Brother that is the truth. I love shooting rimfires and part of that is the smell. It brings back the days of my youth when all I had was a .22 and it was enough. I used to walk the ditch banks near my Grandpa's place and shoot water moccasins, snapping turtles and feral cats, for which there was a bounty from Fish & Game. Usually made enough to buy another box of .22's.
Trends You Simply Can't Stand...Feel Free To Vent Here
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Terry G
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Got a new pistol? how are you going to customize it? Good Friend, but really! He bought an expensive Kimber .45. He replaced the barrel, sights, trigger, grips and magazines. I just stared at him, then said what did you buy the gun for? He said well, Kimber's are the best!???? Stock guns, I buy them for what they are, S&W, CZ's, and SIg's.
LVSteve
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In a similar vein, gun writers who cannot test a non-1911 without telling us that they have a preference for the 1911 trigger. How about testing and commenting on the gun you were given, it's what you're being paid for.
eku82
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One thing I have learned, never express an opinion.
Terry G
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Gun Test is the only one that gives a real opinion on guns. They have no problem saying a firearm is trash.
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Yes, the cylinder rotates on its axis, but the cartridges revolve around the cylinder's axis, so...
You are entitled to it and also posting anything within the rules posted in The Lounge. I get it though, who needs all the grief.
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This times 100.
You must not have watched “The Rifleman”!
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Just three days ago I went to Sportsman's Warehouse in Fresno, and as you just stated, they had almost half of the entire locked up glass display AISLE packed with 9mm! There were about 4 boxes of 5.7 (okay, I get that), and tiny little sections for everything else except of course, the old reliable, 45 ACP! I never thought I'd see the day when .38 Special cost more than .45 Auto!
Not to be critical of Chiappa, but I have always been skeptical about their engineering staff. Once upon a time they made a 1911 look a lilke 22 LR handgun. I had several brought to me to improve the trigger. Those Itallian Engineers used the same coiled spring that powers the hammer to be the trigger return spring. The spring had an extension with a hook on either end. No hope for improving the trigger pull there.
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I have a beautiful little Henry .22 Mag "Mare's Leg" that came with that idiotic loop lever that makes it impossible to quickly work the action while holding the weapon normally. I searched and searched the web trying to find a standard lever that didn't cost Henry aftermarket prices, to no avail.
I like the entire concept of the Mare's Leg in a .22 caliber because you can establish just enough cheek weld to make stabilized shots with adequate accuracy for such a platform. A .22 magnum from a rifle-length barrel, even a short one is quite effective on two, and four-legged critters.
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100% agree! The dumbest thing EVER is starting with a compact, 20 ounce pistol, then adding a gargantuan light, a magwell flare of all the most ridiculous ideas ever dreamed up, a fragile, red dot sight, and a supersized magazine! Worse is doing that to a 38 ounce 1911 and then shoving it all into an extremely bulky, "concealment" holster that only works when worn by the thinnest people on Earth! And then try to swear up and down it all improves their performance!
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Apparently like hot sauces in Texas - always room for one more. People must be buying these new pistols. Maybe each new model introduced is an "upgrade" and many like that word these days even if it's not always a step forward.
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crasig
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NOTE: The following are Firearms Related Trends that annoy ME personally - NO Insults intended. I'm 78 & particular.
>Hi Point arms: ugly design & cheap materials > All the plastic Glock copy cats - of guns I don't want either.
>KEL TECs goofy, unnecessarily complicated Designs (carbine can't fire folded, double barrel pump gun, rotating pistol)
>All the offerings of HENRY - re-inventing obsolete, outmoded firearms. I sold my Winchester 30/30 for something better. HENRY doesn't make anything I admire. How about that awkward, ugly, Henry Revolver ?
>BOND ARMS: Silly, Single or Double shot Derringers costing twice what a sensible handgun with decent capacity does.
>Deliberate neglect of the Firearm Media, to demonstrate or mention current Com-Bloc firearms available for purchase.
Keeping valuable information from the shooting public - such as USA made AKs, & quality + excellent results obtainable.
