Orange County CAF's: up to no good

Nice! Now makes me want to own a rifle now

 

good morning all !!

 

Should roll through the next Barstow trip, I know I'd happily let you take a swing with a few of mine!

 

What kind of shotgun? You can pick up Pardner or a Mossberg 500 clone like mine for a hair over $200 out the door I think and it'll be brand new?

If you want a cheapo rifle that makes a shit load of noise and hurts pick up a decent quality ("very-good"+ is usually best, but verify the front post is straight) Mosin Nagant. If you'd like something the kids can pick up easily I recommend either a Ruger 10/22 (not my favorite) or a Marlin 60 (awesome fucking rifle.)

Any of these could be had for $200-ish depending on market and how patient you are waiting for a sale to come up. I'd also start with no scope, way better to pick up shooting from irons before you start putting any kind of glass on it.

 

Also: a bit more expensive but an awesome "cowboy gun" is the Henry lever .22, gotta get that old school feel going! Shooting a nice 30-30 or those .357/.44 mag lever guns is straight awesome, right @Dangerousd1987

 

I personally would prefer a good .22 for range time over a shotgun. The uses are different and more... relevant? Shooting a .22 at 100m is near equivalent to any intermediate cartridge out to 3-400m and larger rounds like .308 or 30-06 out to like 600m. Those light little slugs* can be a real challenge with their light weight and low velocity!

If your neighbor knows a guy who collects he'll most likely guide you well.



that typo if you saw it

 

Debating on going off roading today, don't know where to go though

 

Pshhh too far for me today

 

Yeah unless you get a long shotgun and are into trap/sport clays, etc. But even then you gotta get a thrower or teach someone how to use the hand throwers... I typically recommend a first .22 to get comfy with. Just watch out for ammo, every time I go to Walmart they have plenty of everything else but the old boxes of 525 rounds are scarce.

Rowher!

I can hear the bickering already

 

sweet! The only thing that stopping me from buying is I can't really no place to secure him. I have 9 year old running around.

Shotgun! I like the Remington 1100 compitition

 

Nahh too busy on Saturday

 

Shotgun are fun, try PRADO shooting range in chino. Clay shooting. To two rounds and your done for the day. Use 12g shell though.

 

2 rounds of clays?! Hold it tigher!

 

A locking gun cabinet isn't that bad, use a combo lock so there's no keys to get misplaced and you should be good. It won't be DOJ compliant so you can't bypass the need for those stupid fucking cable locks, but, it's safe(r) against a kid's hands, y'know?

I have a 14 gun safe and she's about full

Only other security beyond that becomes exposure and training. My cousin is a hair older than your boy @madsand but she was exposed very young and has great respect for firearms.

 

Also, what can be done to make it further safe is to put trigger locks on AND remove the bolt/mag/clip or whatever can be removed to render the firearm useless to the point of just being an "steel bat"! I always remove the bolt assembly from my AR's AND a lock through the ejection port through the mag well. For the MN and 308 I also remove the bolts. A little extreme you can say, but when pieces are spread out and locked in different areas (i.e. even a small tackle box like locker) it will make it virtually impossible unless someone REALLY wants to take the time to find all the pieces, LOL!!! Other than that, again, the firearm is just as dangerous as your ex chasing you with a baseball bat!!!

 

That's the best way to go about it. I learned how to shoot at a young age, never ever played with them knowing what they do. besides I could ask my dad and he'd take me shooting

 

Very good advice. I prefer to not have to assemble my firearms in the event of surprises

But even then I've taken "safe" measures there as well, haha.

How old is he anyhow?

Every single time. Removed the allure and imprint the real impact and there's nothing else you can do.

 

Yeah, I hear ya Denny!!! For that stupida$$ 2012 or 13 scare, can't remember which now (LOL, my memory getting F'N old, LMAO), I SLEPT WITH my 556 WITH 2x mags (ready to go)!!! I wasn't scared of an asteroid or stupid shi- like that, I was actually scared about the F'N people possibly wigging out that "the end of the world was coming!!!" I'm more scared of people than animals and Mother Nature, LMAO!!!