Remember when shooting was fun?
>>64468892>remember when shooting was funYes I do. But like with anything, your interests evolve and change. It’s natural and healthy.There may not be any fun gimmicks in the shooting world anymore but that doesn’t mean you can’t still have fun with it. Recently my buddy and I have been getting into long range ar shooting. Is it completely impractical to try and land a shot at 400+m with a suppressed 11.5” ar? Yes but it’s also super fun to compete. You just gotta find your niche bro
>>64468892You and me both brother
>>64468892Me too. >the halcyon days of 09 when surplus from the awb was in full supply and sandyhook and obama hadnt fucked it yet.>$140 for 1,100 round crate of surplus>sometimes thrown into a firearm deal as a sweetener for freeYeah. >zombie ammunition for fun>zombie targets and mannequins for funYeah. The 2010s were truly a dark and repugnant transition for society in general.
>>64468920Also 7.62 being dirt cheap and you can buy russian guns. Fuuuuck
>>64468892I've always been too cheap to enjoy shooting, I remember being annoyed my cousin shot the spam cans of steel core x54 I got him, those were meant to defend against aliums dammit.
>>64468920>>64468892>>64468936>2009>russian guns>cheap zombie themed ammoI wish id bought guns in 2009 instead of being 14 and lurking /k/
maybe its cuz you only shoot at indoor ranges and have no friends
>>64468905I think that what he's missing is that, while Z-Max was a fun little gimmick, it was also pretty good quality ammo which wasn't too expensive. Z-Max was plain V-Max without the nickel plated case.Ammo is so much more expensive now and it hurts (just like everything else, everything is more expensive and corporations are striving for greater and greater avarice every day). Coof ruined the world, not to completion, but things should not be this rough.
>>64468892Have you tried setting goals for yourself? Buy a shot timer and learn some drills and practice with the goal of improving until you can consistently get a time you want. You can also incorporate other outdoor activities (hiking, camping, kayaking, cycling in mountain passes, swimming, hunting, etc.) to "train" (add some variety in your fun activities).
>>64468892Still got a box of 45
>>64468920I don't know if its just nostalgia, but I swear things were allowed to just be "fun" back then. Maybe because the gun market, and other markets, were less intense and didn't need to focus so hard on staying alive and beating out competitors. Zombie culture was peak during the early 2000s all the way up to ~2010-2015. Walking Dead really brought zombie culture to mainstream, which was good for like a year. Then it quickly fell off, and pretty much ruined any chance of it recovering for decades. The main cause of this was hyper realism. I don't get a single fuck about how the human body should AKCHUALLY respond to decomposition and how most people will likely die from tainted water and minor infections. I just want to talk about the best ways to kill zombies and fortify my house and stack supplies.
>>64468892>the only book you'll ever need to survive the zombie outbreak
>>64469063If it makes you feel better my worst financial mistake was not buying a home when I was in the third grade
That era kinda sucked tho. 22lr shortages, 5.56 was just as expensive as it is now, pistols were pretty junk for sub $400 too
>>64469338God I love this book. I was in high school when this came out and let me tell you, when the library got a copy every young boy put their name on the wait list to check it out. Reading it now is laughable, but as all of us were noguns and gullible, it read like a manual based on fact. Still fun to read for nostalgia purposes.
No. I was 11 years and 6 days old with TWD came out.
>>64469317>but I swear things were allowed to just be "fun" back thenThat's the best way to put it. Companies were each doing their own thing and offering different features, and Beretta even hired the car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro to make the PX4/CX4 look cool. Then the post-2012 fear marketing took over the firearms market, military/LEO agencies decided the only thing they ever want is Glocks and ARs, and average private buyers followed. No more fun now, just strict utilitarianism because you need to FULFILL YOUR DUTY and WIN THE FIGHT.>>64469348>pistols were pretty junk for sub $400 tooThat is true, but in hindsight, it was a great pleb filter. You had to do your research or there was a risk of ending up with a paper weight right out of the case, but it's best for everyone that the quality floor has risen so much.
>>64469499yeah the AR/Glock craze made me sad. I grew up seeing movies with a wide range of guns that all looked so cool. But by the time I got my teens and early twenties, the actual stores just had a huge wall of AR variants and maybe one or two classic guns. Way out of my price range of course. Maximum efficiency and cheap manufacturing really ruined all the cool things. Design and beauty just have no place in our world anymore.
>>64468892I miss zmax. It was cheaper vmax with only the color of the polymer tip changed.
I remember when an nugget was $49.99
>>64468892I miss going to the range and being surrounded by boomers and nerds with nuggets. Now your surrounded by shitty zoomers with charms on their COD special.
>>64469285Indeed, however stuff being more expensive means you have to make the most out of the time you do get to spend with friends, if you can’t afford to shoot all the time still >20HKsLol
>>64469063You can buy cheap non imported gun kits right now and 9mm adjusted for inflation seems cheaper than its ever been.
>>64469827>non imported gun kitsExamples? I'm interested.
>>64469842I’m guessing he means the PPS-43 kits and stuff like that? Just google parts kits. The barrels are the hardest thing to get and you can easily convert them by getting a 9mm barel. Also, legally, have to convert to semi auto because they’re open bolt.
>>64469760It's funny, boomer used to be so apposed to plastics and modern guns. However, boomers are also famous for being mega cheapskates. So now that ARs and cheap plastic Chinese accessories are 1/10nth the price of good parts, most boomers I see at the range are using cheapshit plastic rifles, PCCs, and plastic accessories. Which makes sense when you look at the classic guns they bring to the range. They have the cheapshit of their generation. Cheap bolt actions, cheap milsurp, cheap range gear. They never actually valued "best" quality gun culture. They have always gone with the cheapest option.
>>64469338WWZ was such a great companion to that, real shame the movie was trash
>>64468892I thought the zombie fad was cringe as fuck back then but right now I would give anything to go back to these days.
>>64469885He said non-imported gun kits? Last time I checked pps-43 aren't US made nor are they cheap to build.
>>64469971I thought so too, and I still think that (those painted guns all looked like hot garbage), but I also don't mind people having some silly fun. To me, stuff like people replicating the Samurai Edge pistols from the Resident Evil games were always more aesthetically presentable 'zombie themed' weapons, though I do actually miss that Z-Max ammo.
>>64469910The book also kind of sucked, was filled with a lot of fudd shit. The survival guide he wrote before it was also a fudd manual.
>>64469285The best part of Z-max was that it was almost always a few dollars less expensive than the exact same V-max. It's like how you could get a discount on CCI minimags by buying the gator hunter from swamp people branded box.
>>64469842Everygunpart.comWait for a 30% or 40% off sale
>>64471176If you see something you like 20% or 25% is okay.
>>64469733I remember seeing pallets of the stuff at sporting good stores towards the tail end of the zombie craze. People just weren't buying it anymore because the gun market had been oversaturated with zombie-themed merch, and people were sick of it.Oh, how I wish I'd had the foresight to look past the "cringeworthy" design and stack it cheap and deep.
>>64470463>Troy Landry .22Holy shit I think I still have a few boxes of that lying around somewhere. I shot so much of it back in the day that I probably paid for Troy's new pirogue.
>>64471852It would be amazing if they’d make some boxes every Halloween. Why does the firearm industry absolutely suck at marketing? Outside of a few exceptions of course
>>64469522I'll always think that the 90s/2000s guns were the true peak of firearms design. That's the last time companies were putting real effort into the guns themselves instead of building just "good enough" guns to accept accessories and equip retarded military/police recruits.
