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shorttimin
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Let's talk about shooting! Rifles in particular, and pretty much anything that goes boom in general.
I want to build an M40A3. Buying one outright would cost over 4 grand.
There's a guy at my work that's gonna sell me a remington 700 LTR with a Tasco Euro Elite 3x12 30mm scope for 1100, extra for a bipod. Sounds like a nice start, especially since it's only a couple years old and he's put less than 50 rounds through it. I'll start to piece the M40A3 together using this for a base.
First thing I want to get is the McMillan A4 Tactical stock put on it.
So, do you shoot? What do you shoot with? How far away are you from your target when you shoot? And if you live in the Bay Area in Cali, do you know any good long range firing ranges? Like, over 300 yards, at least.
I want to build an M40A3. Buying one outright would cost over 4 grand.
There's a guy at my work that's gonna sell me a remington 700 LTR with a Tasco Euro Elite 3x12 30mm scope for 1100, extra for a bipod. Sounds like a nice start, especially since it's only a couple years old and he's put less than 50 rounds through it. I'll start to piece the M40A3 together using this for a base.
First thing I want to get is the McMillan A4 Tactical stock put on it.
So, do you shoot? What do you shoot with? How far away are you from your target when you shoot? And if you live in the Bay Area in Cali, do you know any good long range firing ranges? Like, over 300 yards, at least.
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All the pleasure, none of the gay.
win-win
I don't get it.
I've never played airsoft before. It seems kinda silly to me, although some of the stuff you can get is pretty cool looking. I prefer paintball if I'm gonna actually shoot at someone. Less reliance on the honor system unless they're a cheating bastard that wipes paint. Then I just make sure to try to hit them in the neck.
so when my old CRT monitor finally bit it, I retired it with an SKS
we also celebrated Nov. 1 by taking our jack-o-lanterns to the range. we'd make dry ice bombs in sobe bottles (so they would hold) and put one in each pumpkin. if you could hit the bomb inside the pumpkin, the pumpkin would just fucking disappear.
That's freakin awesome! When I was stationed on the East coast I went to my buddy's house in florida for a couple of leave periods. He had a mosin-nagant that fired a 7.62x54 round that made every dog in three miles start barking. It would also beat the shit out of your shoulder.
We would also shoot cans of soda with hollow points out of his AK. I think we found maybe a quarter of the cans afterward.
"What happened here?"
"It seems that Shank's plan.....backfired."
wonder how many obama targets will be at the tampa gun show
gonna go with a lot
Did you guys have a fencing program at your school? And did they inspect your rooms or something? I hid all sorts of stuff in my barracks rooms, and we had inspections all the time. You couldn't hide it?
What kind of handgun do you want Shank? I'm going to try to get a glock .40 for my first, then I'd like a revolver. Not sure what kind yet.
I've shot a glock .40, and while it was a few years back there was some strange navy-issue thing about it. Shot like a dream, but it didn't really have a nice feel for me.
For home/personal security, probably some sort of compact double action .45 although I don't know enough about the different makes to really be discerning beyond pointless douchebaggery yet.
I don't know a lot about differences in gun caliber beyond the most general stuff (.45 ACP being more powerful than 9mm Parabellum, etc.) but Wikipedia has this to say:
also, my dad has a .40 S&W compact and it has a very manageable kick, even for my skinny girl-arms. 9mm (despite being a cheap round to buy) has a reputation for having trouble bringing down even unarmored opponents and the .45 has a supposedly heavy recoil in smaller pistols.
perfect for knocking down jerry
but it seems to me that a .45 micro-compact would still have quite a heavy recoil due to the light weight of the gun and the kick of the cartridge
On TheHighRoad, the gun forum I post at, everyone recommends these krinker kits for the 10/22 and I really want to build one of these days. And build an M4 as well.
bless you
Springfield Micro-Compact 3"
I consistently keep a sub-1" group
I mean, I am a pretty good shot, but the recoil isn't what you'd expect
I didn't attempt to hide it. We did have a (Div III) team, although I wasn't on it.
if you all just wear t-shirts and like thin sweatpants... there is no need for the honor system. the cries of pain will be enough to tell.
i have some airsoft stuff, but have never played with them. i just target shoot with em. i dunno, that shit requires going outside and moving around and such. not my cup of tea, really.
This sounds like a lot of fun actually, I might have to give this a try. Maybe a watermelon though instead of a pumpkin, hmm.
It's much more of a day activity then just fuck around for an hour though.
H5 for paintball! It is quite a bit more expensive, and yes, it does usually require more time than airsoft. It is so much more satisfying I would think watching someone cringe while paint explodes all over them than just seeing them cringe.
Longbaugh, the .40 would be more for home defense, God forbid, while the revolver and the rifle are for fun.
Screw it, the more the merrier! Educate us on the shootenings with your bow and arrow. can you hit a breath mint thrown in the air?
I fucking wish!
I just started Archery (literally just started, I've had one lesson) and pretty soon I will be acquiring this baby
And on that one lesson, I didn't get the arrow anywhere near the target... but i did try
i thought you left for moral reasons
start at 10, move to 20. it's considerably more difficult to keep a good group at 30 with a 45. not impossible at all, just more frustrating when you keep getting 1.2"
A 9mm is more of a cap gun--a bit like a yappy dog.
A .40 is a sharp bite upwards
a .45 is like a strong but even push back but I find it very comfortable.
This is a man who sells arms for a living, has been shooting longer than most people have been driving and excels at everything that he does.
So he walks up to the line, draws the pistol up, presses the trigger, waits, presses the trigger, etc for about twenty seconds and at 35 yards he's punched what looks like a solid hole through the target's head.
And he just looks over and tosses me a huge wink. I'm fairly certain he's killed someone at some point in his life.