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weezy
climber
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took my sig P6 out the other day. holy crap, i am a terrible shot. couldn't hit a single PBR can from about 30 feet. fun little gun tho!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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How many did you consume before you started shooting?
I just got a Sig 938 that I'm breaking in, and I just got some Thompson mags I need to test today.
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2014 - 05:26pm PT
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TBC, I'm stumped. Is the rifle a Mauser? Carcano? I don't know where... Italy? Spain?
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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My kindergarten school photo shows me with a black eye and a cut (still have the scar) from my dad's 30-06. Mom was pissed!
Been a tad more careful since...
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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hey TGT… I think many first shot's miss too because for the average person, killing another living creature especially another human goes against natural instincts and impulses… what was the ratio in WW2? like 10,000 rounds fired per actual KIA? i think something like 15-20% of trained soldiers shoot high their first time in battle, just because they don't want to kill.
my guess on the photo is france and the rifle could be a mauser bolt action… K-98
scott
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Perfect shooting weather, sunny, 52 and not a breath of wind.
Usually I avoid going to the range 2 miles from here because of redneck yahoos with poor gun handling habits with their cheap plinkers and Hi-points, but lately traffic is way down (they're out of .22s), and today I had a pleasant surprise.
One of the first times I've been outclassed there. I pulled up and laid 2 Thompsons and a Sig on the table, but the only other party was 2 old guys with a scoped AR with a chrome barrel.
A brand new first time at the range Les Baer with a Nightforce 5-25X scope!
He was sighting it in for a Colorado prairie dog hunt.
Turns out he's related to my lawyer.
I have had a SWAT Monolith on order from Les Baer for a year!
I have a friend who is going to SHOT who is going to swing by his booth and make noises.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Barcelona, Spain, 1937. Sagrada Familia in the background. Perhaps a Mauser?
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A5scott
Trad climber
Chicago
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Toker, would love to see pics of that thompson… 45 ACP? stick clip?
plus Toker, have you seen the AR's from LWRC? They make piston operated with nickel-boron impregnated BCG which is great… pretty much self lubricating and just wipe clean, both that the bolt gets too dirty in a piston driven… The new LWRC IC's are worth checking out… built to run, built to last, ambi everything, and look amazing. so far have about 1000 flawless round down range thru mine. plus they eat up 556 reloads perfectly
scott
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Could be a Mauser or a Czech imitation, but it is already a beater rifle in 1937 in the hands of a guerrilla fighter, and look at the way she carries it with the sling attached to a band well back on the fore end.
I'd venture a guess that it is a Lebel M1886 which fires an 8X50 rimmed cartridge.
If so the cleaning rod is not fully inserted.
EDIT
A5, standard Thompson semi-auto rifle and mare's leg pistol version.
I have 2 drums but they're jamarama. The sticks work better.
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Yak-Chik
Trad climber
Phoenix
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Oh yah guys! So you are not just a bunch of stoned has beens here
after all. Catching the eye ball pressed to the scope boo-boo
in that picture from Predators.
Had a pal who bought a break barrel pellet Gamo to protect his
vege garden. His first gopher also sent him to the emergency room with a bleeding eye from the scopes sharp edge!
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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In response to thebravecowboy.
The photograph is of the recently deceased Marina Ginesta, taken by Juan Guzman on the roof of the Hotel Colon on July 21 1936. One of the Spanish Civil War's iconic images.
Do I get 10 bucks?
Steve
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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An eyebrow injury from an air gun????
Is your friend a hemophiliac?
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frank wyman
Mountain climber
montana
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Mr. Toker Villain: I bought a Volunteer Arms Commando,(Thompson clone) for one hundred dollars a few years ago. Cheesy...Wannna-be...45 ACP..Grease gun mags...It looks cool and feeds ball ammo all day. Don't know anybody else that has one or even heard of one...But hell..A non firing replica wall hanger costs more than it did..Maybe someday it will be worth more than the hundred I paid for it,...Frank
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Blakey, good on you, mate. I'll buy you a couple of pints, if a tenner will
do so these days. Meet me in Cortina in September to collect. Oh, I was
thinking the armed lassie was in Havana but it didn't look to be Havana and
the Cubanos were too chauvanistic to indulge in feminine icons.
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command error
Trad climber
Colorado
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Jan 19, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
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This is so awesome!
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/tracking-point-smart-rifle-sniper/
A Gun That Aims Itself.
Hitting a target at 1,000 yards is a skill once only possessed by a few
elite snipers. But all that has changed, thanks to a high-tech bullet
guidance system created by Texas gun manufacturer TrackingPoint. For
better or worse, anyone with $20,000 to burn can
now buy a rifle that will let them shoot like a highly trained sniper.
The smart rifle operates quick and easy, just differently from a
traditional weapon.
ONE: You look through the scope and push a red button near the trigger to
electronically tag your chosen target. A dot appears on the imaged target
and stays there even if you move the rifle.
(nothing is visible down range to any observers)
TWO: A computer calculated red reticle aim point then appears based on the
bullet’s expected trajectory determined by conditions, somewhere in the
scopes image and usually not over the tagged target.
THREE: The shooter pulls the trigger but the gun does not fire yet.
The shooter slowly moves rifle so the red reticle COVERS the previously
tagged taget dot.
"Bang! ...the rifle fires itself and a perfect 1000yard shot is made by
a complete gun noob.
(Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBC8IFWC1P0
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jan 19, 2014 - 07:53pm PT
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probably an Illegal
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