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It's a decent article, but just this guy's opinion, no real facts. BTW, by far the most widely used rifle of both the Winter and Continuation wars in Finland was the M1891 ...

It's actually "obrez", which translates loosely to "cut down", or "sawn off". I wouldn't call any of the abominations I posted earlier an obrez though ... Just messing with you

You have to be quick on the draw to be more of a smartass than me ...

You're showing your age now. Inflation has made it $5 bills ...

It's a dark path you're on ...

A couple more that will be more typical for TGO ...

No tricks, no treats, no kids, same as the last 30 years that I've lived here. Having a reputation as a grouchy old curmudgeon who owns guns has its perks ...

Each to his own of course. I've often advised people that if they are looking for a rifle to shoot often, with accuracy, there are better choices out there than Mosin Nagants. These were battle rifles, designed to kill people, not deer. The original Mosin Nagant performed relatively well in its intended use, a simple, robust rifle that could be manufactured in large numbers cheaply, as well as fired and maintained by a mostly illiterate and untrained peasant army. While the Finns did a lot to improve the shootability and accuracy of the Mosin Nagant, modern rifles like the Ruger American series will outperform them many times over right out of the box. Many shooters today often complain about the ergonomics of the Mosin without stopping to consider that the average stature of an imperial era Russian soldier was something less than 5'6" tall, and these soldiers were often clad in several layers of bulky clothing. Thus the short length of pull worked well for these users, not so well today. Along the same line of thought, you are probably aware that many collectors (certainly not all) basically never shoot these guns, and factors like bore condition, shootability and accuracy are irrelevant to them. I have several that remain unfired (at least by me), I have no idea what the bore condition is on these as I've never bothered to look. This is of course unthinkable for shooters, however the original question was "who buys these", once upon a time I was one of the intended purchasers of rifles like the ones listed by the OP ...

In the case of the M39's mentioned by the OP, as well as Classic's other page of M39's currently available, the answer is collectors. The $1200 rifles are Tikkas. These are the rarest of the M39's that (sometimes) come to market. From looking at the rifles listed in the ads, these are the later (1940's) Tikkas, had these been some of the even rarer 1920's dated Tikkas they would have sold quickly for this amount. The remainder of the M39's currently listed by Classic are SKY models, another relatively rare variant, as well as some of the harder to find dates of VKT's and Sako's. M39's got a lot more expensive a few years back when Classic bought the last of the Pat Burns hoard and did a marvelous job of marketing them, prices went up overnight by about 30-50% and have remained there since. Also, just as an FYI, there are far more expensive Finnish and Russian variants out there, I watched an M1907 carbine sell for $2800 on Gunbroker just last week - that's actually quite a bargain for one of those. Unfortunately all my "fun" money is going to another, more expensive hobby now ...

If it's not, you're on the wrong SKS sites. The website referenced by the OP has been around forever. I'm not into SKS's, but even I have known about it for ages ...

And with this year not counting towards eligibility, Gitmo could be quarterbacking for the Vols again next year too ...

Good luck with that one ...

And the time before that, and that and ...

AMC is ending TWD after season 11, which will be aired in 24 episodes during 2021-22. This in addition to 6 add-on episodes to the current season 10 which will begin this November. Counting tonight's "season finale" (which really isn't) means there are 31 episodes remaining ...

I've owned a blue. 4" Security Six since about 1978. Never owned a snub, but I did pick up a very nice 6" stainless model a couple years ago ...

Don't expect the used truck market to cool much, if any, between now and spring ...

Any takers on how long before it becomes a "gays" thread ...

Some will, others won't. Probably the easiest way would be for the OP's friend to pick the gun up, take it back to Kentucky, then do an FFL to FFl transfer ...

Thrust has to be more than the weight of the engine, fuel, etc. plus the pilot and any other hardware onboard. As for fuel, that depends on the weight, type of engine, type of fuel and several other factors. If this contraption has no lifting surfaces, i.e. wings, then yes it takes a lot of fuel to lift you that high ...

Yes, it violates both separation regulations and common sense. I doubt he has the capability of moving out of the way as fast as the jet flies on approach, and he obviously wasn't sporting a transponder or other means of identification, so contact with other airplanes was a natural outcome of being where he was. I don't have a LAX Terminal Area Chart available, but I also doubt he was in one of the VFR corridors that don't require a bravo clearance, so once he gets tracked down he's liable to have a number of violations charged against him. He should have gone well outside the bravo airspace around LAX to make his Darwin Award attempt ...

At the same altitude, negligible. Wakes tend to travel back, and down from the wings ...

Nope. In 1972 I was out in the yard, blowing stuff up with firecrackers and such ... Thanks, but it remains to be seen how much determination I have. As for skill, I'm afraid not very much ...

Back during the Great Panic of 2012-2013, Brownells had Pmags on sale. The day of the shooting, I ordered a dozen each of 2 different types, right before the sale prices went away in the rush. I had the option to cancel, or wait. Since no charges had been made against my card, I decided to just wait them out until such time that orders were either filled or canceled. Periodically Brownells sent out emails over the next few months asking if anybody wanted to cancel and giving updates on their attempts to fulfill outstanding orders. About 10 months later I got an email that my order had shipped and a few days after that 2 dozen Pmags arrived. My experience is then that Brownells does what they say they will, even during extraordinary circumstances ...

Avionics installation is such a long way down the road that I don't have any definitive plans yet. My first inclination would be to do everything "in-house", but I have a few years to make that decision. As for getting it done "soon", right now I'm getting close to completing the empennage kit (basically the "tail feathers", i.e. the control surfaces at the rear of the plane as well as the "tailcone", which is the last 8 or 9 feet of the fuselage) after about 9 months of work. There's a few years left to go ...