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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Well yesterday, while all you people were talking guns, I went down to the Firebase and had a very good day of shooting. It was sunny and 67 degrees!
I ran thru some drills, function tested my new Sigg 938, went crazy with the cans and my Buckmark carbine, then pulled a 2" five shot group @ 200yds with the Rem 700 .308
If guyman was referring to my Draco at Kor acres, yeah, its a firebreather, but now I have a PTR 91 with light, laser and 50round XS Products .308 drum mag.
Just the ticket for "vehicular interdiction", hehe
Oh and scarcollector, look a little more closely.
It is not an MP5K.
Look at the selector and receiver. It is an SP89.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Ron,
It was 10 below zero here this A.M.
No shooting around here.
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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Speelyei, nice bench! yeah we started with an RCBS rockchucker supreme and piggyback for progressive setup. We got some dillon stuff last year, which is great too but totally has it's headaches and things that make you say wtf dillon? saving money by loading is impossible haha… just shoot more for much cheaper…
yeah 308, it's a man's round haha, compared to .223 anyway, and has the ability for some long range stuff, like .338 lapua or 50 BMG. I'd love the Barrett bolt action or bolt with the 5 round box mag.
That range you are at in Oregon looks way fun! There are places in PA for the same thing… would love to do that.
scott
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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cool Ron! my dad just got a pre ban HK91 (kind of the same thing)… in CT. who knew, you can still buy em in CT as long as they were made before the original AWB (sept 13, 1994) They should be fun!
scott
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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can't believe I just spent $136.00 includeing shipping for 325rnds of Fedral 22lr
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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^^ 20 bucks a box here but you have to call on thursday to see if its coming in friday, then get there early for your one box of 325...
galesons has it on the shelf but its 36 for the same box...
get a pellet gun. A nice breakbarrel will run you 2-300 and you can plink for hours for 5.99...
edit - Ron gets it ;-)
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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wow tradman that's insane. sorry to see that. where did you buy from? gun broker?
scott
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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CTD. None of the local stores have even one box of 50. The exception is a place a few towns over that sells a single box of subsonic 50rnds for $25.00
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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TMC, was that a carton of Federal Automatch 40gr?
Sheesh! I just bought one of those (last they had) at Dixie Gun for $16.95 last month and was kvetching because I bought tons less than 2 years ago @ $14.47
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2014 - 12:30am PT
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Hey, it's the survivor .22! Cool!
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2014 - 12:37am PT
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Fully suppressed, almost as quiet as they show in the movies.
The MG42
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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^^ He'd also appreciate Katy Perry's guns...ima jus sayin ;-)
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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the MG 42 is an all time fav! that think is cool… there is a range in MD that rents MP5's, full auto, for not super expensive. This shop in CT used to make cheap MG 42's out of an AR lower, and a fairly good replica MG 42 upper… chain fed, semi, or with the NFA tax stamp, full auto.
anybody ever use a trust to get type II or class III stuff versus the $200 tax stamp way?
scott
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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These days the $200 tax doesn't seem so bad compared to the cost of the ammo that goes through it.
That said, things are improving.
A year ago 9mm ball was going for $.65/rd and was rationed to 100 rds/day..
This week I bought a case of 1000 rds of HSM 115gr ball at Gallenson's in SLC for $270.
There were about 25 of them available.
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TradEddie
Trad climber
Philadelphia, PA
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Not Germany, not Falklands. I'm not stupid, I joined a military that wasn't likely to be shot at! Shooting guns is fun, being shot isn't.
Late eighties, the Irish Defence Forces Reserve (An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúl/FCA) was still using .303 SMLE's, with Carl Gustav M45's for NCO's and .303 Brens as squad LMG. One day we even uncrated a few dozen brand-new Brens, I've no idea where they'd been sitting for the previous forty years, but they were fun to make un-brand-new.
When the regular Army adopted the Steyr about 1988, we were handed down their FN-FAL's, making us slightly less obsolete, but far less accurate. Just before I left, our battalion shooting team got to fire the Steyr, but not until the Celtic Tiger did it replace the FN-FAL for the reserves.
The FCA was desperately underequipped and underfunded, but there was an almost unlimited supply of ammo for the shooting team, and the shooting ranges were in the beautiful Wicklow mountains. One afternoon a week in competition season, I got picked up at the gates of my University and got some great stress relief at taxpayers expense. In a place where all guns are registered, handguns are prohibited and rifles can be no more than .22 caliber, legally firing a full-auto weapon for free every week was hard to beat. Tax free beer in the barracks bar was just a bonus.
TE
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2014 - 07:26pm PT
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Very interesting TradEddie. I even googled a few ideas, you had me stumped!
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