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Consider a safe deposit box through a credit union to store pictures and serial numbers. I pay $20 a year for a safe deposit box through my CU. My bank was over triple that for the same size box.

Didja wear a red cap and yell alot?



mike r

People who say "I love the 2nd Amendment but..."

Cleaning barrels

With an exception or two at least 90% must carry wood stocks.

Some barrels shoot good dirty & hot
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Sounds like my girlfriend.

this government organization known as the batf&e

Unwieldy.

Total agreement ☝🏽 on this.

I was a fanatic about clean barrels until I had a long conversation with a former special forces shooter who called BS on the excessive cleaning methodology.

After a lot of questions by me on wtf are you talking about? He simply said - “The barrel will tell you when it needs to be cleaned by how it’s shooting”.

“Unless the barrel is soaking wet or full of mud and needs the hose”. “Just wet a cleaning square with your favorite cleaning solution”. “Run the patch thru a couple of times - wait a few minutes - then run dry patches down the tube until the patches come out clean”.

I’m haven’t looked back since, and my rifles all shoot great, until they don’t. Then I follow the above for cleaning and it’s back to regular scheduled programming.


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Good call.

I don’t mind a longer barreled rifle but can’t stand heavy profile barrels or stocks thick in wrist or with a lot of tight pistol grip for a sporter rifle meant to be carried. I’m 6’3” but would rather adjust and square up to a shorter LOP most of the time than deal with a long LOP assuming that it isn’t a scoped big thumper with limited eye relief.

Cleaning shotguns. Particularly fussing over the barrel(s). Its an explosion in a tube that flings a couple dozen rocks out the end. Pretty hard to fu.ck it up.

Not having enough time to shoot, clean barrels and reload.

Mine is two-barreled guns, three-barreled guns, and four-barreled guns and not being able to afford them, now especially. Drives me nuts sometimes.

Not much of a yeller. Sometimes I like to show up for a class looking as much like Elmer Fudd as possible and not let on I’m the instructor. Makes the tactacool wannabes crazy.

Democrats

Mounting scopes! Necessary evil but it drives me crazy trying to determine if the cross hairs are perfectly level.

1. Is a major part of the fun

2. Is simply not so; ask my wife……

I'm unhappy about the fact that I don't have room to own all of them.

AussieGunWriter: After nearly six decades (nearly 60 years!) of seeing the harm that "leather holsters" due to pistols and revolvers I no longer subject my handguns to that type abuse - not for carry, not for storage, not for nothin!
Leather holsters look good and smell good and can be pretty good at retention but the harm they do is NO longer tolerated by me.
In fact I have been selling off my leather holsters of recent and still have 30+ to sell.
There are just to many great options for concealed carry, carry and storage that won't harm and devalue ones pistols.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I’d never store a firearm in a leather holster. I don’t store any of my knives in leather sheaths. I’ve always heard that leather retains moisture and that the chemicals used to tan the leather can be harmful but have never left one in leather long enough to find out. Between that and being harder on bluing. I stick to kydex but love the look of leather sheaths and holsters.

My only leather holster is a Milton 1911 holster with a hand carved Mexican floral pattern. I bought it for its looks but generally only use it for limited range use or stomping around in the woods.