Mega Rad Gun Thread

[The Dude]

Sooo....I've had the opportunity to splurge a bit. The Dude family is out of the country with my mother while I opted to stay home. I really had no desire to visit the country they went to, and I didn't want to ruin their once-in-a-lifetime trip with my complaints over not being able to eat the local food. So I'm home taking care of our animals while they're gone. And since they're gone and all our bills are paid for, I was able to get a whole paycheck all to myself. I decided to do some splurging for my birthday thats coming up, so I ordered a MagPul DAKA 53 hard sided case, a Vector Gen 2 stock modified to mount to 1913 rails for my Vector to get me by until Lingle Industries has more ExoLock Stocks available in a few months, and I ordered myself another balisong knife, because I've really fallen in love with that style of knife for EDC.

My EOTech EXPS-2 with green reticle arrived yesterday and I'm really happy with it. I wish more optic companies would make alternative reticle colors, but I understand why red has become the industry standard. I just personally feel green catches the eye a lot better than red.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Shotguns absolutely, my damascus hammerguns are going off to auction because fuck paying for low power bismuth cartridges at 1 kidney per box. Rifles not so much I reckon, there's copper monolithics available in any calibre sensible to take deer.

yeah deer rifles won't be hurt much. Muzzle loaders will be wrecked though, older double rifles which can't take mono bullets (the ribs come loose), and most black powder target rifles.

Its interesting how different the firearms market is between the U.K and US. A Generic provincial boxlock is next to worthless in your country but would be worth 1,000 dollars in the US easily if in good condition, even more if in a sub gauge.

What the fuck are you talking about you half witted spawn of nigger cousins? Using lead shot for waterfowling has been illegal in the US since 1991, use of lead ammunition for any hunting is completely illegal in California. Get your own house in order and water the tree of liberty with the corn syrup you have in place of blood you fat spastic.

If anything I'm just going to buy a second, better shotgun and crack on shooting ducks and pheasants with steel instead. Lead ammunition is still completely legal for range use so it'll make absolutely no difference there, and if I'm going out after deer I'd rather it not be full of lead.

thankfully a full on lead ban is likely to stay in California. There just isn't the political will to do it in the rest of the country, and not a chance in hell at the federal level.

Lead is going to be banned at ranges without "Lead capture features" whatever that means.

 

[Biggest Bubba]

I recently made a new financial mistake and bought an m44 mosin for a really good price.
I have wanted an m44 or m38 for a while and I do have a 91/30. This one is weird tho it's all numbers matching the bore is in really good condition but it has no import marks and dosent appear do be refurbished at all. I took the entire rifle apart to clean it and the first thing that really bought my attention was the stock when I was buying it as it seems to be a weird mutant stock made from an earlier rifle and some other mystery front from another, although the buttplate matches numbers with the receiver and everything else. The front part of the stock when I took it apart had a news paper cut from 1965 coated in epoxy in to act as a spacer or shim (sorry don't have pictures) so that gives me a time period for when the stock was replaced. Other than that the rifle is in really good condition just want some thoughts on the gun or if any of you guys could identify the front portion.

 

[crab fucker]

I think .380 is a pretty good option for concealed carry, especially if you're physically frail or handicapped in some way. Like others said the round technology has come a long way to provide proper penetration and expansion. I think a lot of of the less impressive results of .380 testing can come from people using exceptionally small .380 pistols that have a barrel shorter than 3 inches. The advantages of the round can be seen most easily in terms of recoil and the effects this has on follow up shots, but a gun designed around .380 can also be quite compact even compared to a 9mm if you're living in an area where CC can be a major fucking chore due to your environment.

I've got the browning 1911 .380 and I love the fucking thing, very nicely scaled down 1911 that can fit in anyone's hands really easily and has respectable power with the 3.5+ inch barrel. Provided you don't fuck up in ammo choice I think .380 is a perfectly acceptable choice for CC, but that is about as far as I would be willing to go. Obviously if you're in an area where you might get attacked by things with thicker hides than the average negro you might want to scale up, but otherwise is pretty good I think.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

So what is big game hunting like in the UK? Is it all Scotland basically?

