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 Seaward wrote:
I bet you can find ammo for it. 9mm's gone, never to return, and .45's hard to come by, but .40 S&W and most revolver calibers are still available, at least where I live.

Here, not so much. I have a coworker who's been posting asking if anyone knows where to get .40 S&W other then this one place that has it and has doubled the price.

Just picked up a new toy! Springfield XD 9mm.

Now if I can only find somewhere that has 9mm on the shelf...

 djones520 wrote:
Well lets try to keep it from going down that tangent.

Have you got any? I'm not 100% on Canada's laws but I know you can have them. My father owns 3 or 4 and he lives in B.C.

up here, pistols shorter then 4.5" are prohibited (banned) as well as tons of random semis that look scary, but are just like any other semi auto (AK's, FALs, ect)

pistols longer then 4.5, and things like ARs, or that just look like an AR, and most semi's are restricted, so you need an even more special license that requires people to sign and vouch for you, as well as your current and or ex spouse to sign off on. You will also undergo an interview from the federal police (RCMP) and they get to go/no go you. Costs a few hundred last I checked.

bolt actions and .22's, and pump shotties are general non restricted, so you just need the basic 300$+ course, + a few months wait, + background check, + references to get this one.


I do three gun with the AR, mossburg 590 pump, for pistol + smith and wesson m&p, in the only real caliber you should ever buy a handgun in: .45! (besides .22 for practice, and yes I am mostly joking/stirring the pot)

I take out the .22 and 30-06 rifles for hunting everyone once in a blue moon, but small game is a bit too small, and large is a bit to big unless Im with a decent sized group. But I find duck hunting with a 12g to be far easier to do.The ducks are just the right size for how much meat I can carry/clean out of the bush by myself and butcher myself.

Id sure like to be able to defend my life with one, or to have my daughters/wives/countrymen be able to make that choice, but unfortunately in canada, only criminals carry guns :(

even using one for legitimate self defense at your house will, best case scenario, just cost you thousands in legal fees to prove you had it stored properly before you used it.

everything's stored in a safe, with trigger locks, and I have to ask the government for a hall pass every time I want to take the ar/pistols to the range or I could go to federal prison for 5+ years if caught without proper authorization to transport restricted class weapons.

every year they ban more and more guns too... last year it was a .22 lr that happened to look like an AK, this year is all the Cz 858s and swiss arms rifles...

 easysauce wrote:

even using one for legitimate self defense at your house will, best case scenario, just cost you thousands in legal fees to prove you had it stored properly before you used it.

I'm fairly certain we covered that BS statement once before, yet it still shows up pretending to be a true fact...


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 djones520 wrote:

Now if I can only find somewhere that has 9mm on the shelf...

We haven't had any problems with 9mm ammo for a while here. The ammo hoarding has gotten lots better over the last 12 months.

 d-usa wrote:

 easysauce wrote:

even using one for legitimate self defense at your house will, best case scenario, just cost you thousands in legal fees to prove you had it stored properly before you used it.

I'm fairly certain we covered that BS statement once before, yet it still shows up pretending to be a true fact...

fairly certain you just put your fingers in your ears and went "LALALALALA" while I showed you evidence, and you just argue with no factual basis.

The only BS statement is yours, but Im sure a fudd like you knows canadian gun law better then a candian who actually deals with it, the lawyers who deal with it, and things like the NFA (our NRA) all the time on canadian court cases that deal specifically with the systematic use of the "unsafe storage" charge as a catch .22 charge.

The only evidence was news stories that didn't back up your statement at all.

 d-usa wrote:

 djones520 wrote:

Now if I can only find somewhere that has 9mm on the shelf...

We haven't had any problems with 9mm ammo for a while here. The ammo hoarding has gotten lots better over the last 12 months.

I'm with djones; the last couple times I went ammo shopping, the only 9mm ammo I could find were hollow points.

You guys think it's a regional thing? We don't have 9mm overflowing from the shelves, but I haven't had any trouble finding range ammo or hollow points.

Possibly.

What about .22? They're damned impossible to find around here as well. It's kinda dumb. But .40, .45, 7.62, and .223? Super easy to find -___-

Broke my firing pin spring in my M1carbine yesterday. On order.

I haven't looked for .22, weird that it is in short supply. It's cheap blinking ammo, but that's always been the case so really no reason why it should be in short supply now. Are people stockpiling to go vermin hunting?

I wish I knew. I've talked to about 5-6 fellow shooting buddies, and they have a hard time finding it also One of them talked to a local gun shop, and he didn't have a good reason either. It's just real hard to find right now.

 mega_bassist wrote:

 d-usa wrote:

 djones520 wrote:

Now if I can only find somewhere that has 9mm on the shelf...

