Still looking for info/advice about making synthetic stocks at home. Fiberglass, carbon fiber, resin, foam, that kind of thing, not nylon.Previous: >>64933822
>>65049127It's dead for current military use, but like .30-06 there's a bunch of surp on the market and it's still popular for civilian hunting. It's far from a rare cartridge, the ammo is easy to find.
>>65049095Email Vortex.
What's the modern equivalent to Snake's Mac-10? A masterpiss arms Mac-10 clone? Or is there something better? I would also want some sort of folding wire stock.
>>65048045damn
>>65049127It was slowly fading from relevance for decades, but recently had an upswing in popularity, at least in Europe where it's a common round for boar hunting.Pretty much any and all full size Euro-made hunting rifles are available in 8x57, it's on roughly the same level of popularity as .30-06
Brass goblin editionI'm going to dry tumble the 9mm soon.
Lee undersized dies are awesome!The brass failed even after being resized with my RCBS die. Lee "U" die and they're good to continue with the rest of my brass.Unsure if I'm going to do all of my .357 brass in them like I do my .45 Autos, we'll see.
>>65048887>The brass failedI'm sorry, I am pretty new to reloading. Can you elaborate on the problem and how the undersized die solved it?
>>65046693OAL will probably be right near or at maximum, the bullet is .605", and I'm not sure on the charge. I want to say 37 grains of H110 because that's about 120% of a max load, or unofficial +P+ territory, but I know I could easily be dealing with a fucked pressure curve and end up with 200% pressure and one less eye. Especially counting weird powder compression with the hollow base
>>65048178I'll just say I've never reloaded for the 303 but it's pretty notorious to reload here in NZ where it used to be a very popular deer cartridge and also the hornady manual speaks of it's difficulty
>>65022845Late response but thanks a bunch. I didn't consider the 550 at first because the manual indexing didn't seem that great to me. Looks like it really is the best if you're loading multiple cartridges and not pumping out 500+ rounds at a time.Think I'll go with the 550 by virtue of the cheaper conversion costs and shorter changeover time. Especially for loading a slew of rifle cartridges as well.From what I can gather you use one powder measure for multiple toolheads as well. How do you adjust the powder bar? Thinking those absolute position adjustment knobs would be pretty handy.
Hand loading handguns edition!Guide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNikhttps://hodgdonreloading.com/rldc/ -free load data for anyone who wants ammo independence! Previous >>65035332
>>65049186Federal syntec defense is cheaper and actually does what retards think the G2 RIP does.
>>65049360I hadn’t checked this out before, both are pricy but this one isn’t called “prison ass rape for defending against nigs” will look more into it.
I like the gold dot in particular
Happy Easter, I like 124 HST myself
>>65047355what finnish guy? t.finnish guy
any excuse to post sharp objects is a good one.here's the finnish puukko. comes in many varieties, often with regional variations depending on very local craftsmen from small villages. this example is probably from härmä desu.
>>65049177What's with the cloth around the guard?
>>65049183A Portepee. Originally it was a simple loop fixed to a sword and slung around the wrist that helped with retaining a sword. But it evolved into a military rank insignia by the 17th and 18th centuries.
>>65038022likely maybe, two of the examples in his post (middle and right) were from a swiss museum
>>65049170>Carl EickhornCompany still exists btwBöker produces a "swiss dagger" that is basically a nazi dagger without the markings. At some point they even had the 30s era böker marking on them, until people called them out on the obvious dogwhistling.
>>65009188> heid hob i gleant dassnice interesting to know, kinda remind me of the opinel knifes
photographs of flying boats and floatplanes
>>65049420Kawanishi you say...
There are very few things Kawasaki Heavy Industries don't make.
