Has your taste in guns changed since you were younger? I used to like the G36 a lot when I was a teenager because of Hollywood and video games, it was the coolest rifle ever. Now that I'm almost 40, I find myself liking the SG 550 a lot more.
When i was a kid it was mote just a "guns are cool" thing for me. Now in my twenties it more of a "huh i wonder how that works" as i get attracted to increasingly weird guns and how to build them see pic related for a AR lower i saw some guy build and now i want to see if its a better way to manufacturer them. Also now i irrationally hate short barrel firearms. SBRs are fucking stupid be a man shoot the 20 inch barrel
>>65147900>littlehurrdurr, guns R cool>adulthurdurr guns R cool, but also sometimes wood
>>65147900I’ve never liked the SIG even though I love almost all AKs except Zenitco covered modern crap, I liked the G36 till I got an SL8, now I love it.
It hasn’t. There isn’t a single aspect I can point to besides maybe I like striker guns a bit more. That’s about it.
>>65147900I still like tacticool COD video game sci-fi shit, probably even moreso now.
>>65147900I used to think intermediate cartridges were all the rage thanks to vidya, as an adult I realize .308 is kind of a pussy round and marginally less comfortable to shoot. In retrospect I have no idea why we switched
>>65147900sg550 is the most beautiful ak ripoff its almost more beautiful than the ak itself, would totally get one if i find one for a good priceas for answering your question, used to love the g3 but grew out of it because of how hard they are to find in the states, now im just a whatevers affordable and unique kinda guy
>>65147900More that when I was younger the pattern was buying a lot of varying quality mostly milsurp guns and very little ammo for them, now that I'm older the pattern is just buying one high quality firearm to serve a particular role and actually stockpiling ammo for it.
>>65147900I got hooked on guns after reading the manual for the very first Call of Duty game. My love for vintage/world war guns hasn't faded.
>>65147900I'm 29 now. When I was 18 through my early 20s I was a big AK guy, had an SLR-106, 104 a WASR and a Vz58. Kinda wish I kept at least one. Still into milsurps, and military rifle clones. Good AKs were much easier to get in the early/mid 2010s of course. Optics on most of my rifles and specialty ammo like M118LR for my battle rifles is also something I have more of, but that's more or less because it's affordable for me now. I'd love to be able to get an SLR-106 for 1100 bucks still.
>>65149045>used to love the g3 but grew out of it because of how hard they are to find in the statesDo you mean like an HK91? You could always get a PTR. Most of them are literally just as good.
I'm the biggest HK fan on this board but the G36 is not one of Hecker & Koch's finer moments.SG 550 is preferable to it.
>>65150690Im guessing he wants an actual G3 otherwise hed mention that or a turk clone (its just as good!) anon, you know thats not true
>>65150700>G36 is not one of Hecker & Koch's finer moments.whats wrong with them? besides being fuck off huge and bulky?
>>65151228HK had three 1990s long gun designs based on the polymer receiver concept:>UMP>MP7>G36Of those, MP7 probably works the best; it's essentially a miniaturized G36 rifle with an in-grip magazine, but due to the small OAL dimension of the integral design it's not affected by the trunnion-melt in sustained fire of the larger long barrel rifle.UMP is second best because for a pistol caliber submachine gun with a relatively short barrel, it's more about durability and light weight than accuracy.The LMG variant of the G36 was dropped by the company due to accuracy issues in sustained fire field testing; heating of barrel, receiver transferred to trunnion mount.
>>65151261I would say you have that backwardsthe MP7 is a useless 50 yard gun built around a shit round that exists to spite belgiumthe UMP is a gun no one asked for that was HK trying to jew over police departments selling them a shittier cheaper plastic version of a gun that they actually likethe G36 is an okay plastic standard issue rifle, that cant do something that you cant do with assault rifles anyhow, so they made the MG4
>>65150687the m14 ebr will always have a place in my heart if they can ever get the thing to be sub moa I'll buy one
>>65150687The world changed a fucking ton when I was 18. I wanted nothing to do with surplus. I bought an AK-WASR because it was 320$ and no reason more. If I knew what was going to happen today compared to then I'd probably end up in the looney bin. I'd buy everything. I'd start ammo companies. I'd own warehouses. I'd buy every SVD and PSL sniper rifle on the market.
