[QUOTE=kman866;38016239]Question for some of you guys-
What is the loudest firearm (no cannons and such :smile: ) that you have ever heard? Any that you have just felt the "thump" from?[/QUOTE]
My teachers .264win.
We heard it from our shooting tunnel into the mainschool's hallway, but only barely.
Anyone knows about a good (reliable), NON-detachable magazine semi-auto shotgun?
I'm really aching for one nowadays.
Beretta A400, or a Benelli Super Black Eagle II.
Every now and again I browse this thread and feel a combination of burning jealousy that you can own these and a burning rage that my pussy, nanny-state government (UK) won't let me.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;38048227]Beretta A400, or a Benelli Super Black Eagle II.[/QUOTE]
They look good, but damn, pricey for me. I hope I manage to get one before 2014 then :v:
[QUOTE=kebab52;38048387]Every now and again I browse this thread and feel a combination of burning jealousy that you can own these and a burning rage that my pussy, nanny-state government (UK) won't let me.[/QUOTE]
I did the exact same thing and posted a very similar reply a couple of months ago.
I should be getting my UK Shotgun License signed soon once the Fuzz pop round to have a look at the gun safe :dance:
Bought some 5.56 ammo for my new rifle gets here, it's so puny compared to all my 7.62 laying around.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;38048847]Bought some 5.56 ammo for my new rifle gets here, it's so puny compared to all my 7.62 laying around.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, saw some .223 for the first time at the range yesterday. They're so... thin.
[QUOTE=Campin Carl;38048581]They look good, but damn, pricey for me. I hope I manage to get one before 2014 then :v:[/QUOTE]
Also, how could I forget the new and improved (God I hate using that phrase, but it kind of applies here) Browning Auto-5.
I shot .223 for a good while, then I started shooting some other things, buying some different rifles, and all that stuff. After getting used to .30 cal cartridges, then seeing a .223 it's like, damn, that's a small round.
I just love my dad's Springfield 50-70 we got for $100 from a local Craigslist seller.
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/SF07c.jpg?1[/thumb]
It shoots great! My dad bought 50 rounds of 50-70 at a gun show a while back, and we only have 3 rounds left. Does anybody else here shoot rolling block rifles?
[QUOTE=Garb;38050655]I shot .223 for a good while, then I started shooting some other things, buying some different rifles, and all that stuff. After getting used to .30 cal cartridges, then seeing a .223 it's like, damn, that's a small round.[/QUOTE]
This.
.223 is .22lr to me now after spending so much time with the 7.62x39 and x54r.
[QUOTE=/Vandy/;38052433]I just love my dad's Springfield 50-70 we got for $100 from a local Craigslist seller.
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/SF07c.jpg?1[/thumb]
It shoots great! My dad bought 50 rounds of 50-70 at a gun show a while back, and we only have 3 rounds left. Does anybody else here shoot rolling block rifles?[/QUOTE]
Wait.
Firearms are against Craigslist's "code of conduct", how'd you find that posting?
[QUOTE=ewitwins;38052986]Wait.
Firearms are against Craigslist's "code of conduct", how'd you find that posting?[/QUOTE]
Maybe he meant armslist? It's the Craigslist of guns.
[url]http://www.armslist.com/[/url]
You can probably make a deal for a gun on craigslist if you find it before it's flagged into oblivion...
You can sell "nonfunctional" firearms on Craigslist. Kind of like how people sell "10 round" magazines on ebay
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Speaking of which there was a guy at the last gunshow I went to selling "fake" suppressors...not sure who'd want to risk the consequences of that but I sure wouldn't.
[QUOTE=/Vandy/;38052433]I just love my dad's Springfield 50-70 we got for $100 from a local Craigslist seller.
