Mega Rad Gun Thread

[The Dude]

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Wtf is going on with that stripper clip in the bottom right?

I think it's just a weird angle that the photo was taken. I think the stripper clip is laying flat, the magazine is resting on the stripper clip and is the main focus of the photo, so the stripper clip and ammunition look warped.

Kinda neat, but I don't know how much a fan I am of open sides on a magazine. It's for a 10/22 so it's not a huge deal either way, but it seems like a somewhat fragile solution to loading the mags that probably doesn't fix (and maybe exacerbates) my real issue with higher capacity 10/22 mags, which is their dodgy reliability.

I'd be very interested in hearing how they work for you when you get a chance to try them out.

We'll see how it goes. If it's a jam-o-matic then I'm only out a little over $35, which is only a bit more than a Ruger BX-25 magazine. I'll be getting some factory Ruger mags as well. In fact, I went to Scheels today (because I got a $25 gift card from using my Scheels Visa) planning on getting one of the BX-25 two-packs. They were out of those, but they did have the double BX-25, the one that's kind of like two BX-25s taped together jungle style, but is a one-piece unit. I'll get some normal BX-25s eventually as well. Nice thing about 10/22 mags is they are fairly cheap, and you can never have enough of them. Might have to look into a speed loader.

 

[74164978231]

-I have a couple of old and heavy RMA level 4 plates and a generic vest, but I want to upgrade to something that wasn't bought for a Halloween costume. Do you guys have some good resources to read up on plates/carriers and how to set them up?

Not much to plates. Stay away from steel plates, buy NIJ certified plates and the more money you spend the lighter weight plate you start paying ALOT of money for minimal weight reduction.

IMO if you want a good balance between weight, price and threat protection pickup some used Hesco 3611Cs. You can find them on gundeals every so often for $120-140 per plate. While only lvl3+(stops ball 5.56/7.62x51, wont stop m855A1 or .30-06). Yes it wont stop everything up to .30-06 AP but you also dont have to spend $1000 for plates that dont weigh 8lb per. I have a set and the difference is night and day between a 8lb lvl4 plate.

-Any general advice for getting serious about combat training? What have you done to take your training more seriously and not just mag dump into piles of garbage?

What do you mean by combat training? Learning to do 2 in the chest 1 in the head and quickly switching targets will cover 90% of what you need for shooting.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

Most of my shots were far down & to the left.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Learn about the take up for your pistol's trigger while the gun is unloaded, so you aren't just "squeezing the trigger" with your entire fist or your finger as if its one long trigger squeeze. The safe action trigger travels up to a point before it fires. Know where that point is.
You're just engaging that tactile bump to fire the bullet. If you conceptualize the trigger pull like youre lightly engaging that button press as opposed to going all the way from the trigger's starting point like a lever, you'll probably be able to figure out the best way to shoot it straight.

gunbros correct me if they have a better technique, but this conceptualization helped me with the same problem. I also think this is why a lot of people enjoy single action triggers, because the trigger doesn't have that take up. I shoot revolvers really well because when you cock the hammer, the trigger gets pulled back and it doesn't take a lot of finger pressure to shoot.

 

[Pretend To Imagine]

gunbros correct me if they have a better technique,

To be fast and accurate, you have to pull the trigger aggressively. You need to hold it firmly with your firing hand to minimize movement. You need to not hold too firmly with your firing hand or you will move the whole gun when you pull the trigger.

This is easy to identify and correct in dry fire.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

-Any general advice for getting serious about combat training? What have you done to take your training more seriously and not just mag dump into piles of garbage?

I'm being very general here, but what you do to persevere in a stressful situation is a culmination of skills acquired separately and are sometimes difficult to experience purposely. Moving in tight spaces, across unsteady or unlevel surfaces, inclement weather, inability to hear and low visibility and so on and so forth are often parts of lived experiences and are underestimated when compared to training regimen meant to simulate the exact same things in a much smaller amount of time. The difference being that a lot of people see a checkbox where they should be learning how to understand and adapt.

