Mega Rad Gun Thread

[WhoBusTank69]

What's a good website to buy real surplus and/also antique surplus?

Seconding eBay with the caveat that you don't bother bidding, just buy it outright. I will also suggest Etsy as I've seen/bought some oddball stuff on there.
For actual sites it really does depend on what you want since a lot of zoomers/channers have their own popup sites that try to push hot garbage as it comes in.

 

[WASR96]

Finally got to pick up my supressor for my SP5. Tomorrow night I'll finally be able to go and find that fuckin armadillo tearing up holes everywhere and send him back to hell.

 

[EggImpregnator]

Does anyone know what's going on with the Gen 5 Glock 35? The SKU for it exists, and apparently someone found this glock catalog listing it. But I can't find any proof they actually exist. I dont know if they were a very small limited production run, or if they haven't even been made yet and will be released in the future.

 

[Burger Feet]

Anyone know a good place to start on looking for a gun safe with a mechanical lock, that isn't ridiculously expensive?

 

[BikeLock]

very intersting - i have a 1991 Beretta 92FS that has a stainless steel frame. i knew the US made ones were alloy and rather thinly plated, but didn't know that the later italian inox models were also alloy now. my bad, guess we can take the inox off the list of steel beretta framed pistols. come to think of it i wonder if the PT92 still retains a steel frame in their modern incarnations? i know the PT99 is aluminum alloy.


Ashbury Precision is pretty high up there, even on weird pistols.

My Italian Inox 92 is an '07 I believe. I'm pretty sure the 92 Inox has always had an alloy frame, with all other metal parts being stainless. I'm actually fairly certain that the 92 series has never had a steel frame outside of the new 92X pistols and the classic 92 Steel I, which could have been SA/DA with the old thumb safety or SAO I think. My Italian Inox came with a stainless trigger, but a silver plastic mag release, which I replaced with a stainless extended one from Beretta. It had the new black polymer guide rod too, which I also replaced with a factory Beretta part. All other controls are stainless.

Your 92FS Inox has an alloy frame. Probably a straight dustcover, no "magazine warning" on the side, no scallop on the grip.

There are so many obscure models of the 92 that you could probably find one that I didn't cover, but if it said just "92FS" on the slide, it had an alloy frame.

I own three different versions myself. An old 92F (the gun of John McClain, the actual M9, if you're gun autistic, you know the 92FS is different, only slightly)
The Inox, and a somewhat cursed 96G Centurion, with a stainless barrel. A certified hood classic, even if its not the greatest .40 smith pistol. It's an old 96FS Centurion frame with an NOS 96G Centurion slide and stainless barrel, somewhat of a franken gun. I don't shoot it much.

I'm pretty sure the standard Taurus PT92/99's are all alloy, too, seeing as how they all fell out of the og Beretta 92 family tree. Heel release PT92 magazines interchange with the Beretta mags, iirc. Taurus mags are currently different because they designed the mag release in house when they moved it, they didn't copy the 92F.

I also gave in to my blue balls and picked up a lightly used FNX-45 with Vortex Venom for like $950 otd locally, so I won't need to send anything off for machining now.

If you can, go fondle a 92X at your local gun store, they're significantly more heavy than a 92FS, like an SP01.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Does anyone know what's going on with the Gen 5 Glock 35? The SKU for it exists, and apparently someone found this glock catalog listing it. But I can't find any proof they actually exist. I dont know if they were a very small limited production run, or if they haven't even been made yet and will be released in the future.

There’s a reference to Gen 5 on the Glock website, but it probably just means other back straps are compatible.



It’s on sale apparently?
It’s not on the Glock US website.

 

[S.C.U.D.]

My Italian Inox 92 is an '07 I believe. I'm pretty sure the 92 Inox has always had an alloy frame, with all other metal parts being stainless. I'm actually fairly certain that the 92 series has never had a steel frame outside of the new 92X pistols and the classic 92 Steel I, which could have been SA/DA with the old thumb safety or SAO I think. My Italian Inox came with a stainless trigger, but a silver plastic mag release, which I replaced with a stainless extended one from Beretta. It had the new black polymer guide rod too, which I also replaced with a factory Beretta part. All other controls are stainless.

My 92FS compact (marked "M9A1") has an alloy frame too. The trigger must be plastic-coated because it takes a magnet.

 

[BikeLock]

My 92FS compact (marked "M9A1") has an alloy frame too. The trigger must be plastic-coated because it takes a magnet.

Yeah, the polymer triggers are coated sheet metal I think.

 

[Samhain]

He shat himself in France and he's creaming himself here thinking about being able to pull the kinda shit they did when they were hunting down the boston bombers using MRAPS with .50 cals on the roofs rolling down mainstreet USA.

It's for your safety.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

It's for your safety.

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I stand corrected they were using Humvees in Boston but this is what they want times a couple hundred in anytown usa.

 

[♦️ King of Diamonds ♦️]

What's a good website to buy real surplus and/also antique surplus?

While GunBroker is by far the most practical option- I always hold a near and dear place in my heart for United Gun Group since they were literally the only firearm sales website that would allow George Zimmerman to sell his piece of legendary KelTec wargear. I'm not sure if United Gun Group is still up and running, however...

 

[Club Sandwich]

Your 92FS Inox has an alloy frame.

from inspection with some discrete filing, it's a bead blasted alloy frame, no paint or anything. controls are all stainless though and weakly attract a magnet.

