>>Remington 1911 R1 is faithful to the 1911 A1 with some modern upgrades. Like the original 1911, Remington’s R1 has a flat mainspring housing, internal extractor, short trigger and double diamond grips. Modern enhancements include a flared ejection port, beveled magazine well, loaded chamber indicator, tall single-dot front and two-dot rear sights, and a black-oxided stainless barrel. The 1911 R1 also has a Series 80-style firing pin block safety. >>loaded chamber indicator >> Series 80 style firing pin saftey >> Butt ugly roll mark on the slide. I think I'll pass on this one. The icing to this would be if the frames were cast investments sourced from the Philippines or South America. Why can't anyone actually make a, to spec, faithful 1911 A1 clone made from a forged frame? Is it too much to ask for?
<a class="postlink" href="http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/05/brit-sniper-makes-double-kill-at-1-54-miles-with-338-lapua-mag/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/201 ... lapua-mag/</a> Holy shit folks... 1.54 miles is a long fucking ways! That sniper team sure has their shit together. We have to give the man credit for perseverance as well... (quoting the article): On a side note, one of my good buddies just stopped by the other day. He had a birthday present. The fella has a good sense of humor. Not a bad shirt. I think it'll pair perfectly with an NRA hat, or at least be something to wear at matches this summer.
Understatement of the thread. He went 3 for 3 at over twice the effective range. Guys with the ability to make shots like that amaze me. They don't just figure bullet drop and wind speed, they have to account barometric pressure, temprature and even the rotation of the earth. It's like taking a geometry midterm while getting shot at. So many things can throw off a shot like that and he did three times in a row. If I remember correctly the Canadian that held the record previously took 3 or four shots to hit one guy.
I already raved about it in another thread, but here's a shot of the hunk of maple I recently got. It's still rough sawn and pretty dirty (apparently it sat in a barn loft since the 80's), but a couple minutes with a planer were very worthwhile: Holy shit folks, I'm not the biggest fan of curly maple (hard to work by hand and I simply prefer the look of black walnut), but damn I'll get some nice stocks out of it. By the end of summer I want to have two stock patterns completed and at least eight stocks (four each) made from them. One benchrest stock and one prone/silhouette stock. I already have four 10/22 varmint stocks mid-completion. Just today I bought lumber for a special project... an ultralight (>24 oz. bedded and finished) benchrest stock for my Suhl so it can make 10.5 lbs. with a 36X Leupold and a barrel tuner. Oh, and I have yet to finish designing the tuner. This is going to keep me busy.
Uh oh... apparently airsoft guns can be converted into AR's! <a class="postlink" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06/exclusive-toy-gun-sold-easily-turned-real-thing/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06/ex ... eal-thing/</a> Great work, Fox. I'd like to see someone actually try the alleged conversion.
Well, fuck me! I spent all that money on a lower when I could've just cut up a shoe box. Where the fuck did they find this guy?
I did a quick Google search on both of the guys mentioned in the article... this is the only information I could find on either of them. "Firearms Manufacturer" Leo Gonnuscio: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/FFLDealers/FFLDealerDetails.aspx?sid=79767" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/FFLDeale ... ?sid=79767</a> Nothing else on Kind Mountain Gunworks... "Firearms Expert" Len Savage: Apparently he owns a company called Historic Arms, LLC. "Owner Len Savage offers semi-automatic versions of several historic military firearms." <a class="postlink" href="http://www.manta.com/c/mmd6tf6/historic-arms-llc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.manta.com/c/mmd6tf6/historic-arms-llc</a> Apparently the BATFE was on his case awhile ago but it turned out to be bullshit. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m2d12-Savage-strikes-back" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Righ ... rikes-back</a> A copy of a Bren he made... <a class="postlink" href="http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/brengun.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/brengun.htm</a> So they got a couple of guys with small businesses likely dealing with military firearms to spew some horseshit about airsoft guns. Awesome.
Not to pull this topic in a political direction, but the fact that Fox News found a way to work that in there cracked my shit up.
It's a 'firearm expert' speaking on behalf of the ATF. Are you really that surprised? This the the same ATF that, when its budget comes up for review, will go out and raid a few places just to justify their budget. The same organization that labeled a shoelace a machine gun part, shutdown Cavalry Arms from making lower recievers, and raided Sabre Defense and came up with jack shit. I figured taking whatever this firearm expert had to say with a grain of salt was a granted.
On the note of the airsoft issue, a few paramilitaries round here have been caught posing in photo's with airsoft guns whilst claiming they were on 'active service'. Pretty lame, but they certainly look the part, would mean a lesser jail sentence too if they were caught. Interestingly, since last year, all Airsoft and replica guns in the UK have to be sold in bright pink or similar colours so they can't be mistaken for real guns. Totally lame.
Thought I posted this, but looks like it didn't take. I am looking for a Biometric safe for a pistol. Anyone have any recommendations? Everything looks/sounds the same to me as I have very little knowledge with guns in general. Looking for something to store for home safety and that kids can't get into. Thanks in advance, and my apologies if this has been discussed.
I don't like "biometric" safes. Too many things to potentially go wrong. Do you want a safe, or just a locking storage box/cabinet? There's a big difference. What are your priorities? Keeping it away from the kids, theft prevention, easy accessibility, permanent mounting, mobility, flexibility, price, etc. Tell us exactly what your reasons are for wanting it, what is important to you, and what is not important to you, and we'll be able to help you out. Otherwise, we'd just be guessing.
