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Mega Rad Gun Thread
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Romulus augustulus
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C. Sharps is doing a special edition sharps rifle recreating a historical rifle used at the battle of the little big horn. 1st Sergeant Ryan of company M 7th cav used a bull barreled Sharps rifle to pick off Indians from the bluffs over looking the valley where the Indian villages were. the rifle was fitted with a scope:
Companies A, G, M, D, H, and K would survive the battle due to digging fighting holes on the bluffs. They repulsed indian attacks for 2 days until relieved by reinforcements.
Rifle costs 6,117 dollars. all hand built in the USA by Sharps in big timber Montana. actually a decent price for a rifle like this. a rifle of similar build quality (like a new M.98 from Mauser) will cost at least 14k.
its not necessarily the sharps i would buy but its a nice gun nevertheless.
His sharps rifle, having a full length barrel and scope allowed it to far out range the trapdoor carbines that the cavalry were given.
Companies A, G, M, D, H, and K would survive the battle due to digging fighting holes on the bluffs. They repulsed indian attacks for 2 days until relieved by reinforcements.
Rifle costs 6,117 dollars. all hand built in the USA by Sharps in big timber Montana. actually a decent price for a rifle like this. a rifle of similar build quality (like a new M.98 from Mauser) will cost at least 14k.
its not necessarily the sharps i would buy but its a nice gun nevertheless.
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Waiting on the accuracy test from 9hole. Do it, Henry.
Romulus augustulus
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it would do well no doubt. People use these new sharps from C. Sharps and Shiloh in matches out past 1,000 yards. once you get it dialed in with a load your rifle likes its pretty easy as long as you do your part.
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Romulus augustulus
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people have this tendency to dismiss things from the "old days" (whatever that is changes from person to person) as useless. People back then were just as smart as they are now.
people have had ballistics and rifling pretty much solved since the 1840s. by the 1860s there was regular rifle matches being held at 1,000 yards in both the US and UK which were the premier matches in the world at the time.
during the civil war Confederate marksmen armed with British Whitworth muzzleloading rifles were killing Union officers 1,000 yards away (or more) fairly often. 1,390 yards was the longest taken by one of these men as far as i can recall. Killed a officer directing troops.
Billy Dixon killed a indian sitting on horseback at 1,538 yards at the second battle of adobe walls with a sharps rifle chambered in .50 2 1/2.
as long as it was visible it could be hit.
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People into guns very often think the civil war was fought with unrifled muskets. Also shout out to a very comfy channel CapAndBall
His newest video :
Romulus augustulus
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to be fair there were a lot of muskets used. Buck and ball was extremely effective at close ranges. problem is often that during the civil war leaders on both sides would not perform a charge to displace the enemy from a position and would instead just fling volley after volley into each other's lines. trying to win battles by superiority in fire is not tenable when both armies are armed with essentially the same gun. nor is it wise to stand 150 yards apart when the average infantry rifle could easily hit a man out to 500 yards and was accurate enough to hit troop formations out to a 1,000 yards.
the war devolved into trench warfare and massed artillery actions by the end because of this.
Confederate trenches after the siege of petersburg. barb wire would not be invented until 1867 so sharpened stakes were used as obstacles.
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You had a lot of innovation that directly led up to modern firearms during the Civil War. Yes, you still had muzzle loading rifles, but you also had repeaters coming onto the battlefield such as the Spencer and Henry rifles, you had breach loading rifles like the Sharps, and you even had "machine guns" like the hand cranked Gatling Gun. And, of course, you had cap and ball revolvers such as the Colt and the Le Matte. The Confederates called the Henry "That damn Yankee rifle you can load on Sunday and shoot all week!" The Civil War marked the transition period of the end old style of warfare where troops lined up in rows to engage in volley fire, and the beginning of modern warfare due to the rapid advancement of weapons technology.
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I think I'm finally happy with my 19x. Just wanted to show off, hope that's allowed.
DocAwe
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Well it's not.
As punishment you must now send me that gat for proper disposal.
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Joke's on him, I already got most of what I want for now.
That being said, I'm kinda disappointed that Cold War surplus is drying up and options in general are disappearing.
Everyone is just releasing some version of Glock or AR clone now but I don't really give a shit. Just give me a .308 and I'll be happy with it.
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AKs and FALs are all but dead, the former bottlenecked by US production not fully committing to the bit and the latter because IMBEL is no longer sending us magazines in any reasonable quantity. HK may eventually make something of worth on US soil but only time will tell.
There has been no better time to build an AR-15 because you can make absolutely anything you want no matter your desire.
Milsurp is a radioactive market due to influence from YouTube historians, camouflage is disappearing for TikTok/LARP and new production is often cringe bullshit.
Imported pistols are where we're really going to suffer, but the US-made Glock clones and 1911s/2011s will pick up the slack.
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H&K made that 22 abomination that nobody wanted. I'm a lefty, are lefty AR uppers a meme? Should I just deal with the bad ergos of being a left handed man in a right handed world?
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I've personally have had no issues using a "normal" upper as a lefty.
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I haven't either really, aside from gassy suppressed setups possibly giving me cancer faster and being generally unpleasant to shoot. Maybe having the ejection on the other side would help a little with that, but it's really more about my autismal desire for things to be "correct".
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No, they work and lots of lefties recommend them. STAG Arms is the primary source, mainly the BCG, but are frequently out of stock.
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I know a guy with a couple of the stag left-handed uppers. He likes them a lot on his suppressed SBRs. Personally I like ARs that can take any regular BCG just in case I need to swap it out. I'd rather switch to a lower back pressure suppressor or tune the gun with parts that can be interchanged with off the shelf milspec parts if needed(adjustable BCG, suppressor optimized gas tube, etc.). That's just me, if you aren't worried about scavenging BCGs in [Insert fantasy scenario] they're fine.
One thing to keep in mind is that the left side ejection cover flips up so optic mounts with large protrusions can push it down and potentially interfere with ejection. The guy I know exclusively uses low profile scalarworks QD mounts on his.
One thing to keep in mind is that the left side ejection cover flips up so optic mounts with large protrusions can push it down and potentially interfere with ejection. The guy I know exclusively uses low profile scalarworks QD mounts on his.