What's the last thing you bought?

[Muddy]

What wasn't?

Here's the list of things that I had to fix/replace/went wrong with the Tacoma that didn't on either of my 2 Ford Rangers that preceded it (even though the Tacoma was $6000 more than the most expensive Ranger I bought):

Battery
Both headlights
Both front turn signals
Front shocks
Heater/AC fan work only intermittently
Key fob only working sometimes to lock/unlock doors
Lights burned out on dashboard

Granted, some of these are relatively minor, but when you hear all the hype about Toyota and you spend $30K on a vehicle, you expect quality. Both my Rangers were older when I got rid of them and had more miles and experienced none of the above issues. So, before something else went wrong, I finally had enough headaches with the Tacoma. I'll never buy another one again.

[Godfather]

The ranger is coming back! I'm stoked about that... there aren't any actual small/mid sized trucks on the market anymore. The Tacoma has been huuuuge for years now. I remember wanting a late 90's one so badly because of their rep and great size. My Dad has one now, nice vehicle but the fucker doesn't fit in their garage

[Hugh_Janus]

Its a nice truck, but not that reliable

[DemonGeminiX]

Ruger AR556.

http://www.ruger-firearms.com/produc...56/models.html

The gun show had about 3 vendors selling them and they were asking way too much for them. I estimate I overpaid for the one I got by about $50 or $60, but I'm considering it a convenience fee since they're so scarce locally. 1 vendor wanted $699 for it unaltered which I thought was ridiculous, so I bought it from another vendor who was charging the same for it but threw in a quad rail and a telescoping foregrip. He had others with scopes but he was asking for an extra $100 for the ones with the scopes and I figured I could get a scope for cheaper online. The third guy wanted $850 for the one he had and his had a quad rail, a telescoping foregrip, and a scope.

The gun show was a joke overall. Maybe 5 gun vendors all asking way too much for their firearms. The mags were all overpriced. The ammo was overpriced and there wasn't a whole lot in terms of real quality there either. The holsters were all shit. The knives were overpriced.

Anyway, I've finished buying what I was after. I have what I ultimately set out to get when I started this. I have ideas for other things that I might be interested in, but they can wait a year or two. As far as I'm concerned, with respect to gun acquisitions, I'm done.

[Godfather]

God it's sexy.

[RBP]

God you're sexy.

Thanks, stud.

[Godfather]

I caved and bought Battlefield 1 on PC.

It's really fucking good. Haven't played video games in a few months but I was up till 3am last night playing the campaign. The online game has a new mode too which is really great, kind of a dynamic battlefield that moves depending on how prior games have gone which is super immersive.

Graphics are incredible too, but now I'm wanting to upgrade my 3 year old graphics card

[Pony]

Ruger AR556.

http://www.ruger-firearms.com/produc...56/models.html

The gun show had about 3 vendors selling them and they were asking way too much for them. I estimate I overpaid for the one I got by about $50 or $60, but I'm considering it a convenience fee since they're so scarce locally. 1 vendor wanted $699 for it unaltered which I thought was ridiculous, so I bought it from another vendor who was charging the same for it but threw in a quad rail and a telescoping foregrip. He had others with scopes but he was asking for an extra $100 for the ones with the scopes and I figured I could get a scope for cheaper online. The third guy wanted $850 for the one he had and his had a quad rail, a telescoping foregrip, and a scope.

The gun show was a joke overall. Maybe 5 gun vendors all asking way too much for their firearms. The mags were all overpriced. The ammo was overpriced and there wasn't a whole lot in terms of real quality there either. The holsters were all shit. The knives were overpriced.

Anyway, I've finished buying what I was after. I have what I ultimately set out to get when I started this. I have ideas for other things that I might be interested in, but they can wait a year or two. As far as I'm concerned, with respect to gun acquisitions, I'm done.

The local shop to me had the 556 on sale for $599.

[Godfather]

They're $1275 minimum up here

http://wolverinegt.ca/product/ruger-sr-556f-nato-5-56/

[Griffin]

Ruger AR556.

Welcome to the AR club!

Now if you haven't done so already, separate the upper and lower halves by pulling the 2 pins. It's simple to do and you have to do it for cleaning so it's good maintenance practice.
After that you can shop for other uppers in many configurations and calibers to easily swap onto the one lower that you have already bought.

... lego toys for big boys.

[DemonGeminiX]

The local shop to me had the 556 on sale for $599.

I paid $700. I won't lie, I feel I overpaid a little. I know I overpaid a little. But a lot of online shops are charging $700 or more, as ridiculous as that is. The majority of the ones that are charging lower prices are sold out. If I had bought the rifle online at Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore, it would have been $620 + the $20 FFL transfer fee that my local store charges. That was the lowest I could find that actually had it in stock. Mine had the quad rail and telescoping foregrip added on. So $640 + around $40 for the quad rail + around $20 for the foregrip (being generous here), and that would come to $700. I'm oversimplifying, really. If my local store had it in stock, they would have charged me $609 for it, but they were sold out and they told me that the rifles were allocated, so it doesn't seem like they would be in stock any time soon. I wanted to get it before the election. If she wins, people will panic buy, and then prices will jump through the roof. I would have done the quad rail and foregrip in the future anyway, so any money I overpaid, I consider it a minor inconvenience. In any case, I have what I was after. I don't have to worry about it anymore. I just need to get a cleaning kit/boresnake, some extra mags (Sportsman Outdoor Superstore has Gen M2 30 round Pmags on sale with a bulk buy discount... 3 or more for $10 each), and some ammo (Cabelas has some on sale, plus they have 12 gauge slugs and 00 bs that I can't get locally. Just need to buy $99 worth for free shipping).

Welcome to the AR club!

Now if you haven't done so already, separate the upper and lower halves by pulling the 2 pins. It's simple to do and you have to do it for cleaning so it's good maintenance practice. After that you can shop for other uppers in many configurations and calibers to easily swap onto the one lower that you have already bought.

... lego toys for big boys.

Thanks, Grif. I'll take care of all of that later. Right now, I'm too damn tired. And I just wanna watch baseball.

[DemonGeminiX]

They're $1275 minimum up here

http://wolverinegt.ca/product/ruger-sr-556f-nato-5-56/

Everything's more expensive up in Canada. Back in the 90s, one of my uncles bought for me the Band of Gypsies CD for my birthday while he was in Toronto on a business trip. He paid close to $35 for it, taking the exchange rates at the time into consideration. I could have gotten it for $13 - $15 locally. Of course, I didn't bitch about it back then. Hendrix is priceless. It was a pretty awesome birthday gift.

[Godfather]

Everything's more expensive up in Canada. Back in the 90s, one of my uncles bought for me the Band of Gypsies CD for my birthday while he was in Toronto on a business trip. He paid close to $35 for it, taking the exchange rates at the time into consideration. I could have gotten it for $13 - $15 locally. Of course, I didn't bitch about it back then. Hendrix is priceless. It was a pretty awesome birthday gift.

Yep. For a few years there in the 2000's we were on parity and even then things were a bit more expensive. Now that the dollar is wayyy down, it's become very evident again.

[DemonGeminiX]

About $50 of 5.56 Nato, and $50 of 12 gauge 2.75" slugs. 3 PMag gen M2 30 rounders and a .223 boresnake.

[DemonGeminiX]

3 more 30 round Pmags. When I get them I'll have 7 in total just like my semi-auto handguns. I'd rather get them now in case the bitch wins on Tuesday and the sellers all jack the prices up to take advantage of the panic rush.