We need some content up in here. First post, stolen from presidentender.

monochromatic_oeuvre · 2012-05-26T18:49:20.484891+00:00

Where do you live. I want to meet you. I will come to an Appleseed close to where you live.

airchinapilot · 2012-05-26T01:41:03.592342+00:00

Step one: sell Ruger SR9 to a gunsmith.

bigmackdaddy · 2012-05-26T01:40:26.350501+00:00

Step one: go to 2006.

zdaytonaroadster · 2012-05-26T01:37:10.337894+00:00

our "friends" the afgan army aka soon to be new taliban army

Okay, so our "friends" are going to turn their cloaks. On whose behalf do we send men to die in Afghanistan, then?

SgtKashim · 1 day

Right, exactly.

SgtKashim · 1 day

Your manufacturing is a whole hell of a lot easier when your quality control is a little bit looser. When you're churning out millions of rounds, that's a big deal.

The "sniper" ammo is nicer, but still not as nice as a reloader's individual hand loads. Besides, I am unaware of "sniper" 7.62x39 loads.

JAfball77 · 1 day

http://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/u4olp/friday_buyday_vii_redheaded_stepchild_of_friday/

SgtKashim · 1 day

Because I read faster than people talk I have very little desire to watch videos.

allthe_gundams · 1 day

I do not spend any time thinking about the distinctions between the various specific 1911s. They're both budged guns and they might even be manufactured in the same factory.

pastorhack · 1 day

The difficulty with new, small manufacturers is that they have no reputation. It's tough to trust reviews, because reviewers tend to be paid directly or indirectly by the manufacturers. So you're looking at taking a risk.

allthe_gundams · 1 day

Rock Island, less'n $500. Gets you 100% 1911iness.

They seem the same because for all intents and purposes they are the same, with some differences in fit, finish, and fashionability.

SgtKashim · 1 day

Because it wasn't "do what you want fuck the haters guns r grate" it will naturally offend the sensibilities of many of the newer readers.

IcedchickenKing · 1 day

Certainly.

SgtKashim · 1 day

The inherent accuracy of cartridges is a thing to consider, but it's relatively unimportant, unless you're shooting a high-end precision rifle and you and your opponents are highly competent.

The 7.62x39's reputation for inaccuracy stems from three factors. First, it is the cartridge of the AK, which is accurately reputed to be less accurately shootable than an AR. Second, most of the 7.62x39 in the world is milsurp, and milsurp is of inconsistent powder charge and bullet weight, which means that one shot will not follow an identical path to another. Third, the powder charge is relatively light for the bullet, which creates a fast-dropping rainbow-like trajectory, which some mistake for inaccuracy.

This isn't an AK, it's a nice bolt gun, so that's not a concern. If you load your own ammo or buy commercial hunting rounds, the inconsistency of milsurp is a non-issue. That leaves only the issue of trajectory, which comes down to application.

So the question is, what are you doing with it?

IcedchickenKing · 1 day

Oh derp derp derp. You can be an excellent shooter without knowing how to teach other people to shoot, just as with any activity.

Guize · 1 day

At least your camera is good.

I have seen that belt buckle once before, in the hands of my grandfather's best friend, who was a Vietnam vet. He walked out of his house carrying something. "What you got there?" I asked. "Oh, I'm making a belt," he said.

He had a brass belt buckle, and it looked like that one. "I didn't figure you for a communist," I told him. "Oh, nah, this is a memento. See, I met a guy briefly, but after our conversation, he didn't need it any more. That and I got to come home, on account of some of what he said to me before I had words with him."

k9m9 · 2 days

If this is relevant content then I no longer belong here.

k9m9 · 2 days

No, you really didn't.

IcedchickenKing · 2 days

"Very basic" is what you want.

k9m9 · 2 days

HA HA HA LOOK GUISE NINE GAG I AM SO GLAD THIS IS ON R GUNS

IcedchickenKing · 2 days

I intended it to sound like I have confidence in my ability to learn, not shoot.

If you re-read my comments you will realize that I understand this.

Do you have a reference to the preferred / recommended stances, grips, techniques that I could use to educate myself before I am able to get in with a professional trainer?

I would recommend that you don't try to learn anything on your own until you have someone looking over your shoulder. If you insist on undirected practice, start by googling 'modern isosceles stance,' and understand that you will be developing bad habits.

The point of the trainer is to look over your shoulder and point out what is wrong. He's a set of eyeballs outside your body and not attached to your ego.

Determining the quality of the trainer is mostly about listening and deciding how pragmatic his curriculum is. If he teaches you only one canonical stance, that's bad. If he insists that it is the One True Stance and that no other stance will work, that's worse. If he says "Massad Ayoob will tell you x, but I think y and z," that's good. If he says "Gabe Suarez says x and I tend to agree," that's better. Assessing the quality of a trainer for anything isn't something I can teach you over the internet. It's a matter of experience.

Your gunsmith might be great and his recommendation might be good, or he and his recommendation might be idiotic. My concern with military guys is that their knowledge tends to be very doctrinal (since the economy of scale that applies to training large groups only really works if you pretend everyone is the same) and they tend to have a carbine-and-body-armor CQB-centric worldview.

thebigangry · 2 days

It depends what you mean by "slightly." For general plinking, if you can get it zeroed, it'll be a non-issue.

IcedchickenKing · 2 days

How did you want me to make those points? You said your trigger pull was good, which means you do have confidence in your ability to diagnose your shot. I can't see you shoot, so I don't know whether that's well-founded, and neither do you, hence the need for training.

You said you intended to seek the tutelage of people in your area who shoot. Such people may or may not have the background to teach you anything, and as of right now, you do not have the experience to tell the difference.

A concealed carry class is not usually especially valuable training, because the certification requirements are minimal and the subject matter should be focused on the legality of self-defense, not the effective employment of the pistol.

IcedchickenKing · 2 days

I have shot before, so I have a nice slow and smooth trigger pull.

The hell you do. I don't care if your dad took you shooting seven hundred and fifty times and he was an Army Ranger and a cop for fifty years. If you don't have training from some sort of trainer, you're pretty much not in a place to diagnose what you're doing wrong.

"People who shoot" are not "trainers." Unless you're being trained by someone who actually has training, you're developing confidence without competence.

IcedchickenKing · 2 days

You're probably jerking the trigger back or tightening your grip. Diagnostic targets like this one can help some, but really you need training from a reputable instructor if you're going to develop your skills.

Edit: Also, stop pretending that you know things, right now. The faster you realize that you know nothing and learn to recognize the people who do know things, the better.

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