Mega Rad Gun Thread

[The Dude]

Sorry to tell you bro, but they are never "done".
Big changes maybe but the tweaks will never end.

True. There are some other personal touches I plan to make, like getting a gas buster charging handle, upgrading to a TAB Gear sling (I've got them on my Origin 12 and Mk14 and love them), and I plan to put the 16" stainless steel 5R barrel from LMT on it. But it is done in that I've finally got the suppressor mounted on it.

Please elaborate.

Nani dafuq?! I bought a very nice Obendorf-built 1942 Mauser in '09 for $212. I then immediately bubba'd the fuck out of it by rebarreling it with a heavy 20" .308 barrel and Lyman 57 peep sights.

What BUIS are you using on this one?

Just the Magpul metal BUIS. I will probably get LMT's BUIS set eventually, but for now this works.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Nani dafuq?! I bought a very nice Obendorf-built 1942 Mauser in '09 for $212. I then immediately bubba'd the fuck out of it by rebarreling it with a heavy 20" .308 barrel and Lyman 57 peep sights.

Russian Captures have hovered around $900 for the past few years. Newer production Yugo Mausers or other "minor countries" are ~$500, give or take.

 

[Bogliacci]

It. Is. DONE!

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Extremely jelly of the OWL you got there bud

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

/k/ never stopped eating cum brownies

Worse. Someone spiked the cum brownies with lead and AIDS.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

please dont remind me of 2008. right before that happened i decided it was time to buy a good priced sks next time i found one at a gun show. guess what happened next? the sks was one of the very first guns everyone panic bought. i was screwed so hard out of the one gun i very much wanted. to this day i dont have one and i cry myself to sleep at night remembering how good the prices were and how easy they were to find.

all these years i have been hoping that the prices would drop. i figured, very wrongly btw, that after the panic, people would eventually start selling off some of the guns they bought. i was hoping we would see people drop their unwanted sks onto the market for a bit of cash they needed for other bills. so far that hasnt happened in enough numbers for it to affect the overal price or avaliability.

i think im just going to have to bite the bullet and slap down the money to get one.

Feelz. SKSs used to be so damn cheap and cheerful.

The Gun market now is odd. Most new/in production stuff is cheap (ish) yet anything old is ridiculously expensive.

WW2 guns going for less than one thousand dollars, pistols almost being given away, AKs being sold by the crate because nobody cared
I mean at least today you can buy an AR for a reasonable sum but seeing the difference made me hate gun sellers as much as the grabbers.

Same same. Pre 2008 you'd get AKs for under $500 all day and usually they'd throw in 100-500 rounds of ammo.



WASRs were still cheap until 2020 turbo fucked everything. Now it's $850 for a combloc AK.

Just the Magpul metal BUIS. I will probably get LMT's BUIS set eventually, but for now this works

Magpul Gen 3 polymer right here.

Honestly the Pros are as good as any AR needs.

They're durable, slim have dual apertures and aren't silly expensive like some other metal folding sights are.

 

[The Dude]

Extremely jelly of the OWL you got there bud

I like the OWL, but it is a little platform specific. It doesn't lend itself well to platforms that have charging handles located up where the handguard is, nor are they very good on platforms with really chonky handguards. Works great on my LMT, but not well on my Mk14, AUG A3. or Origin 12. I have a Surefire Scout Light with remote switch on my Origin 12 and I'll likely do the same or get a Cloud Defensive Rein 3.0 for the Mk14 and AUG when the time comes. But the OWL is a great light in a well thought out package for AR style platforms.

@Falcos_Commisar the thing I like about the LMT BUIS is that it has a BDC ranging feature on it. You can get them calibrated for 5.56mm or 7.62x51mm NATO, in either meters or yards. I like having redundancy in a fighting weapon, and it would be nice to know that in the even that my optic goes down that my irons can be easily adjusted for range.

 

[quaawaa]

It. Is. DONE!

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I love the 3D printed grip on the multi-thousand dollar setup.

 

[The Dude]

I love the 3D printed grip on the multi-thousand dollar setup.

It's not 3D printed. It has an aluminum core/frame with micarta or G10 grip scales, kinda like a pistol. The company that made it is sadly no longer in business, which is a shame because they made the nicest AR grips I've ever used.

Edit: Executive Ordnance was the name of the company who made it. There's a similar grip made by Double Star I believe, the company who make the ACE stocks and Hammer stock that I have on my Origin 12. I'll probably get one of those when I do my AR build, because I really like them.

