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The memo is a nothingburger of Russian propaganda! DNC's CEO gets off the ride for unrelated reasons

On 1/24/2018 at 12:15 PM, roguetechie said:

 

The bullpup AK all other bullpup AK's wish they could be! Nice...

 

I know what you mean by not wanting to destroy milsurp guns. I mean I do stuff with ak kits, cz 26 kits, and some of the other really common stuff out there (and I admittedly did some pretty bad things to .308 ishapore Enfield's at one point).

 

But otherwise, stuff like my Swiss straight pulls, my mas49, and even the couple Mosin's I still have I am very reluctant to do anything permanent to. Replacing furniture and or modifying spare sets of old furniture I do with impunity, and I'll "destroy the collector value of something" with a refinish rather than let guns become nonfunctional. I try to stay on the righteous path in other words.

 

And yes, you can rest assured that when the day comes where I overcome my crippling anxiety paranoia and angst about posting pics of my gun projects online SH will be where I do it. Not only do I like and respect you guys, but you also put up with me! Plus there are places here i can put stuff I don't want shared outside of here that are actually respected by the participants of this site.

 

The stuff I'll be doing if I do a vepr gamer gun  is actually in support of other ongoing efforts and long term projects I'm working on. It's sort of a holistic approach to making accessories and gun setups etc to try and extend the distances an average infantryman can realistically successfully engage and knock down the enemy in combat.

 

This is why I'm looking at gamer guns and etc so heavily, as well as a bunch of other things too mind you, on the assumption that if you can get their equipment to be as conscious thought and adjustment requirements free as possible they will have more time and cognitive capacity to run the fundamentals of good shooting. Combining the above with another layer designed to passively actively or otherwise augment the speed and optimize their abilities to get good stable positions and holds in terrible terrain etc is also part of it.

 

It's a massive task I've kinda set up for myself that's basically "make us gudder at killing the other guy with our guns while on foot!"* as the bounds of the project. I will almost certainly fail a whole bunch if not completely, but I am having a ton of fun learning and experimenting!

 

*This includes making gurl infantry somehow not a terrible suck storm of a national tragedy in the making.

 

Also, since the bounds of this project are so wide open and all encompassing it has thoroughly captured the attention creativity desire to participate and imaginations of my girlfriend and several other of her friends! This alone makes it worth it honestly. It's just plain awesome whenever you can get the women around you to actively and willingly participate in your nerdery!

 

 

I had a walnut grip come in for my Makarov a week or so ago, so I'm not adverse to modifying those guns in ways that can be reversed easily.  

Upon further research, the vepr cannot take standard AK mags, it needs a tweak or two done to have that happen.  It'll need a bullet guide installed (found those for sale for $20) and maybe the magazine catch filed down slightly if you want to use extendos.  I might replace the trigger as well, but seems like the vepr may be the first of my guns to find itself in front of power tools.  Beyond the magazine stuff and the trigger, I'll probably keep this one as is.

I'll wait until I'm out of uni and have a little more freedom before I try turning into Dr. Frankenstein but with guns, doing this stuff has been an interest of mine for a while.  I've got a few buddies who have expressed similar interests as well.  I've not got any sort of vision like you do beyond wanting to make and break stuff and seeing what happens.

Best deal on a .223 vepr super I've found so far is ~$740 shipped with two 5rd mags.  The site is one of those stupid ones where you have to add it to the cart before you see the real price (which is $737 shipped, +$8 if you want shipping insurance thrown in).  Cheapest on armslist is $700 with a 5rd and 10rd mag, but it's used and dunno if they'd ship it.  Cheapest on gunbroker that I can recall is about the same price as the site I linked, but they don't do free shipping.

Democrats seem to have concocted a counter-memo

3 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

 

If you like the ban sporter look, cool - just be aware that scope mounting on those is kinda dumb IIRC. You might throw in an ALG trigger for a further improvement.

As established in the second post of mine, I really like it in this case.  Some sporter rifles look fugly to me too, but the vepr super is sportifying done right.  Kinda captures that battle rifle aesthetic that techie alluded to as well.

My understanding is that you can get some really solid scope mounts for it, there's just a lot more stupid mounts out there than there should be.  I know the sporty veprs that look more like an AK have a different mounting system, it's possible that I may be confusing the two.

4 hours ago, roguetechie said:

Yes we are indeed talking about the one with the weirdly angled grip featured in the TFB video.

