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neogafrefugeenumber44634 said:
Yet it has been known to happen to glock 40s. Also do you honestly think the barrel rifling lasts 80 k rounds? Also the military had a minimum service life requirement. Any company that wanted a mill contract was going to uphold that minimum and not more?
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Anything man made can and will fail. M9s had issues with the rear of the slides cracking and injuring the shooter. Shit happens. I'm sure this happened well after 1,500 rounds. I've owned two Glocks chambered in .40 since 2001, never had a part failure of any kind. Thousands of rounds sent down range yet these plastic turds are boringly reliable. Hell one of them has a "voluntary recall" based on frame rail failure and I haven't bothered to send it in. I want to see if it will fail. If it does, I'll turn it over to the warranty department and let them deal with it.
 
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neogafrefugeenumber44634 said:
Yet it has been known to happen to glock 40s. Also do you honestly think the barrel rifling lasts 80 k rounds? Also the military had a minimum service life requirement. Any company that wanted a mill contract was going to uphold that minimum and not more?
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Using a 40 cal glock you earn to lose fingers.

10mm master race.
 
I love the glock vs. 1911 arguments. It means that people on both sides are comfortable and proficient enough with their preferred firearm to diss the other one. At the end of the day, isn't comfort and proficiency with what you carry the most important thing?
 
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At the end of the day, isn't comfort and proficiency with what you carry the most important thing?
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Yes it is. I know several people who are hardcore collectors and can't shoot for shit. They are to concerned with impressing other people with all their purchases that they never bother to put the time it to become proficient with anything.
 
Molester Stallone said:
Yes it is. I know several people who are hardcore collectors and can't shoot for shit. They are to concerned with impressing other people with all their purchases that they never bother to put the time it to become proficient with anything.
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What they are purchasing? Everything under the sun or are they ones who want unique or rare or ones with historical importance? I dislike glocks and most modern guns because they are fugly and the glocks show lack of style or imagination or uniqueness.

Gun design seems to have stagnated these past 10 years to a huge degree with most copying the ar-15, ak-47 and glock handgun. I know there are some popular exceptions such as the double barrel pump shotgun, or p90 top loader but these don't tend to be put in the average gun store ala walmart nor would they be put in the tacticool gun shops.
 
neogafrefugeenumber44634 said:
What they are purchasing? Everything under the sun or are they ones who want unique or rare or ones with historical importance? I dislike glocks and most modern guns because they are fugly and the glocks show lack of style or imagination or uniqueness.

Gun design seems to have stagnated these past 10 years to a huge degree with most copying the ar-15, ak-47 and glock handgun. I know there are some popular exceptions such as the double barrel pump shotgun, or p90 top loader but these don't tend to be put in the average gun store ala walmart nor would they be put in the tacticool gun shops.
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Most of the time it's custom 1911's or precision rifles. A lot of AR-15s as well. Firearm innovation stagnated decades ago. Glocks aren't even really that modern. Striker fired pistols have been around since the 1900's. Hell HK was the first company that I know of that created the polymer framed handgun so you can't even credit Glock with that. Pretty much every modern pistol can be traced back to one of John Brownings designs and he's been dead for more than 90 years.
 
When you say custom 1911 do you mean something engraved that either the maker offers or engraver can do such as
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Or do you mean have parts such as competition triggers, or serrated slides to reduce the weight?

Engraving is fine with me, a good engraving can make a gun stand out as a work of art.

Glocks don't seem fitted to engraving.

The older striker fired guns besides the glock when you look at them especially the oldest models they tend to have a uniqueness to them.

Also the hk polymer vp70 wasn't ugly when compared to a glock. It had a sense of style about it, minimalist but it was there. hell it had some unique features about it that make me wish the Hughes Amendment was gotten rid of and HK would make them in the states.

