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Not one of my personal bests, but it is rather cool to be able to pick up my 'baby' .177cal and shoot 10 yards across the room from my chair anytime the fancy strikes
Nice shootin'!
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I get too many like this tho with the occasional 'fliers' to mess up the good groups
You remember how your definition of "flyer" has changed? Started out being off of the paper. Then it was outside the scoring rings. Pretty soon it was anything out of the black. Then out of the "X". Finally, it's anything not "touching". Your standards change as your skills improve. You wind up only competing with yourself.
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Doing my duty . . . . the way I see it.
"The trouble with most people is not what they don't know, but what they know for certain that isn't true."
Mark Twain
You remember how your definition of "flyer" has changed? Started out being off of the paper. Then it was outside the scoring rings. Pretty soon it was anything out of the black. Then out of the "X". Finally, it's anything not "touching". Your standards change as your skills improve. You wind up only competing with yourself.
Good point, I suck so I am still on the firs iteration.
Henry H001 in .22 LR and 8.5" Pac-Lite on a MKIII 22/45 frame, also .22 LR... Oh yeah, and cats.
Never really been a huge fan of .22s for some reason. But they have their uses, which is why I still have two of them.
The Henry ain't a Marlin 39, but it's inexpensive, reasonably accurate, the action's slick as grease, and a hell of a lot of fun. Only thing I'd change is to swap out the sights to a ghost ring setup, but it's more likely that I'll drop on a cheap red dot. I originally purchased it to see if I liked the whole lever gun concept, before dropping real money on a Marlin in 45/70.
The Pac-Lite/Ruger weighs next to nothing, is a lot more accurate than me, and a great plinker to boot. I really like it as it's light enough to have some recoil with HV rounds. It' s a great way for me to practice sight alignment for next to nothing. Ammo prices lately have been downright scary.
9mm Parabellum (9x19) pistols share a common problem with all pistols below .40; they are not effective “stoppers” for self defense without good expanding bullets. Particular demands are placed upon self defense handguns. They are depended upon in moments or virtual panic to with one or two well placed “center of mass” shots to completely stop an armed and determined attacker. Any caliber from .22LR on up can kill with effectively placed multiple rounds. .35 caliber handguns make effective military sidearms; they are used by trained warriors and usually supported with rifles and heavier arms. But .35 caliber self defense handguns clearly occupy the lowest rung on the self defense pistol ladder.
The 9mm Parabellum was largely developed for the Luger P08, a beautiful, intuitively pointable, and very sexy semi-automatic that has been arming the spies of novels and movies ever since. Never mind its weak toggle action and relative fragility. In the late ‘70s through the mid ‘90s, double stack, double action 9mms were being introduced on a monthly basis. Most of these “Super 9s” have come and gone. The ones that have survived are the ones who found patrons among the militaries and police forces of the world. Face it. Guys, when it comes to the firearms makers, we are the “small potatoes”. It’s the bean counters in local, state and federal purchasing units who decide which firearm designs are going to succeed and which are going to fail.
After having owned about a dozen 9x19 pistols, I am currently down to the four above. The top two are different sides of the same model, a Crvena Zastava 99. The CZ99 is a Yugoslavian cross between a Sig 226 and a Walther P99. It was imported for a few years during the mid 90s in both 9mm and .40 S(hort)&W(eak). It combined, for me, the best qualities of the Super 9s; good single action trigger and smooth (i.e. “nonstacking”) double action trigger, ambidextrous de-c**cking and magazine release, forged aluminum frame with steel CAD/CAM slide, night sights, loaded chamber indicator, exposed hammer, and full size frame. With its heavy slide, it can shoot hot SMG ammunition and has the softer recoil of a .45ACP rather than the hot barking twist of many +P .35 pistols. It is excellent fit and finish and is covered with a very durable baked powdercoat. At one time I owned five of these and campaigned them in IPSC.
The bottom left pistol is a Belgian Browning P35 made with a long barrel and clamp-on weight with adjustable sights. It was made on a limited production run for a West Coast USPSA organization. Mine has a Browning ambidextrous safety and Pachmayr rubber grips. With light loads it is my pistol for Steel Challenge competitions. P35s are marvelously ergometric pistols, the last masterpiece of John Moses Browning. The fact that the design followed Browning’s Model 1911 and incorporates design changes in virtually every aspect has fueled pistol arguments to this day. The P-35 does not like hot +P and ++P loads; they seem to just batter the pistols.
The bottom right gun is one of my two CCW “mouse guns” (the other being an S&W Model 38 Undercover). The pistol shown is a Kahr PM9 with silver stainless slide and night sights. The Kahr design is one of the most innovative recent pistol designs and the single operating control is the pistol’s trigger. I don’t normally like hammerless “striker” designs, but I like this one just fine. It shoots very well and handles hot loads with aplomb. My “mouse guns” are under 20 ounces loaded and fit inconspicuously in pocket or belt. They are what I carry when their employment is unlikely but it would still be foolish to be unarmed.
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