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I feel like every time I buy a gun there's this race of the gun store has weird hours no matter which one it is, and the delivery people look like they're never going to deliver it before they close. Or it goes out for delivery on a day that they're closed and then they're also closed the day after. Damn me for chasing the lowest transfer fee i guess

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My gun-related complaint is that, you hype yourself up for something. You google bing it, you watch videos, you talk to people, etc.
You look up "problems with X" and such, whether it's a gun or caliber and you don't find anything not user-error. Then you get it. You start looking up accessories and ammunition... and there's nothing, or it sucks. You start digging deeper, and it turns out everything about it sucks. You realize the other suckers just put up with it and are simply "okay" with it.

And then you move to the next thing...
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
My gun-related complaint is that, you hype yourself up for something. You google bing it, you watch videos, you talk to people, etc.
You look up "problems with X" and such, whether it's a gun or caliber and you don't find anything not user-error. Then you get it. You start looking up accessories and ammunition... and there's nothing, or it sucks. You start digging deeper, and it turns out everything about it sucks. You realize the other suckers just put up with it and are simply "okay" with it.

And then you move to the next thing...
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The solution is to overthink and ruminate on your purchase decision so long that you get burned out and uninterested. Only the things that beat out this cycle are the ones you buy. I won't say I've never partially regretted a purchase decision, but I've never bought garbage. Just that I feel I should have prioritized something more practical afterwards. All that said the one gun I bought completely unplanned and barely researched when I saw it at a store is one of my and my wife's favorites. But I do despair over basically no spare parts for it. I regret letting the batch i saw on eBay go. However, with its age, I'm not even sure if the parts would be interchangeable or if they are hand fitted.
 
Yours Truly 2095 said:
I feel like every time I buy a gun there's this race of the gun store has weird hours no matter which one it is, and the delivery people look like they're never going to deliver it before they close. Or it goes out for delivery on a day that they're closed and then they're also closed the day after. Damn me for chasing the lowest transfer fee i guess

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My LGS is open every day except for Sunday. It's great for delivery of my gun, but they've started doing this lame shit where you have to schedule your pickup time on their barely functioning website. It used to be they'd call and let you know it's been delivered and ready for pickup whenever. They're no longer a hidden gem so I guess they're too busy now for walk-ins, but I hate waiting another 1-2 days when I know my gun is just sitting there. A new gun store has opened up and is pretty small, I need to go check his transfer fee prices so I can get back to getting my shit the same day.
 
Yours Truly 2095 said:
The solution is to overthink and ruminate on your purchase decision so long that you get burned out and uninterested. Only the things that beat out this cycle are the ones you buy. I won't say I've never partially regretted a purchase decision, but I've never bought garbage. Just that I feel I should have prioritized something more practical afterwards. All that said the one gun I bought completely unplanned and barely researched when I saw it at a store is one of my and my wife's favorites. But I do despair over basically no spare parts for it. I regret letting the batch i saw on eBay go. However, with its age, I'm not even sure if the parts would be interchangeable or if they are hand fitted.
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I recently (read: two days ago) ordered this ridiculous abomination:

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All of the drawbacks of the Taurus Judge, but in an even more ridiculous single-shot break action format. It was so stupid (and stupid cheap) that I just said, "Fuck it, why not?". I'm quite sure it qualifies as "garbage", but it seems like a perfectly ridiculous range toy.
 
WASR96 said:
My LGS is open every day except for Sunday. It's great for delivery of my gun, but they've started doing this lame shit where you have to schedule your pickup time on their barely functioning website. It used to be they'd call and let you know it's been delivered and ready for pickup whenever. They're no longer a hidden gem so I guess they're too busy now for walk-ins, but I hate waiting another 1-2 days when I know my gun is just sitting there. A new gun store has opened up and is pretty small, I need to go check his transfer fee prices so I can get back to getting my shit the same day.
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My brother learned that you need to do that recon about transfer fees.
He just picked the closest shop only to discover they charge a $100 fee for anything they didn't order for you.
 
WhoBusTank69 said:
P90 magazines are unobtanium and AR-based PCC builds have higher odds of out-of-battery detonations due to improper timing with a light bolt/buffer weight combo.
Just get a PS90 and SBR it if you really have to have one.
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Or, if you don't want to go the NFA Form 1 route, you can get the PS90 and that new chassis that's coming out for it from Strike Industries.

