Reply With QuoteSince I'll be moving to Florida soon I'm thinking of finally being able to own guns. I was thinking about a Taurus like this. Please feel free to tell me why it is or is not a good idea.
So I can't decide if I am getting a S&W 617 or a CZ 455 bolt-action rifle. Hmmmmmm.
Edit: Definitely the 617. I've already got a good .22 rifle, but I don't have a revolver in any form.
Last edited by tiohn; 04-11-2012 at 04:59 AM.
Since I'll be moving to Florida soon I'm thinking of finally being able to own guns. I was thinking about a Taurus like this. Please feel free to tell me why it is or is not a good idea.
What is a fiber optic sight?
The gun has a fixed rear sight. The front sight uses a fiber optic channel to make a brighter front focus.
The eternal response is, "What do you want to do with it?" The Judge is like that wacky camping tool that has a hatchet on one side, a pry bar at the end, some sort of spike on the other, and a bottle opener on the bottom. Shitty at all jobs, but man the portions are large. What you have there is something that is not very good at being a handgun, a revolver, or a firearm, but it does do one unusual trick. If that trick is important to you then it's your baby, otherwise you can do better.Originally Posted by RichVR
Also ammo costs are really expensive for 410/45LC unless you reload. Hence why a lot of us really like .22s.
In other news, I bought the CZ. It is awesome.
Don't buy .410 pistols. Those Taurus Judge pistols are the dumbest fucking fad. They will totally OMG TEAR SNAKES AND PAPER TARGETS TO SHREADS... But for actual home defense they are a joke and a round would probably just succeed in really annoying someone. You would actually be better off with a .22 pistol (don't buy a .22 for that, either).
It makes sense if you are hiking in snake territory (CO, AZ, NM, etc), but otherwise .410's just seem like such a joke.
So then. What would you suggest to a person that is going to have a lot of cash and free license to buy several guns? Seriously.
Mosin–Nagants. Buy a hundred of them.
Go to a gun range that rents stuff and try:
-.22 target pistol(Ruger Mk II/III, Buckmark)
-Striker based 9mm/.45(Glock/XD/M&P/etc)
-All metal Sig/HK 9mm/.45
-Modern 1911
-4-6" Revolver in 357 magnum
And that should give you a decent idea of what you enjoy shooting. Keep in mind that 45/357 mag usually has the most expensive ammo and .22 is vastly cheaper than anything else.
Again I ask, what do you want to do with them? There's more variety in firearms than there is in automobiles, you have to give us something to work with. If you're wanting the sampler pack buy a 1911, a Glock 9mm, a .357 revolver, a 10-22, an AR-15, and a 12-gauge. That's a representative of every major platform involved in non-specific shooting.
I was wrong! My first match since the last one I posted about here and the first in nearly two months and I scored 810-10X. Now I should start practicing!
Edit: My score would have been 817-11X had I not been a dumbass and failed to repair a 6 and a 7 after the sight-in period, thus losing a 10 and an X. Oh well. :(
Last edited by tiohn; 05-29-2012 at 09:56 AM.
Congratulations! Did you isolate your trigger finger by gripping with your ring and pinky? . . . DID YOU!?!!!
That's not how a man holds a gun.
I didn't! I misremembered and thought I was supposed to grip with my middle and pinky fingers. Next time!
But seriously, I really need to get out and practice. I fired maybe 20 rounds between the last match and this one.
Last edited by tiohn; 05-30-2012 at 05:44 AM.
It's not about building guns or competition, but:
As a Russophile and a fan of both firearms and militariana, I could hardly help but snag a 1938-vintage M91/30 Mosin-Nagant (the most common bolt-action military rifle in the world!) when the local gun shop got a shipment. I didn't get to hand-pick one, but the one I got seems to be in pretty good shape. It's not counterbored, the barrel's clean, there's no corrosion on any of the metal, and the wood's even in okay shape. It seems to shoot pretty well, too; my best group at 100 yards was about three inches with the iron sights, albeit off to the left. I'm hesitant to adjust the sights further than I have, because I wasn't paying attention to the wind, I don't have a rifle rest, and I was shooting at a target exactly the same color as the wotcha you hang it on and was aiming more for a corner of that thing rather than the middle of the target, and because it seemed to be pretty nearly spot-on at 25 yards. The only concern I have is that there's what looks like black paint peeling off the receiver, and Googling doesn't find anything about that. The bluing around it is undamaged, though, so I'm inclined to just let it happen.
I'll probably start hand-loading now that I have brass-cased boxer-primed ammunition (that'll cut my price per round in half, down to only ~5 cents more than corrosive surplus ammunition), and sometime down the line I might go all fancy and have the receiver drilled and tapped for one of those reproduction PU scope mounts. Probably after I've verified that it shoots straight and reasonably well. I'd also like to see if I can drag anyone away from the local sportsman's club's official religion (trap) for an impromptu vintage bolt-action service rifle competition. That would be a riot.
Now that I've dealt with Serious Clunky People's Soviet Action, I think next on the antique rifles list is a Lee-Enfield of some description for the apparently exceptionally-smooth cycling.
I enjoy shooting my high-caliber love gun.
That's all you could come up with after posts about which fingers to grip with, how a man holds a gun, and hand-loading? I expect better from you.
Fundamentals, bro, fundamentals.
How's your trigger discipline?
I hold my fire until I see the whites of her eyes.
Now that my arm is back around 94% I've gotten the Olympic bug again. Keep in mind that 40 is mid-life for Olympic shooting, there's nothing to say that I can't make a go of it other than degenerate alcoholism and neurosis.
That said, I've been sick a few days which means I've worked from home with full access to my tools and little to do. The result: some decent ergo grips for my air pistol:
Obviously they're a bit gappy at the top, but that doesnt really affect performance at all. It's interesting that with a few days' effort I'm already back to where I was, roughly, when you take stamina out of the equation. I'm not sure if that is a never-forget-how-to-ride-a-bicycle result or if the intervening years of practical pistol have improved me in all sports. 2016 here I come!
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