>>65049442
I have not been paying attention to the pump-action/semi-auto shotgun scene in like a decade. I have my Over-under duck-.hunter and so far it has been fine enough. But recently I have been thinking that I might want to upgrade to either pump-action or semi-auto model. And since I have not been paying attention, I have little knowledge about "how good is the tech" and "What are the models worth considering".Like, I have had this old (admittedly unfair and biased) view that semi-autos are unreliable and you should at least demand a back-up pump-action feature. But I recognize that these days semi-autos can be considered reliable and I shoudl rid myself of these biased thoughts. So... What are the modern standards for a semi-auto shotguns (with possible "this pump-action is still better" options)?Key categories: 1) The unassuming "basic bitch" models that are reliable and will pass the innocent "it's just a duck-hunting gun" test. The relatively inexpensive ones.2) Gucci bling models, where it's still a "hunting model, but a fancy one". can be with extra features.3) "The Tacticool option", where you have pistol grips, extended mags, rails, bells and whistles. I am not looking for some "home defense model", but since the world is getting to be a bit more dangerous these days, options for such can not be overlooked. Give me your selection of decent shotties.
>>65048286Assuming you're talking about normal shotgun things like hunting or shooting clays a break-action double is the ultimate. Pump guns and semis are downgrades. Double guns have a number of advantages.-the second shot is instantaneous and cannot jam, misfeed, or short-stroke-the second shot is instantaneous even if the first shot is a dud or some kind of mechanical failure-you can have two different chokes in the same gun at the same time and can choose which one to use for a given shot-the presence of a bolt wastes space in a pump or double gun. Getting rid of the bolt means you can have longer barrels for the same overall length, or you can have the same barrel length as a pump/semi but in a shorter better-handling package.Now that said, cheapo doubles suck, so if you have some flavor of turkshit then you can absolutely do better.>semis are unreliableIMHO this is a meme. I own several semi shotguns and all of them happily cycle everything from cheap target loads to the magnum hunting stuff. I wouldn't consider semis to be unreliable, except of course turkshit.>options for such can not be overlooked.A semi-auto rifle is a much better fighting weapon. The "shotguns for home defense" meme is literally decades old. It came from a time when Semi rifles like AR's were rare and expensive. That is not the situation today.
>>65048286Benelli M4 for more tacticool, Benelli M2 for more practicool.
>>65048286Beretta > Benelli > Mossberg > everyone else.
>>65048820Rizzini > Perazzi > Benelli > Beretta > Fabarm > Franchi > Fair > Mossberg > everyone else > Norinco semis > Turkshit
How deep does the chicom military cope go? This is bullshit, right? Doesn't the US have a bunch of tungsten here in Alaska?
>>65047908>Is there some sort of centrifugal Earth rotation bullshit going that all the valuable resources are pushed up north?The ancient inland sea is what brought all the oil and gas to the dakotas and Saskatchewan (and all the dinosaur bones).America has similar resources to canada but they are all 10 miles underground. In canada the glacier withdrawl from previous ice ages scraped away miles of rock and tore shit up while churning everything up, like a super erosion event, so rich mineral deposits are found as shallow as just 50 feet underground. Ancient glaciers covered canada, unlike the US, which makes it a mining utopia.
>>65048112> cheap labor and practically zero environmental regulations that would undercut anything Solvable if there's a will.>subsidize local production>outsource to some african shithole instead of china>targeted import taxes based on the differential regulatory environment>diversify imports>move the polluting industries to some worthless desert region and locally relax regulations. something something special economic zone
>>65048696Because of glacier damage, a large percentage of Canada doesnt even have topsoil, so mineral exploration is sometimes as easy as "look down while walking".
>>65048753>subsidies and tariffsBoth need string attached, because ceteris paribus already internationally uncompetitive companies are just going to treat tariffs as as extra product margin and continue doing the same garbage.>outsource to some african shithole instead of chinaChina has the unique combination of being smart, very hard working, and cheap (even if SEAs like the Vietnamese have taken some of the low value manufacturing that used to be in China). African locals are, as a rule, not particularly smart or hard working. You will run into issues and underperformance if you think the Congolese are fungible with the Vietnamese.>>move the polluting industries to some worthless desert region and locally relax regulations. something something special economic zoneDoesn't work outside a communist dictatorship that can just set up a Tankograd and force people to move there. It needs to have a geographic logic and a decent quality of life. Shenzhen, for example, enjoys basically the same geographic advantages of Hong Kong. American rural hospitals, from the other side of this issue, struggle to attract doctors with massive bonuses because people ambitious, educated, and driven enough to become a doctor generally dislike small town life.
