GUN TALK II: Doubletap

[Hurtful Thoughts]

M1911 in .300 Blackout. Discuss?

I mean, I know the Automag managed to tame .30 Carbine, and the OA-93 managed to make the .223 AR-pistol compact in albeit a broomhandle mauser style package.

Just wondering how it'd be for people's whose hands would fit around a STANAG-mag sized pistol-grip.

[Chernoslavia]

So…does anyone know of a place where I can buy a real mace? By real I dont mean an original one made in the middle ages, I mean a reproduction that is just as durable. I’m not looking for a prop.

For all lawful purposes, Cold Steel makes one that sells for MSRP $100 US.

Damn, out of stock.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Finally have my AR mostly together. Just need to order a new extractor spring

[Mercatus]

M1911 in .300 Blackout. Discuss?

I mean, I know the Automag managed to tame .30 Carbine, and the OA-93 managed to make the .223 AR-pistol compact in albeit a broomhandle mauser style package.

Just wondering how it'd be for people's whose hands would fit around a STANAG-mag sized pistol-grip.

It’d be one fatass grip. If it was exclusive to .300 BLK, then the mag would be smaller than a normal 5.56 mag, and then make it single stack for the 1911 platform.

Come to think of it, even with recoil operation, would the pistol be able to handle the pressures of the round?

[Hurtful Thoughts]

M1911 in .300 Blackout. Discuss?

I mean, I know the Automag managed to tame .30 Carbine, and the OA-93 managed to make the .223 AR-pistol compact in albeit a broomhandle mauser style package.

Just wondering how it'd be for people's whose hands would fit around a STANAG-mag sized pistol-grip.

It’d be one fatass grip. If it was exclusive to .300 BLK, then the mag would be smaller than a normal 5.56 mag, and then make it single stack for the 1911 platform.

Come to think of it, even with recoil operation, would the pistol be able to handle the pressures of the round?

Would probably need a gas or gas-delay system.

TBF, the Automag III managed, although those aren't quite the same, the case is for example 2mm shorter (gonna ignore overall length for now since you can load stubby boolits if it came to that, but listed CoaL is 43mm for the carbine and 57mm for blackout/.223 with case-bases being 9.1mm and 9.6nn respectively)

[Punished UMN]

Thinking about selling old hunting rifles and shotguns nobody uses anymore to expand my milsurp collection quickly.

[The Chuck]

Thinking about selling old hunting rifles and shotguns nobody uses anymore to expand my milsurp collection quickly.

*Drags UMN offsite*



Currently too broke to afford a new bang stick due to grabbing a self defense S&W Shield Plus recently with my Bangstick fund.

[Krasny-Volny]

Thinking about selling old hunting rifles and shotguns nobody uses anymore to expand my milsurp collection quickly.

What do you have? And what are you trying to get?

[Punished UMN]

Thinking about selling old hunting rifles and shotguns nobody uses anymore to expand my milsurp collection quickly.

What do you have? And what are you trying to get?

I’d have to check the number, but just want to quickly raise the funds for a gew 98

[Krasny-Volny]

What do you have? And what are you trying to get?

I’d have to check the number, but just want to quickly raise the funds for a gew 98

For some odd reason (at least out West) the price of bolt and lever action hunting rifles on the second hand market has far exceeded the proportional increase in price for MSRs. Older Winchester Model 94 30-30s and Winchester Model 70s used to be ~$400 and $600-$700 respectively in my area pre Covid but are now garnering over $1,000. The price of new bolt and lever action rifles has also gone up. Meanwhile MSRs have hit a plateau in price.

I’m guessing that’s because the second hand market is much more heavily saturated with second hand semi autos.

You may get a goodly sum if you flip em now.

[Punished UMN]

I’d have to check the number, but just want to quickly raise the funds for a gew 98

For some odd reason (at least out West) the price of bolt and lever action hunting rifles on the second hand market has far exceeded the proportional increase in price for MSRs. Older Winchester Model 94 30-30s and Winchester Model 70s used to be ~$400 and $600-$700 respectively in my area pre Covid but are now garnering over $1,000. The price of new bolt and lever action rifles has also gone up. Meanwhile MSRs have hit a plateau in price.

I’m guessing that’s because the second hand market is much more heavily saturated with second hand semi autos.

You may get a goodly sum if you flip em now.

What would you recommend for a place of sale? I figure a pawn shop would fuck me over, but I'm not entirely sure where else I'd sell them. There's a gun show in late September in my county, but I always thought of those as more a place to sell collectibles.

[Pax Nerdvana]

For some odd reason (at least out West) the price of bolt and lever action hunting rifles on the second hand market has far exceeded the proportional increase in price for MSRs. Older Winchester Model 94 30-30s and Winchester Model 70s used to be ~$400 and $600-$700 respectively in my area pre Covid but are now garnering over $1,000. The price of new bolt and lever action rifles has also gone up. Meanwhile MSRs have hit a plateau in price.

I’m guessing that’s because the second hand market is much more heavily saturated with second hand semi autos.

You may get a goodly sum if you flip em now.

What would you recommend for a place of sale? I figure a pawn shop would fuck me over, but I'm not entirely sure where else I'd sell them. There's a gun show in late September in my county, but I always thought of those as more a place to sell collectibles.

You could try Armslist or GunBroker or something like that. You can usually get more through a private sale then you could through selling to a pawn shop or something.

[Krasny-Volny]

What would you recommend for a place of sale? I figure a pawn shop would fuck me over, but I'm not entirely sure where else I'd sell them. There's a gun show in late September in my county, but I always thought of those as more a place to sell collectibles.