Various species of deer all over the country, ranging in size from muntjac and Chinese water deer at 30-40lb to red deer where the stags are north of 500lb. A few pockets of wild boar around the place where they've escaped from farms.

We don't have big tracts of government owned land so it can vary depending on the area, some places you'll be paying the landowner to go out with a guide, others they're begging people to come shoot the deer because they're over-populated. They range all over the country so you can see them whenever you're outside town.

We did for our last bears and wolves hundreds of years ago so there's no big carnivores left to hunt.

 

[Among Us Gaming]

Their MP5s are solid but I'll never, ever buy a fucking franken-G3 from them ever again because of their total bullshit.

PTR isn't century, so there's that at least. The century C308 i got was utter garbage (charging gap was not set right so it was near impossible to charge)

It seems that both PTR and Zenith Firearms are totally allergic to advancing the roller delayed market past terrible HK91 clones and decent MP5s here stateside.

Why wouldn't they be? MP5s sell, and G3s can be built off FMP and Cetme parts kits, reducing manhours. They could innovate, sure, but there's not much incentive to, because fundamentally you cannot really produce a rifle that realistically competes with the AR15.

Case in point

Swear to fucking god if these companies don't release a MP5/10mm clone or a good HK93 clone I'm going to lose it.

Their HK33 clone/improvement, the PTR63, is 8.5 pounds empty with a 16" barrel. A somewhat innovative (theres a few points where the ptr63 differs from the hk33 like using stanag mags), rifle is weights the same empty as an AR with optic and light empty does.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

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Decided for the Thunder 380X instead of the HiPower Detective since .380 is naturally subsonic and has a threaded fixed barrel, it's also been really nice to conceal, suggestions on .380 defensive ammo?
Currently just using basic 95 gr FMJs, there's some critical defense .380 HPs but I've heard iffy things on expansion consistency with .380 so for now just FMJs.

Ohh my... A blowback .380

RIP your hand bones

 

[Among Us Gaming]

if any of you guys could identify the front portion.

It looks like some custom fab sheet metal affair. It looks extremely similiar to [generic European black powder gun] (gras, vetterli, beaumont, etc.) But it appears to be sheet metal and not milled. Its presumably some Bubba custom affair.

 

[Biggest Bubba]

It looks like some custom fab sheet metal affair. It looks extremely similiar to [generic European black powder gun] (gras, vetterli, beaumont, etc.) But it appears to be sheet metal and not milled. Its presumably some Bubba custom affair.

Honestly the weirdest thing about this gun is that everything done to it is reversible if I want. Usually Bubbas drill the receiver for a scope or cut down the barrel but none of that has been done to this Bubba gun. Also the no import marks make the think this could be a Korea take back. Or the original import marks could have been on the stock like some of the old SMLE imports. Also if it helps that end cap on the stock has that weird cleaning rod looking thing in the front is Part of the cap and dosent screw out.

 

[Among Us Gaming]

Also the no import marks make the think this could be a Korea take back.

Milsurp rule of thumb: its never a bring back. Theres a 90% chance that its an interarms import before the import laws were passed.

 

[Biggest Bubba]

Milsurp rule of thumb: its never a bring back. Theres a 90% chance that its an interarms import before the import laws were passed.

But Bubba gun needs cool backstory
(you are probably right though)

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Decided for the Thunder 380X instead of the HiPower Detective since .380 is naturally subsonic and has a threaded fixed barrel, it's also been really nice to conceal, suggestions on .380 defensive ammo?
Currently just using basic 95 gr FMJs, there's some critical defense .380 HPs but I've heard iffy things on expansion consistency with .380 so for now just FMJs.

I don't carry .380s that aren't pocket guns, so I go for max short barrel performance and for that I've landed on XTREME defender as my carry round of choice for when I'm limited to a .380 which despite a kind of cringe name seems to perform better than FMJ. Based on what I've seen of tests in the past I can't rely on a JHP to expand with pocket gun velocity so I cut out the requirement for expansion.