>>65151306>they can ever get the thing to be sub moathe chassis isnt bedded?
>>65147900Yes, I lost any interest in eastern bloc weapons, but that's it. Still like 1911, Mark23 and Deagle.
>>65151270G36 is—by far—the shittiest of the 3 guns and (You) have zero fucking concept what you're posting about.
>>65151679>hurr durr, you cant full auto magdump 300 rounds through it, Its shit!!!!
>>65151679I dumped 500 rounds through my SL8 and guess what, still dead nuts accurate past 600yds, maybe you don’t know what you’re talking about.
>>65151702>SL8is a gimped G36<---that is already gimped. Enjoy, gimpG36s are for fags, and I own far more HKs (non-pistols) than (You).
>>65147900yes. instead of liking things that look cool or are famous, i like things with no catastrophic wear parts like ar15 cam pins."the replacement parts for an ak is another ak" type philosophy.i also like modern hunting rifles like the browning mk4 because they come in calibers that eat ceramic plates in one bite.
>>65147900I used to be a huge fan of the F2000 and bullpups when I was a kid. Once I became hasguns I understood why the F2000 isn't a great design and stopped loving bullpups unconditionally. That said, I have nothing against bullpups and I'll probably pick one up in the near future. I never cared about handguns and never made any effort to get one until I got my CC permit. My first was out of necessity, but I gained interest in collecting more after getting some range time with it. I also disliked revolvers until I watched Trigun >>65151679>PDW in useless cartridge with mixed at best appraisal of performance in combat >yet another direct blowback SMG no one gives a shit about (mostly merited) It doesn't matter if the G36 is the shittiest, or if the MP7 is the best engineered. Literally all the G36 has to do is be a barely passable, mediocre rifle that works and it automatically beats both the MP7 and UMP.
>>65151728>automaticallyWrong, and joins the rest of muhG36tards itt that have zero concept what they're posting about.>uselessMP7 is good for what it is. Close range anti-armor submachine gun.>'Literally'Back to plebbit, brainlet.
UMP 45 is a good submachine gun. In other calibers, the MP5/40 and MP9 are better.
My taste in almost everything has gotten simpler as I've gotten older. I went from pretty much strictly milsurp for many years, and I've since gravitated to old fudd guns, with an emphasis on just trying to work on and improve the guns I already have. Like seeing an old 870 at a LGS is a lot more exciting to me than seeing an AR, a PTR, or Mauser now.
>>65151729>LiterallyYou'd literally be removing everyone born 1990 thru 2000+
>>65151730Why didn't they make a UMP 10mm?
After getting older, I started adoring Glocks. I just fucking love how simple they are. The backplate retains the striker assembly and extractor, the striker retains the firing pin safety. The locking block pin retains the locking block, the locking block and trigger housing pin retain the housing, the housing retains the connector and cruciform. It's just so elegant, each part does the thing it's supposed to do, but also retains and indexes another piece.
>>65147900still love the G36K, has such clean lines compared to so many other cluttered rifles out there.
>>65152876it does look clean but the whole design has next to no advantages over contemporary weapons aside from being cheap to make and even that doesn't actually work out due to the HK markup
>>65152745because it's a straight blowback POS made for idiots that are too poor for MP5s but still want HK
My aesthetic fixation has always been straight lines and asymmetry.Also, naturally, if can't have it, I naturally want it.
>>65152745>>6515293210 mm submachine guns were made obsolete with the appearance of .300BLK.40 Smith & Wesson is the most powerful submachinegun caliber, and the MP5/40 existsUMP 45 (.45 ACP) is the reason that gun was designed and manufactured
>>65151306This is the best I got with it. I sold the chassis, its back in its bedded stock which is marginally more accurate. Having said that with my limited skill I think the EBR is more accurate than I am. It was just so damn front heavy. It takes some tuning though that barrel whip screw was pushing me to about 2.5+ MOA with M118LR, took some work getting down to 1ish. >>65151641That's a big part of it, its not bedded by design so it won't wear out. >>65151335Its crazy how much surplus went up, I'm glad I was always in it when I was a kid and in my early adulthood. The only thing I regret is selling some to get something else or trading things off. I had so many cool surps before the 2020s, I had a broomhandle, a nambu, a gunto, a PU Mosin... Will be lucky if I can get those again at an assrape price.
