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This thread is for posting about your first time shooting a gun, an experience with a new shooter's first time at the range, or how to teach new shooters/make the first trip positive.

>Remember, the best defense against gun control is proactively getting the next generation safely into guns.

Posted this in another thread but it fits here.

>Heading to eange to shoot my new guns
>Friend invites his buddy and buddies little brother
>Little kids first time at the range
>OhShit I left the .22 at home
>Best gun I got for a new shooter is a Smith and Wesson. 357 and some cheap .38 special
>Go over safety rules, let him dry fire the gun a dozen times in single action
>Set up target at 7yds and load a single round
>He loves it, immediately wants to shoot another round
>Gave him the spent brass from his first round ever fired
>Let him have a whole target to himself and gave it to him after (He carved his name into the shoot n' see part with the spent brass)
>By the end of a box of .38 he could load and index a cylinder, shoot single action, eject spent brass, and had good trigger discipline
>All he wanted to do is go again.

He also shot a few .357 mag. Like a champ and my Sig p228 and Makarov. He really liked the makarov.

His 3rd round cut the X out of the bullseye and he was ecstatic.

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I'm looking for the webm of an AMR that used what was essentialy a long recoil action. It was bullpup if that helps.

It fuctioned similar to the Mars pistol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBKqvLpxpU4


Other wise this is a cool action thread.

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I think flying one of these planes would be pretty cool, but is it even possible to buy one in the US?
I see them for sale in Europe, but never here.
And the company that made the 75% scale of them got killed by the FAA.

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Do Marlin leverguns still suck now? It's 2016
did Remmington get better over the past few years? Or should I just get a different levergun?

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/k/, what would be your ideal firearm loadout for under $1,000 USD? Pistol, Rifle, and Shotgun.

I'll go first, Zastava M57 Tokarev ($290), Mossberg 500 ($350) and Chinese Type 56 SKS (around $350)

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For those of you who shoot or have interest in 7.62x25 guns and/or ammo, I have a question.

I own 2 Tokarevs and a PPS43 (which, praise be to Kek, will have its tax stamp in soon). I love 7.62x25, but I am wondering which of these is the better new production ammo- PPU or Century's Red Army Standard? I am needing to do another bulk order of this ammo and can't decide which is better because there aren't really any comparisons online.

I actually found some tests where the PPU maxed out at about 1600fps out of the Tokarev, but I can't find anything on the RAS. As a side note, Sellier & Bellot is okay, but fairly weak in this caliber.

Here is my personal experience- PPU feeds well and shoots well. Feels to be loaded hotter than S&B. However, in my Romanian Tokarev, I often get hang ups where the slide goes back, but doesn't come back to chamber the next round. In the PPS, the damn firing pin totally shatters the primer, but otherwise it fires fine.

For the RAS- same consistent shootability, but it even feels a bit hotter than PPU. My Romanian Tokarev doesn't hang up nearly as much with this ammo and the PPS doesn't destroy the primers.

Anyone else have interest in this caliber or any other insights? I guess this can be a 7.62x25 thread.

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So realistically, how big will tank guns become as time goes on? Nowadays, the standard seems to be 120-125mm caliber for a main battle tank. Is it realistic to expect that caliber sizes will grow or have we reached the relative peak? Now, I've heard rumors that Russia plans to give the T-14 a larger caliber gun, greater than 5 inches in diameter but I don't know if I believe that. Rheinmetall has experimented with a 140 mm cannon for the Leopard II in the past but now that project has been abandoned. Have we reached the point where an increase in caliber is simply no longer practical because it would reduce ammunition capacity too much? You also must consider the size of the tank itself: if the tank is too big, it will get stuck and it won't be able to do its job effectively. Modern tanks are already massive. Any bigger is probably too big.

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Which missile could sink or destroy a Nimitz class aircraft carrier?
>no nukes

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oh my god /k/ is a friend of mine the most retarded person ever?

He just said
>without moral support from the us-establishment the Viet Cong wouldn't have accomplished anything

also Vietnam general

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>FUCK YEAR RELOADING
I have to move all my crap to my office so I can have a "real" guest bedroom... Y'all stocked up for the election rush? I need to find some more Varget and 308 projectiles...

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What's the most deadly arm of the military, in terms of number of casualties inflicted? I read that during WWII the biggest killer was artillery, and that it was responsible for more deaths than any other unit type. Is this still true for modern wars? Or is air superiority and bombing more deadly?

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it ain't me

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So, I recently came into the ownership of this lovely Winchester Model 1897 Takedown Shotgun, and I have a couple of questions for the fine folk of /k/

1. Will this gun handle normal shotgun loads?
2. Should I reblue the barrel or leave it as is?
3. Does anyone have an old owner's manual as a pdf? I'd like to make sure I lube and clean his properly, tis a beautiful gun.

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I ate some mre's while innawoods this week and was wondering if I should keep them. I got them from a friend a while ago and somestuff inside says it expired in 08

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Hey /k/ Im not a professional at this shit and honestly, Im bamboozled. Is it a clip or a magazine on this imaginary weapon.