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 mega_bassist wrote:
Go to Wal Mart and pick up a Mossberg 500. Boom! Trap gun

I swear that every country has more interesting super markets than Australia. In the UK (and maybe the US? Dunno, never been) You can just buy booze off the shelf at your local Tesco's it seems. And in the US you can buy guns. What do you get in Australia? Bread. Booooring.

Not anymore in my area. Wal-Mart used to be the perfect one stop shop fo all ATF (alcohol tabacoo and firearms) needs, but now they don't sell guns.

 Jihadin wrote:
wait..I deny all the above if some of you all is offended for showing kids how to handle firearms of Assault, pistol, and shotguns.

You monster!!!!! Trying to show children how to handle a firearm safely. The nerve

 Ruberu wrote:
Not anymore in my area. Wal-Mart used to be the perfect one stop shop fo all ATF (alcohol tabacoo and firearms) needs, but now they don't sell guns.

yeah, they dont sell smokes up here either,

Id say they sell ammo, but I swear the SAME 10 boxes of wildcat hunting ammo has been on the shelf for a year now... no .22 or common calibers in sight other then the odd box of 30-06.

Now I feel like all that wal mart is good for is taking pictures of walmartians

Fired a M-4 and M9 Beretta for the first time this week. I liked both of them a lot (I know, it's sacriligious to like the M9).

Doubt I'll pick up an M9 since I already own a 9mm, but an AR-15 Carbine has definitely been added to the list of firearms I intend to own.

I always found the M9 about the easiest weapon to shoot expert with on the qualification popup range.

In a shoulder rig over your nomex tanker suit is one thing, but it is way too big for a civilian carry piece.

 CptJake wrote:
I always found the M9 about the easiest weapon to shoot expert with on the qualification popup range.

In a shoulder rig over your nomex tanker suit is one thing, but it is way too big for a civilian carry piece.

The M9 used to be what they issued pilots, too, before the M11 came along. At least in the Navy.

It's a tad...big, for the cockpit.

I shot Sharpshooter with it, 26 of 30. First time I ever fired one, but I know with a few more attempts, I could hit 30/30 no probs.

The pop-up targets were a huge change from how we do it in the AF. I liked it a lot more.

Use white out on the front site post so it will not blend in with the 250m and 300m target

 Jihadin wrote:
Use white out on the front site post so it will not blend in with the 250m and 300m target

They gave us Red Dots. I guess they figured us AF types needed extra help.

Be hardcore DJ

I've got a breach loading double barrelled shotgun at home in Ireland, although it's registered to my uncle these days. Used to use it for shooting pheasants and ducks mostly!
Nice gun, nice short stock and I found it easy to bring to bear on any birds we scared up.

I haven't been shooting in years, now, though.

 Jihadin wrote:
Be hardcore DJ

I'm an Airmen undergoing Infantry Qualification Training. That is hardcore, for us at least.

 djones520 wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
Be hardcore DJ

I'm an Airmen undergoing Infantry Qualification Training. That is hardcore, for us at least.

I heard the Army was making cuts...I didn't know they were getting rid of it entirely.

I own a Lemat revolver. I am a Civil War reeinactor, and it's use? Simply to be able to have a 9-shot 44 .cal revolver that also has an 8", 20 ga. shotgun barrel as a cylinder pin. If it was good enough for Jayne in Firefly, it's good enough for me!




Though I normally use a Stainless steel 1858 Remington 44cal. for target shooting. The stainless gives it the ease of cleaning up the black powder, and '58 Remingtons have nifty swap-out cylinders so I can have three of them loaded, and can exchange them in about twice the time it takes to use a modern speedloader, which was positively futuristic for back then.



I have thought about getting a Kirst Converter, which would enable me to use brass cowboy loads (thereby keeping it loaded without the damaging effects of raw black powder, and can be reloaded as fast as you would manually reload any modern revolver). A 38 special might be good for home defense, but so is a giant silver revolver that puts huge 44cal. holes in things, while emitting clouds of smoke and flame.

I had no idea there was a revolver that held 9 rounds, let alone one that... shoots buckshot?

Sometimes I think all the best innovations in killing people with flying pieces of metal are behind us. That's a sad thought.

 Ouze wrote:
I had no idea there was a revolver that held 9 rounds, let alone one that... shoots buckshot?

Sometimes I think all the best innovations in killing people with flying pieces of metal are behind us. That's a sad thought.

Cheer up Ouze, we must only be a few years away from lightning guns and the like. That'll brighten up your day.

There are Revolvers with more rounds than that. There are double barreled revolvers with 2 concentric rings each feeding a separate barrel.

There are even 20 and 30 round revolvers.

just google and you'll find pictures.

