The gun thread...

[mjonesjr]

Well, I finally broke down and got a little pistol now that Wis has the CC law. I did say little, it's a Ruger LCP 380. Haven't fired it yet but bought enough ammo to break it in. Small enough to carry in shirt pocket. Friend has one and loves it, he even sent a picture of it in his pants pockets.
Dave of the Nord

I've got one of those. They are a good little gun.

 

[88_Eddie]

nice score mac, i wanna get a little pistol like that for my wife.

i'm finishing up a side job this weekend and then i'll be ordering this little guy....

a Sig P226 9mm.....cant wait, it'll be my first handgun. a family friend works for sig and i'll be getting it brand new for $674.

 

[crbnunit]

here's the 30-06 ammo that's dead accurate, and deadly... these and bthp is all i use. we reload our own. have about 800 rounds ready at any given time..

hornady a-max!

recommend them to any hunters out there for sure.

also the lever revolutions are great for lever actions. just don't know if they make them for reloads yet. all you could do was get preloaded ones..

Why in the 5th round from the left seated so much deeper than the rest? That is not going to do much for your shot to shot repeatability...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I was at Cabelas yesterday and on their used rack they had a new 7mm WSM Savage that still had the stickers and hang tags on it, nice wood stock and scope rings (I bet they threw the scope in the bargain cave)... $370.

Hot dang so I go check out ammo because the round is kind of off the beaten path... $30-45 a box of 20, and the wide selection of two different ones to chose from.

 

[88_Eddie]

that's probably why it was on the used rack to begin with.....no thank you, i'll stick with a .223, .243, .308 or .30-06....that'll kill most anything short of a buffalo or an elephant.

 

[4.0B2]

Why in the 5th round from the left seated so much deeper than the rest? That is not going to do much for your shot to shot repeatability...

yeah, it's marked-- different. that's one i loaded for a friends gun, the length he needed was shorter than my savage 110.... but i swapped it out for one loaded for mine.

his 30-06, remington semi auto, jams if he uses my savage bolt action bullets.. so his are shorter.

 

[4.0B2]

I was at Cabelas yesterday and on their used rack they had a new 7mm WSM Savage that still had the stickers and hang tags on it, nice wood stock and scope rings (I bet they threw the scope in the bargain cave)... $370.

Hot dang so I go check out ammo because the round is kind of off the beaten path... $30-45 a box of 20, and the wide selection of two different ones to chose from.

30-06 is where its at IMO, a new savage 30-06 is not much different pricewise http://www.savagearms.com/firearms/finder/ but its not wood stock....

and i prefer my savage over my dad's abolt...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I am wanting to get a .270, even for whitetail and maybe antelope some would call that overkill.

Probably won't be a Savage in the end, but I was really excited on the way over to the ammo rack my fortune at finding a wood stocked rifle at black plastic price.

Why do they keep coming with these goofy calibers anyway?

 

[4.0B2]

i like .270's.. i owned one. savage. but was offered twice what i payed for it! lol so i sold it since i had the 30-06 also.

i'm a huge savage fan! if you can't tell already. that savage 110 30-06 holds a tighter group of 10 bullets at 400 yards in a shooting vice than the browning a-bolt. wonder if i can find those targets to show yall...

 

[88_Eddie]

ballistics and stopping power is the only thing i can think of. the flatter the trajectory, the better for your average shooter.

i like savage too, i have a .22 that i've put easily 20,000 rounds through and it still shoots like the day i bought it and it was half the price of a 10/22

 

[4.0B2]

complete w/ my paracord sling. love this gun!

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

ballistics and stopping power is the only thing i can think of. the flatter the trajectory, the better for your average shooter.

But there is nothing really groundbreaking about it, other rounds do the same thing. IMO if they cant sell enough of them to keep ammo prices reasonable then they shouldn't have come out in the first place.

I don't really know what I am going to do yet... I need to get a pistol worse.

 

[88_Eddie]

But there is nothing really groundbreaking about it, other rounds do the same thing. IMO if they cant sell enough of them to keep ammo prices reasonable then they shouldn't have come out in the first place.

I don't really know what I am going to do yet... I need to get a pistol worse.

no, it isnt groundbreaking at all....it's common sense. they are the same projectile with more powder behind it. thus, more energy and higher velocities which means a more stable bullet.

plus, a shorter overall catridge length means a shorter action, shorter barrel which equals less weight to carry around. to some, that's a good selling point. i could care less right now, i'm young, i can lug a heavy gun around the woods all day. my 700P weighs 14 pounds with 7 rounds in the mag. my grandpa would stop hunting if he had to carry that thing around.

dont get me wrong though, i agree with you. even if i had the money, i wouldnt buy one. i can buy 100 of my sierra matchking bullets for my reloading for that box of ammo.

 

[lone-wolf]

i like savage too, i have a .22 that i've put easily 20,000 rounds through and it still shoots like the day i bought it and it was half the price of a 10/22

The savage 64s are clean freaks, still great rifles though

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Savage only shows 1/4 of a pound difference between a long action and a short action.

I also don't see the 7mm WSM listed on there.

Just the .270WSM and .300WSM and they weigh the same as their fullsize counterparts.