Mega Rad Gun Thread

[Troon_Patrol]

Springs wear out by being cycled through their range of motion, not by being loaded or discharged for long periods of time. Actually firing off the rounds and reloading the magazines causes fatigue cycles more than keeping the thing packed for even months or years at a time.

E; I'd like to amend this slightly, spring steel is a very cool and based material, the conditions where it would fail catastrophically or in function would be US issue STANAGs that have been in use since fucking Grenada as training magazines, your general purpose magpul springs fresh off the factory have a fatigue life measured in years if not decades.

I've always been a believer in Magpul, I think I have at least one 30 round filled for over a decade. I think it's been scientifically proven at this point leaving a magazine fully loaded makes no more wear than loading it and immediately firing it. I think the whole "leaving magazines loaded harms the springs" concept was just something marketing cooked up to sell "duty grade" "+%15" magazine springs, IIRC Wolf was a huge seller of "duty springs". The firearms manufactures literally spent trillions of rounds of ammo finding a spring that will not only stay strong enough to load that last carttridge but also not create excessive binding on the slide when it is reciprocating when loaded to maximum capacity. Like many other things in the firearm engineering community, this problem was solved before the first production guns left the factory but in usual FUDD fashion someone pretended like there weren't dozens of engineers solving the problem before it ever was a problem.

 

[Smokingpoop]

Just some of what I have:

Riley defense RAK-47
Glock 41
Rossi 38 special revolver
Beretta 84b
Mosin nagant m91/30
Jap type 99 arisaka
Vz-24
Winchester 1300 defender

Wanting to get a Daniel defense AR soon too but not sure

 

[Based Black Man]

ISIS-K fighters posing with captured Delta Force HK416 c. 2016. Supposedly taken from a Delta operator who was attached to 3rd Ranger Battalion during the Nangahar offensive.

https://sofrep.com/news/375-rangers-brought-heat-exhaustion-ill-planned-anti-isis-operation-afghanistan/

Leaving some kit behind is sort of understandable from getting overrun, but leaving your rifle?

 

[Belgians in the Congo]

Mashallah, brother Ian Mc'Islamjadine has shown his support to the ongoing War for Islamic liberation Insha'allah the UAR shall rise again

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

I honestly didn't see this one coming:

ATF bans civilian-use non-lethal marker ammunition/simunitions (archive):

BATFE has ordered UTM to stop selling their non-lethal training ammo (NLTA) to anyone other than law enforcement and the military.

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Filipino mall security tax:

 

[Finnish Air Force]

I honestly didn't see this one coming:

ATF bans civilian-use non-lethal marker ammunition/simunitions (archive):

Legally ludicrous of course but this will help the LARPers. Never seen a civilian UTM training session that didn't turn into a paintball match with no accountability. Should include police too though. They are civilians.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

The BATFE just seems to never get anything right. I can't believe we (US taxpayers) spend money on this organization, imho they should be spending 99% of their resources going after gangs and associated organized crime that results in homicides. There's only about a million fucking homicides in Chicago every year by niggers who I am just about certain are all prohibited persons due to felony convictions and many other reasons. If I were the king of the world, I'd relocate the BATFE offices to Chicago/LA/NYC and tell them; "when you achieve a %90 drop in all firearms related crime in Chicago/LA/NYC, then and only then are you allowed to serve warrants on people outside the Chicago/LA/NYC area with zero prior convictions for "solvent traps" "coat hangers" "sear jigs" "lighting link bottle openers" and etc. Everyone who fits this description as possibly posessing NFA items with zero prior convictions gets a formal warning letter reminding them NFA items require proper licensing. You do not get to toss a flashbang into a family home and shoot the family dog, those days were over the minute you fucked up Waco.

EDIT:
Does anyone know about glock triggers? I got a ghost 3.5LB connector for my 34 and I could swear the trigger actually got noticeably worse than the OEM, I'm thinking about buying an agency brand and see how that goes. I don't mind the weight of the trigger but something less "mushy" with a clean defined break would be ideal. I suppose I'm spoiled by my 2011, the trigger on that thing is fucking superb, spent a couple of hours tuning to perfection.

 

[Club Sandwich]

glock triggers

a lot of people like the feel of a Timney Alpha or Zev Fulcrum.

 

[Dean Pentel]

a lot of people like the feel of a Timney Alpha or Zev Fulcrum.

Can confirm the Timney is worth buying. Apex Tactical makes some decent aftermarket stuff for Glock, but nowhere near as good as for the M&P.

