A Howdah... as in, " How dah hell you 'spect yo momma to clean up dat mess dat wuz you?"
Posted on 10/06/2017 5:19:29 AM PDT by w1n1
Revolvers are best for home protection. Can stay in a lock box forever. No magazine springs to go bad.
I have a .357 scandium aluminum revolver that is more brutal than my 3” .44 magnum. Nobody likes to shoot that gun. I imagine a stainless steel version might be less painful. as a side note, my friends in town can here me shooting that .44 magnum from about 3 miles away. One time, a neighbor had some Amish men doing some work for him about a mile away and they freaked out when they heard it and refused to work until the shooting stopped. that’s some fun there.
Looks like my Colt Agent.
you love carrying it!
The first time I shot the 44 scandium (S&W 329), it stopped the range. I looked down at a dozen people looking at me. Of course, they each wanted to try it too!
It’s a Glock 21 that was converted. Pretty light really. It feels like Thor’s hammer in your hand when you’re shooting it. It’s basically a high cap semi-auto .44 magnum. It’s probably my favorite handgun even though it’s just a novelty really.
Nice. I need one of those too.
I have no idea what your point is. I do know plenty of people who buy guns, ostensibly for self defense, and then put them in a bedside table drawer or glove compartment and then never think about or touch them for months or even years. It has nothing to do with being an old fogey. Some people are just not gun people, have no desire to go to the range and don't know how or just don't think about cleaning them. One of my friends at church bought a Taurus 9mm semi auto for home defense and asked me what I thought about it because he knows I like to shoot. It's his first gun. I told him to give me a call anytime and I would take him to the range, teach him the 4 rules of gun safety, how to shoot and how to clean his weapon. He's never got around to following up on this and probably never will unless I hound him about it. And that's OK - not everyone is into guns. Those people would be better served with a revolver. I personally love revolvers and think a Ruger GP-100 or S&W 686 are some of the most fun guns to shoot at the range there are. And I keep them spotless - inside and out.
I have the 327 night guard by the way. 8 shots of .357 magnum. That’s a fun time too.
The wife has something similar from Taurus. It shoots real fast; 5 rounds like its a semiauto. I love shooting the thing.
There are very many stories of cops being saved, or at least having advantage in gun fights because the crook didn’t know how to operate his semi-auto. Not many crooks steal a gun and then go to the range.
The problem with semi-autos is, shooting and hitting a target is only half of your training. Before you can depend on a semi-auto for protection, you have to learn a malfunction drill and perform it enough times it is second nature. Somewhere around 1500 times. Then you have to reinforce that training with regular training. Also, if you carry your gun with the safety on, do you activate the safety every time you shoot it? When you are scared, you will resort to the action you take most often, point and pull the trigger.
When you are defending your life, you aren’t going to have time to examine why the gun didn’t fire. With a revolver, if it goes “click” you pull the trigger again. If it goes click again, you reload it.
Ask Dirty Harry...
Recoil isn’t the issue, to me anyway the rediculous trigger pull and this may in my head, the plastic frame feels like its flexing. If feels just like those cheap plastic cap guns I got as a kid.
I got a LCP II which is far better.
A Howdah... as in, " How dah hell you 'spect yo momma to clean up dat mess dat wuz you?"
I have a 38 special with no safety too.
Bingo.
“I think the safties on my autos are pretty good. I have revolver that has no safety at all. I have a .38 spec colt agent and I don’t think it even has a safety.”
I have a 1st gen agent made in 1955. The finish looks like it rode around in someones pocket for 30 years but he action is still tight. IMO the cobra and agent were the best defense snubbies made and hold 6 rounds in the same size and weight of a 5 round S&W.
My 1st pistol for ccw was a Glock because it was the closest thing I could get to a revolver with more ammo. No safeties (Gaston is full of it), no decockers, no levers, just point and click.
The day I can’t do it with 6 rounds it’s time for Darwin or Fate to take me.
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