I'll start.
I carry the cheapest ammunition I can find for personal defense because if FMJ's worked just fine in wars like the Battle of the Atlantic or in Operation Rolling Thunder, then FMJ's are good enough for me.
Firearm Guilty Confessions
I'll start.
I carry the cheapest ammunition I can find for personal defense because if FMJ's worked just fine in wars like the Battle of the Atlantic or in Operation Rolling Thunder, then FMJ's are good enough for me.
People get so damn caught up in ballistics and numbers. Hit a fricker where it counts with a frozen pea moving at 1000+ fps and it’s gonna frick something up
I don't have the webm right now but I've seen a man take about 10 rounds to the chest of hollow points before collapsing, just continuing to run at the cop. At that point I told myself what the frick does the bullet tip matter. If someone has the webm please post it.
>Leans into it
Thank you
crazy way of saying you cant afford good ammo lol
>crazy way of saying you cant afford good ammo lol
thats sort of what it is for me and also thinking about all the men who died in world war II from shitty ammo
You carry what you practice
and you don't
>You carry what you practice
Why if they have the same point of impact? For a +/- 2% difference in perceived recoil? I'm doubt I could notice the difference between +p and bottom of the barrel 115gr fmj.
With rifles where the POI difference is more noticeable because you're shooting further okay I guess. Or keep a note card for m193 zero and whatever nice load you use zero side by side in the grip.
Brainlet take. The 1" POI difference makes zero practical difference for any realistic self defense situation. Vette reliability with the good stuff, practice with the cheapest similar POI and recoil impulse ammo you can find, and shoot up your carry ammo as you cycle it out.
Bonded JHP frequently performs better post barrier then FMJ as the FMJ is unbonded and more likely to experience core jacket separation when going through things like sheet metal or auto glass
>ill carry OBJECTIVELY inferior ammo with objectively worse performance overall because other people did!!
holy frick poor is a state of mind
Dont what lmao?
Also
>cant practice with good ammo since hes poor
>Battle of the Atlantic
>Rolling Thunder
>Wars like
Not sure if b8
The losers in WWII were also using FMJ ammo. Everyone who lost a gunfight or failed to prevent an enemy soldier from causing damage because his bullets weren’t effective enough was also using FMJ. FMJ apparently wasn’t good enough for them.
Most of them probably would have preferred JHPs if they had the option.
I’ll give you a fun fact: Without further information it’s impossible to draw any conclusion like “bullet type didn’t make any difference”. For all we know it would have taken 20 bullets with FMJs and then the officer would have been fricked. Maybe he was using the cheapest shitty JHP available and that contributed to the problem. Perhaps the cop was a bad shot and most of the bullets that you thought hit the chest either struck something nonvital or missed outright. This is quite common, see cases like James Gilkerson (34 rounds fired, 19 hits, only 2 vital hits) or Philip Trammell (8 rounds fired at less than across the room distance, 3 hits, 2 vital) or Platt during the Miami shootout (hit 12 times, 1 fatal with a craptastic JHP design). LEOs should not generally be presumed to be effective marksmen.
>that means only shot placement matters!!!!
No, unless you’re consistently nailing someone’s brain. You need to both hit important things and do enough damage with those hits to induce incapacitation. You can shoot someone in the heart repeatedly with 2mm needles and it can still take a while to stop them.
>The losers in WWII were also using FMJ ammo
British & Italian frangibles
In modern war (I mean since napoleon, ) the infantry are just ammo carriers for the lmg guy. If you kept everything else the same, the grunts could have muskets and it wouldn't make much difference.
>Hit a fricker where it counts with a frozen pea moving at 1000+ fp
A better example would be a huge body builder all roided out holding a 12 month old infant in his arms, Baby extends its finger into roidmans eyeball...What happens next?
he hurls the baby across the room like a broken laptop
>ouch! careful, little guy!
