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So right now I'm in the process of gradually building up an AR that will be used mostly as a jack of all trades rifle, where it needs to be accurate enough to reach out and punch paper at a half a mile when I visit with people who have backyards of that sort. It also needs to be light enough to...

So I am planning on attending an appleseed tomorrow, so earlier this week I decided rather than pay fifteen dollars for a ten round factory magazine I would rather pay 15 dollars for a fifteen round magazine. Now I knew before I got them that the 15 rounders had a bad rap, but since I didn't...

So the other day there were some (small) animals fighting noisily outside of my house, and they awakened me early. I wanted them to stop fighting and to go to somewhere else if they wanted to fight, so I grabbed my airsoft gun (classic army m4) and proceeded to go outside to chase them away. I...

So what determines how many lands and grooves will be in a barrel? What determines the optimum number for a caliber? I'm just wondering because my .22 has 16 groove rifling and my Garand has four, but barrels with 6 grooves can be had for it. ??

Before you tar and feather be for bubbafying the holy natural wood appearance of a garand, I will tell you that my wood stock was developing a crack behind the heel of the receiver, and, by installing a synthetic stock I was actually protecting the tremendous wood! -Initial Impressions. I...

I just got a sling for my .22 and when I was fiddling with it I noticed that when I get in a hasty sling while prone it tends to tip the gun clockwise. When I noticed this I also remembered that the same thing happens with my Garand. Is it normal for this to happen or am I using the sling wrong?

So last night I was thinking about my .22 and realized that the magazine holding-in piece was still bent out of shape from when I flew with it. I decided I would call Marlin and ask them if they would fix it for free. They were closed so I decided I could fix it myself, after all it is just a...

So I've been trying to find some good statistics for a paper that I'm writing, but the most recent I have is from 2001-2002 that is an ATF estimate of there being 259 million guns (in private hands I think). Does anyone know where I can find some better data than this? Have there been any...

I will be flying out to go on a hunting trip later this month, and I need my gun in order to shoot things. I'm wondering if anyone has flown out of O'Hare (or Midway) with a firearm, and if you had any problems. Looking at the Chicago laws I seem to be ok, because I am allowed to posses...

So the magic fairies dropped some of this right in front of my face And I need to know what to do with it, but before I know what to do with it I need to know more about it. A quick googling reveals little, other that the fact that it seems rather obscure, so now I am inquiring of the...

So I've cleaned the bore on my Garand with patches and Hoppe's 9 a bazillion times, but it still comes out looking like this. How much cleaning does it take to get it all the way clean?

So I've been reading 196scoutmaster's thread about his new Garand and people have been giving conflicting statements about the ability of using heavy 30-06 ammo with an adjustable gas plug. Now I know that you could take any 30-06 round and put it in a Garand and it should go boom, but what I'm...

So my friend and I went to the CMP store and were able to find a couple Field Grade Garands with good metal. We both got one and I like mine very much but it does one thing which could be normal or a quirk. When a full clip is inserted the round is not chambered all the way, a shove on the op...

So my friend and I are planning on going to the North Store later this week :) and he is looking to get a good shooting Garand. I'm wondering how it is all set up. Are the rifles just organized by grade and manufacture, or are they marked more specifically? (e.g. more precise muzzle gage)...

I'm looking to get a shotgun before this fall, so I'm not in too much of a hurry. It will be used mostly for geese in the near future, but in the long future I might use it as w/ slugs for deer. These two models have interested me the most, and I'm wondering which is a better value to get if I...

It so happens that I need to get rid of some ammo that has gone bad. You can see that it is not shootable so I can't get rid of it like good ammo, which I know how to use up. ;) I'm wondering if it is a good idea to throw it out in the regular garbage or if I should take it to some special...

I'm new to this forum and pretty new to guns in general, and I'm looking for some advice on a good centerfire rifle for me to buy. I think that I've developed pretty good shooting techniques with .22's and air guns so now I'm looking to buy something that goes BOOM instead of boom or pffft...