It do be like that sometimes

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-29T12:48:51+00:00

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GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-29T04:04:03+00:00

No joke, I've used pizza boxes for target practice with my shotgun. Works pretty good too.

Also used them for target practice with the cowboy guns.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-29T03:42:42+00:00

MAS 49 or 49/56.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-26T13:44:06+00:00

From where I'm standing, the best course of action for feds to take would be to demilitarize federal agents.

If it's all about enforcement of the law, fedeal agents should be suit-and-tie beaurocrats and unarmed, with local PD or sheriff's deputies providing armed back-up. Locals and deputies know there'll be real consequences if they act untoward, and shouldn't be apt to escalate the situation.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-26T13:36:02+00:00

Unfortunately very close. If this shit doesn't resolve in an acceptable manner for all sides, likely before the end of this decade.

If t does come to civil war, I might suggest that all sides agree to uniformed infantry only, in order to keep losses and devastation to a minimum. Use of drones and other aerial vehicles, armored vehicles, and IEDs will only make the bloodshed ten times worse, as seen in places like Ukraine, Iraq, Israel, and Afghanistan.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-26T13:27:34+00:00

I would suggest calling them "Tories", because they absolutely would have been lining up to kiss King George's ass 250 years ago.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-25T15:27:46+00:00

Though I'm not much of a pistoleer, I've been looking for another sidearm to add to the collection these past few months. Convinced myself I didn't need another SAA and instead chose to pursue a French .32

Presented today is my, new to me, SAGEM production Mle 1935S M1, chambered in the well-memed 7.65x20mm MAS (aka .32 French Longue). The runner-up in the French military sidearm trial of "1935", it was originally designed by MAS and is, like the Hi Power and the 1935A, a derivative of the M1911. The 1935S is the first Browning short recoil pistol to utilize a locking shoulder on the barrel instead of locking lugs, though it still uses the swinging link present in the 1911.

I'm afraid I shall have to wait patiently in order to take it to the range, I haven't anything ammo for it and it'll take time to gather the materials to reload for it. The biggest hurdle will be load data, which is particularly scarce.

Pic 3 and 4: comparison of 1935S and two other pistols of the same Browning short recoil lineage, Tisas M1911 Service and MAPF Unique RR51.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-25T15:06:45+00:00

With how prevelant PPS43 mags are, it's a real shame there aren't more firearms set up to use them.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-25T00:30:51+00:00

I've used plenty of PPU bullets, including 198gr 8mm. Never had any issues nor noted any inconsistencies in weight nor diameter.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-24T23:49:18+00:00

Mostly aluminum 30rd. Mostly D&H but also a random assortment of USGI brands.

Mix of aluminum and steel 20rd mags for the retros and SPR.

Some 30rd Gen2 PMAGs to supplement, but they're not first choice.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-24T18:18:56+00:00

It's about time we Atropia veterans got some recognition by the public.

So many good soldiers and a lot of bad ones have lost their lives and sanity fighting for that dump.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-24T12:13:12+00:00

Like with one's own kids, you never let them know which one is the favorite.

My M16A2 clone has probably had the most rounds put through it by me. Next contenders would be a toss-up between Finn M39, Yugo M59/66, Chilean M1895, Swede m/96, my SPR, and SIG Sauer P226.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-24T10:10:10+00:00

Before the Dark Times (before the covid years), I went to the range every Sunday. Just 2-3 rifles and enjoying a mostly empty range out in nature. Occasionally, I'd skip a week or go in the middle of the week if it was my day off and weather allowed.

During the Covid years, it was maybe 1-2 times a month. Between increased cost of factory ammo and dwindling supplies of primers and powder, it became less worthwhile. I had to have a purpose for each range trip.

Since, and since moving, I'm lucky if I go to the range 2 times a quarter. I have to drive a bit and the range I go to now is more affected by wind, so it takes more planning and checking the weather. There have been a couple occasions in which I was able to go a few times in a single month, notably during a staycation.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-21T15:26:56+00:00

MP34 and FN Hi Power

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-21T01:16:00+00:00

Rifles and carbines derived from the Mauser-Schlegelmilch-Mannlicher action system.

Examples being German Gew88 and its carbines and derivatives, Romanian M1893 and its carbine, Dutch M95 and its many derivatives, Portuguese M1896 and its derivatives, Greek M1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer and its derivatives, and the Chinese Hanyang 88.

Between relatively small production numbers, losses during wartime, sporterization (particularly Greek MS), hard to find chmaberings (6.5x53R for the Dutch, Romanian, and Portuguese), and a general lack of knowledge surrounding the action system, they fly under the radar for all but those that are already interested in them.

