Mega Rad Gun Thread

[LGHDR+]

loving the eotech magnifier

It's handy for people with certain vision problems (I own two due to an issue with my right eye that developed as I aged), but I agree with you that a lot of guys put those on just for the "tacticool" look. They would be better serviced by a quality scope.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Irons for the win. I love fiber optics for """combat""". it just works.

Wish I could put wood on this Henry I got as a gift. The stock is an easy replacement, but the fore end is semi-permanently installed. I could take it off, but it requires either removing the mag tube or breaking the fore end it self. what a shitty design.

 

[LGHDR+]

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Irons for the win. I love fiber optics for """combat""". it just works.

Wish I could put wood on this Henry I got as a gift. The stock is an easy replacement, but the fore end is semi-permanently installed. I could take it off, but it requires either removing the mag tube or breaking the fore end it self. what a shitty design.

Hey I got one of those! What's yours chambered in? I went with .45 LC:



I almost went for the "Lincoln's Rifle", but all that gorgeous brass and walnut would drive me to suicide if I damaged it

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Hey I got one of those! What's yours chambered in? I went with .45 LC:

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I almost went for the "Lincoln's Rifle", but all that gorgeous brass and walnut would drive me to suicide if I damaged it

mine is in .45 too. .45 colt is a great cartridge. I set up a dedicated dillon 550 for loading .45. you can load it from light target loads to loads matching .44 mag (provided you have the proper gun).

 

[Club Sandwich]

but the fore end is semi-permanently installed

your forearm is held in place by the receiver retaining lip, a tenon on the bottom of the barrel, the outer magazine tube support, and screwed in place left and right side. against the outer barrel tube. it's a chore, but can be done with a few tools and 5 minutes of time.

1. with the rifle upside down, remove these screws and use a mallet to smartly strike the divot between the sling swivel stud and the end of the grip portion to begin the forearm moving towards the muzzle a couple inches.

2. use an armor's bench block or piece of wood or something to support the receiver and the barrel such that the outer magazine tube barrel support can be drifted free from the dovetail in the barrel from left to right. the dovetail has a very slight taper, do not drift right to left to remove. a sharp blow from a mallet with drift this (it is not brazed or soldered, just held by precision fitting).

3. once drifted, the magazine tube will tilt. from here, use the mallet to tap on the outer magazine tube support to start the magazine tube cap and inner tube forward and out of the rifle.

4. once the inner tube is removed, you must next remove the outer magazine tube retaining screw and the set screw that holds it in place. these are located at the bottom of the receiver, at the base of the magazine tube. they are "stacked" on top of each other. use a long allen key to remove the retaining screw under the set screw.

5. after removing the screws, the magazine tube can be slide foward and out of the receiver and away from the forearm.

6. using a mallet, drift the forearm forward an additional 6 or 7 inches to clear the barrel tenon. replace or perform maintenance as needed. reverse disassembly steps to reinstall parts. during magazine tube installation, torque the retaining screw to 30 inch pounds. the set screw that locks it into place has no torque value but i like to use 30 inch pounds as well, or if you lack a torque bar, "finger tight and a quarter more" works with a dab of thread locker.

 

[MrJokerRager]

The Calguns website seems down.

And r/CAguns filled with fags as always.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CAguns/comments/18fl9g8/fixed_mag_vs_featureless/

New Meta for 2024, offset scope with inline irons

I guess the only benefit is being able to move the hand close.

But that means moving the hand off the barrel.

And the light from the flash light will be obscured by the barrel.

 

[LGHDR+]

The Plasma Pump is an experimental design by guncad dev Suckboytony, The Plasma Pump is an electrically ignited fixed ammunition black powder bullpup rifle made largely with 3D Printed components.

Holy shit, I just saw this elsewhere! They are dead serious with the black powder. I'm going to be watching this as close as SLS4All.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Holy shit, I just saw this elsewhere! They are dead serious with the black powder. I'm going to be watching this as close as SLS4All.

if you don't mind the smoke and having to take your gun to into the shower with you after shooting blackpowder is a lot easier to deal with than smokeless. its basically idiot proof.

 

[LGHDR+]

if you don't mind the smoke and having to take your gun to into the shower with you after shooting blackpowder is a lot easier to deal with than smokeless. its basically idiot proof.

A little water would make it easy to bind into a solid too. I really wonder what they're using is a binding agent, that's what's fucked with caseless ammo (imagine the powder charge just snapping off from a cartridge).

 

[Meat Target]

 

[Dean Pentel]

i can see an off set micro red dot being handy in competition if it's zero'd at a different range (say, irons at 50 meters and red dot at 200 meters with a compensated dot at 100), but otherwise it's a bit gimmicky unless your shooting concept is rapid transitions with occasional precision like action shooting vs bullseye or steel challenge or something.