 

[Larry Potterfield]

Anyone here do any grouse hunting? Curious what people here use. My go to is a Browning BSS that I inherited from my grandpa. It's light and has a french style stock, which I actually really like. Before that I just carried an 870.

Also curious if anyone carries a pistol with them when they hunt. I usually just carry a Glock 19 with me.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

Anyone here do any grouse hunting? Curious what people here use. My go to is a Browning BSS that I inherited from my grandpa. It's light and has a french style stock, which I actually really like. Before that I just carried an 870.

Also curious if anyone carries a pistol with them when they hunt. I usually just carry a Glock 19 with me.

I carry a Glock 20 but we have a major hog problem where I am.

 

[Larry Potterfield]

I carry a Glock 20 but we have a major hog problem where I am.

Here it's mostly grizzly bears to be weary of. This just happened and supposedly they're pretty active right now.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Just some of what I have:

Riley defense RAK-47
Glock 41
Rossi 38 special revolver
Beretta 84b
Mosin nagant m91/30
Jap type 99 arisaka
Vz-24
Winchester 1300 defender

Wanting to get a Daniel defense AR soon too but not sure

Overall nice collection.

However..... I'm going to be "that guy" and politely ask you to sell that Riley AK immediately and save up for a WASR or a Zastava. PLEASE please for the love of God

Also, a DD AR is great. As is a BCM for a little less.

 

[Smokingpoop]

Overall nice collection.

However..... I'm going to be "that guy" and politely ask you to sell that Riley AK immediately and save up for a WASR or a Zastava. PLEASE please for the love of God

Also, a DD AR is great. As is a BCM for a little less.

Thanks but why dont you like riley defense? From most of the videos ive seen on YT they say riley defense is ok but truthfully I didn't do a tremendous amount of research on it before I got it. I only recently got it and haven't shot it yet. I would have gone with the zavasta m70 but it doenst have a bayonet lug and I wanted to be about to mount a bayonet. ideally, i'd like a soviet AK from the 70's or 80's but those cost an arm and a leg

 

[Troon_Patrol]

I could never get into the AK platform, I've built two of them over the years and then they just collected dust. It's probably the autism but, after I build something, spend hours tweaking it to perfection with trigger jobs, expensive sighting systems, adding gimmicky things and finally making certain they will eat even the shitty steel cased wolf, I kind of loose interest in them. I take them out to the range every 6 months or so on average. At this point I think I've built 7-8? guns from scratch and I do mean from scratch. I think the best thing I ever built was a Strayer Voight 2011 clone in 10mm/.40 I spent a lot of time on parts that all needed to be fitted and tuned and polished but god damn is that thing accurate. I regret nothing, a factory SV gun is what? like $6,000 and a 6 month wait? I think I spent under $1000 on everything for that build.


Open question: Do you build and if you build, whats the best thing you ever made?


%100 home made, from top to bottom, probably the nicest gun I ever built.

 

[Dean Pentel]

I could never get into the AK platform, I've built two of them over the years and then they just collected dust. It's probably the autism but, after I build something, spend hours tweaking it to perfection with trigger jobs, expensive sighting systems, adding gimmicky things and finally making certain they will eat even the shitty steel cased wolf, I kind of loose interest in them. I take them out to the range every 6 months or so on average. At this point I think I've built 7-8? guns from scratch and I do mean from scratch. I think the best thing I ever built was a Strayer Voight 2011 clone in 10mm/.40 I spent a lot of time on parts that all needed to be fitted and tuned and polished but god damn is that thing accurate. I regret nothing, a factory SV gun is what? like $6,000 and a 6 month wait? I think I spent under $1000 on everything for that build.


Open question: Do you build and if you build, whats the best thing you ever made?


%100 home made, from top to bottom, probably the nicest gun I ever built.
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I'm with you on the AK platform. Long-stroke gas system? Fuck yes (I'm a big ol' homo for PWS stuff). If constructed reasonably correctly, reliable as you could ever want? It's what we want from any firearm.

But those ergonomics, the sights and the sight radius? Fuck all that shit!

As for SVI these days, you're correct on the price for just about anything but you're way off on the lead time. Try triple that. I put in an order for a 2011 in 10mm from them 8/2021 and didn't get it until May of this year. It performs exactly as advertised but damn do you pay for it. And then mag costs

Anyway, tell me about this pistol here. Caliber? Parts makers? Do you still have it? Is the grip safety pinned?

 

[Troon_Patrol]

I'm with you on the AK platform. Long-stroke gas system? Fuck yes (I'm a big ol' homo for PWS stuff). If constructed reasonably correctly, reliable as you could ever want? It's what we want from any firearm.

