Mega Rad Gun Thread

[SHIGGSHOGG]

Do you guys use eye pro? I don't, never saw the point but if you have some anecdotes to say I should, I would like to hear them.

For semi autos and black powder I do, especially .22s and DBB 9mms that might have an out of battery. Had a couple over the years and was lucky to be wearing shades half the time. Bolt actions are very clean and don't have much going on for eye dangers, unless you run a brake or go prone.

So with FRT's back on the menu has anyone bootstrapped a .22 S&W or CMMG conversion yet? And if so are there any reliable drums for such?

You either need the Borebuddy trip thing or a printed one. Idk if the Borebuddy supersafety specific trip is for all FRTs or if you use a regular FA trip

Anyone carry a Glock 48? I'm interested in getting a slimline Glock for the summer months where I live. Does it conceal pretty well? Does it shoot like a slightly snappy 19?

I like mine, with the shield S15 mags I have the same capacity as my 19 but way thinner and a fuck ton more comfortable. Shoots the exact same for me, I'm just able to go slightly faster with the 19 because it has a red dot. One of these days I need to mill the slide for a dot but I'm in no hurry as I quite like factory glock sights. It's extremely comfortable, most comfortable gun I've handled save for the 320/365 and a thinner M&P.

The barrel length isn't an issue for me, the only issue with anything appendix is that the slide and maybe grip get jammed into your stomach when sitting, bending over, and especially driving.

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

https://x.com/Magpul/status/1925986196640891136?t=Ph6b9wEwIu-XaPE62uXMxQ&s=19

Welp, Magpul dropped a roughly $6,000 clip on module for "most" 30mm LPVOs to give them similar capabilities to the new Army LPVO....

Looks neat but bulky and Heavy

Something awesome, and terrifying about the approaching day when all you need to hit something a thousand yards out is to point at it and pull. I wonder how regulations on hunting are going to treat these devices. God knows some idiot with more money than sense is gonna take all the fun out of prize hunting with one of these.

the m14 was not overly heavy compared to rifles of the time nor was 20 round mags undersized (it was the norm) and the recoil was not excessive at all, it was the same amount of recoil infantry rifles had for ~60 years at that point. The M14 was objectively an improvement on the M1 Garand and a good all round rifle.

Yes and no.
A big selling point of the m14 (to congress) is that it could be made on Garand tooling. This obviously did not actually work, and the new tooling and production is one of the big failings of the m14 that everyone seems to forget. Receivers breaking off and that godawful flash hider being improperly mounted and causing zeroing issues are a large part amongst other problems of why the rifle is poorly regarded.

Italy however did manage to pull that off with their BM59, and in half the time as well, which should say something about the US government at the time.

While the m14 is better than the Garand, its a rifle that is one step in the past compared to its contemporaries, without any of the benefits that should have come with that. Its the worst of the battle rifles, by having none of the benefits of its more modern contemporaries, and none of the benefits of being an older based design either. There's a reason that people joke about the M1A only being bought by boomers.

The M14 would have made a great civilian rifle. However it was a terrible combat rifle for the simple fact it was obsolete before it was even issued. That a bunch of combat veterans didn't take one look at the STG rifles, and go "everyone needs one of these!" Is the most mind boggling facts of history. Its not like they weren't already moving in that direction with the M1 and later M2 carbines. Detachable box magazine, intermediate cartridge, select fire, and some versions had a pistol grip. Its literally all right there! Just make it slightly bigger, and you have something far superior to anything anyone else was using outside of maybe the early AKs. Hell, even the colt monitor rifles were a step ahead, and a vast improvement over the M14. Everyone, and I mean everyone who ever produced a cop of the BAR decided it needed a pistol grip. Why did no one think the M14 needed one? Its just impressive how not war-like America is. The Romans sneered at barbarians as a matter of principle, and they still adopted the gladius from the savage hill tribes of Spain. Meanwhile we Americans march right into Germany, known for our semi-automatic rifles and carbines. We pick up some STGs, that the Germans don't need anymore, go "cool, this will make a nice souvenir", and think nothing else! Insanity!

