I have a Marlin 336RC 30-30 Win. made in 1958. It is still dead on accurate at 50 yards with just a plain old leaf sight. The 336 is a side-eject with a flat-top receiver, meaning you can mount a conventional scope (and it comes pre-drilled for scope mounts!) The pistol grip stock is also more comfortable than the straight grip on a Winchester 94. The 336 is heavier than the 94, but I think this helps it better soak up the recoil. It points very well, and you can put it on a target quickly. 30-30 Win is also one of the most common cartridges in the USA and correspondingly one of the cheapest, and if you ever decide to go hunting, a 175g soft-nose bullet is more than capable of taking a deer. It is not a long-range rifle, but then again anything you're likely to want to shoot is going to be 100yds or less away. The 336 does have a problem with the 2-stage trigger Marlin uses being "floppy." You can wiggle it from side-to-side, even when the gun is cocked. This is due to the lever-close safety mechanism that keeps the gun from firing if the lever is open requiring a 2-stage trigger. It doesn't affect the functionality of the gun, but can take some getting used to. Wild West Guns has a single-stage trigger kit a gunsmith could install if the trigger flop bugs you. All in all, it's a short, handy gun, cheap to maintain and fire, and ridiculously fun to shoot. If I could keep only one gun, it would be the Marlin.
Prety much everything you just wrote is wrong in some way or another. First thing I want to know is why a shotgun is out of the question? Or revolvers?
It's hard to perform a diving roll into the defensive stance needed when using a shotgun, and how is he going to slam in multiple clips with a revolver?
I do not use the 30 round clips, I do have a very large number of 15 round mags for my glock 19's. That clip would make it very hard to conceal and there is really no need for it, in addition to that it is not a factory mag and the chances of problems increases when you put aftermarket shit into a gun. I still have a shit load of 30 round mags that I bought before Clinton dropped his happy horseshit ban on us in 1994, but I have since determined that I will be taking long range shots from a good hiding spot so I really don't care about high capacity- just shot selection.
This is a question that I've wondered about for quite a while. I've never touched a gun in my life, they're illegal here. Often when I'm bored at work or at home I fantasize about armed robbers coming in, or the UDA kicking down the door and me taking them on disarming them and then shooting them. If it ever happened I'd no doubt shit myself and scream like a girl, but I always wonder, if I did get hold of a weapon, would I know how to fire it. Like I presume often it's not as simple as just pulling the trigger. Would it be hard for me to work out how to cock and gun, and fire it or whatever?
I would assume that if someone kicked in your door, guns drawn that they would have their weapons ready to fire. If that's the case, it should be pretty easy to figure out. But if they have a safety on or didn't have one in the chamber, things could be a little more complicated. Having never held a gun and without being familiar with a slide release, mag release or safety, it could take you a few minutes to orient yourself. And if there are armed people in the room with you, probably a few minutes that you don't have.
While guns may be illegal, I'm going to assume that youtube videos of guns are not. In about 15 minutes you could learn how to assemble an AR (among probably a host of others) if you wanted to without ever touching one. Same goes for basic principles of gun handling and firing, which would include the different actions/safety mechanisms that you'd encounter. Note: In your dreams you might go all Chuck Norris and kick ass and pop off rounds--hell, in my dreams I can fly while banging super models and high-fiving Jet Li--but in real life, if you try to disarm anyone with any kind of training, you'll be shot, probably multiple times. I don't care how many youtube videos you watch, that will always be the case. Hopefully your dream doesn't come true.
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Guns have complex and well-engineered designs so you don't have to do much to fire them. Operating them becomes a matter of muscle memory after awhile. Training, getting shot at, etc. aside, I'd say using some is simply intuitive and the rest are easy to figure out with a bit of time.
Well, if you've watched enough movies you should have and idea of how to cock a gun or turn off the safety and if you've watched the Home Alone series closely enough you know exactly how to unarm any intruder.
It's good to know there's no distinction in your head between instructional videos and movies. I take it the training film "Office Space" has improved your filing of TPS reports?
The only gun videos I watch are the ones with big tittied women in 90's bikinis firing automatic weapons. It's hot and I learn how not to hold a automatic while firing.
Gun porn? It's called a Masterkey. A shotgun mounted underneath an automatic rifle. Swat teams use it for door breaching. I imagine you could use it for basically anything.
Just came home with my new toy. .40 Taurus, with a tactical light on the mount (for the ability to pop critters/hogs at night, that was worth the price I paid). 15 round mag plus one in the chamber; that'll work. Trigger pull is short and smooth, and despite it being a .40 cal (I was originally looking at the 9mm but for the same price I'd rather have more stopping/hunting power), the recoil is still light enough that the wife can handle it. $400 on the nose (minus tax, minus light). I'm pretty damn happy with it. The skunk I blasted tonight, however, is not.
Okay. I'm filling the pores so the stock is wet and slick. This little sucker has yet to receive a steel grip cap, inletted swivel studs, and last but not least- a checkered steel buttplate. All hardware hand polished and blued by yours truly. It's build for precision too- it's got a full-length bedding job and a 1/2" steel pillar installed and the fore-end is lined with carbon fiber. I am going to balance it to be ideal with an 18-20" barrel, which will make it wonderfully handy in the woods. Squirrels deserve to die with honor, ya know? If you want to have some fun, stop by a Cabela's the next time you're near one. The Gun Libraries are full of kickass guns of all types. I handled some lovely pieces in Omaha today.
I'll be celebrating the warm weather this week (45 on Wednesday!) by shooting a bunch of crap with a buddy. I've got an AK, he's got a brand spankin' shipped-in-on-Friday new Colt AR and we have a small mountain of ammo between us. What should we shoot? I've got rotten potatoes (don't ask), a pile of cheap soda cans, and some clay pigeons. Be creative and cheap if you can.