The firearm thread

[irishlad]

Happy birthday Mr Merde. Always enjoy your insight into firearms. Have a few & relax.

[Mr Merde]

Happy birthday Mr Merde. Always enjoy your insight into firearms. Have a few & relax.

Had a few too many last night...

Dinner, a video and then a few drinks with "she who must be obeyed" and a friend.

2am this morning my mate staggered off to bed and the drinking finished.

Needless to say I am feeling decidedly seedy.

For breakfast this morning I had two lightly boiled paracetamol followed by a shot of alker skeltzer.

It has been a long time since I have felt this bad after a session.

Chris

[scumdog]

Had a few too many last night...

Dinner, a video and then a few drinks with "she who must be obeyed" and a friend.

2am this morning my mate staggered off to bed and the drinking finished.

Needless to say I am feeling decidedly seedy.

For breakfast this morning I had two lightly boiled paracetamol followed by a shot of alker skeltzer.

It has been a long time since I have felt this bad after a session.

Chris

Ah well, enjoy it while you can - you won't be able to when you're dead!!

[Mr Merde]

Its been really quiet on this thread lately.

I thought I would once again throw my 2c in/

I have been on TM lately and have the following due to arrive this week.

Harris Bipod for my .223

15-40x50 spotting scope. (getting tired of trying to see .223 holes at 100 metres with binociulars, scope and low power spoting scope)

100 projectiles for my M1 carbine. About time I shot it again.

Projectiles for my .223

Targets.

Various other reloading supplies.

I feel the need to load and burn powder.

Chris

[sAsLEX]

Picking up my Winchester on Sat, you home Sunday might pop in on the way back up.

[Mr Merde]

Picking up my Winchester on Sat, you home Sunday might pop in on the way back up.

Yes, home on Sunday.

This is the original you posted up here?

[Indiana_Jones]

Save some M1 ammo.

Must try that thing!

-Indy

[Mr Merde]

Save some M1 ammo.

Must try that thing!

-Indy

Its only a little carbine.
Looking at 100-200 yard shooting.
Apparently they can be very accurate once you have found a good load for them.

Designed originally as a replacement for the 1911 as standard issue to officers.

You can definitely see where Bill Ruger got his inspiration for the Mini 14 from though.

I have 100 projectiles coming (FMJ) and I may have a lead on a lubrisisor so I can properly size the 1000 projectiles I have cast.

As they come from the mould they are just a little too large to chamber properly.

Once resized i will load up the 800 empty cases I have for it and then have some fun.

Should be good for bunnies and turkeys with the lead projectiles.

Absolutely sod all recoil even though the carbine only weighs in at a featherweight 6 lbs.

I would love to get my hands on a Taurus revolver chambered for this cartridge as it is supposed to be very fierce in a handgun.


Chris

[Indiana_Jones]

Yea, if the gun is anything like the version they have in the game "Day of defeat" it'll rock!



-Indy

[pritch]

Its only a little carbine.
Looking at 100-200 yard shooting.

The .30 carbine is definitely no powerhouse. Some naughty people were firing them over the head of a group I was once with. Very unimpressive hiss as the bullets passed overhead. I thought to myself if I have to be shot with something, my choice will be an M1 carbine...

Don't want to appear too picky but... The word "projectile" is a ballistic term usually referring to a moving object. Until you fire it (or throw it?) it's more correctly called a bullet. (Which is probably what's written on the box.)

[Mr Merde]

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Don't want to appear too picky but... The word "projectile" is a ballistic term usually referring to a moving object. Until you fire it (or throw it?) it's more correctly called a bullet. (Which is probably what's written on the box.)

I know but too many years in the UK where the very mention of a "bullet" sends shivers down their collective spines.

After I left the UK my ex cleaned out the garage. She had a skip and she dumped my 5000 .45 acp cases my thousands of .357 and similar ammounts of 38spl and .44 spl into it.

Someone called the police and they went through the skip and found 5 rounds that I had screwed in reloading and hadnt gotten around to pulling. The cops put out a warrant for my arrest for "unlawful posession of ammunition" punishable with up to 5 years and\or a 5000 pound fine.

The ex warned me about this as I was due back to see the kids around then.

[Indiana_Jones]

Fucking UK gun laws

-Indy

[pritch]

The cops put out a warrant for my arrest for "unlawful posession of ammunition" punishable with up to 5 years and\or a 5000 pound fine.

Shit oh dear!

One of my memories of firearms in the UK involved a trip to Bisley with a bunch of people readily identifiable as Kiwis. The UK smallbore championships were in progress at the time and there were lots of people living at the range.

Suddenly all the cartridge collectors in our group made a rush at a rubbish skip. This skip certainly had a lot of empty cartridge boxes, but it also had a sweltering great heap of kitchen scraps.

I'm told I embarrass easily but my colleagues diving into a stinky dumpster in view of anyone who cared to look (and quite a few did) certainly did the trick.

[Wolf]

52 today. Feeling every second. Off subject but hell you lot are the only ones on this board I talk to nowadays.

Happy bellated birthday. Hope it went off with a bang - lots of bangs, plenty of smoke and various targets going foom!

[Wolf]

Back on topic

Cleaning up the garage I found a 3-9 varipower wide-view scope I'd forgotten I still had.

That'll save me a few hundred - I don't have to buy a scope for the Brno, now.