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/SF07c.jpg?1[/thumb]
It shoots great! My dad bought 50 rounds of 50-70 at a gun show a while back, and we only have 3 rounds left. Does anybody else here shoot rolling block rifles?[/QUOTE]
I've been wanting a Martini Henry for a while. Quite nice looking if you ask me
I'd love to get a .45-70 Sharps/Springfield reproduction, but they're over a grand for a single shot rifle, and I can't justify that right now. Not to mention .45-70 is over a buck a shot, and is a black powder cartridge, which makes reloading more difficult in terms of the legality due to laws surrounding the storage of black powder here, as well as laws about quantities you can possess.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;38055510] is a black power cartridge, which makes reloading more difficult.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, white power works better.
Uhh, I mean...
[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;38055686]Yeah, white power works better.
Uhh, I mean...[/QUOTE]
Of course spellcheck wouldn't catch that, fixed it.
Bit strange they treat blackpowder differentially from smokeless...
In Australia we're not supposed to have any more than 3kgs of ammunition (not sure if that's by weight of the ammunition, or weight of the powder in it), yet nearly every shooter has more than that.
Supposed to have an explosives permit for quantities between 3 and 60kgs
3 kilos? That's nothing! Also, they treat them differently because black is more volatile than smokeless. Under the Firearms Act, they say you can have a "reasonable" amount of ammo, but due to subjectivity that is essentially meaningless. However, under the Explosives Act you can have somewhere around 225 kilos of smokeless powder contained in cartridges within your house, and more if you store them in a shed, and I believe up to 20 kilos of black powder in your house, though it may be 60, and again, more if you keep them in a structure detached from your "dwelling-house" like a shed.
Despite the high number of over 200 kilos of powder in ammo, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of rounds, there are still people with more ammo and reloading powder than that in their houses, and I know you can get a license as a business to have more, my store probably has 200 kilos of just 12 gauge on display, that's not even counting the other gauges/calibres we have, or any of the ammo in the back room.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;38056349]3 kilos? That's nothing! Also, they treat them differently because [B]black is more volatile than smokeless[/B]. Under the Firearms Act, they say you can have a "reasonable" amount of ammo, but due to subjectivity that is essentially meaningless. However, under the Explosives Act you can have somewhere around 225 kilos of smokeless powder contained in cartridges within your house, and more if you store them in a shed, and I believe up to 20 kilos of black powder in your house, though it may be 60, and again, more if you keep them in a structure detached from your "dwelling-house" like a shed.
Despite the high number of over 200 kilos of powder in ammo, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of rounds, there are still people with more ammo and reloading powder than that in their houses, and I know you can get a license as a business to have more, my store probably has 200 kilos of just 12 gauge on display, that's not even counting the other gauges/calibres we have, or any of the ammo in the back room.[/QUOTE]
That is so overstated, it's not like it's gonna go off if you sneeze while carrying a can, and if you're tossing a can of Goex around that so it does create a spark you've got other problems. Bullshit like that is why you can't go into a gunshop and get a couple pounds of BP anymore.
Couple years ago I could find BP everywhere for $15 a pound, now nobody has it because they can't sell it for less than $30-40 a pound anymore so it doesn't sell and it's $300 or more to get a decent amount of BP shipped to my door because it's got a $25 hazmat fee on top of shipping regardless of how much you order.
Doesn't help that every dumbass out these preaches about ersatz powder like it's made by Jesus himself and cures cancer when you breathe the smoke. If it goes off that is, I've always found it hilarious that places sell Flintlocks but only have ersatz powder for sale, even scarier that some moron tried to sell me some 'rifle powder' once to go with the Bess I was fondling, was obliged to thoroughly chew him out for that. Lets shoot smokeless out of a .75 musket, what could possibly go wrong?
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;38056349]3 kilos? That's nothing! Also, they treat them differently because black is more volatile than smokeless. Under the Firearms Act, they say you can have a "reasonable" amount of ammo, but due to subjectivity that is essentially meaningless. However, under the Explosives Act you can have somewhere around 225 kilos of smokeless powder contained in cartridges within your house, and more if you store them in a shed, and I believe up to 20 kilos of black powder in your house, though it may be 60, and again, more if you keep them in a structure detached from your "dwelling-house" like a shed.
