What Is The Next Gun You Plan On Buying?

[Dino Velvet]

Black Powder weapons are not registered, because the ATF doen't consider Black Powder to be firearms.

Used to be able to pick up Russian SKSs at gun shows all the time and bring them right home. Cheap and fun to modify.

[BigDF]

Used to be able to pick up Russian SKSs at gun shows all the time and bring them right home. Cheap and fun to modify.

I fired a friend's SKS a couple of times and they are nice little plinkers. The same friend had a lever action carbine in .44 magnum that was also a lot of fun to shoot. He had a charter arms revolver in the same caliber and I only shot it once before handing it back to him and going back to that carbine.

If I could afford to do much more in the hobby, I'd probably try to lay my hands on a lever action carbine chambered for .41 magnum which would go well with my Ruger Bisley SA.

[Dino Velvet]

I fired a friend's SKS a couple of times and they are nice little plinkers. The same friend had a lever action carbine in .44 magnum that was also a lot of fun to shoot. He had a charter arms revolver in the same caliber and I only shot it once before handing it back to him and going back to that carbine.

If I could afford to do much more in the hobby, I'd probably try to lay my hands on a lever action carbine chambered for .41 magnum which would go well with my Ruger Bisley SA.

I have a S&W 629 Classic and wouldn't mind getting a lever action Henry Rifle .44 Mag myself.

[dderek123]

Used to be able to pick up Russian SKSs at gun shows all the time and bring them right home. Cheap and fun to modify.

A Yugoslavian SKS would be my weapon of choice in a zombie apocalypse. That and a snubnose 380. I don't know much about guns though.

[BigDF]

A Yugoslavian SKS would be my weapon of choice in a zombie apocalypse. That and a snubnose 380. I don't know much about guns though.

You're not too far off though, except that if you're talking about the snubnose revolver that Dick Tracy used to carry, that's actually a .38 as opposed to the .380 which is usually thought of as an automatic pistol. Both are essentially the same caliber, but the cartridges are different. What's the deal with the zombie killing anyway? How do you kill something that's already dead?

[HbgDon]

My buddy and I took a couple of pumpkins to the gun range today and I got it on video.


This was me shooting my Colt M4 at 100 yards. I have a few misses, but the hits are pretty good.


The aftermath of the M4.


Point blank with the 1911 .45 caliber

[dderek123]

You're not too far off though, except that if you're talking about the snubnose revolver that Dick Tracy used to carry, that's actually a .38 as opposed to the .380 which is usually thought of as an automatic pistol. Both are essentially the same caliber, but the cartridges are different. What's the deal with the zombie killing anyway? How do you kill something that's already dead?

I think post-apocalyptic scenarios are really neat. I've always been a big fan of zombie movies for that reason.

For the snub nose I was thinking about something more like this one.



Is that a .38? Sorry, I am a Canadian gun noob.

Something small but a lot of stopping power in case you don't get a head shot right away.

Most zombies I would take care of with this.



This is all just fantasy of course.

[Prospero]

This too frequently resurrected thread is the one that really makes me shudder

[BigDF]

I think post-apocalyptic scenarios are really neat. I've always been a big fan of zombie movies for that reason.

For the snub nose I was thinking about something more like this one.



Is that a .38? Sorry, I am a Canadian gun noob.

Something small but a lot of stopping power in case you don't get a head shot right away.

Most zombies I would take care of with this.



This is all just fantasy of course.

That is a large frame revolver so it is probably some sort of magnum, from .357 on up. .38 is actually .357 inches, the difference between the two is that the .357 magnum has a bigger shell so more powder and higher velocity. The large frame revolver is used so there is more mass for the physical forces to move when the piece is fired. It also helps keep the parts from loosening quite so rapidly when the gun is used a lot. The trouble with any snub nose is that the short barrel limits accurate range and unless you are an expert with the weapon, you'll need to be nearly close enough to your target that it may be more effective to hit him with the gun instead of shooting at him.

[HbgDon]

I think post-apocalyptic scenarios are really neat. I've always been a big fan of zombie movies for that reason.

For the snub nose I was thinking about something more like this one.



Is that a .38? Sorry, I am a Canadian gun noob.

Something small but a lot of stopping power in case you don't get a head shot right away.

Most zombies I would take care of with this.



This is all just fantasy of course.

That particular gun is a Ruger Super Redhawk Alaskan in a .454 Casull round.