njluger

Thanks for the heads up. These go on sale regularly so it's always good to catch them when they are $24 a piece!

Here are some pics when I had the Marshal grips on my CZ. It was wattle wood with a red schellac finish. I've since sold them on the CZ forum since I couldn't get used to the finger grooves, that was a shame to do :/ Now, the gun is wearing a more basic set of CZ Thin Cocobola grips and I like them pretty well, although they are nowhere near as good looking as your beautiful Hakan grips or as the Marschal grips were.

Congrats! That's a real nice shooter!

Nice gun Tony! Let me know if you want to come by Scfgpa and shoot it!

Love the grips! Haken is definitely a true craftsman and his grips always look amazing! There are a couple of really high quality custom grip makers in Europe that specialize in CZ designs (Haken Pek in Norway and Dennis Marschal in Hungary) and both of them take some time to create these grips. It took about 2.5 months to get my grips from Denis Marschal, but the results are usually amazing! I was actually looking to get a new set of grips on my CZ 75B as well. Nill grips look sweet, but I may have to think about doing a custom design like you did with Haken! Looks great!

Sweet pistol! Looks like it'd be a lot of fun to shoot! As for the DA trigger being 15#, it's a Eastern European gun...gotta be safe even after a few shots of vodka You could probably find a lighter main spring and replace what's in there now to lighten the trigger in DA a bit.

Another option would be to look at the FNX-40. It's chambered in .40 S&W, so that's something to consider since this will be your wife's pistol. However, it has a 14 round magazine and you wouldn't have these capacity restriction issues if you decided to buy it.

I'd sell rifles before any pistols. That's primarily because it's such a PITA to go get another set of pistol purchasing permits in this state :/

I shot the Kahr PM-9 and had mixed feelings. It definitely was small and slim, because it's a single stack, but I found it almost too small to shoot well. I shot it best with a grip extender, which to me negates the reasons for going with such a small pistol in the first place. I'd really like to shoot the next size up from Kahr, P9 or K9. These seem better size, at least for my hand, and I think they'd be a much better balance of conceal-ability and and shoot-ability. Reliability wise, my experience with the Kahr I've shot, has been 100% over multiple range sessions (with about 200 rounds that I put through it).

I'd go with the 9mm, just on ammo costs alone. Unless you own reloading equipment, or know someone that let's you use their stuff, .45 is much more expensive to shoot (1000 rounds of 9mm will cost you ~$200 where as, 1000 rounds of .45 ACP will run you ~$350). With the same $ investment, you'll get a lot more rounds of 9mm which means more practice! Additionally, 9mm is much more comfortable to shoot for longer range sessions. I can go through 300 rounds of 9mm easily, whereas I feel pretty tired after about 200 rounds of .45...hit the gym, I know...

+1 to what Pizza Bob posted. As a newer shooter, you'd be best served by spending that money on ammo and learning to use what you have really well. The SA 1911 you purchased is a sweet gun (and will be even more so once it gets back to you from SA). Learn proper sight alignment, trigger control, stance, and breathing techniques. Guns are just tools that will only take you probably 5% of the way to perfection...of course glock-heads will disagree , the other 95% is practice!

S&W - great choice! Enjoy!

Let us know how they shoot. I've been meaning to get out and sight mine in as well but I got knee deep (literally) in some house construction project.

Matte stainless is a really nice look for the 75 - enjoy!

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Very nice Tony! Congrats and go run some rounds through her!

I ran 200 rounds of the Federal 525 bulk (36gr copper hollow point) and it ran just fine. I ran this before cleaning the gun and only had a couple of ftes. Overall pretty reliable. Btw, did you check if the rail is canted slightly to the right?

Harry, its a great gun, get it! I got the tech sights this week and installation was a breeze. The only issue I ran into, and this seems to be a pretty well known problem on the newer production Marlin's is that the scope rail on the reciever is slightly canted to the right. So when you install the rear sight, its a little crooked. I fixed this by shimming the right rear side of the sight with some folded aluminium foil. Now it is on there nice and tight and straight. When you go to the store check the rear of the receiver, maybe its not all of the 795 out there that have this small problem. I did order the $5 adjustment tool as well. I haven't used it yet but for $5 seems like a pretty handy thing to have in your range bag.

Glenn, I just put tech sights on my Marlin 795 and will be at the range sometime next week to zero them in. I'll shoot you a txt when I go.

I was actually looking at a Ruger 10/22 as well, but I liked how the Marlin felt in hand. Plus the Ruger was $200 - I could by 2 Marlins for that price! Since I was looking for a rifle to use in an Appleseed shoot, I read that the Marlin comes better prepared out of the box, which means less $$ I need to sink into after-market parts. List of things recommended by the Appleseed folks for the Marlin: - Rifle ($64) - Extra mags (found them for $11.51 a pop here: http://www.calssportingarmory.com/Marlin_Bolt_Actions_22LR_10_Round_Magazine_p/mgmar707135.htm) - GI Sling - $14 - Tech Sights - $69 The Ruger needed a longer list of "must have" upgrades. So your $200 rifle quickly turns into a $300+ rifle

Not sure how long the deal was for. You can give them a call and ask (http://www.cabelas.com/retail-stores-hamburg.shtml). The rifle should be marked as on sale for $124.99 before all the other discounts kick in (mail-in rebate, club credit). I brought it this past Sunday so I think there's a good chance it's still on sale. btw, does anyone know how to disassemble the magazine for a good cleaning? Looks like it's pinned together and I didn't want to break my only mag taking it apart

So I went to Cabela's looking for a CZ 452 .22LR this past weekend and I fell victim to an impulse buy on a Marlin 795 instead...I told my wife that I couldn't pass it up due to the deal I got! The rifle was originally $149, marked as on sale for $124. The guy at the gun counter said there was an additional $35 off if I became a Cabela's Club member, so I said, WTH, sure. One new Cabela's credit card later the price was $89. Then he gives me the Marlin Mail-in Rebate form for an additional $25 off. So after all said and done, for $64, I have a pretty damn nice rifle! Can't beat that. At that price, our govt needs follow the Swiss and should buy the Marlin as a trainer rifle for each US Citizen and make firearms training mandatory! Anyway, I was a little skeptical if this thing would shoot well, but for $64, it's not like I'm out that much if it sucks. I took it to the range along with 200 rounds of cheap Federal 525 bulk pack. I had 2 failures to eject and 1 failure to feed...not bad! I was expecting much worse reliability. Also, I didn't clean the action on this rifle prior to taking it out and I did so when I came home. After taking the action apart - I understand how this rifle could sell for $64 Tooling marks everywhere, all the metal feels like sheet metal, and everything was gritty with oil metal shavings Cleaned it up and everything is much smoother now. I have much higher expectations on reliability the next time I take it out. Accuracy wise, this things was amazing! The windage on the iron sights was off, but everything was grouping really nice! My feeling so far...I'm really happy! This thing was so fun to keep shooting! I have high hopes for this to become my Liberty Training Rifle for the upcoming Appleseed Shoots in NJ this year. I ordered some Tech Sights (which are costing me more than the rifle itself!), some Talon swivels, a GI sling, and a couple extra mags. For less than $200, you *can't* go wrong!

And you gotta pay a PIC Check fee ($2) and a PA Gun Sales Fee ($3). When I picked up a rifle from Cabela's these were 2 charges on my receipt...I failed to question them though so I'm not quite sure what they really are

Dick's (right across the boarder off of Rt. 33) and Cabela's both have the COE on file and they'll walk you through the steps no problem. Very easy to purchase...wish it was this easy in NJ as well