TFR General Question Thread: Being wrong never felt so right.

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mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Did the winchester 1887s ever have a problem with firing out of battery?

# ¿ Jul 9, 2011 17:34

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# ¿ May 25, 2013 09:13

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Bushnell TRS-25

millett dms

# ¿ Nov 1, 2011 04:53

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

If you're looking for a cheap red dot the Bushnell will be fine. We sell them and no one complains. They're miles ahead of the crap Chinese red dots. The Aimpoint will have better glass, finer dot settings and be of generally better build quality.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2011 06:00

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

WitchFetish posted:

Cyrano, I have a question for you : I kind of understood you have a raging hard-on for mauser actions, and I was wondering what is, in your opinion, the best military issued mauser action rifle from either WW1 or WW2 (or both).

Swedish.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2011 21:25

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Ninja Rope posted:

It's for trap, so birdshot. Some of my friends complain the recoil is too much and can only fire a few shots before giving up, I was hoping offering some reduced power loads might encourage them to shoot more, but I'm sure they'd be annoyed if the gun failed to cycle all the time. I guess I can grab a few boxes and try them out.

Your friends are weak.

That being said the Winchester Ranger reduced recoil slugs and Fiocchi reduced recoil slugs I have used have been good. There is a noticeable difference but you're still shooting a 12 gauge shotgun.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2011 04:51

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

That or they're holding the shotgun wrong.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2011 05:22

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

bulletsponge13 posted:

Quark, I dig your pony avatar. Best one yet.

I agree, as far as Pony avatars go it's one of the best.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2011 06:38

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

You are a broken husk of a man and you should probably kill yourself.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2011 00:08

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

gimpsuitjones posted:

I'm in Darwin! What should I do? Its like a choose your own adventure but you choose one for me instead

Kill whitey.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2011 01:15

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Well if Darwin is anything like my time in Cooktown it's time to get stupid drunk and play pool with the Aborigines. Later on your girlfriend is going to throw up in the corner of the hotel room thinking it is the toilet.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2011 01:21

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Oh man, you are in for a wild ride tonight!

# ¿ Nov 14, 2011 01:30

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Smiling Jack posted:

I've always wanted to go to Australia but I think the plane ride would kill me.

To Sydney from Vancouver is was around 15 hours, the total trip up to Cairns was more like 20-22. The return flight was awful and took almost 30 hours.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2011 01:58

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Did you play pool yet?

# ¿ Nov 15, 2011 01:54

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Not Nipsy Russell posted:

What ho! A gun querstion.

I've narrowed down my quest for a 9mm range toy to one maker: CZ.
I got to fondle (but not shoot) a CZ 75 SP-01. I liked it. A lot. It was almost obscene.

So, can someone here tell me just how the SP-01 ~~shadow~~ Phantom compares? I tend to be biased towards all-metal frames for no real reason other than aesthetics (I like the feel of a heavy pistol). Is there anything that would make the ~~Shadow~~ Phantom stand out over the SP-01?

edit for I don't know what da gently caress. I'm now aware that the polymer version is the Phantom, and I'm aware that it is universally reviled.

You should also consider the Tactical Sport because for the price it is loving AWESOME

# ¿ Nov 15, 2011 03:43

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

It takes me 20 minutes to drive 15km to work and I think it is OK. My bus route (2 busses and 1 train) is an hour.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2011 09:20

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

ShaneB posted:

I found that on xd talk, yes, but I don't have any need to buy a bunch of 10 round magazines when I already have 5 19 round mags I can mod to be 12 instead... It seems really dumb to sell all my existing magazines to turn around and buy even more crippled ones than I need, legally.

Use a pop rivet which can be removed at a later date if you move out of chicago.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2012 19:29

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Fatrick posted:

Me and a bunch of Goons are going to Las Vegas for the weekend for a bachelor party. We're looking to shoot some automatics at a range somewhere, as we're from Canada where such things are forbidden.

I looked at a couple of places online, and I was hoping to get some feedback on where some good places are to go to do that sort of thing.

The one place that stood out to me was The Gun Store. They had some packages that seemed alright, and some bachelor party pack that could work, as that's what we're there for.

We're flying in Friday afternoon, and leaving on Sunday evening, and we're staying on the strip. We're travelling by Taxi for the most part, so a trip to a wayward place out in the deep desert probably isn't in the cards.

Any feedback would be great. Thanks!

Yo guys this is my Brother so any help would be appreciated.

Are there other stores than the Gun Store which would rent MGs? They're a bunch of mostly non-gun guys who want to shoot some MGs so if they're clapped out it wouldn't really be a concern as long as they go bang.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2012 16:44

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

My favourite Clarke is Songs of Distant Earth

# ¿ Jan 12, 2012 23:26

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Really, you just need to expose the lead core, at least with full sized rifle calibers.

An old poacher's trick during the depression was to take FMJ, pull the bullet, and re-seat it backwards in the case. People have done the same thing more recently and done wetpack tests with them and yes, they fire, are about as accurate as the base round at your average iron sights poaching distances (100-300 yards), and expand pretty reliably in a manner similar to what you see out of commercial open-cored hunting rounds.