I'm pretty sure the standard Taurus PT92/99's are all alloy, too, seeing as how they all fell out of the og Beretta 92 family tree. Heel release PT92 magazines interchange with the Beretta mags, iirc.

this i actually know a bit more on after doing some digging among some reference books: all PT92 and PT99's are alloy frames but the finish will vary over the years between brushed or stain nickel and anodizing including options for electroless nickel and bright polish aluminum, even chrome for a few years as an option in the early 2000's. unlike the Beretta 96, Taurus experimented with steel inserts in the aluminum frame for the PT100 but dropped it as unnecessary when it went to production. and yes, the magazines for the heel release interchange, but the later 92F magazines do not without cutting a new slot. a bit interestingly, the PT92/99 magazines work fairly well in the PT100, but the reverse is not true.

for the Beretta, the two magazines (92 vs 96) interchange completely except the feed lip geometry (9mm "rides high" and .40 S&W "rides low" if you swap magazines).

i think Taurus has a good thing going with their PT series.

 

[High Level Rad Waste]

It will be good motivation to shed some weight once they see themselves in the mirror looking pretty ridiculous with ill-fitting armor.

Too bad 11x16 plates and carriers aren't really a thing. Need some more options for taller individuals.

LTC does make multicurved in 11x14 and they fit perfectly in a Crye JPC. It's the best I've been able to get at my height. Quality size 15W boots are even harder to find.

Also Type 3 NWU is perfect camo for Florida. It blends in with both saw palmettos and all the coastal foliage.

 

[S.C.U.D.]

It's for your safety.

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And don't forget they NEVER EVEN FOUND THE BOMBER UNTIL AFTER THE CURFEW WAS LIFTED! It wasn't until AFTER the cops finished barging into people's houses uninvited and sticking guns in their faces that a homeowner went to his backyard to check on his boat and noticed the bomber hiding inside of it. Not only was the martial law a complete moral evil, IT WASN'T EVEN EFFECTIVE!

 

[BikeLock]

from inspection with some discrete filing, it's a bead blasted alloy frame, no paint or anything. controls are all stainless though and weakly attract a magnet.

this i actually know a bit more on after doing some digging among some reference books: all PT92 and PT99's are alloy frames but the finish will vary over the years between brushed or stain nickel and anodizing including options for electroless nickel and bright polish aluminum, even chrome for a few years as an option in the early 2000's. unlike the Beretta 96, Taurus experimented with steel inserts in the aluminum frame for the PT100 but dropped it as unnecessary when it went to production. and yes, the magazines for the heel release interchange, but the later 92F magazines do not without cutting a new slot. a bit interestingly, the PT92/99 magazines work fairly well in the PT100, but the reverse is not true.

for the Beretta, the two magazines (92 vs 96) interchange completely except the feed lip geometry (9mm "rides high" and .40 S&W "rides low" if you swap magazines).

i think Taurus has a good thing going with their PT series.

I'm fairly convinced that the PT92/99 is the best pistol Taurus currently offers, or has ever currently offered, a legitimate "cheaper" alternative to the Beretta 92.

I hear Taurus revolvers are perfectly cromulent, if a bit on the ugly side.

The .40 is why all 92FS now no longer have a straight dustcover frame, as its geometrically stronger. The 92 series was never really meant to handle .40, and implimentation wasn't the best out all the pistols that were 9mm/40 twins at the time. Of course .40 has a rep of being hard on anything that isn't a P229 or a USP, which were both specifically designed for it.

This is also now the difference between the M9 and the current commercial 92FS, the M9 still uses the straight dustcover frames, because the M9 is the M9, so they have to be made that way by Beretta.

It really is being autistic to say that the M9 is different from the 92FS as they are both functionally the same, and all parts interchange, but the visual distinction is there.

 

[Bassomatic]

I had the unfortunate experience with a "the judge" the PT92 is fine IMHO but anything else tore ass makes is pure trash. I had so many issues with the guys judge. Hang fires bad timing etc this is aside the poor machine marks and unpleasant recoil.

It has one use. Drunk camping skeet with a wheel gun. Did I go maybe a best of 2/10? Sure.

Did we all have hearty laughs?
Also sure.

I seriously can't say aside the flaming three Saturday night special brands I do not know what I'd suggest less.

 

[Queesechake]

I'm fairly convinced that the PT92/99 is the best pistol Taurus currently offers, or has ever currently offered, a legitimate "cheaper" alternative to the Beretta 92.

I've seen mixed reviews for it online but I'm a pretty big fan of the Girsan Regard and they're also pretty cheap.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Speaking of surplus, I rescued a sporterized Polish M44 Mosin in exchange for two tanks of gasoline and a bottle of vodka. No bayonet lug, mangled wood, but good bore. Got a lot of 7.62x54R to go through so I need a shooter Mosin instead of running it through my nice pre-WW2 91/30 Mosin.

May be a good base for a cursed Mosin build. Put it in an aftermarket stock or a new M44/M38 stock. Maybe add an optic, got a spare side rail and Molot optics mount laying around. It has no historical value and it's already been modified, so may as well go to town on it.

Nice. I kinda want another Mosin, either a Finnish one for keeping pretty or a shitty one to abuse

Does anybody have any thoughts on the Sig MCX in 5.56? I'm no expert, but it does seem to have some design improvements over the AR-15. Is there any chance of displacement in the civilian market in the coming years. with the MCX 5.56 becoming the go-to semi-modular assault rifle?

Not really. Maybe if the Army adopted it but for now it's yet another AR-18 style operating system in a modern AR wrapper

 

[Club Sandwich]

Of course .40 has a rep of being hard on anything that isn't a P229 or a USP, which were both specifically designed for it.

add the S&W 4006 to that list, great pistol.

 

[Queesechake]

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