 

[Club Sandwich]

It has an aluminum core/frame with micarta or G10 grip scales, kinda like a pistol.

interesting grip design, and a good way to get semi-custom feel for what is otherwise a pretty standard part. wonder how difficult it might be to make new scales and just copy the frame. one of these days i'll have to buy a 3d printer, so much stuff going on i never put time into it since i do subtractive manufacturing on the regular that i never saw much benefit for one beyond prototyping something.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

Worse. Someone spiked the cum brownies with lead and AIDS.

i guess all that time spent wearing dresses and putting undertale characters on their ARs made everyone there forget that AIDS is a weapon too

 

[The Dude]

interesting grip design, and a good way to get semi-custom feel for what is otherwise a pretty standard part. wonder how difficult it might be to make new scales and just copy the frame. one of these days i'll have to buy a 3d printer, so much stuff going on i never put time into it since i do subtractive manufacturing on the regular that i never saw much benefit for one beyond prototyping something.

Here's some close up photos of it. They used to offer different color/texture scales that you could order separately or pick when you ordered the grip, so you could swap them out whenever you want, along with options for the milling on the back strap. They have the two side scales, and one on the front strap where your fingers go, and the rear strap has some grip texture milled into it that's really nice. The ones made by Double Star (I think) have different color G10 scales available, but I don't think they have the third scale on the front strap like this one does, and the overall angle and design of theirs is different.

Edit: The Double Star Stronghold grip is the grip that's similar to the Executive Ordnance, but very different angles, just has the two side scales, and no milling or texture options. But they do offer different color options including all black, red and black, grey and black, and coyote and black.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Made a good stock option play. About 3500 to waste now.

I'm really thinking ok I like old guns, I want a weird ass black powder era thing. I was browsing the other night saw a gun with an "under hammer" exposed hammer behind the trigger guard that was dope. Forgot what it was called because that night turned into 6 degrees of gun broker and 15 years of Dalwinnie.

I really should just get a FAL or work on the pile of parts kits I have :/

Hopkins and allen made a lot of under hammer guns, and IIRC Numrich or some other similar outfit bought all the remaining parts when they closed down and continued building rifles for a time. they usually sell for alot less than 1k a piece, usually less than 500. they came in rifle and pistol versions.

the mainspring for this gun doubles as the trigger guard.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

 

[King Of The Kiwis]

What are some good reliable American guns. The Russians have aks and the Austrians have glocks so what’s America’s

 

[DocAwe]

What are some good reliable American guns. The Russians have aks and the Austrians have glocks so what’s America’s

High point.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

What are some good reliable American guns. The Russians have aks and the Austrians have glocks so what’s America’s

i dont have one, but ive always heard the ruger P series pistols are very reliable.

 

[BikeLock]

Same same. Pre 2008 you'd get AKs for under $500 all day and usually they'd throw in 100-500 rounds of ammo.

In 2007 I bought somebodies shitty garage build AK from a local gun shop for $450 (mishmash of Romy G parts made to look like an AMD), which of course started to come apart when I actually started to run rounds through it. The original shop took it back in on trade straight up for a new in box Saiga 7.62. I spent about $150 to do a basic conversion and was into the rifle about $600 otd.

Now you can't get an AK worth a fuck for less than $1200, and all the surplus has dried up due to the import bans. I kept telling myself "Man I should pick up a Saiga 5.45..." and never did, which sucks ass.

But hey, my Saiga is now a $1400 rifle... so... woooo?

 

[BikeLock]

What are some good reliable American guns. The Russians have aks and the Austrians have glocks so what’s America’s

Aim Surplus has Police Trade-in Smith and Wesson 5946's in stock for $329

https://aimsurplus.com/products/sw-used-5946-hga-9mm-4-ss-dao

Sure the old 3rd gen Smiths aren't in style like all the polymer pistols, but these are generally a reliable brick. Lots of mags around so picking up a few for spares won't hurt the wallet too badly.

 

[Friedrich Hayek's Ghost]

i dont have one, but ive always heard the ruger P series pistols are very reliable.

They're quite good. The recoil impulse on a P95 is hilarious. The slide velocity is so slow you can easily track the front sight through recoil.

What are some good reliable American guns. The Russians have aks and the Austrians have glocks so what’s America’s

The AR-15 platform, or the Mossberg 500 series.

 

[DocAwe]

In 2007 I bought somebodies shitty garage build AK from a local gun shop for $450 (mishmash of Romy G parts made to look like an AMD), which of course started to come apart when I actually started to run rounds through it. The original shop took it back in on trade straight up for a new in box Saiga 7.62. I spent about $150 to do a basic conversion and was into the rifle about $600 otd.

Now you can't get an AK worth a fuck for less than $1200, and all the surplus has dried up due to the import bans. I kept telling myself "Man I should pick up a Saiga 5.45..." and never did, which sucks ass.

But hey, my Saiga is now a $1400 rifle... so... woooo?

I think I paid $600 for my converted 5.56 Saiga.
Wonder what ridiculous price I could get for it today.