If the ATF was a actual real agency instead of just finding ways to punish white people they would have a whole Instagram division that would do nothing but arrest black kids with glock switches. God knows the retards can't stop posting about it online.

I have come to the conclusion that the vast majority of laws and "law enforcement" are in place to suppress, needlessly burden, and artificially punish whites at every possible opportunity. For everything from drugs, to violence, to gun charges, to "hate crimes", browns are given a slap on the wrist at best, while whites are 100% guaranteed to get the book thrown at them for anything and everything. I saw a 4chan post screenshot a while back that explained that we live in an occupied state, and once I started viewing things from that lense, I have found myself inclined to agree. "Two tier policing" may be recently coined from Britain, but it's been official federal policy in America since the sixties.

Part of the problem is Whites don't have that same blind tribalism blacks do. I say its a problem, but it could be easily seen as a positive. Whites, for the most part, don't give a shit about being prosecuted by non-whites. blacks on the other hand can't stand Whitey doing something, even when its a net good for blacks. They'll scream and throw a fit, and cry racism when some drug dealing, teenage raping, gang-banging thug gets the book thrown at him, as much, if not more, than someone who is actually innocent. Its a shame, but you either believe law or tribalism.

 

[Among Us Gaming]

Is the most mind boggling facts of history.

Not really. Thats normal military conservatism. Look how long it took the powers of the great war to get rid of magazine cutoffs and 30" barrels. Look at how long it took the US to adopt 9x19, look at how long it took the french to get away from 8mm Lebel. Look at how literally every single nation of WWII (aside from Italy oddly enough), had tangent sighted out to 1500+ meters. What seens obvious to us in retrospect is not always a good idea in tue moment. Lets also not forget that the STG rifles aren't actually very good, and had an upwards of 60% rejection rate during manufacturing. It was certainly advanced and novel for its time, but by no means an obvious next step wonder weapon. Its worth noting that the US had previously considered intermediate cartridges with the .276 Pedersen rifle in trials agaisnt the Garand.

Why did no one think the M14 needed one?

Again, the rifle was supposed to be M1 Garand 2.0 (now with 20% more freedom). It was supposed to be produced in Garand tooling, and ergo, not require brand new tooling and manufacturing steps. Essentially it was pitched as a select fire mag fed garand. If you added a pistol grip, you'd have to spin up new tooling and materials sourcing. Had they known going in, that they would essentially have to make the rifle from scratch, and had some of the political intrigue removed (because there was a lot of polictics in the M14s adoption) I think they would have chosen the FAL instead.

Also for those interested, the Italians actually did that with the Nigerian contract BM59s, which also came with an integrated bipod. I'll say it again, the BM59 was everything the M14 should have been.

 

[Adolf Hulkler]

Some random guy has made his own WA-2000, if you don't believe me check his archived Instagram below

I talked to the guy few times on /k/.
The amount of work he put into building that thing is FUCKING INSANE.
And no, he didnt build a chassis around a gun, he made a 1:1 copy.


Heres an experimental flamethrower suomi KP from ww2.
There exists, ONE picture of it being actually tested and it is not on the internet.
I have a semi rare book on every single weapon from late 1800s to 2000s that has been tested/fielded in the army.
Other fun prototypes in there that i cant find pictures of on the internet are krinked rk62 and experimental IR night vision scope that uses an IR flashlight.
Might take pics and post.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

I'm going to get some sweetheart grips and put some of our wedding photos in them for my 1911. I haven't seen them, but I wonder if anyone makes textured sweetheart grips. Typically they're just smooth sided.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

Heres an experimental flamethrower suomi KP from ww2.

Interesting, never looked into finnish flamethrowers, but looks like they wanted to do the soviet thing- make a flamethrower look like other wepon from a distance for operator safety.
Or is it a crazy underbarrel addition to the Suomi SMG?

 

[Club Sandwich]

I wonder if anyone makes textured sweetheart grips

generally no, since adding texture will distort the clear image under the grip.