That's a great photo
Ive seen that happen. It drops the dude lke a baseball bat to the back of the head. The guys defenses are totally down and is in protection mode, so he crumbles!
Someone should photoshop his bicep in place of the baby and the baby in place of the bicep.
What would that accomplish?
Ballistics are important when you are shooting at a distance. Even shooting accurately at 500 yards and below requires practice and training. If you want to "hit people where it counts" you have to understand the ballistics of the round you are shooting. Even up close, you have to compensate for the bullet climbing.
Really, if you want to hunt ethically you have to be accurate. Making a clean kill with one shot and feeding people. Much more to guns than self-defense.
Yes, hole through something vital makes things dead and in a military context where shooting trough objects can be important fmj makes sense. Good expansion or fragmentation makes for quicker results though and anyone who's hunted animals with both can attest.
If you want a cheap but good enough jhp the winchestor white box 147gr jhp you see at academy are adequate.
Muskets fired plain lead balls and they absolutely fricked people up, all this moron hand wringing over what type of modern bullet is 'best' is just because the tech is so good now there's little more to tall about. Same with your 9mm vs .45 threads constantly being posted.
Yea but those were like .69 caliber
When a target is moving, that alone fricks up anyone who relies on this sentiment alone
The reason why mag dumping has become so common is due to the calibers being used (9mm especially). While they will kill someone if 'hit where it counts', more often than not when a hostile is charging/moving your shots are going to strike non-vitals more often than not
Compared with calibers that bring more stopping power, you can trust them to incapacitate a hostile with a single shot even with less than ideal shot placement
Let me preface this by saying I'd been blueballed by a cute girl for 3 days in a row, been dosed with a psychedelic the night before without my knowledge, woken up from an erotic dream and was already on medication, so I NEEDED to frick so, so badly that when I saw some rule 34 of a very erotic looking, animate 20mm getting fricked, I was not in the right frame of mind. With that said, the fact I jerked off and came inside the loading port of my Mossberg 590 should be more understandable.
I sometimes wish that my favorite gun in my collection would become a cute anime grill and we could run off on an adventure. I am a grown married man.
Hello fellow Kemono Friends enjoyer
homosexuals like this can find a woman to marry irl, but a supreme gentleman like myself is constantly ignored and denied by women. le sigh
you respect them
>homosexual
>married a woman
Does that make you, who cannot find a woman, a super homosexual?
supreme homosexual.
this but unironically
I want my first gun to become a cute girl so we can shoot guns in the range together then clean them together then cuddle as we stink of CLP
Who said I was being ironic?
Who said I was. I would never buy an FDE gun.
i leave all of my firearms loaded and loosely scattered around my bedroom floor along with whatever clothes and trash that happen to come off at the time
my room is a pigsty that only gets cleaned once a month, never vacuumed
>my room is a pigsty that only gets cleaned once a month, never vacuumed
How do you clean your room and not then vacuum it?
I pick up the paper towels that I came into since that constitutes 90% of the trash
The majority of my anxiety and stress in life comes from the possibility of a nationwide AWB/Mag capacity ban
Same here, I didn't used to be like this. Perhaps I need to touch grass.
The sad thing is i went and did a bunch of normie shit all weekend to try to return to reality but the moment i entered my home again i became moronic once more.
Idk what to say anon, once the cat is out of the box it's impossible to return to being an npc. Perhaps we're missing the big picture - gun rights as a whole have been improving, with more and more states passing CCW and constitutional carry. Pay less attention to the news, don't engage with commie scum, and try to get more friends that are reasonable into guns.
Despite shooting for decades, having a CCW, and regularly training, I rarely carry a firearm. I prefer a fixed bladed knife in pocket.
why not carry a thin 380 acp in your pocket at least just in case you run into a mass shooter at the grocery store?