You could try Armslist or GunBroker or something like that. You can usually get more through a private sale then you could through selling to a pawn shop or something.

+1. If you’re really trying to squeeze out top dollar, go Gunbroker or Armslist and specify you’re willing to ship to an FFL nationwide.

Also people do buy those guns at gun shows, half of the guns I see at the ones in my area are commercial bolt or lever action rifles, with the remainder being milsurps or MSRs. Feel free to just walk around with a price tag stuck on your guns if you don’t want to shell out for a booth; every time I’ve walked around one of those shows with a slung rifle I’ve always attracted a couple potentially interested buyers.

You could also sell consignment through your local gun store, mine takes a 30% cut of the money that they’re honest enough to stick to even if they decide to mark up.

Pawn shops will lowball you unless you really know the guys there.

[Mercatus]

You could try Armslist or GunBroker or something like that. You can usually get more through a private sale then you could through selling to a pawn shop or something.

+1. If you’re really trying to squeeze out top dollar, go Gunbroker or Armslist and specify you’re willing to ship to an FFL nationwide.

Also people do buy those guns at gun shows, half of the guns I see at the ones in my area are commercial bolt or lever action rifles, with the remainder being milsurps or MSRs. Feel free to just walk around with a price tag stuck on your guns if you don’t want to shell out for a booth; every time I’ve walked around one of those shows with a slung rifle I’ve always attracted a couple potentially interested buyers.

You could also sell consignment through your local gun store, mine takes a 30% cut of the money that they’re honest enough to stick to even if they decide to mark up.

Pawn shops will lowball you unless you really know the guys there.

Cue the Pawn Stars memes.

[Washington Resistance Army]

I'm really strongly tempted to build a handgonne so I can own a very literal boom stick.

[The Two Jerseys]

+1. If you’re really trying to squeeze out top dollar, go Gunbroker or Armslist and specify you’re willing to ship to an FFL nationwide.

Also people do buy those guns at gun shows, half of the guns I see at the ones in my area are commercial bolt or lever action rifles, with the remainder being milsurps or MSRs. Feel free to just walk around with a price tag stuck on your guns if you don’t want to shell out for a booth; every time I’ve walked around one of those shows with a slung rifle I’ve always attracted a couple potentially interested buyers.

You could also sell consignment through your local gun store, mine takes a 30% cut of the money that they’re honest enough to stick to even if they decide to mark up.

Pawn shops will lowball you unless you really know the guys there.

Cue the Pawn Stars memes.

Best I can do is *insert value roughly 55% of market price*, and even at that I'm taking a risk.

[Big Jim P]

So…does anyone know of a place where I can buy a real mace? By real I dont mean an original one made in the middle ages, I mean a reproduction that is just as durable. I’m not looking for a prop.

Museum Replicas.

https://www.museumreplicas.com/

[Pax Nerdvana]

I'm really strongly tempted to build a handgonne so I can own a very literal boom stick.

Those things are cool. That’d be a fun winter project.

[Mercatus]

Is the new Gun Meme Review good? Yes.

But is the Type 1 underfolder hanging on the wall in the top right corner better? Yes.

Brandon did it. He finally got one.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Replaced the extractor spring in my AR. Silly thing still won’t extract dummy rounds right. I can’t think of what else to do.

[Hurtful Thoughts]

Replaced the extractor spring in my AR. Silly thing still won’t extract dummy rounds right. I can’t think of what else to do.

Polish the chamber?

It could also be the dummy round is engaging the rifling (or other fouling) at the end of the chamber-throat.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Replaced the extractor spring in my AR. Silly thing still won’t extract dummy rounds right. I can’t think of what else to do.

Polish the chamber?

It could also be the dummy round is engaging the rifling (or other fouling) at the end of the chamber-throat.

I did try running a cleaning brush down the barrel and chamber, but I haven’t tried polishing it. How would I do that?
Thanks

[Grinning Dragon]

Polish the chamber?

It could also be the dummy round is engaging the rifling (or other fouling) at the end of the chamber-throat.

I did try running a cleaning brush down the barrel and chamber, but I haven’t tried polishing it. How would I do that?
Thanks

Does the extractor engage the rim of the casing at all?
One can use a wire chamber brush and rod and wrap scotchbright around the brush and put some polish compound on it end attach the other end to a cordless drill and let it spin inside the chamber for bit. Another way would be to use a slightly larger chamber brush and wrap a cleaning patch around the brush and apply polish compound to that and spin it with a drill.

[Lazarine]

Im not much of a gun expert and I would like to be but can somebody for the love of God tell me why the hell does everyone hate:
- Hi-Point
- Bullpups
- H&K (the company)

I keep seeing the hate on it, I understand the hate for the NRA and whatever that other association is I forgot the name off since Im not America. It is also perfectly reasonable to go on a tangent rant or a 3 page exposition paper on why you or why people hate it, i want to learn more

[Paddy O Fernature]

Im not much of a gun expert and I would like to be but can somebody for the love of God tell me why the hell does everyone hate:
- Hi-Point
- Bullpups
- H&K (the company)

I keep seeing the hate on it, I understand the hate for the NRA and whatever that other association is I forgot the name off since Im not America. It is also perfectly reasonable to go on a tangent rant or a 3 page exposition paper on why you or why people hate it, i want to learn more

1: Cheap and unreliable reputation.
2: Harder and slower to reload then it's counterpart, the AR-15 series of sporting rifle.
3: Fanboyism, though these days that applies to most gun manufacturers it seems.