 

[Adolf Hulkler]

Interesting, never looked into finnish flamethrowers, but looks like they wanted to do the soviet thing- make a flamethrower look like other wepon from a distance for operator safety.
Or is it a crazy underbarrel addition to the Suomi SMG?

Its underbarrel attachment, the SMG is functional.
It was supposed to be for trench and bunker clearing,
They tested it and dropped it.

This is "korsu" variant(bunker)
It has no front sight and the barrel is tapered, IN ORDER for a person inside a bunker to be able to shove the barrel through very small portholes and engage enemy at close quarters.
The shroud is longer than the barrel, because it causes a kind of sucking/draft effect through the barrel when the gun fires, so that gasses from the action doesnt get blown back into the bunker.

Tanker variant.
Less than 1000 were made, each one was handfitted.
Essentially works the same way as m321 port gun.
It gets attached into a ball joint porthole with a pin in armored vehicles.
And since its small it was supposed to work as the tankers weapon, being better than just a pistol.
There were a few suppressed ones that were specially built for very few individuals who needed them.
One of those being Lauri Törni, who fought for finland, germany and then for the US in vietnam.

Soviets made ppsh based on the suomi KP, in a more powerful caliber, but they had difficulty producing reliable drum magazines.
Rumor has it, a red traitor smuggled original plans of the magazine to soviet union, among with other shit.

EDIT:
The korsu version DOES have sights, theyre on the side.

 

[Mister Fister]

Any experience here with forced reset triggers?

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Any experience here with forced reset triggers?

Metal super safety works pretty good.

 

[Krusty762]

I talked to the guy few times on /k/.
The amount of work he put into building that thing is FUCKING INSANE.
And no, he didnt build a chassis around a gun, he made a 1:1 copy.

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Heres an experimental flamethrower suomi KP from ww2.
There exists, ONE picture of it being actually tested and it is not on the internet.
I have a semi rare book on every single weapon from late 1800s to 2000s that has been tested/fielded in the army.
Other fun prototypes in there that i cant find pictures of on the internet are krinked rk62 and experimental IR night vision scope that uses an IR flashlight.
Might take pics and post.

id gladly pay the guy 7k for a WA2K.

 

[The Dude]

Picked up my Vector Gen 3 today. It's a slick little gun. I'm really looking forward to getting it built up and SBR'd. Haga Defense is offering the stock for the Gen 2.1 Vector, but with a 1913 mount so it'll mount on the Gen 3 Vector, and I'm seriously thinking about going with that when I get my SBR tax stamp back. There are a couple of other stocks I'm considering. I'm not a big fan of the stock they designed for the Gen 3. Looks cheap and flimsy. I'm going to put an HK style tri-lug suppressor mount on it and eventually get the Huxworx Flow 9k suppressor to mount on it.

On Kriss USA's website they are offering $100 credit for all new Gen 2 and Gen 3 Vectors purchased from the beginning of May to the end of June. I've already sent my info in to claim mine. I'm probably going to use it to get the red anodized aluminum safety levers, mag release plate, and floor plate under the pistol grip to give it a little flare. Like I said, it's mostly just a fun gun and range toy for me, but if it does prove to be reliable then I'll also set it up for home defense with a weapon light and set up a battle belt for it, or possibly a bandolier. I'm going to put a quality optic on it either way, because I'm autistic like that. I'll keep you guys posted as things progress with it.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Picked up my Vector Gen 3 today. It's a slick little gun. I'm really looking forward to getting it built up and SBR'd. Haga Defense is offering the stock for the Gen 2.1 Vector, but with a 1913 mount so it'll mount on the Gen 3 Vector, and I'm seriously thinking about going with that when I get my SBR tax stamp back. There are a couple of other stocks I'm considering. I'm not a big fan of the stock they designed for the Gen 3. Looks cheap and flimsy. I'm going to put an HK style tri-lug suppressor mount on it and eventually get the Huxworx Flow 9k suppressor to mount on it.

