What did you buy today?
good stuff dave.. i was thinking a poser Ar15 since i shoot the M4 mostly.
but not untill im stateside, you know the deal with that... we are not even allowed to have paintball or Airsoft on base lol.
but not untill im stateside, you know the deal with that... we are not even allowed to have paintball or Airsoft on base lol.
like i said, i hope to buy one soon. i like to do plenty of research before i buy, so it may be another year before i finally decide what to get, and then another 6 months before i buy the gun. let me share some background information to better explain why i feel as i do. in my early teens i lived out in the middle of nowhere. often relatives would buy a new gun or rifle, shotgun or the like, and come over to test them at our house because we were out side the city limits and the sheriff never went out our way.
during that time i got to fire just about every kind of firearm legally available to the public in california. although my favorite was my dads .357 mag, it was a short barreled colt (i think it was colt) revolver, i don't remember the length of the barrel but it was short. it was black, with wooden grips. i wish gun makers would have kept and not switched over to the ribber grips or hard plastic but whatever.
my dad also had a .357 semi-auto pistol that looked amazing, it was polished with pearl grips. unfortunately that was all i liked about it, it was too big for me to comfortably grip and seemed to be too top heavy, it felt like i was holding a hi-point. he had two other pistols, a .25 and .22, size wise the .25 was perfect for my hand, but it sounds like a cap gun.
so you see, i have personal and tactical reasons for wanting a snub .357 mag revolver. the 605 is compact, powerful, reliable, and fires .357 and .38 special rounds which are readily available. it only holds 5 rounds, but if 5 close range .357 or .38 special rounds can't take down whatever you're shooting at, then you have some real problems. since this is intended to be for close range shooting if ever needed, i don't think a shorter barrel will be a problem. it's true that it won't be as accurate for long range firing, but it will be concealable, which is one of my criteria.
during that time i got to fire just about every kind of firearm legally available to the public in california. although my favorite was my dads .357 mag, it was a short barreled colt (i think it was colt) revolver, i don't remember the length of the barrel but it was short. it was black, with wooden grips. i wish gun makers would have kept and not switched over to the ribber grips or hard plastic but whatever.
my dad also had a .357 semi-auto pistol that looked amazing, it was polished with pearl grips. unfortunately that was all i liked about it, it was too big for me to comfortably grip and seemed to be too top heavy, it felt like i was holding a hi-point. he had two other pistols, a .25 and .22, size wise the .25 was perfect for my hand, but it sounds like a cap gun.
so you see, i have personal and tactical reasons for wanting a snub .357 mag revolver. the 605 is compact, powerful, reliable, and fires .357 and .38 special rounds which are readily available. it only holds 5 rounds, but if 5 close range .357 or .38 special rounds can't take down whatever you're shooting at, then you have some real problems. since this is intended to be for close range shooting if ever needed, i don't think a shorter barrel will be a problem. it's true that it won't be as accurate for long range firing, but it will be concealable, which is one of my criteria.
I can't argue with you there, but it's kind of a deal with "Once bad always . . ." An example is American cars. They really fell off for a long time, making a lot of very BAD quality and reliability cars. Starting in 2005, they really have stepped their game up and American cars are winning best build quality awards left and right. But they still have the misnomer of being American cars and to this day, many car guys won't buy a Chevy or Ford with build quality in mind.
Taurus has really stepped their game up and has put forward better quality fire arms, but they still have that stint (a stint which mind you lasted a long time) in which their guns would simply stop working, no warning, no failing parts, just a perma jam or firing pin failure, buffer spring collapse/binding, something. They would use low quality metals on the assembly on their revolvers. You pull the trigger, it pushes back on the firing pin while rotating a cog that pushes the revolver barrel over. The low quality metal would wear out over a short period of time, ~1000 shots, because of the heat and vibration, and their revolvers would stop . . . revolving, LOL!
-Dave
Taurus has really stepped their game up and has put forward better quality fire arms, but they still have that stint (a stint which mind you lasted a long time) in which their guns would simply stop working, no warning, no failing parts, just a perma jam or firing pin failure, buffer spring collapse/binding, something. They would use low quality metals on the assembly on their revolvers. You pull the trigger, it pushes back on the firing pin while rotating a cog that pushes the revolver barrel over. The low quality metal would wear out over a short period of time, ~1000 shots, because of the heat and vibration, and their revolvers would stop . . . revolving, LOL!
-Dave
american cars still have a long way to go but the LSx motors are sure up to par theres no question there
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A new rear strut. Had the struts set on full hard before pulling the engine and letting the car sit in dry dock for almost a year then pulled it out, swapped it and forgot all about taking them off full hard so I blew a driverside rear...had to dip into my tire money but you live you learn.
just ordered this to add to my collection of gun related stuff. also, after much thought and consideration, i've decided that the taurus 605 would not be the best choice for a conceal carry firearm. instead i'll be buying the keltec pf9. as soon as i get fbi approval i'll be buying two of these, one for me and one for my mom, my dad dosen't seem to like guns any more so he's not getting one.
in the near futre i'd also like to get one of these.
i have two options, 92 or the 100. the 92 is a 9mm like the keltec pf9 and the 100 is a .40. i'd like to get the 92 just so i don't have to buy differant caliber ammo and becuase .40 is kind of hard to get localy.