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Thread: GUNS!!!!!!!!
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09-16-2019, 02:13 AM #8451
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09-16-2019, 05:24 AM #8452
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09-16-2019, 03:52 PM #8453Registered User
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Win Model 71 .348
https://www.gunbroker.com/All/search...=5&PageSize=96
Great first pick. The 38 and 30-30 were good too.
The paper shells are worth money, maybe $25-100 a box.
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09-16-2019, 09:35 PM #8454
Great experience. Great memories. Write down the story now so you can pass it along.
My uncle gave me his collection. Some had stories, others were just things he had picked up along the way. Dumped some of the low end stuff, but ended up with some pretty cool pieces. He hunted ruffed grouse and had tons of shotguns.
Favorite story, actually the only one he ever told me about his WWII experience. He was a private and trained in artillery. He was pulled from his company, given a rifle and sent into the Battle of the Bulge. Fought in the Black Forest and Ardennes. Said they were going through a village collecting firearms, piling them in the street, then running over them with a tank.
Said an old man came out carrying two guns. Neither spoke the other's language. Fellow handed the guns to my uncle with tears in his eyes. Uncle said there he stood as a foot soldier, all his gear, a Thompson submachine gun, and ammo for it. No clue what to do with these two guns. One was a custom built German 7mm Mauser Sporter, the other a Drilling, 16 gauge over a 7mm.
Guy in a truck came by, pulled up and told him if he would write his name and address down, he would see they got to my uncle. Uncle didn't have much choice, so he handed over the guns and a piece of paper with the info. Said he had been home about 6 months when one day a big box arrived. In it was the Mauser and the Drilling. Both are in my vault!In order to properly convert this thread to a polyasshat thread to more fully enrage the liberal left frequenting here...... (insert latest democratic blunder of your choice).
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09-16-2019, 11:34 PM #8455Hucked to flat once
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Ken-thanks man. I had a life experience last weekend and it’s sweet hearing other people’s. Firearms are too polarizing these days. There’s a heritage to certain guns that I wish more people would take a second and think about. I know there’s another conversation about other people and other guns and the problems but this is a stoke thread after all.
As I was going through some rifles tonight writing down serial numbers and basically becoming familiar with operation, I couldn’t help but picture my grandpa and great grandpa carrying them through the woods, shoving pheasants in their vests, roping elk on horses, my grandpa riding his bike to a local pond as a teenager with a single shot 20 gauge around 1940 and riding home with a couple ducks...etc.
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09-17-2019, 10:36 AM #8456
Yeah, my uncle was a month or so away from dying from lung cancer. I would have enjoyed hearing more stories, but it was not to be.
He had a little Mauser 1910 pistol. I asked where he got it. He dropped his head and said there was a German officer that just didn't need it anymore. I got a bunch of daggers and swords, flags, beer steins, and other items he brought back, but no stories. Not a subject he would discuss.
I need to catalog all my stuff too. Come to the house when you get yours done!!!In order to properly convert this thread to a polyasshat thread to more fully enrage the liberal left frequenting here...... (insert latest democratic blunder of your choice).
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09-19-2019, 01:39 PM #8457Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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09-19-2019, 02:08 PM #8458
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09-19-2019, 02:58 PM #8459
Put about 1k rounds through it, and it ate everything I gave it. I have the 20 and 30 rd mags, they all fed perfectly. I swapped out the foregrip for vertical version and put a Romeo red dot on it. Fun to plink with, not sure it will be my new truck gun replacing the AK under-folder. Very accurate with ~ 3" groups at 50 yards with iron sights.
The only negative is the safety placement that rubs on your trigger finger, so I'm replacing that with an upgraded version. Easy disassembly and cleaning. I highly recommend a pcc for all non-restricted shooters.
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09-20-2019, 01:48 PM #8460
I've been looking for one of these for 8 months. I caught them in stock three times at the right distributor, but the local gun shop never could put two and two together and order me one in time. This one came from gunbroker. Due to that and a whole bunch of other bullshit with my last few transfers, I'm looking for a new shop in/around Jackson. Any suggestions?
