The US of I fucked up bad...

[VonBonfire]

Well, I am no AK expert that's for sure so I will defer to you. The Saiga, while not my favorite by a long stretch, is the only external mag fed shotgun that isn't a piece of shit though. Well, besides the AA12.

I'm def no expert. I wanted a Galil but didn't trust the Century build and the quality Galil kit builds were extremely scarce and $$$. So I was going to settle with a Czechpoint CZ-58 which is a high quality build and a better version of an AK in many respects and that rifle I mentioned came up for sale over on the AK files so I grabbed it immediately.

 

[Floyd Eye]

I'm def no expert. I wanted a Galil but didn't trust the Century build and the quality Galil kit builds were extremely scarce and $$$. So I was going to settle with a Czechpoint CZ-58 which is a high quality build and a better version of an AK in many respects and that rifle I mentioned came up for sale over on the AK files so I grabbed it immediately.

The Jericho is a better built CZ-75, allegedly. I have never handled one the only CZ-75 I shot seemed fine.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Agree 1000% on the VP9... I have 6.
HK45 is really smooth too.

My SIG X5 German custom shops in SS are really nice and super smooth. Super easy to clean too.

I've moved on in handguns to 2011 race guns like Staccato XC, Staccato P (for carry), Atlas Nemesis, CZ Shadow 2 Custom

I only have 3, but they're all different and all great. HK45 Tactical or Expert one, is definitely on the shortlist.

Can't bring myself to by a 1911 in 9mm, but if I did it would definitely be a Stacatto. Though some of the Wilson shit and Ed Brown shit looks good too.

If I'm being honest I am not a massive fan of hammer fired, steel framed 9MMs. I'm actually an old school .45 guy, but have moved on largely to 9s for the massively increased capacity and lighter weight. Something I never would have dreamed of doing before modern ammo closed that gap up significantly. My first striker gun was my XD Mod 2 in .45, which is the 4" "Service model" and 13+1. It's a great fucking shooter and accurate as fuck to boot.

 

[VonBonfire]

The Jericho is a better built CZ-75, allegedly. I have never handled one the only CZ-75 I shot seemed fine.

Those Jerichos are a great gun supposedly but CZ makes a damn nice gun so is it better? I dunno. I actually tried to get a Jericho when I was pistol shopping before covid. It was listed around $650 but the armlist seller would never return my messages. So once again I made a plan to grab an updated Beretta, the M9A4 (or something like that), which were popping up all over armslist in my area for around $850 at the time and once again my plans changed when that Tanfog stock iii popped up. It's basically on the same level of the Shadow II I wanted the most but couldn't afford.

 

[Robostyle]

Chosen to do what?

Control banking, money lending and finance throughout all of written history?

And then they moved to Hollywood...

I keep reading that they owned the slave ships that brought Africans to the Colonies way back when.
No idea if it's true or not though.

 

[Wizard of Ozz]

I only have 3, but they're all different and all great. HK45 Tactical or Expert one, is definitely on the shortlist.

Can't bring myself to by a 1911 in 9mm, but if I did it would definitely be a Stacatto. Though some of the Wilson shit and Ed Brown shit looks good too.

If I'm being honest I am not a massive fan of hammer fired, steel framed 9MMs. I'm actually an old school .45 guy, but have moved on largely to 9s for the massively increased capacity and lighter weight. Something I never would have dreamed of doing before modern ammo closed that gap up significantly. My first striker gun was my XD Mod 2 in .45, which is the 4" "Service model" and 13+1. It's a great fucking shooter and accurate as fuck to boot.

Double stack 9mm 2011 is peak handgun nirvana for me. Capacity, soft shooting, fast target requisition... smooth.

My Dad always carried his Colt 1911 cocked loaded, and tucked in the wide waistband of his Sans-A-Belt Limited Polyester Slacks.

I always would wait for the day that thing would fall out and fire... never did.

Ed Brown makes a great 1911. I thought about getting one... but the limited capacity bugs me. Same with Wilson Combat and NightHawk... but the NightHawk FireHawk 2011 on the other hand...

For carry: Striker fired poly-9mm-pistols.

... but I do like to carry my W. German SIG P226s on occasion.

 

[VonBonfire]

Double stack 9mm 2011 is peak handgun nirvana for me. Capacity, soft shooting, fast target requisition... smooth.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Double stack 9mm 2011 is peak handgun nirvana for me. Capacity, soft shooting, fast target requisition... smooth.

My Dad always carried his Colt 1911 cocked loaded, and tucked in the wide waistband of his Sans-A-Belt Limited Polyester Slacks.

I always would wait for the day that thing would fall out and fire... never did.

For carry: Striker fired poly-9mm-pistols.

... but I do like to carry my W. German SIG P226s on occasion.

Anytime I’m dressed, eh, other than casual, I carry one of the 1911s, cocked and locked, in a leather shoulder rig. I feel like it’s what Cary Grant would have carried if he was a gun guy.

 

[Floyd Eye]

I don’t compete. I’m pretty much a pragmatist when it comes to guns. I train for the most likely things I would ever encounter. So I don’t spend much time just punching paper other than a few rifles for longer range stuff. Well and in my old age I’ve acquired a taste for old ass .22 rifles which I outfit with way too big of scopes to be practical just because it’s fun.

