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Firearm BS thread

Discussion in 'Guns & Hunting' started by Konaborne, Dec 28, 2012.

  1. Oct 25, 2017 at 12:44 PM
    Tlook

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    Yeah I don’t really get it. It’s fun to shoot that stuff I guess but at least haul them off. Haven’t been in years but got swept a couple of times by a guy sighting in his deer rifle with no ear protection.
     
  2. Oct 25, 2017 at 12:45 PM
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    Seeing the third gen section forced me to get a Ford...
    i try to go out there sparingly due to stuff like that.
     
  3. Oct 25, 2017 at 12:52 PM
    Tlook

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    Yup. I shy away from public ranges when possible.
     
  4. Oct 25, 2017 at 1:56 PM
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    So nice to shoot the suppressed .22 outdoors, I’m more worried about getting hearing damage from the trash pump running 15 ft behind me.

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  5. Oct 27, 2017 at 12:24 PM
    gmr102

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    Just picked up a 1943 Lee Enfield No4 MK1. Its a Canadian Longbranch that was factory refurbished in '48 in England. I love these old surplus rifles. I think I am just gonna leave the stock alone. I consider every nick bump and scratch on it a battle scar well earned. Shot 20 rounds through it yesterday. She is a good shooter still. So much fun. Also so much cosmoline.
    Can confirm. My M48 is quite loud. They don't have as impressive of a fireball as the Mosins do IMO.

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  6. Oct 27, 2017 at 12:44 PM
    Noelie84

    Noelie84 What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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    My '03-A3 hardly barfs anything for fire, no more than my Savage in '06 does.


    Maybe because it's a typewriter?

    Certainly nothing even close to the Mosin. Facing a Soviet line of battle must have been terrifying: with all of those fireballs it would have looked like they were firing cannons instead of rifles. :laugh:
     
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  7. Oct 27, 2017 at 1:11 PM
    gmr102

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    Get your self a Westinghouse Mosin. They are the only refrigerators that shoot giant fireballs.
    Also that '03' is making me drool. I'm always on the lookout for a good deal on one of those. I want to have a firearm from every major power in WW2.
     
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  8. Oct 27, 2017 at 1:22 PM
    Noelie84

    Noelie84 What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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    I'm satisfied with my Russian-produced Mosin. I picked it up a few years ago for cheap (as Mosins tend to be) and got a couple of the apocalypse-proof 440 round spam cans. I figure if the world goes to crap I can at least bruise my shoulder on the cheap for a good long while :laugh:

    I really want to get is a Garand to go with my 03-A3, but I haven't been able to justify the price to myself yet.
     
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  9. Oct 30, 2017 at 6:34 PM
    JimBeam

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    Looking for some advice here

    I'm in the process of purchasing a house. The house does not provide any real feasible places for my safe inside the house and I'm basically stuck putting it in the garage. The garage floor however is sloped to the point that in the span my safe will take up, the floor drops probably an inch. Any suggestions for leveling the safe? Am I stuck building a form and pouring a concrete pad on top of the existing floor?
     
  10. Oct 30, 2017 at 6:37 PM
    wilcam47

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    Id just buy some flat steel and increase the height as you need it. drill through the steel and put concrete bolts and bolt it to the floor.
     
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    I didn't even think of using steel as a shim...I know a local guy who can probably custom build me a "box" at the proper angles

    Good call!
     
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  12. Oct 30, 2017 at 6:43 PM
    wilcam47

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    that also would be good. You could go the concrete method also.
     
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    Consider using a rubber leveling pad or Delrin blocks. Sometimes mixing metals on a concrete
    surface can speed up the rusting process.
     
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    I have a big silica gel thing in the safe and will probably add a goldenrod or whatever they're called

    but adding a rubber pad between the steel and safe is probably not a terrible idea either
     
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    I think the rust concern is the safe, not the contents.
     
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    Got the chance to shoot a cz shadow 2 this weekend, all I can is what a awesome pistol. A bit pricey, but I think there may be a cz spo1 in my future. Will be my first cz.
     
  17. Oct 30, 2017 at 11:49 PM
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    He means the steel to the floor. The concrete floor will make the steel sweat and rust.
     
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    If it were me, as long as you have the tools. I would build a mini box kind of like how you would build a wall in your house. And I would taper one side of the 2 x 4‘s that you’re using for the structure to match the floor and then put 3/4 and add as many stringers as you felt needed to handle the weight. Then put plywood on the top and the bottom. That way, you would create a vapor barrier between the floor in your safe and you could still lag bolt the safe down to the floor if you wanted. And it would take it up off the floor in case you ever had a water issue in your garage.
     
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  20. Oct 31, 2017 at 6:19 AM
    JimBeam

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    Water won't be an issue where I'm putting it and I want to minimize how high it sits off the floor just out of personal preference

    I think the steel base painted with a rubber barrier added all bolted to the floor together will work out great
     
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