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Well you sure as heck can't live downwind of me when I've had Mexican food, or whatever the heck Taco Bell serves

I was spending memorial day with my dad and family in Indiana and had a good time doing some shooting. As we were heading out my dad gave me a little going away present:



A little Herbert Schmidt Ostheim Model 21S, for both .22LR and .22M.

Nothing fancy, but he said it was the first gun he ever purchased for himself and he got it the year that I was born.

Coolio.

Really nice d-usa. What part of Indiana?

Near Terra Haute

 d-usa wrote:
Near Terra Haute

Ah. We're all the way north by the Michigan border

Got to finally get out to the range again recently, so I figured I'd take the time to post my collection while I'm at it

From top to bottom:

Ithaca model 37 Police Special 12 Gauge

Arsenal SAM7R (w/PK-01v red dot)

Beretta PX4

ARAK/Waffen Werks AK-74

Ruger Mini-30

Ruger Mini-14

Ruger 10/22

Swiss K-31

Vaktathi likes him some rifles. With your rifles and my pistols we could outfit a force to take over a small latin American country.

If that Lotto thing doesn't work out, I say lets go for it.

One of my co-workers has a PX4 Storm, and it's sooo nice.

And holy poop, that's a nice looking AK-74. I've always wanted to shoot/own one.

Frazzled wrote:Vaktathi likes him some rifles. With your rifles and my pistols we could outfit a force to take over a small latin American country.

If that Lotto thing doesn't work out, I say lets go for it.

that's a long way away though, and I'm *really* lazy

mega_bassist wrote:One of my co-workers has a PX4 Storm, and it's sooo nice.

And holy poop, that's a nice looking AK-74. I've always wanted to shoot/own one.

Together they cost almost as much as my Imperial Guard armies

 Vaktathi wrote:

mega_bassist wrote:One of my co-workers has a PX4 Storm, and it's sooo nice.

And holy poop, that's a nice looking AK-74. I've always wanted to shoot/own one.

Together they cost almost as much as my Imperial Guard armies

When you say it like that...my Tau definitely cost me twice as much as my FN

Indeed, though I'm not quite sure what that says about either hobby

LOL 40k is cheap... guns are cheap too... its the ammo that does you in... imagine if every D6 you rolled cost you 25-50cents....

 easysauce wrote:
LOL 40k is cheap... guns are cheap too... its the ammo that does you in... imagine if every D6 you rolled cost you 25-50cents....

You're giving GM ideas

I scored a brick of .22LRs yesterday at Academy. I was there in search of pepper spray and somehow wandered into the guns section. Asked the gun dude on a lark if he had any and up he pops with a brick. I almost did my happy dance in the middle of the store.

Jeez, if only I was half as lucky as Fraz. I almost forgot what .22 looked like

 Frazzled wrote:
I scored a brick of .22LRs yesterday at Academy. I was there in search of pepper spray and somehow wandered into the guns section. Asked the gun dude on a lark if he had any and up he pops with a brick. I almost did my happy dance in the middle of the store.

Is .22LR hard to come by? I was at the somewhat local to me Cabelas last week and they had cases of the stuff.

 Catyrpelius wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
I scored a brick of .22LRs yesterday at Academy. I was there in search of pepper spray and somehow wandered into the guns section. Asked the gun dude on a lark if he had any and up he pops with a brick. I almost did my happy dance in the middle of the store.

Is .22LR hard to come by? I was at the somewhat local to me Cabelas last week and they had cases of the stuff.

Are you sure it was .22LR? Maybe the New Jersey mob is taking all the ammo and reselling it on Gunbroker? That would explain much.

While most ammo has returned to availability .22LR remains the mythic beast in retail stores.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 easysauce wrote:
LOL 40k is cheap... guns are cheap too... its the ammo that does you in... imagine if every D6 you rolled cost you 25-50cents....

You're giving GM ideas

*strokes beard* brilliant... one shot dice. Hmmm that's just all about marketing. Single use dice.... Oh yes. I have an idea~! Quickly! To the Dynamic Investment Portfolio cave!

 Frazzled wrote:

 Catyrpelius wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
I scored a brick of .22LRs yesterday at Academy. I was there in search of pepper spray and somehow wandered into the guns section. Asked the gun dude on a lark if he had any and up he pops with a brick. I almost did my happy dance in the middle of the store.