I spend years in a high-risk job where I had to be heavily armed constantly. You get tired of it. Now, i have the luxury of avoiding bad people and places. Crims don't usually attack people who don't have anything valuable, and who can obviously beat them to death either. I have a higher chance now of being struck by lightning then being a victim of a violent crime. You can inject whatever hypotheticals you want, I lived it. Mass shooting? Im supposed to carry a gun everywhere for a statically irrelevant phenomenon? No.
>Im supposed to carry a gun everywhere for a statically irrelevant phenomenon? No.
My personal opinion is I would feel like shit living my last moments thinking wow I should have had my gun on me, while the neighborhood pitbull gnaws my toes and fingers off. Or as the mass shooter walks on top of my body and moves to kill grandpa behind me. I don't want that to be my last thoughts. I realize it's statistically low, but you have to have the mindset of every off-duty cop in brazil. If you don't understand that reference then you don't belong on this forum.
>You get tired of it. Now, i have the luxury of avoiding bad people and places.
You could at least carry a gun that is no more uncomfortable than a phone in your pocket. Do it for society. You are trained as you say, you could save another person from mortal danger. Yet you choose to be selfish.
>My personal opinion is I would feel like shit living my last moments thinking wow I should have had my gun on me, while the neighborhood pitbull gnaws my toes and fingers off.
Frickin this. I carry a gun for the same reason I carry a knife and keep a fire extinguisher in my car. Do I ever expect to use any of them? No, not necessarily, but I'd feel like the biggest fricking idiot in the world if I needed it, and decided that morning just to leave it at home because nothing will likely happen.
You don't tear out your airbags because getting in a wreck that needs one is statistically not going to happen, you don't remove your smoke detectors because statistically your house isn't going to burn down, so why would you not carry a gun just because statistically on the average day you aren't going to need it?
Did you retire Gecko45?
a man who carries a gun is a fool every day but one
I’ve carried a Gen 1 S&W M&P 9 Shield for nearly a decade in a pocket holster in my front right pants pocket, even when I’m at home and wearing comfortable clothes like basketball shorts I carry it. You can’t even tell I have it and it’s so light & thin I could forget I even had it in my pocket. No excuse. That’s why I bought the M&P Shield when my state passed constitutional carry, I knew if I got the right gun even when I was having a lazy day I would carry cause I’d have no excuse. If I were you’d I’d still carry a fixed blade but I’d also get something you can pocket carry comfortably.
guess you’ve never had something as simple as a crackhead pull on your door handle? What are you gonna do, gut them? You shoot or use your fist at that point. If you use your fist the cops won’t even bother you once you’re finished. I think it’d be pretty hard to get a good ruling in court with a self defense stabbing.
Some dude in New York stabbed a baby daddy to death in self defense at a convenience store recently. Guy got put in holding for days without medical attention.
His charges got dropped by the end of it but frick man.
>that pic
This is probably gonna out me as a psychopath but getting into guns has done more for my anxiety than any social media campaign or youtube “philosopher”
Carry a .22 revolver. I love the size, I have by far the most practice with it and legit feel like I would have the best chance of hitting what I need even in a high stress situation.
Used to carry a Glock 19X.
What ammo do you carry? For gods sake at least choose the highest velocity with the heaviest bullet. Shooting a gun at most folks will scare them away at least, so at least you have that going for you. If you're against a raging junkie, good luck, and you might be the one running away unless you shoot him in the eyes lol.
>wars like the Battle of the Atlantic or in Operation Rolling Thunder
How did FMJs perform in purely aerial battles? You do know that aircraft API ammo right? Of all the battles in history, you chose two that had nothing to do with small arms.
How?
Probably trolling but there are plenty of homosexuals on this site that legitimately think this way. Not extrapolating bullet effectiveness from non-ground combat, just the whole “muh fmj getter done fo 2 WORLD WARS JUSASGUD” (while unironically bashing .45 ACP) and what not kind of attitude.
>Of all the battles in history, you chose two that had nothing to do with small arms.
