On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 7:42:06 AM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 14:40:39 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 5:25:07 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 13:04:04 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 3:07:30 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 13:23:12 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 12:40:31 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:28:48 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 8:37:57 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:43:33 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 5:06:05 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 2:54 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 3:13:15 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 1:21 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 2:16:38 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:

Quiet counts when shooting zombies.

Exactly. Everyone knows a zombie is attracted to noise.

The Walking Dead is entertaining, but there are considerable gaps in the plot. 3-4 year old gas just seems to happily run. And it took forever for them to start using suppressed AR's. I'm not sure I've ever seen a .22 on the show. A suppressed .22 would be a perfect zombie eliminator.


Yeah, the gas thing usually makes me chuckle. Although, anecdotally,
I have seen gas weed-eaters that were not drained start after about 3
years. They did NOT run happily, though...

Your average .22 doesn't look impressive enough for a post-apocalyptic
TV show... that's probably why we don't see them. If you look online,
though, you can see a lot of manufacturers that make a .22 in an AR-like
configuration. I've been tempted to buy one. Seems like it would be an
insanely fun (and cheap) plinker.

Absolutely. S&W M&P 15/22. Eats anything thrown at it, tons of fun, can be made very quiet if that's your thing.


Ahh.. the key to surviving any apocalypse. A gun that doesn't care
what you feed it. That's what I like about my SR9.

I have a Ruger Mark III with a threaded barrel. Not many rounds through it, but so far it appears to be a good zombie gun as well. The Burris Fastfire 3 on it is sweet!

I keep telling myself I don't need a Ruger Mark III. I think I'm losing. Seems like
'the Hunter' would be a great zombie gun.
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I didn't technically get a Mark III. I actually got this one with the two picatinny rails.

http://www.ruger.com/products/2245ThreadedBarrel/models.html

I was going to ask how you mounted the Burris fastfire on the mark III.

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I have a Mark III Hunter with the fluted barrel. When I bought it the
top of the barrel was already drilled, tapped and fitted with filler
screws. All I had to do was back out the fillers and install a small
piece of Weaver rail. I assume that was done at the factory and not
the previous owner.

Just looked at the Ruger site. From the Hunter description:

"Accurate sighting system features fixed or adjustable sights and drilled and tapped
receiver for Weaver®-style scope base adapters for easy mounting of optics (adapters
included, not on fixed sight models)."

http://www.ruger.com/products/markIIIHunter/models.html

Good to know. Thanks.

Now, is the fancy grip worth $70? It is nice looking.
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Yup. And if you go with a Burris sight, they have dedicated mounts for the Mark III. They do make some really nice looking Mark III's. I already have a more traditional Mark I that I shot when I was a kid with my father. I wanted the unique features the 22/45 had.

Hush, damnit! I need reasons *not* to buy the damn thing!
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Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, audiophools, and narcissists...not guns!

You want a Burris #410329 Fastfire mount for Mark I, II or III.

Two questions, maybe more...

Did you have to remove the sights to install the FF? Did you do it or have gunsmith
do it?

If you follow the link I posted earlier, you'll see that the model I bought had no sights, just the rails. That was ideal since I wanted to put the red dot on it. I did it myself, it's easy.


When you have 392 zombies coming at you, will they actually stop when you say, "Just
a minute folks, gotta put in a new battery."

Burris says the battery life is 10000 hours. In zombie land it's forever.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 05:03:55 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 7:42:06 AM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 14:40:39 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 5:25:07 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 13:04:04 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 3:07:30 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 13:23:12 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 12:40:31 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:28:48 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 8:37:57 PM UTC-5, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:43:33 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 5:06:05 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 2:54 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 3:13:15 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 1:21 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 2:16:38 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:

Quiet counts when shooting zombies.

Exactly. Everyone knows a zombie is attracted to noise.

The Walking Dead is entertaining, but there are considerable gaps in the plot. 3-4 year old gas just seems to happily run. And it took forever for them to start using suppressed AR's. I'm not sure I've ever seen a .22 on the show. A suppressed .22 would be a perfect zombie eliminator.


Yeah, the gas thing usually makes me chuckle. Although, anecdotally,
I have seen gas weed-eaters that were not drained start after about 3
years. They did NOT run happily, though...

Your average .22 doesn't look impressive enough for a post-apocalyptic
TV show... that's probably why we don't see them. If you look online,
though, you can see a lot of manufacturers that make a .22 in an AR-like
configuration. I've been tempted to buy one. Seems like it would be an
insanely fun (and cheap) plinker.

Absolutely. S&W M&P 15/22. Eats anything thrown at it, tons of fun, can be made very quiet if that's your thing.


Ahh.. the key to surviving any apocalypse. A gun that doesn't care
what you feed it. That's what I like about my SR9.

I have a Ruger Mark III with a threaded barrel. Not many rounds through it, but so far it appears to be a good zombie gun as well. The Burris Fastfire 3 on it is sweet!

I keep telling myself I don't need a Ruger Mark III. I think I'm losing. Seems like
'the Hunter' would be a great zombie gun.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, audiophools, and narcissists...not guns!

I didn't technically get a Mark III. I actually got this one with the two picatinny rails.

http://www.ruger.com/products/2245ThreadedBarrel/models.html

I was going to ask how you mounted the Burris fastfire on the mark III.

===

I have a Mark III Hunter with the fluted barrel. When I bought it the
top of the barrel was already drilled, tapped and fitted with filler
screws. All I had to do was back out the fillers and install a small
piece of Weaver rail. I assume that was done at the factory and not
the previous owner.

Just looked at the Ruger site. From the Hunter description:

"Accurate sighting system features fixed or adjustable sights and drilled and tapped
receiver for Weaver®-style scope base adapters for easy mounting of optics (adapters
included, not on fixed sight models)."

http://www.ruger.com/products/markIIIHunter/models.html

Good to know. Thanks.

Now, is the fancy grip worth $70? It is nice looking.
--

Yup. And if you go with a Burris sight, they have dedicated mounts for the Mark III. They do make some really nice looking Mark III's. I already have a more traditional Mark I that I shot when I was a kid with my father. I wanted the unique features the 22/45 had.

Hush, damnit! I need reasons *not* to buy the damn thing!
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, audiophools, and narcissists...not guns!

You want a Burris #410329 Fastfire mount for Mark I, II or III.

Two questions, maybe more...

Did you have to remove the sights to install the FF? Did you do it or have gunsmith
do it?

If you follow the link I posted earlier, you'll see that the model I bought had no sights, just the rails. That was ideal since I wanted to put the red dot on it. I did it myself, it's easy.


When you have 392 zombies coming at you, will they actually stop when you say, "Just
a minute folks, gotta put in a new battery."

Burris says the battery life is 10000 hours. In zombie land it's forever.

Yup, I'd forgotten you had the rails on the 22/45 you have. Since I already have the
Colt 1911 A1 in .22, I would be more interested in a longer barrel now.

But I'm really *not* at all interested in a Ruger, especially the Hunter. ;)
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Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, audiophools, and narcissists...not guns!