>>65047029>Really the only thing holding back Canadas supply is environmental laws, which China doesn't care about so China floods the market at lower cost minerals while their rivers are filled with blind fish.And natives, they regularly go out of their way to fuck things up and stop industrial progress.>demanded that any time animal habitats were disturbed during the trans mountain pipeline construction, an expert had to be flown in to assess, and would regularly sneak out onto sites to plant store bought eggs under almost finished sections>showed up and attacked an equipment yard working on the project, firing shots at workers and security while smashing up equipment>regularly refuse to engage in any discussions on any project going anywhere near their land unless they get the overwhelming majority of revenue (which goes straight into the pockets of some tribal cheif and never actually ends up used to improve their community) only to around and makes shit up to get the company working on it kicked out, claiming the project just for it to never be finished>will demand that different projects hire mostly people from the reserve, only for them to be mostly chronic alcoholics and fent zombies, resulting in progress grinding to a halttl;dr, the reason Canada doesn't exploit most of it's natural resources is because the natives want more gibs and the current government can and will take it up the ass from themt. worked watching a number of sites near reserves
Why dont modern powers mass produce a mid effective and reliable not fancy manpad made entirely to bring down drones and cruise missiless.Russia could mass produce a slightly better version than the strela which Is around 5k cost to manufacture and it could be used anywhere from anti drone to anti fpv to anti cruise missile.Yet they dont seem to be doing it for some reason.If the bases attacked by spider web had a few manpads and guys with shootguns trying to slow down the drones instead of throwing rocks at them the outcome would have been very different yet they didnt for some reason.Also we ve seen ukranian succesfuly intercept slow low Flying cruise missiless with stingers, they even minched russian helos and some were used on their jets.You could even just strap them to a vehicle or helicopter and link them to a thermal camera to aquire the target and just let them do their work afterwards
>>65049341manpadsit's not plural
>>65049341Are MANPADS even capable of targeting/tracking/hitting small FPV drones?I suppose they make sense for Shaheds/Gerans which are largeish and fly at cessna speeds
>>65049359>As previously reported by TSAMTO, in November 2018, the Indian Ministry of Defense selected the Russian 9K338 Igla-S MANPADS>The cost of selling 5,175 missiles and 800 launchers was previously estimated at $1.5 billion.$290000 per missile.
>a mid effective and reliable not fancy manpad made entirely to bring down drones and cruise missiless.Something that does ok against a Shahed won't be all that cheap. Something that does well against cruise missiles really won't be cheap. Something that works well against an incoming lancet or FPV drone... you don't have the time to bring a MANPAD to bear on it before it hits so the MANPAD's performance is rather moot there.>Russia could mass produce a slightly better version than the strela which Is around 5k cost to manufacture When someone's behaviour doesn't make sense given your assumptions about what they can do a pretty basic first step is to go back and check if those assumptions actually hold true.
>>65049395Igla is probably the most advanced Russian manpad. comparable to the best NATO manpads
Do you hunt and trap animals for food? I want to try wild hog meat.
>>64996997Good honest post anon but just remember when u ethically kill a deer for example and can use it to feed yourself and your family your not putting money into the industrial meat production industry
This is the entry wound from a 150 grain (if i recall) 30-06 from about 30 yards...no exit wound...deer dropped in its tracks
>>65046359That's huge damage.I've been meaning to try out some sst in my creederino but apparently eldx is better so I'm trying that first
>>65045635Just be careful with those around pets. Fuckers are often filled with worms.
