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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 06:35:40 JST 
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"AKs should be 7.62 the curve works for that platform for some reason. 5.45 looks wrong idk why."
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 03:08:14 JST
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@sun Wow, isn't it HK P2000? Do you have any idea how expensive that thing is? Unless it's stolen, of course. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 15:32:51 JST
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Relax, I'm just trolling. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 10:38:08 JST
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https://everygunpart.com/handgun-kits/semi-auto.html
Purely out of curiosity, what is the source of these kits? Someone takes a gun and cuts it up. This makes a lot of sense for guns that cannot be imported as guns. The ugly side of living under the oppressive regime, I get that. But where do these come from? Are they all stolen and/or hot guns, which are cut up in order to dump the S/N? -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 10:38:07 JST
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A Ruger 1911 goes for $700+ at GB and $449.97 at EGP. There's no way someone buys guns up at market prices and cuts them up for resale to 3D printers. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 02:27:32 JST
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@sun I'd love to give you gun advice. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 13:44:52 JST
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A gun designer burns midnight oil, 2024, colorized.
P.F.Chang Gyoza, ALDI bread, HEB mortadella, Costco milk. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 13:12:26 JST
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I wonder why there's no such thing as a hesitation locked rifle. Seems like its characteristics would be similar to any proper delayed blowback system, but the energy input into the action would be better measured. The amount is not governed by a tricky balance of the mass of the carrier and locking wedge angle like in HK, but just the distance that the bolt travels before landing on the hard lock. This should allow shooting ammunition of varying power. Same principle as when an inertia shotgun collects a measured amount of energy in the central spring. But nobody did that, not even John Pedersen. Am I missing something, or it's just happened that way?
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 05:08:51 JST
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@shibao Sadly it's not threaded. But on the gripping hand, it has no serial number. The horror, the horror! Think of all the children ... that had shoot it over the last 50 years! -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 04:08:21 JST
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@shibao Privately I'm quite convinced that shooting a long barrel .22 rifle outdoors is hearing safe. Don't tell anyone though. This is something that tacticool crowd cannot comprehend. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 04:03:40 JST
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@shibao They were new in box, if that's what you're asking.
If you mean the reliability, it was perfect for me, but keep in mind that I never shot it with the factory magwell module. To be honest, I'm quite impressed at how much damage H.O.'s review has done to the model. But then Henry dug their own grave there, so lulz.
I realize now that I should've recorded the serial numbers of the guns for sale at the show. Then we'd know how much were getting produced, at least to the order of magnitude. My Homesteader was early, under 2000.
BTW, I bought a Winchester 69 at the show for $350. The gun has no serial number, it's only a .22. Can use 22 Shorts. Seems like in a great condition. My Fudd collection is expanding!
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 22:38:27 JST
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I visited a gun show in Ft. Worth on Sunday and saw at least 3 Henry Homesteders on the tables. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 22:51:32 JST
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https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/idf/thanks-but-no-thanks-israel-replacing-us-assault-rifles-with-locally-made-arms/2024/03/06/
Journalists generally explain it poorly, but basically IDF decided to replace Tavor with M4. The only twist this time is, they don't want to rely on American supply in the face of the demands in Ukraine and other theaters, so they are going to make those ARs themselves.
I remember that a ton of articles were posted in 2021 about Tavor not going away. However, the 2022 SVO in Ukraine changed the calculus very much: a cheaper, easier to manufacture, effective rifle is called for.
There's no much wrong with Tavor except the cost, and let's face it: not being an AR is its greatest demerit. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 22:51:31 JST
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Sorry, I forgot that I'm on Fedi. I should've added "Tavor bros on suicide watch trololololol" or something.
Interestingly enough, IDF rejected AR-likes too (so, no Carmel). It has to be an M4. I was hoping for the death of the Government profile barrel, but apparently no such luck. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 14:26:21 JST
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It happened again. A customer complains that he inserts a magazine in the gun and the bolt does not go forward. Sends a photo ... the magazine is empty. This is the 2nd such case among my clientele in 2 years. Not very common, but it happens. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 05:57:39 JST
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TIL that M4 feed ramps on modern ARs extend into the upper. I was curious why reputable retailers advertise uppers with ramps. Previously the ramps were a hack added to the barrel extension, no the upper. But evidently times change!
Naturally, extending the ramps into the upper opens a door for a funny mis-time, as pictured (lol).
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 04:23:03 JST
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There is a lot of intuitive understanding of how the gun actions work floating around that is simply wrong. And a lot of it has to do with human everyday common sense being unable to grasp a scale greater than 1 hundred. You must trust the math in order to operate in this area of gun design.
My favourite example is how many people assume that the recoil spring does anything in a blowback action aside from pushing the bolt into battery. But I made calculations for some common guns (such as AR9), and it never delivers more than 1% of the force resisting the bolt thrust when firing, and less than 0.2% for larger calibers like 10mm. The whole work of keeping the breech closed is done by the mass of the bolt. Spring does absolutely nothing!
Some of the blowback actions, such as Astra 600, have heavy recoil springs. But they only do that in order to improve the longevity of the gun.
P.S. I did not look into the numbers for the Oerlikon 20mm. I don't have the data or the time. Yes, its recoil spring is crazy strong, enough to require a pulley to charge. Even so, it may yet fall under the 1% - this is how great the bolt thrust of 20mm cartridge is.
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 06:59:13 JST
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@shibao @evelyn @animeirl @kaia @vivi @meso @lucy @anemone I'd just get a modern AR-10. I have a CETME-L and while it's quite enjoyable, it's practical value is a bit suspect. Night sight dots have long since fell out. Also it's heavy! Not quite BAR heavy, but AK feels lightweight in comparison. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 05:42:31 JST
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@meso @kaia @anemone @shibao @evelyn @vivi @lucy @animeirl Cheap substitute mags for G36 go well with dumb scribbles on the skin. -
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Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 12:38:36 JST
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@shibao I was wondering how it was possible for the average to be this low. If you divide guns by population, then sure. But these studies supposedly remove the gunless.
Then one day my wife told me about her friend, who has "a Colt". She is a widow and inherited it from her dead husband. I presume it's a 1911 and not a SAA or Pocket Hammerless. But apparently there's a ton of people who only have one or two. They skew the average.
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