Alex C.

I have actually heard that before. Never watched the show though.

Mmmmm... Porn...

Will throw in quasi functional beryl magazine for free.

Ill sell it for what I have in it.

How would I have ever guessed your dream gun is an H&K?

 

Some true patriot you are!

Because we all know that the metals in Heckler und Koch firearms are forged in the heart of a dying star, quenched in a sacred blend of the tears of Baby Jesus, and the sweat of Chuck Norris's nether-regions.

The polymers are made from the horns, hooves, bones, teeth and marrow of Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, the very goats that drew the almighty Thor's chariot, when they were left behind at the peasant farmer's house after slaughter for Thor and Loki's meal. That peasant farmer and his village were the great ancestors of Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch, and Alex Seidel.

They are test fired in the space between dimensions, and double-gravity-drop-tested twice from the gravitational pulls of two planets colliding together, under supervision from Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan.

It's said that through the eons of the universe, it is destroyed and formed again and again by naive mortals who do not understand the power they hold in H&K small arms.

For Nate:

Yes and yes. Most expensive semi automatic firearm I have ever bought (which in hindsight was stupid, but with youth comes stupidity).

Has the telltale 44- prefix and all (authentic PSG1 rifles will have a serial number beginning with "44"). Video of it goes up tomorrow.

Also, this:

Dream rifle acquired. I can die now:

Alex; question. You mention in your video on the Walther MPL that the charging handle can be used as a forward assist.

Why would you want to forcibly close the bolt of an open-bolt weapon?

In the unlikely event of a stuck/ruptured case, you could force the bolt forward and the extractor to hook onto the rim. I used "forward assist" for lack of a better term.

Remember Samuel Suggs?

In my experience, manufacturers are happy to lie about the weight of their weapons. That is the most likely reason for these figures.

Change it on wiki.

Also, I was reading the Sturmgewehr book you lent me and I found some lovely information about uber mauser:

I'll certainly buy that explanation, knowing what little I do about the French military high command of that time.

Filmed the Lebel run and gun yesterday.

In WWI, if you had that gun you were so fucked. Blew through the mag and then single loaded like a damn Gras rifle.

I now fully realize how seriously game changng clips were.

I hate making those videos.

I thought auto sears for FNCs were pretty cheap too?

They were cheap until about 2014 when the rumor of "more sears than guns" turned out to ge unsubstantiated. I bought 2 for 3k each back in the day and three FNCs for 3k each. Converted two and sold one last year for 10k. Now converted FNCs go for 12k+ and I havent seen a sear for sale in a while. Last I saw sold for 7k.

I wrote an article once about how you could buy a sear and an FNC for 3k and have a 6k machinegun in 5.56, then time passed, values went up, and when I went to sell I had people sending me my old artice as a sort of "SEE, THIS GUY SAYS YOURE OVERPRICED!".

When I said I wrote the article people got mad and walked.

You are looking at about 5-6k for your low end machineguns (MACs, Stens, Reisings, MK760s, Ingram M6).

This man is THE guy when it comes to machineguns. His prices are high, but he sells them for full retail all the time:

http://dealernfa.com/product-category/machine-guns/

If you see "pre sample" or "post sample" in the title, disregard that item.

Rich rednecks blowing cash on random crap is how Texas functions.

Like seriously, there is a reason that the saying "oilfield trash with oilfield cash" is so prevalent. Harley shops, gun stores, truck upfitters, jewelers, hot rod builders, and outfitters all do really well when crude is high.

Dudes in Nunavut can finally commute to work by means other than cross country skis. I'm sure that's how the 12 people who live on the Kamchatka Peninsula roll.

Or maybe it had no doctrinal niche, or was too expensive.

I find both of these to be very likely.

A big case of "what the fuck it this shit? It's all... different."

Well according to this source, Tula was pumping out boomsticks for the Red Army: http://rbth.com/articles/2012/08/24/tula_russias_armory_17623.html

"Following the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty in 1917, the city’s factories were seen as an essential asset for the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war and afterwards."

But then in this article on the same site, it says Lenin hated Tula: http://rbth.com/articles/2011/09/20/tula_loved_by_tolstoy_hated_by_lenin_13469.html

"A building directly opposite the city’s central bus station proudly boasts: “Tula has enormous importance for the republic.” It is the start of a quote by Vladimir Lenin, but few long-time residents and even fewer visitors to the city know how this quote ends: “but the people here are not our kind.” The man who called on Russia’s proletariat to rise up took a dislike to the Tula gunmakers because they were in no hurry to repair rifles for revolutionaries free of charge."

So uh, I got nothing in the way of scholarly sources, numbers, etc.

That said, considering everyone just said "fuck this" and bailed on WWI only to get plunged into another giant shitstorm, folks can be forgiven for less than meticulous record keeping (and holding onto said records).

Well now I am downright curious. Is there a source for various small arms production in russia during/after the civil war?

Because it looks like a bag of smashed assholes? It wasn't fielded (or made) in large numbers? It's weird?

 I SEMA shitting a brick over this bullshit?!  FUCK THE EPA

God I hope so.

Take all my guns, I don't give a fuck. Take my hot rod though and I will begin construction of a killdozer that will make that one dude in Colorado look like a bitch.