Bought a cheap AK-47 today

by **cavalierlwt** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:03 pm

I went to a gunshow with friend and wound up picking my next item of SINU (SINU=sh*t I'll never use). I was poking around a bunch of cheap Romanian Ak-47s, and was overcome by their coolness factor. I spent $350 which is about $50 too much according to everything I see online now. In the fall the Assault Weapons bill is scheduled to sunset , so prices will drop even further, making my purchase even more overpriced. But still, it does look pretty friggin cool sitting in my closet. Naturally, I'll be hiding that from my girlfriend as long as possible, and if caught I will tell her that I bought it off a friend for a $100 and I plan to get rid of it soon. Or I'll tell her to get her bitch ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie.
You can guess which of the two explanations I'll probably give her

by **Ryan** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:05 pm

MMmm... pie....

Sounds cool! Got any pics?

by **cavalierlwt** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:07 pm

haven't taken any pics of it yet, haven't actually even fired it yet. Just pretty much took it out the box, put an empty clip in it and admired it's innate coolness !

by **NGame** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:23 pm

I still find the M16 to be the overall "cooler" gun of the Vietnam era but the AK-47 is still in wide use today. I'd love to have one on display.

by **cavalierlwt** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:34 pm

My gun nut friends as well as friends in the military tell me the M16 is actually a pretty good weapon, amazing accuracy. I noticed the AR-15 were pretty expensive, many of them $900-$1200.
I would like to have an M1 Garand, but they are pretty pricey themselves. I saw a guy firing one at the firing range when I was a teenager and I have been in absolute awe of that gun ever since. Man, 30.06....need I say more? There's no such thing as getting wounded with that thing. You either got missed or killed.

by **cavalierlwt** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:42 pm

>>I'm next in line to inherit a muzzle loader that my great-great-grandfather used in the civil war.

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Those things were even more brutal. No range accuracy reliability, etc. But most of those things are over 50 cal in width. When they hit a limb, they essentially knocked that limb off. That's why civil war docs didn't bother, they just sawed (what remained) of the arm or leg right off. Course if you got hit in the torso you didn't need to bother with the doctor

by **NGame** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:52 pm

[i] Those things were even more brutal. No range accuracy reliability, etc. But most of those things are over 50 cal in width. When they hit a limb, they essentially knocked that limb off. That's why civil war docs didn't bother, they just sawed (what remained) of the arm or leg right off. Course if you got hit in the torso you didn't need to bother with the doctor [/B]

Apparently you'd be choking on your own blood while some Confederate laughed at you.

As for the M1, I'd kill for one. They were in such wide production during the war. I wonder what happened to all of em? :confused:

by Conscious* » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:12 pm

Originally posted by NGame
Apparently you'd be choking on your own blood while some Confederate laughed at you.

As for the M1, I'd kill for one. They were in such wide production during the war. I wonder what happened to all of em?

Museums, quit a few poeple still alive from WW2 and still have them.
As for me i'd rather have an Mp40 and a luger. :roll:

by **cavalierlwt** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:32 pm

Originally posted by NGame
Apparently you'd be choking on your own blood while some Confederate laughed at you.

As for the M1, I'd kill for one. They were in such wide production during the war. I wonder what happened to all of em?

I saw many of them today at the gun show. They were going for $800-900+
Springfield just started making them again in a limited series, they are getting $1300 for them.

http://www.springfield-armory.com/prod-rifles-m1-garand.shtml

They say the M16 is great cuz it wounds it's victim, requiring two people to drag him away from battle. The M1 Garand doesn't wound it's victim, instead it takes at least two people away from the battle to dig the poor guy's grave.

by **Dos Equis** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:33 pm

As for the M1, I'd kill for one. They were in such wide production during the war. I wonder what happened to all of em?

You can find them at about every gunshow here in the south, my father purchased one last year for $200.

by **cavalierlwt** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:46 pm

Originally posted by Dos Equis
You can find them at about every gunshow here in the south, my father purchased one last year for $200.

Up here, in NH, they are sooo expensive.

by **Kadian** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:59 pm

Was that the show over at the Manchester Armory??

by **cavalierlwt** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:18 pm

Nope, Concord. at the Everett Ice Arena.

by **Rand0m** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:43 pm

I would'nt mind a CAR-15, M16, and an AK-47.

by **PudriK** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 9:13 pm

My next gun purchase will definitely be an M1, although I'm not sure if I'd rather have a 40s era or a modern repro. Any opinions?

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