rifles

[HDNB]

I don't know if that's a good analogy Jimbo.

I did get fixed because the neighbors had too many kids!

? Was you shootin at the other feller's target ?

damn, same thing went through my mind.

[WhiteDevil504]

You're a an after my own heart TB, I am sure you have but if you haven't check out the .338 lapua, it's getting more attention now that our troops have to fire at the next ridgeline. Pretty amazing round but pricey

[SassyFrass]

Got a few rifles, shotguns, and pistols. I stick mostly with .308 and 5.56mm/.223, 12 gauge, and .45 although I carry a Sig 220 instead of a 1911. My newest favorite every day carry gun is a S&W M&P .40 (shield). That little thing don't print and is light and easy to carry. I also plink a bunch with .22's, even though LR ammo is getting scarce. My favorite rifle is my GF's .22 Remington Target master. He paid $7 and change mail ordered from sears and rareback. It shoots .22 S/L/or LR. Single shot bolt action squirrel gun. Both of my kids learned to shoot and learned fundamentals of marksmanship with that rifle and then moved on to other stuff. Started them both at age 3, and my son is 25 and my daughter is 16 now. So I figured I done good, even though my Mother in Law about had a cow. She couldn't understand why I'd teach a little girl to shoot. LOL I figure she needs to learn more than her brother who's over 6 foot tall and about 230. And she used to outshoot him, which I got a kick out of. I have too many bullet launchers to list so those are just my favorites.
SF

[Truckinbutch]

You're a an after my own heart TB, I am sure you have but if you haven't check out the .338 lapua, it's getting more attention now that our troops have to fire at the next ridgeline. Pretty amazing round but pricey

Yep , I've looked at it . Impressive and pricey . A .50 gun has had my attention for many years . Mel Forbes of Ultra Light Arms is my best buddy for nearly 50 years and told me to just tell him when I want to start building and we will start on one . $5 a shot after the build is paid for is a big leap for a country boy .

[WhiteDevil504]

I would love a .50....my biggest fear is that I'll finally get one and some jack wagon will ban it because it's a "scary black gun" and because it was used in video games. I think .338 performs well and is likely off any anti gunners radar.... But I am probably over thinking it.... I sure would love to have an accuracy international, if I could just win the powerball.....a few times.....

[Truckinbutch]

I would love a .50....my biggest fear is that I'll finally get one and some jack wagon will ban it because it's a "scary black gun" and because it was used in video games. I think .338 performs well and is likely off any anti gunners radar.... But I am probably over thinking it.... I sure would love to have an accuracy international, if I could just win the powerball.....a few times.....

I'm trying to tailor my main arms to be compatible with the ammo I can resupply with from under blue hats when everything goes to shit . Uncommon calibers will be difficult to come by .

[Jimbo]

I don't know if that's a good analogy Jimbo.

I did get fixed because the neighbors had too many kids!

? Was you shootin at the other feller's target ?

BAHAHAHA! !!!

[The KYChemist]

I would love a .50....my biggest fear is that I'll finally get one and some jack wagon will ban it because it's a "scary black gun" and because it was used in video games. I think .338 performs well and is likely off any anti gunners radar.... But I am probably over thinking it.... I sure would love to have an accuracy international, if I could just win the powerball.....a few times.....

I'm trying to tailor my main arms to be compatible with the ammo I can resupply with from under blue hats when everything goes to shit . Uncommon calibers will be difficult to come by .

Last time I heard, the .308 is the most common round in the world. Can't vouch for the validity. Also why i want a .357. You can fire .38 through it too.

[The KYChemist]

I have multiple groups of 8, of 30.06 friends that can run really fast. Manufactured early Dec. if '42, rebarreled in '64. I hear this us illegal in NY, now... Because of magazine capacity.

[WhiteDevil504]

That's a smart call......Great..... Now I have to figure out how to justify this one to the wife...... Thanks TB, I owe you a beverage if you're ever through the AO.

[HDNB]

TP, those TEC weapons look awesome. i'm going to have to do some reseach and see if the sell in Canada.
Your collective enthusiasm for guns makes me somewhat jealous.
Not quite that easy around here. Citizens are allowed to be oppressed and abused by the police and lucky, we still retain the right to over-taxation.... but sadly the right to bear arms is no longer one of the freedoms they "permit" us here.
Criminals get all the fun stuff here. Police don't bother with them...after all criminals are dangerous. And better equipped.
political rant over.

[Halfbaked]

I always wanted a BMG also. When I was shootin lots you could buy Mil stuff for $1 ea. It has been a while. When I was loadin you could buy 50 powder for beans. And the pulled bullets were crazy cheap.. I would shoot cast bullets in it that I had made myself. Anything over a single shot would be to much. With cast loads you would have to dial it back quite a bit. With cast bullets it would kill anything as far as you could hit it. Where I am you can't hunt with it. Diam is to big. The cheapest way to own one is to put an upper on a black gun.

[WhiteDevil504]

Yea I have seen those kits but I've never met anyone whose used one. I just don't want to spend that kinda coin and not have it be accurate at range...a $5 bullet that can't get within 2 moa doesn't seem like fun.. At that point do the .50 beuwolf or .468 and call it good IMHO

[Halfbaked]

A beauwulf is not anywhere close to a bmg. The kit would not be my first choise either. 2 moa is worthless for a gun like a BMG but fine with a beauwulf. I know a few people that have worked for the mfg. The beauwulf is a 100-150yd brush gun

[WhiteDevil504]

Yea that was my point, if it's not accurate at range ya might as well scale down. I think the beuwolf would be a fun toy, especially in pig areas.. So many toys so little time

[Halfbaked]

Excellent pig gun 50-100yds. Love to have one to play with.

