General GunTuber thread

The Detroit Urban Survival guys have been pretty prolific lately, and now even greasy brojacks like Cr1Tikal are laughing at them.
Harrell's teaching background really helps his videos.
I remember a lot more of his instruction than the actual information, which is both nostalgic and hilarious.
 
They've had that problem many times in the past, which is to be expected when putting people on the clock.

I actually like the idea, but people are dumb and you have to expect dumb things to happen.

The problems we had were people throwing them sideways and straining muscles and in a couple cases dislocating shoulders.

Mandating the through the legs throw technique shown eliminated those injuries and we haven’t had any in 2 years.
 
Out of a field of 9?
I was wondering what everyone else was running in that division, classic manual.

Everyone that I saw was running bolt action rifles. Most people shoot iron sights badly. And they shoot manual guns even worse. Classic Manual is the hardest division to shoot and actually complete stages, and few people own the equipment so attendance in Classic Manual is always low.

He placed 92/203 shooters Overall that showed up, beating a large swathe of people using modern semi automatic firearms. https://practiscore.com/results/new/102644
 
Regarding magpul drums my experience is they initially work and start having problems after not much use.

I have had 3 and they all got to points where they couldn’t load more than 50, 46, and 32 rounds respectively.

In general they are cost/space ineffective other than the first magazine in the rifle.

For match purposes I’d rather use magpul 40 rounders with +6s on them from a reliability perspective. In general I prefer coupled 30s in Arredondo mag couplers. There’s always somewhere to reload on the move.
 
The problems we had were people throwing them sideways and straining muscles and in a couple cases dislocating shoulders.

Mandating the through the legs throw technique shown eliminated those injuries and we haven’t had any in 2 years.
Yes proper biomechanics are always good to use, especially when dealing with people who and I don't mean to insult the IR/FW audience but aren't very athletic.
 
Yes proper biomechanics are always good to use, especially when dealing with people who and I don't mean to insult the IR/FW audience but aren't very athletic.

One dislocated shoulder was an athletic guy doing sideways throws. It’s really easy to release slightly too late with one arm doing that.

I strained my arm the same year doing sideways throws running the stage 3 times. I now have a 72 pounder I do swings with at home that makes throwing the 36 or 50 pounder feel relatively easy.
 
New Year, y'all. Let's make this one different.
Everyone that I saw was running bolt action rifles. Most people shoot iron sights badly. And they shoot manual guns even worse. Classic Manual is the hardest division to shoot and actually complete stages, and few people own the equipment so attendance in Classic Manual is always low.

He placed 92/203 shooters Overall that showed up, beating a large swathe of people using modern semi automatic firearms. https://practiscore.com/results/new/102644
I looked everywhere on those spreadsheets, but couldn't find any data fields for what individual shooters used. But I'm sure descriptions get pretty autistic as things get more competitive/modern, so I can see why it'd be omitted.

As far as Soviet irons go, I always had a bitch of a time until I got set up with these: aperture/peep Williams Fire-Sights.
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At one point I lost the aperture on a range, and had to make-do with just the front post...... and found that's all I needed. As long as I kept the same cheek weld and put the dot on a target, I could still ring steel consistently out to where my eyesight fails.

So as an experiment, I tried the same on an AK; swapped the front post for the fiber optic, zeroed the rifle, then removed the rear ladder, and got the same result. As long as I kept the same cheek weld, which I helped maintain with a small strip of grippy tape on the stock; even after reverting back to the standard Soviet post.

In the end I found I can hit targets faster & reliably, as long as I ignore the rear notch & keep the indexing tape. But as soon as I try lining everything up on a target, my bad eyesight (even corrected) turns everything into visual soup.
 
New Year, y'all. Let's make this one different.

I looked everywhere on those spreadsheets, but couldn't find any data fields for what individual shooters used. But I'm sure descriptions get pretty autistic as things get more competitive/modern, so I can see why it'd be omitted.