The only thing I recommend focusing on, specifically, is differentiating cover from concealment, getting behind that cover and properly presenting to shoot from behind cover. Seems simple but people get shot through concealment often enough or don't know how to fire competently from cover.

 

[Polock]

Any other medical training/equipment you recommend?

Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is Stop the Bleed but more extra. You'll know what you will want in your FAK after that class.

Couple of additional first aid things

• Hockey tape is a really good alternative to medical tape. Basically the same and way cheaper.
• The rule with tourniquets is 2 is 1 and 1 is none. You always have 1 TQ for yourself. IMO they're one of the best bang for your buck pieces of emergency medical equipment you can carry on your person. I always try to carry one and I have like 10 in my car with a bigger medical bag.
• Everyone focuses on the more exciting parts of medical kits like chest seals and decomp needles and shit, but try not to forget about the basics. Bandaids and moleskin are very useful. I also have a little pill case with off the counter meds and a little cheat sheet for their various uses - aspirin, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, loperamide, Benadryl.
• Look into EMS/Paramedic stuff for goodies. If we are being honest, its more likely to need your medical training to help people in a car crash than anything else. I have a little 5 card reference thing to help with more generalized medical stuff, as well as a pulse oximeter if I have to monitor someone for an extended period of time.

What have you done to take your training more seriously and not just mag dump into piles of garbage?

Take your equipment to training classes / actually go run around with your shit on. You'll quickly find points of failure.
Work on your cardio and strength training. Very guilty of neglecting that stuff myself.

Moving in tight spaces, across unsteady or unlevel surfaces, inclement weather, inability to hear and low visibility and so on and so forth

IF IT AINT RAININ YOU AINT TRAININ

 

[WASR96]

The rule with tourniquets is 2 is 1 and 1 is none. You always have 1 TQ for yourself. IMO they're one of the best bang for your buck pieces of emergency medical equipment you can carry on your person. I always try to carry one and I have like 10 in my car with a bigger medical bag.

This. I have TQs everywhere. One on my range belt. A few in my backpack. A few in the med kit in my car. If you're going to punch holes in paper, and possibly a person, definitely know how to seal up holes as well. I also have narcan in my cars medical bag. Have ended up using that before on someone who crashed and had a needle hanging out of his arm when we got up to his door to check on him. Not a bad option to have in your bag with how many junkies are out there now.

 

[Internet-Based Lobotomy]

Do you guys have some good resources to read up on plates/carriers and how to set them up?

Unfortunately this will mostly come down to personal preference and your LARP scenario. Even military SOPs can allow a little flexibility in their set ups but you could use those as a guideline depending on what you are looking for. I'm going to just assume you're eyeing a "direct action plate carrier set up" which is what you'll want to search up on to get a better idea of what to put where. YouTube has probably a million of these with built in sponsorships and advertisements so don't get conned into buying anything. This board has a thread about body armor which is pretty in depth so I recommend that.

I found a decent private range in a city a couple of hours away that I can get training at, but do you guys know of any supplemental resources online that you would recommend as a starting point while I plan out whole weekends around those trainings?

Luckily we also have a thread for this. In addition Ben Stoeger's name was thrown around a few pages back, never watched much of him myself but it sounded like guys were swearing by his training techniques so check him out I suppose.

Any general advice for getting serious about combat training? What have you done to take your training more seriously

You'll want to start attending some classes. There's all sorts of them, some even offer force on force with MILES gear. You'll have to find these however as they kind of come and go. One Shepherd comes to mind as they did week long events in MILES kit but I'm not sure if they're still around. This is probably as close to combat training as you can get without enlisting or volunteering with an actual combat unit in a warzone.
Unfortunately with a lot of these things you'll have to put in the legwork to see if it works for you. Even running around at a blankfire LARP event in your actual kit for 24 hours might show you what you need or want to change about your set up. Also again this all is assuming you want to do direct action style training. There's events around for doing SERE stuff, target shooting at night under NV, hell even bird watching can be a form of training depending on the skills you want to develop. From the situation in Europe perhaps learning how to dig with a shovel will be a life saving skill. It really truly depends on what you're after.
However if a SHTF scenario is what has you worried you should probably just learn perimeter defense and how to keep a homestead so you can subsistence farm. If you don't have land you need a "bug out plan" etc. These will keep you alive much longer than any combat training ever would. The best way to survive combat is to avoid it. Perhaps breaking contact drills would be the best thing to learn.

