Nowhere Ridge, TN
Quoted from DeathHimself:Hence why when you do post never show serial numbers
If they are legal, why would that really matter? (honest question)
I can go in my local gun shops and write down serial numbers all day long.
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Quoted from Fulltilt:If they are legal, why would that really matter? (honest question)
I can go in my local gun shops and write down serial numbers all day long.
There are several reasons why you shouldn't publically have your serial number exposed in unsecured public access, pretty much the same why you wouldn't want your cars license plate exposed.
Yes you can write down all the serials from the FFL all you want, the same way you can go to a car dealership and write down all the vins you want of the cars you looked at. Once it's registered to you it's a total different story for your security reasons.
Quoted from Phantom1911:But to go along with the ammo porn, here's some ammo making porn.
Nothing wrong with posting nice equipment! I use an RCBS progressive. Not as nice as that... (looks like a Dillon).
It's the only way you can make custom rounds. I can't buy subsonic .300 as well as I can make them on the press.
And for long range shooting... No way I can get the accuracy from my .300 Win Mag with off the shelf ammo that I can get with hand loads.
I used to hand load for IHMSA competition using a Thompson Center in 7mm TCU. Try to find that load at your local gun shop.
Quoted from DeathHimself:There are several reasons why you shouldn't publically have your serial number exposed in unsecured public access, pretty much the same why you wouldn't want your cars license plate exposed.
Yes you can write down all the serials from the FFL all you want, the same way you can go to a car dealership and write down all the vins you want of the cars you looked at. Once it's registered to you it's a total different story for your security reasons.
I understand concern. It's a real mixed bag of opinions. (Imagine that here on Pinside!!)
You can write down my license plate if you want, just catch me (or anyone else) on the road. I believe I even posted it on the Pinside Car Club thread! Here's the link!
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinside-car-club/page/9
Go online and you can get gun serial numbers by the boat load on about any gun auction site.
I may be just waiting for the fall or maybe I'm just now too old to worry about it. 
A couple of the main reasons not to post serials were always 1) not wanting govt to tie the number to you if it wasn't already, and 2) people turning in the number to their police dept as stolen. They could then say they saw you posting it for sale and you lose it if you can't provide proof of purchase.
I always thought both were pretty far fetched scenarios, but those are a couple of the reasons used regularly.
Another that has been seen believe it or not, people were actually taking legit serials and when applicable transferring a valid serial onto firearms that was either defaced or those that never had a serial. It just makes sense to be on the side of caution rather then red tape aggravation later on.
Quoted from Kronlar:A couple of the main reasons not to post serials were always 1) not wanting govt to tie the number to you if it wasn't already, and 2) people turning in the number to their police dept as stolen. They could then say they saw you posting it for sale and you lose it if you can't provide proof of purchase.
I always thought both were pretty far fetched scenarios, but those are a couple of the reasons used regularly.
Absolutely agree with both points if they apply.
1- Don't post a serial number if you haven't had it registered to you through the ATF.
2- Ditto the above reason
Pickering, ON
Quoted from Fulltilt:Nothing wrong with posting nice equipment! I use an RCBS progressive. Not as nice as that... (looks like a Dillon).
It's the only way you can make custom rounds. I can't buy subsonic .300 as well as I can make them on the press.
And for long range shooting... No way I can get the accuracy from my .300 Win Mag with off the shelf ammo that I can get with hand loads.
I used to hand load for IHMSA competition using a Thompson Center in 7mm TCU. Try to find that load at your local gun shop.
I started out on a RCBS Rock Chucker for doing rifle, then got into PPC, and Action. Found out real quick the Rock Chucker wasn't going to cut it, so I added a Dillon 550. Used that for a few years, and loved it. Then got into IPSC and decided to upgrade from manual indexing to automatic. Sold my 550 to a friend and splurged on the 650 with case feeder. I've still got my Rock Chucker though. Mostly I use it with a bulge buster, but occasionally I still use it for rifle.
Dillon 650 is a nice machine. I've had mine for 15-20 years I think. I use both rcbs summit and Lee classic cast presses too. I load for about 30 different cartridges currently.
The 7mm tcu mentioned above is one of them. 256 win Mag is another neat round.
