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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I turned the heater in the bathroom back on last night. OB is laying up kindling for our first fire of the season; it's about 65 in the house, and not suppose to get much warmer today. The radar map indicates that we may get some much needed rain today--hurray! We're not turning on the boiler yet, it's heading back to the mid-80's next week. LSA
I turned on the heat a few minutes ago...it was 65 in here. Think I'll crank up the heater in thesunroom right now.
I'm watching old Blondie movies. I'm glad they're in black and white....I don't want to know what color her wallpaper is!
Rain on thesunroom roof!
Morning Winmag - hmmmm 5-7-N; that’s a very interesting sidearm you have there. Have seen them and hefted ‘em but haven’t shot one. The polymer pistol is here to stay and you’re initial impression mirrors mine. The safety operated with your trigger finger seems strange to most of us but I guess it would grow on you. My Sig and SW both have decocker levers so the first one is just pull through, similar to your Glock. I’ve carried and shot revolvers for too many years to get used to ‘taking off the safety’. Still the light rail would be handy to have for house gun. Haven’t ever used a light on one but I could see it would be right handy. 20 rounds in the magazine, now that’s capacity. Wasn’t aware they made 30 round mags for it. Kudos for a fine addition to HH weaponry stable.
Thanks. For a brutally honest evaluation of the FiveseveN, and one which I mostly agree, try here: savvy survivor.
Let me add I have no intention of engaging anyone wearing body armor with any type of handgun. In fact, for me a handgun is the weapon you use to stay alive while you get the rifle you should have never left behind. Still, the 5.7 "lead free" round is a vicious wounder, but also does not penetrate well, including drywall, making it a good defensive weapon.
While at the gun shop, I did heft a couple of S&W X frames. One was a .460 with a six inch barrel, the other a .500 "carry special" with four inch barrel. Both are massive cannon, although they probably cannot defeat body armor either. Whether I could get off even an accurate first shot is open to question.
The guy behind the counter said there were also available, unfortunately, with two inch barrels, too.
You know... I pretty much never even use the safety on my .45. Sometimes I flick it on to keep the slide from moving while putting it into a holster, but I flick it back off again once it’s there.
But then again, I pretty much never carry it cocked and locked either. But if it were a DA, I wouldn’t have any problem putting one in the tube, drop the hammer, and leave the safety off.
Not a big believer in safeties, I guess.
Gadzooks. I hope it comes with a cast to put my broken wrist in. :-)
Can you imagine the fireball in front of that thing? In a dark room even if you miss you've at least blinded and deafened everybody there.
A friend of mine had a snubnose revolver chambered in .45-70. Never seen such a thing before. He said it was not a lot of fun to shoot, but when you really need it, you'd probably not mind the pain so much. I s'pose.
The "four inch" barrel was really only three inches. There's a bored-out muzzle brake attached to the front. It looks something like what you'd see on a .50 caliber rifle.
Heh. Well... every bit helps, I suppose. And it looks good, too.
Nothing quite so impressive as pointing a big metal hole at some scumbag... that he can hear an echo in. :-)
That was a darn interesting review of the 5-7-N, thanks for the link. Ballistics and trajectory was impressive; still how about making it in .17HMR?
I’ve read a couple threads on the Ruger single six in .17 HMR, apparently even the longer barrel version isn’t all that accurate, when it’s compared to the rifle in the same caliber.
Back to 5-7-N, I predict it would be a hit at the next shoot-moot.
The SW X Frame is quite a hefty firearm; heavier than the N frame (impression not measured). I wouldn’t want to be in the next booth with someone touching off the .500; it’s a specialized round, not unlike the massive revolvers of the last century, almost ‘overkill’ (if there actually is such a thing). The .44 Magnum is about the limit of what most of us can accurately shoot. Takes range time to master one of them and many have done it. Guess the .500 is next logical step in the ‘bigger is better’.
Morning - was the 45/70 a single action the friend cut down? I’ve seen several but they were usually sporting a long barrel, something on the order 8-10 inches.
Then we have ‘The Judge’ the .410/45LongColt revolver.
The hero, Cameron Margulies, drifts across the globe, finding the missing and the lost. A rare visit to Saver Springs, the peculiar little West Texas town of his birth, sends Cam on a quest to find some answers from Tanner in Austin. Along the way, he saves Tanner's life ...
<... pauses ...>
Well ... waitaminnit ... what if Tanner saves Cameron's life? Lets me show Tanner is a Good Guy TM (important for later), and gives Cameron another layer of mystery (who's trying to kill him, and why, and does it have anything to do with his mission?).
Now for the naked part ... naked masked female assassin?
Sunbather?
Wannabe-Druid/Pagan Priestess?
I guess I'll just have to impress them with a 3000 fps projectile (or several of them).
I don't know if it was cut down or not, though I could swear it was a double action. In googling around just now I'm not finding anything close.
I can't imagine firing such a thing.
I’ve never gotten around to firing a gun, will have to learn someday. I tried pulling my Daddy’s bow back once; like to have given me a hernia! He loved deer hunting with primitive weapons. He never killed anything with either the bow and arrow, or the muzzleloader, but he liked the sport of it.
Heh, SirKit jokes about getting me an handgun with a laser sight. Said just ‘painting the target’ might be deterrent enough. ;o)
Dwarf?
Speaking of lasers, this is a good point to post my Saturday night gun pron.
First, I started out with a cheapie green laser from eBay. It comes with a mount, and a remote tape switch, neither one of which would be used in the project.
I put a SureFire pushbutton tailcap on it, making it look a lot like a 1" flashlight.
Then I got a FAB "gangsta grip" with flashlight holder. The "trigger" mechanism pushes the button on the end of the tailcap. I wound up with something that looks like a pneumatic riveter.
This is how the assembly looks when attached to my AR15. I now have a flashlight (offset mount) and a green laser, neither one of which needs a tape switch or wire. Pulling the forward "trigger" activates the laser, while I can turn on the flashlight with my left thumb. No wires!
The AR15 project continued with the arrival of the Docter super-mini red dot sight. Here it is, along with a piggyback mount for the AR15's ACOG scope.
Here's the mount on the scope, with the "wings" temporarily removed.
With the Docter installed, you have a red dot reflex sight with wide field of view for close-in snap shooting.
With the "wings" back on, and everything in place, this is the current configuration of the AR15:
Your head is naturally scrunched down to look through the scope. At closer ranges, where things move faster, and you need a wider field of view, you raise your head a bit, and look through the reflex sight.
The next step in the project is to zero-in the laser and red dot at 50 yards, and the scope at 100. That way, both close-in and distant targets can be engaged easily.
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