Pretty Cool, if completely useless!

This looks like a good way to keep the cats/raccoons/opossums/birds out of my garage! (if it weren't for the balls getting EVERYWHERE!)

Better watch that in Illinois, it's a 'Machine Gun' over there.
Air rifles are listed as 'Guns' over there, so this would be an automatic weapon in their draconian terminology...

 

Good post Larry. I'm on that that type of path for relaxation. Mines not ready to post yet and all hand made. It's been fun & aggravating. I'm on a break from it as I've not worked out some of the details of the firing mechanism.

As to a clue I'd say mine has a little more power and as of now it looks like a cross to if it belonged to a spaceman or a pirate. Google XP100 for an idea. I even hand rifled the barrel. While I don't expect it to be "match grade" it was fun trying to do it with hand tools.

I have already shot it plenty of times but it is no where close to done. The only thing I haven't made was a spare bolt I had laying around. The rest is scratch/hand made. I might update, post on it if I get it to where I don't think it would embarrass me too much.

 

That does look like a great little project. Illinois law is pretty nasty about firearms, and I have no doubt that if some Richard Edwards cop wanted to he could make life miserable for a guy playing with one. I might just do it anyway. Be a fun way to get squirrels off the bird feeder.

 

They get pretty stupid sometimes.
I was riding with a guy, when we got stopped at a sobriety check point,
They ran our ID's, and then wanted to know if there were any weapons in the car, which I didn't know, wasn't my car...
Then they wanted the search the car even though the driver said there weren't any weapons.

Turns out, several years ago, when living in a suburb of Chicago, he had been reported by his neighbors as having a gun in his back yard, which was true. He was moving things around making room in his garage for his kid's collage dorm room stuff,
And leaned a 'Red Ryder' bb gun against the garage.

Cops showed up, wanted to know why he was 'Shooting' in town,
Demanded to see is 'Firearms Owners Card' (Which at the time I didn't know existed...)
And they confiscated his kids 'Red Ryder' and gave him a ton of crap,

Then several years later, it pops up he has 'Illegal Firearms Ownership' attached to his name any time it comes up in the computer.

I saw a thread about the same deal on one of the firearms forums, that particular little bit of history popped up when he applied for a job with Boeing aircraft company and they did a background check.

ANYWAY, according to the guys on the firearms forums, (So I can't SWEAR to this, but sounds like Illinois to me...)
They use the word 'Gun' in their definition of a 'Firearm',
No 'Fire' needed,
So I guess a paint 'Gun' would qualify...

I stopped going over there for rifle shoots several years ago, and for the same reason.
We'd come out of the event, get pulled over, asked about the rifles, IN CASES IN THE BACK, and they would run every serial number before letting us go...

The couldn't' catch us all!
So we used to leave as a group just to give them a hard time!If you weren't the 'Chosen' it saved about an hour waiting for your serial number to NOT show up on the hot sheets.

Just a side note,
STOLEN guns show up MUCH faster on those hot sheets,
So if yours is legal, you wait, and wait, and wait...

In Indiana. you can drive down the road with a .30 Cal belt fed MG on the pedestal mount in a 'WW II jeep going down the highway, and they don't ask a question!

We got pulled over driving a '45 MB back from the machine gun shoot in KY.
Back full of brass, ammo, Machine Guns...
Got pulled over for doing 45 mph in a 65 mph speed zone.
Those little MBs max out about 45-50, and they are no speed demons up hills!

Anyway, the state trooper walks up, asks for licence and registration,
and we are talking...
He finally asks if we've been drinking, NO. Are there any drugs in the vehicle, Yes, I have a pill along for my migraines, but it's non narcotic, and there are 'Drugs' in the first aid kit, aspirins, anti-acids, stuff for diarrhea, the usual crap in a first aid kit,

There is a .50 BMG barrel poking out from under a tarp pointing right at his hip,
And he asks, Are there any weapons in the vehicle?

We look at each other and bust out laughing!
"YES!
Well, you mean besides this one? as I pat the 1919 .30 cal overhead?"

He calls it in, pretty soon, there are MORE cops...
They are there to LOOK and TOUCH!

The guy that pulled us over was a Jeep junky, and actually admitted to pulling us over so he could get a better look,
Two more that showed up were military firearms collectors...
They left fingerprints on EVERYTHING!
Great bunch of guys, guy in charge was an old Marine that used the Browning .30 in Viet-Nam, and we had a GREAT time...

I would HATE to live in NYC, I hear they are real bad about firearms ownership also...
The guys from Illinois and New York always have the best 'Horror Stories'...

I think in KY, they encourage you to buy firearms!
The guys from Texas are always a hoot! But they just got concealed carry fairly recently as I remember the stories...
A guy driving around with a truckload of inventory going to a gun show couldn't carry a side arm to protect them until recently, as the stories go...

I've divested all my class III stuff, didn't want the responsibility of ownership and waiting for 8 months to a year to buy anything was getting stupid...
Still, plenty of guys waiting to buy when you sell, so it's alive and well.

