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  1. Posted

     

    So since I started collecting firearms in February, I've had the same storage setup: a locked walk-in closet with firearms on display, and a small gun safe, fits 24 guns but i only keep room for a few and hold most of my ammo in there. The closet and the safe are both in my bedroom. The closet shares a wall with my bathroom - in particular, my shower. Due to some small cracks in the tiles of the shower, water has been getting inside the wall, slowly creating mold on the other side (in my gun closet.) It took a while for me to notice because i had an ammo bag and a few boxes of shotgun shells stacked exactly where the mold was forming, I only noticed when I picked up a box of shells and noticed it was wet. Upon further investigation, my firearms are damaged and I'm gonna guess it's from moisture. Here are some pics of the damage to just a few of the guns so you get the idea:

    https://ibb.co/mnU9gU

    https://ibb.co/nNcJap

    https://ibb.co/n8jyap

    https://ibb.co/fxBdap

    There is similar (but not as bad) small blue spots and rust on my desert eagle, walther p99 and two other ARs

    I'm getting the wall fixed and redone obviously, in the meantime I have a bunch of guns laying around my bedroom, and i'm looking for proper storage solutions. I bought 5 packs of 50-gram silica packs from amazon, as well as 2 eva-dry dehumidifiers. Here are my questions:

    1: what should I do about the firearms? I ordered all the cleaning supplies I could possibly find, but I don't really know what to do with them. I have mpro copper cleaner, hoppes rust & lead remover, and a bunch of different cleaning solvents and gun oils. Not sure if any of that is useful in this situation, but if it is, what should I do with it? I'm a novice at this

    2: From now on (after getting the leak and wall fixed) if i keep a dehumidifier in the gun closet, another dehumidifier somewhere near the safe, plus one silica pack inside of the safe, will that suffice?

    3: from 1-10 how fucked are my guns? i'm really neurotic about taking care of them, but like I said I'm also a novice at all the maintenance and storage stuff. Are they still in good enough condition? or am i looking at bad performance issues down the road?

  2. Posted

    18 minutes ago, Ray Ray said:

    Why even bother

     

    10 hours ago, Ray Ray said:

    Throw the friggen thing in the garbage before you blow the gun up, blow off a finger or a hand or lose an eye.  

    Ridiculous 

    man, you're really bothered by the fact that I like the look of the fake can lol. it's alright i appreciate your right to have a closed mind.:rolleyes:

     

    anyways i have my answer and don't know how to delete threads so i'm just gonna unsubscribe to it, thanks guys!

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  4. Posted

    update, if anyone wants to know

    took it to the range with the fake can yesterday, i let the rangemaster know before i took it out that i have a fake silencer and asked if it was cool, he actually thought it was awesome and asked if he could screw it on himself, which of course i let him

    didn't work though. i fired the first round and, first of all we still have no idea what happened to the bullet, but the brass got stuck in the ejection port and left the slide stuck halfway. There was nothing on the target but it is basically a statistical impossibility that i missed, i had the target VERY close at first just to test the can bc the sights don't reach over the can and i wanted to see what i was aiming at.

    the rangemaster was watching the whole time and he said he honestly believes that my first shot was coincidentally a blank, and that explains why the brass didn't eject (something about not having enough powder or something) but i don't know about that. He said i should try one more shot but i wasn't risking damage to the gun so i took it off and put 99 rounds through it just fine.

     

    tl;dr - it doesn't work but my gun seems to be ok. still gonna keep it on when its in the display closet at home.

     

    edit: also i obviously checked the inside of the can and it looks completely clean, so i really don't know what happened

  7. Posted

    59 minutes ago, Krdshrk said:

    If it's this one :

    https://www.pikearms.com/catalog/product/07581

    It's 8.3 oz.  

     

    Silencerco Osprey (one of the lighter suppressors) for 9mm is 9.8 oz.  

    https://silencerco.com/silencers/osprey/

     

    If that's the case, go for it!

     

    Also let me know how it is cuz now I want one.

    yeah that's it! cool, i'll try it out thanks!

