Not the ones near me...
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Not the ones near me...
When I lived in Charlotte, the closest Wal-Mart stopped selling "all tactical ammunition," which meant they stopped selling anything that wasn't rimfire or birdshot. They got picketed and boycotted until they started stocking all types of ammo again.
Oddly, that particular Wal-Mart always had .416 Rigby for sale. I wasn't aware Charlotte, North Carolina was a huge nexus for big game hunters.
Squirrels are vicious beasts, man...
Only just found this article (not the HK letter, the guy's response to it) but I enjoyed it lol https://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2...d-we-hate-you/
Speaking of .416 Rigby...
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Now for the .416 Rigby tale. Actually, I've seen two of them used, albeit in different ways. Many years ago when I was a cop I got a call of a suicide. It turns out that this guy had a extensive gun collection, one of which was a .416 Rigby. For some reason that I don't remember, things had gotten bad and he decided to end it all with a bullet to the chest. Needless to say, the bullet went through him without slowing down, punched a hole in the ceiling, and blew a hole through the roof before achieving orbit around the earth. On the other side of things, the recoil blasted the butt of the gun off the floor and punched the stock about halfway through his TV set. Elvis would have been proud. Both the entrance and exit wounds were remarkably small, but I didn't get to see the autopsy so I can't report on what it did to the innards. Also, while I was a cop there was a gun store, the name of which escapes me, that specialized only in high-dollar classic guns, such as L.C. Smiths, H&H, big African doubles, and the like. One night this gun store was burglarized, and the thieves got away with some really expensive guns. Several months later a local convenience store was robbed at gunpoint and the perpetrators were caught shortly thereafter. As it turned out, the gun held on the proprietor was one of the guns taken in the burglary--a .416 Rigby that the thieves had sawed the barrel down to 18 inches. As I remember it, they didn't have any ammo for it, but somehow looking down the bore of the thing was more than enough to convince the clerk to hand over the money, which was on the order of $100. There's no telling what the gun itself was worth before these candidates for MENSA sawed it off, but I can assure you it was worth far in excess of their take. As my favorite saying goes, "Against stupidity, the gods themselves fight unvictorious."
those kinds of stories are simultaneously hilarious and horrifying
guns kill people :haw:
bullets r cancer.
Currently, I'm planning on getting a 75rd Romanian AK drum for my SKS-NR, along with a few other stick mags. However, in order for AK drums to fit in SKS variants that take AK mags, the stock around the magwell must be cut down to allow for the drum's bulky profile. It can look like this:
http://i.imgur.com/fXBnO.jpg
However, a gunsmith friend of mine assured me I only need to cut around 1/4" of the stock around the magwell to get a drum to fit. He recommended I get a cheap red fiberglass stock (there are a few on Gunbroker with upper handguards for $35), but I've been thinking something that will never hold any real collector's value. I was thinking of getting a Tapco or ATI stock and modifying that to take AK drums, as well as getting an AR-15 stock adapter. So that's my current project. First, I have to get the drum itself, which I'm going to get whenever one of my IRL friends gets enough money to buy my Wii that I haven't used in 5 years. I might just get a fiberglass stock and put an AK pistol grip where the bayonet slot is (my SKS-NR doesn't have a bayonet) for truly tactical applications. I figure that wouldn't cost me more than $50 with shipping, whereas a Tapco or ATI stock (although I would prefer one of the old Combat Exchange folders) would be significantly more.
Here's another drum fitting mod:
This one was done by someone a bit more professional and you can really tell.
My current plan is to get an ATI sidefolder and an AR-15 stock adapter that someone on another forum is making. It will end up looking a lot like this, but with a MOE stock:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/P1050035.jpg
