I actually have, I also make custom guns as a living. All guns I have fired have never sparked. I don't shoot steel backplates or whatever. I also don't shoot military? or "combat" ammo. I usually reload if I shoot anything.

You've never shot at an indoor range? I take it that you use hardcast lead instead of jacketed rounds when you reload?

Not calling you out, just a bit surprised. You list Utah as your location, and I can imagine that you likely have lots of space out there and don't need to use indoor ranges like I do here in VA.

What sort of guns do you build?

Yes, we do have alot of room out here to shoot. I live in a really small town. We have 2 gun ranges, not that there necessary, but it is nice to have.

I work at a gun shop that builds mainly Thompson Encore/Contender barrels. We build stocks for them also. We do rebarrel Bolt Guns, but not many. Just average single shot, break open action Thompson guns here.

:D

I've wanted a T/C Contender for years. It just always seems like some other shiny shooty gets in the way whenever I have the money.

I wish I had the space around here to go shooting outdoors.

my thing is grenades in movies in quite a few you will see someone throw a pineapple or a stick and out of that little device will come the biggest explosion possible able to level any type of small building or house.

thats just not real

movies i did like because i watched them with my father, a vietnam veteran, were band of brothers, saving private ryan, thin red line and a few others. when it comes down to it i rely on him to let me know whats legit.

If you ment the Hind... it's very real. I was trained to take them down. (never had to try...)

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/a...825t-002-s.jpg

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/a...t9209228-s.jpg

Nice guns! Many pics at http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/mi-24.htm

Major war monster warning...

Been training regularly for over 6 years now, and no one has ever told me to rack the slide after slapping in a new mag. I've always been taught to just hit the release and come up on target. Out of curiosity, why wouldn't racking the slide eject your top round? Why is it more reliable?

What he is saying is that you should release the slide from its locked back position by pulling on the slide, not pushing the slide release. I was also taught this method. It is more reliable because it allows more force to be used chambering the round than if the slide simply closes from its stop.

A round will not be ejected because there is nothing on the bolt face, all the rounds are still in the magazine.

Thanks for clearing that up debaser... I originally read that to mean that you rack the slide after closing it. Still...I was never taught this way. Seeing that I'm left handed though, I wonder if this would be easier than trying to hit the slide release with my index finger. I'll have to try it next time I'm on the range... Thanx for the tip.

Hi,
I just watched SPR again, and I found that some of you are wrong.
Um, that was an SS Panzergrenadier group moving through there... it's shown several times with the soldier's SS twin-lightning bolt emblem as well as their camouflaged smocks, and when they run into that reconnaissance SdKfz 251 the guy even mentions that it's part of an SS division.
Hardly... that was actually a pretty nice mock up. The tracks were a little off but beyond that it was nice.
This is totally true. The attack seemed like it was led by a confused monkey...
What? He fires one round.
Well, as was noted before, both the Panzerjager Nashorn (aka the Hornisse) and the Marder II (one was a Marder II, the second one that destroys the belltower) were direct tank destroyers, not self propelled artillery guns. They wouldn't have been that direct but they would be right in there, and especially since they didn't know if the Americans maybe had some tanks lying in wait. And how else would they have gone in? They had little space to move down that main street and "marching those tanks into town" was pretty much the only way they could've done it.
Thanks,
Manga

Wood will spark if you hit it with bullets, just hit the steel nails that are in it.:D

It just pisses me off when they unload a full mag at some one 20 feet away and still miss... You know damn well that dude would be swiss cheese...

If you have ever seen any of the real cop videos, like the ones from the police car cameras, people have unloaded on each other and missed. One that I remember, the cop was less than ten feet from the perp getting out of his car, and they unloaded on each other, both cop and perp missed. Scary as hell to watch, and happened a few years ago. Also, look at the guy who was shot to death in New York by the police when he was reaching for his wallet. He was framed in a door, 4 cops, 19 or 20 rounds fired, and 4 bullets actually hit him. It can happen.

I wish to god I could remember the title of the bad early 90's cop movie I am refering to, but I actually watched the bad guy put a supressor on a revolver.

It's a well known fact that Hollywood grenades are made from no less that 2 gallons of gasoline.

I don't think I have ever seen someone just pick up a shotgun, hit the safety and shoot cause that would make sense. You must first pump it and allow your first shell to fall to the ground so you can use it later.

One of my good friends who was actually a soldier in Africa said "Blackhawk Down" was so-so on thier re-createment. In reality no one from the UN helped the Army cause we didn't inform them before the mission. The Producers, writer, and director chose to falsify that part of the movie so ANTI--UN feelings wouldn't rise here in the US. He also told me that everything was so FUBAR'd that 3/4 US soldiers were left on there own to get out of harms way. The Army had EVERYONE from the base (cooks,clerks,high officers) and gave them rifles and armor and they left the base and met the fleeing soldiers about a mile outside the base.


IMHO rent "Hardboiled". The bad guys are REALLY bad, no one can shoot for shit, a gun was never reloaded during the filming, and there were 15+ civillians killed per 1 badguy. But damn it's still a great movie.

Anyone remember the gun from 'Johnny Dangerously'? The one that shoots through schools.

Ah, the famous .88 magnum :D

"Hardboiled" is a great film!