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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 6, 2013 - 10:28pm PT
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They made some good ones. (OK should have said "formerly Commie")
I just picked up a cheap (cost = less than current cost of 600 rds of ammo) 9mm made by a 40 year old Bulgarian company
http://www.arcus-bg.com/
the 98DA takes best features of a Browning Hi-Power, a CZ 75, and an IMI Baby Eagle and shamelessly rips them off.
The DA trigger pull is stout, but SA is very sweet, crisp and about 5lbs.
I haven't tried it out but I took it apart inspecting fit and finish and I'm really impressed.
I now have guns from more than a dozen different countries (my excuse for buying it).
A friend of mine who is a gunsmith took apart a Norinco 1911 and made a similar observation.
Any theories as to why the commies, who couldn't seem to compete with free enterprise, still made great guns?
The greatest battle rifle of all time was designed by a guy who never made a ruble off of the 57 million plus units made.
edit;
knew you'd like it, moano
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monolith
climber
SF bay area
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Yippie, another gun thread. Thanks, Toker.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Coolest weapon ever made:
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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1 word, 1 word for the graduate: VEPR 12.
It's a 12 ga shotgun built on the AK platform by Russian weapon mfg Molot.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2013 - 11:16pm PT
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Jim, my last shooting partner made three nice groups in round bullseye targets, but didn't want to fire at a silhouette reactive target because according to her "it looks too much like a person".
You are projecting your assumptions.
Not everybody who has guns has homicidal fantasies.
So leave me alone, I gotta get back to watching Red Dawn,..
edit for kenny; they own guns. It might NOT be safe.
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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I gotta get back to watching Red Dawn,..
Is it safe to say that most people who own guns share that fantasy?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Toker...The Ruskies have a long history of being invaded...Remember that short frog and the altar boy with the funny caterpillar under his nose...? ...After decades of this harassment , the commies finally got fed up and fought back....
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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there has to be a gun lovers forum somewhere, posting this here is f*#king lame.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Ron, why don't you start "The Mother Of All Gun Threads"
Kinda like what Craig did with the "Why are republicans wrong" thread. It'll provide
a place for people who love (or hate) guns to have their conversation, and will
keep new gun threads from popping up all the time.
And no, I don't hate guns. But not everybody here shares your lust/fantasy.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Ron, if you ever want to come visit in Canada, you shouldn't be bored!. Between myself and a couple of my neighbors in the surrounding acreages, we have 4 'ranges' up to 1600 yards, 5+ .50cal and more than 200 other toys. Enough plinking fun for days!
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Two of my Russian firearms.
Both semi-auto Chambered in 7.62x39mm
The AK-47's Grandfather and Grandson.
1953 Russian Tula factory SKS
2006 Saiga Izhmash Factory IZ 132
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2013 - 12:16am PT
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Lila,
if you spell it with a W it is not nearly as interesting.
Not a great fan of the SKS, but I'm into Saigas and AKs in general.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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A (climbing) friend has both a Mosin 91 rifle and that ubiquitous pistol - the Makorov. He's let me shoot them more than once. Both dirt cheap, highly reliable and amazingly accurate for the money you pay. Mosins were going for under a hundred bucks.
Good stuff.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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'White Feather' was happy the trigger pull of the Mosin Nagant M91/30 PU Sniper was a little
heavier than his Winchester Model 70.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2013 - 12:11pm PT
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Drones fly too high to shoot at with guns, but I have a book on backyard rocketry with detailed schematics for building a rocket with payload potential and an IR sensor that controls fin servos, making it a missile that seeks the heat of a drone engine.
Then I have another book with details of a proximity fuse.
We have the technology,...
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Urizen
Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
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The rest of us will be all right until the poor learn to build atom bombs in their basements. --Charles Bukowski
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Maybe a bit OT but I had dinner Sat with an old friend whose credentials are
beyond reproach and he told me that the Air Force, in their inimitable wisdom,
was seriously surprised when they found out that the Taliban was tapping
into our drones' un-scrambled video feeds. I guess 'hubris' is not a
word in the Air Force's vocabulary.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Does a Yugoslav Mauser count as a Communist arm?
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