Recent content by cchris

Having not handled the 59 but owning a P6 and P228 (double stack), I'd have to say I thoroughly enjoy the "slim" feel to the P6 more. It's my favorite autoloader. The decocker location is great, and everything about the gun just feels "right". I'd say at least handle both, and one of the two...

Well I was fairly broke when I was in school, but I had a Monday - Friday job as well as being a student in engineering at a fairly tough school. I slept about 3 hours a night, consumed coffee and ramen noodles, and managed to set aside enough change to start a nice little collection. Of course...

Well heck, why not...I'm 23, started buying guns toward when I was about to turn 22. So this is about two years worth: -SIG P6 -SIG P228 -S&W SW9VE (Sigma) -H&R Topper 12ga -Remington 11-48 -Browning Auto 5, ca. 1940 ("Remington-Browning") -Ruger 10/22 -Saiga 7.62x39 converted (thanks to...

I've learned to walk to the front counter as soon as I walk in, ask for assistance in the sporting goods/hunting section, then walk back there. Most of the time I still beat them to the counter.

To use any AK stock, you need an AK gas tube and AK lower handguard retainer. Get the gas tube from Dinzag Arms, here: http://www.dinzagarms.com/saiga_762x39/saiga_762x39.html and the retainer from Brownells...

At one point I actually considered buying from Mitchell's Mausers, but luckily I did my research on them. Looks like whether you want a K98, M48, or M24/47, you're getting an M48 that was "German-made" ("German" meaning the equipment sold to Yugoslavia after WWII came from the old factories in...

Thanks all for the tremendous help! All I planned to do was increase the capacity, as it already has a short barrel on it.

Sorry, no camera (one on my phone is busted). This picture isn't mine, but it's the same receiver inscriptions. Notice the magazine cutoff switch in the bottom left. http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:yFFauWsPmohibM:http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b127/TexasEd/Auto-5/BrowningA-5007.jpg&t=1...

Picked up a Remington-manufacture Auto 5 at a gun show this weekend...not a Remington Model 11 and not a Browning Auto 5, but one of the Browning A-5's made at the Remington factory in St. Louis between 1940 and 1947. I can't seem to get a straight answer on this. Is it a re-badged Model 11...

Last one I went to was crap. $200 for MN 91/30's, $30 for AK mags.

Brady Bunch number? 12,000,000,000,000,000,000 My guess around 300 million, given these "gun buyback" things that have probably ended up in a number of firearms (some good and some garbage) destroyed.

That's where I was running into trouble, I'm trying to get the feel of rotating the bolt into place and remembering which side the serial # is stamped on. One of these days I'll get it.

I understand where you're coming from here. I suppose more the argument I was trying to make is that if there is some tactical advantage to what the bad guys have that suddenly becomes illegal to civilians (i.e. semiautomatic rifles firing an intermediate round), we'd be a bit "outgunned"...

There's a reason for that - before the internet, people (most likely) had to learn about firearms from a family member or friend that could educate them. And if no one you knew was interested in shooting, it was probably difficult to learn about it. But this generation has the advantage of...

That's where I was running into trouble, I'm trying to get the feel of rotating the bolt into place and remembering which side the serial # is stamped on. One of these days I'll get it.