Guns and Ammo Thread

Agreed. I use a regular stone on good knives. I have no idea what brand it is as it's like 20 years old. I learned how to use one in the Boy Scouts and it's a skill I'm very glad to have learned.

The Lansky got inherited and while it works very well, it's kind of a pain to set up.

 

I have no idea what brand my dads are, but he has a dual sided wet stones. One is red, the other side is grey. One is a medium and one is fine. It comes in a sleeve with Japanese writing on it. And man do they work great.

 

I learned in the Boy Scouts as well, but had to re-learn as an adult. Thankfully, a good friend is a well-known knifemaker and gave me a class in his shop when I visited a few years ago. The axes in his shop are sharper than most people's shaving razors.

 

Brownells sells 3.5 years worth of magazines in 36 hours.

 

Can one of the Canadian board members, or perhaps simply someone who has better Google-Fu than I point me in the direction of a reliable site that lists the percentage of households in Canada that have a firearm?

I am finding numbers that range from as little as 10% to as high as 26%.

 

Any FFLs in here willing to help me out? This other forum I'm on is doing an order from Del-Ton for AR-15 lowers, but Del-Ton won't ship to California. I'd have to get some FFL elsewhere in the USA to buy the lowers, then send them to a California FFL.

 

Which forum are you looking at for DTI lowers? I'm in the market for one as well.

 

Where the hell did you find anything from Del-ton in stock? As far as I've seen, every item on their website is on permanent back order.

 

Anyone make their own ammo in here?

What was your main reason for doing so? Price? Reliability?



My understanding is that the amount you save is minimal and it's more over controlling your firepower.

 

I am getting started. I just want to produce consistent rounds every time, once I find the most accurate loads for my rifles. My main hunting rifle is extremely accurate now but I would love to be able to get better groups and be able to reproduce that every time. Just can't get that with off the shelf ammo.


I do plan to eventually upgrade my equipment to produce pistol rounds in large quantities.

 

I am just now starting to reloading because I purchased a rifle in .35 Whelen a few months back and factory ammo is expensive as fuck, just waiting on some equipment I ordered to come in and I'll start giving it a go. I imagine I will start for my other rifles as well.

 

Custom order/group-buy thing. Not sure how long it'd take to make it, but we were quoted at like $78 + S&H. I was wanting to get two rifle receivers (with Bullet Buttons) and if possible two pistol receivers (that would enter the State of California as single-shot pistols thanks to a Bullet Button and a zero-round "sled" magazine), but I've yet to find an FFL up for doing that. Any of you know a FFL who'd be up for doing that and what their rates for transfers/assembly are?

 

I know i don't really contribute to this thread but i used to shoot IPSC for fun and not take it to seriously. But i am doing renovations and don't have time to go out and my reader is boxed up. I can't wait to get my basement setup so i can mount my reloader.

But my main reason for reading is price. When you go through 200+ rounds in a day when you go shoot you can't afford to buy the ammo from a store.

 

That's going to be tough, because it resembles a straw purchase and California has their own state requirements with their DOJ letter where they certainly seem to be keeping their own record of what is coming in and out of their state, even if it is just X number of handguns and X number of long guns. That alone is going to be a pretty strong deterrent for most dealers. I would check with the people who are doing the group buy and see if you can piggyback your order with theirs, then they take the responsibility of sending the guns to your FFL. It's still sketch as hell even though it's going from dealer to dealer. I see what you're doing and it makes sense. However, as a dealer, I wouldn't do it.

 

Went to a gun show today just to check prices, couldn't touch a bare bones AR for less than 2k, cheapest mag I saw was 50 bucks.

I was half looking for a used Kel-Tec SU-16c but I am going to be putting that shit on hold until this panic buying/gouging dies off.

 

I do, and it's a combination of price savings, better accuracy, and having another hobby. I end up spending the same amount on ammo as I did before, but I get to shoot more. I've also been able to do things to tailor my ammo to my specific firearms that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise. For example, I have a 1909 Argentine Mauser that was re-chambered to .30-06. The barrel is still the original, so it's sized for .311 bullets instead of the .308 that the .30-06 uses. To make it shoot more accurately, I use a combination of dies to seat oversize .311 bullets into my .30-06 cases. That was a much cheaper solution than replacing the barrel.

I also enjoy the time I spend reloading, it's nice to just sit at the bench and reload a few hundred rounds.

Another nice side effect of reloading is that because it's always more cost effective to order components in bulk, I usually end up with a lot of loaded ammo on hand, which I don't mind. Also, periodic ammo shortages like the ones right now don't matter to me because if I need ammo, I have all I need at home to load more up. I buy powder in 8lb jugs, which is enough to load at least 10,000 pistol rounds or 2,500 rifle rounds. I have more than enough components on hand to last until this buying frenzy ends.

 

I bought my lower about a week before the shooting from a local armory here north of Houston. It was a custom build that the seller made for himself but didnt end up needing. It's beautiful. I went on gunbroker about a week after the shooting and picked up the upper reciever for about $550. I had to get it sooner than I wanted but because of the panic, I knew I needed to act fast. Thank baby Jesus I did because now everyone is sold out and what's left is gouged to high hell.

I also got my mags on there. 3 for $50. Now they are that much a piece.

 

I have a connection with a guy who owns a CNC mill and has a program for AR lower receivers, so I might just have to pay him a visit and make myself a lower.

To Hell with Feinstein's bill. Good luck passing that turd. This is just priceless... "Indicating the depth of her research on the issue, she said on Dec. 21st that she had personally looked at pictures of guns in 1993, and again in 2012."

In other news, I love my Buckmark. Way too much fun to plink with.