Posted on 05/24/2021 11:30:29 AM PDT by PROCON
I can, um, store them for you if you wish.
Just tie a big ribbon 'round 'em & throw 'em out the plane window one of these days?
The meat target results suggest otherwise. (time index 10:50 or so). As you can see, about the same penetration as .357 magnum in this test (albeit with less damage done via tissue shock).
Actually I found more, but still, I figure both the gun and carts are popular - must be a lot of them out there. I like mine better than the stupid H&K they issued us with.
And yet the 22lr is the Mossad weapon of choice for assassinations.
Read some where tat according to FBI stats no one who defended himself with a 22 has ever been killed by the perp. Most all of the perps I assume abandoned the attack.
Plenty of .40 S&W pistols around to keep this cartridge alive. As Mark Twain would say...rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated.
Bought a pair of them with cross draw holsters from lav swat detective many years ago. Polished & jeweled with six mags. Mags were going for $150 each, if you could find them.
Took both to a 1911 armorer and asked him to take them apart and put together the best pistol. He’d never fired one and said he’d do the work of I fired them first while he watched. He was very excited after I fired them and couldn’t n wait to shoot them. Like a kid in a candy shop, he kept saying; day Um
He built a nice pistol, but they were evenly matched. 3.5 lbs trigger pull that breaks crisp and is dead accurate for each of them.
Kept four mags.
Sold that other with two mags, which still shot great and same trigger for market value and my pistol with four mags ended up costing me less that $900.
Wish I’d never sold it, but it helped pay off credit card debt last year.
If you ever get a chance to shoot the .357 you will be very impressed. Long slide action and long front to rear grip due to long.357 brass makes it a solid grip with very predictable return to sight picture. MUST have large hands though. They breath fire! BBQ a face off if you miss. No loss of ME, like in a revolver due to gases escaping between the cylinder and forcing cone. Most powerful.357 ever owned.
I miss it
Used to bet my buddies when we went to the range...”guarantee someone with chase the ejected brass to try and figure out what it is or someone WILL ASK what it is” incredible percussion...sounded like 454 casul. Should have named it a cannon, instead of after Dan Coonan
I never lost that bet for beers =o)
It might not look as sexy as some of my other guns, but my H&K USP .40 is the best handling handgun I have ever owned. The design, ergonomics and function are perfect.
From what I have heard, the bullet hit the side of the Beast and flattened into a disk that glanced off and hit Reagan.
The reports at the time said the bullet just missed his heart.
I heard that if narrowly missed slicing his aortic valve.
Aortic artery.
That would have been fatal.
I don’t like the trigger pull; it goes almost all the way back before it fires while my Smith .40 moves maybe a quarter inch.
.38+P JHP is
My Favorite
In a 4 inch
Revolver,,
Follow up
Shots are
Spot On!
I’m looking for something with longer barrel and with option to shoot .357 too.
I might settle for a 38 +P but there is so little difference in cost it is not really worth it to not have that option.
I like Ruger Revolvers. Preferably Blackhawks, because of their slow twist on rifling and ability to shoot cast lead bullets without leading.
Cheap shooting.
I reload 5 rifle calibers and 38/357 and 221 fireball pistol.
I have 9mm, but don’t reload for it. I really don’t like 9mm.
And mine is a collectors item. Should really not be shot. It is in almost mint condition. Hardly fired.
Also load 20 ga. and 12 ga. shot shells.
If I walked up with a .22LR handgun, would you let me shoot you in the foot? How about the chest? Head?
If not, why not?
Yep. I've watched a lot of YT videos of people who defend themselves with a firearm and without exception, as soon as a gun comes out, everyone dives for cover.
No one stops to check the caliber.
That was not your original assertion.
Your assertion was nobody cares about caliber because once the gun is shown, everyone scatters.
But not the guy with a 9mm/.40/.357/.45 in his hand, or 5ft away with a knife, or even baseball bat. Or multiple other aggressor scenarios.
In the 3 above, a .22 will not save your life. Even if the aggressor dies a half hour later. Because it is a proven weakling against an armed and determined aggressor.
So your question is a non sequitur.
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