All Things Guns

[RedHeep]

I just wish I had some place to shoot farther than 100.

Give me time.

 

[87manche]

Give me time.

you are my long range rifle plan.

 

[BRIANHO13]

Picked up a single shot handi rifle with scope today (chambered in 204), figure it will be a good rifle for Ted down the road.

 

[seanR]

Picked up a single shot handi rifle with scope today (chambered in 204), figure it will be a good rifle for Ted down the road.

Before or after your piss test?

 

[BRIANHO13]

After, I passed btw.

 

[seanR]

You must have studied.
Good for you!

 

[BRIANHO13]

Palmetto state armory has ar10 lowers on sale for $80 thinking about buying 3 or 4 for the next time prices get ran up....

 

[87manche]

don't forget the proprietary bits.

 

[BRIANHO13]

Are they not interchangeable like ar15s?

 

[87manche]

Are they not interchangeable like ar15s?

no.

and the PSA lowers seem t be the worst offenders.
They use a weird AR-15 size pin. Ir's AR 15 diameter, but longer.
The bolt catch is proprietary. I've heard that it's the same as the SW AR-10 piece, but never actually seen one in person.
The buffer tube is odd. If you don't want their tube you have to mix and match regular parts to get it to function.

nothing is "standard" in the AR 10 world because it was never formally adopted into the mil spec world.

The closest you get is a true DPMS/SR pattern rifle, or the Armalite pattern.
You don't want Armalite pattern

I looked into it when they dropped the "build an AR10 for $500" bomb on the industry, but the use of proprietary parts for no (apparent to me) good reason really put me off.
If I do AR-10 it will just be a DPMS. Can't be beat for the price/performance.

While there are a couple of proprietary parts, we offered LPKs and LBKs at very reasonable prices to make it easier to build up complete lowers without issues. When we have stock available, we will offer the pivot and take down pins. However, because of their cost they will be far more economical to purchase in the kits.

I heard that they are offering just the parts now and not forcing you to buy a complete LPK so you can get just the bits you need.
Honestly I was pretty put off by PSA's response and decided that I didn't want to be stuck with them for parts support in the future.

 

[BRIANHO13]

They have a full rifle kit with bcg for 500, so I figured 580 is a pretty good price

 

[bwfdrums]

Is that about 50 yards?

Yup just about 50 when I can barley see the target with iron sights. Still shot dead on. Not bad for a 80 yr old milsurp

 

[bwfdrums]

This was in my own back yard.

 

[w_howey]

Did a deal for a rifle in the Menard's parking lot today..... Never felt as hood in my life.
Being a M44 Mosin.. It seemed appropriate..

 

[RedHeep]

Found a 1926 Win 1897 on armslist and sent the guy an offer.

It's a nice gun from an estate sale. Almost makes me feel bad to cut it up.

Almost.

 

[bwfdrums]

Did a deal for a rifle in the Menard's parking lot today..... Never felt as hood in my life.
Being a M44 Mosin.. It seemed appropriate..

Sweet. I want an M44

 

[w_howey]

Sweet. I want an M44

This one is not in very good shape. Quite a bit of pitting on the bolt, receiver and barrel. Stock if okay, even though the shellac job might have been done by monkeys. It's definitely a shooter grade and not a show piece.

 

[bwfdrums]

Heck yeah! I'll take functionality and badassness over pretty any day.

 

[BRIANHO13]

Heck yeah! I'll take functionality and badassness over pretty any day.

So does your girlfriend

 

[bwfdrums]

So does your girlfriend

Haha that's valid.