>>65153035I wanted them in late '80s but didn't have money at that timeextremely unfortunately the Bush import ban went into effect a couple years later when only about a thousand even made it here (thus gigapriceinflation due to scarcity thereafter, here in United States)
>>65153035Lucky bastard, I'm just waiting for Honey Creek to ever fucking do my receiver after I found a borderline NOS (as far as rifling is concerned, idgaf about outside condition) barrel. 550/1 is my 'victory lap' in a sense even though it will cost a lot more money. I got the parts kit for 1200, 80% for another 600, and barrel for I wanna say just under 700 so let's say 2500 for an STGW w/ 80% that just needs finishing. I feel like that's not awful. I still need a P49/210 (I want one of the competition ones + those walnut Edelweiss/oak grips) and a P08 but those are just expensive more than anything else.
>>65153411>>65153620JDI/SAN Swiss Arms imports very small batches of them yearly. You can buy one for $4750 if you are patient and lucky.Good luck finding literally any parts or mags for the rifle though.
>>65153623DESU I kinda wanna get one from Mishaco just because I like that guy and wanna support him, dude fucking loves guns. I know they almost always bring them in in the pistol configuration. Last time I checked there were some fuck ugly ones that looked like Euro versions of those sparta helmet MOLON LABIA 3%er ARs, iirc one of them had a fire ax stock or some shit. The full length version is fine for me. I kinda want an AR70/90 since it is somewhat of the evolutionary link between the stgw57 to the 540 and then 550. The Bloke/Chap video on the 540/550 was cool how you could see the 540 having coil springs and riveted controls inside whereas the 550 was much closer to an AR even though they were both reaching basically the same destination. >If you don't mind me asking, have you played around with the Swiss 5.56 loading vs commercial loadings at all? Really curious what differences there are accuracy-wise and if you can tune (including aftermarket parts) it to be more versatile. Really tempted to have my STGW trigger polished or replacement springs or something like that to get a nice crisp 2-stage
>>65147900I've gained more of an appreciation towards pump action shotguns, outside of that though I still luv cold war era guns, simple as.
>>65147900Kid me>Wow big bore cartridges are cool as fuck and I'm gonna own big bore cowboy guns one day!Now>ha ha .22 goes pop pop popI did get my big bore stuff but I don't have anywhere to shoot steel since I moved and so they sit, along with all my targets and reloading supplies, collecting dust. Also a BFR .45-70 is a lot of fun in theory but it rapidly becomes less so in practice, especially with +p ammo.
>>65151729>zero concept what they're posting about.okay, where are these fucking huge complaints about the G36?who has themdoes the Spanish Army have an angry report about them? Spaniards love to bitch about everything after showing up 3 hours late
>>65153823They're pieces of obsolete dogshit easily replaced-swapped out in 2026 for dozens of other better-cheaper alternative service rifles.
>>65151335I never should have sold my MK23 for a quick profit after sandy hook
>>65152932>>651533771033 exists, so any department that actually bought UMPs was retarded
>>65153859I'll buy all the UMP 45s in existence.
>>65153830I know its shittier than an AR 15 (which was designed in the 1950s)but youre talking about it like its an M14whats so bad about it besides being ridiculously bulky
>>65147900When I was a kid I used to hate snub nosed revolvers with a passion because I thought they looked silly and were inaccurate because of Biff missing with his in Back to the Future 2. I enjoy them now though and have a 2 inch model 19.
>>65147900Loved arcane Cold War shit, now love modern rail infested tacticool shit. It's just more practical. Putting a sling on shouldn't require nigger rigging. Just wish they made more modern shit out of steel.
>>65153873>bulkyIt's pretty light weight which is its main design feature and 'selling point' dgaf about "bulk" <--Whatever that even means, a rail-laden M4 is far worse and more unbalanced
>>65153996bulky meaning fucking humongous, its 6lbs but its bigger than the size of a G3 for no fucking reasonG36 magazine pouches almost fit 4 aluminum AR magsthe XM8 looks like it might have been smaller but its still takes up huge amounts of space
>>65154453I've never wielded an actual G36 but having lighter weight than a G3 (I'm a lifelong HK fan) would be a bonus. Don't like anything else about it, never did
