General GunTuber thread

[wopirish]

I was looking up old posts on the mauser Geha shotguns, there were people complaining about the bolt not being secured well enough.

I'd put good money they were firing hot magnum self loads out of the geha. And viola, you get guns disassembling themselves post haste.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

Which Scott couldn't even properly replicate having made a bullshit round with three times the normal operating pressure. The safety margins may be thinner compared to most .50s, but if you buy normal commercial ammo, or if you're a handloader who isn't special needs, the rifle won't endure even close to even a 50% increase in pressure, not to talk about the +300% of the accident.

This entire thing is someone learning the very hard

The fact that the ears didn’t shear this time makes me agree that the accident had an even spicier round. SAAMI spec for a proof round is 82000PSI. The fact that the threads are rated for roughly 2.2 times the expected load based on my available information is right in line with standard engineering practices. At this point I don’t fault Serbu’s design.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Yeah. You could load a stick of dynamite in a Mauser and people would say "Yeah those things are notoriously weak".

ACKSHUALLY

Mauser actions, specifically rebarreled German examples (and even moreso those meant for safari usage in Africa), are notorious for receiver stretching to the point where gunsmiths spread that exact talk.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Part 2 of Garand Thumbs PSAK74 saga

Oh wow PSA is so good they fixed a gun for a massive influencer. A gun that only failed because of their dogshit QC and corner cutting.

Side note: If I see another YouTube comment defending PSA by saying "their mission is to get guns into the hands of everyday Americans" I'm going to get MATI.

Earlier in the thread I referred to them as the HiPoint of the AR world for a reason: spotty QC, only an okayish at best gun, unbeatable warranty, decent customer support personnel.

 

[Lupo Akane]

It's kind of funny that Herrera in one of his gun memes was talking crap about Big Daddy Unlimited for the stupid crap they do and even said he's going to call them out on it when they do. Though shuts the hell up when it comes to Black Rifle Coffee just to use there range lol.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Part 2 of Garand Thumbs PSAK74 saga

Oh wow PSA is so good they fixed a gun for a massive influencer. A gun that only failed because of their dogshit QC and corner cutting.

Side note: If I see another YouTube comment defending PSA by saying "their mission is to get guns into the hands of everyday Americans" I'm going to get MATI.

What is the difference between PSA branded, Brownells branded and Anderson branded at this point.

On a side note, I should have probably saved up for an Aero upper that is on sale along with their accessories.

Plus folks on calguns are happy that Kalashnikov USA will be selling the 103 with the cuckfin in California. But it has a thumbrest.

 

[likeacrackado]

What is the difference between PSA branded, Brownells branded and Anderson branded at this point.

As far as I know PSA makes most of their parts in house for the AKs or they contract them out specifically for their guns. Brownells doesn't make any gun parts in house and rely on companies like PWS in the case of the BRN180 to make most of the bits that can't be sourced from the piles of interchangeable AR parts. I know less about Anderson other than that the QC they do do on their parts is shit. Doesn't keep some of their stuff like stripped lowers from being fine some of the time.

It can be very confusing as to where the manufacturer xyz company and the brand xyz company overlap. Much of this is on purpose especially for companies that rely on hype and brand rep to make up for the wide gap between sum of the parts and the price of the whole *cough* solgw *cough*

 

[HumptiDouji]

I'd put good money they were firing hot magnum self loads out of the geha. And viola, you get guns disassembling themselves post haste.

If their chambers aren't long enough, there can be problems with the expanding crimp on modern shotgun shells also.

Mauser actions, specifically rebarreled German examples (and even moreso those meant for safari usage in Africa), are notorious for receiver stretching to the point where gunsmiths spread that exact talk.

No kidding, but these receivers were never intended for shooting ridiculous African Big Game cartridges like those, they were for normal infantry rifle cartridges, and all the safety features were to ensure that even a completely shitty cartridge that ruptures doesn't detonate the gun and kill or blind the soldier for life.

It's like how some .40 S&W pistols were basically just factory caliber conversions of existing 9mm Luger pistols, that can function very well, but the gun is not going to be nearly as long lived.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

If their chambers aren't long enough, there can be problems with the expanding crimp on modern shotgun shells also.


