Looking for gun nut advice

[cduarte]

I agree with that, but I'm trying not to go outside .22lr, .223, .308. .30-06, 5.45x39, 7.62x39, 7.62x54r, and .45-70. The only caliber I'd really like to get is .260rem.

[fastwin]

It's funny how gun folks and bike folks go together... there's a pattern here. Guns aren't for everyone and I respect that. Just like bikes aren't for everyone. But there is definitley a gun/bike "thing" going on. Probably just a gear head thing. Which I can truly appreciate.

[junior varsity]

you've seen my monster, my 10/22 is not much different. My 1911 is only a little "modded".

[cyrus buelton]

+1 to Izaak on the M14 or whatever you want to call it.

My brother has a Springfield.

That thing kicks ass.

I wouldn't buy the SOCOM version, only difference is a shorter barrel which reduces accuracy.

20rnd mag and you are set.

Heavy gun to lug around but will do the deed.


I want to buy my wife one for her 29th birthday this month (yes, she wants one, how cool is that?) however, might buy something else instead.

[VisceralReaction]

Perhaps one per caliber. That's a more reasonable limitation (if self-imposed, or dictated by the spousal unit). But everybody should own something small and fun like a 10/22, along with several other semi-auto rifles, some double guns, a kalishnikov patterned rifle, and a bunch of other fun toys. Some modern, some classic (like a Sharps or other lever action). Unlike bikes, they don't really depreciate. Like bikes, they all have strong points and advantages in specific situations.

Everyone needs something huge too just for fun and to remind us we are human.
Like my Ruger #1 in 375 H&H and my Ruger M77 in 458 Lott.
I do hunt with the 375. The 458 is fun cause I can download it way down and keep it fun to shoot.
Then slip a hot loaded 500 grain roundnose into the mix. the 458 is exciting to shoot to say the least.

[cduarte]

shorter barrels don't reduce accuracy. in fact a shorter barrel of the same diameter is stiffer than the longer one, which results in better accuracy. BTW, of hte rifles that you mentioned, the socom may be less accurate but that would be because the sight radius is shorter.

[VisceralReaction]

Depending on the loads, You'll find a reduction in velocity with the short barrels.
My understanding of the M80 ball is that 16in barrels are good to about 500ish meters.
18in barrels to about 800 meters and 22in to 1000+ meters.
Just depends on what you plan on shooting.
I have a shotgun and side arm for close stuff. I feel the socom is good for urban use,
shots under 200 meters that is. I live in an area where 500+ is the norm so taylor my weapons
to that and want the accuracy out to 1000 meters.

[fastwin]

I gear up for urban too. 100-200 meters is good enough for me. Hell, I can't see good enough at 1,000m to really care. If a bad guy is that far away I will just get in my car and drive off and save the ammo.

[Popeye the Sailor]

It's funny how gun folks and bike folks go together... there's a pattern here. Guns aren't for everyone and I respect that. Just like bikes aren't for everyone. But there is definitley a gun/bike "thing" going on. Probably just a gear head thing. Which I can truly appreciate.

Or part of it is that a lot of the people on here make enough to be able to afford such toys.

[ducatiz]

Or part of it is that a lot of the people on here make enough to be able to afford such toys.

only until recently shooting was a cheapish hobby

i used to buy cases of 7.62 nato (308) for around 10 cents a round.. some times Lake City milsurp for 12-15 cents/rd

combloc stuff was 7-8 cents/ rd

[junior varsity]

i had to pick just two hobbies. i picked guns and motorcycles. good bye scuba diving (kept all my outdoors gear though). Guns is my winter activity and when its too hot in the summer to do anything. I don't really think of guns as a hobby though, I think of it as a regular part of life, a necessity. Motorcycles is my 'fun'.

[fastwin]

Ammo is the new currency. Forget dollars and cents. I have bartered back and forth for the last year with bike/shooting friends with ammo not cash. I thought Y2K/1999 would bring the curse we now see on the ammo market. Guess I was 10 years ahead of the curve. I didn't freak out about Y2K like so many others. I just told all my friends that I'd just come to their home with my AR15 and take what I needed! But I did stock pile ammo thinking what is happening now would have happened in 1999. It's the only good investment I have ever made. Better than bikes! Shooting will never be cheap again... unfortunately.

[ducpainter]

If you guys insist on making political comments in every gun thread

we won't have gun threads.

It's simple

[ducatiz]

yeah, let's not get these threads closed down.  nate has a gun or two and is known for killin' and eatin' snipe, so he's not anti gun.  everyone knows that the screw has turned a little bit on gun owners and there are plenty of places to talk about that with impunity.

[junior varsity]

How about 22lr conversions! Anybody got 'em? I have one for the 1911, a Marvel. Quite nice. Wish I could get the same sights (nightsights) put on it as I have on my regular 45 slide, so that its the same, but way cheap to shoot.