The Gunsmith Thread

At the gun store we have no rules for brass. You can pick it up and take it with you if you want, or you can leave it on the floor and the folks who work there periodically squeegee it out of the way and into the range where it is picked up at the end of the day.

Nobody picks up their brass. I mean nobody. The availability of free once-fired brass is one of the reasons I have my fun job. :)
I'll take advantage of that the few times I am alone at my club's range. I'll also scrounge up fired rounds when I can for casting. But there very, very few moments where I am actually alone. You make me jealous!
 
I'll take advantage of that the few times I am alone at my club's range. I'll also scrounge up fired rounds when I can for casting. But there very, very few moments where I am actually alone. You make me jealous!
I shoot at an outdoor range, during the packing up phase, I go brass farming, picking these valuable components of "freedom seeds" out of the gravel and grass. Makes my back hurt, but ibuprofen is cheaper than one piece of even 9mm brass
 
For those of us who are a certain age, that front sight's been a little fuzzy lately,so I ordered prescription ballistic shooting glasses. They came the other day & I can't wait to see what I've been missing;)
 
Don't know about you, but that 1st shot with a firearm, especially a rifle, where my face is inches away from a XXX,000 lbs/sg. in. explosion; I'm...thinking about it...not gonna lie. After that one goes off, I'm good...weird...
That's why I can't imagine shooting w/o ballistic eyewear. Be safe everyone!
 
Don't know about you, but that 1st shot with a firearm, especially a rifle, where my face is inches away from a XXX,000 lbs/sg. in. explosion; I'm...thinking about it...not gonna lie. After that one goes off, I'm good...weird...
That's why I can't imagine shooting w/o ballistic eyewear. Be safe everyone!
Out of sight... From a post I did in the Dad joke thread...

Here's one handed down to me I always used during safety briefs at the BSA rifle range:
"Okay boys, you have to wear your eye protection and hearing protection. You only have one set of each and you have to keep them in good working condition. If you do something unsafe on the range it could cost you or one of your buddies an arm or a leg, the price of an eye is out of sight and you don't even want to hear what an ear costs."
I always smiled when they repeated it on the firing line to remind their buddy to put their eye shields or ear muffs on.
 
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I got some Colibri rounds to shoot out of my Amphibian. These are only 20 grain lead projectiles with no powder.
You can literally shoot them indoors into a BB gun trap. They only have a primer in the rim, but they are still accurate. I only shot them at 20 feet, but they probably are accurate out a little further. Photo below shows the Colibri on the right, next to a .22LR on the left.

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They won't cycle the bolt, so you have to cycle each round by hand, but with the integral suppressor and the bolt closed, the ONLY THING YOU HEAR IS THE BULLET HITTING THE PAPER TARGET.

I am not kidding. It is really, really cool. I giggled a little bit.
 
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I got some Colibri rounds to shoot out of my Amphibian. These are only 20 grain lead projectiles with no powder.
You can literally shoot them indoors into a BB gun trap. They only have a primer in the rim, but they are still accurate. I only shot them at 20 feet, but they probably are accurate out a little further. Photo below shows the Colibri on the right, next to a .22LR on the left.

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They won't cycle the bolt, so you have to cycle each round by hand, but with the integral suppressor and the bolt closed, the ONLY THING YOU HEAR IS THE BULLET HITTING THE PAPER TARGET.

I am not kidding. It is really, really cool. I giggled a little bit.
James Bond quiet. Cool stuff!
 
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I got some Colibri rounds to shoot out of my Amphibian. These are only 20 grain lead projectiles with no powder.
You can literally shoot them indoors into a BB gun trap. They only have a primer in the rim, but they are still accurate. I only shot them at 20 feet, but they probably are accurate out a little further. Photo below shows the Colibri on the right, next to a .22LR on the left.

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They won't cycle the bolt, so you have to cycle each round by hand, but with the integral suppressor and the bolt closed, the ONLY THING YOU HEAR IS THE BULLET HITTING THE PAPER TARGET.

I am not kidding. It is really, really cool. I giggled a little bit.
I've used CCI Quiets before in my Marlin 39A's - one is a pre-1983, one is a post-1983. In the post-1983 you can actually hear the hammer rebound and the hammer spring making whatever onomatopoeic sound springs make. Really an odd thing.
 
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I put Geissele trigger/hammer sets in AR-15s all the time for customers. The one I put in last night for a guy, cost $280.

For a trigger.

In an AR-15.
 
I put Geissele trigger/hammer sets in AR-15s all the time for customers. The one I put in last night for a guy, cost $280.

For a trigger.

In an AR-15.
I guess there's ARs and then there's ARs... I was never one to buy top anything in any sport that I take part in. I buy good stuff, but not top stuff. The way I figure, I'm not talented enough to justify the cost (although that JP captured spring seems very, very cool...)

My deer rifle is a Rem Model 7 in 7mm-08. I get a consistent 3/4" group at 100 yards with my handloads. I use a decent Bushnell 2-7x. A guy at the range was trying to educate me in getting a $1000 Zeiss scope to make my group smaller. For a deer rifle. In PA, where I never took a shot past 75 yards my entire life.
 
Expensive optics don't make a better shooter, in my opinion. Only practice and really consistent handloads produce tighter groups.
A 3/4" group is perfect, especially when all you need is one shot.
 

VOX.com said:
...Driving is the most dangerous thing most Americans do every day. Virtually every American knows someone who’s been injured in a car crash, and each year cars kill about as many people as guns and severely injure millions...

There it is.
"Car violence".

They actually say that "cars kill". At last, equality in reporting!
I'm looking forward to new compiled statistics on ladder violence, power tool violence, and water violence (drowning).
 
Expensive optics don't make a better shooter, in my opinion.
THIS ^^^ may be my favorite sentence in this entire thread! It is true on so many levels.

Question: if you are dialed in to a 3/4" group at 100 yards how does that translate to 200, 300, 400 yards? In other words, at what point (when aiming center mass) do you stray outside the kill zone?

Consistent loads, trigger control, breathing fundamentals, and as @THParent notes - lots of practice - are what tighten up groups.
 
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