    43 minutes ago, Ray Ray said:

    Why though?

    just because i like the way it looks, but i'm also not willing to sacrifice the integrity of the gun for it so if there's a technical reason not to keep it on, I'm all ears

  8. Posted

    sorry if this is a dumb question. I got this Pike Arms $30.00 fake can for my M9A3 because I like the way it looks. I know the general opinion in the firearms community about fake suppressors but since this is a NJ forum I don't expect tons of hate

    All I want to know is if I'm doing any long term damage to the gun by shooting it with this cheap, heavy fake can on it. It feels as heavy as the gun itself. I know the M9A3 doesn't have a floating barrel so there's no feeding issues to worry about, but when I rack it it just sounds like, heavy or something. I haven't shot it yet, so I'm wondering is it ok to shoot with this heavy and cheap thing?

    https://ibb.co/b8UGu7

  10. Posted

    1 minute ago, Krdshrk said:

    M9A3 has 1/2" X 28 threading, which is the right threading, but if you look at the "fake can" itself... it's meant to be screwed on to a rifle and will fit over the actual barrel itself, not as an "extension"... so no it will not work.

    Ah okay thanks! Dang i'm having a hard time finding a fake can to fit the m9a3 :(

  13. Posted

    Hey, if anyone's interested here's a solid update!

    My tinnitus has decreased significantly and i can only hear the ringing if i focus on it in a quiet room. It's completely tolerable and I am extraordinarily grateful for that!

    Went back to the range for the first time today and I let all my new firearms see their debut. I shot 9mm, 5.56, 12 gauge and .308 rounds at a packed indoor range with double hearing protection and my tinnitus was not affected at all. I know the .308 was loud for sure, cause the guy and gal next to me looked disgusted and jumped every time I set it off :wub:

    So, I know this is an old post but I am just very happy that I can safely get back to the range with all my new gadgets, and hopefully for anyone who had/has the same question I did - is it safe to go back to the range after noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus (gunshot noise specifically) - the answer is probably yes! just double up on earpro :)

    Now I feel safe saving up for a shiny S&W .460 XVR :D hopefully the sound doesn't pop fillings out of my teeth lol

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  16. Posted

    Just about to get my hands on a walther replica g36, since i'm going to have to take the flash hider off i'm wondering if it would be legal to have this on it.

    https://www.hkparts.net/shop/pc/Compensator-HK-416-22-Rifle-343p2207.htm

    if not, can anyone recommend some good options to replace the flash hider?

    EDIT: oops, realized that says its only for the 416. thought it might be interchangeable since the magazines are. Well, i'm still wondering if fake suppressors are legal and if anyone knows what i should replace the flash hider with, lol.

  19. Posted

    When I bought my Stag 15 Retro a few weeks ago, my FFL said i could order the 30 round mags pinned at 10 rounds since we'd be getting limited to 10 rounds but i wanted the longer look of the mag.

    Now I went back there today talking about a buying longer mags for the walther g36 replica and getting them pinned, and he told me that pretty soon we won't be able to have 30 rd mags that are pinned at 10.

    so what's the deal?

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, JohnnyB said:

    Frankie Raffaele Wrote:

    "so you're telling me its perfectly okay to keep them hanging like this indefinitely?

    Don't have to worry about the barrel becoming tilted upwards or something? Sorry if this sounds paranoid but I just want to keep them in the best condition possible."

     

    Look what those damn rods did to my M&P!:(

    It shoots a little high now so I just have to aim for the bad guy's feet!

     

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    that is precisely what I figured would happen after leaving them on there too long. thanks for letting me know to replace these with different racks.

    I don't like the racks that hold a bunch of handguns at once, I just want 2 separate handgun display mounts right now

  23. Posted

    thanks for the info! i keep them all locked in a very secured walk-in closet, but I do display them nicely in there for myself to look at! :wub:

    1 minute ago, RichP said:

    It will not bend or shift the barrel at all. But I would worry about scratching the bore or chamber; even though they claim that their powder coating will protect it. I would probably slide a piece of tubing over it just to be sure.

     

    Thank you! Is simply being very careful when I take it on and off a good way to prevent scratching it?

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