Weapons you own, general weapons discussion

[Kazarogkai]

I intend on getting involved in archery especially the study of crossbows and would be interested in making my own(i like doing things on my own). In general I am interested in primitive weaponry and survival skills and wish to study and "Indulge" in those things some more, My interest in Survivalism may kinda be the source of this.

[Spreewerke]

You'd be appalled by the $2,200.00 AK I take deer hunting, then.

Picture for picture thread (assumed):

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There are three or four not photographed because they were at my girlfriend's house or otherwise unaccessable at the moment.

I recognized most of these. Nice collection.

Thanks! Not photographed were an SGL 21-62, M1911 (non-military contract), 10/22, H&R Jr. Topper Classic, and a TC Encore in .308 Winchester.



EDIT TO ADD: This shows off some of the bayonet collection. Photographed are my rifles (and a couple rifles I was borrowing to clean for some folks, so a couple aren't mine) and I forgot to include my SKS. All the bayonets are mine, though, if that counts for anything.

[Big Jim P]

I recognized most of these. Nice collection.

Thanks! Not photographed were an SGL 21-62, M1911 (non-military contract), 10/22, H&R Jr. Topper Classic, and a TC Encore in .308 Winchester.

Cool. If ever there were a perfect gun, I would say it is the 10/22. I loved mine. It wasn't the most powerful, or the most useful gun I ever owned, fit is was damn sure the most fun.

[Cameroi]

i own no, nor wish to own any, fire arms or bladed weapons (though obviously i have blades used for cooking and miniature building). weapon potentential of completely nonconventional sorts, meaning excluding all firearms and bladed weapons, do interest me. though i understand humans have yet to develop most of them.

[Spreewerke]

Thanks! Not photographed were an SGL 21-62, M1911 (non-military contract), 10/22, H&R Jr. Topper Classic, and a TC Encore in .308 Winchester.

Cool. If ever there were a perfect gun, I would say it is the 10/22. I loved mine. It wasn't the most powerful, or the most useful gun I ever owned, fit is was damn sure the most fun.

Longest shot I've ever taken and hit target with was a tie between my 10/22 and my GP WASR-10/63 AKM clone at 250m. The 10/22 is awesome, though: pretty danged accurate, cheap to feed, easy to clean, reliable enough for about anything, and easy on the ears and shoulder.

Pretty awesome, really. Disassembly and reassembly kind of sucks, but a little practice fixes that pretty quick.

[Big Jim P]

Cool. If ever there were a perfect gun, I would say it is the 10/22. I loved mine. It wasn't the most powerful, or the most useful gun I ever owned, fit is was damn sure the most fun.

Longest shot I've ever taken and hit target with was a tie between my 10/22 and my GP WASR-10/63 AKM clone at 250m. The 10/22 is awesome, though: pretty danged accurate, cheap to feed, easy to clean, reliable enough for about anything, and easy on the ears and shoulder.

Pretty awesome, really. Disassembly and reassembly kind of sucks, but a little practice fixes that pretty quick.

Cut my thumb reassembling or disassembling one for cleaning.

My longest (confirmed) shot was 300m in the army with a Vietnam era m-16.

[Spreewerke]

Longest shot I've ever taken and hit target with was a tie between my 10/22 and my GP WASR-10/63 AKM clone at 250m. The 10/22 is awesome, though: pretty danged accurate, cheap to feed, easy to clean, reliable enough for about anything, and easy on the ears and shoulder.

Pretty awesome, really. Disassembly and reassembly kind of sucks, but a little practice fixes that pretty quick.

Cut my thumb reassembling or disassembling one for cleaning.

My longest (confirmed) shot was 300m in the army with a Vietnam era m-16.

Noice. The AR system is pretty nice. I think I was hitting a torso-sized stump at 200m or so off-hand with my uncle's Colt AR-15A2 HBAR. First time I ever fired an AR. They're accurate, I'll give them that, but I've invested too much into AKs to look at them as a serious purchase at this time.

That, and sproing!

[Big Jim P]

Cut my thumb reassembling or disassembling one for cleaning.

My longest (confirmed) shot was 300m in the army with a Vietnam era m-16.

Noice. The AR system is pretty nice. I think I was hitting a torso-sized stump at 200m or so off-hand with my uncle's Colt AR-15A2 HBAR. First time I ever fired an AR. They're accurate, I'll give them that, but I've invested too much into AKs to look at them as a serious purchase at this time.

