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crab fucker said:
By the way I don't have a means of checking at the moment but apparently the recent Brandon Herrera video posits that the Trump statement that was anti-2A may have been entirely fake. Figured it might be worth knowing just in case it is true.
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^This is the one that is reported fake.
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I first saw this several days ago and immediately checked xitter to see if it was real, since after all the only piece of federal gun control in the past 8 years was from him. I didn't realize it was a "truth" at the time because I use neither xitter nor truth social, but all evidence points to it being a fake. Still, I have seen several accounts post it on instagram, including accounts that are not usually political. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can put its boots on and all that.

Jewish Man said:
No pictures since I'm schizo about EXIF data.
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You're not alone there. There are really only a few posters who regularly post pictures of their guns here. I haven't for similar reasons, i.e. my range is quite recognizable. I've previously posted some of them on /k/ and the images may still pop up from time to time, I am not Burt or lifesizepotato, my family and friends are enough when it comes to seeing my collection.
 
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SinistralRifleman said:
The killing of Pretti is as indefensible as the killings of all these other gun owners for just being gun owners.
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It was a bad shoot, unless the blurry pixels are hiding something drasticly transformative of what you see in the footage. Ms. Good was a pretty clean one.

ICE and BPD, like all law enforcement and military personel have to assume total responsability for the outcomes of ALL their operations regardless of how difficult that mission becomes. The feds should own this one.

At the same time, the only reason their mission has reached this level of complication, violence escalation, and danger is because actual lunatics, traitors, and subvertives are getting in their way.

A man getting eaten by a crocodile is a tragedy, until you realize his hobby was to go around tickeling wild crocodiles.
 
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Boney said:
A man getting eaten by a crocodile is a tragedy, until you realize his hobby was to go around tickeling wild crocodiles.
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It's like the women who go backpacking in Buttfuckistan (or Poojdiikladesh) to prove that its a wonderful, beautiful country filled with friendly people...who then go missing for 3 months and who's decapitated bodies are eventually found.

It is a tragedy but there's also a lack of self-preservation and common sense involved.
Man vs persistent rats said:
Re. EXIF data, can't you still strip it in windows by copying the image and pasting it as a new file?
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I take a screenshot with ShareX to strip all that out. You can use the native snipping tool in Windows if you don't need all the extra functionality.
 
TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve said:
Do they want unlubed ammo or just unwaxed? CCI has polymer coated ammo in a couple of different flavors, CCI Clean. The Clean 22 Suppressor is probably what I'd pick up, 1000fps 45gr. I haven't tried the Clean but regular CCI Suppressor is my usual go-to for my Charger if I can find it (relegated to CCI Subs like 99% of the time lol). They also have 40gr high velocity (1200-something) and 32 super velocity (1500ish)

The Clean Suppressor is 15 cents a round on Midway in a milk carton of 200, I've seen packs of 400 that might be cheaper but not actually in stock
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Just says not to use waxed ammo. I assume polymer coated lead would be fine since it's more durable and less likely to flake off to gum up the drum.

The barrel on my F22 has a Bentz chamber, so hyper velocity cartridges like Stingers won't fit. Only standard length standard velocity and subsonic ammo will fit the chamber, so that's what I'll be sticking with. Planning on getting some of the CCI Clean subsonic ammo, and I also want to get some tracers and incendiary. From what I've read, the tracer ammo at least is not wax coated. I plan on mostly just using copper plated ammo in the drum.
 
Man vs persistent rats said:
Re. EXIF data, can't you still strip it in windows by copying the image and pasting it as a new file?
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Removing EXIF is trivial, you can do it with all kinds of software.

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The chiappa rhino has a unique design and it fucking works so criticism really only goes so far but i really don't like it. It's made too cheaply to be a fancy gun and it's not fancy enough to be an expensive gun. Its made up of pieces dovetailed together and the seam between the barrel and the frame, and the frame and the back of the cylinder, are really rough. There's a very conspicuous gas relief cut at the bottom of the cylinder.

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These aren't really a big deal for a gun that functions but when the gun costs like $1200 you do kind of wonder what you're paying for. It doesn't have a top rail long enough to put a hunting scope on it because they used the same base frame for all models of their gun. IDK, there's no reason it shouldn't just be the best revolver available on the market because they're the first people to bother doing revolver R&D in like forty years but instead it's just kind of a gimmick gun
 
big pauper said:
The chiappa rhino has a unique design and it fucking works so criticism really only goes so far but i really don't like it. It's made too cheaply to be a fancy gun and it's not fancy enough to be an expensive gun. Its made up of pieces dovetailed together and the seam between the barrel and the frame, and the frame and the back of the cylinder, are really rough. There's a very conspicuous gas relief cut at the bottom of the cylinder.

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These aren't really a big deal for a gun that functions but when the gun costs like $1200 you do kind of wonder what you're paying for. It doesn't have a top rail long enough to put a hunting scope on it because they used the same base frame for all models of their gun. IDK, there's no reason it shouldn't just be the best revolver available on the market because they're the first people to bother doing revolver R&D in like forty years but instead it's just kind of a gimmick gun
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Colt can make a revolver finished to a much higher degree in the US so its not impossible that Chiappa could finish the Rhino to better standards especially when you consider how cheaper Italian labor is. It's pure laziness and it shows in all Chiappa products.

As for design, its just a continuation of Mataeba revolvers like the 2006M but not as cool. I think the fact they tried to shoehorn it into tactical and hunting roles instead of just CCW with the snub nose variant and target shooting with the long barrel variants.
you'd have ended up with a streamlined 2006M. no lightening cuts because weight is better for competition. no pic rail (maybe pre-drilled for a RDS under the rear sight).
you can see that the 2006M has the seam too but it is blended in much more betterer:
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I really wish Spuhr or Korth or Janz would pick up the mateaba. They'd do it justice. charge 4 or 5k for it.
 