>>65048128Yuck. My dogs fetch them for me, they get wormed though
Just spent the last day finally finger fucking one of these. From an engineering perspective it is cracked.>creative, unique striker system due to space limitations. For instance, the disconnector is actuated by a cut in the slide>Managed to make it locked breech and have all of the standard safeties you'd expect from a striker fired gun>The size cannot be articulated until able you hold it in hand. It makes micro-9's like the 43x and shield plus feel like full sized steel frame wonder-9s when held side by side. It's smaller than a Glock 42 for fucks sake>full firing grip which still doesn't make any sense to my brain. They cut the slide height down so much that overall height is that of a two-finger gun, but you can build a full grip on it. Bore axis is as low as those $5k meme guns tier>these are honorable mentions but good sights, good slide serrations, good grip texture, adequate trigger and $350 new goes a long way.Big props to the design team. A pocket gun that simultaneously has 13 rounds of .380 and a full-sized grip is literally the most retardedly insane thing I can't emphasize that enough. If they could make one in .32 with like 13 rounds flush it would probably be the greatest firearm made this century.Unfortunately, it has Smith & Wesson levels of QC.
>>65048475That's (You)r job not mine
>>65048552Jokes on (you) I just wanted more (you)s
I feel like you could have used better slang to share the same sentence as “engineering perspective,” but yes, it’s impressive.
>>65048583that's ok anon, I've posted a few of LG/Chris' helpful videos on here and nobody pays attention(best one he did recently was the one on FBI+10 mm)
>>65003044>Smith & Wesson levels of QCThey're beating Glock these days, tons of those are coming off the shelf with issues. I didn't even know there were S&W haters, they make solid guns and shit on a lot of their competition.Don't mistake a pocket gun as a fullsize. It's not meant to be like one, nor can it ever perform or be as comfortable as a fullsize. It's meant to fit in your pocket. It's just a big pocket gun and it does a good job at its role.
Easter Sunday EditionAnon's guide for beginners, text and figureshttps://rentry.org/sa6c4mVicious' TL;DR V3.1 with annotations [A2Grip]https://files.catbox.moe/91lvkc.jpgPrevious>>65032744Submissions for the next holiday collage will be accepted now. For best results, use higher contrast backgrounds. Cropped, poorly lit or cluttered images might be rejected. Please limit one per anon. If time or space were to become a constraint, these rules will be enforced strictly! Ganbatte~
>>65049277>why would I get a subsidized helicopter tour?Perma-b& from life for over 9000 counts of shitting up threads on /k/.
>>65049291>over 9000You mistake me for some troon
>>65049304>accused of shitting up threads>proceeds to ineptly deflect accusations, highlight his bizarre tranny-obsession, shitting up the thread, probably trying to start some retarded off-topic verbal slapfight about trannies
>>65049337You clearly weren't here for the multi-year troonpocalypse sagaProduce your evidence, faggot. I'm going outside to enjoy the weather
>>65049189>working on Sundaycouldn’t be me, a loyal servant of the Lord
/frtssg/ - Forced Reset Trigger & Super Safety GeneralPrevious:>>64899646What are FRTs:Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) are firearm modifications that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly by automatically resetting the trigger after each shot, while still requiring a trigger pull for each round. They increase the rate of fire without converting the firearm into a fully automatic weapon.AR-15 is the most ubiquitous platform with the most amount of options. Other platforms have other nuances.See it action:https://youtube.com/@juiceymedia1https://youtube.com/@poorboyarmshttps://youtube.com/@printshootrepeatDistributors:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65049369https://youtu.be/vScrwoDWfBYlooks like poorboyarms got it from someone named toadlickerthe files are available for print and advanced reset tech is making a metal version at some pointBe careful though, this is still in beta and OOB can occur
>>65049393>>65049369correction, looks like poorboy arms printed it himself, toadlicker made the design that you can print
>>65049398>>65049393>>65049369actually one more correction, he didnt print it himself, he got it from herehttps://1441recoilsystems.com/product/rip-mac-v2/
>>65049410One more correction, I would never buy from a dude named Toadlicker, Snake or Jennifer. But I will check the link.
>>65049425>check the link.OOS.