 

[Dean Pentel]

-I found a decent private range in a city a couple of hours away that I can get training at, but do you guys know of any supplemental resources online that you would recommend as a starting point while I plan out whole weekends around those trainings?

I'd advise you to check out the YouTube and IG pages of Ben Stoeger, Joel Park, Mike Pannone (all guys I've trained with), and Rob Epifania. There's a ton of excellent information you can learn from for free. Treat it like homework; take notes, setup training sessions for yourself, utilize drills as diagnostic elements, and write shit down. It'll likely feel overwhelming at first but dry fire practice can aid you tremendously in understanding what you need to work on. Yes, you'll have to utilize range time and live ammo but I say you can get 90% of the way there with consistent dry fire practice that has specific end goals in mind. Buy some target stands and targets; if you want steel just get it from whoever's cheapest.

-Where to get good first aid kits, or at least a good list of what your first aid kit should contain? I have my first aid and CPR so I know some basics, but I need a stop the bleed class still. Any other medical training/equipment you recommend?

In addition to tourniquets I'd recommend nasal trumpets, chest seals, QuikClot, regular gauze, surgical lube, and some gloves. I have bandaids, tegaderms, alcohol swabs, and sterile water in the one I keep in my car. I got that stuff from work so it's a bit of a cheat but I know for a fact those things are very helpful in a trauma situation. Remember that you're not EMS or ACLS "in the field." You can learn how to hang fluids, intubate, needle decompress, burp a chest seal, etc. if you want to but personally I recommend you think "slow the leaks, do what I can for ABC (airway/breathing/circulation), and get them to next-level care ASAP." Lastly, learn where your local EDs are and how to get to them quickly in whatever area you're going to be in.

-Any general advice for getting serious about combat training? What have you done to take your training more seriously and not just mag dump into piles of garbage?

I think it pays dividends to train mindset and observational skills as those relate to fighting. Get sharp with situational awareness, understanding body language and non-verbal cues, how to intelligently navigate potentially violent situations. As was said earlier ITT, the best way to deal with combat is to avoid it altogether.

If we're talking stopping fights with a firearm, I can't recommend getting into competition highly enough. The shooting skills required to win competitions are the exact same skills that people use to survive fights. Sign up for a local match and you'll see exactly what level your skills are at under pressure. Uncomfortable but worthwhile.

Finally, and it can never be said enough, get fit and strong. Stay that way. If you do all these things, which can totally be done without becoming some sort of Autistic Gray Man, you will be very hard to kill. Worth all the time, effort, and money required.

 

[Taser Confetti]

I also have narcan in my cars medical bag. Have ended up using that before on someone who crashed and had a needle hanging out of his arm when we got up to his door to check on him.

Are you a first responder? If not why are enabling the enshittification of society by saving someone so dysfunction they thought it was a good idea to shoot up while driving?

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

If not why are enabling the enshittification of society by saving someone so dysfunction they thought it was a good idea to shoot up while driving?

According to others, hitting someone with narcan can cause one hell of a detoxic. If the person is far gone enough, it might even kill them. So win-win to narcan random junkies.

 

[Fount of BadSpeak]

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Thanks guys, lots of good info here for me to dig into, this was exactly what I needed. I started looking things up on my own and felt really overwhelmed by how much I didn't know still, so this helped narrow things down a lot so I am not spinning my wheels. Here's hoping it's all LARP and I never need any of it.

 

[Belgians in the Congo]

Here's hoping it's all LARP and I never need any of it.