I wanted to see how long it took for a military buff to call me out on my bullshit and it's hilarious that it took so long. I was researching battles that took place on the ground in close quarter combat situations but when I found these air/sea assaults I thought it would be humorous to choose them instead.
I'd be okay with strict gun licensing if it gave license holders free reign to own pretty much whatever they want, if it was a shall-issue license, and maintained its constitutionally-protected status
>$20 per year for a license, fee waived for poorgays. Must renew annually
>background check to look for criminal records and to look for involuntary commitments to psych wards
>must have a primary care physician, does not require medical clearance
>can freely transfer firearms between license holders with no delay
>more severe penalties for using guns in crime, mandatory minimum sentencing
>open NICS to the public
>tax credits for people who pursue firearms training to help other license holders
>NFA repealed
>worth mentioning again, license is Shall-Issue
>fee waived for poorgays.
i disagree with this part because it implies you're a dumb man that cant even afford $20. although it's not even about $20, it's about maintaining your responsibility of gun ownership. also I would abolish FFL transfer fees but I don't necessarily like the idea of guns being shipped through the mail because Black's rob mail trucks often and that will just create more bloodshed in the streets.
I'm fine with making the license free I don't care. Actually, isn't registering to vote free? If I'm remembering correctly then it is free and by extension this proposed license should be free as well for the same reason.
I would pay you so much money to enlist in the Ukranian army as a front line soldier right this second. (I am trying to kill you for your shit opinions)
That's okay I respect your opinion. I know mine isn't popular with either side. God bless
Chad response
I would be for this if only whites could get firearms.
You're a problem.
>>must have a primary care physician
in a country without universal healthcare coverage
SNEED
There are smart ways to do gun control, but yeah we'd need some major incentive to even pretend to try. NFA repealed, no ammo sales tax or some shit.
Even then I'd just have it be a voluntary training license. Getting the trainer card gives you all the benefits you mentioned but it's entirely optional with all the normal measures we have today for the ones that don't.
>shall issue
gay if you paid attention youd realize it actually means shall not issue
Shut the frick up fudd
Hello sir, it says here you served in 'nam? Whats that, you got nightmares, violent outbursts? Well that's alright, thats not a mental illness. Wait, you're dreaming about the sexy man in the bunk next to yours? This here DSM-5 says you're cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Sorry sonny, guess you don't get a gun loicense.
If being a homosexual was more of an indication of mental illness than having actual PTSD from being in a war, what makes you think that tomorrows medical institutions won't make shit up as they go?
We already have this issue today where the FAA will revoke a pilot's license if he had 15 minutes of therapy 10 years ago. So the gun control exploitation aside this would basically mean everyone who legitimately needs mental help won't seek it for fear of losing his property.
I considered that exact point and I have two suggestions that would help protect gun owners and appease enough gun grabbers:
1. My idea doesn't require a mental health screening, just access to healthcare. You'd provide some sort of documentation that shows you are a patient with your local primary care facility. Post ACA (Obamacare) every American has access to health insurance. It's certainly not perfect but with some tweaking it could be a better way to guarantee the availability of affordable healthcare for everyone. Please play careful attention to the words I'm using here as well.
2. I didn't mention this in my original post (its tangentially related), something needs to change for patients' privacy rights when it comes to firearms. You are completely right about people hesitating to seek mental health while owning guns for fear of losing theirs. I believe that is unacceptable and discourages seeking help when they need it the most.
Obamacare priced most Americans out of mental health care
Well, if you're a working poorgay, and your employer offers an unafordable healthcare plan, you're locked out of the ACA.
t. working poorgay who really could stand to talk to someone
I’ve learned long ago that if your job requires any mental health screening never see a doctor for any mental or emotional issue. Just bottle it up inside or self-medicate.
How about we just buy whatever the frick we want without having to care what the government thinks?
I would rather there be a mass shooting in every major city on a monthly basis than there be a single law about firearms on the books.
After 3 months of that shit, guns would fly off the shelves and the problem would solve itself quickly.