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neogafrefugeenumber44634 said:
When you say custom 1911 do you mean something engraved or do you mean have parts such as competition triggers, or serrated slides to reduce the weight?
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No I mean like full on "tactical" style builds from custom gun smiths costing thousands of dollars.

I'd like to see HK reintroduce the P7. I got to shoot one of those several years back and it was a neat design. The only downside I noticed was how hot the pistol got after a few magazines. I don't think it sold well enough for them to justify its production.
 
Molester Stallone said:
No I mean like full on "tactical" style builds from custom gun smiths costing thousands of dollars.

I'd like to see HK reintroduce the P7. I got to shoot one of those several years back and it was a neat design. The only downside I noticed was how hot the pistol got after a few magazines. I don't think it sold well enough for them to justify its production.
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It apparently sold well since they were making it for close to a quarter of a century in various calibers. It was expensive to make however. http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/01/jeremy-s/heckler-koch-p7-is-the-best-pistol-ever/ There is a reason it got hot. It has to do with the gas r e t a r d a t i o n system design. There is a very thin part of metal at a certain place so you get heat going through the metal a lot quicker then if the metal was thicker. A later p7 model added a polymer heat shield to deal with that issue.
 
They never produced the gun in massive quantities, probably because it was a fairly complicated, and expensive to produce. The guns that were made were imported all around the globe so it wasn't just the US market receiving them. It's still a neat gun. There were rumors going around about 10 years ago regarding a polymer framed replacement. But that obviously never happened. I wouldn't be surprised if they do something with it in the future. I think they are currently focused on cranking out the VP9 since it's been doing so well for them.
 
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Molester Stallone said:
No I mean like full on "tactical" style builds from custom gun smiths costing thousands of dollars.

I'd like to see HK reintroduce the P7. I got to shoot one of those several years back and it was a neat design. The only downside I noticed was how hot the pistol got after a few magazines. I don't think it sold well enough for them to justify its production.
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P7s are rad, my dad is a collector. I think he's up to 4?

NJSP got issued them even. Frankly I love em because autismo, but it's not a great gun by todays standards. The most common in the US is the m8/psp. 8+1 rounds on a slim line that's about same size a g19....

Yes egros are great, striker guns, have got so nice, we don't need a squeeze pull. There's a lot more to the p7 I won't sperg on, I love how it points. But I've NEVER touched a pistol that points quicker than say a Luger p08, yes even over a P7.

They are nice guns just out classed by modern tech. The .001% better power from it's gas system is nice for engineering standpoint, but remember the age of that gun, ammo got a shit ton better.
 
I will hopefully be taking my MvP Patrol to the range this weekend been wanting to put some more rounds through it for a while. Pretty good gun overall my only issues are the mag release (gotta jam your thumb into it) and the bolt some feels meh to cycle. Sides that it feels and shoots great.
 
Pop-Tart said:
I will hopefully be taking my MvP Patrol to the range this weekend been wanting to put some more rounds through it for a while. Pretty good gun overall my only issues are the mag release (gotta jam your thumb into it) and the bolt some feels meh to cycle. Sides that it feels and shoots great.
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What caliber?

I've heard 5.56 MVPs feed really shittyly with most AR mags.
 
Its in .223. I have had no issue with feeding. That said the gun does not like to extract unfired cases. As for mags I have noticed no issues. I have only used magpul mags and done indoor range shooting. So nothing exotic or rugged.
 
Finally got a chance to test out the BM-59 after it's repair job from the factory. Much to my relief, it works like a charm.

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The Lee-Enfield's a MKIII* model, dated 1917, that my brother owns. Yes, he has a bayonet for it.
 
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Here's my new Elcan Spectre TR rifle scope. I was originally going to have it mounted on my Mk14, but it just didn't feel right so I've decided to have it on my MWS308 instead. I'll probably buy either an EOTech Vudu 1-6x scope or Vortex Razor HD Gen II 1-6x scope for the Mk14. They both have a longer eye relief than the Spectre TR, and half the weight.

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