Theoretically, where does one buy weapons that look like picrel?
Any online dealers or specific sellers that do this? Looking to do some restoration work for a project.
Theoretically, where does one buy weapons that look like picrel? Any online dealers or specific sellers that do this?
All these videos are fake and set up, and you are gullible. Closest you’ll get is gunsmith specials on certain sites. Ntma
backyardbalistics is legit though, its his actual job to do that stuff
>alsofellforit
are you being moronic on purpose?
again, its literally his job, he works with his local police to see if the firearms will still fire, if its 1 round, its considered "useable"
>when he hits the firing pin with a literal hammer and calls it a serviceable weapon
kindly go away unless you can give me an answer
yeah, thats police work for you
especially when it becomes a fully functioning gun
i know what you're trying to do, but all you're doing is making a fool of yourself, just shut the frick up
No guns? No guns
Go back homosexual
actually, (you), need to go back
>You will never be a real gun owner. You have no gun, you have no ammo, you have no sights. You are a indian man twisted by rupees and rubles into a crude mockery of /k/'s perfection.
Nice. Your gun looks gay, though.
>Yeet cannon
Well... it does qualify as a "gun", if only in the strictest sense.
t. moronic contrarian homosexual
>alsofellforit
imagine being a Black person and still not giving me an answer
low impulse control fr
>continuingtofallforit
Mr crummypaws pls go.
desperate
no, I'm pretty sure this guy is real. Anyways, I really dont care. That's just the first image that popped up and I snatched it.
>All these videos are fake and set up, and you are gullible.
/thread
Not all of em are fake. The ones where its some rusty pos wallhanger sword and they "restore" it it the most halfassed wrong ways are real. Any of them where they have multiple videos up in a month are fake as hell.
Backyard ballistics is legit I think he has a video up explaining how to describe fake and genuine videos of this kind
And yamir the back alley gold merchant told me how to spot fake gold. 1800-COME-ON-NOW
He seems to know what he's talking about. He has videos where he talks about the difference between citric and oxalic acids as rust removers (and why he often doesn't use either), the differences between bluing methods, and various other minor details about restoration processes.
do you know those animal rescue YT vids from china? Most of thrm are staged, tgey just abuse and "rescue" the animals for the clicks. My granny dont get that, she thinks its real
>different namegay
Dunning-Kruger: The Post.
>fellnforit
>buy weapon
>make it look like picrel to make it not look like picrel
>???
>profit
It's difficult in the first and even second world because they hold no value as antiques, yet they can't be readily resold as scrap (or even abandoned, in certain jurisdictions) by whatever entities come into possession of them, because they were once functioning firearms. That leads to them being destroyed in most cases.
You are basically looking for to scavenge around the periphery of an archaeological site for just a few mangled examples. The same logic as scavenging junkyards applies – you need to be an unobtrusive presence and a quick buck for whoever owns / supervises the shitpile.
Contacting importers who are definitely sitting on Z Grade garbage acquired as part of a larger deal, like royal tiger in ethiopia, is one approach. If you're in the US, there's also the tactic of antiquing like you're an interior decorator / Hollywood set designer. Nonfunctional old arms are bought as wallhangers by that crowd, often enough that people in the industry know to hold onto them because eventually they'll be sold.
If you pursue the latter idea, absolutely don't let on that you're working on restoration unless you're super confident in the seller(s).
A third option in the US is to buy some scrap guns and make them worse, on private property. Doing this chemically is a waste of time, because it results in conditions that won't be replicated in real found artifacts. But exposing them to the elements, getting them in weird shitty storage states, and so forth can accelerate natural aging.
Similar to old-school forgery techniques, or idk, those forensic corpse farms.
>namegay
Wait, isn't that the guy who built that ghetto gyrojet weaponry? He's a legit gunsmith, IIRC.
Yes xhe did it two times irc
Gunbroker lmfao
>hay guise I’m going to restore this ak-47 I fished out of my pond don’t forget to like and subscribe!
>ooh look I’m wiping away years of rust and tarnish
>ooh look is that a pristine barrel under all of this rust?
>I didn’t even have to weld any rust holes wow just slap a fresh coat of paint on her and some wood furniture
From some farmer in Moldova, Serbia or Albania for AKs, from estern European metal detecting guys for ww2 stuff, for anything in the west you can check insurance companies dealing with flood insurance for basements. They sometime get hundreds of flood damaged guns if there is a large flood and a lot of homes get flooded and people often keep guns in sages in basements. Often the insurance will just dispose of the weapons or leave them to the previous owners but sometimes you could discuss with them to buy some in particular if they deal with flooding damages often in areas where both gun ownership and floods are common.
How many do you want?
Museums are full of them, Laos, Cambodia, khazakistan, chechnia, they're kept as souvenirs rather than as military surplus.
If you've got the money I can get you Vietnam era air wing weapons, ww2 coastal arty, yugo tank guns, soviet light field arty, all either demilled or rusted beyond the point of use. You just call the department of culture and buy it off one of the ministers attaches. You can even import them as war goods because they're demilled, I think you have to go through a registered escrow and import agent but that's just like getting your guns through a gun store, really just a tax.
Cont.
If you want weapons that can be restored to working order, my advice would be to get a demilled museum piece sent without the serialed parts, then just use it as a parts kit. If you REALLY want to restore tax stamped gun parts unironically buy them off armslist, junk like that is probably the only reason to use that site. And that's all legal.
Alright anons, everyone has a price. What would Russia have to offer you to make you sign up as cube fodder for the SMO?
Centerfire systems
thanks. There's a surprising amount of poor condition guns. I'll keep looking for more sites though
Jgsales has gunsmith specials too.
WHAT THE FRICK DID JGSALES DO TO THEIR WEBSITE? My eyes fricking bleed, it's white now. Frick, why do companies do this shit?
Gunbroker and search for prestine condition heirloom quality.
Royal tiger imports?
In the firepits at abandoned encampments along the border back in the early 2000s according to my friends grandpa.
That's pretty cool.
Go magnet fishing in a shithole like Detroit, you'll find tons of goodies in the rivers just outside the city.
I used to enjoy restoration videos until I saw someone "restoring" something that I understood how to restore myself, and they did a nightmare job on it. A few people called him out in the comments, but hundreds of people who had no idea what they were looking at rushed to defend his "beautiful job" and call them jealous. Now I can't watch these videos anymorw because I assume it's the same grift.
Not OP but that's why I pretty much only watch BackyardBallistics and actual gunsmiths on YT that restore stuff. Other than that a lot of the time it's a lot of "oh my god what the frick are you doing" and thirdie "bought this off Alibaba and chucked it in the river for a month" """""restorations""""".
My favorite was the cat shit special. My second favorite is the one where he started refurbing a rifle, only to discover that it was destructively demilled (therefore unsafe to get into shooting form).
>Not OP but
We can tell, because OP hasn't responded to any answers.
I have, actually.
I've got my eyes on a gunshow in my area so I'm hoping to see something salvageable
There's a pretty good hood area near where I am but I suspect most of the guns wont have been there for long enough to get a good coat of rust. Still, worth a shot.
Tell your friends, Markus Munitions!
If you go to gun shows you can find rusted to frick Mauser or Arisaka barreled actions for as low as $60.
I got my arisaka for 105 bucks came with a half sanded stock and bolt stripped bolt. Still need to find some parts to finish it. although I bought mine from fudd broker.