I run a Leupold DPP on a 45 degree offset on my carbines that have an LPVO. I zero it at 50m. Its dot is brighter in daylight conditions than the reticles in my scopes and I prefer using the scopes from 2-8 power (I personally only use 10X for PID).

I haven't used this setup to shoot at armed opponents yet, but I have spent a decent amount of time and ammo using it running drills and simulated shooting stages. It works the way you think it does but it requires dry fire practice to get efficient at switching between the sights as your targets dictate.

If someone’s so worried about their dot dying, either due to running out of juice or through destruction, just run conventional irons. An rmr is fairly durable as is and it has solid battery life. Alternatively, there’s also good closed emitter mailboxes that work too. Huge amount of “why?” in seeing that image. It looks like the front site is co-witnessing and not lower 1/3 too. That plate set up is on par with the autism that is the Hydra mount or LaRue’s C-note. I don’t understand these Instagram-hype-tier products.

The firearms market excels at creating solutions for problems that don't exist or don't matter.

I think the red dots sights that are well regarded these days are tough enough and reliable enough that I use them exclusively on anything they're mounted on as primary optics. This includes pistols. If you're reasonable about how you maintain them, adjust them, and cycle their batteries, them ceasing function for any reason seems much more unlikely than even just 10 years ago.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Sorry, homie. 30-30 rifles are everywhere. Used is probably your best bet. And who knows, you may get lucky and get a mint pre-64 for less than $400 at an estate sale. Definitely go to those, most people don't know what grandad had, they're just icky old guns and need sold.

Not a bad idea tbh. I can look around at my local gun shop too, they're pretty fair. It'd be nice to finally have a 30 30

Italian Gunmaker Chiappa is now making The Big Badger in .410, .30-30 and .350 Legend

I get it's a single shot, I'd still like one in 350 legend, it'd be cool and a decent survival gun

 

[HumptiDouji]

a normal WP grenade in the M2 grenade adapter.

Oh, well that's obvious in hindsight.

that place is a black hole of boomerism, Qtards, doomers, and all around retardation

Which makes it all the more funny/sad that Karl threw away his friend's company in exchange of getting to feel smugly superior to said black hole.

Archangel stock

Archangel are apparently the same company as ProMag, which makes it all the more weird that Archangel brand stuff generally seems decent and solid.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Archangel are apparently the same company as ProMag, which makes it all the more weird that Archangel brand stuff generally seems decent and solid.

Possibly different factories entirely? Maybe the crew building those stocks are just really into it

 

[Meat Target]

that place is a black hole of boomerism, Qtards, doomers, and all around retardation. Can't stand the place. only good thread on arfcom is Karl's lolcow thread.

Arfcom is just /k/ for boomers.

 

[Club Sandwich]

Archangel are apparently the same company as ProMag

Possibly different factories entirely?

ProMag Ind started as Brookshire Tool & Manufacturing Co in the LA area back in the late 70's and did local machining work for years until the 80's hit and people wanted cheap metal mags for various guns and polymer stuff was getting popular for mags and stocks/furniture. BT&M changed name to ProMag and met that demand (competing with Triple K and USA Mag), and grew in size during the 94 AWB also doing the same domestically for manufacturers like S&W and Browning, et c and lots for import pistols where buying domestic ban-compliant mags was the go-to instead of shipping a modified mag (when 10+ rounds was LE only and often denied import for sporting purposes). ProMag OEM metal mags tended to be decent (Mini-14 mags, a bunch of Beretta mags and various 1911 mags. S&W even sued them for making a polymer copy of their mags). ProMag polymer mags can be hit or miss depending on the model. in 2014 they relocated to Arizona to join their subsidiary Archangel Manufacturing which had already been making polymer furniture OEM stock kits since the late 90's iirc 1997 or 98. they are co-lo in the same building but operated separate product lines and offices, with shared executives.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Definitely go to those, most people don't know what grandad had, they're just icky old guns and need sold.

I have never seen any rifle or shotgun worth buying go for less than a grand at an estate auction. Maybe it's just my part of the world, but I ignore guns at auctions anymore.

 

[LGHDR+]

I have never seen any rifle or shotgun worth buying go for less than a grand at an estate auction. Maybe it's just my part of the world, but I ignore guns at auctions anymore.

It's like video games, you gotta find the rubes. They always stand out in their craigslist posts pretty easily though if you're willing to do the daily checking.

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

How are the new Primary Arms SLx 1-8x optics? Price is definitely good for a 1-8x FFP LPVO.

 

[Club Sandwich]

How are the new Primary Arms SLx 1-8x optics? Price is definitely good for a 1-8x FFP LPVO.

decent for money asked (like the Strike Eagle, or Viper Diamondback) but there's much better options if you're going for marksmanship and actual long range shooting (1km or more). for typical combat distances it's perfectly serviceable, especially if you take care to use the ACSS reticle to it's full advantage.