for bolt actions, revolvers, etc. but can be underpowered in semis.
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| # ¿ Jun 24, 2009 11:05 |
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Here's my buddy's Remington 12 (C).  Like I said, it's in pretty ugly shape but it shoots like a dream.
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| # ¿ Jun 24, 2009 23:01 |
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NosmoKing posted:You tell me right now that's work ammo and you aren't the biggest ammo whore of all time. You jerks wonder why you can't find any .40 ammo? I'm busy making furniture out of it. So far I've got a love seat and a coffee table. I just ordered another 50,000 rounds so I can build some book shelves and an entertainment center.
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| # ¿ Jun 25, 2009 02:30 |
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My local Walmart has 555-round bulk packs of .22 for $15, but I forget what brand they are.
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| # ¿ Aug 13, 2009 04:59 |
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Capt. Carl posted:yeah but can i use a rod in the muzzle end without loving myself over? Plus i don't want to spend another $15 or whatever. Yeah, you just have to be really careful about not scuffing, marring, or otherwise damaging the crown of the barrel.
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| # ¿ Aug 20, 2009 00:30 |
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I call my 9mm AR "Binky."
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| # ¿ Sep 2, 2009 21:38 |
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My local shop has a big-rear end buckmark pistol with a heavy-rear end barrel and a wooden fore-arm for $299. After a little research, it's a Buckmark Silhouette similar to this:
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| # ¿ Sep 3, 2009 00:34 |
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Black Stormy posted:I would ALSO buy the gently caress out of that. Dammit. Where the hell am I supposed to come up with all this money?
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| # ¿ Sep 3, 2009 00:41 |
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Uncle Caveman posted:Are you still on the fence about selling that muzzleloader? Not anymore I'm not.
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| # ¿ Sep 3, 2009 00:53 |
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I learned to shoot on a Remington 514; they're dead simple rifles and seem to be less than $150, or even $100 sometimes. http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt...?Item=145390476
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| # ¿ Nov 2, 2009 23:00 |
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eine dose socken posted:Talking about .22lr pistols - what's the TFR opinion on Smith&Wesson 422 or 622 pistols? I like them. The trigger is a little heavy but it's crisp. The gun has a unique magazine catch. The low bore axis means very little muzzle rise.
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| # ¿ Nov 19, 2009 01:30 |
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Why, I have just the thing. There's a sale on the conversion kits until December 8th.
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| # ¿ Nov 28, 2009 16:32 |
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Fog Tripper posted:Sadly, you just missed the Remington 40X boat at CMP. Shut up. Last time I saw they had 40Xs they were $800. 
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2009 03:44 |
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KILL IT WITH FIRE
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2009 04:56 |
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Miso Beno posted:It's a $200 conversion kit. If it shoots well I'm going to tell you to gently caress off. If it shoots like crap Im gonna feel pretty dumb. I'm sorry. It was just my primate brain talking, like when I see that robot mule thing.
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2009 05:30 |
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Fog Tripper posted:Seriously? I heard that the $475 was a small increase from last offering. Sure, you couldn't order an extra one for your old buddy, infrared35. Yeah, this was a while ago - 2007. I went to the CMP South store and the 40Xs were the only thing they actually had in stock. And they were friggin' expensive. I am half tempted to just buy a barreled action, but I know what a pain in the rear end it would be to find a proper stock, bolt, and trigger group. Not to mention it would probably end up costing $800 in the end doing it that way anyway. 
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2009 16:16 |
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Fog Tripper posted:How close to the north store are you? It's about an eight hour drive.
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| # ¿ Dec 13, 2009 18:39 |
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DJExile posted:I am 100% convinced that they are the worst national chain as regards markups. A Bass Pro, Cabelas, and Gander Mountain are all within 50 miles of each other around here, and GM is far and away the loving worst. Their used gun prices are pretty good; I've bought two used guns from them this year.
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| # ¿ Dec 24, 2009 06:13 |
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Monomer posted:It's true. CZs rule, all the time. The only CZ I have ever fired was a bolt action .22 and I had heard so much hype about them that I was sort of underwhelmed when I actually shot it. The trigger was average, and accuracy was average. 
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| # ¿ Dec 29, 2009 00:37 |
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Fog Tripper posted:You've missed the boat on the Remington 40Xs they had a short time ago. Stop rubbing it in. Just so everyone feels my pain, here's a picture from my last trip to the CMP. All you see are a handful of deactivated Garands and a handful of $800 Remington 40Xs.  And then I found out that they had the Remingtons again for half that much, and I couldn't get the money together fast enough to get one before they were gone. 
