New Gun? You Gotta New Gun?

[Rastus]

Well yes.  M&P FPC in 10MM for my birthday.  I probably would have gotten the 9MM since it is good for +P ammo and the 10MM is not.  Also it's heavy at just under 5-3/4 pounds for the 10MM whereas the 9mm comes in just a shave (3/100's) above 5 lbs.  I am finding out in my advanced age that 1/2 a pound makes a difference...dadgummit.  They have one in 22LR that comes in at just over 4 pounds and 1 ounce. 

I haven't shot it yet.  All I can find is Doubletap ammo which is definitely NOT the standard downloaded 10MM ammo.  Doubletap has been good to me throughout the years.  When they first broke on the scene some years ago the owner asked what gun I was running...a Kimber Eclipse II.  He sent me a new heavier recoil spring for free without asking.  He said he did not want me to wear out my gun and explained how 10MM had been downloaded from it's original specs.   I just had to say that...I really appreciated him.

So...do you gotta new gun? 

[alfsauve]

Congrats.  Never go into 10mm, though briefly had an XD40 (.40Short and Weak).

[TAB]

" no deer, I have had this thing for years, I just never use it"


Thats my story and I am sticking too it.

[Rastus]

Well...she's the one who bought it for me.  Mostly used her cash...some my CC.

[Rastus]

So what's the last gun you guys got?

[Sponsor]

[alfsauve]

I bought the cheapest 10/22 they had on sale, $199.  Only wanted the receiver and bolt.  I did keep the stock but cut the fore end in half along the horizontal axis so that it would accept a 1"  barrel.  Replaced everything else; trigger assembly, firing pin, extractor, and barrel.

My next "last gun" will probably be a FN 509 Compact to use in IDPA CCP Division, since my P320C is now persona (or is that gunona) non gratis.

I would like a S&W 325 Thunder Ranch but they're out of reach.  A 625 would be okay but they too run a few more dollars than I'm willing to part with.

[Big Frank]

I haven't bought a new gun since my "not-a-shotgun". If everything goes according to schedule, it will be an SBS next year. Instead of buying new guns, I keep changing my old guns until they look like new ones.

[PegLeg45]

The last gun I bought was a Ruger 9mm for the wife. I've been mostly spending on ammo and reloading components.
I did buy a stripped lower to build a hunting rifle for the wife. She uses an old Remington 742 Woodmaster in .243win. She got it from her dad and someone in the past had "worked" it over and the rotating lugs are galled. As long as it's lubed properly, it'll go...but sometimes the bolt doesn't close into battery. I want to build her a short-range .30 in an AR rifle (farthest shot she'd have to make is 75 yds).

Lowers are cheap right now, so I might grab up some. 

[Big Frank]

I was seriously thinking about getting an AR-10 lower when I got a notification they were back in stock. It was an Aero Precision M5 (.308) Stripped Lower that someone else had on sale but was out of stock for a long time. Aero Precision is out too, but they're $170 when they are in stock. I need to figure out what I would do with it if I had one before I commit to buying a lower. A few things I've thought about were 6mm Creedmoor might get me off my butt and interested enough to shoot it, 7mm-08 Remington because it seems to be nearly perfect as a deer cartridge* and I like venison, or 12 gauge like the Genesis Arms GEN-12 upper just because it would be cool to have one, and it's good enough for John Wick, but they're well over 2 grand. So instead of buying a rifle lower I don't know what to do with, I spent hundreds on ammo for guns I already have.

* The .280 Remington is even better than 7mm-08 but it won't fit in a .308 length receiver.

Since my friend is retiring in 2 weeks, we'll have more time to spend at his cabin, and hopefully I'll finally shoot a couple of my guns instead of just hauling them back and forth. I did shoot my X-Fore golf ball launcher while I was up there for my 4th of July vacation. The 3 of us who were there at the time went for an ATV ride and found half of a fiberglass tub surround that someone dumped in the woods on the side of a powerline. I only had 7 golf balls and used 2 to try to figure out the elevation hold, but the next 2 went flying so wildly I missed them too. I think they have a random spin when they come flying out the muzzle. So I got closer and blew 3 holes clean through the fiberglass, with projectiles over twice the diameter of an 8 bore rifle bullet.   If a golf ball has enough power behind it to fly 500-600 yards, it could be used as a lethal/less-lethal weapon, but you have to muzzle load them. 

https://www.aeroprecisionusa.com/m5-308-stripped-lower-receiver-anodized-black



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fDt6a4-qjQ