I like a lot of different Kel-Tec guns. RDB, KSG, PMR30, and even like the aesthetics of the P-15 aluminum.
My collection is too big and needs its own building. I Don't clean it enough. I'm also the last person on earth who should have weapons.
ive been browsing this board for 9 years and still havent made a firearm purchase due to my autism interfering with my purchasing decisions. noguns4life!
Don’t worry anon, you’ll find your special gal soon enough
Get a S&W 686. You will love it, it will love you. 357mag is God's chosen caliber
I took carry with the cheapest ammo I can get but it's because I keep forgetting to get the good stuff. Thanks for the reminder.
I'd instantly and gladly trade in permitless carry for a reopening of the machine gun registry.
I do not give a single frick about modern tactical rifles or any bans/legislation around them, they're LARP tools for 99.9% of their buyers.
CCW and handguns are far, far far more important and I'd gladly trade muh salt rifles for 50 state permitless purchase and carry
I don't actually own any guns but I constantly call people out as nogunz and have an arsenal of pics saved to stand in as my arsenal.
Although I have learned about guns over the years, I still mostly rate them based on how good they were in Call of Duty or Battlefield.
When discussing combat or military ops, I often claim that I have significant first hand experience on these matters and in turn use that to support my position.
I also think submachine guns, shot guns, and DMRs almost always look cooler than assault rifles and are thus cooler.
i think pocket carry is the best form of carry because you don't know that i'm carrying a rocket in there
I think 5.7x28 is a stupid fricking round and the M&P 5.7 is a stupid fricking gun.
Regardless I just bought the gun for $649 (after tax) and eight 22 rnd magazines for about $30 each.
I did this because I've seen enough shit for past couple of years to prioritize capacity above all else, and the gun shoots ok.
It's weird because I was just looking up videos of this gun all night last night. I'm very fascinated by it and considering getting it as a car gun and home defense gun. i'm surprised everyone is hyping up the 5.7 round again. apparently its ammo price is going down as well. I hope hickok45 reviews it.
Is it true that 5.7 pistol is a hot black market item in mexico because it can pierce some body armor levels?
>can I go to Baja to eat a lot of grilled shellfish, real 5.7, Xanax, and Tylenol with Codeine?
asking for a friend
dunno but i absolutely believe gangsters will hear about 5.7 being able to pierce kevlar and then buy the 5.7 ammo that cannot pierce vests
>I did this because I've seen enough shit for past couple of years to prioritize capacity above all else
When you say you've "seen enough shit", are you talking about the fact that there's never been a single recorded case of a private citizen being killed or injured due to running out of ammo in a defensive shooting? There's even the ultimate example of Rittenhouse, who was attacked by a mob, only firing 8 rounds total. Idk, maybe you've seen something in the past couple of years to contradict these facts.
>There's even the ultimate example of Rittenhouse, who was attacked by a mob, only firing 8 rounds total.
That's some sort of spin you're spouting there. They were actually trying to disarm him because they thought he was a threat and didn't think he had access to that weapon. Why wouldn't you call kyle rittenhouse a mob participant himself? They don't know what the fricks going on. He didn't know what he was doing. He wasn't even part of a security team. He wasn't a cop. I support gun laws and stuff but that rittenhouse fellow was a huge moron. Do you remember when he was crying at the verdict? It's because he knew he fricked up and knew he could have been found guilty for the shit he did.
Tl;dr he legally did nothing wrong as declared in a court of law get rekt bich lool
This b8 is shit. Take a cue from OP his b8 was actually good.
He probably carries revolver leave him alone
how am i supposed to feed my children, when the pastas old enough to have died twice in the holocaust of covid
Large pack of feral Black folk never burned down my local stores before either, the frick is your point?
i bought a ruger 57 last friday
I heard the trigger was hit or miss on those, hows the trigger on yours?
feels fine havent had any trouble yet
i kinda like it but think imma get the poor mans version
Get an Automag II
I want this also, only because 22 mag was the first I ever shot
Looks like you're doing better than him.