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| # ¿ Jan 8, 2010 01:51 |
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Fog Tripper posted:Eesh, when was that? That was a couple years back, but the sour taste still lingers.
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| # ¿ Jan 8, 2010 02:31 |
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I would just like to let everyone know that I fired a S&W 41 today and the seduction was... complete. After I drank a pot of coffee and had practically nothing for lunch, I shot a two-inch group offhand at fifteen yards with cheap-rear end bulk ammo. And the trigger was fantastic, maybe even better than the old school High Standard I used to have.
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| # ¿ Jan 9, 2010 01:56 |
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Fog Tripper posted:Crosspost from Milsurp thread... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2010 18:53 |
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Fog Tripper posted:How heavy can I make this? I say again, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I have never been filled with such seething levels of jealousy.
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2010 22:05 |
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hedgiejugglr posted:I Picked this up a while ago and never did get around to posting a box thread. I figured this was a pretty good place to show it off though. What up, .22 conversion kit buddy? (crosspost from photo thread) 
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| # ¿ Jan 14, 2010 03:50 |
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hedgiejugglr posted:How do you like the Sig conversion? I have a friend considering one and I would be interested to see what you think of yours in terms of reliability and fit on the frame. I haven't tried it out yet, but I'll post a range report ASAP. I've got a bunch of different ammo to run through it.
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| # ¿ Jan 14, 2010 17:44 |
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Not surprisingly, a P220 slide and barrel will not go on a P226 frame. Interestingly, a .22 conversion kit for P220 does fit on the P226. However, it doesn't appear that it would work. It cycles by hand fine, but it doesn't look like the hammer actually reaches the firing pin. Just thought y'all would like to know. Shut up. I don't want to hear about my dusty bookshelves.
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| # ¿ Jan 16, 2010 21:15 |
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Fog Tripper posted:Single feeding my 40X is a pain in the rear end. Yeah, you should probably pass that thing along to an older, more patient goon. Who lives in northern Michigan.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2010 01:13 |
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devilsbite posted:Nobody else watches old Flash Gordon movies so the refrence was o so obscure. Everyone knows Buck Rogers is where it was at. 
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2010 22:46 |
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Just took the P220 with .22 conversion kit for a test drive. The previous owner reported some function issues with it, namely failures to go back to battery. This appears to be a common complaint with the P220 kit for some reason. I am happy to say that it ran fine with CCI and Federal ammo. No function problems at all in 60 rounds and I got all my rounds into thumbnail-sized groups at three yards. 
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2010 01:27 |
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After about a hundred rounds (most of Federal HPs) I finally started to get some feed problems with the P220 conversion kit, almost always on the second round in the mag. I suspect the lube may have been running a little thin at that point, and the gun was definitely getting dirty. I'll have to try it with a couple different brands of ammo. It was cycling the slide enough to eject the empty casing but it wasn't going back far enough to pick up a new round. I've cleaned it and re-lubed it in anticipation of the weekend. 
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2010 21:28 |
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Secret Ooze posted:So devilsbite pointed me in the direction of this M&P15-22 for sale with a Bushnell Trophy 1-4x24 & 1,200 rounds for $575. The big catch is that the guy cant meet me halfway for a FTF sale and after his shipping cost and my FFLs transfer the total hops up to $650. Never trust anybody from
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2010 03:06 |
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ibntumart posted:Anyone know where I can find magazines for a Savage Mark IIG? Brownell's, Midway, and Bud's Gun Shop don't seem to have any listed, let alone in stock. Tried Numrich yet?
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2010 23:48 |
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I took the P220 conversion kit out and fired ten rounds each of seven different types of ammo. I had Wolf, Remington subsonic, CCI (whatever their standard silver box stuff is), Federal copper-clad HPs, Federal match pistol, Aguila SSS, and Winchester match pistol. Everything fired fine... once I figured out that my occasional failures to cycle were probably caused by my support thumb resting against the slide a little. I can get away with it on a centerfire, but the .22 kit is a lot more sensitive to things rubbing on the slide (hurr!). Everything was nice and accurate, except the SSS. I don't know what twist you're supposed to use with those heavy-rear end bullets, but I went from sub-thumbnail-sized groups at three yards with all the other types to a five-inch group where all the bullets keyholed. Yeah, at three yards.
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| # ¿ Feb 6, 2010 21:48 |
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Fog Tripper posted:Go buy this stuff: Already gone, apparently.
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SadWhaleFamily posted:I think I'm leaning towards the Marlin. Listen to your instincts.
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