[HDNB]

wtf is a beuwolf moa etc... etc? do i need to join another forum?

and AO and BMG?

i mean i caught on to the whole shootin at another guys target an all....but holy acronyms!

[WhiteDevil504]

Sorry, MOA is Minute of Angle its a measure of accuracy. If a firearm shoots at 1 MOA it means the bullet stroke will be within an inch of the aim point at 100 yards (or 2" at 200 yards, etc. ). AO is area of operations (or a way of saying the area you are responsible for or reside). .50 beuwolf is a type of cartridge (like .44 mag or .22 long rifle), it's a shorter .50 round that is closer to a hand gun round than a rifle round but it does pack a nasty punch at shorter ranges. The more popular .50 is the .50BMG or Browning Machine Gun made famous from the M2 browning machine gun you've seen in war movies since World War Two.

[HDNB]

T Y, it was worth waking up again today! learned lots of new stuff!

[Truckinbutch]

Shoulder fired sniper rifles chambered for .50 cal BMG round have been tuned to less than 1/4 MOA and have registered kills in the sand box countries at beyond 1 MILE .

[corene1]

Since you guys are talking exotics, this would be my dream rifle. .408 Chey Tac in civilian mode .Capable of first shot hits at 2000 meters.

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[hamshine]

I would love a .50....my biggest fear is that I'll finally get one and some jack wagon will ban it because it's a "scary black gun" and because it was used in video games. I think .338 performs well and is likely off any anti gunners radar.... But I am probably over thinking it.... I sure would love to have an accuracy international, if I could just win the powerball.....a few times.....

I'm trying to tailor my main arms to be compatible with the ammo I can resupply with from under blue hats when everything goes to shit . Uncommon calibers will be difficult to come by .

Last time I heard, the .308 is the most common round in the world. Can't vouch for the validity. Also why i want a .357. You can fire .38 through it too.

I just got a sweet 70's colt python 357 with a 6" barrel it's fun to load 5 38's and 1 357 and spin it before you shoot so you don't know where the mag is... pink pink pink BANG

[HDNB]

Since you guys are talking exotics, this would be my dream rifle. .408 Chey Tac in civilian mode .Capable of first shot hits at 2000 meters.

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not sure what i'd shoot 2km away, but i can see the entertainment in picking off golphers on the neighbours quarter from the comfort of my deck chair.

[T-Pee]

Since you guys are talking exotics, this would be my dream rifle. .408 Chey Tac in civilian mode .Capable of first shot hits at 2000 meters.

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not sure what i'd shoot 2km away, but i can see the entertainment in picking off golphers on the neighbours quarter from the comfort of my deck chair.

That's the fun part of being American. It's not that you NEED it, but that you simply want it and can have it!

tp

[SassyFrass]

If ya'll are talking wishing and not owning. I wish I had been able to buy my M14 that I carried during my civilian career. We "upgraded" to SR25's and shipped our m14s to the sandbox for the troops there. Don't get me wrong, the SR25 is a nice rifle, had all kinds of bells and whistles, and shot great. But I just liked my M14. I did like my colt M4 better than the Bushmaster M4. We had too many malfunctions with the gas tubes on the Bushmaster, so they spent way too much time in the armory. Other than the gas tube problem, the bushmaster was a good shooting weapon. Just my opinion.

SF

[thumper123]

Here in NY we are in a fight for our very survival as gun owners. NY has passed a restrictive law called the SAFE Act. It restricts law abiding citizens from owning weapons that have been decreed by the state as "dangerous" to the citizenry. These weapons (rifles) are ones that include a magazine capacity of over seven rounds, semi-automatic technology over 100 years old, appendages such as a bayonet lug, or basiclly a rifle that just looks "evil" to New York State. It's horrible. Attachments to the bill include a three year renewal for pistol permit holders that were previously lifelong. Our protests fall on deaf ears because we are Upstate and in the minority as opposed to the liberal dipshits from the Metropolitan areas. That combined with the fact that only 70% of gun owners are registered to vote makes our situation untenable.
You Aussies know it all first hand, and my heart goes out to you.

But let's get back to rifles. I was a junior Distinguished Rifleman, and competetive shooting has been my passion (along with distilling) all my life. I think of all the rifles I have ever owned, my Ruger #1 w/24" factory bull barrel in .220 Swift equipped with a Leopald 20X target scope is my favorite of all time. She needs a new barrel after a long career in what I'll call informal target shooting, that is to say not an NRA approved range, but only Club competition at 100 meters, plus hoardes of woodchucks.

I'd love to hear more about your favorite rifles.

[still_stirrin]

Since you guys are talking exotics, this would be my dream rifle. .408 Chey Tac in civilian mode .Capable of first shot hits at 2000 meters.

Oh my Corene! What a choice. Very, very nice.

The Chey Tac is a revered long range sniper round, a very flat trajectory. Ammo is hard to get tho. Pricey too. I saw it on Discovery's "Ultimate Weapons" series.
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[goinbroke2]

Edit: I held off posting on this thread. I finally did but am deleting it because I already know this posting season (July/Aug) I'm going to be the Battalion Operations Warrant Officer. Posting what I have or can do/have done as a Range Safety Officer is what can get me in real trouble so it's gone.

So, like I don't have a still and don't make whiskey, I also don't have any weapons or friends who are Weapon Tech's.

[HDNB]

Edit: I held off posting on this thread. I finally did but am deleting it because I already know this posting season (July/Aug) I'm going to be the Battalion Operations Warrant Officer. Posting what I have or can do/have done as a Range Safety Officer is what can get me in real trouble so it's gone.

So, like I don't have a still and don't make whiskey, I also don't have any weapons or friends who are Weapon Tech's.

you're not even here.

[T-Pee]

gb2? Whozzat?

tp