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I don't expect to fight with it, just carry around just in case and to use it when i go to fishing trips and camping and shit.
go to ebay and search iPak knives. I wouldn't recommend the super mega 13" tacticool Kopesh Blade with Bottle Opener style shit, but you cannot go wrong with one of their small, sub 4-inch simple fixed blade full tang D2 skinner knives. Knife will outlast you if you take care of it, don't have to worry about any potential legal issues (depending on local laws) from carrying a giant fucking blade with you, and the simple design of it makes it easy to carry everywhere/less likely for you to break if you're not familiar with using your knife on outdoorsy or self defense applications. Can find the one in particular that would be fine for you as a bid for 0.99 cents currently. Even comes with nice sheath.

Give me a decent, plain, full tang small fixed blade over the most tacticool 12 incher of "combat" knives.
 
An ancient video of an equally ancient Holographic sight, made by at then unknown manufacturer Eotech and sold by Bushnell. Interestingly it has functionality that is not present on modern incarnations (although for good reason).

Slade, formerly of Goober Group has released his modular optic mount series
That'll be $225 for some pic rail plus tip
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The supposed benefit of this mount over the Goober Hydra is that you can select what you want without getting anything you don't, extensions can be attached to both ends rearwards and forwards, there is also a direct mount model for aimpoints.
The optical centerline for both models is more reasonable than the Hydra's at 2.5in (on the Pic rail model only when used with an optic with a 1/3rd cowitness mount)

I have been made aware of a product (that is said to be created by none other than Mark Larue but I have doubts about this as it is featured on a Bushmaster rifle) of dubious utility.
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There is a new challenger in the PCC Sphere, the Black Jack from Show Low Manufacturing.
It is a billet aluminum pseudo-AK that takes CZ Scoprion mags and utilized a novel "Detent Delayed Blowback" mechanism that enables a claimed "15-20% recoil reduction". Also the handguards as opposed to being circular, rectangular or kind of oval shaped, are square.
What is notable about this particular gun is that it is not priced astronomically high and uses relatively common magazines (like a certain gun from POF, The Pheonix), in fact it is actually a little cheaper than a Sig MPX.
A CAD animation of the delay mechanism is shown beginning at 7:25.

I was made aware of a scholarly report regarding the American tradition of self made arms


The proliferation of machinegun conversion devices continues and accelerates, a new report from FOX 5 Washington DC reveals that DC Police have so far in 2023 seized 165 illegally converted guns compared to 127 in all of 2022.

Another report from FOX-13 Memphis while not discussing an increase in seizures speaks about "Buttons" a more concealable conversion device that I wrote about here
First we have some international news, twitter gunsphere personality Xaniken, reports he is seeing an increase in the listings for "discreet" Glock switches compared to traditional "blocky" ones among Black market weapons dealers in The Netherlands. He says that they catch a higher price compared to the legacy design.

Custom automag pistol chambered in 8mm Kurtz (yes that 8mm Kurtz) using ammunition with reversed bullets.
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Forum posts detailing the project and the attempt at commercialization, thread has been dead for going on a decade.

A prototype soviet machinegun from Alexi Konovalov (who may or may not be the same Alexi Konovalov who designed the Project 1130 Makarov machinepistol conversion). Not much is known about it, I believe it operates not too dissimilarly to that of a minigun but with only one barrel. It makes sense though, if you are concerned regarding your chamber overheating, add more chambers. It is unclear as to where the belt is supposed to go
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The action was also supposed to function as a landmine ala the Pancor Jackhammer (also not sure how that would work)

The history of the Brazillian revolving shotgun dates back to at least the mid 1980's.
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MP5 with Bayonet
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Custom made .50 BMG pistol using a 1911 frame as an FCU
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I basically don't shoot my 92(s) anymore.
Tell me about your 92s. I fired the M9 a bit back in the 2000s and I have some trigger time on a friend's 92fs. I ended up buying a 92 LTT Elite, the full size model, after I got to check out a fellow student's at a training class in 2021. That single action reset! Caveat: I opted for the NP3 option. I don't think it's worth the extra $200+ in price. I don't see any significant difference between that one and the one with just the LTT trigger job.
MP5 with Bayonet
Holy shit, a bayonet on a sub gun? I wonder if anyone got any enemy kills with something like that. That'd make for quite the AAR.
 
