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Mine got strangely intense when talking about how the field shovel is a weapon. Of course, with the WW2 vintage steel shovels we used, that was very true - but I wonder what experience made it so important to him. (Mine was marked U.S. AMES 1942 - genuine war surplus, and in fine shape sixty years later. We used two of them to break open padlocks when people lost their keys. )
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otaku69 posted:and there is this thing Forgotten Weapons is an awesome channel. Go look up his video on the Gyrojet. He found not one, but two that the owner was willing to let him fire. Surprisingly NOT a mechanical failure.
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Computer viking posted:(Mine was marked U.S. AMES 1942 - genuine war surplus, and in fine shape sixty years later. We used two of them to break open padlocks when people lost their keys. )  
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otaku69 posted:this is some copy pasta Reminds me of this special piece of poo poo that manages to be terrible at everything.  I think it weighs more than an AR15 as well, but hey you can totally shoot six different calibers you've scavenged because the real apocalypse is gonna be like a fallout game where you find 5 rounds of every caliber just sitting in every desk or box you come across.
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That's incredible, so if you only find 22lr you can only load a single barrel?
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What caliber is the "barrel extension/flash suppressor"? That poster required quite a bit of staring at to comprehend the full stupidity.
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This too will fire all kinds of calibers, aiming gets better with your unarmed stats.
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Slim Pickens posted:Reminds me of this special piece of poo poo that manages to be terrible at everything. He was ATC in the Air Force.
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Saukkis posted:What caliber is the "barrel extension/flash suppressor"? That poster required quite a bit of staring at to comprehend the full stupidity. Has to be at least .451, which means that every other round will basically tumble/keyhole through that piece of poo poo. E: I have yet to meet a single AF ATC guy that wasn't a horrible biomechanical and mental failure, so that fits this thread, too. 
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Naturally Selected posted:Has to be at least .451, which means that every other round will basically tumble/keyhole through that piece of poo poo. Would you say that they are angry-vapists?
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I keep thinking "what is wrong with air traffic controllers?"
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Queen Combat posted:I keep thinking "what is wrong with air traffic controllers?" It doesn't really give you credibility in the "firearms/survivalist/prepper" department.
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Queen Combat posted:I keep thinking "what is wrong with air traffic controllers?" Extremely high-stress job for dick-all money and without the benefits/rules/regulations that the unionized civilian side gets? LifeSunDeath posted:Would you say that they are angry-vapists? Hurr hurrr mr liquid boner.
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Slim Pickens posted:Reminds me of this special piece of poo poo that manages to be terrible at everything. Honestly, you'd probably be better off with a simple break action 12ga and a bag full of these: https://www.gunadapters.com/
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Honestly, you'd probably be better off with a simple break action 12ga and a bag full of these: A buddy of mine has an OU Stoeger 12 gauge with a 20" barrel and a pair of 8" .22lr adaptors for it. First gun my wife ever fired - we got it out a few years back, and she was a bit intimidated about the size to start with but when she fired it and the recoil was [FILE NOT FOUND] she had a great time.
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What is the point of the barrel on that thing? Needed to keep it legal? I would say “make it a pepperbox”, but that would be ungodly heavy.
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Platystemon posted:What is the point of the barrel on that thing? Needed to keep it legal? Yup. A 7 inch barrel would make it an SBR and that's a whole nother can of worms. They could ditch the stock and make it a pistol but that would... somehow make it even more worthless/hilarious.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Honestly, you'd probably be better off with a simple break action 12ga and a bag full of these: What is the point of this? The "FQA" page on that site doesn't really say why they make them. Is this for zombie preppers or something? I can't think of a reason why a normal person would want to shoot pistol rounds out of a shotgun. In order for these to be useful for "found ammo" or whatever, you'd need a bunch of them, and that's several hundred or thousand dollars. Money you could instead just spend on more bullets for whatever gun you do have. In any case, wherever you're going to find random bullets lying around in the apocalypse, there will probably be a gun that fires those bullets somewhere nearby.
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The solution to “how do I shoot all this different ammo?” is unironically “get more guns”.
