The Official "Show Off Your Guns" Thread

[Monsterlover]

I guess I'll play too.

Argentine made Colt 1911 (made in '43)







My first pistol

[zarn02]

Nice!

That's much nicer looking than my Argentine 1911.

Mine has a longer, spur hammer that pinches my hand, and makes me bleed. Not a fan.

[Monsterlover]

Go back to the original hammer?

Or perhaps consider one of those extended grip safeties that keep your hand from being bitten?

[junior varsity]

My bad, read AR and thought AK.


So he bought an AR-16?

or am I wrong on the number?


Don't see too many AR's chambered in 7.62

AR-15?
They come in tons of calibers now including 7.62x39.

No one gets between me and my AK.



Got fresh wood awhile back with bulged handguards and lightening grooves in the stock.

[DRKWNG]

These are my two favorites at the moment.
The M4:


And the .45:


Got a few others laying around the house, but these are my go to guns.

[junior varsity]

I have a Kimber 1911. Love it. Ambi safety broke on me in the first month. I was incredibly angry, but replaced it with a more robust Ed Brown, and have replaced a few other parts on it over the years with some better components and the gun is a real tack driver, despite its 4" barrel limitations.

I think wheel guns are the next segment of the world of firearms that I'm going to get learned on. Or maybe make the double barrel gatling 10/22.

[cyrus buelton]

AR-15?
They come in tons of calibers now including 7.62x39.

I just thought they weren't called AR-15's by model.

Then again, I am not too familiar with them outside of AR-15 being chambered in 5.56mm

[junior varsity]

I think its much like I may say I have a few AK-47s, though they are not. They are AK-47 patterned semi-automatic sporting rifles from various countries.

[acalles]

I have one of those 91/30's. Fun gun to shoot.

Too bad all the cheap ammo is corrosive com-bloc surplus. Means you have to clean it promptly, and well.

I agree on the bayonet. I got it on fully once, and it took for-make the beast with two backsin'-ever to get it back off. It's stayed off since. Don't have a whole lot of call for a pigsticker anyway, and it made an already ridiculously long rifle even longer.

Check out what the Ruskies used to do with these things! Called an 'obrez.' Talk about a wrist breaker!

holy geebus. thats nuts. Fire ball in the vid was awesome.

you can't even aim it...

I wonder if they make rat shot in 7.62x54r 


yeah, I thought it would be cool to stick the bayonet on just to check it out, plus I heard these things were sighted in with the bayonet on and shoot different with them off.

if I'm happy with its iron sight performance I might get a scope mount and different bolt lever to see what it can really do, but I'm not expecting much (my other baby is my HMR that even with my poor skilz and cheap scope will shoot about 1" at 100 yards laser of a rifle.. I usually take paint balls to shoot at when I take it to the range) 

I'll take some 1gal milk containers filled with ice when I take the mosin to the range

[junior varsity]

[Monsterlover]

What's the 47 for in AK-47?

[junior varsity]

1947.

Then there's this:

[DRKWNG]

What's the 47 for in AK-47?

The year that the weapon was designed.  Mikhail Kalashnikov designed the weapon while in 1947.

[junior varsity]

AK stands for Avtomat Kalashnikova - automatic and the inventor's name; AK-74 was the revamping (1974). There are other numbers and designations as well, an example might be the AKS; it was the folding model.

If you are in the market, a stamped receiver is 'fine' (most obvious by its big rivets through it). You 'want' a milled one. Just like motorcycle parts, you want the machined parts over the stamped or cast, etc.

[duccarlos]

I just thought they weren't called AR-15's by model.

Then again, I am not too familiar with them outside of AR-15 being chambered in 5.56mm

AR-15 with the 7.62 upper with iron sights. He wants to get a relatively cheap ACOG scope, but the cheapest 2X are still in the $1000 range. In Georgia hog hunting is huge. There's a guy that hunts them using a thermal scope.