High Quality of Surplus steel Handguns available today -Doing a serious disservice to the shooting public, just because the Fat Cats pay more. I understand the recent AR trend, but many aren't aware that a stamped steel AK made for primitive soldiers & conditions - will function in conditions a weapon with tighter tolerances wont, & given the same care will function just as well- INDEFINITELY with less problems.
Thanks for asking, C .
>Hi Point arms: ugly design & cheap materials > All the plastic Glock copy cats - of guns I don't want either.
>KEL TECs goofy, unnecessarily complicated Designs (carbine can't fire folded, double barrel pump gun, rotating pistol)
>All the offerings of HENRY - re-inventing obsolete, outmoded firearms. I sold my Winchester 30/30 for something better. HENRY doesn't make anything I admire. How about that awkward, ugly, Henry Revolver ?
>BOND ARMS: Silly, Single or Double shot Derringers costing twice what a sensible handgun with decent capacity does.
>Deliberate neglect of the Firearm Media, to demonstrate or mention current Com-Bloc firearms available for purchase.
Keeping valuable information from the shooting public - such as USA made AKs, & quality + excellent results obtainable.
High Quality of Surplus steel Handguns available today -Doing a serious disservice to the shooting public, just because the Fat Cats pay more. I understand the recent AR trend, but many aren't aware that a stamped steel AK made for primitive soldiers & conditions - will function in conditions a weapon with tighter tolerances wont, & given the same care will function just as well- INDEFINITELY with less problems.
Thanks for asking, C .
Bill Bates
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A trend I can't relate to is putting a great big, over powered scope, with turrets made to be dialed up/dpwn/sideways, with a reticle with more lines and dots inside it on a hunting rifle. Even out here in the big Wild West a long shot at an elk is likely less than 300 yards. You don't have time to be fiddling with your ballistic calculator, wind gauge and fiddling with your scope. SHOOT.
I don't no about anyone else, but I don't want to lug an extra ounce around in the mountains, let alone an extra pound. I'm a KISS (keep it stupid simple) guy. Most of these wanna be snipers would do much better with a 2-7x or 3-9x with simple duplex cross hair scope on their rifle sighted out to point black range and learning to shoot quick without overthinking the shot.
Next thing that bugs me is letting anti-gunners control our firearms terminology, such as "high capacity magazine" and "assault rifle". My old Browning Hi-Power's standard capacity is 13 rounds. My semi-auto rifle came with a 30 round standard capacity magazine. Worse, I see manufacturers that call their magazines high capacity....STOP IT! The capacity isn't high or low, the capacity it has is what it was designed to be. They are semi-automatic rifles, not the stupid sounding "modern sporting rifle".
Okay, there I got that off my chest. Now don't get me started on chassis rifles or double stacked 1911/2011 pistols.
I don't no about anyone else, but I don't want to lug an extra ounce around in the mountains, let alone an extra pound. I'm a KISS (keep it stupid simple) guy. Most of these wanna be snipers would do much better with a 2-7x or 3-9x with simple duplex cross hair scope on their rifle sighted out to point black range and learning to shoot quick without overthinking the shot.
Next thing that bugs me is letting anti-gunners control our firearms terminology, such as "high capacity magazine" and "assault rifle". My old Browning Hi-Power's standard capacity is 13 rounds. My semi-auto rifle came with a 30 round standard capacity magazine. Worse, I see manufacturers that call their magazines high capacity....STOP IT! The capacity isn't high or low, the capacity it has is what it was designed to be. They are semi-automatic rifles, not the stupid sounding "modern sporting rifle".
Okay, there I got that off my chest. Now don't get me started on chassis rifles or double stacked 1911/2011 pistols.
mikeruns
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Unkempt Beards on young guys….(usually a fatty or a milque-toast)
Talking about one’s gadgets for black guns…
Young guys with unkempt beards working in gun stores talking about gadgets on black guns…
Talking about one’s gadgets for black guns…
Young guys with unkempt beards working in gun stores talking about gadgets on black guns…
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