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Cojawfee posted:What is the point of this? The "FQA" page on that site doesn't really say why they make them. Is this for zombie preppers or something? I can't think of a reason why a normal person would want to shoot pistol rounds out of a shotgun. In order for these to be useful for "found ammo" or whatever, you'd need a bunch of them, and that's several hundred or thousand dollars. Money you could instead just spend on more bullets for whatever gun you do have. In any case, wherever you're going to find random bullets lying around in the apocalypse, there will probably be a gun that fires those bullets somewhere nearby. Well that thing is just a tube of metal without any restrictions such as licensing etc. I'm Australian, and if you want to get any gun here it's large hoops to jump through, justifying your purchase, getting your safe inspected to make sure you have enough extra room etc. These things let you turn your shotgun into a plinker you can take down to a rimfire range to put some holes in paper, or let you give it to someone inexperienced to get used to it without the recoil and noise of a shotgun. Another thing is that it means my friend only has to carry one gun with him around his cattle ranch and then he has something he can use to shoot wild hogs that he sees, as well as something he can use to put down a cow of his if they're injured. And the question there is "well why doesn't he carry a pistol for destroying injured livestock", the answer to that is that pistols are even more restricted here than long guns. Platystemon posted:The solution to “how do I shoot all this different ammo?” is unironically “get more guns”. Would absolutely be the solution I would prefer, but most places don't have "just buy more guns" as an option. Memento fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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Cojawfee posted:The "FQA" page on that site doesn't really say why they make them... 
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Platystemon posted:What is the point of the barrel on that thing? Needed to keep it legal? I would definitely buy the 16.5" pepperbox.
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Memento posted:Would absolutely be the solution I would prefer, but most places don't have "just buy more guns" as an option. There is a reason I didn’t use the word “buy”. In these fantasy scenarios, how are people “scavenging” ammunition and not finding the guns to use it within arm’s reach?
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Platystemon posted:There is a reason I didn’t use the word “buy”. Because everyone else is a responsible gun owner who doesn't store their gun and ammunition in the same place? Duh!
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Uh, everyone knows the primary source of ammo in the post apocalypse is going to be raiders. You loot the ammo off the raiders you kill, and conveniently they also drop the gun they were using to shoot it at you! Problem solved.
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I'd love to see the fumbling around to load the thing. It would be like..uh, that looks like 7/16", nah it was 1/2" fastener type ordeal.
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Colostomy Bag posted:I'd love to see the fumbling around to load the thing. (calling out to leather-daddy bandits) Any of y'all got a thin 1-21/32" offset wrench?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:(calling out to leather-daddy bandits) Any of y'all got a thin 1-21/32" offset wrench? Let me check my rear end-less chaps for some JIS screwdrivers.
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If they were "assed" chaps, they'd be pants!
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Queen Combat posted:If they were "assed" chaps, they'd be pants! "rear end-full"
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Queen Combat posted:If they were "assed" chaps, they'd be pants! A good argument. But the way I view it, I could wear chaps with pants. Or without pants. Hence the distinction. I probably should have done some other wording to better communicate what I was implying. I guess this is a horrible grammar failure.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Honestly, you'd probably be better off with a simple break action 12ga and a bag full of these: Seriously, you can do so much with a break action shotgun. Bird shot for small animals, slugs or buckshot for larger ones, and you can get those adapters for 22lr or of you really think ammo is gonna be a problem, convert the fucker to a black powder muzzle loader. You could also hunt with a recurve bow, but the people who think a pepperbox chambered in 7.62x39 is a good idea are the same people who think their neighbors are gonna all turn into rapey cannibals at the slightest collapse of society instead of banding together and forming communities like humans have been doing since they were barely more advanced than monkeys.
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A second friend has, in the course of replacing their brake calipers and asking for help, put their calipers on the wrong side and was unable to bleed them. The troubling part is I know I relayed the story of the first friend and also explicitly asked if they were on the correct side and the answer was yes. Turns out he was wrong. I'm just putting this out to the universe now. Please do your brakes one side at a time and check the parts. Or at the very least, keep all the parts on the side they came from and compare!
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If I have a complex disassembly I tend to take photos in case I lose track. With modern phones it's easy.
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Plus one on the ‘take photos as you go’. I take lovely potato pics of EVERYTHING I take apart.
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I'm helping my dad restore a 49 Chevy and pretty much every guide I looked up said "take pictures of everything you do, you can never have too many pictures."
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Javid posted:If I have a complex disassembly I tend to take photos in case I lose track. With modern phones it's easy. Yup.  
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I hate touching my phone when working on anything dirty or greasy so I subscribe to the she'll be right I can remember this no worries method. It even works sometimes.
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