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Special Interests - Groups & Societies => The Barracks => Topic started by: Drydock on September 27, 2015, 09:43:54 PM
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Today at my company picnic I won a $1000 gift card from Cabelas! What should I get from the Gun Library? Help me spend my companys money!
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Get something you would normally never consider buying unless you came into some kind of windfall . . .
RCJ
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Find yourself a 1st generation Colt SAA!
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Nice prize.
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You could buy me a beer?
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What about this?
http://www.cabelas.com/product/springfield-armory-174-standard-m1a-8482-semiautomatic-rifle/1961252.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26fsch%3Dtrue%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3Dm1a%26x%3D10%26y%3D6%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%252BProducts&Ntt=m1a (http://www.cabelas.com/product/springfield-armory-174-standard-m1a-8482-semiautomatic-rifle/1961252.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26fsch%3Dtrue%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3Dm1a%26x%3D10%26y%3D6%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%252BProducts&Ntt=m1a)
Or this?
http://www.cabelas.com/product/gun-library/commemoratives%7C/pc/103792680/c/103797180/colt-government-model-100-years-of-service-45-acp/1971302.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Fcommemoratives%2F_%2FN-1103066%2FNo-40%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_103797180%3FWTz_st%3DGuidedNav%26WTz_stype%3DGNP%26recordsPerPage%3D40
(http://www.cabelas.com/product/gun-library/commemoratives%7C/pc/103792680/c/103797180/colt-government-model-100-years-of-service-45-acp/1971302.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Fcommemoratives%2F_%2FN-1103066%2FNo-40%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_103797180%3FWTz_st%3DGuidedNav%26WTz_stype%3DGNP%26recordsPerPage%3D40)
Or this?
http://www.cabelas.com/product/gun-library/miscellaneous%7C/pc/103792680/c/103798080/adams-double-action-purcusion-revolver-in-case-with-accessories-/1997662.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Fmiscellaneous%2F_%2FN-1103075%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_103798080 (http://www.cabelas.com/product/gun-library/miscellaneous%7C/pc/103792680/c/103798080/adams-double-action-purcusion-revolver-in-case-with-accessories-/1997662.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Fmiscellaneous%2F_%2FN-1103075%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_103798080)
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Find yourself a 1st generation Colt SAA!
For $1,000? Maybe five or ten times that for a 1st Gen Colt's! ;)
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With some extra change ($500!) you could get an Allin Conversion Trapdoor that I saw in there library recently. I think it was listed as an 1868 Allin Conversion in 45-70...I'm pretty sure they meant it was a 50-70!
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http://www.cabelas.com/product/auto-ordnance-thompson-1927-a1-45-auto/1993006.uts?Ntk=GunLibrary&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch%2F%3FN%3D%26No%3D0%26Ntk%3DGunLibrary%26Ntt%3Dauto%252Bordnance%26Ntx%3Dmode%252Bmatchallpartial%26WTz_st%3D%26WTz_stype%3DSP%26form_state%3DsearchForm%26recordsPerPage%3D20%26search%3Dauto%252Bordnance%26searchTypeByFilter%3DGunLibrary%26x%3D35%26y%3D14&Ntt=auto%2Bordnance
I suspect this was more in line with RC Johns advice, but I've always wanted one. Pick it up at the St Louis store later this week. The plan will be to eventually SBR the barrel, and replace the forestock with a military one, thus recreating the USN contract 1928. Then I can Zoot Shoot in my Whites as a Sand Pebble.
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http://www.cabelas.com/product/auto-ordnance-thompson-1927-a1-45-auto/1993006.uts?Ntk=GunLibrary&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch%2F%3FN%3D%26No%3D0%26Ntk%3DGunLibrary%26Ntt%3Dauto%252Bordnance%26Ntx%3Dmode%252Bmatchallpartial%26WTz_st%3D%26WTz_stype%3DSP%26form_state%3DsearchForm%26recordsPerPage%3D20%26search%3Dauto%252Bordnance%26searchTypeByFilter%3DGunLibrary%26x%3D35%26y%3D14&Ntt=auto%2Bordnance
I suspect this was more in line with RC Johns advice, but I've always wanted one. Pick it up at the St Louis store later this week. The plan will be to eventually SBR the barrel, and replace the forestock with a military one, thus recreating the USN contract 1928s. Then I can Zoot Shoot in my Whites as a Sand Pebble.
Congratulations on your choice, and a nice plan of action.
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Just too cool!
Congrats.
RCJ
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Good choice! I thought about suggesting one.
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Most excellent! You will bring to to the Grand Muster next summer for show and tell?
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Since he swapped of his Charger for a full size pickup, I expect he can bring his whole collection to the Muster!
