If you lost all your guns when the canoe capsized on the Brazos you don't need to worry about cleaning them because they're gone, lost to the waters of the deep. But say, hypothetically, you were able to retrieve some of the firearms, perhaps with rope and magnets. Well then, you'd clean them.
Otherwise they'd be filthy, dirty, beasts and wouldn't work properly, and what's the point of a gun if it doesn't work? Speaking of dirty, I like gas guns a lot, they're fun to shoot, but they do get fouled up and take time to clean.
Thanks a lot, "gas impingement." Still, it works, and I like the low recoil of the .308/7.62 AR as much as I dislike the weight of the thing. Is it a deadly assault rifle? Good question, it's certainly black, so perhaps it is. Who knows, maybe it'll learn to take a thermal and assault the nocturnal porcuswine.
But that's in the future. In the meanwhile, I'm waiting for ammo prices to drop from their currently obscene heights; 50 cents per round for .22LR, really? Over a buck for a round of 5.56, what? And that's if you can find it.
Not that it matters, I lost all my guns when the skiff hit a reef in Lake Whitney and sank beneath the waves. What. A. Catastrophe.
#2A,
LSP
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Clean is good... NOT saying I'm old, but I used to pay $.50 for a BOX OF 50 .22... sigh
A man of the cloth wouldn't mislead anyone with a boating accident.
"Filthy Beast" always reminds me of Cary Grant in "Father Goose".
Can't say I recall 50 cents for a box of 50 .22's, but 99 cents, certainly. Most here know the adage "when it's cheap, stack it deep". Back in May of 2018 Brownells had some ammo on sale along with free shipping over the minimum, and they don't charge Texas residents sales tax. I bought "some" bricks of this stuff--
https://www.aguilaammo.com/ammunition/1b220328/
--for $22.49/brick.
I guess I’ll stick with my lever action Marlins
Concur with NFO, even a half buck was hard come by in those days. But yup, .50 a box for .22 - my old Winchester Model 67 had a great appetite for 'ém too. Used to buy .22 Rocket to dispatch rats at the dump. Great training for a kid with a single shot.
Stocked up well back in the obama days. Odd to hear about millions of people just now buying their first gun.
You could always get a piston upper. The Brownell's BRN-180 seems to work well.
Check out Ammo.com. They're pretty good guys and will do their best for you (if they have it.) They also have some great articles.
Their link is on my sidebar too (https://ammo.com/)
Yeah - we really need to haul out the Hoppe's and get busy too. Thanks for the reminder.
Happy Holy Week, LSP!!
NFO, the current price for .22 is ridiculous. Skyrocketed. And that's a bad shame because I like to plink. Hopefully it'll get back to normal before the year's out, please.
Exactly, WSF, not for a second. Treacherous things, boats.
Nice price, RHT, and smart to stack up.
Nothing wrong with that at all, Howard. In fact, I want one(s). Why do I not have any levers? Good question. I'm clearly in error.
Nice one, DB. I've had hours of fun with a Ruger American and an old JC Higgins, but started off when I was a kid with my uncle's Browning takedown. I enjoyed that rifle.
I mentioned Marlin 30-30 a while back. If I bought another, it would be either 357 or 44, depending on which revolver I also bought to go with.
Kid, the left are bizarrely good gun salespersyns. Smart of you to stock up.
I've been thinking about that, Jim. Good call.
I like Ammo.com, Adrienne, and they do their best. But even that's still very overpriced right now. I wonder how much ammo's being bought up by USGOV. Hmmmm.
Happy Holy Week!
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