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Post by TMan on Dec 8, 2014 12:31:38 GMT -5
I'm depressed. None of the manufacturers are producing anything that I'm interested in buying. The 1911 Centennial is past so there is nothing there and the most activity I've seen, although limited, has been from the manufacturers producing 22LR versions. This is interesting since 22LR ammo is so hard to find.
The other trend I've seen is the transition to striker-fired handguns. Even Ruger, one of my favorites, has gone to striker-fired.
So have the engineers exhausted their ideas, or is it just that the manufacturers don't want to produce anything for fear of litigation from the Obama administration.
Like with the US government, if you allocate money to a category and don't spend it, you are in danger of losing it for the next year. So I have around $19K allocated in 2014 that wasn't used.
Although there may not be any firearms I'm interested in, my wife, on the other-hand, never seems to run out of jewelry that she wants.
I'm screwed!!!
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Post by MLB on Dec 8, 2014 19:57:23 GMT -5
Let's see if I might be able to spur you out of your gunpowder deficient funk. My recent fall from a ladder will keep me from the range for a while, so I'll be doing more oogling than shooting.
I know you've always been more interested in new guns as opposed to used, but the current trend of cranking out new plastic pistols just doesn't inspire me.
I can't recall if you ever acquired a Luger. The toggle action is intriguing. Love that mechanical stuff.
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Post by blueglass on Dec 11, 2014 22:51:08 GMT -5
I have fired Lugers many times at our range here and find them quite interesting as well. Due to a law here on barrel length we have restrictions that do not allow most of us to buy one. All barrels up here have to be at least 4.1" long or you cannot buy it with out a special collectors license. No-body in Canada has received that class of license in at least 15 years so owning one here is out for me.
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Post by MLB on Dec 11, 2014 22:56:23 GMT -5
Hmm... no PPK for you either then?
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Post by blueglass on Dec 14, 2014 20:34:48 GMT -5
No No PPK as well darn it. Takes away a lot of fun from us here. One of my club mates stated this morning that we Canadians shoot more per capita then any other nation especially in Hunting and Target shooting. Something like 22% of the folks here are interested in it in a big way. Its a 6 billion dollar industry just here in Canada every year alone. Yet we have a fairly low crime rate with guns which is Good. Mostly knives the little Maggots use now-a-days it seems. Where I live both my wife and I can freely walk our streets and parks with No fear at all 24/7. Its a nice feeling. I don't have to carry a firearm as yet and hope never to have to as well. T-Man why not have a look at the Black powder pistols? They are different and a lot of Fun to shoot, actually cheap to shoot as well. They do pose a challenging shot also.
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Post by 5ontarget on Dec 21, 2014 8:08:42 GMT -5
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Post by blueglass on Dec 28, 2014 17:11:59 GMT -5
Those are all great suggestions, especially something custom built for you in any caliber at all. The 2 Thompsons used in the St. Valentines day massacres are currently here in Canada at a business -- Gunstore called Marstar. Its located just east of Ottawa on the Quebec border. He has a huge collection of military stuff that they lease out to movie makers including those two famous Thompsons. I bought several guns from them over the years including my 45APC.
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Post by TMan on Jan 6, 2015 14:19:05 GMT -5
5OT, I like the land idea. My wife is bugging me about the amount of cash we have and she is about to dump another #700K on me. I'm thinking a few thousand acres in West Texas would be a good investment.
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Post by 5ontarget on Jan 7, 2015 21:17:00 GMT -5
As my dad used to say when I was younger, "They aren't making more dirt." That saying is mostly true, and I do think real estate is a sound investment. While hunting/recreation land doesn't have the financial returns as commercially developed land, I know where I'd rather spend a week/weekend. I'll be glad to come down and test out your backstops at various ranges and help rid the property of hogs, coyotes, and other undesirables. I'm in the process of building/sourcing a new mid range varmint rifle in 20 vartarg, it is still months, and depending on how much I do vs a custom builder, a year or more away (most custom builders have told me 12-14months minimum). A couple friends and I are planning a trip west to do some varmint control/hunting. Some of those places are more like a spa vacation than a hunting trip.
At any rate, I wish you well in your shopping endeavors. I'm sure some opportunity will present itself.
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Post by 5ontarget on Jan 7, 2015 21:54:49 GMT -5
I know you are more of a modern gun guy, but, have you ever looked around the IMA webpage. They are the group that bought and imported the hoard of guns from Nepal. I've bought a couple of their "untouched" (untouched means they are rusty/nasty, possibly broken and missing parts)guns over the years as project guns (I have a couple of Nepalese Gahendra Martini Rifle in "untouched" condition as wintertime projects, and Brown Bess flint lock from the East India Company for some other time. I was working on the barrel this fall - lots of time in the electrolysis tank. Ahh, I digress again... You like engraving and fine woodwork and they have some fully restored pieces and some one-of-a-kind estate pieces that are very nice (guns and edged weapons). I like to drool over the pistols and the hilt work on the swords. It seems the gunsmiths really took special pride in some of their pistols. www.ima-usa.com/ |
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Post by blueglass on Jan 7, 2015 22:06:25 GMT -5
Most of them have Damascus barrels I would suspect. Don't think I would ever attempt to fire one of them at any time with any powder. Not even Black Powder which I have lots of. They should be wall hangers only. With land you can have your own long range rifle range if you want. Now that would be cool.
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Post by MLB on Jan 8, 2015 22:18:23 GMT -5
An ameteur blacksmith friend of mine recently sent this video of an old (French) master making a Damascus barrel. youtu.be/fa9dlvRDuQU |
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Post by blueglass on Jan 16, 2015 17:16:16 GMT -5
That is something to watch for sure. I have seen how Anchutz does it with 8 barrels at a time but never like this. A lot of hard work went into producing even just one barrel at a time. It would take years to outfit an army I would suspect. Thank You for posting this.
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