>prioritize capacity above all else
i think 5.7x28 in F/A makes a lot more sense than a 9x19 glawk with stendos
I bought a Taurus and I liked it.
I don’t have the slightest idea which of these ledges the guide rod is supposed to rest on, and it’s up to chance which one I’ll choose every time I reassemble my Glock.
New Glock owner here. We are apparently the pair of people who weren't born with this knowledge. It's a pretty well guarded secret online but this video shows placement and hasn't been removed from Youtube yet:
My guilty confession is even though I am living in a based country which of course bans firearms since we're not moronic, I'd still want a 9mm revolver (yes they exist) for myself. Though I'm very happy that i don't get to have a gun if all the other morons can't either.
Do you realize that you're not welcome on /k/ for unironically thinking this moronic pussy shit
I, too, am very happy you can't own a gun. Cucks who don't wish for an armed society don't deserve such a freedom themselves. Enjoy living as a second class citizen in a third world shithole.
Broken in like a good little dog, I see
whats it like to be a talking felched turd, raised by two homosexuals?
>I carry the cheapest ammunition I can find for personal defense because if FMJ's worked just fine in wars like the Battle of the Atlantic or in Operation Rolling Thunder, then FMJ's are good enough for me.
For real my homie, 9mm is 9mm
I don't actually like guns, I just own them because I am not physically capable of killing a man at range unarmed
I feel like people reee too hard over Bubba guns, ignoring the obvious eldritch horrors there are tasteful examples.
I for one am dropping sniper mosin guts in a KPYK Chassis for a nice long bolt gun. I like the idea of taking a old crippled war vets brain and putting it in a frickin 40k space marine body and slingshoting old weapons platforms into the 21st century.
I'll probably never be a decent shot with a pistol and I've accepted that. I always get shakes pretty bad once I start shooting. I train most weekends but I don't seem to be improving beyond what I already can do. Not sure if I'm just shit or just need to stop being a shaky homosexual
Drink a tallboy before shooting, why do you think painters are alcoholics? Steadies the hands.
You probably have some bad habits that you don't realize are fricking you up because no one ever told you not to do it
I hope i'm never in a road rage situation because I don't know how I would react. once I had a person follow my ass around the road wildly and I didn't own guns back then. I think they had a case of mistaken identity, they tried to cut me off and get in front of me, trying to look at my face. it's scary because I don't know if a crazed person like that is gonna shoot in my vehicle and strike me in the heart or the brain. do I shoot that person first before they can shoot me? it sucks living in america because any bozo can get a gun eazily.
i like turkish shotguns and pistols
I dont really like or hate guns, it's just a thing to me. I just own em because they're useful and likely to get banned, and it gives me something to learn and get skilled on. Not bad
You listen here, bud. You either make it your entire personality or you can sell them all to me and get off my forum.
Personal preference. FMJ can cause over penetration which can be a bad thing in a self defense situation. Combat is a different situation. But in the end a well placed shot is what's important. I personally wouldn't carry the cheapest ammo I could find because QC is a real thing and a failure to fire could be life and death.
This is just the objective truth. After breaking in my gun with 500 rounds of 124g/147g I'm going full cheap and getting boxes of 115 gr. Unless the ammo instantly kills the target, it is always better to have more ammo then to have muh piercing for a 9mm ammunition
I keep on going to websites and stores in real life looking for a shotgun or hunting rifle when I have the money to purchase a firearm and every fricking time I go, I buy a fricking Milsurp rifle instead. Every fricking time.
A milsurp rifle as a hunting rifle would not be much of a problem. If I didn't hunt in a mountainous state. I went hunting elk with a 1896/11 with no goddamn scope because of this. Even worse I'm going for a masters in history right now so job opportunities are iffy but this degree leads to park ranger jobs ironically. What the frick am I going to carry in a park ranger job?
