John's Gun O' The Day Thread (Updated 12/01/2007)

[John Shaw]

Just been busy listing three properties and getting two houses ready to sell. I haven't forgotten or anything.

Adherence to priorities = Money + New Home.

Maybe later on tonight I'll catch up some.

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Haha, except I don't know anything about sexual perversion, remember?

Would you like to learn?

[Lindsey]

Haha, except I don't know anything about sexual perversion, remember?

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ROFL.   

[bonerjoe]

Haha, except I don't know anything about sexual perversion, remember?

Would you like to learn?

Watch out, he supports Ed Brown.

[Elitist Bitch]

Haha, except I don't know anything about sexual perversion, remember?

Would you like to learn?

My husbands and wife may not like that so much...

[John Shaw]

Alright, gonna mix it up a bit with some rifles. Three tonight.



One of the most underrated rifles in the world, IMHO. Yes, it's heavy, and old, and heavy, (They're all converted .308/7.62X51 machine guns and are just as heavy as they look.) but with a little love and care these babies pack a hell of a punch and a hell of a long range. Mine is set up in an unusual way. It's basically a well disguised hunting* rifle, post upgrades. I have a floated, deep freezed (Cryogenic accuratization) match barrel on the thing, and a 40x scope on it. For something as big and lunky as this thing, (Notice the big assed carrying handle on the side.) people are usually surprised at the range when I peg a sub minute-of-hair grouping on a 45 year old machine gun at 100 yards.

It has a cheezy thumbhole stock because I like them, and it's what was on the thing when my wife bought me the gun.



I always wanted an M-14, and here it is. They're as rugged as hell, nearly impossible to make dirty enough to stop working, and accurate as hell. Mine was built to specification
by LRB in Long Island. They do anything from mall ninja machine gun looking M-14's to ones that look like someone went back in time and bought a brand new one from Springfield Armory. Mine is the latter, but with all new stuff, full forged parts, all the goodies. Looks old, shoots new. Some days I like to shoot .308 out of a gun that weighs 2/3 less than the FN-FAL. This is that gun.



The SKS is another underdog. Melissa bought this Yugoslavian one for me just because she loves me, and knew I wanted to have one around. I ninja'd it up a bit. They're great, durable, all around guns that cost next to nothing (Under $200) and eat 7.62x39 like popcorn. Mine has the silly grenade launcher and bayonet for stabby stabby time. This is one of those rifles that everyone should have. It's not too heavy, shoots a decent round, accurate enough for hunting or SHTF issues, and you can almost guarantee it will never break if you take care of it. Caveat: Get used to the stripper clips, or get an actual high cap SKS magazine if 10 shots isn't good enough for you. Don't get one of those AK magazine conversion jobs. They never work properly.


*I use the term "Hunting" very loosely. It's very accurate for whatever, is what I mean.

[Zhwazi]

That poor FAL. It deserves better furniture than that.

I've never heard of cryo-accurizing, how's that work?

[John Shaw]

That poor FAL. It deserves better furniture than that.

I've never heard of cryo-accurizing, how's that work?

Basically they take a metal part down to -300 degrees Fahrenheit for a period of a couple days, and and then bring it back up slowly. It's a hardening treatment.

What it does is sort of the opposite of the reaction you get when a tapered barrel gets really hot and warps. The piece of metal "Wants" to be the shape it was forged at, and flexes/bends/twists in odd ways when heated due to imperfections/irregularities in the steel. Making steel that cold shrinks the entire piece of steel and essentially tightens and compresses the metal, and increases the number of steel/carbon/nickel/whatever molecular bonds. It's not super cheap, but it actually works, unlike a lot of gimmicks out there.

It has a similar effect to melonite/tennifer metal hardening but doesn't just effect the surface of the metal, and doesn't help resist rust.

http://www.300below.com/site/barrel_process.html

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Haha, except I don't know anything about sexual perversion, remember?

Would you like to learn?

My husbands and wife may not like that so much...

Well, then, leave them at home.

[John Shaw]

Update for 08-14-2007

Sorry for the delay. Four tonight, more later.



The .17 Hornady Magnum Round is pretty new (2002) and really neat. They took a .22 Magnum, and necked it down like a little tiny rifle round. They're super accurate and pack a fairly mean punch, for a bullet a little thicker than a fat pencil lead. This one is a varmint exploder, no doubt about it.



The king of .22LR! There's a million goofy custom parts and stuff to get for this old favorite. Everybody should have a 10/22. You can shoot all day and not feel pain in the wallet. And with proper fine tuning, they're as accurate as hell. Don't let anyone tell you that .22LR is a harmless round, either. In recent years the IDF has been using a suppressed 10/22 variant for quiet sniping.



Another classic. A good old fashioned 12 gauge pump action shotgun. Black plastic flavored furniture for extra tacticool/mall ninja styling. Makes holes in things real good with the right rounds. We use this one for home defense. *Cliche* Racking it makes criminals pee. *Cliche*



A little more advanced version of the same thing. The 835 shoots 3 1/2 inch shells for extra fun, and mine has good old fashioned wood everything, just for variety. The long assed barrel makes for some serious accuracy while shooting birds/clay.

[John Shaw]

08-15-2007



The scary gun that the gun grabbers never grabbed, until the A-Team came on the air. The Mini 14 is functionally identical to the AR-15 type rifles out there, but not as scary looking because of the wood furniture. The action is a reduced size version of the M-14 action. Very reliable and easy to maintain, just like the M-14, only it uses the .223 instead of .308, making it quite a bit lighter.



For when you absolutely need to kill any living thing on Earth or beneath the sea. The .460 Weatherby round is made for killing elephants, rhinoceroses, killer whales, and Gozer the Gozarian. Do not shoot unless you know how to handle magnum powered rifles! I've seen six foot, 250lb men fall on their ass because they didn't know how to handle a real rifle. For guns geeks, a .460 Weatherby shoots a 500 grain round at 2600 feet per second! Zombies with four inch thick titanium plated skullcaps run away from this thing. It fires the power of Cthulhu, Moses, Tron, and Chuck Norris out of its barrel.

[Ed]

Hey John, is she a super freak?

[John Shaw]

Hey John, is she a super freak?

She is indeed.

What?

[Ed]

Dude, does Melissa shave her armpits?

[John Shaw]

Dude, does Melissa shave her armpits?

Does she look French to you? Of course she does.