Tell me about your 92s. I fired the M9 a bit back in the 2000s and I have some trigger time on a friend's 92fs. I ended up buying a 92 LTT Elite, the full size model, after I got to check out a fellow student's at a training class in 2021. That single action reset! Caveat: I opted for the NP3 option. I don't think it's worth the extra $200+ in price. I don't see any significant difference between that one and the one with just the LTT trigger job.

Holy shit, a bayonet on a sub gun? I wonder if anyone got any enemy kills with something like that. That'd make for quite the AAR.
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Mine is a beat up old 92 S model that was surplussed out of the Carabinieri armory. first model of 92 they made. it has a heel mag release and a slim line decocker. The DA is abominable but the SA is pretty good and it has a chip in the frame on the trigger guard where it was (i assume) dropped. the sights are the tiny government sights like on OG 1911's. front sight is very small, barely a hump on the slide. The cops painted the rear sight white and the front sight red to try and make it easier to pick up on the draw.

the decocker actually ended up snapping off under use. who knows how many times it was cycled in the last 50 years.
ended up replacing it with a wilson combat low profile decocker since that was the only current production decocker that was compatible with the gun, Beretta or otherwise. most of the gun is like that. the grips are different, the slide internals are different, etc.
Beretta still makes mags for it, but they don't list if they are compatible on their store so you have to just trust that the stock photos are correct when buying. it would not be hard to make some mags for it though, all you'd have to do is cut a new mag release in the right place on a regular 92 mag.

I really wanted to get the 22 conversion kit from the Beretta store for it but its not compatible but whatever. this gun was cheap, about half price of a new 92FS
 
I think my 1911 sights are sighted in for 10 yards only.

After 10 yards, it's like a looney tunes cartoon with the bullets flying to the moon.

While looking down the same fixed sights.
 
Don't know if any of you have the autism/obsession I do to build your own guns, but, I recently discovered a very interesting online vendor, https://everygunpart.com/ . A really valuable source for gun parts for homemade projects. When your local PD has a "gun buyback" they send the guns to EGP, and then they demill the thing according to ATF specs and sell whats left. If you know how to machine your own receiver/frame or re-weld a de-milled receiver/frame this is a very valuable source for parts, and yes they have a shit load of demilled AR's that look like they were seized for being NFA devices. All local and federal laws apply but, they even sell full auto fire control parts if the firearm was equipped with them when sent to the demilling plant, frankly I don't think they know they are selling them as only gun people can tell the difference between a full auto AR hammer and a semi auto AR hammer. I love building my own guns and by "build" I mean from raw steel bar not just some %80 kit with a jig and 3 machining processes that mostly consist of drilling a strait hole.


This demilled revolver for example can be welded back together if you have the skill/tools to make a proper jig and a weld it back together. When these go on sale they sell for around $90-130, if you already have a welder and tooling to craft a jig, that's about $2 in welding wire another $10 in metal to make the jig? Guns that carry name recognition are much more expensive, a colt python parts kit sells for around $500-600 in example.
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Slade, formerly of Goober Group has released his modular optic mount series
That'll be $225 for some pic rail plus tip
Goddamn "boutique" anything is such a fucking scam but it's so much more egregious in tacshit.

$225 for a 1 dollar piece of 7075 or 6061 with 10 dollars of CNC time in machining it.
 
Back in black, I hit the sack, it's been too long, I'm glad to be back.

Handcrafted "Glocks" confiscated in Russia (9x18 Makarov)
I once read some blogpost which detailed the "Glockarov" and its features. The frame is made from I think a piece of sheet steel, and then the 'polymer' is a compound made from glue or shellac and then sawdust, carved out of a dried block of that.
Rather than being striker fired, it has a little hammer concealed inside the slide there, forgot if it was straight single-action only, or if it was even double-action only.

StG-44 as a remote-weapon system in Syria
They have turned up a bunch in Africa ever since after WW2. The Soviets captured loads of them, and they were nonstandard shit (with a limited lifespan), but they were still functional guns, and the Russians NEVER throw away a gun that works, so they sent out a lot of captured Nazi German guns as military aid during the Cold War, hence why many Sturmgewehr still float around Africa and the Middle East to this day. Often they would have been supplied with German 7.92x33mm surplus repackaged by the Czechs.