Only equipment divisions are documented, not each shooters set of equipment.

Range Officers just look for compliance with the equipment limitations.

In classic division the sights must be period as well, meaning no fiber optic sights. You can paint your front post if you want though.
 
In classic division the sights must be period as well, meaning no fiber optic sights. You can paint your front post if you want though.
So no aperture/peep, even sans fiber-optic post?

In any case, that's what I ended up doing; painting the front post on everything with Combloc sights.

But I think the indexing tape has helped me more than anything, including the bolt-actions & pump-guns I've tried it on, because otherwise I don't have an AR charging handle to quickly index my face on.
 
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Karl did in fact use a drum on his M27 clone build.
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That was more to demonstrate that the concept behind the M27 (squad support weapon that can take standard rifle mags if needed) wasn't really a new idea, having been done by the Soviets first with the RPK (which was first released with a drum magazine).
The Detroit Urban Survival guys have been pretty prolific lately, and now even greasy brojacks like Cr1Tikal are laughing at them.

 
I've always liked the idea of a solar backups but I've also heard the solar backups don't work very well.
Thanks for tickling that unpleasant memory. I've had a distrust of solar trickle-charging ever since, especially since they don't even seem to work on radios or flashlights.

Back around '01, the Army passed down an MWO for Solargizers to be installed on literally every vehicle on our books; and afterwards batteries started being drained dry. Every Monday for months, we'd have to go jump every vehicle in the motorpark not being driven regularly, until we were allowed to disconnect the solargizers.

Edit: IIRC, they were causing battery electrolyte to evaporate. Probably not an issue for sealed, dry cell batteries & quality optics, but still.
 
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Karl continues to make videos with legitimately bad people.
Yet another collab video with the “I’ll make a video laughing at Donald Trump for saying that the left would go after statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson” and then a week later they started defacing and trying to rip down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Dude is as much, or more of a clown than Karl is.
 

Sig Fanboys on suicide watch

Joking aside, i think videos like this and the one made by Kalashnikov Group show that it pays off diversifying your loadout.
nothing beats my 10.5" AR with adjustable gas system and A5 buffer kit when it comes to recoil management and ease of handling, but when the temperatures drop too much i'm not deluding myself into thinking it'll cycle reliably. Glad i scooped up a nice MKK-104 when i had the chance
 
I've always liked the idea of a solar backups but I've also heard the solar backups don't work very well.
The issue with solar panels is that cheap solar panels wear out very quickly, frankly I think that a decent fiber optic set up is better but there isn't anything wrong with a decently built solar panel, they've come quite a long ways in the past ten years or so.

Sig Fanboys on suicide watch

Joking aside, i think videos like this and the one made by Kalashnikov Group show that it pays off diversifying your loadout.
nothing beats my 10.5" AR with adjustable gas system and A5 buffer kit when it comes to recoil management and ease of handling, but when the temperatures drop too much i'm not deluding myself into thinking it'll cycle reliably. Glad i scooped up a nice MKK-104 when i had the chance
Choice of lube also plays a big part, personally I'd look at industrial moly lubes such as Dow molykote 33 since that one is temperature rated and tested from -100F up to 400F, a lot of firearms specific lubricants just aren't tested for that kind of thing. Another tip that I'll give is to make sure you do everything within your power to cover up any moving part of the firearm and keep snow off of it, any sort of water-condensation, vapor, snow, you name it-that gets on your rifle becomes water and then turns back into ice, which then plays hell with your weapon until you get it to melt again. What I'd really like to see is GT do this test again but with as many identical rifles as he can scrounge up but each using a different lube.
 
@SinistralRifleman did you guys do any testing on the solar power feature itself?

I've always liked the idea of a solar backups but I've also heard the solar backups don't work very well.

It works in direct sunlight, but if you’re under something or it’s overcast it won’t work.

I think the main thing the solar pannel does is extend battery life. I wouldn’t count on it alone to power the optic.
 
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