 

I've recently become interested in gamer guns and etc from the perspective of can any of this be adapted to a form suitable and advantageous for combat use?

 

I'm just kinda one of those people who can't fully enjoy something unless I'm taking it apart and trying to make it better. I don't know why this is, I've kinda just accepted that it's my fate in this world to forever be "dicking with stuff".

 

I have not yet done any of my mad scientist fuckery on a super vepr, and I'm thinking your post is some sort of sign from the God's that now is the time to rectify this before these things get too expensive.

 

Plus the stock setup on those somehow have the same feel to the lines in a way as the bm59 alpini which is just a sexy damn battle rifle.

 

Assuming you like battle rifles or something... NTTTAWWT

I've got an unfortunate attraction towards guns that are unique or interesting in some way without sacrificing quality (and looks to an extent).  The looks and function alone are enough to make me want a vepr, the fact that no one else seems to have one is icing on the cake.  Means I can be a hipster and not get the same guns everyone else already has that I could borrow if I really wanted to.

Battle rifles are nice too since they make big booms and seem to usually look nice to me.  The BM59 has stood out to me as neat, though I think I'd go for an FN-49 before that.

All the guns that I have right now are too precious to me to mangle in any way (three quarters of mine are family heirlooms or milsurp), but getting a gunsmith special of some sort for the mad scientist fuckery is certainly something I'd like to get around to doing.  Only been in this for a couple years now, just now at the point where I've got most of my core collection all fleshed out.

If you do end up making some frankenvepr, don't forget to share it here.  I've seen some interesting modifications done to them, some whacky bullpup design from google comes to mind.

Doesn't look like it was based on the super, but oh well

1 hour ago, roguetechie said:

How much are these going for these days?

 

For some reason I really like the look of those...

 

And that super custom Russian gamer gun on TFB awhile back would be easier to replicate probably starting from one of those.

There's a few on gunbroker with a buyout slightly under $750, don't really see any below $700 from the little I've been paying attention so far.  A lot of wholesale dealers still have these in stock if that means anything, though those usually start at $800 and go up from there.  The other veprs seem to have been hit harder by import bans, but the vepr super seems to have not really gone up much yet.  This is all for the .223 super veprs, the rest vary a bunch from it, too many for me to keep track of.  Surprised there's so few English videos on the thing, I guess it's too Russian to appeal to Fudd.  Harder to find it too when the results are buried with AK veprs.

I don't read TFB really, but I did come across that article in all of my searching earlier.  Even found a video after I ended up in the Russian part of youtube, assuming we're talking about that one with the weirdly angled grip. 

As far as I'm concerned, the Vepr super is the most aesthetically pleasing rifle made to date.

Anyone that familiar with the Vepr Super?  Been interested in one and would rather get it sooner or later before prices rise too much.  From what I can see by looking at it, it looks like a rifle I'd really like, but not finding too many opinions about it online.  Would also be interested in knowing if the Vepr super in .223 can use .223 AK mags or if they're some proprietary design.

From what I do know, the build quality of it seems excellent, probably works rather well as a result.  It's got some special enlarged ambi mag release that you don't find on other AKs, I can see myself really liking over the usual type.  Overall so far just seems like a nice gun.  I'd probably get the .223 since I've not got anything in an intermediate cartridge yet.  Also helps that the .223 vepr super is the cheapest, .223 is pretty cheap, and the .223 version seems to be one of the easier vepr supers to find.

Disregard all those congressmen calling for the release of the memo, this is just another Russian propaganda campaign for undermining our democracy.  Thanks for having this Debunked!™ for me Snopes!

They even used to have those belts made purely from HVAP ammo.  The Wirbelwind was truly a force to be reckoned with, I remember even having one kill my SMK a while back.

3 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

 

I see the Dems are down to hoping the Republican leadership will literally just hand them the presidency for no reason.

 

 

-snip-

 

What amuses me the most is how you could change the date of that article from 2018 to 2017 and it'd work just as well.

https://gop.com/the-highly-anticipated-2017-fake-news-awards/

In which the first amendment is violated by laughing at fake news

I believe it's the same deal with the T-V.  It's a Panther A at br5.7 since it doesn't have the skirt armor or APCR.

Right as I reach the finishing stretch of this stupid grind for speshul tanks and planes (and start a new semester of classed), my mobo decides that it's a good time to explode.  I've already conscripted someone to fly planes for me some, but will probably need to spend some bird coins on the last few tank ones.

