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[Kilroy the Grand]

I'm sure there are several other here own guns, or at least want to own guns. I love MILSURP and odd guns, and I have a lot of them. I want to say 17ish, but the .22s are hard to keep track of. I'm not going to list all of them because most of them are boring run of the mill stuff, I'll just list my three favorite ones.

My sexy mauser

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This is the gun I hunt deer with, it's quite effective at its job. The ladder sight is so sexy. The only problem with it is it's ammo, 8mm is not a popular round, nor is it cheap.
My adorable, adorable contender

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A guilty pleasure, I don't really have a need for a .223 break action handgun. It's fun to shoot and the ammo is cheap.
Look at it, it thinks it's both a shotgun and a rifle! (This guy looks like a dwarf)

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I use this as my varmint gun usually, the .410 is good for rabbits, while the .45 is good for picking off beavers or raccoons.

So, please use this thread to vent your gun lust.

[Sirus]

That last one looks like something out of Borderlands. Just about everything has a revolver-style thing on that game

I've fired off a few handguns at the range, but I don't own any guns. They can be a little expensive around here.

[Sowelu]

I keep meaning to get a .22 rifle with an absurdly long range scope.  I'm pretty okay with my fiancee's .45 pistol, but I'm a crack shot with her .22 rifle and her brother's AR-16.  I really need to find a good outdoor range or something, though...there's an old quarry but it's quite far away, and the indoor one is simply insufficient for rifle shenanigans.

...Never hunted with a gun.  I've hunted bunnies with a wrist-rocket though, and also the time-honored method of sprinting after them in the open field, tackling, and breaking their neck with my bare hands.  It's somehow more satisfying to /earn/ your meal that way, and besides, it helps burn calories.

I do want to get into competitive shooting.  Any advice on how to get involved, and how much it costs to start?

[Kilroy the Grand]

I do want to get into competitive shooting.  Any advice on how to get involved, and how much it costs to start?

No clue, I don't even go to a range. I have over 280 acres to shoot in. The NRA would be your best bet for information

only held a gun once. shot a tree with it. I would've tried a shotgun, but that was too damned loud (my ears rang for a good while after the other guy shot it, and I was about 5m away)

That's why god invented ear protection.

wrist rocket gave me two results from google:
A) putting your hand in such a position a vien pops up for drugs to be injected into.
B) an HJ

lol

[Jacob/Lee]

I have a bunch of guns at my house (which is my mom's) but most of them are my dad's. I practically own them even though I don't. I've shot some of them, but I've only fired .22 rifles and 20 gauge shotguns.

notsoninjaedit: I intend to shoot the Ruger .22 Blackhawk my grandpa gave me sometime.

[neil_v]

wrist rocket gave me two results from google:
A) putting your hand in such a position a vien pops up for drugs to be injected into.
B) an HJ

LOL! Sowelu must have a good P.C. muscle, or a compaon with a good p.c. muscle. What did you use for sights Sowelu? scope? laser sight? or just spay and pray?

-edit-I love guns by the way (plinking, and target practice only)

[RedKing]

Just a quick reminder/disclaimer, I work for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. So if you've got something of less-than-legal status and live in the United States, you should probably keep that to yourself. Just sayin'.

[Jacob/Lee]

Fun fact: Illinois is one of the few states that doesn't allow you to carry concealed weapons.

[Flying Dice]

Just a quick reminder/disclaimer, I work for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. So if you've got something of less-than-legal status and live in the United States, you should probably keep that to yourself. Just sayin'.

And if you were a bad person, you wouldn't have reminded anyone. 

[Aqizzar]

My father lives right next to Engineer Corps' floodlands, so we all the open space in the world to target shoot.  Theoretically hunt too, but we've never cared enough to sit around perfectly quiet in the bitter cold for hours on end.  We like trashing shit.

Current collection includes: a brandless .22 carbine rifle (my "starter" gun, which I will never part with), a Mossberg 12-gauge pump action shotgun (missing an inch of barrel, after we got a little careless), my pride and joy the 91-30 Mosin-Nagant bolt action rifle (one of the finest choices in rifles you can get right now, since Russia dumped its WW2 armories they're $100 retail), and a "Heritage Arms" .22 revolver (a terrible choice in handguns, but I wanted a pistol and it was available).  A fine, general purpose array of firearms for the non-serious shooter.  And believe me, my dad and I are not "serious" shooters.

I should mention that the .22s might be my favorites of the lot, mainly because the bullets are about a penny or two a shot, instead of a quarter a shot like the 12-gauges and 7.62x54.  Having fun is not free.

I'll have to look into that .410 revolver longarm.  That thing really is the perfect home weapon, it's like my entire collection in one.  My dad's been talking about getting a snakecharmer ever since he had a close encounter with a wild boar (it was probably a cow).  Although he also had an encounter with an actual snake, and if he tried to shoot the thing, he'd probably have blown his foot off.

[Kilroy the Grand]

Just a quick reminder/disclaimer, I work for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. So if you've got something of less-than-legal status and live in the United States, you should probably keep that to yourself. Just sayin'.

All my stuff is legal, I don't even have any of the REALLY cool stuff. I wouldn't even be able to import or buy any of it.

[RedKing]

Didn't realize the Moisin-Nagants were that cheap. If my wife weren't utterly, paralyzingly terrified of firearms, I'd probably pick up one of those.

[Sowelu]

Ooh, I'll have to look into that Mosin.  What's a good place to order one if you live in, say, Washington state? 

What's the ammo availability like?  My fiancee's one of those "must be stocked up in case of end of the world" people.

"Wrist rocket" is what I /thought/ was a common term for arm-mounted slingshots: I can't remember the brand name but you strap it onto one wrist for some pretty good stability and power.

Fiancee's pistol and rifle have no special aiming aids (and the rifle never will, due to it being her great-great-something aunt's from I believe pre-WW1).  The AR-16 had...I think a reflex scope?  I'm not great with terminology.  It had some zoom (not much), and a dot.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Just a quick reminder/disclaimer, I work for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. So if you've got something of less-than-legal status and live in the United States, you should probably keep that to yourself. Just sayin'.

Although there aren't that many firearms which are outright illegal in the US, especially after the expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. You'd have to have something really crazy to get the ATF on you.

Since you work there though, what would you say the ratio of cases are for guns which aren't legal versus guns which have been illegally modified?

[Aqizzar]

Didn't realize the Moisin-Nagants were that cheap. If my wife weren't utterly, paralyzingly terrified of firearms, I'd probably pick up one of those.

Ooh, I'll have to look into that Mosin.  What's a good place to order one if you live in, say, Washington state? 

$125 at Gander Mountain got me a complete de-armorie'd kit: the 1942-make rifle, still coated in storage grease, a shoulder strap and a couple pouches, and a fucking bayonet.  The bayonet actually had to be filed out a little so it would fit on the barrel correctly, but other than that works as advertised.  I've seen them for sale at plenty of other outlets too, though not always with the kit.  I'm sure they're available across the country.

We made a little practice dummy out of some sticks and a motorcycle seat.  It's effect on one's élan vital is exactly as the marshals of France insisted.