GUNS!

[mraynrand]

My father gave me a Winchester 1901 for goose hunting when I was a kid. My god that thing is loud. Every once in awhile I'll break it out to impress the friends.

Do you hunt deaf geese?

[Freak Out]

Do you hunt deaf geese?

When I'm done they are.

[mraynrand]

When I'm done they are.

Existential and Metaphysical!

[SkinBasket]

Here in Iowa we can't get short barreled rifles even with a tax stamp so if I were to get an AR pistol it'd have to actually be a pistol. Plus, if I were to get a SBR I'd want one in .300 blackout and also a suppressor, that's $400 just in tax stamps. I'd rather just get a 30+ mag or two for a handgun for something compact.

Someday they are supposedly going to sell barrels to convert the Tavor to .300 blk. With the long piston gas system and short length I'd think that would be an excellent platform for a suppressor.

You can't get short barreled rifles here either, but there are 223 "pistols" for sale, as well as barrels, which I hear are very easily swapped to an otherwise regular ar-15. That would be illegal, so I haven't done it, or shot one, but it is interesting to note.

As an aside, the suppressor laws in this nation are fucking stupid. There are many practical varmit applications on a farm for which a suppressor would be useful, but people think they make rifles more deadly, because that's what movie snipers and hitmen use, so you have to get your C3FFL, spend hours on the phone with your government by the people for the people, pay your stamps, then pay someone to properly install it so you don't fuck it up.

[3irty1]

You can't get short barreled rifles here either, but there are 223 "pistols" for sale, as well as barrels, which I hear are very easily swapped to an otherwise regular ar-15. That would be illegal, so I haven't done it, or shot one, but it is interesting to note.

As an aside, the suppressor laws in this nation are fucking stupid. There are many practical varmit applications on a farm for which a suppressor would be useful, but people think they make rifles more deadly, because that's what movie snipers and hitmen use, so you have to get your C3FFL, spend hours on the phone with your government by the people for the people, pay your stamps, then pay someone to properly install it so you don't fuck it up.

Plus the suppressors themselves cost a fucking fortune for some reason as if they aren't just tubes full of baffles. Right now there is legislation working its way through Iowa to legalize suppressors and if it goes through I'll probably pony up, I'm tempted to machine it myself though instead of shelling out another grand. The $200 tax stamp price was set in 1934 when 200 was equivalent to 3500 bucks so its hard to imagine even this much freedom lasting long. Then again, SLS 3D printers will probably make the most cutting edge suppressors trivial to make at home one day so who knows.

[woodbuck27]

My father gave me a Winchester 1901 for goose hunting when I was a kid. My god that thing is loud. Every once in awhile I'll break it out to impress the friends.

I inherited this shotgun.



A Winchester Model 1912 Pump Action Shot Gun.

I've never personally fired it.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=409391262#PIC

[woodbuck27]

I inherited this shotgun.



A Winchester Model 1912 Pump Action Shot Gun.

I've never personally fired it.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...=409391262#PIC

Most of the deer I've taken was with this rifle:



A lever action 30/30 model 64 Winchester in Walnut.

My hunting Bud used the same gun but the stock was in apple wood and a tad heavier.

[woodbuck27]

That's an image of the shotgun I shot my first ducks with.

An H & R Topper.

As an adult this was my duck gun of choice:

A Remington Model 1100 3 1/2 inch magnum load semi-auto shot gun:

[woodbuck27]

My goose gun is a Spanish 10 gage double barrel shotgun; that will paralyze you if your not stout or in shape and need to fire a dozen shells to limit out (six geese):

[3irty1]

Any multi-gun competitors around here? I just shot my first match. I think I'm hooked.