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Since he swapped of his Charger for a full size pickup, I expect he can bring his whole collection to the Muster!
I'd have traded up for the truck too. And I think we could carry a small gun shop on the back of that mother! :D
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c6/31/23/c63123ec1d5103552dcf39fe29ea9c17.jpg)
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http://www.ramtrucks.com/hostc/bmo/CUT201613DS1L62B/2TB/configurator.do?sessionKey=2015-09-29%2012:32:42.855#/powertrain
One of these, just for the small stuff not worth breaking out the Flatbed . . .
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I hope that you didn't trade a "classic" Charger for the truck! I miss the '67 Charger with a 440 magnum engine, 727 Torqueflite tranny, Carter ( I think) 4-bbl and fold down rear bucket seats!
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It was just the modern version.
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2010 Challenger. Got married a few years back, wife has her car, don't need two cars, pickup comes in handy, and the diesel gets great mileage! And I can carry more guns, ammo, gear, tentage, cots, rugs, chairs . . .
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Well if one cannot civilize them with a Krag, a Chicago Typewriter should do the job handily.
Wonderful choice, one of my great regrets is never having had the chance to handle or fire a Thompson. They were pretty much out of the inventory by the time I was in the Army, we did have M3 Grease guns for the VTR crew, but that is rather like a VW than a Caddy. Never fired them either as we could not routinely get 45 ammo
Hope to drool on it at the muster.
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snip...
..... one of my great regrets is never having had the chance to handle or fire a Thompson.
I too had grand desires, but somehow as opportunities now present themselves, my aging corpus does not seem to be up to the task....
I "always wanted" a Martini Henry in .455-577. Well, several showed up at the Pawn Store. I can hardly hold them up for the time req'd to shoot them offhand! I "Always Wanted" a proper Thompson or replica.... after finally handling a real one I decided they are just too blasted heavy (when properly loaded) as well....
I better send away for the Charles Atlas course before I cannot raise up my remmies.....
yhs
prof ( weakling) marvel
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Prof Marvel
Understand the feeling. Having totaled my right shoulder several times playing infantry, I can really no longer hold my pistol more than one or two stages a match, so I generally shoot both pistols with my left.
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In one of the grand oddities of my naval career, in the late 80s the USN still had Thompsons in the inventory! The USN was the last of the services to give up the 1911, (1993) so they carried the .45 Subgun to go with the ammunition supply. Evidently the Navy never bothered with the M3, as they had plenty of Thompsons at the end of WW2, and sailors don't exactly wear small arms out. So I did get to shoot a Milspec Thompson M1a1 in service. I begged the Master-at-arms of the USS Virginia to let me try one. Great fun!
Heavy beast true, but the weight comes in handy in full auto, surprisingly controllable. Sailors carry things around in boats ennyways. Like Ma Duece, a comforting thing to have around.
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On a ring mount from a moving track the Ma Duece T&E can be very accurate and deadly
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On a ring mount from a moving track the Ma Duece T&E can be very accurate and deadly
From the commanders cupola on an M1A1 with thermal sights it is deadly accurate way far away. ;)
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How did we get down this wrong road?
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True sadly as an infantry guy never had the chance.
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Road? Heck, this bunch takes off cross country like chicken feathers in a cyclone.
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Road? Heck, this bunch takes off cross country like chicken feathers in a cyclone.
OK-back on track!!! :D
"A TOMMY GUN!!!"
(http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/6/61/MaskM1928Thompson-2.jpg/600px-MaskM1928Thompson-2.jpg)
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Well, got the new Thompson home. KN series Worchester gun. After the Cabelas card I won at the company picnic (Thank you Diamond Pet Foods) and a few discounts (Thank you USN) I paid $61 of my own money (Damn you state and federal taxs!)
Yeah, I'm showboatin' a bit, but c'mon! I suspect I'll never be this lucky again . . .
Went out to the farm and put 50 rounds of my LRN handloads thru it. No problems at all. Off the shoulder at 50 feet you could cover all the hits with your palm. A few from the hip were more scattered, but frankly I was mesmerized by the vertical puffs from the Cutts.
Take down was as I remembered, not hard, a little fiddly with the take down button sliding the fire control off. The tolerances on this one are very tight. Well made, well machined. Clean up very easy, thank you American Select.
I've got the military forearm on the way, be nice to sling this beast. There may be a spring kit in the future, but its certainly manageable for now. While the PPS will remain my primary Zoot gun, I can see bringing this out if someone sets the targets back a ways. The Yangtze River Patrol beckons . . .
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I think there are some steel cowboys at Windy Ridge that may need to be subdued.....
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It will make the trip.