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I bought old stock checkered wood grips off ebay for like $20 a while ago, looking now it seems to be a handful of wooden grips and some absolute retard trying to hock off badly molded resin grips for even more money. Why would you pay $35 for these resin grips when the wood ones are $20

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Gun grips are like that i've noticed, i think enough of them are so simple to manufacture it attracts unscrupulous boomers who don't value their time yet have high expectations and no standards. I'm surprised they don't 3d print them but that would require actually learning a new process and methodology
I thought the same exact thing about these shitty molded grips littered around the internet.
My background is in corporate prototyping so casting is one of my specialties. I'd do it mostly for the fun of the project.

Though the wood grips do look really nice with this config.
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It makes me wonder when the vintage/milsurp bubble is going to pop. When are people going to realize that a 91/30 mosin isn't worth $200+, a Garand isn't worth $1200+, and a colt new service isn't a $600 handgun.
when the boomers die, man. Everything they do is to validate their own baggage

i saw a gun store in a different town put up a job listing on indeed and i showed up to talk to them a few days ago. I knew it wasn't going to go anywhere when i walked in and it was staffed by a bunch of people twice my age, but it was obvious they were pretty upset at me for walking in and asking about the classified they put up, moreso than i was about the bullshit runaround they gave me. They were just trying to throw as many passive aggressive jabs at me as possible under the veneer of professionalism. I don't even understand what kind of retarded baggage one would even have to evoke that kind of behavior, just lie and tell me you aren't hiring if a city slicker annoys you that much
 
What fresh hellscape do you venture into? I've never felt the need to carry more that 6 .357Mag and 1 reload.

Whatever works for you. My job frequently brings me into close proximity with unsavory sorts. It's not a big deal to carry two spare magazines instead of one.

You guys that are carrying two mags, what are you carrying them in?

It's just a leather two-mag carrier that snaps to my belt. It's not like I'm rolling around town with a full duty belt or thigh rigs. My shoulder rig for my Dan Wesson 1911 has a triple magazine carrier under the right arm, and the one I ordered for my Staccato is also going to have a triple mag carrier, mostly because it helps balance out the weight.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume you don’t run around with it looking to pick fights with federal law enforcement.

Exactly right. I've never had to draw my sidearm, and I pray I never have to. I'm not a hot-headed person and I don't go looking for fights. I've got a good sense for trouble, and when I sense trouble starting I leave the area. I also tend to support law enforcement and think protesters (especially the kind that are frequently in the news the past few years) are whiny, childish faggots pitching tantrums. I've only been pulled over once while carrying and just handed over my CFL along with my license and registration to discretely inform the officer that I was armed and cooperative, then kept my hands on the wheel and in sight at all times. He never asked my to exit my car and thanked me after he gave me a warning.
 
Dozens of pages ago someone mentioned wanting a PPK or PPK/S. Here's a deal on the special suppressor-ready model. Probably still overpriced but a deal. Supposedly a rare(r) variant with the fancy grips?

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Maybe in nickel.
CDNN has them in Stainless, too.
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Exactly right. I've never had to draw my sidearm, and I pray I never have to. I'm not a hot-headed person and I don't go looking for fights.
I’ll admit I’ve had to a few times. Once was a bum trying to open my back passenger door at a stop for whatever reason. Another was a road rager who cut me off on an exit and stopped his car, I couldn’t move my vehicle in anyway just because of how it was set up and he screamed he was going to kill me and banged on my hood before punching my side window a few times… Traffic was tight and he tried to merge from the emergency lane until I realized it was either me wrecking my car or letting him in which I did in this case and he was upset about it. There’s also been a couple throw my hands up and walked away moments because I’m carrying too but never a draw.

Having done some force on force classes I realized how you can be too quick and too slow to get that gun out. So it’s a strange feeling whenever you are in that spot.
 
Exactly. He put his hands on a Federal officer, right wingers and tinfoil hatters alike know that if you give a Fed an excuse to put holes in you they will absolutely do it but because it was a libtard they want to make it a second amendment issue. Fucking retards.

ETA: The Sig P320 went off after the guy was disarmed, officer's finger clearly not on the trigger.
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dumbest possible people in the replies to that twitter post.
looks like it did go off by itself.
 
