Gun Picture Thread

Unlike many, I'm not much of a "carry" guy. Despite that, I have been known to tuck a little pistol in my belt, for a late night "Copenhagen" run to the corner store. (*San Antone has become a bit of a criminal toilet)

That being posted...HOLY SHIT(!)...I just noticed the disparity between my little 30 Super Carry and .45 ACP S&W "Shield" pieces.


That little .45 ACP Shield definitely has more of the "psychological stop" and "Lincoln Tunnel" effect... 😳



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I scored my Colt A2 "HBAR" when I was about 17 or 18yo.

I'm 55yo now...



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I have another 20” AR that I keep locked in my truck, but this WW is a classic and will probably be handed down to one of my boys. Gonna get out and shoot it this weekend! The chrome lined barrel is supposed to be super accurate. We’ll see this weekend!
 
Slightly off-topic but I wanted to mention that i'm working on a very basic ballistics app for Linux, and would love any input any of y'all might have for what you would like to see in such apps, just got started on it a couple days ago and I do have a very basic working prototype, but there's a lot yet to do. Screenshot:
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And to keep it more on-topic, gun pic, Romy M-10, this was a DIY special with no furniture and some cosmetic issues (sight-cant, bad rivet, machining marks etc.) that I had to fix before I did the finish:

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Very nice. I think the most important thing for me would be that existing databases would be accessible, like ammo.com, luckygunner, etc.
 
I have another 20” AR that I keep locked in my truck, but this WW is a classic and will probably be handed down to one of my boys. Gonna get out and shoot it this weekend! The chrome lined barrel is supposed to be super accurate. We’ll see this weekend!


I've got...


My A2 HBAR,

My ol' S.W.A.T. M4 (*complete with A.R.M.S. rail and Comp M3), and

My GWOT M4 clone, like the rifle that carried in "The Suck" (*southern Iraq) in 2007...



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BOOM!!!...



 
I've got...


My A2 HBAR,

My ol' S.W.A.T. M4 (*complete with A.R.M.S. rail and Comp M3), and

My GWOT M4 clone, like the rifle that carried in "The Suck" (*southern Iraq) in 2007...



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BOOM!!!...



I have Aero mid length 16”, PSA mid length 16” for wife, Larue 18” , Windham 20”, Aero 20”. 2 are iron sights and others topped with Trijicon, and Aimpoint red dot/LPVO.
 
I have Aero mid length 16”, PSA mid length 16” for wife, Larue 18” , Windham 20”, Aero 20”. 2 are iron sights and others topped with Trijicon, and Aimpoint red dot/LPVO.
Nice, I always like seeing a couple or even a whole family out at the range, my wife is a pretty good shot herself but she's very short of stature so the rifles are a little burdensome and she's got a slight disability in one shoulder, so I built her an AR pistol. 10.5 CHF barrel on a Spike's Viking lower with an adjustable brace and all the trimmings and she loves it. She calls it "suchka" which is what the Russians actually used to call what we call a "Krinkov", it means "little bitch" lol.
 
Jonny, so you got the Glockamole version, remember to get a Nacho tan holster! 😂

It does give a proper meaning to the term

GREEN PIECE!
The lighting is bad on that pic, but it’s tan with a darker bronzish slide. The 19x is what Glock built as a service pistol to the military. As you know, government always goes with the lowest bidder, and not the best performer, and eventually went with the Sig 320 M18. Now in hindsight, I bet Big Gov wishes they went with the 19x, which is leaps and bounds safer and better than the Sig 320, which is a dangerous, piece of shit handgun.
 
Very nice. I think the most important thing for me would be that existing databases would be accessible, like ammo.com, luckygunner, etc.
Well that's the thing, before I started building it I had to figure out a philosophy of use, where it's "niche" is so to speak. And in the presence of constant internet access this app isn't truly needed as there are dozens of good online calculators. This is meant to be a standalone local app, one you can use even in the absence of internet. Out here in the heartland there are many many places to shoot out in the country, most of which you can't even get cell reception much less internet. So that's part of the reasoning behind it, a re-loader could take his chrony out to shoot and connect it to their laptop, run a few rounds to get a mean and standard deviation, then plug that data in to the app and compare trajectories at various zero distances.