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DocAwe said:
My brother learned that you need to do that recon about transfer fees.
He just picked the closest shop only to discover they charge a $100 fee for anything they didn't order for you.
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This list isn't super accurate but it's a good baseline. shows fees. For example one local for me says $25 but it's $28. Older info. Call to confirm

 
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Or, if you don't want to go the NFA Form 1 route, you can get the PS90 and that new chassis that's coming out for it from Strike Industries.
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I'd rather go with my chromosome enriched AR abomination.
Real P90's have curves.
...although the UGL is pretty cool.
 
DocAwe said:
My brother learned that you need to do that recon about transfer fees.
He just picked the closest shop only to discover they charge a $100 fee for anything they didn't order for you.
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Holy shit, if a store near me was doing that petty shit I wouldn't buy anything from them. I was already angry enough when all the stores around me went from an average of $15-$18 transfers to $20-$30. I get that they think that's a tactic to get you to buy from them, but charging $100 for an outside transfer tells me the dude probably upmarks the shit out of his ammo too.
 
WASR96 said:
Holy shit, if a store near me was doing that petty shit I wouldn't buy anything from them. I was already angry enough when all the stores around me went from an average of $15-$18 transfers to $20-$30. I get that they think that's a tactic to get you to buy from them, but charging $100 for an outside transfer tells me the dude probably upmarks the shit out of his ammo too.
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One store i sent a gun to had this policy where if you come to pick up before they call you they'll charge you $100 more for transfer. I looked at them in disbelief. They didn't charge me but they were serious. I was used to the other place I went who didn't care when you came in after delivery plus it had been a day.
 
Yours Truly 2095 said:
One store i sent a gun to had this policy where if you come to pick up before they call you they'll charge you $100 more for transfer. I looked at them in disbelief. They didn't charge me but they were serious. I was used to the other place I went who didn't care when you came in after delivery plus it had been a day.
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My local shop is somewhere in between - they'll process anything that's been in their storage overnight, but they clearly wish you were buying from them directly. If they stopped charging more for lowers than what they cost online + shipping + transfer fee (and it isn't even close), I'd be more than happy to buy from them.
 
If you've ever wanted to get the feel of how people carried guns back in the old west days i recommend watching the first western movies. The silent films from the WW1 era are great time capsules of authenticity. Half the actors in them, and especially the background actors actually lived through those days, and in many parts of the west were still wild. Stagecoach service continued in rural parts of the country like new mexico and arizon until the 1930s, and train robberies still happened etc. these people knew what it was like because they actually lived it.

The gun leather and guns are all correct too, because all the old holster companies were still around. the "old-timey cowboy guns" were still new. hell, half the time they used live ammunition. a lot of the time its shot on location too. no fake western towns here because it was all still around! there is a level of authenticity that more modern westerns fail to capture. tombstone is the only one that did this, IMO.

all these films are public domain now, so a lot of them are on youtube. Im a fan of William S. Hart. He was born in 1864! He was 17 when the gunfight at the O.K corral happened! he knew Wyatt Earp himself.
 
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My local shop is somewhere in between - they'll process anything that's been in their storage overnight, but they clearly wish you were buying from them directly. If they stopped charging more for lowers than what they cost online + shipping + transfer fee (and it isn't even close), I'd be more than happy to buy from them.
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Yeah I upset the guy running the counter when I picked up my SP5 since I ordered it online. "You know we sell these too, right? The SP5K as well!" He didn't say a word to me or respond to my "have a good day" when I was leaving after I told him I got it for $1,100 cheaper than what they were asking.
 
I know everyone just uses magpul, lancer, or gi style mags 99% of the time, but is there any list/big effort post about all the other AR15 magazines out there? I tried looking at ar15.com but didn't really turn up much, just an archive post or two of some (cool) old shit you could get back in the day like drum mags from China built in the late 80s or the list of the, at the time current, GI magazine manufacturers. I know of the article and video series by Small Arm Solutions, but it's one guy's opinion and incomplete; Reddit was pretty useless at turning things up and modern SEO has ruined the ability to find anything about magazine manufacturers, it's just endless lists of the 8 or so most common with links to go buy them. I went and looked at some popular publications like TFB but didn't find much. Just going to every store online I could find and creating a list got me up to the high 30s of different manufacturers but I'm running into the issue that multiple companies white label products for one, and two there's a lot of companies outside the USA that don't publish much, or anything, in English. Outside what I've done so far does anyone have any ideas for me to dig up more leads on the modern offerings of ar15 magazines? As well as maybe where to find reviews/testing of them?
 
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