Guns

[LycanTheory]

I know I don't carry inside the waistband. I have a hard enough time with keeping pants up where they belong as it is.




Also, fair points about revolvers. Neither style is perfect so as long as a gun is reliable and reasonably safe, I think the most important thing is operator comfort/fit what handles and feels best.




I learned to shoot a handgun on granddad's S&W 357 so it's kinda stuck with me but there are some very nice autoloaders out there.




As for carrying full sized iron, one of the good things about Pennsylvania is open carry.




Lyc

[Kuvaszfucker]

6 hours ago, heavyhorse said:




I don't much favor revolvers.




1)  The chamber isn't in the barrel.  All things being equal (load, barrel length, etc.) the velocity is less because part of the gas leaks out between the cylinder and the barrel (and you'd better keep your fingers clear; poor hold not rewarded!)




2)  They are more prone to accidental firing if dropped, snagged going through a fence (or in your belt-- does anyone actually carry stuffed in your pants?!?)  Notwithstanding that some of the compact non-revolvers aren't guilty of the same of course.  But the NATO-pattern guns meet some decent standards for safety and reliability.  So yeah, I don't have any tiny guns, it's worth the extra inch and ounce for the full-size.  Besides, the Game & Fish Dep't guy said you're just going to piss off the bigger critters like bears and boars and such with the ACP rounds..... 

an interesting point, fortunately none of my wheelguns have any real problems with functionality.  even the old 32-30 has excellent cylinder to barrel headspace allignment and surprisingly a little les gap than either the Taurus raging bull or the Magnum research BFR.  surprising due to the age of the gun. 




 




as for squib rounds most ive seen were 22 rimfire, but i've had some weak 32-20's from winchester before they totally stopped prodction (have to get it from OWS or handload now)  thankfully the bad rounds exited the barrel but hit about a foot low at 25 yards.

had some winchester .243 ammo that was way too hot too, kicked like a mule and bulged cases/compressed caseheads and blown out primers just like too hot of handloads do.

it was the 100gr ballistic silvertip variety that gave the problem.




I've had a few true squibs in centerfire but they were chinese 7.62x39 ammo.  tapping the bullet out of an AK barrel is a PITA but the ease of disassembly/reassembly sort of made up for that.




Russian ammo is better in both 7.63x39 and 7.62x54 but the 7.62x54 can vary greatly in power.  I've had some that would kick worse than a 300 win mag, and some that were as mild as a 30-30.  thankfully most of the ''hot'' ones I've had were fired in a mosin nagant rifle rather than the semi auto SVD so a bit less of an issue.  not sure how the gas system of the SVD would handle the hot rounds but considering it is based on the AK system only larger it most likely can digest similar questionable ammo reasonably well.

[Ramseys]

On 3/2/2019 at 10:23 AM, DingoJay said:




 I've gotten some sweet guns used and some real junk, too.  One of the more memorable ones was a 9mm Browning Hi-Power that Bubba had done a "trigger-job" on with blunt instruments.  It looked pretty on the outside and the bore was nice, but every third shot or so the hammer would ride the slide forward and touch off a second shot.  As in "BANG-BANG!"  Downright scary.

Well if you got it cheap enough, that one would still be worth having a competent gunsmith fix it.




If you don't have one, now is the time to find one. Most Mom and Pop gun shops will likely know of one.




I know it sucks to have to spend more money on a gun that should have been working in the first place. But nice old classics, sometimes are worth it. Especially when the new guns look like they were assembled by inbreed monkeys. (Colt's new wheel guns. Marlin lever actions)




I need to send off a gun to be refinished. First handgun I ever bought. But the nickel is really pitted and the copper is 'greening' through.




 

[DingoJay]

Well the shop where I bought that one had a 30-day return privilege if the gun had a problem.  It wasn't really a classic, just one from the '90s that was assembled in Portugal.  It went back and I spent a bit more and got an unfired (FN Belgium) milsurp one.[img][/img]



Tried to upload a pic but got that Error 200.  Growl.

[Ramseys]

8 hours ago, DingoJay said:




 I spent a bit more and got an unfired (FN Belgium) milsurp one.[/img]

You and other Hi-Power/1911 owners might find this interesting.




https://youtu.be/M3DmNdz38vA




 

[Ramseys]

[silverwolf1]

YES!




sw

[Dane layer]

1911's are ok, just not a big fan of them

[DingoJay]

I'm not a huge fan of the 1911, but I have a Ruger one that's pretty nice.

[Ramseys]

1911 is a good platform. Like the AR it comes in a lot of different calibers. Of course the one it was designed for, 45 auto. Which is what the round actually is. It goes in a 1911 ACP. (Automatic Colt Pistol) 




With out looking up the history of the 1911, I think the next round it was chambered for was the 38 Super. Mostly because most South American countries didn't allow civilians to have military ammo.




And in 9mm. 




It was also one of the first guns you could get in 10mm.




And folks started stuffing all kinds of calibers.




In my collection I have a .400 Cor-Bon and a 460 Rowland.




About the only gun that comes close to having that many different chanberings is the Glock.




Made in an era of all ammo was either a rounds nose FMJ or a round nose lead bullet, it can be finicky with today's hollow points.




But with care one can find ammo that functions reliably.




It's biggest draw back isn't the fault of the gun's, but the rest of the population that has no idea how the gun was designed.




You're suppose to carry it "Cocked and Locked". That's how Browning made it.




But everybody get their shorts in a bunch if that happen to see one in a holster in Condition #1




Other then that it's a slim, low recoiling, powerful handgun. That with a proper holster is easy to carry.




It's still a good gun. Considering it came from an age when cars looked like this.