Stock mags are 33 rounds of quad-stack goodness in 22LR. They apparently have extensions that'll make them 50 rounds.
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10-09-2019, 01:54 PM #8461Hucked to flat once
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Time to go old school.
1957 Win Model 12 Heavy Duck with a factory installed vent rib which to my understanding is there are not many around, especially in this condition. A lot of Simmons after market installs.
Next up...Colt Army Special 38 that my great grandpa carried.
Took the Model 75 out. It's a shooter. First shot to see where it would hit and then touching 3 shot groups at 25 yds for the next 50 or so rounds. It was a 25 yd range so need to see what it can do outside soon. Really liked the trigger and fun to shoot an old peep.
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10-09-2019, 01:57 PM #8462Hucked to flat once
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Here's a couple levers. A Model 94 my grandpa bought the year I was born. I have his old saddle scabbard for it too. Now I need a horse. And his 71 Deluxe. Not cheep to shoot but he gifted me another couple hundred rounds.
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10-09-2019, 02:43 PM #8463
Those are beautiful!
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-09-2019, 07:54 PM #8464Bunny Don't Surf
Have you seen a one armed man around here?
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10-09-2019, 08:20 PM #8465
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10-09-2019, 08:44 PM #8466
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10-09-2019, 09:02 PM #8467
Hey, I picked up one of those a few months ago. Built in 1914. Mine was also shortened to about 20". I seem to recall that it was a Trap Model. Haven't shot it yet.
Daniel Ortega eats here.
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10-09-2019, 09:02 PM #8468
Have fun with the Model 12, she is a beauty. They are phenominal shooters.
My FIL introduced me to shotgun sports 20 years ago with an O/U. Soon thereafter I bought a nice Browning O/U.
A couple of years later I shot my FIL's Model 12. I had never before shot a pump gun. It was love at first shot. I've got a couple of 12 gauge shooters now, one mod and one full choke, and sold the O/U years ago. They fit me like a glove and point like a dream.
They are a dream on the sporting Clay's course. The model 12 full choke is very tight but is a ton of fun shooting clay birds. That duck gun will be a load of fun shooting Clay's. I hope you get a chance to shoot it often.
Bring it out and I guarantee a few guys will ask about the gun and reminisce about the model 12 they once had and wish they never sold.
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10-09-2019, 10:28 PM #8469
Had one. Sold it. Hate myself for it
Grandfather left me a bunch of guns and that was one of them. (Dad not a gun guy, does not hunt or fish, I did both with "Pepere", so he left me his guns instead of my Dad) Needed money, had other shotguns, and was not really into shotgun sports at the time. DUMB
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10-10-2019, 07:37 AM #8470User
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I haven't rifle hunted in years (like 20?), but I have a kid that's super into it and so I'm going to dive in to have an activity to do with him.
Anyone have anything to say to sway me one way or the other for 7mm vs 300wsm in the same rifle?
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10-10-2019, 08:41 AM #8471
7mm/08
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10-10-2019, 09:56 AM #8472User
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10-10-2019, 10:09 AM #8473Hucked to flat once
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I'm a 7 RM guy but nothing wrong with a .300 WSM. The recoil on the mags, usually on the lighter mountain rifles, can be a lot causing people to flinch on the shot so something to be aware of. A lot of guys will run a muzzle brake and wear earplugs (me).
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10-10-2019, 10:10 AM #8474
7mm WSM or 7mm Rem mag? I'd be all over a 7wsm. Great round, but be aware that ammo has been scarce at times.
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10-10-2019, 10:20 AM #8475Registered User
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What is the 7mm? Remington magnum?
As conundrum pointed out, the 300wsm can be a handful for a beginner shooter who will be susceptible to recoil causing them to flinch.
The 7mm RM is a great cartridge and in a normal weight hunting rifle, 8-9lbs kitted, it will have manageable recoil. The 300 on the other hand will have significant recoil which can be tamed with a brake.
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