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We went to the range again this week.

She likes the snub-nosed revolver the best. However, with a Ruger Blackhawk (.357, .38s loaded, 6" barrel), she hit the center of the target 6 times out of six shots. She found the Blackhawk to be heavy, which is no surprise. The cylinder of a .357 Blackhawk is roughly the same diameter as the one in a .45 Cimmaron, so there is a lot more steel there. She shot a PPK/s and hit the center with that. After about 45 minutes of the two of us shooting, her accuracy degraded all to hell, for she was tired.

Federal 225-grain semi-wadcutter hollowpoints definitely had a sharper bark and more recoil out of a 4.75" Cimmaron than the Cowboy loads. .38+P SWCs were supposedly what the FBI used before they switched to automatics in the `80s and they sure look a lot bigger in .45.

You'd not think that nine-hundredths of an inch would be that significant.  The Federal SWCs are no doubt a good defense and hunting load, but I imagine that getting shot with a lead flat-nosed 250-grain .45 bullet that's moving a little bit slower than the SWCs is not something that one lightly shrugs off.

To change the subject, a phone-banker from the NRA called me a few mornings ago to plead with me to send money to help defeat President Obama. I told her no and asked her to not call back. Personally, I think that the NRA is smoking crack if they truly believe that Flip-Flop Mitt will be any kind of a defender of the 2nd Amendment. Like Rudy Giuliani, ol' Willard M. Romney only became a so-called friend of gun rights when he wanted to step out on the national political stage.

Romney is not to be trusted. Which is why his dog ran away from him.