But those ergonomics, the sights and the sight radius? Fuck all that shit!

As for SVI these days, you're correct on the price for just about anything but you're way off on the lead time. Try triple that. I put in an order for a 2011 in 10mm from them 8/2021 and didn't get it until May of this year. It performs exactly as advertised but damn do you pay for it. And then mag costs

Anyway, tell me about this pistol here. Caliber? Parts makers? Do you still have it? Is the grip safety pinned?

It started off as a desire to own a 6" "slab" full dustcover SV. While I'm being honest I originally wanted one of these things for quite a while, the inspiration was actually Cowboy Bebop, the only anime I could ever watch. I enjoyed the show quite a bit in my youth. Back when Limted10.com was alive you could get an unfinished 2011 frame for a very good price, maybe $225? The owner was such a nice guy he even sent me a 1" section of extended dust cover for free, to weld for that full length 6" slab look. The slide might actually be RIA? I forget the source but, it was a slide and 10mm barrel set, prefit from the factory and not very expensive IIRC. I spent quite a lot of time cutting the rails, fitting the rails, polishing the rails, I welded the dust cover on. Like any other 1911 all the other parts had to be hand fit, I was never a fan of a grip safety on anything so I just "deleted it" during the build. The 10mm barrel didn't require any fitting just finding the appropriate weight spring. The .40S&W 6" barrel needed the hood fit, some adjustment to the lugs for proper engagement, when the barrel locked in place in battery it was practically glued to the slide, outstanding accuracy with the 40 barrel, it was a "Fusion Match", the parts were a mix of EGW/Fusion mostly, the grip obviously STI. I keep the 10mm barrel ready to go but the thing lives to shoot .40, more accurate than my hands can provide. The slide had half the finish coming off it by the time I test fired it, all that striking with a soft blow hammer fitting it to the frame, I ended up having it professionally bead-blasted and then I did the Durakaote myself. The last modification was milling for a Holoson 507, it really shines with that thing. I go to public range and shoot steel, I always get at least someone asking about the thing, they usually think it's a springfield TRP or a real custom ordered SV gun. I get some notice as to the accuracy of the thing as well. IDK if you shoot steel but, the guy left and right of you can hear your hits and misses when I go 10 for 10, that loud 180grain slamming, I usually get someone looking over just to see what I have. If I had to do it all over again I might have gone 9mm instead, finding 40/10mm mags was tough/expensive. IDK I like the idea it can handle 10mm with a 5 minute swap, 20 rounds of 10mm makes for a very aggressive sidearm. The 40 barrel and slide are very tight, so tight if you do not clean the thing every 500 or so rounds you will get a failure to go into battery. This might be fixed by a heavier spring or tuning the extractor less aggressively but, I'm not going to open up the barrel tolerances and sacrifice accuracy for reliability, it's not a Glock. I learned quite a bit building that thing, I have a background in machine shop and welding not certain if I could have done it without that skill.

 

[DocAwe]

I have AKs for the sake of having them.
They would be the first to go if I had to sell.
One Saiga and one ACE.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Thanks but why dont you like riley defense? From most of the videos ive seen on YT they say riley defense is ok but truthfully I didn't do a tremendous amount of research on it before I got it. I only recently got it and haven't shot it yet. I would have gone with the zavasta m70 but it doenst have a bayonet lug and I wanted to be about to mount a bayonet. ideally, i'd like a soviet AK from the 70's or 80's but those cost an arm and a leg

Riley defense used cast or billet parts that should be forged. The rifle will eventually beat itself apart.

A WASR has a bayonet lug, as do the Gen 3 PSA AKs. Fwiw the only USA made AKs you should get are PSA. All else are not made to original AK specs or are in reality parts kits finished in the USA (also fine but usually hilariously overpriced(

I have AKs for the sake of having them.
They would be the first to go if I had to sell.
One Saiga and one ACE.

IMHO 2 AKs and you're set for life. One OG wood and steel one. Eg. A basic AKM pattern

Then go nuts. Folding stock, under folder, Valmet/Galil/ACE/ tacticool one with lasers and lights etc.

After that, I have no need.

I already have a WASR and a PSAK-103. I'M A ok on AKs. Now sure I'd take an ACE for a good price, same as a Valmet but they aren't at the top of my list

 

[Seafarer]

Does anyone have the quote by one of the top U.S. Generals of WW2 (think it was Patton) about how the Garand was one of the top 4 pieces of technology that won the war, on par with the Atom Bomb?