Sorry for the lack of details in my previous post. I posted something longer, but the internet trolls gobbled it up. My main priorities are ease of accessibility for my wife and I, but next to impossible for someone other than us to access it. The main thing I am trying to work around is my wife doesn't want a safe that requires a key because in her mind a kid could find the key and access the safe. Second, we want to be able to store a loaded gun as we think it seems retarded to keep your gun in one place with the ammo in a second place when home protection/ Zombie Invasion is what we are seeking to protect against. Mounting, mobility, flexibility are not important to us. Money is an issue, but it is not a factor that supplants accessibility or safety for children. Essentially, we want a locked cabinet/box or a safe whichever will produce the best results when considering what we are looking for. The actual handgun purchase is going to be a whole 'nother issue for us too. I'll be reading through the rest of this thread to see if something similar about a gun for home safety has been posted. Just in case, my main criterion for a handgun are: Can be used by either my wife or I, still has decent stopping power (if I even need to worry about that), easy maintenance, and reliability. Also, my wife and I will both be taking gun glasses and will take all necessary steps to ensure that we know how to handle the gun. Thanks again.
Ok, here's my opinion, which may or may not be worth 2 cents. I understand the line of reasoning that led the two of you to want a "biometric" type safe, but I really can't stress how much I don't like those, especially if you're using it to store your loaded home-defense gun. If you're in a situation that requires you to be accessing that gun quickly, you're going to encounter two problems. One, if you go for a fingerprint reader type lock, you need to remember that those fingerprint scanners don't do a great job of recognizing fingerprints if you're hand is shaking, or you swipe your finger too fast. I don't want that. Two, if you go for the one with the four buttons that you lay your hand on and press in a combination to open, again you're assuming that in that incredibly stressful situation, you and/or your wife are going to be able to remember and properly key in that combination. Three, if the "biometric" system you end up using is electronic, you are trusting your life to those batteries. If you want to do that, you better make sure you're changing your batteries on a regular basis. They also still have keys in case the batteries fail, and you're going to have to keep those somewhere in case they do. You still have the risk of someone finding the keys. Here's my suggestion. Go with something simple, like this: <a class="postlink" href="http://stack-on.com/securityplus/gun_cabinets_and_pistol_boxes/pb-201b.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://stack-on.com/securityplus/gun_ca ... -201b.html</a> I have one of those that sits underneath my bed. When I go to bed at night, I take my keys out of my pants pocket, and put the key for the pistol box in the lock. That way, if I need the gun, I can open it quickly. I'm a light sleeper, so kids or anyone else don't have a chance of getting to that without waking me up. As soon as I get up in the morning, the key comes out, the box is locked, and that key doesn't leave my control all day long. Keep the key on you at all times. It serves two purposes: you always have it if you need to get to the gun, and if you have the key, nobody else can find it. Here's probably the single most important piece of advice I can give you. If you have kids in the house that are old enough to find the key and open the gun box, then they are plenty old enough to learn proper gun safety. If you're going to be taking gun safety classes, take your kids as well. Teach them the proper way to handle guns, how to check if it's loaded or not, and the most important rule, never to handle a gun if you are not there with them. My dad made me and my brothers all a promise, that anytime we wanted to see the guns, all we had to do was ask him, and he would stop whatever he was doing and go open the gun cabinet and let us see them. This gave us a way to satisfy our natural curiosity as kids, without making us sneak it. Was it a pain in the ass for him the first few times? Absolutely. But did the curiosity fade, and did it keep us from ever handling the guns when he wasn't around? Absolutely. If you teach your kids how to be responsible around guns, any other precautions you take are icing on the cake. If you don't teach them to handle them responsibly, no matter what precautions you take, they WILL find a way to get to your gun. As far as what type of gun to start with, based on what you posted, I would recommend a double-action revolver in .38 special. There is a lot of very good defensive ammo in .38 special, the recoil is very manageable, and double-action revolvers are incredibly simple machines. If you pull the trigger and it doesn't shoot, just pull the trigger again. There aren't any complicated safeties that might keep the gun from shooting when you need it. The only gun I would consider more reliable is a single-action revolver, but those require you to cock the hammer before each shot, so don't lend themselves to a beginning defensive gun.
Check this out... If ridiculously high-tech German rifles weren't an indicator of their level of sophistication in the shooting world, take a look at this place: <a class="postlink" href="http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/05/german-technology-in-giant-high-tech-shooting-facility/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/201 ... -facility/</a> The video is in German but you don't need to understand a word. Just watch. Indoor trap shooting? Indoor long range rifle shooting? Indoor computer-simulated hunting? Yes! On a side note, I find it interesting that the song they loop in the background is Pink Floyd's "Time."
I've heard several people say that a handgun is a poor choice for a home defense weapon, if only because in the pressure situations you described, it requires that you concentrate too much on aiming. A lot of people seem to prefer shotguns, which require less precision and can carry rounds that won't penetrate drywall. How would you respond to that?
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theboxotruth.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theboxotruth.com/</a> specifically <a class="postlink" href="http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot3.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot3.htm</a> Take note at how many boards were penetrated and the patterns. Looks like buckshot does penetrate the shit out of drywall and does have relatively tight patterns at short range- tight enough that you still need to aim well.
What katokoch said. People that tell you that are full of shit. A shotgun that shoots a pattern big enough so that you don't have to aim won't put enough lead into the bad guy. Shotgun rounds that won't penetrate drywall, also won't penetrate a bad guy. Shotguns ARE great home defense weapons, because they are more powerful with the correct loads, and aiming a shotgun does tend to come more instinctively than aiming a handgun. But, if you're going to take on the responsibility of having any gun in your house for defense, you sure as hell better be practicing enough at the range and shooting enough that even without using the sights, you can hit a person in the torso at 7 yards every time. Preferably both right and left handed. To have (and possibly use) a loaded gun for defense without making sure you can actually hit a person when it counts is more dangerous than not having a gun at all.