Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, October 1, 2012

Bangity

A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a used Smith & Wesson Model 10. So did a friend. On Sunday, we took them to the range.

Really, we didn't expect much for sub-$300 revolvers that were probably carried by cops who may not have ever bothered to clean them.

But did they shoot! Off a rest, both guns fired groups, at 25', that would have been covered by a coffee mug. And this wasn't primo match ammo; I was shooting Winchester White Box stuff from Wal*Mart and he was shooting bulk reloads. We eventually moved to shooting at 25 yard targets, sometimes offhand, sometimes two-handed and, if we did our parts, those guns hit where we wanted them to.

We were both impressed. I might think of getting it tuned up a little to improve the double-action trigger pull.
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BadTux said...

Which goes to show you why I recommend revolvers to people who want a defensive handgun. They're pretty much the closest thing to point-and-click that you're going to find in a handgun. If it shot straight when new, it'll generally keep shooting straight unless you take a hammer to the thing, because it's a fixed barrel in a lump of non-moving metal with the sight affixed directly to the barrel, there's nothing that slides or tilts to develop play and throw off the aim.

Revolvers have their own failure modes, of course, if the cylinder registration is off you get the exploding Saturday Night Specials of yore, and usually the double action trigger pull is way harder than it needs to be (especially for guns sold to cops back in the day), but loose patterns ain't one of'em unless the inside of the barrel has so much wear and tear that the bullet just rattles going through it. But that takes a *lot* of rounds for a quality weapon like a S&W.

10/02/2012 11:13 AM

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