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    3 minutes ago, Scorpio64 said:

    I, too, am not a fan of the look of stainless revolvers.  But, the 617 is an exceptional pistol and there is no denying the utility of stainless steel.   If you can, try to find a range that rents the 617 and shoot it.  At the end of the day, it really does not matter what a gun looks like as long as it gets the job done. 

     

    Oh I have shot the 617 at GFH, and older one at since it only holds 6 round of .22LR. It's a far better revolver than I can shoot it, but... looks over function, right? Stainless just isn't my thing!

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    10 minutes ago, siderman said:

    I too have a 10 shot 617, it's a 4". Wasn't a cheap gun and gets boring after a while (as do most 22's)  but It makes me look real good when I shoot so I"ll keep it.  

    Okay, any reason not to get an older  6" Model 17 over a later 6" 617 then? Yes, the full lug 617 weighs a lot more, but it's not like a 6" 17 will be moving any more. Sure, the classic 17's can only hold 6 vs. 10, but it's a .22, so not exactly a piece to use in self-defense where the number of rounds it holds matters much. I just don't like, strange I'm sure, stainless guns.

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    1 hour ago, Smokin .50 said:

    I know a sports medicine-centered ortho surgeon that just happens to be an IDPA competitive action shooter that routinely attends matches in Central NJ.  Let me know if ya wanna schlep to Warren, NJ and I'll put you in touch with my friend Dr. Dan.

    Thank you, I'll certainly keep that in mind depending on the advice I get from the US drgo.us! Warren isn't too bad a drive for me.

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    5 minutes ago, Pizza Bob said:

     I will probably start PT in about two weeks.

    Good luck.

    Adios,

    Pizza Bob

    Oof, that kinda puts things on a different perspective for me! I thought a broken flexor tendon in a hand is bad, which I had before, but your case sounds ever a bit more horrific. Thank you and best of luck to you too! Absolutely do the physiotherapy punctiliously, I haven't heeded the regimen precisely before and still feel the consequences of that regularly.

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    36 minutes ago, JohnnyB said:

    Especially the Smith 19. The quality and feel of that revolver still impresses the crap out of me!:)

    Indeed! And though I am an early millennial, I was so impressed by the Model 19 that I promptly bought two 6"-ers with the 3T's, a gently used 19-3 and an unfired 19-4. It's a far better gun than I am a shooter.

    That said, in my youth I liked West German made SIGs, esp. the P220 and P226, and strangely enough the S&W 945, ugly beast that it is.

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    1 minute ago, capt14k said:

    No you don't. Have the mags shipped with pistol to FFL. FFL blocks mags before transfer. Nothing different than before.

    Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
     

    My apologies, I stand corrected! As the wise man said!

  13. Posted

    Hm, I'm really eager to try a fullsize P320 in .45ACP, since it meets the 10 round mag capacity limit, and because otherwise I might want to get a Beretta PX4 Storm in .45, which I've found to be a better and softer shooter than any other .45 I've tried thus far, what with my clumsy hands and taste for cheap guns (I actually preferred the PX4 over a $3k Wilson Combat 1911, which I could barely stand shooting). Anyone happen to have a P320 .45 with the 4.7" barrel? How's it shoot?

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    I think I've got an itch for a handgun in .22LR. So far I've tried some 10 shot Ruger revolver (pretty okay, a bit underwhelming though for a wheelgun), a Walther P22 Competition Target model (horrible fire controls, very tiny gun), a Beretta 87 Target (nice feel, but terrible trigger), and a S&W 617 (One of the older 6 shot ones) which was a pleasure as older Smiths have been in my experience even if it weighs enough with that 6" barrel and full lug to serve as a boat anchor.

    I think I like wheelguns and figure I might get a decent condition pre-lock era S&W Model 17 to approximately complement my S&W 19. That said, I don't want to rush headlong into something without trying a lot of options, so: What other .22LR pistols or revolver do folks really recommend trying before buying?

  15. Posted

    Kinda necroposting here almost two months on, but I fell in love with GFH's old green painted renta-beater 19 (a 19-4, to be precise) with the 6" barrel, and so I've since ordered two of them. I can pick up my 19-3 next week finally, and then another 6"-er, a 19-4 CHP anniversary edition, brand new, unfired in the presentation case. What a gorgeous gun and what a shooter! So, seems like I'm a wheel-gun man after all, though I'm [barely] a millenial young buck. There is just something so peaceful and comfortable about shooting a big, all-steel revolver with some nice soft-recoiling .38 Specials.

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    Hello,

    Approximately four weeks ago, I came away from a session with my then still very much new Glock 19 feeling a tenderness at the base joint of my right thumb (yes, I am right-handed), on the proximal side, so on the side of the webbing between the thumb and forefinger. It was distinctly swollen and tender there, and I suspected that it might be from the rather large numbers of rounds I had been firing (about 300 per session) through such a relatively light and small gun that doesn't soak up too much of the recoil through its mass. The a slightly swollen bunch of some tissue or material around the joint remained swollen while the tenderness dissipated with time, though it was still slightly painful when I touched something with that part of the hand with any firmness (for example the backstrap of a gun if I didn't very deliberately wrap my thumb around the gun forward, slightly exagerating how far to the side the thumb was sitting).

    I let it rest for the most part by keeping my shooting down to once a week, and lower the round count slightly to around 200 per session, and shooting more left handed. When shooting right-handed I also very intentionally wrapped my thumb around more to the side to avoid the recoiling backstrap from driving into that area, and then started placing my thumb not entirely forward by the side of the slide, but wrapped it around my supporting left thumb a bit, sort of old-school revolver shooting style.

    Now the swelling dissipated almost entirely but the swollen mass has reduced and hardened a quite a lot. Even to firm touch it doesn't hurt in the least, but this mass it there, sitting right on the joint in the area shown in the picture. It extends slightly further down beyond what the picture shows, but not much. It seems to reside mostly exactly in that area that I marked.

    So after trawling various forums I suspect this may have been a case of a traumatic injury to a bursa around the joint on the thumb, which serves as padding for the joint, but it was hit too often and too strongly thanks to bad grip on the Glock (although I may have also been bearing down the frame rather hard to boot). So I may have ruptured a bursa (buritis) which apparently can take months to heal fully. That said, I might want to consult an orthopaedic surgeon or sports medicine specialist to check and see what they say about continued shooting with the avoidance techniques I have mentioned already (shooting less right handed, and keeping that area deliberately away from the backstrap as much as possible). However, I am wary of anti-gun NJ, and the new laws which permit a random ass doctor for any reason whatsoever from having a patient's guns taken away and then the process and burden of getting them back and suing an anti-gun doctor in NJ are not something I want to try out.

    So, is there any such doctor in northern NJ, preferably in the Essex County pit of anti-gun activism, who might be on our side and won't be a jerk just because the new laws allow them to be? And has anyone else ever experienced this and might have something to say about this and what to expect in terms of full recovery?

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