Also handy for a guy like me, I have a shop/garage that's not connected to the house, and my router won't reach out there reliably. So I have an old laptop (2005) that I got running again, it is the music source for my shop stereo and also is used for Haynes and Chilton manuals, plans for various woodworking projects and other databases related to hobbies and such. This will be perfect for that machine as it's a very lightweight fast app, and I can simulate trajectories for various loads and optimize the process. And the database for it is not being done with sqlite or in .csv format, it's simple individual human-readable text files that can be printed out to take with you.

Yesterday I added all the logic for the save/delete/database functions, activated the searchbar, fixed some small bugs and behavior and added tooltips. Today is some tough math for me, got to figure out all the logic to add temperature, humidity and barometric pressure to the equations for more precision, and what's more i'm not putting in a simple field for the user to input pressure as that might be inconvenient if the user isn't carrying around a barometer, so what i'm going to do is use that "Elevation" field along with temp and humidity to calculate it on the fly, pretty easy to remember your elevation in the absence of actual measured BP, and BP is usually only measured in larger cities with airports and such, so what you see online and on TV might be many miles from your actual location.
 
Well that's the thing, before I started building it I had to figure out a philosophy of use, where it's "niche" is so to speak. And in the presence of constant internet access this app isn't truly needed as there are dozens of good online calculators. This is meant to be a standalone local app, one you can use even in the absence of internet. Out here in the heartland there are many many places to shoot out in the country, most of which you can't even get cell reception much less internet. So that's part of the reasoning behind it, a re-loader could take his chrony out to shoot and connect it to their laptop, run a few rounds to get a mean and standard deviation, then plug that data in to the app and compare trajectories at various zero distances.

Also handy for a guy like me, I have a shop/garage that's not connected to the house, and my router won't reach out there reliably. So I have an old laptop (2005) that I got running again, it is the music source for my shop stereo and also is used for Haynes and Chilton manuals, plans for various woodworking projects and other databases related to hobbies and such. This will be perfect for that machine as it's a very lightweight fast app, and I can simulate trajectories for various loads and optimize the process. And the database for it is not being done with sqlite or in .csv format, it's simple individual human-readable text files that can be printed out to take with you.

Yesterday I added all the logic for the save/delete/database functions, activated the searchbar, fixed some small bugs and behavior and added tooltips. Today is some tough math for me, got to figure out all the logic to add temperature, humidity and barometric pressure to the equations for more precision, and what's more i'm not putting in a simple field for the user to input pressure as that might be inconvenient if the user isn't carrying around a barometer, so what i'm going to do is use that "Elevation" field along with temp and humidity to calculate it on the fly, pretty easy to remember your elevation in the absence of actual measured BP, and BP is usually only measured in larger cities with airports and such, so what you see online and on TV might be many miles from your actual location.
The thing about ballistics calculators is that you still have to physically verify after your computations. This will show the human errors.
 
The thing about ballistics calculators is that you still have to physically verify after your computations. This will show the human errors.
For sure, this is just another tool, much like re-loading data itself it gives an estimation and a starting point for load development and subsequent refining. But nothing takes the place of real-world testing. I can build a motor and guesstimate it's HP and torque based on components used, but until it gets run on the dyno there's no proof.
 
For sure, this is just another tool, much like re-loading data itself it gives an estimation and a starting point for load development and subsequent refining. But nothing takes the place of real-world testing. I can build a motor and guesstimate it's HP and torque based on components used, but until it gets run on the dyno there's no proof.
Verifying the data and keeping a cheat sheet stuck to your stock will cover your bases. Then it’s up to you to make that hold, and execute that steady and controlled trigger squeeze!
 
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