That, and sproing!

AKs are the superior assault rifle, while the ARs are the superior rifle. In combat, I think I would rather have a rifle that fired no matter what I did to it over one that hit every time if I have the time to care for it.

Plus the ARs are a helluva lot more expensive.

[Occupied Deutschland]

Noice. The AR system is pretty nice. I think I was hitting a torso-sized stump at 200m or so off-hand with my uncle's Colt AR-15A2 HBAR. First time I ever fired an AR. They're accurate, I'll give them that, but I've invested too much into AKs to look at them as a serious purchase at this time.

That, and sproing!

HEY! An incredibly loud and annoying sproing isn't a problem! After a couple of magazines your brain learns to shut out the sound purely as a survival mechanism so it doesn't drive you mad.

[Big Jim P]

Noice. The AR system is pretty nice. I think I was hitting a torso-sized stump at 200m or so off-hand with my uncle's Colt AR-15A2 HBAR. First time I ever fired an AR. They're accurate, I'll give them that, but I've invested too much into AKs to look at them as a serious purchase at this time.

That, and sproing!

HEY! An incredibly loud and annoying sproing isn't a problem! After a couple of magazines your brain learns to shut out the sound purely as a survival mechanism so it doesn't drive you mad.

Hey, if something flies out of the rifle (other than brass and bullet), just pull the trigger again. What could go wrong?

[Spreewerke]

Noice. The AR system is pretty nice. I think I was hitting a torso-sized stump at 200m or so off-hand with my uncle's Colt AR-15A2 HBAR. First time I ever fired an AR. They're accurate, I'll give them that, but I've invested too much into AKs to look at them as a serious purchase at this time.

That, and sproing!

HEY! An incredibly loud and annoying sproing isn't a problem! After a couple of magazines your brain learns to shut out the sound purely as a survival mechanism so it doesn't drive you mad.

Mental adaptations aren't quite AR-exclusive, either.

Once I realized that an AK only offers 1mm of stamped steel between your face and all moving internal parts, I learned to appreciate the things in life I took for granted.

[Hungry]

Cricket Bat, and TF2 has taught me that the Shovel in the shed is a Weapon.

[Big Jim P]

Cricket Bat, and TF2 has taught me that the Shovel in the shed is a Weapon.

Almost anything you can put in your hand is a weapon. It's all in the mindset.

[Occupied Deutschland]

HEY! An incredibly loud and annoying sproing isn't a problem! After a couple of magazines your brain learns to shut out the sound purely as a survival mechanism so it doesn't drive you mad.

Hey, if something flies out of the rifle (other than brass and bullet), just pull the trigger again. What could go wrong?

Exactly. "There ain't nothing broke until the gun explodes in your hands!" as pappy used to say.

Poor, poor pappy.

[Big Jim P]

Hey, if something flies out of the rifle (other than brass and bullet), just pull the trigger again. What could go wrong?

Exactly. "There ain't nothing broke until the gun explodes in your hands!" as pappy used to say.

Poor, poor pappy.

Called him lefty after that did they?

[Occupied Deutschland]

Exactly. "There ain't nothing broke until the gun explodes in your hands!" as pappy used to say.

Poor, poor pappy.

Called him lefty after that did they?

Nah, he was left-handed to begin with. Called him stumpy after that.

We told him that using hot loads in a gun he hadn't cleaned for five years was a bad idea but would he listen? Nooooo.

[Big Jim P]

One of the coolest weapons I ever read about (in an article on the homemade guns of South Africa) was a revolver-rifle that could fire anything you could fit into the chamber. Anything even remotely close to the British .303 would work.

[Big Jim P]

Called him lefty after that did they?

Nah, he was left-handed to begin with. Called him stumpy after that.

We told him that using hot loads in a gun he hadn't cleaned for five years was a bad idea but would he listen? Nooooo.

All jokes aside: I have two cousins that died before I was borne: one was shot by a rusted old "unloaded" revolver, the other suicided over it. I take gun safety and responsibility VERY seriously.

[Waideland]

Pappy should have used a Hi-Point. I saw a YouTube video awhile back where some gun shop owners were trying to blow up the .45 ACP on purpose, to show what crappy and unsafe guns they after. After 5 videos full of them intentionally damaging the gun, they ended up hammering a bolt into the barrel, and holding it in place with a clamp, and finally got it to blow up.