The killing of Pretti is as indefensible
He was a libtard, a libtard who put his hands on a federal officer trying his hardest to save this country, perfectly defensible.
He was standing on the opposite side of the road with his hands up filming when ICE escalated the situation.
Don't be a libtard, Don't film ICE
The same could easily happen to you if you were just in the wrong area when an ICE raid was occurring.
No it couldn't, Because I don't go around agitating ICE during their Mexican removal operations.
think it’s actually happening
Delusional
against people
They're not people
even Asmongold
Oh no, not the disapproval of minor daemon on Nurgle Assmongoloid, anything but him. Nobody GAF nigga. ICE was entirely justified in ventilating Pretty Boy or whatever his name was. They would be perfectly justified in machine gunning every libtard they come across when they jump out their SUV's to grab a Mexican. They would be justified in rounding up 1000 libtards, scooping their eyes out with spoons, blending up all 2000 eyeballs and then force feeding the now blinded libtards shots of their own eye slurry.
Pretti did not deserve to die
He put his hands on one of the greatest heroes this nation has ever seen, an ICE officer, his life was forfeit from that moment onwards
cycle of escalation will continue because the people who are in power and could de-escalate won’t. It is almost like they want it to be worse by giving the left the martyrs they want.
Good, The Fire Rises. Also, "Guys Guys Guys! We can't to the thing our enemies have been doing for 70 years! What if they start doing the things they've already been doing!?"
It's not a wonder that people get killed by cops.
It's not the police's fault that low income urban gentlemen are incapable of complying with their orders and not shooting at them.
 
Even though i'm not particularly a big fan of the idea of armed federal agents acting as an brownshirts they're also acting within the letter of the law that the opposition is just willfully ignoring because it's rhetorically convenient. They're throwing fuel on the fire to try and make this into George Floyd 2.0 but it's starting to look like the fire is not melting the resolve of the federal government, it's doing the opposite, they're just gonna drag Sig's freshly singed ass back into the hot seat if they need to.

It's in the realm of rhetoric now instead of actual material facts, so the material facts cease to matter. It's been a very effective tactic for the democrats over the last 15 years but it's starting to bite them in the ass because the current administration is ruthless in their willingness to play the rhetoric game back at them even dirtier
 
I enjoyed shooting a Chiappa Rino awhile back, but they are so fugly. Wish Chiappa made something more like the Mateba 2006m, but modernized.

Cool collection guns like the 2006m and 6 Unicas are too expensive for my tastes right now and they will probably only go up.
 
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Erik Scott July 10, 2010
Daniel Shaver January 18, 2016
Philando Castile July 6, 2016
Ryan Matthew Whitaker May 21, 2020
Brian Malinowski March 21, 2024
Alex Pretti January 24, 2026

The killing of Pretti is as indefensible as the killings of all these other gun owners for just being gun owners.

He was standing on the opposite side of the road with his hands up filming when ICE escalated the situation. The same could easily happen to you if you were just in the wrong area when an ICE raid was occurring. I expect law enforcement to be more professional than this, and even if you like what ICE is doing vicitim blaming here doesn’t further your cause.
Really makes me wonder why people just make shit up when everything is recorded these days.

The dude was not peacefully exercising his rights, he literally walked up and made physical contact with an agent. In many states, you would be within your rights to shoot someone who makes unwanted physical contact with you, especially if they are obviously agitated and unpredictable. Not even going to bother posting it because you either know you're lying, or you're ignorant of it.
 
Dozens of pages ago someone mentioned wanting a PPK or PPK/S. Here's a deal on the special suppressor-ready model. Probably still overpriced but a deal. Supposedly a rare(r) variant with the fancy grips?

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Maybe in nickel.

you can get lightly used vintage Manurhin PP pistols for cheaper in .22lr and .32. if a little bit of finish wear doesn't bother you. this one is $595 at simpsons. just a little bit of thinning about the muzzle.
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There are scads of old examples out there if you want to save a little.
 
Yep I'd rather have the Bauer

This is the Colt I want

Vintage pocket pistols are cool to mess around with, unfortunately a lot of people seem to think so and most are fairly expensive. I dare not even mention the ones I'm looking at for fear of adding another buyer to the pool and pray that Ian doesn't make a video on one. 1908s aren't too bad though. The Bauer is probably better to actually shoot.

I enjoyed shooting a Chiappa Rino awhile back, but they are so fugly. Wish Chiappa made something more like the Mateba 2006m, but modernized.

Cool collection guns like the 2006m and 6 Unicas are too expensive for my tastes right now and they will probably only go up.
Patents on the Matebas are most likely all expired, but they'd still be expensive to clone because they have a high parts count and require a lot of machining. Unfortunately part of what makes Matebas so desirable is they are extremely high quality guns so a worthwhile clone would still be a few thousand dollars.
 
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