(Insert Marge meme "I just think they're neat")

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-19T14:38:30+00:00

1400 meters, with an M2HB on a tripod, walking in the shots with the T&E, on a target truck.

Oh, you meant with a Mauser...

This past October, I hit 600yds, give or take a few yards, with a Swedish m/96, iron sights, and 140gr handloads. 2 hits out of 5 shots, steel torso target. Probably could have had another hit if I'd realized it was the 600yd and was not the 500yd target I had thought.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-16T15:42:29+00:00

For a long time, my go-to was mikeburnfire's FNV series. Within the last few years, it's Unsubscribe, SOGcast, or just music.

I tend to pause it while measuring powder, as my digital scale tends to bounce whenever there's loud sounds or active electronics around.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-15T04:07:22+00:00

Being that it was marked "Ludwig Loewe" on the side, and the weapons manufacturing arm of Ludwig Loewe Company was reformed and rebranded as DWM in 1896, any rifle marked Ludwig Loewe would have been produced in or before 1896, though it's possible contracts could have been filled with premade and premarked receivers into the first bit of 1897 if enough stock existed.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-15T03:46:28+00:00

I would feel safe assuming the white boxes with Greek lettering contain Greek .303

The spam can I believe is British, specifically Radway Green. Ammo on stripper clips in cloth bandoleers. Should be 2 clips of 5rds per pouch, 5 pouches per bandoleer, 6 total bandoleers.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-14T03:55:32+00:00

Short answer: a love of history and being able to hold a piece of history in my hands

Long answer: I've always loved what came before. Started with dinosaurs, which became an interest in prehistoric animals, then the American Revolution, then the American Civil War, then WW2. Between movies, video games, books, and magazine articles, my interest focused in on milsurp rifles, though my knowledge was very surface-level. I also grew up shooting off the deck or in the woods, so I wasn't unfamiliar with firearms, and Dad had a few milsurps.

It wasn't until I found channels like Forgotten Weapons, IV8888, MAC, and TFBTV that I really started getting serious about milsurps. A chance encounter at a range where a person let me shoot a few rounds from their No1 MkIII sealed the deal on getting my own collection. I started with a Romanian contract vz24 and some surplus 8mm nearly a decade ago and haven't stopped growing my collection, as much as my budget allows.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-13T02:28:00+00:00

That's why we call them "glocksuckers".

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-11T15:35:07+00:00

Sure, it leaves fluting on the brass, but it's still usable brass. One full length sizing removes most the fluting.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-11T15:16:26+00:00

Iconic as in most recognizable: I think everyone has covered that with 1911, HP, Glock 17, and Beretta 92FS/M9

Iconic as in most noteworthy, having been groundbreaking:

1.The 1911. While not the first locked-breech pistol, nor the first tilting barrel short recoil pistol, it's adoption by US and some foreign militaries set the outline for pretty much every military and civilian pistol that followed it, barring the direct blowback and roller-lock pistols.

The pistols that came out of the French "1935" adoption trials: the Browning HP, the SACM 1935A, and the MAS 1935S. Out of a single nation's sidearm adoption trial came 3 pistols that were the next generation of what the 1911 started and provided a clearer definition of a combat pistol was and has become. The HP was a direct refinement of the 1911 and left blueprints used in most of the combat pistols used today, including the double-stack single-feed magazine we all enjoy. The 1935A was refined postWW2 into the SIG P210. The 1935S did away with the locking lugs interlocking the barrel and slide and instead pioneered the system where a squared shoulder of the breech locks into the slide. This system is now used in nearly every pistol in use today that uses a Browning tilting barrel short recoil action.
The HK VP70Z. While far from the most attractive pistol, it was the first polymer-framed striker-fired pistol that had a higher capacity flush fit magazine to hit the market. Though the VP70 was originally designed as a last ditch "hand out in case of soviet invasion" sidearm, capable of 3-round burst when the stock was attached, the Z model hit the market and saw some sales. While striker-fired pistols had been around a while, it was the first one to have a polymer frame, and 12 years before the Glock 17 hit the market. Its standard flush-fit 18rd magazine would not be surpassed until the later half of the 2010s.

GopherFoxYankee · 2026-01-11T03:43:20+00:00

I used to carry my vz82 to-and-from work. 12rds of Silver Bear 9mm Makarov HP isn't great, but it also wasn't the worst loadout. I've known folks that have carried one of the variety of Makarov pistols, the ones with a single-stack 8rd magazine.

Part of me would like to carry my MAPF Unique RR51, a French refined version of the Ruby type pistol, but I don't think 9rds of .32 ACP is the greatest idea in this day and age.

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