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Anyone have any experience with places milling a sight onto a gun? I've got a Colt Mustang Pocketlite, but the front sight is CNC'd with the slide. The rear sight is a dovetail sight. Just curious if I want to go through the trouble and money to have someone add a dovetail to the front sight.
Quoted from woody24:Anyone have any experience with places milling a sight onto a gun? I've got a Colt Mustang Pocketlite, but the front sight is CNC'd with the slide. The rear sight is a dovetail sight. Just curious if I want to go through the trouble and money to have someone add a dovetail to the front sight.
Great little gun. Personally with a small pocket gun and the likely distance to target (pretty darn close), I'd leave the front sight as-is.
My pocket carry is the similar P938. Although it has a dove tailed front sight, I've not yet found the need to adjust it.
Quoted from Fulltilt:Great little gun. Personally with a small pocket gun and the likely distance to target (pretty darn close), I'd leave the front sight as-is.
My pocket carry is the similar P938. Although it has a dove tailed front sight, I've not yet found the need to adjust it.
If I could ever actually get a concealed carry permit (not likely to happen where I live) this would probably be at the top of my list for carry. Really nice little footprint, and still get good stopping power of the 9mm. It's a great compromise between a bigger caliber .45, and ease of carry/concealment.
Plus....it's a Sig! 
Quoted from Kronlar:Carry a 1911 officer now. A bit bigger, but I like it.
.... you Texans... 
Quoted from Fulltilt:Great little gun. Personally with a small pocket gun and the likely distance to target (pretty darn close), I'd leave the front sight as-is.
My pocket carry is the similar P938. Although it has a dove tailed front sight, I've not yet found the need to adjust it.
Was my thought too. Just noticed that when I go to the shooting range, the front sight is sometimes hard to pick up right away, since there's nothing that stands out as a dot on it. Just a flat-grey notch.
I like that SIG too. My brother-in-law has one of those too. It's nice that the mags are all interchangeable between the Colt, Sig, and Kimber. I considered all 3 before getting my Colt. I ultimately wanted the Kimber because it was more 1911-ish than the Colt, but the dealer was currently sold out. So went with the Colt instead. It's nice. I like it better than my Ruger LC-9.
Quoted from Kronlar:Those Sig 938 and 238s are nice. Had a 238 carry for a while till I traded it for a pin.
Carry a 1911 officer now. A bit bigger, but I like it.
My carry is also an officers 1911 (.45). I prefer SAO pistols and four out of my five are. But I come from a competitive shooting background.
New member here and just found this thread mulling around. I still use a rockchucker and have been using the same press for 26 years. I reload .45 acp, .357, .38, antique.32, .50ae, .270, 30-30, .556/.223, .308, .300 win mag, 12 and 20 gauge. I got into casting my own during the ammo shortage. I can make 30-30 for about $.11 a round. I see there are a few other folks who live in the Houston area too.
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Quoted from Fulltilt:Probably qualifies in the "target" portion of the club. (:
That sucker is freaking awesome!
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Quoted from Fulltilt:So punks... is this thread dyin'?
Come'on... "Make My Day!"
Connecticut Valley Arms Mountain Rifle
.50 caliber muzzleloader. Beechwood stock. 32" browned, octagonal barrel with iron sights. Steel underrib with steel octagonal thimbles housing the ramrod. Maslin percussion lock. Double set triggers. Hook-style breech, with two barrel keys, surrounded by German silver wedge inlays. MADE IN THE USA.
"I love the smell of black powder in the morning!" 
Quoted from Razorbak86:"I love the smell of black powder in the morning
Outstanding!!
One morning a US Army Ranger friend of mine were camping on the Kings river. I got up at dawn and began normal morning routine prepping breakfast, coffee, and getting ready to fish. One hand working on coffee, other hand puffing morning cigarette, and BAM like lightning and thunder the sound was loud and continuous. As I looked up a feather hit me in the face, the sounds got louder and I spotted them - turkeys on the roost in the trees right above me. They were pissed! It was way too late to move so I just kept on making coffee although with a watchful eye on those turkeys. Jimmy rousted, we ate, laughed at those frikkin turkeys and we hit the water. The smallmouth were calling.