Consider the pervasiveness of data collection on firearms enthusiasts through government/corporate surveillance; any purchased component of something that is weaponizable is an automatic leak/red flag to the system.Your precious hydraulic tubes are all being watched and recorded as to who is buying them.This begs the question; are you a bad enough dude to forge your own barrels? How about homemade metallurgy and casting? Treatment of existing shapes to make them strong enough to withstand pistol pressure, let alone rifle pressure? If you can't source your own barrels in a way that doesn't arouse suspicion, then attempting avoiding surveillance through manufacturing your own weapons is impossible.Until this major hurdle is addressed, those championing 3d printing of weapons as a meaningful tool of political resistance are totally unserious and are shilling you gadgets.Also unaddressed is mass production and raw materials sourcing, enough to arm and supply a squad, let alone a platoon or battalion.The real force is not merely the gun, but the logistics behind it that deliver and supply more ammunition to enable it to keep shooting.
>>65048649Is that a faceplate extension or an inside jaw chuck? I’m guessing those are imperial ~1/16 UNC threads to adjust it? They have a deep root.
>>65044825>troons disgracing rhe uniformThe uniform's been disgraced since WWII.
>>65047277>>65047315You have a point. BUT. Lets analyze the situation a bit further. Let's talk about the psychology of acting out.There's a lot of war related activities which are borderline suicidal and people still do them. Saboteurs, assassins, spies, traitors, etc, the list goes on. It's usually because somebody smarter than them convinced them into a fallacy which made them agree to it. And part of that convincing is giving him a better edge, even if it's superficial. 007 has a bunch of bullshit gadgets not to save him from being tortured to death by counter intelligence, but to convince him that if it comes to that all is not lost. It'd make a really unpopular movie series if it was more realistic.That's a really good lesson and here's how it relates to this discussion. Even though the outcome is fairly obvious, people still like their extra odds. You want that extra bullet in your magazine. You want that large caliber gun. You want it shiny.So if you want to protect democracy and you want to protect liberties from, say, tyrants. Or... whatever, you just like guns. You want to make better things. A bunch of pipes taped together wont do, even if it reaches same ends.And in practice that's... that's not how it works, people don't go around popping their more or less elected officials because gasoline costs more today than yesterday. In practice, in peace time -- or rather in bearable times, these are range toys where applicable. Self-defence weapons where applicable. But it carries that... aura. In similar fashion as a AR15 touting mutt isn't going to fight the gubbament but instead is going to shoot empty cans of beer, he still wants to live that fantasy. "If it would come to that" rather than "this is what's going to happen".So while a muzzle loading firearm such as one used in assassination of Shinzo Abe is doable, it's not preferable. It lacks that sexy factor. It's not as "valid" in comparison to "real" things.
>>65049271I think people call it a "cat's head" fixture. you hold it with the regular outside jaws and it has 8 set screws to hold your work piece. I think the screws are 5/8-16. I don't have a collet chuck so I made this stupid jig to drill out the screws to press the brass tips in. it has a removable pin to keep the screw from backing out.
>>65045718How is this even related to what I said?>>65046978Yeah, slowly
Post weapons/ships/vehicles/equipment/whatever that was the ABSOLUTE PEAK... for all of 20 seconds.Example: Kropatscheks, Portuguese especially, were the absolute best rifles for a handful of years, and then rapidfire developments overtook it practically overnight.
>>65047250It's a heavy pig that has near zero recoil because of that and relatively modern controls but the rate of fire is a little anemicThat's my take from shooting an MP38 and MP40 before
>>65047181The cartridge perhaps, but the rifle itself was obsolete from its conception
>>65047181Rofl over the fact that the adoption of the lebel bogged the french small arms industry for the next 40 years
>>65047250MP40 isn’t even top 5
>>65039943fucking love the vetterli rifle
If mid-Cold War had sea skimming missiles but no reliable CIWS / SHORAD, how were ships expected to not die?
>>65046221Its a shame that, to my knowledge, no Soviet AShMs were ever fired in anger- wouldve been nice to know their capabilities beyond what the Soviets touted on paper
>>65049386What are you talking about? Styxes and Silkworms were fired in the Arab-Israeli wars and the Gulf War.
>>65049156Makes one wonder about designing something opposite of an arsenal ship- Something that carries no weapons but plenty of spaced armor/hulls meant to absorb lots of punishment without sinking.
>>65046221For the NATO? ECM, which those early active radar missiles were susceptible to, and combat air patrols. For Soviets? Die.
>>65049396In that case my knowledge has been expanded.
