The Gun Thread

Rhinox

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Sorry, the company I work for is Titan Protection.
As you can see, I've got the all black. The missus has the compact model in silver. Takes 15 round mags instead of 17 but it's an easy swap if she wants to use extended.

They are very nice guns, shoot well. And seriously, the weight. If you're a bigger person and have the upper body to hold the heft, this makes shooting and staying on target so much easier.
Mine is the 5 inch barrel so I did have to spend way too much on a holster again. Went with Valor holsters. It's . . . different.
 

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Rhinox

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I've had to draw my gun a handful of times at work. I've been very lucky.
I do enjoy the range. Shooting is a very fun activity.
 
Rhinox

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Oh, forgot to mention.

A company called Stopbox, they make personal gun safes. Mechanical, portable, very secure. They're having a buy one get one sale. So if you do have a handgun and don't have a safe for it, now would be a good time. $160 for two mechanical gun safes. That's pretty damn good.
 
Caldwin

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I'm just thinking, if the next PlayStation is $1000+, going back to the shooting range may be the cheaper hobby!
 
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I wish. I don't have anything that's cheap to shoot.

Once I finally have some money I should look into some upgrades. It's probably time to admit .25 and .30 Carbine are never making a comeback.
 
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So I have a question for you guys. My dad had a large arsenal of firearms, but he passed away in 2012, and I was wondering what the shelf life was for ammo. Like I know that he has some .223, 12 gauge, 22 LR, and 38 that is like 20-30 years old. Can that still be fired or should I dispose of it somehow?

Also, I am Glock guy myself. I got a 45 ACP back in 2011 for home defense, as I wanted something that was capable of taking down anyone high on drugs. Reading this thread makes me want to break the Glock out and clean it.
 
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The Predaking said:
So I have a question for you guys. My dad had a large arsenal of firearms, but he passed away in 2012, and I was wondering what the shelf life was for ammo. Like I know that he has some .223, 12 gauge, 22 LR, and 38 that is like 20-30 years old. Can that still be fired or should I dispose of it somehow?
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Don't take this as professional advice because I have no idea what I'm doing, but I wouldn't worry about too much. I'd save the old .223 ammo for the apocalypse stash, and I'm probably being overly cautious there. Otherwise, eh. You're looking at some relatively low pressure stuff there. Sketchy .38 special ammo is not going to explode a modern revolver.
 
The Predaking

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Does the .38 revolver being 50 years old matter? :) Most of the family firearms are older than me. Like, I remember my dad buying three new guns in my lifetime, the rest were ones that he had in or got from family.
 
Caldwin

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Take it to a range before putting your life on the line with it. But if there's one thing about firearms, they're usually built to last.
 
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My .25 is an absolute Saturday night special, but whoever built it was on their A game and I would trust my life to it.
 

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The Predaking said:
So I have a question for you guys. My dad had a large arsenal of firearms, but he passed away in 2012, and I was wondering what the shelf life was for ammo. Like I know that he has some .223, 12 gauge, 22 LR, and 38 that is like 20-30 years old. Can that still be fired or should I dispose of it somehow?

Also, I am Glock guy myself. I got a 45 ACP back in 2011 for home defense, as I wanted something that was capable of taking down anyone high on drugs. Reading this thread makes me want to break the Glock out and clean it.
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Stored in even slightly reasonable conditions, ammo is good nearly indefinitely. I've shot plenty of WW2 era ammo.

The plastic hulls on shotgun ammo will sometimes split or crack, but it not generally going to make it unsafe to shoot, just may not chamber or extract well.
 
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Good to know, because I've yet to find .30 carbine anywhere. I'll have to make my stash last.
 
Caldwin

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You know, good thing about your average apocalypse, laws and restrictions don't mean much. My first objective will be to get Dragons Breath and full automatics.

Bad part of course being that no new ammo would be manufactured, so I'd have to ration the dragons breath and maybe think twice before using the fun modes on full automatics.

But if I ever get completely surrounded by zombies and I'm in a no win situation...oh boy, it is on!
 
Caldwin

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But the one person who does think about it is then hit with the realization that "I have no idea how these machines work and I don't have any raw materials!
 
wonko the sane?

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Caldwin said:
But the one person who does think about it is then hit with the realization that "I have no idea how these machines work and I don't have any raw materials!
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Powders in the dry room in the basement, shells are in the storage room next to the office. The instructions are in the office file cabinet (one of them anyway.) all things people never conceive of checking.

On top of which: it's a manual labour job in north america: they stuck instruction plates on the machines with warning stickers to stop you getting your fingers caught. They give absolutely no credit to "unskilled" labour, but in like 90% of cases, it's justified... sadly.
 
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When the apocalypse happens I'm calling my crazy grandma. Her gun stash is probably bigger than mine, and she knows how to fix semiauto TEC-9s to make them go full auto again.
 
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