Irrational Firearm Desires

[TGS]

Ooooh, yeah..The Russians ordered around 250,000 of them in 7.62..I’ve often wondered where they all went. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few crates of them in storage over there somewhere.. I had a M95 repro that Winchester was selling for awhile, but it was in .270.. I got in a tight spot and traded in to pay a debt.. but, a M95 in.270 just wasn’t right..if it had been in 30-06, I would’ve had a much more difficult time parting with it..

I would guess that most of them were war-time losses, given the Russians were losing about 200k rifles per month due to both destruction and capture. My next guess would be random still-hidden caches in Spain, as the Soviets donated a bunch of arms to help the Communist revolutionaries in Spain, mostly non-standard rifles that didn't fit into the system any longer.

Again, this isn't something in the irrational pile. There's some really interesting history with a lot of the weapons being named in this thread, all with legitimate collectible reasons to own. The Winchester M1914 was a really interesting part in the Russian WWI debacle. When a country is starting the war almost 1 million rifles short of their enterprise requirements that day, not to mention 200k/month combat losses on top of that, it's bound to create an interesting situation where they take in literally anything they can get their hands on, in any caliber provided ammunition came with the gun. They even bought hundreds of thousands of blackpowder Italian Vetterli rifles, not to mention pulling out their own blackpowder Berdans, and taking in French Remington Rolling Blocks in 8mm Lebel, Japanese Arisakas, ect.

The early breechloading-to-WWI arms history is really fascinating to me. Anyone with that itch should scratch it with the youtube channel C&Rsenal.

[ssb]

I want a 10mm M1 carbine. For... well, just because.

[CWM11B]

MP-5
S&W M-76
Marlin 1894 in .444 that keeps taunting me in one of my LGS
S&W M-25 with a 4" bbl
M2 .50

Just off the top of my head. Probably more if I think for a bit

[mtnbkr]

MP-5
S&W M-76
Marlin 1894 in .444 that keeps taunting me in one of my LGS
S&W M-25 with a 4" bbl
M2 .50

Just off the top of my head. Probably more if I think for a bit

Nothing irrational about at least two of those guns (the Marlin and M25). I have the M25 4", it's a sweet shooter. If I didn't already have a 4" 629, I'd probably use it as my hiking and camping gun.

Chris

[OlongJohnson]

Five-inch Model 60 for light-duty woods carry. Because it's 0.8 inch more than any SP101 and I have the grips figured out.

[jtcarm]

I want a 10mm M1 carbine. For... well, just because.

Is there such a thing?

I might be on board with that.

[BobM]

I definitely didn’t contact Sitting Fox Muzzleloaders for a quote on a Tennessee Poor Boy kit in .36 caliber earlier today.

I certainly wasn’t sitting around thinking about how a rifle like that would make a nice compliment to my .36 caliber Colt Navy reproduction...

Flint?

One of these days I'd like to get a nice flintlock squirrel gun.

[TCinVA]

Oh, fuck...the list would be endless.

- P7M13 because HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANZ

- MP5/10 because it is best millimeter

- MP5 because it is fun

- Tac13 with a RDS because it's pants-on-head retarded, but it's exactly my flavor of retarded

- Single-stack custom racegun because 80's racegun porn in gun magazines still works on my head

- Enough flintlocks to decorate my house the same way the Williamsburg governor's mansion is decorated because FUCK. YO. COUCH.

[RevolverRob]

Flint?

One of these days I'd like to get a nice flintlock squirrel gun.

Percussion. I wanted this one to be a historically improbable mate to my 1851 Colt Navy replica.

- Tac13 with a RDS because it's pants-on-head retarded, but it's exactly my flavor of retarded

I keep thinking I want to take one of your shotgun classes. Bring a LTT 1301 with a red-dot for most of it, but also a Tac-13 with a red-dot, because fuck it, let's get a little crazy.

And honestly, I feel like a few minutes shooting a 4-bore Blunderbuss - would also be a crowd pleaser. Do we want to see how a 4-bore patterns at 5-yards with three handfuls of buckshot in it? I think we do.

[OlongJohnson]

Five-inch Model 60 for light-duty woods carry. Because it's 0.8 inch more than any SP101 and I have the grips figured out.

Jeez, another reality check...

Been googling images of this thing, and the quality is the same shit show I see on other limited-production S&Ws. May require new parts to fix what was wrong with it when it (never should have) left the factory, but S&W doesn't have those parts, so you're scrood.

At least with a current-production Ruger, they'll fix or replace it with a serviceable one if it comes to that.