They had to clamp it down because the first time they tried sealing the barrel off with the bolt, it just spat it out without damaging the barrel or receiver.

[Big Jim P]

Pappy should have used a Hi-Point. I saw a YouTube video awhile back where some gun shop owners were trying to blow up the .45 ACP on purpose, to show what crappy and unsafe guns they after. After 5 videos full of them intentionally damaging the gun, they ended up hammering a bolt into the barrel, and holding it in place with a clamp, and finally got it to blow up.

They had to clamp it down because the first time they tried sealing the barrel off with the bolt, it just spat it out without damaging the barrel or receiver.

Maybe the should have used the solid barrel form a wall hanger. That would have helped them.

BTW: Para Ordnance p-14, p-12 and p-10. I want a brace of each.

[Spreewerke]

Nah, he was left-handed to begin with. Called him stumpy after that.

We told him that using hot loads in a gun he hadn't cleaned for five years was a bad idea but would he listen? Nooooo.

All jokes aside: I have two cousins that died before I was borne: one was shot by a rusted old "unloaded" revolver, the other suicided over it. I take gun safety and responsibility VERY seriously.

Same. I think one my father's rifles was mishandled by its previous owner and it ended up killing them (K31: we think they got the safety ring caught while pulling it out of their vehicle barrel-first). My father also had a friend of his killed while said friend's friend was showing him how awesome it was that he could load his lever-action by twirling it with one hand. Apparently, he was also capable of firing it into someone's chest with one hand at the same time. My father also has had someone shoot over him with a rifle a few times and has been swept several times by "unloaded" firearms. Fortunately, he's never been injured, but he pretty much drilled firearms safety into each and every one of us. Didn't want any of us ending up like his friends did, so I appreciate it. I've also been swept numerous times while teaching folks to shoot, and it can be pretty nerve wracking. I was swept by my girlfriend (completely accidental: I was behind her and she was unslinging her rifle: got caught on her jacket) earlier today, and I honestly think she was more upset about it than I was. That's good, though. I think the hairiest situation was when I was teaching someone how a semi-automatic handgun worked. They fired off a round, turned to me (along with the firearm) and had it pointed at my chest, finger-on-trigger, single-action, safety off, asking, "How do I fire off the next round?"

[Big Jim P]

All jokes aside: I have two cousins that died before I was borne: one was shot by a rusted old "unloaded" revolver, the other suicided over it. I take gun safety and responsibility VERY seriously.

Same. I think one my father's rifles was mishandled by its previous owner and it ended up killing them (K31: we think they got the safety ring caught while pulling it out of their vehicle barrel-first). My father also had a friend of his killed while said friend's friend was showing him how awesome it was that he could load his lever-action by twirling it with one hand. Apparently, he was also capable of firing it into someone's chest with one hand at the same time. My father also has had someone shoot over him with a rifle a few times and has been swept several times by "unloaded" firearms. Fortunately, he's never been injured, but he pretty much drilled firearms safety into each and every one of us. Didn't want any of us ending up like his friends did, so I appreciate it. I've also been swept numerous times while teaching folks to shoot, and it can be pretty nerve wracking. I was swept by my girlfriend (completely accidental: I was behind her and she was unslinging her rifle: got caught on her jacket) earlier today, and I honestly think she was more upset about it than I was. That's good, though. I think the hairiest situation was when I was teaching someone how a semi-automatic handgun worked. They fired off a round, turned to me (along with the firearm) and had it pointed at my chest, finger-on-trigger, single-action, safety off, asking, "How do I fire off the next round?"

I get to teach Roan (a total virgin) how to fire a gun when we get to Texas. Literally how to pull a trigger. I am going to start her out on a 10/22, then move her up.

It is scary, but it is part of the responsibility I am always harping about. We, as gun owners, owe it to them.

[Raziac]

Chinese repeating crossbow (model), a couple primitive spears made with a penknife, some thick branches and some flint, and the knives in the kitchen.
Yeah.

[Jetan]

I have an old Indian Sabre.
http://tinypic.com/r/33uemnn/6

[Winland]

I own 2 BB guns, a small baseball bat-like blunt instrument, a dull hatchet, a carpenter's hammer, a variety of kitchen knives, a box cutter, pens and pencils, my bare hands, and a large dog.


And this one time, I shot cans with a .22 with my uncle.