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Offline Halo

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« Reply #45 on: December 20, 2006, 10:13:21 AM »
Yeah, sometimes it's tough to choose just one fun gun.  Just as in golf there is a best club for a particular situation, so the fun gun choice invariably involves what particular shooting is preferred.

I also really like several different guns, but my favorite is the Ruger Single-Six .22/.22 Magnum because it best matches my favorite shooting situation: inexpensive plinking at short ranges.  

In my suburban environment that means home made targets at an affordable indoor firing range.  Tool + Situation - Cost = Fun  

Now don't go having too much fun with that equation.   :O
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« Reply #46 on: December 20, 2006, 02:27:07 PM »
cost?   I like 22's but I allways seem to shoot up a brick of em... $10-$15 worth..  

I reload so 45 and 44 rounds are about $4-$5 a box of 50...  I shoot maybe 3 boxes of 44s at a time these days before the dreaded flinch sets in so the cost for shooting 22's and 44's is about the same for me.

I do like shooting 22's tho... just not as much as centerfire rounds.

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« Reply #47 on: December 20, 2006, 02:42:41 PM »
the M1918 B.A.R (browning automatic rifle)

 take it out to woods and just shoot at **** for fun,its a really fine weapon.:aok
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« Reply #48 on: December 20, 2006, 02:46:36 PM »
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cost?   I like 22's but I allways seem to shoot up a brick of em... $10-$15 worth..  

I reload so 45 and 44 rounds are about $4-$5 a box of 50...  I shoot maybe 3 boxes of 44s at a time these days before the dreaded flinch sets in so the cost for shooting 22's and 44's is about the same for me.

I do like shooting 22's tho... just not as much as centerfire rounds.

lazs


Come on i just bought bullets and powder for 1000 rounds of .44 the bullets were $49 for just lead and powder was $29 of titegroup. I dont think that the powder will last for 1000 but its a start. I can buy a brick of federal at academy for $7.90 with tax. I reload and just order a conversion kit for my Dillon 650 for .44 and 30 carbine. Any way you look at it nothing on earth is cheaper to shoot than .22. I am looking at some $ for everything i need with my Dillon to reload 1000 of .44 and thats not my hunting rounds. Brass is hard to find but i have a friend that has a couple bags of once fired. Need to go and buy a box of some good pig killers for the spring.

Also we had a range close in central Texas and their are no public outdoor range in my area that i can just go and shoot after work. So that makes it harder for me to test my loads. I have some base figures from a friend that shoots .44 for years but like anyone that reloads i would like to try something new.

Its all making me worried that our sport is going down the tube.
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« Reply #49 on: December 20, 2006, 06:34:53 PM »
Annual membership fees at our indoor range are going between 50% and 67% next year!  Amazing how inflation and cost of living supposedly usually go up in single digits while specific costs in various areas often jump by significant double digits.
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« Reply #50 on: December 20, 2006, 08:53:03 PM »
I bought a membership at a local indoor range for $265 for a six months membership. Just got back from the range and it was so crowded and made me feel sick because of the guys shooting larger caliber rifle next to me. Loaded up some .40 for my glock and i had about 300 rounds i was going to shoot to make sure i liked the load. Well i shot about 2 boxes and got the hell out of their.


I think i am just going to shoot at the ranch but its two hours away from my house. Guess its time to do some really long sessions and make it worth the trip. Nothing like shooting 1000 in one sitting.
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« Reply #51 on: December 20, 2006, 09:38:30 PM »
Yeah, makes a difference who's shooting what next to you.  I'll never forget the guy doing rapid fire with his .499.  I was looking for a bunker to jump into.
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« Reply #52 on: December 20, 2006, 11:13:22 PM »
At first I'd say with cost and such being what it is, my Ruger 10/22. Then I thought of all the great times I had out shooting my buddy with my .45 USP against his Berretta 9mm.

Then I remembered all the really fun times. Like the time down on the river when me and my buddy was trying to figure out how to down some old trees for firewood. Neither one us checked to see who had what before we left and we soon realized we didnt have a saw or ax.

We had about 400 rounds of 12 gauge ammo between us though.

Needless to say it was a sight to behold with two guys shooting trees down and cutting to size with 12 gauges.

Him with his Benelli M3 Super 90 and I with my M1 Super 90. Why we even had contest to see who could empty their magazine, while cutting the tree down, all before the first shell fired had hit the ground.

So my fun gun is my Benelli.
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« Reply #53 on: December 20, 2006, 11:53:31 PM »


HK MP5A2

followed by

HK MP5SD


Unfortunately I don't get to carry them anymore. IMHO, they are the most fun you can have with a gun.
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« Reply #54 on: December 21, 2006, 03:18:14 AM »
My fun gun: Savage 17hmr

my fun target: sqacks heads any range :D
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« Reply #55 on: December 21, 2006, 07:48:54 AM »
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HK MP5A2

followed by

HK MP5SD


Unfortunately I don't get to carry them anymore. IMHO, they are the most fun you can have with a gun.


Buy one from vector arms. Real HK parts but a new one cost 1,500 instead of 15,000. Further more vector makes the mp53 and mp51 version which hk only made in rather limited numbers.
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« Reply #56 on: December 21, 2006, 08:18:14 AM »
FXI...   the cost for 44 and 45 is as I say.   The biggest cost is the lead.   even at 50 bucks a thousand tho.. you are talking $2.50 per box... add a buck and a half at most for primers and you still have a buck a box for powder.    There are 7000 grains in a pound.   8 lbs is about a huundred bucks..    a load of 12.6 grains of AA #5 in a 44 mag will get you about 1200 fps with a 250 grain semi wadcutter.  It is only twice as much for powder if you use WW296

I have a couple thousand 44 cases (they last a long time) and maybe 14,000 45 cases.

I also like plinking with 44's because I don't leave brass around.   Slob shooting angers people against our sport.

I never said that the price of 44's was the same per box as 22's I simply said that since I shoot so many more 22's to get my fix that it ends up costing about the same.

lazs
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« Reply #57 on: December 21, 2006, 11:15:39 PM »
Kreb's Custom AK74M

Bushmaster 16" barrel AR15
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« Reply #58 on: December 22, 2006, 07:45:11 AM »
This is my favorite fun plinker gun. A Ruger 10/22 modified in a Krinker Plinker. :D [/url][/IMG]
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« Reply #59 on: December 22, 2006, 07:47:55 AM »
It's great here where I live in Minnesota. The "woods" is my backyard. I can open my window from my kitchen and release tension.
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