On Kriss USA's website they are offering $100 credit for all new Gen 2 and Gen 3 Vectors purchased from the beginning of May to the end of June. I've already sent my info in to claim mine. I'm probably going to use it to get the red anodized aluminum safety levers, mag release plate, and floor plate under the pistol grip to give it a little flare. Like I said, it's mostly just a fun gun and range toy for me, but if it does prove to be reliable then I'll also set it up for home defense with a weapon light and set up a battle belt for it, or possibly a bandolier. I'm going to put a quality optic on it either way, because I'm autistic like that. I'll keep you guys posted as things progress with it.

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Just need this now:

https://taylorfreelancestore.com/goliath-xl-30-basepad-alum-red/?searchid=0&search_query=Glock

 

[SaltyFantaMan]

Any experience here with forced reset triggers?

I'm waiting on an ASdesigns supersafety lower for my mp5 clone.

Will share (eventually)

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Update on the P320 nonsense:
Two guys in a garage diagnosed at least one way to replicate an uncommanded discharge in the P320 by way of swapping parts from different guns, and have observed the difference in parts from year to year with evident incompatibility.
FocusTripp interview/discussion:

Rumble Link, total segment is one hour eighteen minutes long.
Original video:

Ordinarily I'd post this in the Guntube thread but since it's less about the guntubers themselves and more about Sig, here we are.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Update on the P320 nonsense:
Two guys in a garage diagnosed at least one way to replicate an uncommanded discharge in the P320 by way of swapping parts from different guns, and have observed the difference in parts from year to year with evident incompatibility.
FocusTripp interview/discussion:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nt52AZC_gzURumble Link, total segment is one hour eighteen minutes long.
Original video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7H4Ri409-5IOrdinarily I'd post this in the Guntube thread but since it's less about the guntubers themselves and more about Sig, here we are.

Parts that weren’t designed to be MIM (and outsourced to India) in a gun that wasn’t designed to be striker fired. What could go wrong?

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Parts that weren’t designed to be MIM (and outsourced to India) in a gun that wasn’t designed to be striker fired. What could go wrong?

Their finding is that the 10mm FCU and its longer frame allows the insertion of a 9x19 magazine with improper reassembly leading to sear slippage when the striker safety is nonfunctional due to either parts fatigue or breakage.
I don't think it's the main culprit, but it's possibly one of them if parts are mixed and matched.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

Their finding is that the 10mm FCU and its longer frame allows the insertion of a 9x19 magazine with improper reassembly leading to sear slippage when the striker safety is nonfunctional due to either parts fatigue or breakage.
I don't think it's the main culprit, but it's possibly one of them if parts are mixed and matched.

Whatever the issue is, really no reason to use one since it’s basically indistinguishable from the several other polymer framed striker guns that don’t have these issues.

In the early 2000s I was actually interested in the rifle stuff they were doing with the Sig 55X series, but luckily never bought one and avoided all the issues those guns had, and the lack of support by Sig.

In the mid 20 teens I got a great deal on an Sig 556 QRD suppressor and quickly discovered the mounting system was garbage. That can is currently back at Sig with an endcap strike. I can say first hand their customer service is terrible. They take days to get back to you between emails.

 

[Friedrich Hayek's Ghost]

Same, don't care for the Hellcat

When my fiancèe and I were trying to find a pistol for her, we shot a rented Hellcat. I've never taken much issue with any pistol I've shot. I think most modern pistols are fine. There are some I like more or less than others, but generally, I find most of them to be okay. The Hellcat did not break this trend for me. It's fine. It's small and snappy, but I expect that from such a gun. My fiancèe, on the other hand, fired five rounds, then set the gun down, turned to me, and said, "This is like trying to fire a fucking Snickers bar. Who the fuck thought a square was a good shape for a grip?"

 

[NeonFlux]

Are the Diamondback DB10 or Springfield Armory Saint Victor AR10 good options? I care about range but not as much since everything around me beyond 100 yards is trees and buildings so weight, price, and handling factor in more. also plan on using it for hunting.