So what's the deal with that Firearms Ownership Card anyway, just keeping track of EVERY firearm in Ill.?
Is crime in Chicago the reason for that particular piece of red tape?
That's what I hear, don't know if it's true or not...

 

So what's the deal with that Firearms Ownership Card anyway, just keeping track of EVERY firearm in Ill.?
Is crime in Chicago the reason for that particular piece of red tape?
That's what I hear, don't know if it's true or not...

Currently, Illinois registers people, not guns. However, the mayor of the City of Chicago is looking to change that: Emanuel to push for state-wide handgun registry | WBEZ

 

My guess is that the politicians want to rid the Chicago area of all guns except their own. They will so any little thing they can to make firearm ownership more of a hassle, if they can't ban them outright. There was a very good push last year to pass concealed carry. Only failed by a few votes, although the governor said that he would veto it. Can't bring himself to veto a spending bill or tax increase, though.

 

I gotta try that, when I get the spare time..

TR. I lived in KY for 4 years and I thnk your observation that they encourage gun ownership is accurate. When I was there I was stopped a few times by KSP. Them boys dont mess around but never missed a beat when I would admit to having a weapon in the Jeep. One made a wise statement. "keep it under the seat and we dont have a problem, get it out and we will" was a good guy I think only talked to him for 5 min.

I am glad to live in indiana, they are reasonable. Not as good as some states but reasonable when it comes to gun ownership.

Now To put my AR together.

 

AR Jeff? Sounds like a good excuse for a road trip to me for some building. Or at least you might be able to BS PAtty.

 

Poking around at my new 7.62x39mm top end for an AR tonight in fact.
I have a 20" barrel version, with a lower that accepts AK mags and drums, and it's pretty accurate...
Never though I would say that about a 7.62x39, but the Colt barrel does pretty darn good, just under 2 moa groups off the bags with some the crap import ammo
Other crap import ammo won't do 4 moa.

I'm wanting a 16" barrel for wasting the cheap crap ammo when folks come to visit from the communist states that don't allow such things!
(...you left coast anti-gun people know who you are...)

That should keep the idiots grinning and keep my Colt barrel in good shape for when I want to shoot...
When I shoot, I don't need a 30 round mag or a 100 round drum, if you know what I mean...

Slow fire off the bags is what gets me cooking!
They can keep all the 'Whiz Bang' pistols, ammo wasting rifles,
Nothing like shooting a 10 shot group of .308 through one ragged hole!
Or reaching out there about 300-500 yards to pop something the size of your fist with a cold bore shot!
LOVE the new A frame bullets on the P-dog shoots, no clean up required!

 

Geeze, I go away for a little while and this is what it comes to,...dont make me have to get into redesigning high power pea shooters,...this is so sad,..Ive been gone way too long.
Bye the way good to hear from you guys!!!....even if you have gone soft:smirk:

 

Hey, Jeff. Glad to see you still check in once in a while.

 

Yes, this is the original H8, they just wont recognize my old name,..a$$ holes, who running this show?..I digress, I dont want to have to re-sign as H81000

 

Good to see you back, H8! Still doing the hard core stuff?

There have been a few others who left for a long time and couldn't use their original log-in. I never sis get a good explanation from the admins. one would think that if they remove a log-in for inactivity it would become available, not retired forever.

 

Good to see you back, H8! Still doing the hard core stuff?

There have been a few others who left for a long time and couldn't use their original log-in. I never sis get a good explanation from the admins. one would think that if they remove a log-in for inactivity it would become available, not retired forever.

I get out and drive every now and then in freinds rigs.
I'm the live announcer for CalRocs, Cal-Neva Extreme, and occasionaly Werock. And I race my sailboat. Thinking of building another rig in the future though,..definitely a SWB Jeep, and road legal.

 

HEy Dave! I need to call you back. Been so busy lately forgot about your call.

I will need to assemble the lower. THe upper I am ordering is already put together and headspaced. I am just trying to get into the platform without spending 1000.00. I agree we need to come see you. Patty asked me the other day when we were going to smoke some meat and go see you guys!

We will be halfway there today. Have to go to springdale to get some parts.

 

I'd sure like to see more of your posts.

 

Wondering why threads like this are allowed in the Jeep SWB section? Nothing Jeep or SWB Jeep related.

tinycj7

 

As it says in the Welcome thread, OT posts are allowed, but should have "OT" in the title. They're allowed here because we are a bunch of friends who enjoy each other's company. We share a common interest in Jeeps, but Jeeps are not our only interest. A lot of us are interested in firearms too, and a lot of us are interested in making things that aren't Jeep related. The only problem with LEVE's thread is that he forgot to put the OT in the title and, the last time I checked, I couldn't modify a title once it's posted. Sorry.

If it's too hard on your psyche to skip past an off topic thread maybe you shouldn't look at this site. There have been OT posts as long as I've been here, and will continue to be as long as I'm moderator, and probably long after that.

Sorry. I'm feeling a little cranky this afternoon.

 

Yeah, THAT will stop thugs from stealing guns and shooting people.