Almost all my time is spent working on something specific I’m trying to improve or maintain. As such 90% of the time I’m shooting mid size 9mm strikers, semi auto shotguns and either 10.5” or 16” AR-15s. Occasionally I will shoot just for fun and break out some vintage steel. Maybe my old ‘97 or my Ithaca 37, the old Colt 1911s or the utterly ludicrous KSG25.

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

Rik Mayall as The New Statesmen is THE funniest series ever made.

If you haven't seen it you SHOULD...and now.

My pick for funniest series of all time (modern, not cartoon) is The Larry Sanders Show. I thought it blew Seinfeld out of the water.

Jeffery Tambor (Hank) was sublime. And Linda Doucette was pretty easy on the eyes.

By modern I'm separating out classics like The Honeymooners and Lucille Ball and Get Smart and a dozen other old great ones.

I said non-cartoon too because South Park and The Simpsons are absolutely magic but it's not fair to compare a cartoon to actual actors.

 

[VonBonfire]

I said non-cartoon too because South Park and The Simpsons are absolutely magic but it's not fair to compare a cartoon to actual actors.

I hate cartoons. I don't understand why I do, but I hate them. South Park, Simpsons, King of the Hill. I hate all that stuff.

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

I can understand. There's a style of cartoon art that I find hits me like nails -> chalkboard. Tim Burton style

Do NOT like.

 

[NoHassle]

My pick for funniest series of all time (modern, not cartoon) is The Larry Sanders Show. I thought it blew Seinfeld out of the water.

Jeffery Tambor (Hank) was sublime. And Linda Doucette was pretty easy on the eyes.

By modern I'm separating out classics like The Honeymooners and Lucille Ball and Get Smart and a dozen other old great ones.

I said non-cartoon too because South Park and The Simpsons are absolutely magic but it's not fair to compare a cartoon to actual actors.

Larry Sanders was FAR MORE FUNNY than Seinfeld will ever be.

It was a tremendous show and a true ground breaker and Hank was REALLY hilarious.

The classics like Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, F Troop etc...will never be equalled as back then talent had to be real and the laughs were actually earned.

We could look at some of the British classics too...some of them were genius and a few adopted and redone by us which most of them didn't equal their British original.

 

[NoHassle]

I can understand. There's a style of cartoon art that I find hits me like nails -> chalkboard. Tim Burton style

Do NOT like.

I agree and Daffy Duck seriously should have won an Oscar.

Daffy Duck was so human like in behaviour it was amazing that it was a cartoon and kids loved it.

Foghorn Leghorn and Miss Prissy with her son was monumentally funny.

True classics and Mel Blanc will never be surpassed.

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

Larry Sanders was FAR MORE FUNNY than Seinfeld will ever be.

It was a tremendous show and a true ground breaker and Hank was REALLY hilarious.

The classics like Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, F Troop etc...will never be equalled as back then talent had to be real and the laughs were actually earned.

We could look at some of the British classics too...some of them were genius and a few adopted and redone by us which most of them didn't equal their British original.

I never mentioned two brit shows I liked as a kid because I didn't think anyone would know of them. Hancock and The Sykes Show.

Humor so dry it could dehydrate fruit. They shaped (warped) my sense of humor for life.

And I agree about Daffy, and Mel Blanc, and all the Bugs' characters. Genius. Those guys must have been smoking something when they created those toons. The early Woody Woodpecker and early Popeye were great too. I thought Hanna Barbera brought the quality of cartoons down, even as a kid I noticed the repeating backgrounds and simple line drawings.

 

[70 Mach 1]

heres the OPs family portrait.

 

[NoHassle]

I never mentioned two brit shows I liked as a kid because I didn't think anyone would know of them. Hancock and The Sykes Show.

Humor so dry it could dehydrate fruit. They shaped (warped) my sense of humor for life.

And I agree about Daffy, and Mel Blanc, and all the Bugs' characters. Genius. Those guys must have been smoking something when they created those toons. The early Woody Woodpecker and early Popeye were great too. I thought Hanna Barbera brought the quality of cartoons down, even as a kid I noticed the repeating backgrounds and simple line drawings.

I haven't seen Hancock (1963) and I didn't see The Sykes Show (1972).

I've seen Eric Sykes in other things and he's great value and funny. "The Plank" was a true classic and so simple.

Yes, the Brit humor is way dry and sophisticated compared to our sugar coated spoon fed shit. So many of our shows are dumbed down for the masses so that's NOT a good look for us.

And let's not forget the Irish and their legends...A REAL comedian was Dave Allen...nobody on earth could tell a story like he could.

 

[JamesTiberiusKirk]

Eric Sykes had an earlier show. With his 'sister' Hattie. Hang on while I google...

It was called "Sykes and a ..." I remember the episode "Sykes and a Bath" where he gets his big toe stuck in the bathtub spout. I was around 8 years old and I thought it was the funniest thing ever.

The other episode I remember, and this might have been Tony Hancock, is where he gives blood but then cuts himself (a tiny little finger cut) and goes back to the hospital to get his blood back.

Tony Hancock committed suicide iirc.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Are You Being Served
Keeping Up Appearances
As Time Goes By

 

[NoHassle]

@Floyd Eye @JamesTiberiusKirk

Watch this...A LEGEND and hilarious!