 Ouze wrote:

Sometimes I think all the best innovations in killing people with flying pieces of metal are behind us. That's a sad thought.

Pawn Start had a coach shotgun that included a button activated bayonette for post-shooting stapping action.

Where has the romance of the old times gone...

Mary Mother



It's beautiful.

But seriously, the first picture that AegisGrimm posted looks like a wonderful pistol that would be fun to shoot.

I had no idea there was a revolver that held 9 rounds, let alone one that... shoots buckshot?

Sometimes I think all the best innovations in killing people with flying pieces of metal are behind us. That's a sad thought.

The shot barrel is smoothbore, so I guess you could also fire a single supremely inaccurate solid ball round. Hell, you could even go whole hog and go buck-and-ball..........

Blame a French guy.

It's fun to shoot, just not to load, lol. Also it is one heavy chunk of steel. About 4 pounds, and the single-action hammer is kinda wierd to cock, as the mainspring is actually too strong for my thumb and the hammer is huge, so I have to kind of tilt the gun up and into my hand and use the meat/web of my thumb to draw the hammer back. So you can't really keep it on-target when you cock it. But pretty innovative because the front half of the hammer actually levers down to hit the cap for the shotgun barrel, which it otherwise rides over the top of when striking the ones on the revolver.

On the other hand, I absolutely love my Remington. It's been far too long since I fired it out at my parent's property.

Common problem I heard about the pistol/shotgun was one had a good chance to break a wrist when firing the shotgun shell.

Anyone ever read the book "Red Line"?

Good job AegisGrimm, you earned the first Exalt i've given out for owning and shooting a Lemat and referencing Firefly in the same post.

You can't imagine how geeked I was when I realized Jayne used a Lemat prop, merely from seeing the scene where he was breaking it down for cleaning.

I haven't had a good chance to fire the shotgun barrel live(lots of specialty stuff needed for just a single use-item when I don't own any other blackpowder shotguns), but I can't imagine it would be any worse than a large-bore single-shot flintlock/caplock pistol. Some of those are 50-55 cal., and a 20ga. barrel will fit a 58cal. ball. Definitely a good time to use both hands, though.

I'm still hooked on Vera

But at the same time flintlock pistols were designed with the intentions that you've got a massive charge in the barrel, and they are quite hefty too which would help with the recoil. Most designs of shotgun enabled pistols have always seemed unbalanced for having such a large charge in the barrel. More of a "because I can" instead of "because its totally practical and won't injure my wrist"

The pistol likely wasn't designed from the ground up to handle the recoil of a shotgun. So yeah, definitely a good idea to use both hands.

Of course, "because I can" is a perfectly valid reason

I could Google it but I not. So how much my memory can remember. Wasn't the lemut intended for Confederate Cavalry? Only like 100 pistols made and issued? The "shotgun" blast was intended for the extra "UMPTH" in a Cav attack.

They were indeed sold to the Confederacy after being made in Europe. There were actually quite a few made (still small compared to other makes and models of revolver) but only a couple thousand made it through the Northern naval blockade to actually get into Confederate hands.

I'll have to try firing the secondary barrel sometime. It shouldn't be too bad considering the gun weighs a little over four pounds. Can't be any worse than a Colt Walker. Those were a pre-Civil War revolver that could hold a powder charge in each cylinder so big that they were considered the most powerful revolver all the way up until the first "Magnums" were invented in this century. Almost as many grains as some rifles.

I really wish the scrolling + engraving, and the over the top art that went into historical arms had more of a showing now a days.

Im shocked at how MUCH old stuff has all the fancy stuff done to it, but today, there wont even be mass produced etching/engraving/ect avaiable out side of custom work,

perhaps that has something to do with it ALL being custom work back then,

But I cannot be the only one who misses that extra aesthetic "style" the older guns have.

I dont miss them functionally of course, but I would buy in a second a modern semi auto that had been embelished/engraved/art-ified up into a functional work of art.


GOOD FIREFLY REFERENCE!

lots of good civil war references in that show too... oh god, now I have to forget it happened so I dont fall into pining for a 2nd season.

 easysauce wrote:
I really wish the scrolling + engraving, and the over the top art that went into historical arms had more of a showing now a days.

Im shocked at how MUCH old stuff has all the fancy stuff done to it, but today, there wont even be mass produced etching/engraving/ect avaiable out side of custom work,

perhaps that has something to do with it ALL being custom work back then,

But I cannot be the only one who misses that extra aesthetic "style" the older guns have.

I dont miss them functionally of course, but I would buy in a second a modern semi auto that had been embelished/engraved/art-ified up into a functional work of art.

When they do this kind of things to Glocks, I can't help but think it looks like something you would confiscate from a Mexican drug dealer.