>What the frick am I going to carry in a park ranger job?
that's a good question. I wonder if they give you something goofy like a .454 revolver
good points, I forgot about those balls
>stick to your hobby and improvise as needed for hunting
>wait until you find a guy really knowledgeable on longer ranged hunting rifles and have him help you build it after trying some of his stuff out at a good weight, a reasonable chambering stable with the bullets you'll use down to sea level because you'll never know where youll hunt 20 years from now, and a price that makes sense for your one good gun for that niche.
That's what I did for shotguns. Was between beretta a400 and beneli competitor in the end and I liked the one that looked more like a remington 1100 which was the first gun I remember shooting. I don't intend to ever buy another shotgun.
FMJ is fine. Good JHP will do its job much better in most situations, but FMJ will do what it's good at in ALL situations.
I on occasion rather than either my 9x19 or 9x18 carry a pocket 22lr.
i've often considered wearing bodyarmor while on my daily commutes because of the road rage epidemic going on in america, and my paranoia. litereally even thoght about buying a kevlar or vietnam helmet to throw on my head just in case some moron starts following me on the road. lol.
but, real defensive ammo will make a bigger mess and make your assailant suffer more as they die from blood loss.
I shot a hole in my wall in college while I was cleaning a .22 pistol. There were like 4 people in the room with me. Probably my most embarrassing moment with a gun but at least I had it pointed in a sage direction.
I enjoy smaller frame single stacks more than double stacks, so my carry is only an 8 shot .380
I think US infantry soldiers should carry belt fed guns like this (instead of the ar-15) so they never run out of ammo and always have suppressive fire ready.
Based and redpilled
Machine guns are the best infantry weapon hands down
I've only put about 70 rounds through my 380 daily carry handgun because i'm a cheapskate. I do practice drawing and safety tactics though.
People that carry .45 are stupid as frick because of how slow the bullet is coupled with low capacity (unless you're going FNX 45). Literally have read stories where a .45 round will bounce off someone's forehead because it's so fat and stupid.
I spent last night pricing 44 magnums you could conceivably carry and tonight pricing glock 29s even though I carry a 380 but own a perfectly good 9mm.
I tell myself I need the stopping power, but if I really cared I'd at least be carrying the 9.
I change my carry guns daily so they dont feel unused
I fricking HATE FDE. It looks hideous on any gun it's on, including SCARs
>I fricking HATE FDE. It looks hideous on any gun it's on, including SCARs
That's the only reason why I ever liked the SCAR. I also prefer FDE on any handgun. Something is just sexy about it. Or maybe I just want to be different. Black is boring.
Amen. Especially among LE agencies. Not gonna get deployed to Ramadi.
When the house is empty, I'll play pretend CT or post-apocalyptic survivor with my home defense guns while they're loaded. I'll point them out of the window at neighbors' windows and stuff, but I think it's okay because I always keep my finger off of the trigger. I'm just too lazy to unload them first and I don't like having to unload and then reload with the same cartridge.
>"Hon, the neighbors angrily peaking out of his windows with an AR again, should I finally call the cops?"
Sent a 7.62x39 steel core penetrator sailing through my door and into my wall a few years back. Funny enough noone ever called the cops about it since I live in a ghetto.
ladies and gentlemen, always triple check your chamber.
I haven't shot any guns since before covid except for one night I shot 3 .410 shells off my back porch while heavily intoxicated.
my only firearm is a $200 22lr revolver
Let me guess, it's a heritage?
Still puts you ahead of 80% of /k/ users
yep, my lil plinker
Nice. My mother owned one, the firing pin was fricked up though so it light striked almost every round
pic rel are my little plinking guns
The light strike issue is not uncommon in the heritage plinkers. They are fun hot garbage.
should at least upgrade to a Ruger version if you want to use it defensively
>
yep, my lil plinker should at least upgrade to a Ruger version if you want to use it defensively
Or he could, you know, choose any other form of pistol other than a single action rimfire
I bought a used Taurus Model 25 Princess for $100, with a fitz-ed trigger guard. You did fine.
