Crap Guns That Can be Decent With Work

[bobski]

no no no no......
you fix it use it throw it away! thats why its a sat night special!

 

[The.Tumbleweed]

Sorry about that Ride.....my life between being in the "Canoe Club" and busting bad guys has been a life of acronyms.....

ORC to me is a headache......Organized Retail Crime.




I knew a few who demanded to be held accountable as the same PRT as the guys......command would not allow it. So, there was one who worked ORD ADMIN that would run PRT per female regs.....and then to prove her point she would run the guys PRT...pushups, sit ups, sit/reach and the run. I wonder what ever became of her.....a tough but fairly pretty rock that held her own but played for the other team.....



Ahhhhh.....PA Lager......it's everywhere here in bottle, can and draft. When in a bar here all you have to do is ask for a "lager" and you will get a Yuengling Traditional Lager....unless you are Pittsburgh....it's all Iron City to those folks.

I prefer my PBR.

 

[Ride1949]

XUSNORDIE said:
Sorry about that Ride.....my life between being in the "Canoe Club" and busting bad guys has been a life of acronyms.....

ORC to me is a headache......Organized Retail Crime


I've known some folks that liked to toss in a lot of acronyms when they talked. They all sermed to have something in common....

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Please define junk. You will probably get many I own. I think I might be too accepting of low quality.

Junk isn't about price. It's about construction. For instance, the Bearman derringer I described was a Bond ( a good quality MFR.) knock off that looked the same. However, it's safety was useless, the trigger pull was almost a two hander, The extracter kept slipping. The gun itself is of Zamak ( zinc alloy), which is not the super best alloy for guns, is safe enough for the .22 WMG version. However, the Bond version is made of stainless steel, which is better.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Telling us that you "don't have to compensate" is, in itself, a form of compensation.

Hey, I didn't post pics. Take what you can get.... ;-)

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Why would one buy a "crap" gun anyway? I can't imagine someone seeing a low price gun/low quality/bad reputation and saying "I will take it" with the intention of making it into a real shooter". Just buy a decent gun to start with....unless you are buying it on a street corner and its wrapped in a brown paper bag.

Some come as gifted, some folks have lower budgets, some have yet to learn about what they buy. Crap happens sometimes.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

I drive a Honda Civic.

So you can basically cut a hole in the floor, and use yourself for an emergency brake..... ;-)

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Back in the day took a lot of Ravens, Davis, Jennings, Bryco, Sterlings off of thugs during apprehensions than actual reputable guns. Then things changed......the thugs feel in love with Glocks.

Just to put the OP at ease.....we didn't wear masks when we thumped the types of scum your heart bleeds for.....

Just so you know, I understand and appreciate that the real deals don't need masks, and you have my utmost respect.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

I foolishly bought a Glock 17. It's the only gun that I ever had that broke while shooting it. The recoil spring guide broke in the first box of ammo which locked the whole gun up. I also spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get a decent trigger. Har! I collected a box of springs and connectors (including ones not available to the public at the time) and tried every combination. Trigger always sucked. I sold it to a Marine.

I thank you for that. So many pray to Glock 9s right now, and I wouldn't buy one on a bet. Glocks can be good, not God.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

I've always looked for that lowest price that gets me a product that does the job. For years I wore Timex watches because they told me what time it was for $20. Now I have a Pulsar. My brother would buy things like Movado but he didn't know the time any better than I do and was still late for things.

Interesting. Except for my dad's Speidel (yes, they made watches as well as bands- very rare today) I was always a Timex pocket watch guy.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Interesting thread. I had a Kel-Tec P-11. It worked fine other than the crappy trigger & the mags wouldn't drop free. I smoothed out the inside of the magwell so mags would drop free, heated the trigger in boiling water & reshaped it & put in a metal magazine catch I got from a guy on KTOG (I messed up the plastic factory magazine catch, my fault). The trigger was still lousy but it was decently accurate & worked just fine.
I had a Heritage Rough Rider .22 revolver. I added the .22 magnum cylinder. I wound up selling it but I never really had a problem with it.
I had a Taurus Millenium Pro PT-111 G2. It worked but I had a strong dislike for the trigger so I found someone else that wanted it & sold it.
There is a difference between inexpensive & junk. I know many here dislike inexpensive polymer framed pistols. Most I have shot have been reliable & accurate. I've never owned a Glock but I do own a cheaper Glock clone. I really like my M&P 2.0.

I am NOT a Taurus fan, so good that you got rid of it. I agree with price- not equal to junk. A perfect example are NAA mini-revolvers, Inexpensive, but VERY well made.

 

[Hvymax]

In my youth, it was a ten dollar bag of heroin.

It was pretty much a $10 bag of anything.

 

[old breed]

no no no no......
you fix it use it throw it away! thats why its a sat night special!

ok, you shoot it it explodes in a 100 pieces so you don't have to throw it away . it may even be biodegradable don't know never tried to eat one

 

[old breed]

ok hymax, your laughing at every thing i post . you must be as sick as i am. the more you laugh the more i'm encouraged. i keep telling people DON'T feed the zoo animals

 

[old breed]

Junk isn't about price. It's about construction. For instance, the Bearman derringer I described was a Bond ( a good quality MFR.) knock off that looked the same. However, it's safety was useless, the trigger pull was almost a two hander, The extracter kept slipping. The gun itself is of Zamak ( zinc alloy), which is not the super best alloy for guns, is safe enough for the .22 WMG version. However, the Bond version is made of stainless steel, which is better.

looks like a "zamak?" knock off of brass knuckles .IAO

 

[rugerguy]

after reading ALL these comments, it all still boils down to the use of the English language, and as Grandad always said "Ones mans junk, is another mans gold"

"Buy and use what you can afford and go on in life".. said Grandma

...now back to "Ford and Chevy"............

 

[old breed]

after reading ALL these comments, it all still boils down to the use of the English language, and as Grandad always said "Ones mans junk, is another mans gold"

trade you junk for your gold

 

[Armybrat]

So you can basically cut a hole in the floor, and use yourself for an emergency brake..... ;-)

Rough.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

I've known some folks that liked to toss in a lot of acronyms when they talked. They all sermed to have something in common....

Big, ugly and low IQ?.....that's my group of folks....

I prefer my PBR.

I will stick with MHL

 

[stonebuster]

Lucky, I guess to not have owned a "crap" gun yet. IMO, a crap gun isn't worth the effort needed to fill out the transfer paperwork.