RE: steel cased for the military, as others have said brass IS better than steel, all things considered. That said, tons of countries all over the world have used steel cases since basically forever. The Germans used steel cases through most of WW1 and WW2, and most of the eastern bloc used steel cases exclusively from 1900 through now.

Basically the US military is a rich military in a rich country that has no realistic problems getting the raw materials it needs. We have no real shortages of strategic materials except some fairly exotic non-gun related stuff (rare earths, etc). We shoot brass because we don't need to save it for anything else, and any savings we would make in that department would be drat near negligible as a portion of our total military budget.

All the ww2 german surplus 8mm I have seen was brass cased.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2012 20:04

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

The correct answer for bolt-action is CZ-455

# ¿ Jan 20, 2012 04:14

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Atticus_1354 posted:

That sucks.

No it doesn't. Good loving riddance.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2012 20:37

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Atticus_1354 posted:

Really? I wasn't as active back then so I don't have a really strong opinion. I just remember some fun threads.

He was an insufferable braggadocio given to lying and taking drugs which put him in a compromising situation where his beloved Skorpion was "stolen."

# ¿ Feb 3, 2012 00:59

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

The Rat posted:

"The First World War" by John Keegan.

Yes, this is a great place to start.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2012 00:52

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Shooting Blanks posted:

I see he did a book on WWII as well, is it as good?

He did, it is a good general history and is a better writer than most popular historians on the subject out there. I personally prefer Martin Gilbert's book.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2012 05:31

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Someone in another thread posted a link to a video of street fighting in Homs, I can't find the thread it is in or the video link. If one of you kind goofs could post it again for me it would be appreciated.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2012 19:19

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Thanks I was looking for it in other threads.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2012 19:22

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Gtab posted:

I trust no clear magazines/that shiny kind of plastic, after having seen both HK mags and SIG mags break from being dropped.

Lancer magazines may be fine, I don't know, but I irrationally distrust them. It's like some kind of magazine racism; I don't trust no clear/smoke plastic motherfuckers.

SIG USA or Swiss Arms SIG mags?

# ¿ Feb 24, 2012 23:02

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Gtab posted:

Swiss Arms. PE90 mags. I've also seen it mentioned by foreign dudes regarding their SIG service rifle mags, so whoever makes theirs, too, I guess.

Ive seen a G36 mag (like, an actual G36) and a SIG 551 magazine break in person. Both guns belonged to two different manufacturers up here, one of whom is now retired.

I only have one SIG mag and is seems pretty sturdy (it is a 5 rounder though) and have handled a bunch of the 20 and 30 rounders which seem to be OK too. The aftermarket ones seem flimsy though.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2012 01:02

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

That is because DEET will melt anything.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2012 01:09

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Gtab posted:

The 30rnd SIG mag dropped in winter, full of ammo, onto hard ground/gravel, from hand height. It cracked along the feed lips and spine. I don't think that's a good thing. It was a magazine as would be issued with the automatic 551 it was with.

The 30rnd HK G36 mag dropped onto concrete in spring and was, I think, half-empty. Dude took it out to check why the gun stopped firing in automatic (lovely ammo I think?) and dropped it from his goofy carnival-worker midget hands. It cracked more than the SIG mag, from the baseplate at the spine and around, up the side, probably 3" or more. The baseplate fell off and would not stay on under pressure after that.

I think Flanker broke some HK pistol mags but that's only tangentially related for the sake of saying I distrust all polymer mags which are not Glock and I am inclined to trust PMAGs because Magpul let me stand on them, though I admit that they advise you not to store them without the cap and that is a detraction.

SIG > HK

World continues as per normal

# ¿ Feb 25, 2012 03:27

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

The higher end Sentry safes have fire protection, like kwantam said

# ¿ Feb 29, 2012 22:22

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

The Gen4 grip is also much more forgiving for those of us with smaller hands. I used to dislike Glocks but I like the Gen4's a lot.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2012 03:55

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

infrared35 posted:

Also, are sparkly unicorns some sort of level-up in the ponytar invasion?

Hi five sparkly pony friend

# ¿ Mar 3, 2012 00:55

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

I would try it out as an experiment but would expect problems.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2012 07:33

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Swiss stuff is WAY CHEAPER in Switzerland and I wholeheartedly recommend anyone looking for Swiss parts to check there first. I am getting a Swiss luger for 1/2 of what I would pay for one here, including shipping and import/export fees.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2012 19:32

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Gtab posted:

I've had Sawfly Military glasses for... like 6-7 years now. Wouldn't switch them for anything on the market.

Had mine for a few years now too, they're awesome.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2012 23:16

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Smiling Jack posted:

The system assumes anyone buying a Hi-Point is a felon.

The system is not broken

# ¿ Apr 7, 2012 22:13

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

Sixgun Strumpet posted:

How much chocolate can I get for this?

Are you a coin collector?

# ¿ Apr 21, 2012 22:07

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

If you're selling a kidney you better get at least an X-5

# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 23:39

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# ¿ May 25, 2013 09:13

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

I have shot an X-5 and P210 and if I was selling a kidney I would get both.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 23:54

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