Mega Rad Gun Thread

[Norms Abused Liver]

After spending a day at the farm with my dad plinking targets with various fireams, I have one question. And fucking ONLY one.

How in the fucking fuck does a company as terrible as HiPoint make such godawful pistols that nobody in their right minds would touch them barring the worst case scenario, yet their god damn fucking carbines are legit amazing for the price? I wouldn't spit on a whore to save them with one of their pistols, but honestly I would swear by their 995 carbines. Im no newbie to shooting, and my dad has 40 years on me. And we both love this damn thing.

What the fucking actual fuck. How can a single company nail down one aspect, and fail like niggers at math in the other?

 

[Dead Lion]

been window shopping lee enfields but they all seem to either be heavily sporterized or extremely beat up.
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for example this one is at simpson ltd selling for 600 bucks. that's a pretty beat up gun for 600 bucks especially when i can hop on 'broker and look at a mosin for 400 in infinitely better condition, although obviously the enfields have a uniquely better action. but jeez, you would think these guns would be more common in original military configuration for how many were made and how many were imported in the 20th century. the entire design (action) has a very interesting provenance too, the enfield is probably the most unique bolt action especially considering how serviceable it is for a design originating in the 1870s. it's the AK of bolt actions.

I think most of them floating around are late war models thrown together from low quality components and materials. Both the SMLE Mk III and No. 4 Mk. I have a * variant that designates them as the 'blimey the jerries are winning' model from their respective wars.

 

[DocAwe]

been window shopping lee enfields but they all seem to either be heavily sporterized or extremely beat up.
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for example this one is at simpson ltd selling for 600 bucks. that's a pretty beat up gun for 600 bucks especially when i can hop on 'broker and look at a mosin for 400 in infinitely better condition,

But then you would have a moist nugget.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Garands in general are overpriced. Big time boomer taxed. They're very common guns yet still every gun store and gun show seller thinks their ordinary M1 with no historical provenance in decent condition is some rare grail piece worth $2,000+

The M1 Carbine is arguably worse. It was and still sometimes is priced higher than the Garand despite there being more of them.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

been window shopping lee enfields but they all seem to either be heavily sporterized or extremely beat up.
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for example this one is at simpson ltd selling for 600 bucks. that's a pretty beat up gun for 600 bucks especially when i can hop on 'broker and look at a mosin for 400 in infinitely better condition, although obviously the enfields have a uniquely better action. but jeez, you would think these guns would be more common in original military configuration for how many were made and how many were imported in the 20th century. the entire design (action) has a very interesting provenance too, the enfield is probably the most unique bolt action especially considering how serviceable it is for a design originating in the 1870s. it's the AK of bolt actions.

a lot of them were rode hard. 1895-1957 as the main arm of an empire doesn't lend itself to good preservation, especially when that empire was bankrupt at the end. on top of that you've had another 50 years of civilian use with god knows what upkeep. Sporterized rifles tend to be much better condition since they (usually) only retain the most durable part of the original rifle (the action/bolt).

I challenge your assertion that the Lee rifle was "the AK of bolt actions". The Mauser is objectively better. Even the british were going to drop the Lee in the early 1900s for a Mauser (the P13 and P14, these eventually became the remington 700) but WW1 put a stop to that. The Mauser action is just stronger and more mechanically reliable.

it will never not be funny to me that the US was the first country to adopt and build James Lee's rifle.

 

[Bassomatic]

But then you would have a moist nugget.

I honestly pity the people who didn't stock up when they were cheap.
I legit forget if I have 7 or 8 and less than a G into it for all of them (aside the mods and stamp).

I got a pretty good deal on my GU-RAND and had to have one since I do collect. I find it a quite bitey rifle oddly enough. I love m1 carbine, my first real gun too. Had it fuck 26 years now! Great shooter, it's mrs HD gun too for when I'm away. They get a bad rap and probably over priced for what they are but I just find it a handy carbine, my one Grandpa was an officer in ww2 so he had one and I have his 1911 the carbine he turned in so it's lost to probably a warehouse in Korea.

Nothing matches that SMLE bolt tho, I only have one and I really enjoy it but aside my semi bren nothing else in 303 and no more surp so it just sits around even reloading it isn't that cheap.

 

[JimJams1998]

The M1 Carbine is arguably worse. It was and still sometimes is priced higher than the Garand despite there being more of them.

I always feel like this is due to how few are left floating around. Even at boomer pawnshops that make most their money hawking little jimmies xbox his druggie mom traded in for crack dollars have one or two garands sitting on the rack around here, I haven't regularly seen carbines on shelves since 2008. With how cheap and available they were post war I feel like most of the domestic supply got bought up and shot to death or left to rot in an attic etc.