>I don’t own any guns anymore.
>This and PrepHole are my main boards
>used to own guns
>live in Australia
>move out of parents place and start renting
>organised with landlord for gun safe, after frickton of ums and aahs and reassurance that I will patch holes up afterwards they’re okay with it
>brief current housemates on it.
>one didn’t like that police could just show up whenever to inspect safe.
>one asked where I’d be keeping the keys in case of emergency
> tell them both I’ll pay an extra $20 a week for inconvenience.
>fricking mountain of paperwork to fill in and get approved.
>process sucked.
>didn’t end up shooting for about half a year cause busy, and could never line up pest shooting on any nearby farms with buddy
>room gets broken into twice so someone told one of their junky friends.
>move guns back to parents place.
>years pass
>tell parents to sell guns cause they don’t shoot them either since kids moved out.
Seems to be where the slippery slope leads. Sucks, man. When I was younger I used to wonder why the NRA are basically like "Every man has the right to a cannon and a rocket launcher" but now I fully agree that the battle needs to be fought there.
I've always thought carry handles looked moronic, I don't care if your daddy carried one in 'nam.
I’m almost 23 and I still don’t know how to zero an optic correctly. Every time I’ve mounted one, it seems to be at an angle. Every time I’ve tried to zero one, I get about 3 inches away from zero, and whatever I try next just fricks it up even more, or the POI doesn’t change. I could rotate windage 180* and the POI won’t change, and then some other time I move it a c**t hair and it moves 5 inches. I’m being completely serious when I say I have no fricking clue how to do it. Seen hundreds of tutorials, even had people try to show me in person, I just can’t get it figured out. Everyone tells me a completely different method that contradicts the previous method I see, and I never know which one is right. It’s such a simple task, but I just can’t do it. From shitty air rifles scopes when I was 14 to red dots on my AR, I just can’t figure it out. It’s humiliating, what am I not getting? Am I cursed to walk this barren earth with unzeroed optics until the end of time? Am I just moronic? This problem haunts me.
try doing it cold bore
zero at 10y for pistols, 50y for rifles
only move the dial one (1) singular click for every adjustment
make sure your optic is mounted right in the first place
How would I zero it cold bore? How would I know the point of impact?
you literally just leave the bolt open for a second after firing. cold bore means a literal cold bore, as in cold. the bore expands as it heats, which affects your zero at distance. its enough to screw you over while sighting in
Don't listen to this loser. Cold bore means stuffing your barrel with icechips before every shot. Only cool people do this.
Grab a bag you can rest the rifle on, or steal a pillow from your couch and set up this target at 25yd
https://www.amazon.com/Chrs-Sajnog-Sight-Targets-100-Yard/dp/B075ZLJ3K6
>confession
Was a euro nogun some years ago. Now hasgun at 35+yo, they are becoming more and more of an obsession. I browse gun stuff everytime I can, instead of doing useful things, considering I have a family to take care of and a career change to go through. I sometimes spend more time with guns (cleaning and larping and restoring an old gat and all) than with my three children. As a euro, guns are very expensive, I can't let myself go on a irresponsible way. I'm more armed than 99% of my countrymen with very few guns regarding US standards, but still consider my "battle gear" is far from being complete. It is tho, obviously. Problem being : what reasonnable family civilian father cares about "battle gear" ? It's complete larp and I can't get it out my head. A basic cheap italian or american pump 12 gauge is everything i'll ever need for security purpose, I know it, but still building an "all bases covered" setup that is costing me a frickton of money (that I don't really have, or which would be of better used elsewhere because life and all). I feel weird and displaced but still i'm freaking happy with my stuff, it seems to be a pretty based and patrician hobby to me. I don't know where it goes.