We haven't had any problems with 9mm ammo for a while here. The ammo hoarding has gotten lots better over the last 12 months.

I'm with djones; the last couple times I went ammo shopping, the only 9mm ammo I could find were hollow points.

Haven't had any problem finding 9mm in PA or MI. Walmart WWB 100 round packs for <$26.

Anyway...took this guy out today.



Ringing 6" steel at 300 yards all day with crappy milsurp. Big fan of the Remington 700 rifles.


Been using this guy for IDPA and as a "backup" nightstand gun.

Let's see.

"Kali" - my Siamese Mauser .45-70 conversion: this one's my hunting gun and hopefully my companion for an eventual safari to Africa. Darn girl kicks like a mule and the bullets drop like a stone after about 120 yards, but it will lay a buffalo head over heels in one shot.

"Michael" - my stainless Colt Combat Commander .45 pistol: this will be my carry gun as soon as I graduate from college and am actually allowed to carry. Also need to take a tactical shooting course first. The fact a hunting license qualifies you for a Concealed Carry Permit in Idaho quite frankly terrifies me (I applied for mine to make buying a firearm easier if I see a good deal on one I want).

Someday I'm going to have to pick up another full size 1911 and slap a .460 Rowland conversion in it.


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 Jihadin wrote:
Broke my firing pin spring in my M1carbine yesterday. On order.

Oh wow, someone else has an M1 Carbine? my dad picked up one of hose. Too bad for him though it's been nothing but trouble since he got it, and by this point it's about 50/50 odds on whether it will jam or shoot any given time you pull the trigger.

Think the spring goes back to to refurb in 1948. Can find the refurb date by the weapon serial number. I do know that cleaning the M1 carbine is more "involve" and you really have to know the weapon. Its a fun weapon to fire. What got me at first was the fixed front sight post and I am so use to a M4/M16. I center mass first and one shot at 300 meters before the spring broke. I will admit though itis time for me to turn it over to a gunsmith for a complete check up, Like sending our weapons to "Third Shop"

 Jihadin wrote:
I do know that cleaning the M1 carbine is more "involve" and you really have to know the weapon. Its a fun weapon to fire.

I can agree with both of these statements. I do know for a fact that my dad isn't always the most thorough with cleaning his firearms. Running a bore snake through it once or twice is about as far as he goes. His WWI 1911 was having severe reliability problems when I took it out once so I stripped it down after the range. Cleaned about 50 years worth of collected grease out of the slide and feed ramp area. Suddenly good as new.

I'm not going to claim my weapons are spotless, but getting yelled at by a Marine Corps gunnery sergeant about how you should be able to eat out of your weapons has kinda scarred me for life in that regard.

 NuggzTheNinja wrote:


Ringing 6" steel at 300 yards all day with crappy milsurp. Big fan of the Remington 700 rifles.

I hear you man, the 700 series is very good for the price, low cost but functional synthetic stock, and accurate out of the box.

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m not going to claim my weapons are spotless, but getting yelled at by a Marine Corps gunnery sergeant about how you should be able to eat out of your weapons has kinda scarred me for life in that regard.

A NCO and a Arms Room Armorer does make one pay attention to detail. When you think you cannot find a deposit of dirt or carbon build up that a spot is found in a obvious place does piss one off.

 d-usa wrote:
I haven't looked for .22, weird that it is in short supply. It's cheap blinking ammo, but that's always been the case so really no reason why it should be in short supply now. Are people stockpiling to go vermin hunting?

.22 is in extremely short supply. Our store on base got in about 10,000 rounds the other day, sold out in 5 customers. Haven't gotten a box since.

9mm seems to be the same way. Only place I've found any is at the local range who is reloading the brass fired, and those are just target loads.

22 has been in short supply for quite a while here, as well.

There was a rumor posted on Cheaper Than Dirt's blog recently that Russia would halt exports of ammunition to the US over the Ukrainian situation. There are a lot of reasons why I'm sure that's a load of gak, mostly because we know Russia really needs the hard currency - but I'm sure that CTD will still get to jack the price up a little anyway, so rock on you tools.

There are a lot of things I really, really like about shooting. It's a lot of fun, it's loud, and you can do it fairly cheaply if you don't get too fancy. There's a lot of things I really don't like, and most of them are beyond the scope of this topic but the one that isn't is all these fake panics that get drummed up to increase sales.

To answer the OP (which I never did despite the thread being like a year old) I myself have a AK I use for screwing around at the range and for putting tacticool things onto. I'm still not 100% through screwing with it, I have a different folding grip coming any day now and probably will lose the bipod. I also recently added the green laser which gave me +2 to Mall Ninja. The replacement muzzle brake also makes it noticeably louder.