Just remember! The most important rule of a gunfight is to have fun

 

[CEO of Posting]

This is about a 4" x 4" square and I was able to do this with iron sights at 50 yards.

Good enough imo.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

only got one box of 9mm from the seven i ordered online

 

[CEO of Posting]

Just watched some footage of a shooting at a grocery store in Arkansas last year.

Dickhead used a shotgun and a S&W Shield Plus to kill four and wound eleven. Approximately 70 shots fired in total which is a shit load of shotgun shells.

Wasn't wearing any armor.

It got me thinking about my recent revolver carry. It's a real nice 6 shot in .357, a 4" barrel, and I have 2 reloads on a Bianchi speed strip. At 5 yards I'm good even in double action to punch out the 10 ring, but man, trying to imagine hitting anyone whose moving around and blasting with a shotgun is sobering.

How DITS am I if I carry anything other than a Glock 45 with a reload? Are revolvers even relevant anymore in TYOOL 2025? Being hit with a .357 must be like a thunderbolt wrapped in copper, and even one hit to center mass would be enough to stop just about anyone not high on PCP. Or maybe I'm just a deluded fudfag.

 

[CEO of Posting]

Ordered a Primary Arms 1x prism optic to go on my Franklin Armory F22. About the same size and weight as an Aimpoint T2, but I like that they can be used when the battery is dead. I'll post pics when it gets here. Can't wait to get some range time with it.

I have that optic. I can't use prism optics because your eye relief must be 100% perfect, or it's like you're trying to focus on something at the bottom of a well.

 

[Rainbow Idiot]

Just watched some footage of a shooting at a grocery store in Arkansas last year.

Dickhead used a shotgun and a S&W Shield Plus to kill four and wound eleven. Approximately 70 shots fired in total which is a shit load of shotgun shells.

Wasn't wearing any armor.

It got me thinking about my recent revolver carry. It's a real nice 6 shot in .357, a 4" barrel, and I have 2 reloads on a Bianchi speed strip. At 5 yards I'm good even in double action to punch out the 10 ring, but man, trying to imagine hitting anyone whose moving around and blasting with a shotgun is sobering.

How DITS am I if I carry anything other than a Glock 45 with a reload? Are revolvers even relevant anymore in TYOOL 2025? Being hit with a .357 must be like a thunderbolt wrapped in copper, and even one hit to center mass would be enough to stop just about anyone not high on PCP. Or maybe I'm just a deluded fudfag.

So early on I carried a revolver because I really like revolvers. You really aren't getting consistent 1 shot stops with any pistol, that's generally rifle's or short range shotguns with good shot placement. I only started with a semi auto after the summer of love and packs of feral "socio economic issues" started becoming more prevalent and more boom boom became a higher concern. Short of issues with such pack's, a revolver that you are a good shot with is probably fine. However if you're GPS takes you through the wrong downtown on the wrong night you may want a lot more boom.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

It got me thinking about my recent revolver carry. It's a real nice 6 shot in .357, a 4" barrel, and I have 2 reloads on a Bianchi speed strip. At 5 yards I'm good even in double action to punch out the 10 ring, but man, trying to imagine hitting anyone whose moving around and blasting with a shotgun is sobering.

Keep practicing and work on feeling competent with your firearm, that's realistically the best thing to do with what you have.

How DITS am I if I carry anything other than a Glock 45 with a reload? Are revolvers even relevant anymore in TYOOL 2025? Being hit with a .357 must be like a thunderbolt wrapped in copper, and even one hit to center mass would be enough to stop just about anyone not high on PCP. Or maybe I'm just a deluded fudfag.

If doubt is taking a stranglehold of you, which I don't blame anyone for since people all around are just losing their fucking minds apparently, get something you are comfortable with.
.357 is still good. 9x19 has done quite a few one-shot-stops and the humble .22lr is still doing work. Being armed at all makes a difference but it can't get you out of everything and getting the hell out of there is still the best option if you feel you cannot respond adequately.

 

[The Dude]

Decided to get a family photo of all my .22s. Not pictured are my wife's .22, or my oldest son's.