Recent content by JohnMarston

I have never met a handgun I didn't like but that being said, I'd take my Walther P99 if I only had one choice while running out of the house.

I appreciate hearing all these first hand accounts. Either way I'm feeling good about it. I'm not trying to promote the AK here but I am completely happy with it, for the price it is quite a value and just seems to keep impressing me.

I shot small caliber rifles as a child and have been in the handguns for the last six years, I have never had an AD or ND.

Thanks for the link, if it turns out to be the spring I think your right just buying that replacement is probably the best way to go. Cleaning the rifle isn't an issue, I was an amateur knife smith for a while, so my firearms see lots of high grade mineral oil before the first shot and after...

I was out yesterday for two hours and I was thankful I brought water and wore some sun screen. I would have liked to have shot much more but I was loosing too much water too fast.

Ya I pruchased the AK cause I am in my last year of med school and I can't afford a real AR, so it is my poor mans AR until I get a descent income. My local gun shop had it for $400 so I figured I couldn't be too upset if it turned out to be junk. I was into the handguns and then a buddy...

Thanks for the posts, I just wanted a second opinion other than my own assumption. I've only had bolt actions and so I haven't seen this "flight pattern" of cartridges..lol till yesterday, or lets say I haven't paid any attention to it until it was my own rifle..lol

I'm a newb so pardon the newb question. While at the range yesterday I was shooting a newly purchases AK 47 and the cartridges were flying like 3 to 6 yards. It was odd to me, and my good friend who had one bounce off his table and forhead. We both figured it was just because the ejection...

Does anyone know if the stock from a marlin 781 .22 rifle (tube fed) would be able to be modified into a marlin 780 mag fed? I'm thinking I could drill out the magazine compartment with little trouble and use all 780 parts but I'm worried about the barrel fit. Or if I could build a rifle...