Posted on 04/23/2009 8:14:31 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie
Don't know if would use 'plenty' but seems to be more available than most other calibers.
I'm not complaining
I was opposed to that caliber for years, up until about a yr. ago.
Seemed to me to be kinda worthless.
Checking ballistics though shows a 155 gr. .40 at around 1200fps. The vaunted .357 mag throwing a 158gr. at around 1200fps. Hmmm
Then seeing police stats showing the .40 as being very effective.
Anyway I got an MPc in .40 and love it.
It's a good enough round in its own right...I bought my first pistol chambered in it waaaaay back in '93. I understand the forces at work behind it's relative popularity, but wish it hadn't been so effective in largely pushing the 10mm out of the marketplace...
I caught that. We met Vera during “Mrs. Reynolds” which was one of the best episodes of any series I had ever seen.
But Vera didn’t need a space suit to fire anymore than a normal firearm. Bad advice from a poor “firearms expert”.
I just call them “toys” and be done with it. If I named one, I would have to name them all. I wouldn’t want any hurt feelings.
See my #20.
I’ll use a /sarc tag next time.
Legally? Not in my state.
I’ll use a /sarc tag next time.
Yeah, I've had A LOT of people asking me in the few past months what they should get to carry, so I've had to answer it quite a few times, sort of an auto programmed response now... ;-)
You want teeny?
I used to have a beautiful Kahr MK9.
Staineless, and it hid behind a 3x5 card.
I looked at one of those awhile back, you like it?
If you are familiar with the Battle of Kings Mountain during the Revolution, one of the “rebels” dropped a loud mouthed Colonel Ferguson, who had said that “even God could not take me off this mountain!”, with his rifle named “Ol’ Sweet Lips” after his wife. A quote associated with the rifleman as the Colonel was trying to escape on his horse was, “Let’s see what Ol’ Sweet Lips can do.”
Despite the fact that Kahr’s chief designer is Rev. Sun Young (sp?) Moon’s oldest son (who happens to hold degrees from M.I.T.), they’re very well-made, and worth the money.
I had tritium sights installed on it and sent it clear across the state to have the frontstrap hand-checkered.
Smallest 9 ever made, just a tiny bit smaller than the old Detonics.
Kicks worse than a Glock 19, though.
Small Handgun Syndrome.
In defense of the series, if I recall correctly Vera and the other guns used in Firefly weren't necessarily portrayed as being normal firearms. In addition, the atmosphere requirement was explained as being more of a legal mandated safety feature to prevent further rebellion than a physical restriction. One of the episodes Fox never aired, "Episode 13: Trash", explains the background behind this when the crew steals the first prototype antique gun of this type.
The Browncoat fans made the series an obsession.
Hi Mad...yep, I saw you too...I think you might have cut the line in front of me!!!
I didn’t realize that Miwall sold retail from their facility in GV. I’m pretty well stocked on ammo for the time...plus, if I buy any more my wife says I’ll have to deduct the cost from my lunch money.
9mm and 38 special are both easy to reload. When I was a youngster I used to reload both those calibers for fun.
Ive taken to carrying my J frame 38 Chiefs Special more often than not because it’s easy to reload 38 specials and I have a lot of brass.
I urge anyone with a little patience and an urge to experiment to start loading 38s. Its easy and cheap..the only problem being access to small pistol primers.
Another thing, with a wheelgun, you dont spend half the day rummaging through the grass searching for your brass. While I have several 9mm pistols, I sleep with a model 19 K frame 357 mag, loaded with 38s, and my J frame 38. My model 19 has had a distinguished lineage. It was a West Virginia State Police duty revolver which was sold to me by it’s retired previous owner, who got into 22 pistols in later years.
If I think there’s trouble coming, my shotgun is in the closet 2 steps away and my Glock 19 is nearby as well.
The 380 is fine if you practice and place your shots. If I had one of those ruger 380s Id certainly get competent with said gun and carry it.
Like they said though, ammo is hard to come by. Thats why I dont own one.
I just picked up a Kel-Tec P-3AT this weekend. I did not realize that there was no ammunition for me to try it out.
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