Is .22LR hard to come by? I was at the somewhat local to me Cabelas last week and they had cases of the stuff.

Are you sure it was .22LR? Maybe the New Jersey mob is taking all the ammo and reselling it on Gunbroker? That would explain much.

While most ammo has returned to availability .22LR remains the mythic beast in retail stores.

I'm sure it was. I even stopped at several local sporting gods stores around me, and both of them had plenty of Remington and Federal in stock for RRP.

Sounds like I need to rent a U-Haul, load it up and go for alittle road trip...

I did get to read some interesting articles and some odd conspiracty theorys though, made for an interesting time.

 Catyrpelius wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
I scored a brick of .22LRs yesterday at Academy. I was there in search of pepper spray and somehow wandered into the guns section. Asked the gun dude on a lark if he had any and up he pops with a brick. I almost did my happy dance in the middle of the store.

Is .22LR hard to come by? I was at the somewhat local to me Cabelas last week and they had cases of the stuff.

With the exception of one very small gun shop with a few boxes, I haven't seen .22LR in stores in Ohio since December 2012, and I was looking for it pretty regularly. I haven't been to any place that sells ammo in a few months though, so things might have changed recently.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 easysauce wrote:
LOL 40k is cheap... guns are cheap too... its the ammo that does you in... imagine if every D6 you rolled cost you 25-50cents....

You're giving GM ideas

*strokes beard* brilliant... one shot dice. Hmmm that's just all about marketing. Single use dice.... Oh yes. I have an idea~! Quickly! To the Dynamic Investment Portfolio cave!

OT: I think the WWPD folks did a FoW tournament and fundraiser for wounded warriors: rerolls for sale at $1 each, benefits going to Wounded Warriors. I'm sure people were making it rain in there.

Oh, I'd be down for that in a second.

 Vaktathi wrote:
Got to finally get out to the range again recently, so I figured I'd take the time to post my collection while I'm at it

From top to bottom:

Ithaca model 37 Police Special 12 Gauge

Arsenal SAM7R (w/PK-01v red dot)

Beretta PX4

ARAK/Waffen Werks AK-74

Ruger Mini-30

Ruger Mini-14

Ruger 10/22

Swiss K-31

LOL! That looks a lot like my arsenal, but minus the mini-14 and add a PSL. I'm loving my Px4.

 d-usa wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 easysauce wrote:
LOL 40k is cheap... guns are cheap too... its the ammo that does you in... imagine if every D6 you rolled cost you 25-50cents....

You're giving GM ideas

*strokes beard* brilliant... one shot dice. Hmmm that's just all about marketing. Single use dice.... Oh yes. I have an idea~! Quickly! To the Dynamic Investment Portfolio cave!

OT: I think the WWPD folks did a FoW tournament and fundraiser for wounded warriors: rerolls for sale at $1 each, benefits going to Wounded Warriors. I'm sure people were making it rain in there.

...I am writing that down. That's freaking brilliant.

 MWHistorian wrote:

LOL! That looks a lot like my arsenal, but minus the mini-14 and add a PSL. I'm loving my Px4.

Very nice

Finally getting my finger out and actually getting my license. Does anyone have experience with SMLE .303 rifles? I've found a couple for sale that really appeal to me, a large part because of the rifles' history, but I wanted to know a few things about them, and figured this might be an alright place to ask.

Heavy. Good action if the rifle's condition is decent. Go BOOM in really manly fashion. You may have the suddent desire to wade through some surf onto a French beach.

Or push into occupied jungle held by Imperial Japan, or wade ashore on a Turkish beach.

You will probably start wearing an Akubra if you don't already given you're an Aussie. It's a normal development, don't worry about it.

 d-usa wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 easysauce wrote:
LOL 40k is cheap... guns are cheap too... its the ammo that does you in... imagine if every D6 you rolled cost you 25-50cents....

You're giving GM ideas

*strokes beard* brilliant... one shot dice. Hmmm that's just all about marketing. Single use dice.... Oh yes. I have an idea~! Quickly! To the Dynamic Investment Portfolio cave!

OT: I think the WWPD folks did a FoW tournament and fundraiser for wounded warriors: rerolls for sale at $1 each, benefits going to Wounded Warriors. I'm sure people were making it rain in there.

That is an awesome idea