Romulus augustulus said:
Colt can make a revolver finished to a much higher degree in the US so its not impossible that Chiappa could finish the Rhino to better standards especially when you consider how cheaper Italian labor is. It's pure laziness and it shows in all Chiappa products.

As for design, its just a continuation of Mataeba revolvers like the 2006M but not as cool. I think the fact they tried to shoehorn it into tactical and hunting roles instead of just CCW with the snub nose variant and target shooting with the long barrel variants.
you'd have ended up with a streamlined 2006M. no lightening cuts because weight is better for competition. no pic rail (maybe pre-drilled for a RDS under the rear sight).
you can see that the 2006M has the seam too but it is blended in much more betterer:
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I really wish Spuhr or Korth or Janz would pick up the mateaba. They'd do it justice. charge 4 or 5k for it.
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i believe the matebas are made of steel, and the chiappa is made of aluminum. Which is why the machined pieces don't fit together nicely and why it has a gas relief cut on the bottom strap. It's also why it's really bulky and fairly lightweight. It's a very large and unwieldy gun that feels like it should be 50-60 ounces but it's only 30. A normal revolver is like 40 ounces. The problem is... it would have been better if it was less bulky even if it was heavier because of it. There's no good reason for it to be made out of aluminum and all of the gun's problems are downstream of that decision.
 
big pauper said:
i believe the matebas are made of steel, and the chiappa is made of aluminum. Which is why the machined pieces don't fit together nicely and why it has a gas relief cut on the bottom strap. It's also why it's really bulky and fairly lightweight. It's a very large and unwieldy gun that feels like it should be 50-60 ounces but it's only 30. A normal revolver is like 40 ounces. The problem is... it would have been better if it was less bulky even if it was heavier because of it. There's no good reason for it to be made out of aluminum and all of the gun's problems are downstream of that decision.
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ooooof, An aluminum .44 mag.....

I don't know how i feel about that.
 
Romulus augustulus said:
ooooof, An aluminum .44 mag.....

I don't know how i feel about that.
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I really really want to hear one of their engineers explain this, because you can hand wave it away as "their engineers did the math and its not a problem anymore" but i'm almost certain that they did this because it was slightly cheaper than putting a sacrificial shield in there like smith and wesson does. I mean it'll probably be tens of thousands of rounds before that's ever an issue but it glares at me every time i see one
 
Romulus augustulus said:
ooooof, An aluminum .44 mag.....

I don't know how i feel about that.
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One of the worst recoiling guns I've ever fired was the S&W 329PD, the one with the scandium alloy frame. With .44 Spcl ammo it's not too bad, about like a .45 Super or .357 with a shorter barrel. But put full magnum loads in it? Extremely painful, even with rubber grips. It's worse (IMHO) than .500 S&W.
 
big pauper said:
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I really really want to hear one of their engineers explain this, because you can hand wave it away as "their engineers did the math and its not a problem anymore" but i'm almost certain that they did this because it was slightly cheaper than putting a sacrificial shield in there like smith and wesson does. I mean it'll probably be tens of thousands of rounds before that's ever an issue but it glares at me every time i see one
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The Dude said:
even with rubber grips.
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I don't think rubber grips do a damn thing to make recoil softer. I've got wood grips on all my heavy recoiling revolvers and don't notice a difference. I can shoot my 325gr hand loads all day with no problem. Most I've done is 150 because that's all i usually have loaded at one time. My 255gr loads with 40grs of 3fg blackpowder have quite a bit of recoil too, and I can only get about 60 rounds of that before i stop only because the gun gets hot enough to badly burn my fingers. it will leave blisters.

Grip shape and how you grip the gun and how you let the recoil move your arms is what makes the difference.
 
big pauper said:
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I really really want to hear one of their engineers explain this, because you can hand wave it away as "their engineers did the math and its not a problem anymore" but i'm almost certain that they did this because it was slightly cheaper than putting a sacrificial shield in there like smith and wesson does. I mean it'll probably be tens of thousands of rounds before that's ever an issue but it glares at me every time i see one
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One of the bigger reasons I don't buy one. I just know I'm gonna get blasted by it the one day I forget to tuck my thumb.

 
I might be willing to give an el-cheapo CVLife dot a try if they didn't plaster their dollar-store BB-gun logo so prominently on everything. They don't look that bad otherwise.

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Romulus augustulus said:
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I don't think rubber grips do a damn thing to make recoil softer. I've got wood grips on all my heavy recoiling revolvers and don't notice a difference. I can shoot my 325gr hand loads all day with no problem. Most I've done is 150 because that's all i usually have loaded at one time. My 255gr loads with 40grs of 3fg blackpowder have quite a bit of recoil too, and I can only get about 60 rounds of that before i stop only because the gun gets hot enough to badly burn my fingers. it will leave blisters.

Grip shape and how you grip the gun and how you let the recoil move your arms is what makes the difference.
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It depends on the revolver for me. On some, I can definitely feel a difference, especially with the newer style Hogue grips with the finger grooves. I find that those reduce recoil a tad, are more comfortable, and offer better control over the revolver. If I were carrying a magnum wheelgun or shooting one a lot those are probably what I'd have on it. However, I will only have either the original wood grips or a nice set of custom wood, bone, or ivory grips on vintage revolvers like my no-dash Model 57. Just personal preference.
 
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