Cyrano4747 posted:

The best thing about that is that they're advertising full tang, when as best as I can figure out the "grip" isn't a grip so much as it's just cord wrapped around the metal. Full tang means something if you're talking about knives with actual handles that were made by forging or whatever, but it's pretty obvious that they just stamped this bullshit out of sheet metal and called it good enough.

The Lone Badger posted:

Isn't part of the fantasy that you unwind the grip so you've now got some string to do survival stuff with?

The Lone Badger posted:

Isn't part of the fantasy that you unwind the grip so you've now got some string to do survival stuff with?

Machai posted:

So they'll be easy to stab?

Dip Viscous posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8jLO2h1xvI

History! Not brass! Open screw tops!

Dip Viscous posted:

For just $30, you too can own $1.50!

goatface posted:

Aren't those gonna be some sort of brass?

Cyrano4747 posted:

Nope. Pre-1982 pennies were 95% copper with the rest being random bits of alloying material to make it harder, more resistant to wear, etc.

Post-1982 it's copper plating over a 99.2% zinc core.

You've also got some oddball poo poo in the mix like the WW2 era ones that were made out of steel (not even plated) to help with the war effort, but the copper mix is the same before and after that.

EorayMel posted:

What if you buy pennies from budk and then use those pennies to buy a sword from budk?

By popular demand posted:

Some people actually buy (or make) sorting machines and hoard the copper ones in hope that the laws preventing coins being sold for scrap get repealed, or maybe they melt them and sell the ingot on the down low.

By popular demand posted:

I wonder how long it will be before copper pennies disappear entirely then.
It's not a new thing and thanks to the internet everyone can learn how to do it.

Cyrano4747 posted:

They're already pretty uncommon in circulation. For the most part it's already the domain of collectors and other weirdos who are willing to pay far more for the raw copper cost of the penny.

Same deal with silver quarters. There are some weirdos who will get like $5k in quarters from a bank (iirc you have to special order them) and sort them for pre-1964 quarters to sell for the bullion value. tl;dr is that there aren't many left out there, it's incredibly tedious, and it turns out that $4995.75 worth of quarters is really annoying to unload if you're not a laundromat. Also a lot of banks adopted policies against accepting large change deposits specifically because of how much money those people were costing them (it is not free to have a loving ton of change delivered to a bank, sorted through by some silver bug, and then shipped back to wherever when they re-deposit them).

Cyrano4747 posted:

It's 100% the bolded part. This is one of those things where once you have an ingot it's pretty much impossible to know where the metal came from, your typical scrap metal buyer gives so little of a gently caress that they'll happily buy a catalytic converter with a ragged sawzall cut from someone with no front teeth, and smelting at the scale of an individual can be comfortably done in a backyard shed.

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But Gary has been scavenging metal long enough now that he's not willing to fool himself. The houses aren't all so broken-down. The properties aren't always vacant: "I mean, it's tearing the city up," he says. "It's destroying houses -- good houses -- places where they just finished remodeling, places where anyone would want to live. You got people out here who take everything: the pipes, the window, the stove, the kitchen cabinets."

No, Gary is the rare metal man. He won't lie about any of it. Fact is, when he's sated with chemicals and the nausea is gone and he can think about things for a few minutes, he's genuinely ashamed: "We tore up the boiler in this school for $70 in copper," he says. "For $70, we did like $10,000 in damage."

Gary would blame himself, but he's an addict and the world has got to know by this time that he's about getting high and nothing else. No, he assures you, real guilt lies with those making real money. Like George Dykes, owner of Franklintown Metals and Cores on McPhail Street, which was found guilty in July of failing to maintain proper purchase records. Or the boys at Baltimore Scrap or Industrial Metals, which were found guilty and given small fines as well. Or the biggest and richest of them all -- United Iron & Metal. There they take just about everything -- even cars, if your game includes making an auto disappear for $60.

At all of these places, the metal men say, they can generally sell their haul without worrying about questions, concerns or careful scrutiny of required IDs. Show up with a half-dozen aluminum window sets from the Lexington Terrace high-rises -- each purchased for $240 by the housing authority; each ripped out and broken down for $12 by the scavengers -- and the employees at United simply read off the weight and cart it away. It's the Metal Kings who make the rules; to Gary's mind, he's merely a soldier in service of their crown.

"They takin' in so much. They makin' billions on scrap metal and we gettin' paid peanuts for it. They can even cheat us at the scales and we can't do anything about it."

JAnon posted:

it would be really funny if someone made this hunk of poo poo use actual bullets

BudK posted:

It has a smooth bore barrel and features a golf ball grip pattern for added traction, a skeletonized trigger and a Picatinny rail for accessory mounting

McSpanky posted:

A Picatinny rail for your BB gun

JAnon posted:

https://www.budk.com/Crosman-1911-Pistol-Kit-Spring-Powered-200-FPS-Pic-46747

it would be really funny if someone made this hunk of poo poo use actual bullets

JAnon posted:

The Lone Badger posted:

I assume they already sell tactical eyepatches?

EorayMel posted:

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