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    Anybody Here Throw Ammo To the Gods? Sacrilege at the Range

    I shoot mostly on BLM land. Over the past 10 years I have accumulated two nearly full five gallon buckets of unfired rounds, every possible caliber. A few have light primer strikes but most is perfectly good. I think some people are afraid that they might get a grain of sand in their gun if...
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    Winning the Gun Lottery

    I think the best I did was a 1921 Colt Thompson that I traded for a S&W Model 36 from a cop in 1965. That gun is worth about $40,000 or more today if I were to decide to sell it.
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    ATF going door to door

    I would like to know how many times these checks have turned up guns that are no longer in the possession of the purchaser, and what happened then. What can ATF do? I can buy a gun and if I don't like it I'm free to dispose of it. What then?
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    Checked with my driver re:UPS refusing to ship firearms

    I spoke with three people who work for UPS, including my son who was a supervisor for a number of years. Zero knowledge of this letter. I also went to the UPS employee chat site (unofficial) and there was a lot of discussion about this letter, but no one had any idea if it was real or not...
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    Pistol/rifle exchange rate

    A handgun is useful to help get you to your rifle, so......
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    Question: what's the best payment method for online private gun sales?

    I like POMO for payment. When you receive one you can call USPS at 866-459-7822 to verify the money order. Yes your bank, depending on your relationship with it, may hold the funds a day or two, but you can know with certainty that it's good as gold. Otherwise you can get set up with Square...
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    Do Boomers consider themselves lucky regarding guns?

    I grew up in the 50s and 60s. I bought a carbine from DCM for I think $17.50 and still have it. I also remember walking into a Western Auto and Globe and seeing barrels of Mauser 98s and Carcanos for $9.95. The most fun I had was finding a junk yard with a pile of cut-up .50 M2s and...
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    Ammo Can Storage?

    Ammo cans have worked well for me for nearly sixty years.
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    If you had a time machine…?

    I would go back to the night I had dinner with Elmer Balance after a gun show and he tried to talk me into buying a bunch of his then-newly made M1A rifles. I'd listen a bit closer this time.
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    Target practice in National Forest

    I'm lucky. I live in New Mexico and my land backs up to the National Forest so I can just walk out my back door and set up and shoot across the fence line about 200 yards into a nice pile of dirt that makes a great backstop. Since there's no roads or other access to this part of the forest...
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    "You owe us for that lost M14"

    Way back when I was in the AF, we were converting from carbines to M16s. After a day of unpacking and recording serial numbers of every weapon, you guessed it, we came up one M16 short. Five of us spent most of the evening looking through the dump for all the cartons and we finally found the...
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    Abundance of Take - Off Slide Assemblies Online

    Does anyone think the gov doesn't pretty well know who owns what nowdays? So much for privacy.
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    Quick question about a GunBroker purchase

    When looking at feedback you must read all comments related. I sold some ammo recently and after the sale the buyer said he didn't want it and asked me to cancel the auction. Seriously? I told him if he would pay my fees and something for loss of income and delayed sale I would do so. He...
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    Shooting alone in the desert, woods, wherever.

    I frequently shoot alone on BLM land but try to park in such a way as to be shooting from the rear of the truck and I frequently change mags or reload while looking at the area between my favorite spot and the road. Situational awareness is so important. A few years ago I was with a buddy...
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    Has anyone here ever won a gun in a raffle?

    Yes I have. One of my daughter's liberal friends was complaining on Facebook about a school offering tickets for a S&W AR rifle, so I decided to support the school and bought $100 worth of tickets. A few weeks later I received a call informing me I had won the rifle. Since I already had...
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    CMP 1911 update.

    I got one two years ago, no big hassle to complain about either. The minor paperwork was required by Congress as part of the deal to be able to sell these pistols. Mine was field grade and I'm very pleased with both what I paid and what I received. Thanks CMP!
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    223 selling for 600 bucks a 1000?

    No but I did buy lots of components when they were available and cheap. Remember when Wolf primers first hit the market and were $13 per M? I bought about a quarter million primers and I'm still deep in primers. Same with powder. Same with bullets although I cast a lot of those. I'm...
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    NFA check up

    My last transfer took 11-1/2 months. Picked up in May.
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    Deactivated machinegun

    The trick is that if a gun is registered as a dewat or deactivated gun, it can be made live again. If it has been "destroyed" and is no longer considered a machine gun, it can not be made into a live shooter again. Whatever the status of this gun presently, it can be made into a shooter again.
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    223 selling for 600 bucks a 1000?

    Learn to reload and never be dependent on a supplier.
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