Morning fog hung on the Kings but in no way obscured my view. I could see everything under the clear water. We were ready. We had a special soft bait with us we called 'The Magic Worm'. If you could not catch a smallmouth with that worm it meant God himself had cursed you. I mean I burned it up! Fish after fish almost all smallmouth. Jimmy was a trekker though and his big thing was distance. So we hucked it through that river.
About two miles downstream we round a bend and the Kings serves up a mighty view. It looks like some kind of castle hanging on a bluff. Suspended over the Kings like some scene from Avatar. As I soak up the view and begin to eye the next stretch of river for smallmouth opportunities, a new even louder noise starts up. I mean it is so loud I think we are under direct assault. But I knew immediately what it was - .223 automatic fire. Sounds like loud rain except this time it is accompanied by an unfamiliar sound, a really loud ping. So it sounds like a machine gun being fired at a steel plate.
No sooner does the .223 fire stop and something louder starts in, who knows what it was, but it was steady semi-auto this time. Jimmy has outpaced me and is all the way at the next bend. He also stopped to look when the automatic cacophany began so I took the chance to wave for him to stop. When I catch up to him He smiles and passes me one of his Marlboro reds. Then he shows me a frikkin 18" smallmouth that was incredible when we ate it later. He tells me who is the sponsor of our gunpowder fueled morning accompaniment - anyone know who it is yet? Bill Wilson. IDPA Bill.
Over the years I got to know his son a little as he used to ride his 4 wheeler to the adjacent property where we camped. I also went up and had Bill check out a .45 to verify it's progeny and look at the range. Phew! Quite a range as those of you who know who Bill is can imagine. We camped on that property until sometime around 1998, around the time the Undertaker threw Mankind off of Hell in a Cell to plummet 16 feet through the announcer's table.
Dammit, man, you're making me homesick. 
http://www.arkansas.com/outdoors/water-activities/canoeing-rafting-kayaking/kings-river/
Quoted from Travish:Not me. Mine is good old mid 60's American. I got some really cool west German field phones somewhere too.
We were going through my uncle's old stuff the other day and found a kit just like yours. I also found my great grandfather's old pocket transistor radio.
Quoted from RobT:Daryl, is that you?
After many years of wanting one, I finally picked up a nice numbers matching 1940 Police Eagle/L Mauser Luger.
A nice period correct '42 holster to go along with it.
Anyone else finally pickup that gun that you've been waiting for?
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Quoted from Fulltilt:After many years of wanting one, I finally picked up a nice numbers matching 1940 Police Eagle/L Mauser Luger.
A nice period correct '42 holster to go along with it.
Anyone else finally pickup that gun that you've been waiting for?
That's pretty cool.
It's funny....I have a fair number of hobbies (and even more if you go back in time), but I guess I'm just not a collector. Right now I enjoy pinball, guns (almost entirely handguns), and watches.....with some very minor interests in audio/video (and headphones) and EDC tools/knives/flashlights....and a passing interest in photography (very passing).
But I don't "collect" in any of them....not really. I find things I enjoy using and then make minor tweaks/changes to those over time. I've owned 19 pinball machines but never had more than 6 at one time. I have about 6 guns that haven't changed at all in years, and about 12 watches (trying to get down to 8 or so). Guess I never really got hooked by pure "collectability" in anything.
Quoted from MikeTangoIndia:K98 amazing gun. Love mine!!!
Mine is a Russian capture with non-matching numbers. It was cheap and it's fun to shoot.
Quoted from Nevus:The twelve year old has discovered WW2 and wanted to shoot the K98. Fun day.
He's "da' man!" The 98 can kick like a mule after a few rounds if it's got that metal butt plate like mine.
Quoted from Nevus:The twelve year old has discovered WW2...
Great way to teach your 12 yo about the war history. Probably my favorite era of guns.
Not worth much, but I love my old British jungle carbine. Lot of history and heroism in these old guns.
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Quoted from Fulltilt:Great way to teach your 12 yo about the war history. Probably my favorite era of guns.
Not worth much, but I love my old British jungle carbine. Lot of history and heroism in these old guns.
Man I would LOVE to get an Enfield. That carbine version is super cool. Right now I have a K98, Mosin Nagant M44 (carbine), and I used to have a French MAS 36 (total POS) that someone gave me but I re-gifted it to another friend haha. Absolutely love old war history guns!
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