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Guns and Blowin Shit Up!
richkrt99:
Mostly just a lifelong gun enthusiast. Don't hunt currently - mostly just a plinker and target thumper.
Got started into reloading the last couple years - mostly as a hobby, but I enjoy it. Couple months ago, after building a new AR, I got the bright idea I wanted an AK-47 but everyone I looked at - I just could not deal with the stamped steel crap (not knocking the AK really) but it just didn't seem like much to me...and the COST...Holy cow!.
So, I bought bunch of stuff on sale and built up from an AR platform since I am familiar with that. Then....along comes sleepy Joe and bans all the Russian ammo. Great, just when I thought I was putting together a gun with relatively CHEAP ammo. :-\
I heard they can be finicky to cycle in AR platform, but so far I've had good success.
I've mostly been overwhelming this thread with my own rantings and issues, but If you are new to the site, then welcome. If not....well er...um.....Welcome back!
Alta nudges me back on track now and then ;)
Caps17201:
I appreciate anyone who appreciates firearms, basically. I srtarted in Lancaster County in 1955 just target and plinking with a Springfield single shot .22 rifle and started hunting in 1958 with a Remington Wingmaster .12 gauge shotgun for small game. I still have it along with the Springfield rifle. Started deer hunting in 1964. I have a great love for the fields, farms, mountains and wilderness for that matter. Canada and the U.S. Although it’s been a long time since I have been in Canada and never hunted big game out west. My long guns have always been bolt action, lever action or pump action, along with one semi automatic shotgun. I have sold some, along with two Japanese rifles and bayonets that my dad brought back from World War II in the Pacific.
Now I am down to nine long guns and four hand guns but no AR’s. Just my preference but like I said, I like to look at them. Oh, and I have a license to carry a concealed handgun in Pennsylvania.
richkrt99:
My first gun was a ruger 10/22 which I received new as a gift when I was about 12 and still have 40+ years later.
I have several rifles and handguns as well. Nothing fancy, but a nicely rounded collection. Couple shotguns, one bolt action rifle (Ruger - .308), couple AR15 (old & new). Also couple Henry lever action (.22LR, .357), which are fun. First pistol I ever bought 30+ years ago was a Ruger .357 Magnum, 6" barrel (stainless). Moved on to a SigSauer P226 9mm which is an original German made model, Over the decades, I have slowly accumulated a few more - I love my Sigs and have the original 226 plus a newer P320 .45ACP and a P365XL 9mm (which is my carry gun now)
I would shoot more if I had a better place to target shoot, and IF I could afford it....and if time permitted. Pretty sad when the cost of ammo limits how much you can shoot now.
Good thing I got into reloading...so I could SAVE money on ammo :lol: . All that did was inspire me to shoot more and get more guns.
alta:
--- Quote from: richkrt99 on Monday September 20, 2021, 02:13:38 PM Eastern ---
....I dropped one of the detent pins (the rear one actually) when installing...could not find it. Borrowed one from another kit until I get the spares. :-\
Fun times :)
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When a new guy on one of the AR forums asks what to get when building his first, the first answer is always extra detents and detent springs. I've launched a couple myself, heard exactly where they landed, but could never find them. I keep about 5 each extra of the different detents and springs. It's come in handy. About 10 years ago midway and brownells started selling the individual springs and detents separately, a few other places do as well. I also keep at least one entire LPK on hand too.
and yea, it's not at all difficult to spend just as much or more on the hand guard as what the barrel cost
richkrt99:
--- Quote from: alta on Tuesday September 21, 2021, 03:43:52 AM Eastern ---When a new guy on one of the AR forums asks what to get when building his first, the first answer is always extra detents and detent springs. I've launched a couple myself, heard exactly where they landed, but could never find them. I keep about 5 each extra of the different detents and springs. It's come in handy. About 10 years ago midway and brownells started selling the individual springs and detents separately, a few other places do as well. I also keep at least one entire LPK on hand too.
and yea, it's not at all difficult to spend just as much or more on the hand guard as what the barrel cost
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Yeah, I don't even know how I dropped the detent. I didn't have the spring in there yet. It was the rear one which is the easy one. I dropped the detent in and realized I didn't have the grip so I set down the lower to go dig up a grip to use temporarily and came back and "poof" the detent was gone. Never heard it drop. I had an old t-shirt on top of the neoprene cleaning pad on my bench so I'm assuming it hit that quietly and then sauntered off. (That and my bench looks like some reloader nutball put everything he owns on it) So it might reappear some day.
I ordered a couple "emergency" pin kits with most everything for the lower.
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