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I also had been looking at those. Unfortunately I think I just have no interest in anything without a top rail at this point: my vision is too gakky for using irons, and I don't think the Galeos even allow that lousy AK side mount.

OTOH they are very cool looking. It's a struggle to decide.

Yeah, no way to mount optics was part of the reason for my 1k threshold, not doing any more expensive guns without optics.

We'll see what my wallet is comfortable with

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Excuse me. It’s another Pleb question.



Sniper scopes. How do they adjust for the lost of binocular vision? Or is it all down to the shooter, and their chosen adjustments?

Just realised it’s something I’ve never thought about. But using only one eye, we lose some depth perception, which seems a bugger to any would-be sharp shooter?

And are sniper scopes like guitars and that, in they need retuning to satisfaction having been unpacked?

Given that depth perception/ranging is what you are losing there are three general situations:

A. Ranging doesn't matter (Ties in with B) : Depending on how precise you have to be range may not (Some cartridges drop more than others.) be a practical issue until you're a 2-3 hundred meters out, and a lot of places you won't really ever be able to shoot beyond this because of terrain and/or ethical or safety concerns. A 50 yard zero on my AR15 for example will have holes appearing in a strip extending a couple inches above or below my point of aim until I start reaching out past 250 and drop becomes something to start paying attention to.

B: You have already estimated range by eye/range finder/terrain knowledge/etc. If my target is next to a tree 150 meters from my firing point and has been pre measured, it's not difficult to find range (Also see: Ranging stakes.)

C: Ranging reticles like flavors of mil/moa dot, ACSS, etc. which rely on you knowing approximate size of an object and some math. If (easy example) I am looking at an object I know to be a meter wide with a mil dot reticle, and it measures one "mil" wide, I know it is 1000 meters distant and can either hold over or dial adjustment knobs accordingly. Others like the ACSS or the russian PSO reticle rely on the "average" height or shoulder width of a man for ranging, place feet at the bottom of the scale and where the top of his head is gives you an approximate range.

As for tuning, yes. After you put a new optic on a gun you will have to calibrate it so that the point of aim and point of impact meet at a selected distance and you make further adjustments from that point...just don't forget that if you dial 6 clicks for a windy day that you dial six clicks back at some point (Also a point about cheap scopes: When you dialed 6 clicks back, are you REALLY back where you started?) and if you remove an optic from a gun you're generally going to have to rezero it when you reattach unless you've got a good quick detach mount and there will still be some small but possibly irrelevant shift even then.

We do have Nerf guns in our house. They are used for strategic "wind up" operations...

My brother sells them for a nice profit. I suppose that makes him a "soft-arms dealer"!

As long as they're not fully-semi-automatic assault nerf guns with large clips, you should be fine. License for foam-calibre sales?

My willpower crumbled and I got the Tavor an Austrian companion.

Press F to pay respects to Vaktathi's wallet.

Is that the F90/ATRAX variant, or the AUG P variant, Vaktathi?

Grey Templar wrote:Press F to pay respects to Vaktathi's wallet.

Not gonna lie, it was a spicy meatball.

Farseer Anath'lan wrote:Is that the F90/ATRAX variant, or the AUG P variant, Vaktathi?

It's a modernized P, specifically an A3 M1 with a P length barrel.

Thales/Lithgow nixed civilian sales entirely of the F90/Atrax last I heard before they could be brought to market as of a couple months ago.

F

That being said, I should an (older) Aug recently and it was quite nice. Good accuracy, pleasant ergonomics. I can see the allure.

Crazy too to think the gun's from the 70's. I love how it's still used in movies when they need a quick "future" gun, etc.

 Vaktathi wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:Press F to pay respects to Vaktathi's wallet.

Not gonna lie, it was a spicy meatball.

Farseer Anath'lan wrote:Is that the F90/ATRAX variant, or the AUG P variant, Vaktathi?

It's a modernized P, specifically an A3 M1 with a P length barrel.

Thales/Lithgow nixed civilian sales entirely of the F90/Atrax last I heard before they could be brought to market as of a couple months ago.

Color me green with envy. That's one of the guns on my wishlist.

On an unrelated note...

Anyone hear of the StG44 reproduction by HMG guns? It looks really nice.

Yep, did it finally happen? There was a .22LR version by somebody and then several years of rumoured replicas in normal calibers, etc.

Check this out:

https://www.hmgunworks.com/product/hmg-sturmgewehr-stg-n/

I thought it'd finally been fully released, but it still say's "pre-order."

As with most things... banned in my state. I'd love to have the 7.62x39 version.

Yeah, I'd seen a couple on YouTube but they were always prototypes, test models, etc. It would be an exceptionally cool gun to own when it comes out - price depending. Sadly with as popular as the idea is, it could easily be a $2-3K gun.

Nearly 12 lbs...lol...taking a class with it would be a superb workout.

 Cothonian wrote:

Anyone hear of the StG44 reproduction by HMG guns? It looks really nice.

The HMG guns sadly increasingly look to be vaporware, they've been "a month away from shipping" for...well, years now. I was really excited when they were first announced, but they've stopped doing any updates for many months.

Methinks they've run into subcontractor issues on parts, "waiting on parts" appears to be their standard line. Wouldn't be the first time such issues have sunk a project. If they ever actually come out, I'd love to snag one.


Took the bullpups to the range today


Put about 150 rounds through the AUG, it ran both brass and steel just fine on the normal gas setting. I learned I really do not like the safety. That big cube switch is sharp, hard, and right in the way of where you want to put your finger most of the time.