The ones in Syria were part of a big lot of them which had been discovered and seized I think a decade prior. The unverified anecdote I recall is that someone had heard that Sturmgewehrs were really valuable collectibles in America (which is true), and had thus attained that shipping container of guns hoping to sell them. Then they discover that there was just about no way he would be able to export them as intact weapons to the US, much less be able to register them as transferable machineguns, so they ended up just sitting there and gathering dust, until Syria has its Big Igloo moment.
People find the things, and hey, a gun is a gun, supposedly they managed to source a quantity of Prvi Partizan brand 7.92x33mm ammo to feed them with.

You don't actually need the buffer retaining pin or it's spring.
I see little reason to not have it, if it breaks, that means something is way out of spec.

you can hear the "sproaing"
I find the AR15 buffer sproing to be charming, personally.

ACE is super overpriced imo
It really is. Handling one once, it's actually quite nice, and people who own them seem to talk well of them, but IWI prices them way higher than they're really worth IMO.

243 can start having accuracy issues at around 2000
It burns barrels fast, yeah. I had looked at a PTR91 in .243 Winchester once, they made a small run of them, and while the idea tickles me, changing barrels on a G3 pattern rifle isn't exactly quick and easy.

I only get autistic when people imply they're combat effective.
Worked for the Finns. :^)
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Scott Jedilinski, Owner/Operator of The Modern Samurai Project and Walther fan has in a new video regarding an aftermarket guide rod for Walther pistols, said something interesting. At 0:50 he says "maybe it'll work, in a gun coming out soon". I believe Jedilinski is one of Walther's "Pro-Staff", like how Aaron Cowan is for FN.
I have no idea when this video was filmed, the most recent Walther release was the PD380. Based on the guiderod being discussed is designed for use in full size Walther pistols, Jedilinski probably not giving a shit about anything that is not a full size 9mm (guy CC's either a Glock 34 or Custom PDP 5'' modified to his exacting standards) I assume that he is referencing a new, unannounced Walther duty style pistol.
PDP Gen 2/3? (I personally would consider the guns with the revised optic mounting system to be Gen 2's but who knows what Walther thinks), 10mm? 5.7? (Certainly popular these days)

Next we have something truly horrible, a 1918 manufacture Pre -A1 1911, aftermarket barrel, ported, optic cut, and micro bayonet muzzle device, capped off with a 'stendo.

The affect twist rate has on the solid copper monolithic hollowpoints utilized in Q LLC's 8.6 Blackout cartridge.
https://twitter.com/jerrycurld/status/1724250871469371763
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A similar comparison with .300 Blackout
"Comparison, these are 300BLK, the black tip is the one that’s in my hand also it’s a 110gr Super, 1600fps out a 7” barrel 1:5 twist and the one next to it on the table is a 220gr expander out the same barrel at 1000fps"
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Jeff Gurwitch, Army Special Forces veteran with several deployments under his belt and operator of the Modern Tactical Shooting channel, has put out a video on a new optic suite setup that is gaining some acceptance in some competition circles.

Some retro race guns, one of which looks to have a vertical foregip (!?, they must have amended the rules right after the match because I have never seen another configuration like it)
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An interesting custom 1911 in a wildcat cartridge, which might be the .38/.45 Clerke, but that cartridge was unveiled in the October 1963 issue of Guns and Ammo and the date in the image is dated March of 1960 (not entirely sure on the "0" but even if the "0" is a 3 then the date is still wrong)

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These images are claimed to have been taken during "Suppressor testing in Finland in the 1990's" (by whom?), it goes to show that Ukrainians were not the first to suppress a DP-27
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In 1981-1982, there were a small amount (300) of Double Action 1911's designed by Seecamp (later known for primarily small pocket pistols in .32 and .25 ACP) but manufactured and sold by Omega Defensive Industries , there were also several thousand (the official Seecamp website claims 2000, a blogpost I found claims 4000) conversions done on already existing guns that were sent it throughout the 70's and 80's
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Lastly we have another 1911 Conversion, the Caraville Double Ace ,but this time to add a squeeze cocking mechanism like that featured in the H&K P7
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Haters of the Forward Assist Rejoice! For it has apparently been deleted on the newest iteration of the XM-7
Just more proof of the foolishness of the NGSW program.

how the Garand was one of the top 4 pieces of technology that won the war, on par with the Atom Bomb?
I love the M1 so much, and I really think it's the best infantry rifle of the war, but the US could have been going into Europe with Springfield 1903s for every rifleman, and it really would not have changed very much. The vast quantity of well supported Sherman tanks (and really, all the other big pieces of equipment and logistical splendor) was what counted the very most.

