We need to get this thread going again.
Wish you would send this to some Media outlet as they are always inaccuracies in their stories about firearms. Add explanation of difference btw Caliber and MM of guns and send to MSNBC..CBS...ABC.....LOL I hate it when the mix those up...(He was shooting a .45 caliber gun not a 45 mm).
Don't have a Springer, but I have a Deagle and a shotty.
(Yes, I hate those terms, too.)
There is no way to aim a pistol grip shotgun unless you attach a laser to it.
Now, that's just not true. You hold it up to your eye and then you pull the trigger...oh. Yeah. Well, when you get out of the hospital you always have another eye.
Training is more important than equipment. Gunsite, Lethal Force Institute, Thunder Ranch, and Storm Mountain are excellent schools, and are worth every penny (even if it is a lot of pennies). If you’re new to the subject and are having problems with your equipment, it’s probably not the equipment. Hitting the target fast, accurate, and hard is more important than what you’re hitting it with. Complex equipment configurations will give you more problems than simple configurations, at least until you’re so good that you are finally better than the equipment (few are). When you know the basics well, you can do well enough with anything.
You can’t miss fast enough to hit.
Only hits count.
Some guy at Academy tried to sell hubs a box of ‘non-lethal’ ammo since they didn’t have any of the real stuff in stock...Some kind of fragmenting stuff.
1. Buy the best firearm for your needs. It doesn’t have to be the most expensive or what internet “experts” tell you. It has to fit you and your lifestyle.
2. Learn to reload. It takes awhile to understand the calibers, reloading presses, powders and how to put it all together but you’ll learn to shoot because you’ll shoot more.
3. Buy the books. Keep researching. Learn as much as possible because you’ll continue to forget what you learned.
4. You won’t know how good you are unless you compete. Join an IDPA club for pistols and revolvers. Join the club so you can compete with rifle and shotgun.
5. Join the NRA so you can continue to be part of the gun culture.
Don’t take it to Wal Mart. They have no idea.
"Next shelf down, to your right. No, over. Yeah, that."
Was happy when the local Wally World moved the locked ammo case from behind to beside the counter.
Thanks for posting.
bump fer later.
And yeah.... I call it a DEagle!!! Sue me. ;-)
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I have a “basic” firearms question:
Can you or someone else please explain why G. Gordon Liddy and some others are so adamant about NOT using the term “pistol” to describe a revolver? GGL insists that “pistol” is accurate for semi-autos, but that a revolver is not a pistol. I realize revolver is the more precise term for that type of weapon, but isn’t “pistol” a technically correct term for them as well?
I know the term “pistol” has been around since WAY before the invention of the semi-auto handgun, so it certainly didn’t come about as a way to describe that type of weapon. For instance, braces of “matched dueling PISTOLS” have been available since the late 1500s +/-. These usually consisted of a very nice, possibly ornate, presentation box containing an identical pair of handguns in a type/style that were in general usage at the time of their construction: flint lock, cap and ball single shot, cap and ball revolver, cartridge revolver, etc. I have NEVER heard anyone refer to a pair of “matched dueling revolvers”. And yet, I once heard Mr. Liddy get quite agitated (polite, but agitated nevertheless) when a caller to his radio show referred to a S&W .357 magnum as a “pistol”.
So, when did this differentiation between “pistol” and “revolver” come into usage, and does it REALLY matter? Thanks.
Well here is the Royal Horse firing a salute. Looks like a 13 pounder to me.Thanks for starting this thread. I will find it very useful.