No kidding, but these receivers were never intended for shooting ridiculous African Big Game cartridges like those, they were for normal infantry rifle cartridges, and all the safety features were to ensure that even a completely shitty cartridge that ruptures doesn't detonate the gun and kill or blind the soldier for life.

It's like how some .40 S&W pistols were basically just factory caliber conversions of existing 9mm Luger pistols, that can function very well, but the gun is not going to be nearly as long lived.

Speaking of .40 S&W....when was the last time we had a guntuber have a good spergfit for or against it? It's a cartridge that still attracts lots of hard opinions from people who have either never shot it OR compulsively buy it in bulk to the point of inflating local ammo prices even in the best of times.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Speaking of .40 S&W....when was the last time we had a guntuber have a good spergfit for or against it? It's a cartridge that still attracts lots of hard opinions from people who have either never shot it OR compulsively buy it in bulk to the point of inflating local ammo prices even in the best of times.

Last I can personally remember was the trend of treating it as a centrist/fencesitter in the caliber war and becoming very passionate about it.

These days I just notice people saying it's a dead caliber, which it's apparently been for roughly 25 consecutive years since the bitching began.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

These days I just notice people saying it's a dead caliber, which it's apparently been for roughly 25 consecutive years since the bitching began.

40 is a strange one though because it never dies, it just goes through periods of boom and bust, I'm thinking that given another five years it'll get popular again.

In my neck of the woods at least 40 goes through a pretty consistent ten to fifteen year cycle where the ammo gets cheap since no one buys it, then people who want a double stack pistol that's more powerful than a nine will buy up all the forty ammo and guns for a bit since we have a lot of wolves and blackbears and the occasional moose, but most people around here don't want to pay for 10mm auto. Then 40 ammo starts to get expensive again since everyone's buying it for the first time in years and people realize that it really isn't that much better than 9mm and they start thinking that the double stack is kinda silly for what they're using it for and so the 45acp will do, so then they all try to sell their Forties but no one's buying which drives the demand and the price back down for a few years until the cycle starts over.

Recently however I've noticed more and more people buying 10mm and double stack 45s however, so we'll see what happens this time, locally we are currently in the bottom of the spiral where no one owns 40 and the people who do can't even sell them, but the ammo hasn't become cheap or available yet so we'll see what happens.

 

[waffle]

BRCC thinking they can go mainstream after building their brand on frat boy marketing and conservative grifting is pretty absurd.

The establishment won’t let that happen so all their dirty laundry is going to keep coming out.

On top of that, alienating large swaths of your existing customers is not a way to grow your brand.

There's nothing particularly special about their coffee, is there?

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

There's nothing particularly special about their coffee, is there?

Not really, it's your typical "One step above Maxwell House and therefore good if you have low standards and drink coffee for the caffeine" type coffee.

 

[Mikoyan]

On top of that, alienating large swaths of your existing customers is not a way to grow your brand.

There's nothing particularly special about their coffee, is there?

I might've mentioned earlier in the thread but I tried a cup when they were at my range and the lightest roast they had was IMO burnt to shit. So nooo.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I might've mentioned earlier in the thread but I tried a cup when they were at my range and the lightest roast they had was IMO burnt to shit. So nooo.

Their coffee is a great advertisement for Great Value-brand powdered creamer.

 

[White Devil]

I only know one person IRL that uses .40 and nobody likes him.

 

[Mikoyan]

Our good friend Stephen Hopps used .40. Don't be like Simba.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I actually had to poll my boomerbook range group (don't judge, it's mostly old fogeys). Turns out no one actually uses a .40. One guy has one in his safe that he hasn't put any rounds through in like 10 years.

I guess we're just down to 9mm vs. .45 rivalries over here. The range weirdo likes bringing out a .357 SIG and you wouldn't believe how smug he was when that boomer in Texas popped a would-be church shooter in the head with one.

 

[S.C.U.D.]

In my experience, .40 is the round sold to those people who buy one gun and two boxes of ammo, put it in their closet and forget about, and 10 years later when they're doing spring cleaning they discover they do in fact own a gun and sell it back to the same shop they bought it from.

 

[DocAwe]

I have one .40.
Bought it because it was cheap. (G23)
It's ok, still prefer 9mm.