Posted on 09/21/2007 11:30:40 AM PDT by jmc813
Gilpin county has always had a little problem with corrupt LE.
Too bad my wallet doesn’t share my good taste !.......LOL !
I have a few jewels / BBQ Guns in the gun safe yet the real gems are some of the simple and cheap rigs. Example....The old Model 13 S&W 3 inch barrel round butt revolver. The old FiBi issue. Found those for 200 or less in some places. Now as close as one can get to that is cutting back a Mod 65 and calling it a Lady Smith.....
The Charter Arms Bulldog Pug is also a ultra lite 44 special that is as close as one can get to 45acp like performance from a small 4 inch round butt revolver.....and pretty cheap as well.....
I carry that Bulldog a lot lately.
My wallet is my problem too. I sold my M1A and my Remington 700 because I want 1 rifle that can do it all, if there is such a thing.
I figure as close as I can get is the AR style weapon that I can change barrels on when I need to. Perhaps I think about these things too much. Also, when I was in the service I was schooled on the M16 so I’m very familiar with it. But I like the whallop of something (308) a little bigger than 5.56.
I kick myself for not buying the PD guns that were available to us when we went from revolvers to autoloaders. I could have bought my S&W model 19 for $75.00 and a Remington .12 gauge for $100.00.
Alot of guys on the PD used to carry those Charter Arms Bulldogs, in fact one of our guys was off duty and shot a guy with one after the guy tried to smash his skull with a brick. Hit the guy in the leg I believe, and he survived, but that ended the brick shampoo.
I used to carry a Ruger SP101, .357 off duty, nice gun.. but I sold it too. It seemed to have a habit of the cylinder turning slowly and a long trigger pull that I didn’t care for. Felt like I was having a nightmare when I shot it, everything moving in slow motion.
I bought myself a 1903 Springfield, but I’m thinking of selling it too. It’s got the ladder rear sight. It’s in good shape and the bore looks great but I haven’t fired it yet. Always wanted one.
I ought to hang onto it, one can never have enough guns.
I did the same thing with a travel set for combat tupperware......
I have a Glock 35 that has the 40 Short & Wimpy barrel as standard as well as a OTC after market 357SIG barrel. I also purchased the advantage arms .22 slide assembly for that rig. Thus from one Glock I get 40S&W, 357SG and .22 for plinking / target. Nice durable rig w/ MMC adjustable sights on both slides.
So what you seek with the AR platform is IMHO a good thing ~
I used to hate glocks, finally after being forced to carry one at BCSD I grew to depend and really like the durability of the dang things. When I was reserve I carried a 1911A1 until the Under Sheriff caught me and then I went with a SIG220 in 45acp until I went full time and was forced to the Glock 22......
The AR-10 sounds like a very good rig to base a good three gun system on as well..........
Shame on me, I didn’t know the Glock was that versitle. When we retire the department offers to sell us our duty gun and off duty gun, both Glocks, for $1.00 each. I think I’ll make those purchases. Our duty gun is .45 and off duty is 9mm but we are supposed to switch to .45 for off duty guns. I haven’t paid attention to which model we’ll be going to.
And, speaking of retirement, I’m coming up on mine so I’m kicking around a few things. We’re thinking of relocating to Texas or Colorado. Any insight into the POST requirement? Orany experience with lateral transfers? I see alot of cities have age requirements, and some don’t mention age.
We have a DROP program where I’m at, I could get into it next year. Minimum time requirement is 3 years and max is 8. Instead of retiring you stay anywhere between 3 and 8 years and they put money in a retirement account for you.
Problem is, I’d probably have to keep working after I retire, DROP or no DROP. I’m thinking along the lines of leaving here, going somewhere else until I get enough years in to draw 2 pensions.
I know when I left NM and moved back home to Texas. Texas wouldn’t accept my NM certs and gave me a lot of crap on challenging the tests etc etc .......
I have been out of that arena for about 13 years so can’t say what local possibilities exist.
Where I am at you can stand on a 5 gallon bucket with a pair of binoculars and see the back of yer own head the land is sooooo flat .Down south it’s very pretty and they get a lot more rain than we do.
... Down side is yer too close to Eaker....:o) Inside of his gun safes frag range per se.......
I will check on certs and who accepts what and such for ya and look at local openings. Get down here and run for sheriff. I considered it at one point but discovered I’d have to take a pretty big pay cut if I gave up my day job.
Have ya by chance looked at some of the HLS positions that LEO’s are needed in.....??
Lurker may have some good info for that option ~ Goobermint job is as good as retirement ya know .....:o)
I’ll peek around and give ya the local offers for LEO world.
Stay safe and let me know when to send ya my dollar for one of those glocks !........LOL
I pack a Model 21 myself a lot......I like the Glock 30 for church gun and 1911A1’s get the BBQ gun duty still........
Biggest POS Glock ever produced was the Glock 36. Yeah it functioned fine but was a 7 vs 11 shot like the G30 and was supposed to be slimline single stack etc etc ......
I was disappointed to say the least....thinner by the thickness of a dollar bill was pretty much all the difference from G30 and G36.............
Stay safe ~
hahaha... close to the the frag range eh? Momma and I were thinking of the San Antonio area. But we also like the Rockies. We will have to make a decision. I’m not too keen on these Great Lakes winters anymore. 6 months of good weather and 6 months of cold.
We went to my daughters house in Denver for Christmas last year, it was tolerable but they get a bunch of snow too.
There are a few websites I look at for LE jobs, HLS jobs too. There is a wide range of opportunity there, colleges, hospitals, Federal buildings, Transit in Dallas. I was even looking at the US Mint in Denver.
From my experience, and from what you’ve said, alot of places advertise for lateral transfers but they get awful picky and snooty when it actually comes down to it. That with my ‘advancing age’.. maybe it’s better if I just go drive a truck.
I’m about a year or two away from my decision. Not a bad deal on a $1.00 Glock eh?
I would refuse.
There are folks here that would bitch about that price even...........:o)
Very good deal IMO !! Don’t pass that up my friend !!
Random Checkpoints “Sobriety Stops” alone violate every notion of a free society.
Only those human waste products at the Supreme Court with their special little Badges and IDs could consider being stopped in the Dark by Armed Men ....minimally intrusive.
On second thought, for them it is.
They do not live like US.
They are not from US.
They are not for US.
One has to wonder if the waste from their toilets is not being preserved somewhere (at the public expense) as
“Holy Secular Relics”
On display in some secret museum for the elite.
It is inevitable that the night will come when Men dressed as LEOs with flashing lights and suitable accouterments will block some back road conducting a “Sobriety Stop”..
They will be terrorists, they will shunt a portion of those they stop up another road around a curve where our friends our family members our community members will be murdered.
Murdered
Due to the egotism of LEOs, Elected Officials and Judges
When an average person can see it you can believe these “Great Intellects” can see it.. The only difference being the Supreme Court of Misfits could care less.
W
hahaha... I’m sure. It does beat a retirement watch doesn’t it?
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