Modacity shooters' thread

Holy shit.

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

Personally, I think it's hideous. It works, it's functional, and I like that, but I'll take basically any other 9mm SMG/carbine over that, thank you.

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Incorrect opinion; DOE carbines are adorable.

Here's a thing I posted on TFR.

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When my dad brought his hunting rifle out from Canada, he also brought out a pair of little old .22s. One is a single shot with a little 4x scope and was claimed by my sister. I think it's a Lithgow Slazenger, but I can't remember offhand. The other is this:

http://i.imgur.com/CIfgrl.jpg

It's a BSA Sportsman Fifteen. BSA is Birmingham Small Arms for any who don't know, they made bicycles and motorbikes as well as guns (and probably more besides). I don't know how old it is, but I do know my grandfather owned it and my mother learned to shoot on it. Regardless of age it's in really nice condition. It's a cock-on-close action, and the spring in it is really beefy so it takes some effort to cycle, but it locks up nice and tight and otherwise is pretty unremarkable, I guess. It also has a pretty heavy barrel on it, with lots of nice stamps and proofmarks:

http://i.imgur.com/UWvkjl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jaHUgl.jpg

It's a tube-fed rifle. I don't know how many shots it actually holds (I've never bothered to count, too busy shooting), but it's quite a few. The tube loads in a fairly bizarre way, through a little .22lr-shaped port in the bottom front. To open it, you have to twist the endcap a half-turn left, then pull it free. It's attached to a long sleeve which sits inside the magazine and also houses the plunger and spring.

http://i.imgur.com/ov0Qvl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/O7ScWl.jpg

The stock (which looks really, really nice for its age, and is nice and light) has a big BSA cartouche on the left side.

http://i.imgur.com/3Ap5Kl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wu41Cl.jpg

I'm not sure what these rifles carried for sights originally, but there is a dovetail about halfway along its length. This one has something a little classier than most plinking rifles I've seen, I'd have to say.

http://i.imgur.com/qZLqzl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4fJLcl.jpg

Safety is, as can plainly be seen, a simple matter of twisting the cocking piece. The word 'SAFE' sits level when the safety is engaged. This locks the trigger but the bolt can still be opened. Apparently this concept is beyond Australian Customs, who felt the need to drill sizeable divots in the rear of the bolt and the cocking piece and then put red paint in them so us retards could tell when our rifle was cocked, off safe, and ready to fire. Thanks, Customs! :downs:

Anyway, the rifle is nice to shoot and pretty deadly. I'm crap with any manner of ironsights, but once I find the sweet spot I can nail a little 2" swinging plate with it pretty easily out to about 40 yards, which is probably not that impressive but is a start for someone who learned to shoot on scopes. Between getting a chance to spend some real quality time with this lil' guy and getting my Enfield's front sight adjusted properly after three years of shooting about three miles to the right of whatever I'm aiming at, things are pretty sweet right about now.

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Put about 200rds LR through it over the last few days, turns out it holds 17. 17 LR means 25 Short. Time to buy some Shorts! :iamafag:

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Originally Posted by Emmzee

FUCK

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Fuckin' Russians man.

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Incorrect opinion; DOE carbines are adorable.

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lol. But I agree, they are adorable.

I'd wager that that BSA holds somewhere around 16 rounds because the tube looks identical to the tube on my Winchester 1890.

Edit: didn't read the rest of the post.

This page puts it between '50-'55. Judging by the serial I'd say '54, maybe early '55. Also it turns out I had ownership mixed up, this one was my great grandfather's, the Slazenger was my grandfather's.

Adorable is not necessarily the opposite of hideous. Things can be hideous and adorable, like spiders. Or T-26s.

An old photo I dug up:

http://i.imgur.com/UHYp3l.jpg

...And a not-so-old one. Mocked up, the mount's not on yet - rifle is just resting against the scope mount.

http://i.imgur.com/4aLHzl.jpg

One day I'll have to see if I can find a full-blown sniper bolt rather than a converted one. There is a world of difference between them. Need to figure out what the fuck I'm going to do with the mismatched stock and handguard too, since they don't fit perfectly and it's dicking my accuracy. Tempted to buy a new stock or handguard (or both), the current pair have a noticeable difference at the rear barrel band so it sits crooked and wanders around sometimes.

You coul always buy a hideous sporter stock. At the very least you can pillar bed it and it will be awesome. Ugly, and a sin, but awesome.

Assuming my SD card is alive I'm going to have to whip out some shots of the black-powder .50 my dad bought a few months back.

My step-dad on the other hand just bought this, a new Sig Sauer P229, for home-defense. I'll grab pics if/when we take it to the range. So far it feels like the best handgun I've held, but until I fire a few dozen rounds I'll have to hold off on saying it's the best I've used.

Going deer hunting from today til Monday the 17th

Hopefully I will come back with some delicious bambi meat.

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Originally Posted by DarkHalcyon

Assuming my SD card is alive I'm going to have to whip out some shots of the black-powder .50 my dad bought a few months back.

My step-dad on the other hand just bought this, a new Sig Sauer P229, for home-defense. I'll grab pics if/when we take it to the range. So far it feels like the best handgun I've held, but until I fire a few dozen rounds I'll have to hold off on saying it's the best I've used.

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Real men shoot .69 Springfields.

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