4-round revolving rocket launcher.
Absolute videogame gun, I want it.

"traumatic" ammo.
I think that the Russians nicknamed those 'traumatic' pistols "Condom Blowers," which should give you an idea of how well regarded they are.

those magazines that go with every turkish 12ga look gross, i always wondered why they don't just take VEPR mags. i also wonder why motherfucker from MDArms stopped working on the double stack saiga mag...
They probably aren't tooled up to make Vepr mags, and they can't source them from the Russians if they want to sell them to Americans and Europeans. A double-stacked magazine for 12-Gauge shotgun shells seems like a nightmare, also, big cartridges with big rims, but with flat noses and a squishy plastic hulls.
IMO, tube magazines are the only solidly reliable kind of magazine you can do for the common shotgun shell, if people want automatic shotguns feeding from box mags, and which have the reliability of rifles, it really calls for either full brass shells, or an all new purpose made design, which people have tried, but it's difficult to get that shit to stick in the market.

an AR with two forward assists.
I'll buy twelve.

Custom automag pistol chambered in 8mm Kurtz (yes that 8mm Kurtz) using ammunition with reversed bullets.
That's nifty in a silly way, but that'd be a really limited novelty. It mirrors the AMT Automag III, which you could get in .30 Carbine, but .30 Carbine was cheap and abundant back then, while 7.92mm Kurz never was in the US.
Maybe if you're going full wildcat and you load it with a powder better suited for a relatively short barrel like this, it wouldn't JUST be noise and flash, but AR15 pistols already let you do noisy fireballs for cheap

I believe it operates not too dissimilarly to that of a minigun but with only one barrel.
So it's like an aircraft revolver cannon. Like a Gatling, each chamber takes turn taking steps through the cycle as the cylinder rotates, and through that you could reach very high cyclic rates.
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The action was also supposed to function as a landmine ala the Pancor Jackhammer
That would make quite a lot less sense to me. On the Jackhammer, the revolver cylinders were intended as detachable magazines, but for the gun here, if it's supposed to feed from like a linked belt, or maybe a linkless feed, then this seems very pointless.

a bayonet on a sub gun?
Neva bin dun befo!
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The Steyr Solothurn MP34 (pictured), Lanchester, Sterling (also pictured), Swedish K, and the Uzi, all could take bayonets. and I'm sure what few SMGs which the Japs made in WW2 could also take bayonets.

Double Action 1911's designed by Seecamp
Looks like the Colt Double Eagle if Colt had put in more effort.
 
An interesting custom 1911 in a wildcat cartridge, which might be the .38/.45 Clerke, but that cartridge was unveiled in the October 1963 issue of Guns and Ammo
Have you all ever heard of the 9X25 Dillon? I wonder what it's like to run something like that. I know it used to be used competitively way back in the day.
In 1981-1982, there were a small amount (300) of Double Action 1911's designed by Seecamp
I don't get changing what is the actual reason the 1911/2011 platform is still popular to this day.
I love the M1 so much, and I really think it's the best infantry rifle of the war
I used to think I'd dislike the Garand as much as I disliked the M14/M1A and the Mini 14. I got to run a decent specimen from the CMP that a buddy owned and had done some trigger work on. I'm still not a fan of where the op rod is in relation to my support hand but I finally understood why so many swear by that rifle. Like you said, there wasn't anything better available at the time.
Looks like the Colt Double Eagle if Colt had put in more effort.
Has anyone here every handled one of these? Back in the ancient times I found one used in a gun store that was in my local mall. I'd read about it in some periodical, probably Guns & Ammo. I thought it'd be something special. Fuck no! That thing was awful. I have to wonder how in the fuck anyone in Colt's admin thought that was okay to send for trials.
 
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