HAVE YOU EVER FIRED A GUN?
OF ANY KIND IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE?
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Yes I grew up knowing how to shoot.
shareNothing wrong with knowing how to shoot.
Do you have a preferred caliber, model or action?
A proper gun will last you a lifetime, I do suggest frequent cleaning and occasional oiling.
You could eat off my guns, I keep them immaculate.
Thereās something very special about a well made firearm. Remington, Winchester and Smith and Wesson can put a damn good gun together.
Mossberg is real good too, they make a fine shotgun, it cycles really fast, itās easy to clean, comes with two barrels, a rifled barrel and a smooth bore barrel and three different chokes to tighten up your shots on small game.
I tend to use the slug barrel. You can really blow shit up with a one
ounce twelve gauge lead slug:)
Pumpkins, road signs, tree stumpsā¦a 12 gauge wrecks all that stuff.
The Mossberg Model 500 is a real good shotgun, I own four shotguns and the Mossberg is my favorite. It cycles real smooth. Buy one if you need a good shotgun
I spent 11 years in the armed forces (a long time ago). Not fired a shot since.
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I like to hunt and target shoot with my friends when I can. I have a steel gun case with nine firearms (one is not functional and needs repair) and a footlocker with about 2,500 rounds of ammo.
Everything is locked up and secure of course, I donāt want my kids or the neighborhood kids messing with any of it. The gun cabinet is always locked and itās inside of a locked closet with a fingerprint lock.
My .35 Marlin lever action is my go to iron, itās about fifty years old and you can still shoot the lights out with it, no scope needed out to about one hundred yards. I can routinely put 17-20 shots out of 20 in the black at one hundred yards, iron sights and 170 grain Remington cartridgesā¦that gun is like butter.
Smooth.
All of the common designs are useful, I have two lever actions, a pair of semi-autos, a bolt action
and a bunch of pumps.
I prefer revolvers in terms of handguns, no jamming, no nonsense. I had a really nice, simple .38 K Frame five shot Colt Detective model for a long time. It was not exactly legal and thatās a long story so I had to get rid of itā¦real good little gun and it was accurate and hard hitting. Dirty Harry was wrong, a .38 can do plenty of damage.
My wife is pressing me to buy a pair of Glocks for us this year, she likes guns too, Iām going to have to save up for that though, itās quite an expense!
I love guns and shooting.
Thereās an old timer on YouTube called Hancock45, check out his videos, that guy is knowledgeableš
Glocks can't be sold in my State. How friggin crazy is that!? I guess they don't approve of the trigger safety mechanism and require handguns to have a manual safety.
shareNew York is a bit crazy with the gun laws too. I knew an old Portuguese guy from Yonkers many years ago, he had a big arsenal in his upstate cabin but lived down by the city near me. He always joked about being allowed to have two dozen guns up in the country but having to keep an illegal shooter under the mattress down near the city. Heād say āthey let you have a gun where you donāt need oneā lol. Funny old fellow, heās gone now, dead. A heart attack got him, he could shoot a bow like you wouldnāt believe.
New Yorkā¦ only the crooks and cops have guns. Or so they think!
Glock 19, which I have experience with is light with high capacity, low recoil and you can really put rounds on target fast. Glocks are really common these days and itās what most LEOs in this area use so I think you really canāt go wrong with them if that is what you decide to get.
shareI did a bit of googling, thereās a Bass Pro Shop about an hour away in Connecticut selling the Glock 17 for about $530. Extra magazines go for about $25 apiece. I found some deals on CheaperThanDirt for the ammo but damn, ammo is really expensive now!
shareAmmoseek.com is a great place to find good prices and you can search by caliber.
My buddy Eddie down in Virginia likes using Ammoseek. I havenāt ordered from them yet.
Eddie has a fast, smooth 9 mm semi auto Sig pistol that never jams and an AR type semi rifle, it fires the 5.56 NATO round. Heās got the side rails, the scope, the red dot laser and a flashlight on the thing!
It looks like something out of a John Wick movieš!
Both are very accurate.
Eddie has a cool .308 bolt action Rifle from one of his relatives, itās probably a Korean War era relic but we had no ammo for it so Iām not sure how it shoots.
I would be interested to know what rifle that is, if itās a US weapon from the Korean War. 7.62x51 or .308 is one of my favorite rounds.
shareI just texted Eddie.
Itās a 1944 Lee Enfield .308.
Just looking around on the ānet I see a real beauty on GunBroker.com. The bidding is up to almost $2,000!
ETA: they have a couple others that are only in the several hundreds range.
Very nice. My friendās dad had one at the hunting camp years ago but I never shot it. Lots of history behind that one. I believe his was in .303.
shareI prefer the old hardwood stocks. They look real nice. My 12 gauge Model 500 Mossberg has a synthetic stock but the rest of the arsenal is hardwoodā¦wood just looks nicer on a Deer rifle or .22 plinking gun.
My Dad had a cool nickel plated Colt revolver, a .32. He was a cop, he took it off of a rough sort.
It was a sweet little six shot. Very lightweight and accurate! I regret not taking that little silver beauty when I left dadās house.
I hope you get a chance to buy that .303š
Guns are like cookies, you canāt just have oneš
You are quite right and they are certainly addictive. A .32 is one caliber Iāve never owned but Iām a fan of everything Colt.
In the early 90s I read Bill Wilsonās book The Combat Automatic and I bought a 1911 Colt .45 new in the box. I ordered all the custom parts he recommended in the book, which cost more than the pistol, and brought it to a local gunsmith to be fitted before I ever even fired it. I still have that book on the shelf with a recite stapled to the inside cover from all the parts I bought.
These days makers like Kimber sell 1911s already fitted with all that stuff but back then it was much more uncommon.
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shareYep. Always showing up late, drinking on the job...I had no choice.
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