The firearm thread

[oldguy]

Thought I would keep you all informed as to the sale of my place.

The deal will go through in the middle of March.

So this means that there will be at least one more shoot at the Onewhero gun club possibly two.

Start loading. Start putting together your targets (frying pans are too soft).

I've found a few boards of suitable size to double as targets or bases.

Chris

can I come along, bring me M44 Nagant

[Indiana_Jones]

can I come along, bring me M44 Nagant

Oh we LOVE our MNs!!

-Indy

[jono035]

Oh we LOVE our MNs!!

-Indy

I read that and it sounded like Gollum in my head...

Oh, we loves our precious.... yessss....

[Mr Merde]

can I come along, bring me M44 Nagant

You certainly can come along. Watch this thread for the date (looks like the 27th of this month).
You already know me from the SATNR early runs.
I ride the crappy GS1200SS

[The Pastor]

You certainly can come along. Watch this thread for the date (looks like the 27th of this month).
You already know me from the SATNR early runs.
I ride the crappy GS1200SS

have you finished that yet?

[The Pastor]

can I come along, bring me M44 Nagant

the more nagants, the longer the targets will last

[Mr Merde]

Everything is on the move.
Sold the house yesterday, bought a new one today.
12th March is transfer day.

Suburbia beckons. Going to be strange having neighbours after 3 years here. Going to miss just jumping over the back fence and shooting. Or even popping wild turkeys from the deck with the .223.

So I take it that the 27th is the next and final shoot of the Onewhero Gun Club. OK by me and her indoors. If you want to crash then bring a sleeping bag.

Lots of room, little bedding.

I'll dig out the old cupboard doors I found when clearing the garage. Will make good targets.

Chris

[Drunken Monkey]

What's the deal with the club range you were working on setting up?

[Mr Merde]

What's the deal with the club range you were working on setting up?

Still ongoing. RMA is a bitch. Council now wants to know what we are going to do about the odour. Especially mentioned was black powder.

Range is in a great hole in the middle of 87 hectares of land. This is surrounded by farmland and the nearest neighbour is over 1km away.

No we have to put in place a procedure to combat the smell of gunpowder.

Fucking council is trying to make us go notified and charge us $10,000 And we are are doing everything to be un notifieable and pay $600.

We will get there.

[Mr Merde]

Just a thought.

Once the range is up and running we could always reform the Onewhero Gun Club and associate with it.

An idea to toss around

[jono035]

Just a thought.

Once the range is up and running we could always reform the Onewhero Gun Club and associate with it.

An idea to toss around

Sign me up for member #2...

[The Pastor]

Still ongoing. RMA is a bitch. Council now wants to know what we are going to do about the odour. Especially mentioned was black powder.

Range is in a great hole in the middle of 87 hectares of land. This is surrounded by farmland and the nearest neighbour is over 1km away.

No we have to put in place a procedure to combat the smell of gunpowder.

Fucking council is trying to make us go notified and charge us $10,000 And we are are doing everything to be un notifieable and pay $600.

We will get there.

tell them there is a great natural air conditioning unit on site - outdoors.

Failing that, employ the use of taniwha!

[Drunken Monkey]

The title for this brief essay is "We're always learning, even things we should already know. That's probably more accurately described as 're-learning'."

So I'm not particularly busy these days, I've had a few customers out grow us and a couple others peg spending back. This has the unfortunate side affect of giving me extra free time in which to waste money I'm not earning. Last week this involved making my Norinco M-14 "Fully Tac", or perhaps "Tacti-cool" as is the current rage (which can be either a good thing or a bad thing). It now has, for no particular reason other than looks, a 2x42 red dot and a bipod.

Lesson 1: It's better to keep yourself busy working at work, instead of spending half your day browsing trademe.
Lesson 2: Being conveniently located just around the corner from SAI can be both a good thing and a bad thing.

Worse than this, while fiddling around I noticed the front sight was hard right, so without thinking I loosened it and shifted it back to centre. It wasn't until I tightened it up that I thought "I don't actually recall the rifle shooting wildly off to the left." Well, now that I think about it, maybe it was shooting a bit left (anyone else who had a go with it notice?), but really I shouldn't have stuffed around with it.

Lesson 3: Leave adjusting sights and scopes for the range.

And that's not the end of it. Failure to learn anything from lesson 1 last week ended me up with a "7 shot magazine extension for a Remington 8**, 11**...". Ok, it wasn't expensive, but still, I look at it sitting on the shelf here and think WHY?! First things first, it should actually be advertised as a "+2 shot magazine extension...", because all it does is allow you to put 2 more shots down the tube. If the tube only holds 3 shots, you're only going to get 5 (although I expect, gun manufacturers being gun manufacturers, that 3 in the tube and 1 in the chamber is "4" ). Well anyway, I loaded it up a few times and tested it, only to find the spring binds and the feed is less reliable. Maybe some lube or oil will help, but it's hot and I just give up.

Lesson 4: Um, I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned here, but I can't quite think what it should be.

On the plus side, a previous fiddler (not me as it's the first time I pulled the magazine internals apart) must have installed something back not quite correctly. I always thought my 870 pump was a 3+1, this was mainly because you'd get 80% of the 4th shell into the magazine before it refused to go up the tube any further. I used to think it was because I was loading 2 3/4" loads and the extra space would just be taken up by 3" or 3.5" loads. Well shiver me timbers, but after carefully reinstalling the factory spring and end cap, I can now quite comfortably fit that 4th round in the chute. (I guess this makes it 4+1+2 = 7!)

Lesson 5: There's always more room to become more familiar with the things you have. The best thing to do is use them often.

So on that note, bring on the 27th. I've got an iron sight to check adjustment on and a magazine spring which needs a bit of a workout.

Hmmm, actually I just thought of one more which may have prevented all this in the first place:

Lesson 6: There's a lot of knowledge in this thread. Ask here before attempting the unknown.

[jono035]

Sorry mate, I believe it hit the cliff that I was aiming at. That's about the extent of my memory.

Very true with regards to keeping yourself busy. I find that keeping my brain active while thinking about or researching possible projects is highly entertaining passtime and has paid off in a few regards where what I have found out (supplier contacts etc.) has saved me time doing my job when it has become busy.

[The Pastor]

wait, you guys work at work?

I bought 200 projectiles, a puller and 100 primers today!

all up $180 :O!

but reloaders are way cheaper than serrious shooters!

my calculations are with flat nose projectile $1 a round reloaded. With gummy tip $1.20 a round!

Way better than buying it!