So I've posted on another forum, but if anybody has or knows someone who wants to get rid of an AKU-94 conversion kit, I would love to have it. Yes, I know they're viewed as garbage, but I've seen some ways of fixing the problems people had with the kits. And I just really want a bullpup AK.

So I have been hand loading for a number of yrs with a single stage press... was just loading so 9mm pistol ammo and Using a single stage press is getting old for pistols ammo. Looking into getting a progressive style reloaded..leaning toward Dillon because their no BS warranty is the best in the biz. Anyone have any experience with Dillon or any other progressive style presses? Looking for the best bang for my buck. Thanks

 Chute82 wrote:
So I have been hand loading for a number of yrs with a single stage press... was just loading so 9mm pistol ammo and Using a single stage press is getting old for pistols ammo. Looking into getting a progressive style reloaded..leaning toward Dillon because their no BS warranty is the best in the biz. Anyone have any experience with Dillon or any other progressive style presses? Looking for the best bang for my buck. Thanks

Dillon's are kind of the gold standard for reloaders in pistol competition. Most use 650s but there is a less expensive version that is designed to be set up and dedicated to a particular caliber.
https://www.dillonprecision.com/dillon-square-deal-b-reloader_8_1_25237.html

If you are loading a lot like more than a couple of hundred a week lot, I would look more at the 650.

A big factor is some of side bits. You can get devices that make warn if your powder is low, if you have a weird powder batch in the case, etc.

 Frazzled wrote:

 Chute82 wrote:
So I have been hand loading for a number of yrs with a single stage press... was just loading so 9mm pistol ammo and Using a single stage press is getting old for pistols ammo. Looking into getting a progressive style reloaded..leaning toward Dillon because their no BS warranty is the best in the biz. Anyone have any experience with Dillon or any other progressive style presses? Looking for the best bang for my buck. Thanks

Dillon's are kind of the gold standard for reloaders in pistol competition. Most use 650s but there is a less expensive version that is designed to be set up and dedicated to a particular caliber.
https://www.dillonprecision.com/dillon-square-deal-b-reloader_8_1_25237.html

If you are loading a lot like more than a couple of hundred a week lot, I would look more at the 650.

A big factor is some of side bits. You can get devices that make warn if your powder is low, if you have a weird powder batch in the case, etc.

Yeah the square B deal is the one I was looking at. Watched a few videos and is all I need... I will still use my single stage for rifle since I only use them for hunting... now going to search the internet for a deal on one

So this is kinda me right now,



I went in the local gun store sizing up their revolvers, but I ended up looking at the couple 10mm pistols they had instead.

The wallet is begging me not to.

 Grey Templar wrote:
So this is kinda me right now,



I went in the local gun store sizing up their revolvers, but I ended up looking at the couple 10mm pistols they had instead.

The wallet is begging me not to.

After looking into 10mm for the longest time myself (rifle for me) I'll give you some good reasons not to. It's not a problem with the firearms themselves, it's the ammo manufacturers. Most 10mm ammo out there isn't loaded to 10mm specs. For some reason they have too little powder in the cartridge. In effect all you end up having is a slightly stretched .40 S&W. This includes any ammo you'd find at Wal-Mart or big box stores, larger outdoor stores (Cabelas, Bass Pro), and even dedicated gun stores. If you want 10mm loaded to 10mm specs, be prepared to look long an hard and pay extra for it.

I didn't want to buy a weapon for 10mm prices to only get .40S&W performance. My happy compromise was to find a 40S&W weapon that was rated for +P ammo. That way you can shoot cheap Wal-mart ammo for target practice, and then if you want a little extra power get that +p ammo. Really the difference between 40+p and 10mm isn't that much.

funny, I've heard its sort of the other way around. People were getting way too zealous with their handloads of 10mm and were quite literally destroying their guns because they weren't playing it safe.

 Grey Templar wrote:
funny, I've heard its sort of the other way around. People were getting way too zealous with their handloads of 10mm and were quite literally destroying their guns because they weren't playing it safe.

.45 acp girl has nothing to worry about with me and 10mm. I pick my weapons based on the fact that I am 100% certain they WILL work when needed.

 Grey Templar wrote:
funny, I've heard its sort of the other way around. People were getting way too zealous with their handloads of 10mm and were quite literally destroying their guns because they weren't playing it safe.

Home reloading shots, yes. I'm talking about factory 10mm ammo.

I could have explained myself better. I had heard that it was best to go with factory because the vast majority of loading data will give you far too powerful rounds.

 Grey Templar wrote:
I could have explained myself better. I had heard that it was best to go with factory because the vast majority of loading data will give you far too powerful rounds.

For some reason that just reminded me of the time my younger brother exploded a shotgun doing that. he was pissed off with us for some reason, and decided that if we wouldn't give him ammo, he'd make his own. 'Wadding' was something he was unfamiliar with, so he filled the whole magnum shell with powder and shot...


Credit were it's due, that old H&R Baystate did not explode on the first shell he loaded... the second...

I'm surprised that, in going to all the trouble of learning how to reload a shotgun shell, he failed to learn how to properly measure the charge and assemble the shell

 Grey Templar wrote:
I'm surprised that, in going to all the trouble of learning how to reload a shotgun shell, he failed to learn how to properly measure the charge and assemble the shell

I don't think he 'learned' anything other than not to do that again.. Dad had left the reloader set up.

My friend's little brother ( years ago) used a reloader to put a paintball into a shotgun shell. He asked for a volunteer to be shot with it. None of us were that stupid.