"I like guns, I like guns, I like guns"

[Serenity]

Thanks Nef! I honestly haven't made up my mind, I'm mostly going for the nicest rifle in my price range, and right now, the SKS is the high end.

I've been doing a bit of research on it and found this little bit of fun for the Yugo SKS: http://www.surplusrifle.com/reviews2006/fore/index.asp

[IamSalem]

People sell guns after they buy them?  

No difference to me, just another variant. If its the ethics thing try to understand all of these rifles wear some kind of badge of tyranny or oppression, some also rock the badge of freedom and revolution. Just so much history in every variant outside of the Chinese commercial variants as I mentioned.

Russians had the oppression in Gulags and secret police in East Germany, Romanians have the 1989 Revolution where they drug Ceauşescu out into the street an shot him against a wall. The ethnic clashes in the Balkans, and the worst of all being the Chinese Genocides.

The SKS has seen it all, it's got that been there done that feeling for sure.

If you really want to buy an SKS... Any SKS... Read this BBS... It is a dedicated SKS forum. http://www.sksboards.com/smf/index.php

Oooh! Time to register! Thanks for link! 

[Larry]

Here you go serenity   


http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=208756040

[Motherland]

Russia is Asia.

Tula is in European Russia, it looks like Izhevsk is, too.

[cattb]

Topic is on guns. Here is a video of a guy who shoots very fast. The fastest gunman.
http://www.wimp.com/fastestgunman/

[Jayhawk]

lol. Only after a 1911

I feel ya man, those 1911s get me thinking every time I'm at the gun shop.

[Becinhu]

Unless you buy a knock-off a good 1911 will run you around a grand, at least around here it will.

[Serenity]

Unless you buy a knock-off a good 1911 will run you around a grand, at least around here it will.

New-production GI 1911s are running around $550-$600 wherever I've seen them. Again though, those are new productions.

[Becinhu]

The cheapest older production 1911 I have personally seen around here was $950 and it looked like a tank ran over, thought he missed and backed up. The nearly mint 1911 at Cabela's in the gun library was over 2k.

[Serenity]

The cheapest older production 1911 I have personally seen around here was $950 and it looked like a tank ran over, thought he missed and backed up. The nearly mint 1911 at Cabela's in the gun library was over 2k.

Again, those are the old productions. I'd love one, and eventually plan to get one, but I'd get a new production first, because it's affordable, lol.

[EskimoJoe]

Again, those are the old productions. I'd love one, and eventually plan to get one, but I'd get a new production first, because it's affordable, lol.

I'd say there's nothing wrong about having a new production 1911.. As long as it's not chromed out or all silver or something silly like that... yuck!

[Serenity]

I'd say there's nothing wrong about having a new production 1911.. As long as it's not chromed out or all silver or something silly like that... yuck!

Couldn't agree more! I've never like the shiney or the tacti-cool. I prefer the good old fashioned GI look.

[Guppy35]

Bought the GI 45 for my son a while back.  Nice gun

http://www.springfield-armory.com/armory.php?clicktype=1911

[fbWldcat]

I'm trying to decide on either a lever-action 30-30 or a bolt action 30-06 for deer. I've already killed the thought of getting a shotgun, as I never go bird hunting. So yeah, 30-30 or 30-06? I need help deciding because I'm just at a standstill.

[Becinhu]

I'm trying to decide on either a lever-action 30-30 or a bolt action 30-06 for deer. I've already killed the thought of getting a shotgun, as I never go bird hunting. So yeah, 30-30 or 30-06? I need help deciding because I'm just at a standstill.

Depends on the ranges you are planning to shoot at. Anything inside of 200 yards a .30-30 is excellent. Also, with flatnosed bullets deer don't run far if you hit bone. The .30-06 is a popular round (I have both) but I have had more deer run off and have to be tracked with the .30-06 than I ever did with a .30-30. I switched to flatnose .30-06 rounds in 180 grain a few years ago and it has eliminated the problem. However, in most average hunting scenarios .30-06 is overkill for whitetails. If you ever plan to hunt out west the .30-06 , .270, or .300 are great longe range calibers.