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Boney said:
Idk man, YouTube has some really good shit on it. I got started with hate watching Botkin until he finally won me over. If you just enough to filter bullshit you can self educate extremely effectively. Most "friends into guns" are probably retarded.
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It certainly can't hurt to research online before going to a class. I feel like the quality of most online content has improved to the point where its almost sure to help, and being primed with knowledge before classes helps stuff stick better, and helps understand new topics.
 
Falx Argentea said:
It certainly can't hurt to research online before going to a class. I feel like the quality of most online content has improved to the point where its almost sure to help, and being primed with knowledge before classes helps stuff stick better, and helps understand new topics.
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I trust the Youtubers much more about shooting then I do gear and gun reviews. I can rate your shooting skills with what you group. Not so much your amazon scope reviews.
 
Falx Argentea said:
It certainly can't hurt to research online before going to a class. I feel like the quality of most online content has improved to the point where its almost sure to help, and being primed with knowledge before classes helps stuff stick better, and helps understand new topics.
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When you've been in a hobby for a while you can tell the difference between a shill and someone giving unbiased advice but I'm not sure if someone new would be able to as easily.
 
yfes said:
If I have 0 knowledge on anything related to firearms would my best bet be to go to a local range and ask for help learning? Nobody in my family shoots and for obvious reasons I'm looking into purchasing one and practicing with it.

I've been putting it off for years and really regretting it the last few months.
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So although he has a great many boomer takes John Lovell of warrior poet society has some really good base level videos on pistols and carry theory. Mom found them fairly useful when she decided to get into shooting. Doesn't replace actually shooting but its a decent intro level of knowledge.
 
Paul is the gold standard, great combo of gun knowledge plus general survivalist stuff. Hickok45 and Lucky Gunner are also very good in my opinion. I like Massad Ayoob when it comes to self defense stuff, but you also have to go in knowing he's kind of a Daniel Defense shill.
 
Boney said:
Idk man, YouTube has some really good shit on it.
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I totally agree but for someone starting from square 0 some hands on experience would be better.

As you said
Boney said:
If you just enough to filter bullshit you can self educate extremely effectively.
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When you're starting out, you don't even know what you don't know. You gotta prime the pump first!

Maybe I mis-ordered the gun friend and YouTube, admittedly.
 
AGPinochet said:
Titanium DMLS hand guard for MCX Series by US Armor Forge
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Good lord the gucci gun fags have gone out of control. That's going to be expensive.

Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds said:
May not be the exact thread for this but can anybody recommend a good crossbody EDC bag?

Price isnt really an issue, just want something decent thats not amazon crap and won't fall apart after a few days. Nothing huge but nothing so tiny I couldn't just functionally replace it with the fanny pack I already have.
I want to be able to fit my glock, extra mag, and a small flashlight but also have room for an iPad mini and a sketchbook and maybe like a power bank and a few pens without the thing bulging like hell.
A velcro liner would be nice too.

I'm going on a trip in a few months and would like a bag small enough to count as a personal bag that I can just use as my tourist purse (with a surprise) once out of the airport.

There's just so many suppliers nowadays I can't keep up with who is good at what.
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That sounds like a small backpack crossbody, unfortunately I don't have that only a small makeshift solution but I'm in for results on your search. I had a need for a small crossbody bag and gave up and started carrying a carhartt fanny pack across my chest because everything made to carry a gun looks like it was made to carry a gun and it at least just looks like generic hiking gear. I use it for short hikes and on my motorcycle or bicycle mostly, which is an important point because I had to modify the zipper pulls to make it easy to pull open with motorcycle gloves and it has to fit a gun that is easy to use with stiff, armored motorcycle gloves, a HK USP.

I'd like to have a better solution, it's difficult to put on and take off with a motorcycle jacket because I used a piece of wire to tie the buckle shut so it couldn't just be unbuckled from behind. I sewed a piece of heavy velcro into the back of it and use a DIY kydex holster with a piece of velcro stuck to it. Seems to work well enough. Maybe a slightly larger, more well modified or designed one would allow me to put my Big HK into my motorcycle carry rotation, it's a lot easier to use with ungainly gloves :cunningpepe:
 
Think I've decided to get a Ruger .22 Charger of some kind. I'm mulling over whether getting the takedown model would be worth the additional cost, or if I should get a fixed barrel model and use the money saved to upgrade it. I kinda just want something that's tons of fun to shoot, cheap to feed, and get the Franklin binary trigger pack for rapid fire fun. I may even get the Franklin F22 pistol since it'll already come with the binary trigger, a half decent chassis, and an arm brace. Just put an optic and maybe a Volquartsen carbon fiber barrel on it and eventually upgrade the chassis and SBR it when the $0 tax hits. We've already got the Buckmark, so it's not like the Ruger Mark IV is going to do anything that the Buckmark can't.
 
The Dude said:
Just put an optic and maybe a Volquartsen carbon fiber barrel on it and eventually upgrade the chassis and SBR it when the $0 tax hits
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As someone who just finished upgrading his 10/22 charger with many volquartsen parts intending to go full sbr in January, there's a point where it was cheaper to just get the pre built volquartsen 10/22 and I passed it several upgrades ago.
 
Rainbow Idiot said:
As someone who just finished upgrading his 10/22 charger with many volquartsen parts intending to go full sbr in January, there's a point where it was cheaper to just get the pre built volquartsen 10/22 and I passed it several upgrades ago.
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That's kinda why I'm attracted to the Franklin F22. It has almost everything I want, and what it doesn't I can always add later, like a nicer chassis. The only thing that it doesn't have that I kinda want is that it's fixed barrel and not a takedown. With the Charger style guns, they're already pretty damn compact, so it's not like having the takedown feature is crucial. But the idea of going out to shoot, laying down the case and unzipping it or popping open the latches, pulling out the two halves and snapping them together, then going to town on a steel plate or a mess of soda cans...it just really gives me the fizz.
 
yfes said:
If I have 0 knowledge on anything related to firearms would my best bet be to go to a local range and ask for help learning? Nobody in my family shoots and for obvious reasons I'm looking into purchasing one and practicing with it.

I've been putting it off for years and really regretting it the last few months.
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Yes, ask random gun owners their opinions. This will fill your head so full of garbage that if you are in a firefight you won't need a helmet, because the compressed stupidity of their opinions will actually coalesce into a hard shell to protect your brain from any munition.
 
Blasterisk said:
Yes, ask random gun owners their opinions. This will fill your head so full of garbage that if you are in a firefight you won't need a helmet, because the compressed stupidity of their opinions will actually coalesce into a hard shell to protect your brain from any munition.
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I feel like the lowest-common-denominator of online gun enthusiast has improved a lot of the years but the average gun owner is still rather retarded. Some of the shit that happens at public ranges actually scares me
 
Boney said:
Ben Stoeger. You can and should learn from the best. He puts out entire classes on YouTube.
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He’s also based and makes redditors cry:
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