Despite the high number of over 200 kilos of powder in ammo, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of rounds, there are still people with more ammo and reloading powder than that in their houses, and I know you can get a license as a business to have more, my store probably has 200 kilos of just 12 gauge on display, that's not even counting the other gauges/calibres we have, or any of the ammo in the back room.[/QUOTE]
Yea, I know. Easily half the shooters in Australia would have more than 3kgs. In my state at least they treat all explosives the same in terms of storage, whether that be blackpowder or PETN.
In my state it goes <3kgs for shooters, 3-60kgs you need an explosives permit and over 60kgs you need an explosives magazine. Every gunstore would be breaking this easily, and I doubt any of them actually have an explosives permit. I heard something recently that a gunstore owner was approached by SafeworkSA (the people that deal with explsives in my state) and told they needed a permit
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;38056611]That is so overstated, it's not like it's gonna go off if you sneeze while carrying a can, and if you're tossing a can of Goex around that so it does create a spark you've got other problems. Bullshit like that is why you can't go into a gunshop and get a couple pounds of BP anymore.
Couple years ago I could find BP everywhere for $15 a pound, now nobody has it because they can't sell it for less than $30-40 a pound anymore so it doesn't sell and it's $300 or more to get a decent amount of BP shipped to my door because it's got a $25 hazmat fee on top of shipping regardless of how much you order.
Doesn't help that every dumbass out these preaches about ersatz powder like it's made by Jesus himself and cures cancer when you breathe the smoke. If it goes off that is, I've always found it hilarious that places sell Flintlocks but only have ersatz powder for sale, even scarier that some moron tried to sell me some 'rifle powder' once to go with the Bess I was fondling, was obliged to thoroughly chew him out for that. Lets shoot smokeless out of a .75 musket, what could possibly go wrong?[/QUOTE]
We pay about AUS$80/kg in Australia, about $40/lb, and that stuff is made locally
[QUOTE=download;38057282]We pay about AUS$80/kg in Australia, about $40/lb, and that stuff is made locally[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's my firearm berserk button right there, forget all the Brony guns, BP should not cost more than $20 a pound at most and that's pushing it, especially with such expensive synthetics being sold without all the legal baggage associated with BP, which under-perform at best and utterly fail in everything but certain kinds of gun. If BP should be allowed to be sold as a propellant just like all the other propellants out there, I mean you can't get more 'back to basics' than BP.
It's super cheap to make your own BP granted you can find a good source of sulfur and saltpeter, and willow charcoal is surprisingly easy to make too, especially since everyone who has a willow tree hates it enough to let a complete stranger have at it with a big knife for free. Cost me $3 to make a pound of powder not too long ago, so even with overhead $12-15 a pound is quite reasonable I'd say.
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;38057595]Yeah, that's my firearm berserk button right there, forget all the Brony guns, BP should not cost more than $20 a pound at most and that's pushing it, especially with such expensive synthetics being sold without all the legal baggage associated with BP, which under-perform at best and utterly fail in everything but certain kinds of gun. If BP should be allowed to be sold as a propellant just like all the other propellants out there, I mean you can't get more 'back to basics' than BP.
It's super cheap to make your own BP granted you can find a good source of sulfur and saltpeter, and willow charcoal is surprisingly easy to make too, especially since everyone who has a willow tree hates it enough to let a complete stranger have at it with a big knife for free. Cost me $3 to make a pound of powder not too long ago, so even with overhead $12-15 a pound is quite reasonable I'd say.[/QUOTE]
Actaully, what I meant was all out powders are that price, smokeless and BP, they're treated the same
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And cost the same
[QUOTE=download;38057614]Actaully, what I meant was all out powders are that price, smokeless and BP, they're treated the same
[editline]16th October 2012[/editline]
And cost the same[/QUOTE]
In the US BP is legally considered an explosive, but ersatz powders and Smokeless are considered propellants and thus protected. Makes perfect sense doesn't it?
Bit strange
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That last bit sounds EXTREMELY painful
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Fuck fuck fuck page king!
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Lookin' [I]sharp[/I]
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