(HMU if you'd be willing to do a tank thing or two, only need 4 more 2018+ score battles to get today's tank token)

44 minutes ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

Isn't this basically made up by Dickless Durbin?

I don't recall seeing any actual proof yet, only his claim so far.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Haiti one country, not a collection of many "non-white countries"?  It's one thing having people cling on so tightly to a claim that's yet to be proven, but then lying about and sensationalizing the statement on top of that?  You'd probably be better off making your own "leak" at that point, I don't get how people like Trevor Noah can be as popular as they are.

Haiti is also a shithole.

So first he was being melted, but now presumably he's the one melting stuff because he's made of fire now?

The right of large corporate media firms The Press to practice sensationalism and deceit is an essential part of any free and democratic country.  To call fake news fake is to be literally hitler.  I'm not concerned here about your opinions on Trump, more concerned about how much they like to play the victim and act like a tweet is anywhere near the same as jailing, assualting, or assassinating "journalists".  Still gets me butthurt to this day.

When your team tries really hard to lose but can't even do that

54 minutes ago, Ulric said:

I like how it's a high BR than the 6pdr. Crusader. Still, 3.0 british is a strong line up with the 75mm Valentine and Cromwell, so this will be a good addition.

Doesn't bother me too much, the Crusader is still stuck with the marginally worse 6pdr and reverses at almost half the speed as well.  Even when I hated the brit tree as a whole, I still was able to appreciate their 3.0 lineup.  I can't imagine it being so great on city maps, but on maps that are just open areas and rolling hills, it's probably one of the best for its BR at that.

So I got the AEC Mk. II, from the two battles I've played it seems to be very good.  I wish the thing had smoke grenades, but it's excellent for seal clubbing.  You've got a long barreled 6pdr on a mobile platform that can actually reverse, what's not to like?  Both battles I played in it I nearly ran out of ammo.  First one got me 8 kills before the end of the game.  Second game is pictured below, I got 13 kills and was down to 6 rounds left before being overwhelmed by enemies because my team was pretty bad.

I think gaijin is trying to tell me I should stop playing WT

You all have any thoughts on this?  The listing is tempting me.

http://www.armslist.com/posts/7689619/chicago-illinois-rifles-for-sale-trade--enfield-rfi-410g

I'm aware that I can find a single shot .410 for a lot less than that, but if all I wanted was a single shot .410, then I wouldn't be getting some obscure Lee Enfield conversion.  I'm no expert on Lee Enfield rifles, they're probably the guns I'm least familiar with relative to its popularity, but my understanding is that $200 is a pretty good price.  For example, I wouldn't be able to tell you if the 1905 BSA co marking stuff is good or bad for collector's value and all that.

The surplus ammo for it is surprisingly cheap as well I've found out, sold here at about $0.24 per round.  I should probably ask the seller if this is one of those that were reamed out to fit modern .410 ammo.

https://www.luckygunner.com/410-inch-mk1-indian-musket-98gr-musket-ball-180-rounds

Usually when something screwy happens with WT hit detection, it annoys me a little but ultimately doesn't bother me much.  Just had all three bombs  on my stalinbolt hit enemy ships, yet not register as actually hitting them.  Does this look like a bomb that will miss the ship to you?

Now will this miss too?

Take note of how my score remains 5 despite having clearly hit a cruiser and destroyer with 500kg each.  Should have damaged the former, killed the latter.  Final bomb drop was me looping around to put the 250kg one on the cruiser.

I've read that APCBC and some other solid shot round was buffed, I can really tell.  Been playing Brits 5.3 tanks now that I got the AC IV, reliably 1 shotting most tanks with the 17pdr using APCBC.  Last battle, I one shotted 7 tanks in my firefly of the 9 tanks I shot.  The others were a M10 that I killed 4/5 crew in and a churchill VII that I barely hit in the first place.

2 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

@Ulric, @Sturgeon, 

 

https://www.armslist.com/posts/7237499/fort-collins-colorado-rifles-for-sale-trade--mosin-sniper-original-stock

 

 

 

When will bubba learn?  I could pay a meth head $1000 to graffiti the side of my house, but it certainly wouldn't make my home's value increase by $1000.

Stock Yak-3 best fighter confirmed, got a 15 kill streak in AB with it just now, had to land since I would have run out of fuel.