 

[Boney]

.380 is fine, good even, like any defensive carry considerations accuracy is paramount. A 9mm in the heart kills you only slightly faster then a .22 in the heart. Primary consideration as always is reliability, second here is ergonomics. Getting a little bit bigger for a proper grip is usually the way to go.

My .380 is an old DB380 shit blaster, genuinely hate the thing. But it usually cycles and fits in a suit pocket, so it occasionally gets use. Don't buy one. Actual garbage.

 

[Good Goyim]

I pocket a SW bodyguard 2.0. And I adore it. Would highly recommend

 

[Particle Bored]

Thinking of getting a cut slide for my Glock 26. Haven't picked an optic, and might not for a little while, but the slide is on sale. Question: RMR or RMSc cut? I figure the selection for RMSc would have generally smaller optics good for a subcompact, but is there a reason I would instead go RMR?

 

[Internet-Based Lobotomy]

Thinking of getting a cut slide for my Glock 26. Haven't picked an optic, and might not for a little while, but the slide is on sale. Question: RMR or RMSc cut? I figure the selection for RMSc would have generally smaller optics good for a subcompact, but is there a reason I would instead go RMR?

Personally I'd base the entire purchase around the optic. Not sure about the sale you've got your eye on but my Glock slide for a 17 (RMR cut) cost a fraction of what the optic cost. Never mind that there's many different preferences you'd have to keep in mind between optics. All that said, if I had to pull the trigger and you're wanting subcompact I'd go RMSC, there's a pretty wide selection just in that footprint alone that you'll probably find whatever you would want in an RMR footprint optic in the RMSC camp.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

we need some crackheads with a tool shed making 9mm/.22 gilboas

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Thinking of getting a cut slide for my Glock 26. Haven't picked an optic, and might not for a little while, but the slide is on sale. Question: RMR or RMSc cut? I figure the selection for RMSc would have generally smaller optics good for a subcompact, but is there a reason I would instead go RMR?

I agree with @Internet-Based Lobotomy. Pick an optic, then cut to suit, if you're getting a custom cut done. Half of what's worth buying costs more than a G26. Don't rush into it because the tarded format wars of sight mounts are such that you might be pretty much fucked if you decide what you have isn't what you wanted.

Or you could put a Deltapoint Micro on it with no mods at all

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Personally I'd base the entire purchase around the optic. Not sure about the sale you've got your eye on but my Glock slide for a 17 (RMR cut) cost a fraction of what the optic cost. Never mind that there's many different preferences you'd have to keep in mind between optics. All that said, if I had to pull the trigger and you're wanting subcompact I'd go RMSC, there's a pretty wide selection just in that footprint alone that you'll probably find whatever you would want in an RMR footprint optic in the RMSC camp.

You could get it cut MOS pattern and then be able to swap later

 

[Big Brutus]

Personally I'd base the entire purchase around the optic. Not sure about the sale you've got your eye on but my Glock slide for a 17 (RMR cut) cost a fraction of what the optic cost. Never mind that there's many different preferences you'd have to keep in mind between optics. All that said, if I had to pull the trigger and you're wanting subcompact I'd go RMSC, there's a pretty wide selection just in that footprint alone that you'll probably find whatever you would want in an RMR footprint optic in the RMSC camp.

I agree with @Internet-Based Lobotomy. Pick an optic, then cut to suit, if you're getting a custom cut done. Half of what's worth buying costs more than a G26. Don't rush into it because the tarded format wars of sight mounts are such that you might be pretty much fucked if you decide what you have isn't what you wanted.

Or you could put a Deltapoint Micro on it with no mods at all

You could get it cut MOS pattern and then be able to swap later

I'm gonna go against the grain and say that RMR cut will handle most usecases you might possibly have. There are so many different options in terms of RMR-footprint optics that it's almost a hassle to evaluate all the different optics out there, and even if you want to go with an RMSc-footprint optic, you'd still be served the same with an RMR-to-RMSc adapter plate as with the MOS cut, but for a lower cost. I think it sucks ass that Glock doesn't offer RMR or RMSc cuts from the factory unless you're an LE agency or the military.

Of course, RMSc/507K cut for subcompact/micros, for obvious reasons.