My carry gun is a 1911. I'm not a great shot but I'm pretty OK. I tried a lot of 1911's and the Taurus was the one that felt most right to me, although Taurus as a company is not so hot - you either get a great one or a terrible one, no middle ground, and their customer service is quite poor. I got a pretty solid one and did some extractor and trigger tuning until I got it just right, and I like it a lot.

I don't any firearms any more. Nope not one.

Like many of you, I can't find .22 or 9mm anywhere, both calibers of which I need. .223 and 5.56 is plentiful, as is .40 and .45.

My girlfriend picked up a Bersa BP9CC the other day for a carry gun. Nice little gun, fits very nicely in both of our hands. Took a photo of our small collection.



I need to get a new main spring plug for the 1911 so I can use it in .45 also. I am glad I finally found some minimag to run it in .22. It is one picky .22 for sure. Had 2 failures to eject, which is a lot better than the 100% failure the last .22 ammo I was using.

I also need to get some BUIS for the AR. Batteries died half way through our trip to the range. Also realized it needs a new grip and stock, as they are very uncomfortable. And I might as well replace the hand grip with something else too.

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 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I don't any firearms any more. Nope not one.

Actually now that you say that, I just remembered I lost all of mine in a tragic boating accident.

 d-usa wrote:

 easysauce wrote:

even using one for legitimate self defense at your house will, best case scenario, just cost you thousands in legal fees to prove you had it stored properly before you used it.

I'm fairly certain we covered that BS statement once before, yet it still shows up pretending to be a true fact...


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 djones520 wrote:

Now if I can only find somewhere that has 9mm on the shelf...

We haven't had any problems with 9mm ammo for a while here. The ammo hoarding has gotten lots better over the last 12 months.

Er, note his flag. He's Canadian. They're laws are different.


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 Jihadin wrote:
Broke my firing pin spring in my M1carbine yesterday. On order.

You have an M! carbine? Excellent.

I plan on buying a Glock 22 Gen4 with a high-speed, low drag brown frame whenever I get back to the states.

ARs really don't interest me at all. I don't know, maybe carrying an M4 and learning how truly annoying and unintuitive that platform is has turned me off of them. The forward assist and case deflector are two things in particular that irritate me. They're like bandages to patch up inherent shortcomings of the riflle. If you have a situation where your round is failing to seat in the chamber, it's probably your fault for not pulling the charging handle back violently enough, and you would be better off performing corrective action. Or just slap the side of the rifle with your hand until the round seats.

The charging handle mounted on the spine of the weapon is poorly thought out, and is not a natural position for such an integral piece of the weapon. The immovable straight-pull buffer tube is a nice idea as far as a consistent semi-automatic rifle, but not very practical for anything besides a full sized battle-rifle, which is funny when you consider the M16 is a scaled down AR10.

I don't really want an AK either, because most US made AKs are horrible, and if they aren't, they're unjustifiably expensive.

Have you thought about an M1 (M14 variant vs. the carbine) or FN?

 Frazzled wrote:
Have you thought about an M1 (M14 variant vs. the carbine) or FN?

A Springfield M1A? Once or twice, but .308s are expensive to feed, and the rifle itself would be a significant investment. I know a couple guys who have the Socom 16 carbine, and it's apparently LOUD as heck.

An AK74 type rifle with a parkerized grey finish (or heck, light grey duracoat) with a 16inch barrel would suit my needs pretty well. I hate the whole black thing. It annoys me. Black furniture is fine, but a bit of contrast never hurt. Grey is a nice neutral color.

It might seem silly to worry about things like color and aesthetics, but I'm fairly knowledgeable about calibers and philosophy of use, and I have fairly clear ideas about what I need in regards to that. Of the multitude of options on the market that fire the same caliber, all of them are going to perform basically the same, in terms of ballistics. Whether I like a weapon and feel like it was a good purchase or not is going to depend on how much I enjoy looking at it, and cleaning it, and things beyond firing it. Novelty has a lot to do with it as well. Like I said before, the AR15 is stale to me. I've had plenty of time to decide that I hate it, and to observe it's cycle of operation and lose interest in it.

Whats the ammo availability on that?

I like the parkerized look quite a bit as well.

5.45x39 shows up in bulk every now and then, usually for fairly cheap, since the Russians and a handful of prior-bloc nations still use it. You can buy huge cans on gun sites.

I can't remember, but someone has to make it locally. I think it's a hard business to get into, since it's so cheap to begin with. It's like US made 7.62x54r. There's just no point, since anyone who actually fires it is probably using a 120$ mosin nagant (or a Tigr, or some other expensive russian rifle)

I have a Smith & Wesson M&P15X with a bunch of aftermarket goodies on it, a third generation Glock 21, a Walther P22, a Ruger Security Six .357, and some old 20ga. shotgun that my mother-in-law's husband gave me.