Gun pictures?

[Cornflake]

do your guns have their own bedroom to sleep in?

 

[Bent]

This is my Strato Gun. It got a little scuffed up in the crash, still fires just fine, though.

 

[dphillips]

Another of mine. (Mini 14)

 

[WayneXJ]

Guns need comfort too.

Wayne, you're fn lucky to have that Carbine. I'm looking for a Garand or m1/m1a1 Carbine!!

My brother has a garand that he'll sell to me for $500. He bought 3 of them a fews years back when you could buy them through the civilian marksmanship program.

 

[JohnR]

Best picture of my 1911, a friend took. Real low exposure time, pretty nifty.

http://www.laredoperformance.com/pistol.jpg

Hopefully by the end of the year I can get me a nice socom2

 

[SCW]

Best picture of my 1911, a friend took. Real low exposure time, pretty nifty.

Hopefully by the end of the year I can get me a nice socom2

Nice pic!

 

[JohnR]

I loved that gun, but it seems no matter how much I worked on it, it would always have problems. It was a run-of-the-mill SA 1911 "GI". I polished the feedramps, stoned here and there, but as soon as she got dirty she'd jam up good. That's why I prefer Glock

Drop it in the lake, shake it off, and pop off some rounds. The 1911 would jam if you even mentioned the word "silt" next to it.

 

[8Mud]

That is a very nice looking gun!

I can see the point of owning a hand gun if your in law enforcement or your a collector but what do the rest of people buy them for? I know someone is going to say protection. From what? Maybe if your a business owner who gets robbed a lot or a diamond broker of something like that I see the point. The reason I ask is because I have been carjacked and have had a gun shoved in my face. Even if I had a gun it wouldn't have done any good. When someone rolls up on you in a public place and you blink your eyes and now he's got a pistol stuck in your face and you can see its loaded and cocked what are you going to do? Are you going to reach. I doubt it. Because the minute you try your going to get one in the head. I'm not trying to rip on anyone or put you down I'm only giving you my experience with a hand gun. I didn't try to put up a fight or anything but the little weasel must have felt threatened by my size(Over 6ft. 225lbs) or maybe he just didn't want a witness. He shot me in the leg first (didn't even feel it, went right through) I freaked out and bent over to see if I had been shot and he put the gun to my back and shot again. That bullet missed my heart by less than a inch and put multiple holes in the rest of my organs. I still carry the bullet inside me to this day. The surgeons were to busy saving my life to go digging for it then. Moral of the is story shit can happen at any time any where and sometimes having a gun to defend yourself will do you no good. I've made a full recovery spent 21 days in the hospital and took a year to get my strength back but I'm fine now. This happened in Atlanta GA. in 96 around the time of the Olympics. The only permanent damage was to my mind. The fact that someone I never met before or wronged wold want to kill me for my belongings. Hope this story makes you think, that's why I shared it with you.

I was sitting in the farthest corner of a Bar, minding my own business, nursing a beer, listening to the music, when a drunk came in and yelled you have been messing around with my wife. Shot, missed, bullet bounced off the bar and hit me in the right arm. Bad luck.
Was in San Ysidro in 84, laying half under a car, with my brother and a Cop, watching some nut shooting anybody that moved. Cop said he had to wait for back up, policy was to call in the quick reaction team (took them almost an hour to get there), my brother pleaded with him to give me his gun, so I could do what needed to be done. Kid rides up on his bicycle and the nut put one through his chest. The nut was twenty yards away, at the time I could probably have put one in his ear, I'd been training a lot. We had just come up from a fishing trip to Mexico, I'd left my piece at home, just in case we were searched at the border.
If I'd been carrying, that kid and others would likely still be alive. Screw policy and/or procedure.
I would have been willing to do the time, knowing I'd done the right thing.
I had nightmares for years, would cry everytime I remembered that youngster being shot. blown off his bicycle. He sure as heck never got his happy meal.
In Germany they call it Bürger Pflicht, in America it is called Civic Duty. In my generation, people were more likely to take care of things themselves, instead of waiting for someone to do it for us.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, a gun is like a fire extiguisher. A thinking person will plan for the worst and hope for the best. You may never need it, but if you do and never put in the effort to procure it and learn it's use, you are being negligent.
Expecting governement to take care of your problems for you, is wishfull thinking at best and possibly borderline stupid.
If you live your whole life, never needing a gun, IMO you are the exception and not the rule. Do the math, the number of gun crimes commited in a year, times say a 60 year life span. The odds say, it is reasonable to be prepared, even if your preperations don't help at all, you've fullfilled your Civic Duty by at least trying to be prepared.

 

[8Mud]

I loved that gun, but it seems no matter how much I worked on it, it would always have problems. It was a run-of-the-mill SA 1911 "GI". I polished the feedramps, stoned here and there, but as soon as she got dirty she'd jam up good. That's why I prefer Glock

Drop it in the lake, shake it off, and pop off some rounds. The 1911 would jam if you even mentioned the word "silt" next to it.

The accurate ones will jam up pretty easy. The old nearly worn out ones, that rattle when you shack them, will usually fire full of mud.
A selection of barrel bushings, is the most fruitfull and easiest tune up methode. If you get a few slotted barrel bushing, you can adjust the clearance/pressure on the barrel some. And perhaps find a compromise between accuracy and reliability.

 

[Bent]

I can see the point of owning a hand gun if your in law enforcement or your a collector but what do the rest of people buy them for? I know someone is going to say protection. From what?

Protection from what? The founding fathers knew that one day it may be necessary for us to remove a tyrannical government from power here in the United States. I believe that day is closer than many would like to admit. Why do you think local, state and federal gun laws are working to eliminate the right to bear arms?


EDIT: We should be seeing pictures of rocket launchers too if our second amendment rights weren't so eroded.

 

[JohnR]

The accurate ones will jam up pretty easy. The old nearly worn out ones, that rattle when you shack them, will usually fire full of mud.
A selection of barrel bushings, is the most fruitfull and easiest tune up methode. If you get a few slotted barrel bushing, you can adjust the clearance/pressure on the barrel some. And perhaps find a compromise between accuracy and reliability.

I had looked into it, but I kind of lost interest of "tinkering" with it, since it was my carry peice. I REALLY like the g23. 14-rds of .45 +p goodness. I've put about 4,000rds through the Glock, without a problem. When I say that, I mean it probably had about 4 fte's at most, and that was when I put about 800rds through it in total at the ranch (friend's were shooting it also ).

I'm looking to get myself a G29 for summercarry, since full-power 10mm > .45acp . Perhaps the thing I love most about my Glock is that, like any other, is indistinguishable. I like that. It felt weird getting attached to a pistol, but I guess it happens when you perform alot of maintenance on them. No such problem with the glock :laugh2:

 

[WayneXJ]

g23 is compact .40