DaVca

lol at the conspiracy theories, its like reading Foucault's Pendulum from Umberto Eco :D - anyway its most definitely NOT some new ARG. BTW: Horse heads are awesome :D - http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/6696/img0614h.jpg

Can you back that up with some data from country thats not in civil war/war?

I’m not a big fan of kimber, but that’s partially maybe because they are overpriced here and partially because of all the extractor issues they had back in the day. About half a year ago I was buying new 1911 for personal protection. I wanted something with rail, extended grip safety, long beaver tail and some other custom modification. In the end I was deciding between Kimber Tactical Entry II, Springfield Operator and S&W 1911PD. I bought the S&W after I tried all of them. Mostly because of the price and how light it is. While shooting they all behaved pretty much the same. Since that I never regretted my choice. So far I fired 5000rounds (including tacticool shooting) with 0 (yes ZERO) FTF/FTE and I buy and shoot crappy cheep ammo (MFS, Magtech, S&B). I never experienced such reliability with any other gun. It REALLY depends what models (and from what year) you want to compare.

... thats sad :( I haven't seen any fullauto M16s around here (people in Czech Republic are usually not very interested in AR15 platform), so I have no idea what is the price for that, but prices for fullauto weapons here are very reasonable (FNFAL/G3A3 1000USD, UZI 700USD, PPSh41 270USD, M1A1 518USD). I love firearms, but I would never pay 14k USD for a gun, thats just crazy. But we are the country where beer is cheaper than water :D

What is the price tag on fullauto weapons in US?

Yeah, gun laws here are pretty awesome. I dint want the original plastic grips for TT, they are terrible (too thin for my hand, ugly and I cant get a good grip with them during rapidfire). Now I want to see how many surplus smg +P rounds from 1969 can it take before it will fall apart :D. M1 Garand is also on my list, but that would have to wait for my next salary. There are dozes Garands in every store for pretty reasonable price, but in .308W... :j: And that would be a blasphemy. So I have to wait for some shipment of reasonably priced 30.06s.

So far Im successfully following my new "one gun a week" policy :D. This is my new Tokarev-TT, made in 1939. Love that round, real beast. Next up - M1 Carbine and SVT40.

M14 from Norinco? Shop close by just got a shipment of those. I'm really considering buying one (its like 3 times cheaper than M14 from Springfield). However there is a lot Norinco haters everywhere (for a reason). I had 1911A1 from Norinco few years back, it was a nice gun, but had serious FTE issues. I had to use a screwdriver to take the empty case out in some cases. And thats pretty stupid especially when you have gun like that for a concealed carry... Some guns they made are complete trash (cz75 clones, Sig clones), some are pretty nice (welll for the price). No idea how good/bad the M14 clone is.

Its M44. I can get you detailed data once I get home and check all the markings on the rifle. I already have M38, but you never have enough of those. Cole - ...especially you should be :D http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinHumor.htm

Damn you Red Orchestra!

Thank God for Czech gun laws, you can own almost anything here. Sadly there are not many outdoor ranges around Prague. So you have to travel for an hour if you want to do some shooting on the move (well unless you want to pay a lot of money for MOUT facility in some huge service tunnel). However its not perfect. You can own a machinegun, but you cant buy a silencer or mount laser on your gun... Well I don’t care about lasers, but silencer would be neat. At one point I wanted to buy Mk23 SOCOM. I put so much work into it just to find out I cant get the model with lock slide feature. And its pointless to buy Mk23 without this and a silencer. But again I hope that gun laws will get better and they will allow the use of silencers. And so I’m not way too OT, some more of my guns: xD http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7802/20110203010x.jpg http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9255/20110203003.jpg http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/5343/20100813007.jpg http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/9215/dsc02558.jpg http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/7003/20100629012.jpg http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2582/pict0340.jpg http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/8594/dsc02419qh.jpg http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7313/dsc02078.jpg http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2706/pict0204kr9.jpg http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/8640/dsc01810wt2.jpg

Here are my tools of the trade. I’m not going to post every single gun I own, someone might end up accusing me for preparing coup d'état :D, so I took pictures of my favorites. I’m a huge 1911 fan, there was a time when I had 4 of them. Now I ended up with 1911PD from S&W. 100% reliable and very light (scandium frame), perfect choice for concealed carry. When I can’t conceal fullsize 1911 I go with cz83 (its only 9x17, but its better then PPK which I used before). And the rest on the photo are my two favs. SAA revolver (God I love the sound of that thing) and L1A1 SLR (my all time favorite rifle, G3A3 and HK51 are right behind on the list). Hopefully tomorrow after work I will pick up PPSh41 (DAMN YOU RED ORCHESTRA 2)... and the worst thing? That shop received shipment of FALs from FN... I guess I will have to eat only bread for the rest of the month. How many people have problems like that? That you end up spending all the money for guns you dont need? :p

Well if you are interested in some VBS2 stuff or interesting links related to warfare in general then you can follow me at @DaVcaCZ. I don’t post every day, but when I do, it’s worth it! D:

Recently I was using very expensive VR goggles (30kUSD). Two 1280x1024 less than 1†LCD screens, build head tracking and 3D effect. Not sure if all VR devices are like that, but this one wasn’t something mind-blowing. Picture was really bad and it made my eyes and brain hurt. Tech demos shipped with the device were pretty impressive (one of them was virtual apartment, you could walk around and do things and there was a dog sitting next to your feet. First time I saw him I literary jumped away, that’s how real it was); however I had serious problems while playing games. For example everything in ArmA was so tiny I couldn’t play it. I couldn’t tell if thing 100m away is a soldier or a bush. As I kid I always wanted VR helmets, I loved that idea, but I’m really skeptical now after what I experienced with device THAT expensive. I don’t think the tech is ready yet, maybe in ten years.

Legal/illegal - that really depends on what country you are from. But really nowadays it’s no fun. I would like to be a merc in 1960-1980 Africa (Congo, Angola). Doing a taxi driver in Iraq as PMC would really sucks. And I would have to cut my hands off if I was forced to use AK or AR :D