Tag: Guns and such

My favorite toy

Some Reservations

Gratuitous Gun Pics, Marketing / Advertising

This from PSA:

I have to say that having a Buckmark trigger — still  better, I think, than that of any other .22 pistol outside the competition guns — for only $300 sounds like a good deal.

But I also have to say that I’ve never been able to get anything more than minute-of-Coke-can accuracy with that 4″ bull barrel, and I’ve owned more than one of that type.  Not that this is altogether a Bad Thing, of course, because if you’re going to head out into the woods or to a short range with nothing but Death To Cans in mind, this little Micro would be the bee’s knees.

I do prefer the full-steel (and longer than 4″) barrel over the lighter bull barrel:

…and in fact I have just such a 5″ barrel, waiting to be swapped in its current holder:

…when I have the time / inclination to do so.

Scenes From A House

SHTF, The Gun Thing

…in the Doc Russia Crisis Center:

It’s kinda the same in Kim’s Bunker, except that there’s a flashlight or two next to every “home defense” firearm, i.e. no further than arm’s reach regardless of my location in the house.

I don’t have a flashlight attached to any of my firearms.  No big reason;  I just don’t see the need to identify my position if I’m about to activate the bang switch.  YMMV, and that’s fine — there’s no need for debate on the issue, because I can see both sides of the argument.  It’s just a personal preference.

I might change my opinion in the case of the Poodleshooter Piece:

…but I’m still debating the issue with myself.  Frankly, I can’t see a situation developing (for me) in which some serious* anti-social night-time activity might become necessary;  but I’m not closing my mind to the eventuality, either.

*that can’t be handled by half a dozen or so rounds of .45 ACP or .357 Magnum, I mean.

RFI: Quality Difference

The Gun Thing

I’ve asked this kind of question several times before on this here back porch of mine, but consider the following offers from our good friends at Palmetto State Armory:

Now I will be the first to admit that I am a woeful ignoramus on the niceties of poodleshooter mechanics, quality of build, materials quality and so on.

But I have to say that I just cannot see that the above-mentioned characteristics are of such moment that the SIG is three times more valuable than the PSA built-from-parts version of what seems essentially the same delivery platform.

Is it all SIG marketing, or am I missing something here?

Informed comparison is required in Comments, in other words, because you won’t get it from me.

Gone Missing

The Gun Thing

Several people have written to me, asking about shooting the lovely Ruger Redhawk .45 Colt I got hold of a while back.

Here’s its story.

One of the things I do whenever I get a new gun is to take the Son&Heir to the range to acquaint him with more guns, because otherwise he’d just shoot his 1911 and Ruger Mk II pistols till the end of time.  Occasionally that backfires on me — I’ve lost my treasured Princess Inge (Swedish Mauser) and a Marlin Mod 60* to him this way.  And that’s what happened here.

We’d finished shooting about three or four different guns at Mission Ridge (his home range), and when I was packing up I suddenly noticed that the Redhawk had gone missing.  When I asked him if he’d seen it, the Son&Heir said casually, “Oh, that’s going home with me.”  (Said without a hint of guilt or remorse too, I have to say.)

When I half-remonstrated with him, he simply shrugged and said, “I’m going to shoot it a lot more than you are,”  followed by the killer:  “…and I’m going to inherit it from you anyway.”   And then the final, unanswerable statement:  “This way, I’m not going to run the risk of you trading or selling it, either.”

He loves shooting it, and of course he shoots it far better than I can, the little shit.

Oh well.  I guess if I do want to shoot it some more, I can always ask him to bring it to the next range session.

What really got up my nose was that just the day before I’d gone to Bass Pro and acquired what we may call a “decent sufficiency” of .45 Colt ammo — so of course that disappeared into his trunk as well.

Kids… [he said proudly]

*For some reason, I cannot seem to hold onto a Marlin 60.

No sooner have I got a new one, when somebody needs one really badly and off it goes.  Bought one, lent it to a friend, bought another, lent it to Adopted Daughter, same result:  gone forever.  In the most recent of these occurrences, the S&H was going off plinking with some of his old shooting club buddies, so he borrowed yet another Model 60 from me because all he had was a bolt-action Marlin 981T (his first-ever rifle).

When I asked how the shooting went, he mumbled something about the joys of shooting a semi-auto .22 rifle and had the decency to ask if he could keep the 60.

Oh well, could have been worse:  he could have “borrowed” my brand-new Ruger 10/22…

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

So down in Arizona, this happened.  Executive summary:  Folks sitting at home doing family things, when an alleged intruder allegedly broke down the alleged front door.  One of the alleged family members happened to have an alleged gun, which he allegedly used to fire multiple shots into the allegedly worthless hide of said alleged intruder, whereupon said shootee’s body temperature allegedly moved quickly to room temperature.

Nothing to see here, move along.

 

Game

Shooting Sports, The Gun Thing

Is anyone else sick to death of all the fuss surrounding the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?

I have an idea.

Let’s re-purpose the Kennedy Center.  Never mind all that artsy-fartsy stuff;  let’s turn it into a massive indoor shooting range, with all the 100-yard rifle- and 25-yard pistol ranges that the place can hold, open from 6am till 9pm, 7 days a week.  And so that it can’t be hijacked by the hoplophobes and politicians, we’ll hand over its management in perpetuity to, say, Gun Owners of America.

Now for all sorts of reasons, we’ll have to rename the place, because let’s be honest, J.F. Kennedy and shooting do have somewhat of an unpleasant association.

And I’m against naming pretty much anything after a politician, because they get enough name recognition already, the lousy poltroons.

So let’s name it after a renowned and respected American ordinary citizen, and to make it even more non-political, let’s stipulate that he’s no longer alive.  Without trying to prejudice the thing, and just to help the thought process, let me give just a few examples:  Elmer Keith, Wyatt Earp, Audie Murphy, Samuel Colt, Oliver Winchester, John Moses Browning… I think you can all see where I’m going with this one.

Pick one, and one name only, and put it in Comments / email.  You don’t need to give any reasons because I’m pretty sure it’s self-explanatory.  I’ll tally up the votes and give the people’s choice later in the week.

Oh, and you only get one vote each.  We are not Democrats.